It felt like a chore at times, but still going strong. I'm not sure how far into the winter I'll endure.

Why comparing numbers to others is meaningless, another reason that I feel the more “experienced” you get, the more you just start making sh*t up and playing by your own rules.

I was listening to a podcast where one of the hosts was making the argument, an “unwritten rule”, where if you have a buddy on FaceTime while geocaching, that they can also claim the cache because “they are there”. Just sign the log for them and it counts.

It’s a level of bad faith behavior that I’ve ever heard someone actually say out loud. From “experienced” players, mind you.

Why are we even trying to redefine the most basic requirement? If we can invent exceptions to the fundamental rule whenever we feel like it, what does following the rules even mean anymore?

Have any of you ever heard of anything like this?

I have been caching for 4 years and I have finally hit 420. My next goal is to hit 6,969. If you are wondering how I have gotten so little in four years it is because of my 781 day slump...

Has anyone ever had this issue or is my concern a non-issue?

How do these work? There is a (?) Cache that just has a text about the history of newspapers. No numbers mentioned.

At the bottom it says "read carefully and you will find the cache".

Do i need to count words or look for certain words?

Not asking for the solution. Just need some guidelines on how to interprete this kind of puzzles.

Between GoogleEarth being phased out, and my general desire to de-google my life, I need to find a new mapping program that will accept my .kmz files. I've spend nearly 2 decades compiling data points on GE and I can't find a decent replacement. If there's an obvious answer or thread I've missed, thank you for pointing me in the right direction!