A global game where hidden "caches" can be found using GPS coordinates. Caches often contain a log and various items for swapping.
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What can I do to keep my hands warm while using touchscreens in the winter?
Now that it is starting to get cold it is more difficult to use touchscreens while outdoors. I use both an iPhone and a Garmin GPS to geocache and both have touchscreens that require me to take my ...
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How can one find the difficult to find geocaches?
I've recently been getting into the hobby of Geocaching. However, I'm finding there are many, particularly in cities, that I just cannot find no matter how hard I look for them. They tend to be very ...
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What should be carried in a standard Geocaching bag?
As in the title, when going Geocaching what are some standard implements and tools I should carry with me to get started so I'm not caught out?
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What is Geocaching?
There are questions on this site tagged geocaching.
This appears to be some kind of GPS game. How is it played?
(This is an easy question to Google but I'd like the StackExchange version, thank ...
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An alternative to geocaching, but with classic maps instead of GPS?
Geocaching is a great fun, but it is oriented on GPS devices. I'd like to participate in searching caches, which location is given on the map (full, or fragmented, or just a drawing) - like in ...
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What are some good ways to waterproof a geocache / letterbox?
Has anyone got any good tips on how to (cheaply) waterproof a geocache or letterbox? Those pill pots used to work brilliantly - one inside the other - but now they seem to be rather hard to come by ...
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Legal issues when entering school areas while geocaching in Europe
What are the legal issues when entering school areas while searching for geocaches? Some caches are located in such places. The first is available without problem for children and teachers, but what ...
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When does a geocached area become “saturated”?
The 161m (0.1mile) rule in Geocaching is a pretty infamous one. However, the rules also state this:
Please don't hide a cache every 600 feet just because you can. The two main goals of the ...
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What are examples of inappropriate places to hide a geocache? [closed]
Geocaching.com has a listing of fundamental placement guidelines that include legal and and other restrictions like cache saturation. What are some more informal guidelines to follow when placing a ...
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What is a travel bug?
I've seen mention of travel bugs (or trackables) on geocaching sites. What is a travel bug and what can I do with one?
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What's a good, secure way to attach neodymium magnets to a geocache?
I've grabbed some neodymium magnets as a cheap way of attaching small geocaches to metallic objects such as road signs and poles. However, I'm not sure of the best way of attaching the magnets - tape ...
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What's the best writing implement to carry to sign a Geocache?
I often find when Geocaching ordinary pencils don't seem to leave much of a mark at all, especially if the log is wet, and especially on the smaller logs pens are difficult to "get going" without a ...
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Would it be acceptable to plant OC's mobile cache into GC's caches?
I have currently no place of permanent perspective (from the geocache's point of view, I think it should be about 5 years, to be able to service cache in that time). So I'm thinking about creating the ...
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Should I register caches when I know in longer perspective I will move?
I've registered some caches in Poland. It strike me that reviewer from GeoCaching was asking how I'm supposed to service caches far from my home location. In the meantime I moved to Germany, which ...
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City tickets as exchange objects? [closed]
Is it good idea to use city tickets for public transport (laminated or in string bags) as exchange objects or traveller objects (krets)? Are such items welcomed by the geocachers community?
From the ...
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How many GeoCaches are registered in Germany by OpenCaching? [closed]
I was trying to find statistics for the number of caches in Germany, that are registered in portal opencaching.de, a free of change and open alternative to GeoCaching.com. But I've failed to find such ...
