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EnochofPottsfield t1_j2xa5t2 wrote

Reminds me of that hidden Geotag Geocache trend (thanks u/dragonavicious!) from a decade or so ago. Hope this trend catches on similarly

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Buck_Thorn t1_j2xlf8n wrote

Yeah... moving caches! I just commented about that before I saw yours. Those were fun caches, but they haven't been allowed for many years now.

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Dry_Accountant5075 t1_j2xoav1 wrote

Why haven't they been allowed? I'm sorry I've only learned of geocaching recently because of a friend who does it. I would think this would be encouraged?

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Accessible-Privilege t1_j2xp34n wrote

Trespassing really. Plus dangerous placements.

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EnochofPottsfield t1_j2xsahx wrote

Oh man that's sad to hear! But also makes sense

It'd be fun to have events with the books in designated areas so this doesn't happen again

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omegagirl t1_j30i79v wrote

I have one of the hardest ones in Tiburon Ca if anyone wants to try to find…. #rocknroll

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Buck_Thorn t1_j2xrohp wrote

Because there was no reviewer able to verify that it was rehidden appropriately.

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ImCaffeinated_Chris t1_j2yibns wrote

We once forgot we had a travel bug geocache. It got lost in the kid's toy room. We found it and moved it to another cache 6 years later. The owner couldn't believe it. 😊

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Plethora_of_squids t1_j2zbk41 wrote

I kinda wish Pokemon go did more of what its sister game ingress did and make all the stops more of a thing to look at and do rather than just an icon you blindly spin. I get it's Pokemon and the Pokemon are the focus but like, it's also a niantic game. Hunting around for local points of interest is like a core gameplay mechanic.

In ingress (which is made by the same company) each individual point of interest has a little photo and a blurb and there's a game mechanic where people can make walking trails of points or even better, a fully fledged scavenger hunt where each point has a clue about where the next point is or each location has a quiz you gotta do about the thing in question in order to count as visited.

Geocaching was absolutely fun in the wilderness and more remote areas, but I felt like it fell apart a bit in big cities. You kinda look suspicious hunting around for weird objects and was limited by accessibility. When it's more virtual you can do stuff like "look up at the facade and translate it into English for your next clue" or "speedrun the salesman problem with your local churches GO!"

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westbee t1_j2z8bqp wrote

I found a couple by accident just kayaking down the river.

They were hidden well. I thought someone just left them behind by accident.

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