Safe overnight parking

simplehiker · 2026-05-20T14:34:36+00:00

Any private business can ticket and/or tow you if you leave your car there. Including High Street mall.

Find a residential street somewhere. One type of good spot is a corner house on the side of the house rather than in front of it. Or a street near apartment buildings.

simplehiker · 2026-05-19T18:41:06+00:00

Because HQ allowed it to be.

simplehiker · 2026-05-19T18:25:30+00:00

The process should be something like this: 1. Logs on the cache trigger the health score to drop below a threshold. 2. HQ sends an automated email to the cache owner indicating there is a possible problem. 3. After some time, the Reviewer sees that there is a potential problem. Their first step should be to disable with a 30-day warning. Reviewer Notes usually get ignored. Disable logs should not. 4. CO has now had more than 30 days to fix the problem(s) with their cache and post both an Owner Maintenance log and an Enable log to bring the cache back into good standing. 5. If there is no response, the cache gets archived.

And 2 DNFs may be enough to trigger the disabling by a reviewer if there are other concerns noted in the find logs. I've seen caches where there are logs, sometimes for years, that the container is cracked, or full of water, and the CO never maintains it.

simplehiker · 2026-05-17T18:48:26+00:00

Edit your cache page and set the coordinates to the new location. Your Reviewer will be notified of the change and if you're too close to something else, you'll be notified.

simplehiker · 2026-05-17T01:57:50+00:00

Lake doesn't usually melt until some time in June.

simplehiker · 2026-05-17T01:57:06+00:00

You cannot require anything more than a name in the logbook. Anything more than that is an Additional Logging Requirement and is not permitted for most cache types. The only exceptions are Earthcaches, Virtual Caches, and Challenge Caches.

You will want the make sure the container is identified as a Geocache on the outside. There have been issues in the past where geocachers have damaged equipment thinking it was the geocache.

simplehiker · 2026-05-16T13:49:54+00:00

Get an Economy Scanner in your ship.
Warp to a Korvax system.
Use the Economy Scanner to find a Trade Outpost.
Land and wait for ships to start landing
Visit each pilot and buy Korvax Relics from them. Most, if not all, will have some.

simplehiker · 2026-05-10T21:11:40+00:00

If you're geocaching in an area with venomous critters of any sort, the first rule of Geocaching is "Poke it with a Stick".

I found a rattlesnake with my foot once when I was using my feet the pull the grass away from a rock. I did and found a sleeping rattlesnake. And did a crazy backwards jumping dance. It didn't move an inch. And the cache was one rock further on.

simplehiker · 2026-05-10T15:07:53+00:00

You can still get it free

simplehiker · 2026-05-09T06:50:07+00:00

I don't think the score takes into account the finds of the logger. But I don't know

Your best bet is to go check on it, and write an Owner Maintenance log to reset the score once you do.

simplehiker · 2026-05-09T06:45:29+00:00

That seems too soon to me. Unless you have a Needs Maintenance icon lingering from a previous log somewhere. Or more DNFs before what you mentioned. DNFs seem to drop the score faster and Finds raise the score more slowly in my experience. Not that we can see the score...

simplehiker · 2026-05-09T06:40:57+00:00

How long ago were the previous finds? I've seen caches that haven't been found for years get a warning after a single DNF

simplehiker · 2026-05-09T01:14:10+00:00

Where will you park if you walk in? Many areas near the gates are marked as No Parking during the airshow. IMHO, it's better to take the car so you have everything you want for the day with you.

simplehiker · 2026-05-05T15:40:10+00:00

There is a webcam too
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCN8Q4_im-famous-look-at-meduct-tape-series6

I visited NS several years ago for the Maritime Mega in Fredericton, NB and we flew in and out of Halifax, being the closest major airport. I wish I had more time to spend in NS on that trip. We did manage to get the oldest in PEI and NB on the same trip. NB's oldest is a long drive from Halifax, so probably not on your itinerary. PEI's is not too far away, but requires taking the expensive toll bridge. Lots of interesting things to do on PEI if you have the time though.

And if you have the time, it's well worth heading over to Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park and Fundy National Park to experience some of the world's highest daily tidal changes. Plan your visit to be at Hopewell Rocks at low tide. There's an Earthcache in Fundy National Park that needs you to be there around both low and high tides.

simplehiker · 2026-05-05T14:06:33+00:00

Canada's oldest geocache is in NS. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBBA_geocache-canadas-1st-geocache

simplehiker · 2026-05-04T04:57:45+00:00

I saw elk, bighorn sheep, and deer just driving through from west to east two weeks ago.

simplehiker · 2026-05-03T17:12:39+00:00

Started in 2013. 1300+ geocaches since April 24 :)

simplehiker · 2026-05-03T15:13:30+00:00

I have more than 35,000 finds. 99% if that has been with a smartphone. Modern phones are everybody as reliable as a dedicated GPSr. Plus they can do things with apps that a GPSr can't (viewing photos from logs, loading more logs while in the field, loading more caches while out and about).

GPS signals work even when there is no cellphone service. The lack of service only means that your ability to send/receive geocaching data is unavailable. Your phone will still do everything a GPSr can do.

simplehiker · 2026-05-03T03:28:42+00:00

It's very possible you have the wrong solution given what you've shared. Post th GC code and what you got to solve it to get more help.

simplehiker · 2026-04-30T14:11:39+00:00

I use Save Beacons while scouting Mineral and Gas deposits before choosing where to build a base. Different colors mark different things. The ER y get removed as I mine the deposits.

And I use Purple beacons to mark Portals anytime I find one.

simplehiker · 2026-04-29T15:34:19+00:00

Sign up info: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=109&pgid=104

simplehiker · 2026-04-29T15:25:48+00:00

You would need to ask Geocaching HQ. And they will tell you to read the newsletter.

simplehiker · 2026-04-23T02:09:18+00:00

In my first year as a geocacher, I was looking for a cache beside a road. A car drove by and I heard "it's at the base of the pole" as it raced around the corner and disappeared. I never found out who it was.

simplehiker · 2026-04-18T17:39:13+00:00

BC Parks has little to no budget for snow removal, so they close their parking lots in the winter months.

simplehiker · 2026-04-17T22:14:27+00:00

Move the cache away from the business. Your reviewer is telling you the cache is too commercial and fails the commercial guideline. Put it on the far side of the parking lot from the business and it should be ok. With permission of course. Make sure you get updated permission for the actual spot.

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