Geocaching

Your D/T chart?
You needed the 5/5 for the "Fizzy Challange"?

D/T = difficulty & terrain chart. You should have one if you look under the Statistics link on your account.

A Fizzy Challenge is simply getting all the difficulty/terrain possibilities.

Let me look in my account.

A man told that he was in the middle of a wood and then dang his GPS thought now it's time to quit.
He told us it's wise to have a second GPS.

I have to figure out if we have all the Fizzy Challenge difficult/terrain here too.
I would like to find a 5/5.

You will find a 5/5 someday. I wouldn't have gotten this one had I not been there a few times already, used the "phone-a-friend" option to get more information, and have a couple of guys with me this time that had daughters small enough to get into the storm drain where this cache was hidden.

You definitely have a difficulty/terrain chart on your profile. Here's the best I could do to copy this over from your profile.

Difficulty


Terrain

	1	1.5	2	2.5	3	3.5	4	.4.5	5
1	21	40	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	67
1.5	8	76	19	2	1	0	0	0	0	106
2	4	4	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	19
2.5	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	4
3	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5
3.5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	35	124	29	8	6	0	0	0	0	202

I have found my difficulty terrain.

When you have completed every square in that chart, you will have completed a Fizzy Challenge.

I think I have to find some more geocaches before my Fizzy Challenge is completed.
But a challenge now it to find some more difficult geocaches.

I don't think I'd ever find a 5/5 round here.

I found a couple of easy skirt lifters yesterday that sabidoo had planted. I wanted to get them so he'd stop whining about no one looking for his new caches.

I have to work to get the coordinates to find a bonus cache of a serie we did.

Have any of you done one of the "challenges" that Groundspeak now offers? I have now completed 3. They are kind silly, but fun. Most of them just require going somewhere and having your picture made there.

I've done one challenge, the World Record one. It was of the largest freshwater lake of the world, which I'm quite certain (like 97% certain) is Lake Doré, in our environs. I think they're kinda silly too.

I wish they'd just bring the Virtual caches back where you have to go to an actual historic site. I like doing those when I do come across one.

Are the Virtual caches gone?

No, they are still there. New virtuals can't happen, though, as those were done away with back in 2003. The challenge caches were supposed to be the new virtuals, but they don't count in your regular cache count.

I find that most people use Unknowns (blue question marks) as Virtuals.

Really? When you find an Unknown cache like that here, there is usually a puzzle to solve or a really unusual container.

Yeah… you sometimes have to solve a puzzle, either to get to the cache and/or to log it as Found.

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Have any of you done one of the "challenges" that Groundspeak now offers?

Were those challenges in a newsletter?
Maybe it's different here?

I am going to do a series of caches this week (around 12 in the series) and I will have to hike about 6 miles to complete. This is going to be hard for me, but I am going to give it my best shot!

A fellow geocacher/birdwatcher showed me a picture of a great cache, that was bark on a birch. Superbly well-hidden.

We have found 5 caches today and 1 travelbug.
Wish you good luck finding the serie of 12 caches. Maybe you can do this serie in parts?
Finding series is fun.
You can do it.

Tried to figure out about the challenges.

Did a ton of walking over some rough terrain today. I ended with 14 for the day.

Was that the power trail you planned to do?