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Simple guide for beginners: 1, No, geocaching has no lore. there are sometimes events in the app, usually involving our mascott, signal the frog.
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# simple guide for beginners:

1, No, geocaching has no lore. there are sometimes events in the app, usually involving our mascott, signal the frog.


2, Yes, there are geocaches where you live. if your wondering, dont make a reddit post, just download the app!


3, you can email HQ and get premium for a week to see how you like it, but premium isnt free an noboys gonna give it to you for free.


4, Always bring a pen,


5, When you encounter a bison tube, roll up the log and put the log in the CAP! not the body,


6, people make geocaches premium only if they speant a lot of time on the cache or if its really expensive. some people go out of theyre way to get the free membership, just to destroy caches.


7, If you find caches small or above, theres likely to be some trinkets inside. if you find one you like, you take it and leave something with equal or greater value.


8, be kind in your logs. your account CAN be deleted. also no profanity in logs, young children geocache too.


9, if you dont know how to make a geocache, read this article, [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2020/07/how-to-hide-your-first-geocache/](https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2020/07/how-to-hide-your-first-geocache/)

10, geocaching in enjoyed by people of all ages, from 8-80.


11, when writing logs, write your USERNAME! not your real name!


12, and finally, never destroy geocaches, and if you do accidentally, message CO.


13, oh right, and CO stans for Cache owner, TFTC stands for thanks for the cache, TOTT stands for tool of the trade, which means you need some kind of special tool, OCW stands for out caching with, archive means a geocache is being deleted, FTF means first to find, CITO means Cache in trash out, so CITO events are events where geocachers clean up trash, GZ or ground zero means where the cache is supposed to be, for example, " im at ground zero and still cant find this cache! " Muggle means people who dont geocache, muggled means a geocache has been broken, stolen or tampered with by a muggle, TB means travel bug, and theres a ton more. is almost impossible to go through all of them, but if your curious, please refer to this lsit, [https://www.geocaching.com/about/glossary.aspx](https://www.geocaching.com/about/glossary.aspx)

14, travel bugs are little items with a code on them, that you can log on the geocaching website. if you decide to take one, go to [geocaching.com](https://geocaching.com) and and search for the trackable using the code on it. some have goals, like take me from hawaii to china, and your goal is to take that trackable and take it somewhere else.


15, dont put food or gum inside of geocaches. it can attrack animals, and if an animal destroys a cache, it can harm the animal or enviornment, and lead to a destroyed cache.


16, there are multiple geocache types, traitional event, giga event, mega event, CITO, mysterty, multi, webcam, adventure lab, letterbox, wherigo, and theres probobly a couple i frogot.


17, replace the geocache as you found it,


18, if you find a wet log, whats reccomended is to take a photo of the log, proving you found it, and and using it in your cache log on the app.


19, theres a couple geocaching apps, what the most common one is simply "geocaching" and youll know which one it is by the amount of reviews it has.


20, please, please stop making reddit posts for any of the problems above, you can google 90% of them.


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