Is there a way to get a list of grandfathered caches in a certain country/region?

Question

I want to visit as much grandfathered caches before they disappear. Unfortunately i don't see an apportunity to list them. Anyone can help?

Answer 1

There is some clarification on the subject at:

https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=63

The gist of it is that old webcam and virtual caches remain to the degree that they are maintained, but locationless caches are archived and locked. When a cache listing is locked noone (at least not basic or premium member types) can add any further logs to it. It is a mechanism designed to prevent archived caches from receiving logs long after they are archived.

Except for historical purposes, there is no need to be able to filter for archived caches, much less locked ones.

As NoobNader points out, you should be able to filter Webcam and Virtuals easily since they have their own unique type. Locationless (reverse) caches are all archived and locked (as the a above link to groundspeak support says). There are various bookmark lists that try to include all of them for historical reasons, one of which can be found here.

Challgenge cahces from before the moriatium should (as NoobNader points out) be filterable with the following critera:

• Type: Mystery / Unknown
• Placed before 2015/04/21
• Cache title contains word "challenge" or "Challenge" (case)

Go and find those virtuals and webcams - there won't be any more :)

Answer 2

Grandfathered caches are not a special group you could choose, like Trads, Mysts or Multis.
As far as i know are all Locationless (Reverse) caches, APE Caches, Virtual Caches and Webcam Caches grandfathered. The challenge caches placed before the moratorium (April 21, 2015) are grandfathered, too, i think.

Therefore i think, you have to chose cachetypes i mentioned and manually add the challenge caches placed before April 21, 2015.
Should be possible to do with filters, i believe.

Comments

One can only filter virtual caches and webcam caches but not the locationless caches....

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You can filter for locationless caches. But they are not grandfathered they are archived and locked.

I did a map compare with all 400 just now.
I suspect you forgot to include archived caches.

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I have a grandfathered cache which is a mystery type - its a moving cache called the cuckoo cache. Thats another type of grandfathered cache to add to your list :-)