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I was the U.S.-based leg of a 3 continent multi cache (NZ around the world, a 3 continent cache, GC5PG6V), with the final being in New Zealand.  But I personally have never found a cache in NZ, and don't feel right claim a NZ find.  But my "furthest cache" indicates that cache at 8600+ miles, when in fact it should be 8200+ miles from home to some caches in Myanmar that I have found.  And the NZ cache messes up a bunch of challenge checkers that I then have to manually undo to exclude the NZ cache.

Any suggestions?  Thanks, bejs

in Support and help by bejs (730 points)
The Help Center-article about Teamwork caches clearly state that you shouldn't log the cache just because you helped with a step of it so the easiest solution would be to delete the log: "As a geocacher, you should not sign the name of your teamwork partner in the log of your local cache. You can only claim a find if you visit the cache yourself." https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=814

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There is not really a way to do this for individual caches. Traveling caches and various other oddities can be excluded via a bookmark list of such things that Geocaching HQ keeps and that are by default excluded from statistics. That's not really relevant here, though, since the cache in question is just a regular multi that happens to have stages that are very far in between. If you don't feel that you should have an NZ find, what you can do is to remove your log for this cache. Do note, however, that that would not remove your souvenir for NZ - to get rid of that you would need to talk to Geocaching HQ support.
by pinkunicorn (Moderator) (197k points)
Very helpful!  As I expected.  Thanks, bejs
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