klipsch49er

Ah! the $64,000.00 question! Check out some of the stories in the "Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's)" thread. Anywhere in California near a campground any loose wood get campfired. I also saw faux-aluminum can cach containerer in that thread. Be gone in a second anywhere near civilization in California, with all the people who make thier living picking them up. Cheers

In a separate thread the helpful member of this forum taught me how to add a photo to my cache listing using HTML. Cool! I natuarally thought I would be able to add a picture to a forum post the same way, but nooooooooo, it didn't work. On the topic about cache rides getting stuck, I just happened to have experienced it last weekend so I thought I would add my art to the post. To my visit log for the appropriate cache I had uploaded a photo so I went to that photo, opened a link and copied the link to my post. I also added the paragraph tags before and after. To my surprise it didn't work! I noticed that many other had tried to insert phots into the forum reply with simular and various other failures. Can someone help me figure this out?

Only one berm of snow on the whole dang mountian, right across the path. Obvioulsy I didn't blaze through fast enough. For more color commentary see my log for cache TTORA-1 <p><IMG SRC="http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/86b93b46-a8c7-4953-ad36-3b0906d279f4.jpg"></p> second attempt to show pic..... Only one berm of snow on the whole dang mountian, right across the path. Obvioulsy I didn't blaze through fast enough. For more color commentary see my log for cache TTORA-1 <p><IMG SRC="http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/86b93b46-a8c7-4953-ad36-3b0906d279f4.jpg"></p>

Just tried to post my pic... See my post just proir to this one. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong with the HTML code? Or why it didn't work?

Only one berm of snow on the whole dang mountian, right across the path. Obvioulsy I didn't blaze through fast enough. For more color commentary see my log for cache TTORA-1 <p><IMG SRC="http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/86b93b46-a8c7-4953-ad36-3b0906d279f4.jpg"></p>

I can not believe how evil some of the contraptions are that I have seen on this thread! I can't wait to make some of my own! However, what is really disturbing is how some of the caches are rated...... I followed the link to your cache listing and you had it rated as 2.5. Are you kidding? Either your GPS is a he$# of a lot more accurate than mine or the geocachers in your area are a lot smarter (or I'm just challenged). Either way "oh my god" would that have been hard!

I'm up in the 20's (find wise) now and love this sport. I noticed when I use a local cache as a Travel Bug drop I get credit for finding it again. I'm sure that frequenters of Travel Bug Hotels get find credits when they drop in a new bug. Doesn't seem fair to get credit for a find that you already found before. Shouldn't the "system" not count duplicate finds? Anyone know the logic behind the way it's working now? Is there a method to drop or pick up bugs that doesn't credit a duplicate find? Cheers

After you upload the picture, left click on it so it opens in another page at its full size (600 Pixels wide, or so). Now, right click and choose "Copy Image Address" or whatever your browser uses. That copies the URL to the "clipboard." Then you put that URL in the code. My process needed with capturing the URL for my pictures was quite a bit different than how you described it, but you helped me enough that I was able to figure it out! Thanks a lot for your help! My cache listing look a lot better now!

The 90% of people who think they are good drivers annoy the 10% of us who actually are. Oops! Wrong forum..... The 90% of people who think they enjoy high tech annoy the 10% who actually do! There, that’s better!

THaks admo1972 and knight2000.... The cache I refered to actually shows up on my seach for caches in my area. So annotating it doesn't insure it is removed form searhes. Cheers

This is an interesting topic. I recenlty found a cache that was marked unavailable (GCKV45). I'm not the only finder either. I didn't relize that there was anything wrong with it before I went there and it was a destination I had always wanted the time to visit and the cache provided and additional excuse. I found the cache in great condition and, therefore, logged my find. I checked today and the listing still shows unavailable. I'm sure many more people would visit this cache if it weren't marked as unavailble. I thought about sending an e-mail to the CO but isn't that what happens when someone visits and logs anyway? Is the e-mail notification of logs disabled when a cache is marked unavailable? Cheers

From my previous reply you probably notice that I can't type very well.... Please forgive! Ok so I went to the link you provided and if I understand correctly I would use the <img src="http://???,???/???/whatever.jpg"> to insert a picture. If I am right how do I get the web addrees for the picture I uploaded to Geocaching.com? If I am wrong.... I need more help! Cheers

Thanks for the quick responce. While I am not as "green" as I may appear to be regarding computer issues. I have not spent any time playing with any form of HTML that wasn't managed for me. Having said that, it makes no sense to me that you can upload an immage to a log entry but you have to monkey with HTML to upload an immage in the cache listing. Perhaps this isone of those items that is automatically managed for me or that I don't understsnd. PLease feel free to provide any explanation you can. I'm egar to learn. BTY I will be followinf the link you provided shortly. Thanks again!

OK, prpbably not enough sleep lately, but.... I couldn't find how to pin a Photo to my cache listing so it comes up whenever anyone view the cache listing. I know it can be done because others have used my pics from my log to replace the pic they had originally in thier listing. Did I miss a step when I entered the cache info? Cheers!

I have found that Google Earth with thew parks overlay activated and the Geocache overlay on is priceless!

So I'm kind of new to geocaching and am having a great time. I purchased my Magellan Explorist 100 to provide accurate location data for use with my computer controlled telescope and found this daytime hobby. Now, however, as is usually the result, I find that I need to seek solutions to integrate my variaous pieces of equipment to make the best of this new hobby. Here is the equipment I can currently take into the field: Magellan Explorist 100 Nokia flip camera phone (WHy don't they list the model number on the outside of those things?) Handspring Visor PDA (Palm OS 3.??) Olympus digital camera (old) Dell laptop (eats batteries for fun) Without purchasing any new equipment I would like to find a way to not carry around the decks of paper printouts of caches I make before I seek session. Does anyone know of a way to get this data onto the old Palm OS or any other creative use of these kinds of hardware setups? Obviously purchasing a upscale Magellan could solve this but first I have my eye on a CCD camera for my telescope first... Any suggestions would, no doubt, be helpful!

Great ideas! I hope many more post so I can flatter them by immitation! I have been looking for something along this line...... If amyone figures out how to print on the wooden nickle let me know!

Odly enough I started this to give my wife and I something to do together. That does not eliminate the rolling eye effect whenever a tech purchase is involved.

I don't undestand this issue. The real trick was getting my best friend interested in geocaching. He is the one who has hands and fingers and can use all that tech stuff. I'm waiting for someone to adapt a paw friendly keyboard.... I alway have him take my picture since I'm the one geocaching not him!

WOW! Thanks to all who have been adding to this thread! For this puzzle cache idea my plan is to have the last cache, for which you gather the data to identify it's location form the other 15 (see my original post above), be listed with a coordinates that are within the 2 miles of the actual puzzle answer so anyone would have a clear idea of the general area involved. I now understand that this is counter productive to the idea of the puzzle I have proposed and would require me to have the final cache loacted a significant distance from the listed coordinates. I had planned to annotate the final cacahe listing that due to the fact that you have to locate the other 15 caches first, this would not be an ideal home for a travel bug type item. Because the other fifteen are otherwise stand alone caches they, however, all would be good travel bug locations. I did realize from the treads that my implimentation may be better without coding the first didgits of the N&W and I will probably do this. In a thread above it was noted that I should contact the reviewer for my area to see if this idea would fly with them. How do I do this? Thanks again to everyone responding to this thread!

HI, I have an idea for a series of caches in my area. There is a popular highway that is very long (not route 66) where there are towns with historic interest along the route. There are caches in the area of these towns and the route, which is a popular destination for motorcycle riders and vacationers and geocachers alike. Most do not visit the entire area at one time but break it up into many different trips during the year. I want to place a cache at each town along the route. Each cache would be a stand alone cache that you would visit and log just as you do any other cache. Here is the difference..... In my concept I would have caches in 15 of the towns along the route. 15 is the magic number as you may know because it is the number of digits in a latitude & longitude. At each cache there would be a number that you would need to collect that would be used on a separate cache (this number would be permanently printed within the cache container lid). The individual listing for each of the 15 caches would also identify the cache for which you would have to use these numbers collected in order to build the co-ordinates to locate this final cache. The listing for the final cache would refer to the need to visit all of these 15 individual caches first in order to decode the coordinates. For example (using random GC#s): N (GCwjdy)(GCloul)° (GC43j9)(GC7sbge).(GCh4nw)(GChhnh)(GCjh66) W (GChmqq)(GCrv69)(GCkl89)° (GC4rtg)(GC74rg6).(GCjui9)(GCypl)(GCkawe) If in the lid of: GCwjdy was 3; GCloul was 8; GC43j9 was 1; C7sbge was 2; GCh4nw was 0; GChhnh was 7; GCjh66 was 9 Then the coordinates would be N 38° 12.079 And so on... The beauty is that each of the 15 individual caches can be visited at any time, but you would need the info only contained within the cache containers in order to visit this last cache. In the case of my proposed area there is quite a distance involved and it would be unlikely but not impossible for a weekender to go the distance. I have before I was a geocacher just because I liked the area. Any comments or suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks for taking the time to respod with so much information and also for looking specifically to a benchmark I tried to locate! The Bay Center mark as well as the other in that area were my first attemps to find marks. Literally the area for both benchmarks no longer exist. I trampled quite a bit of weed to assure myself that they indeed has suffered at the hands of mother nature. Inteviews with locals confirmed my results. However, at the time I did not know I could use my GPS and pictures to provide relavant data to anyone. One of the places I am hung up in undewrstanding what is going on is the venacular "Recovered". Does this mean that it was removed from the location or that it was "re-discovered"? So far, for the benchmarks I have tried to locate, the structures and witness items they describe are all long gone. Indeed, for the benchamrk I did find, it was the fact that it was attached to a larke granit bolder that helped. Should I have listed the Bay Center mark as destroyed in geocaching.com? I do not recall a "missing" option.

You are correct. My good buddies over in the systems division are pulling their hair out trying to get everything back up and running. A lot of the NGS services are down right now (including OPUS and a lot of the CORS data). But things are quickly getting better and should be back to normal soon. -Casey- All of the discussion on this link talks about destroying a benchmark. I am a little confused, I found SJ0280 and recorded it on Geocaching.com I was trying to record it for NOAA. Are they to be removed and destroyed or discoved and left in place? What should I do now? Thanks for the help.

I recently tried to follow the link in the forum to the NOAA page to report 2 markers that are very definitly destroyed by shore loss in a inlet. Does anyone know how to do this? I could not figure it out and the the link provided in the FAQ and related topic area did not work. Thanks