La Deep Hike

Trackables are not among my top caching obsessions and those I released early in my caching career have long since vanished. I did just retrieve Eclipse the Geo-dog, which was released 31 Aug 2011 in the Czech Republic. This lil guy has gotten around, still has its original attachment, etc. Curiosity led me to the forums in search of this very topic. Does anyone know whether the data on oldest circulating trackables are available anywhere?

Has anybody actually *seen* a firefly upon logging a find, whether stationary or flitting about or hanging out on their maze w/Signal? I have earned three "Signal's Labyrinth items" but despite avidly staring at my screen (tried on both phone app and desktop app) while clicking Found and/or submitting log, no firefly or announcement or banner has appeared. Just the points added to my leaderboard, so there's that for sure. I'd just like to see one of the little buggers (buggers, get it?) if they do show up somewhere.

Hi cachers: I could use some help with easy HTML for my cache descriptions (links, pix, tables, etc.) I've tried any number of tricks available via Googling, but just cannot get easy HTML up and running. I run MS Office Word 2007 on a Windows EX machine, and it seems it'd be simple to save a Word doc as a Web page, then view source and select all and paste in -- but neither that nor any tricks I've researched that stem from that yield even remotely clean and viewable HTML. Help! How do *you* create your HTML cache descriptions, aside from creating it from scratch? I'd rather spend my time creating/solving puzzles and actually caching rather than futzing with my rudimentary HTML skills. Thanks, and cache on, Lucrezia La Deep Hike

Hi all: In the interest of not repeating an etiquette error, would some of you let me know if I made a mistake as described below? I have worked for several months on a 14-stage multi (The Day of the Dead) and was happy to find the final yesterday. Here is the log I posted: "Rah!! Completed today. Kudos to MaNa indeed. Started it in early October last year with the misguided confidence that we'd finish by DoD '07. Our aim was to hit the 14 waypoints en route to other pastimes, visitings and errands to minimize the superfluous drive-around, so it took a wee bit longer than intended, not to mention a moderate amount of cajoling of chums for a few of the WPs: "Do you mind if we just take this short (or long; sorry!) detour so I can look at a tombstone?" WPs 12 & 13 were the stickers, although I didn't initially realize the latter was. Thanks for the hint and the course correction, MaNa. Beautiful location for the final; LaQuinta had tired of the cemeteries so I finished this one solo, but she would have loved it, including the very suitable prop in the vicinity. T lovely blue bookmark and handwarmers. L new purple bandanna and a buck. Also brought out the TBs so they'd have a higher likelihood of making it wherever they need to go more quickly." And then here is an email I received based upon my log (name left off for anonymity of the sender, whom I do not know): Hello I was writing to let you know that I was concerned about your log at "The Day of the Dead". I too have been working for the passed week to find this cache and in particular the Jeep TB that was located there. I was disheartened to find that someone had beaten me to it, but even more so when you said, in such an off handed way, that you took it just so it would have a better chance of making it to another cache. I hope that in the future you keep in mind that others are also on the hunt and maybe consider that they have yet to be lucky enough to find a Jeep TB. Thank you. FYI, the TB I'm moving along was a 2006 Jeep TB, so the contest was already over. Am I missing something re: Jeep TBs that engendered the email above? Thanks, fellow cachers, for any insights. In general I think by now I get most cache etiquette, but perhaps I'm missing something here.