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    Picture on GC Home Page

    in How do I...?

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    I am in the process of putting together a series of puzzles and dedicating the series to character actors. I would like to put a picture of the actor/actress in the cache description but am struggling.

     

    Any suggestions?

     

    Thanks in advance.

    Km Vs Mile

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    Several times over the past year, the distance from point A to the waymark changed from "miles" to "kilometers".

     

    I really don't comprehend Km (LOL) so I don't want this to change to Km.

     

    How can I alleviate that problem?

     

    Go here: http://www.geocaching.com/account/default.aspx

     

    Scroll down to "Your Preferences" at the very bottom. Click "Change" in the top right corner of that box.

     

    Change "Distance Units" to imperial.

     

    Scroll to the bottom and click "Save changes".

     

     

    B.

     

    Thanks for your help.

    GPSr, which one to get?

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    Hi Colin,

    With your ID looking enormously like a ham callsign, have you ventured down the path of APRS at all? I am yet to go in that direction myself, but have been looking at http://www.byonics.com/ ? Obviously you won't have direct access to maps, but it might give a leg in, because as gt.us suggested, accuracy is often not particularly demanded. I have also seen very cheap (<$40) "keyring" GPSr's on ebay.

    cheers Vaughan (vk2kbi)

    Hi Vaughan, yes indeed that is a ham callsign. I have not ventured into APRS, as yet, but will check out the link you suggested. Maybe, another look on eBay is called for too. :(

     

    Cheers, Colin (KC9PDY)

     

    Greetings from Watertown, SD.

     

    I do both Waymarking and geocaching. I have several GPSr, one of which is a Garmin Colorado. I like it. I also use Garmin Etrax for marking waymarks. It is easier to use for that application than a Colorado.

     

    Also, I am a novice Hamster. KD0HWL

    Km Vs Mile

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    Several times over the past year, the distance from point A to the waymark changed from "miles" to "kilometers".

     

    I really don't comprehend Km (LOL) so I don't want this to change to Km.

     

    How can I alleviate that problem?

    Consecutive days cached

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    My streak is 127 +/- (don't remember for sure but close enough) and did it just to complete the 100 day challange. Like some other cachers, by the time I hit 127, I was just plugging along to keep the streak going. It was kind of refreshing when the streak ended.

     

    Right now I am filling days on the calendar and have a streak going since Dec 31, 2011. The daily grind is starting to get tiresome too, but will try to condinue to get all days filled with at least one cache until May 2,2012. May 2, 2011 is when the 127 day streak started.

    Do you carry self protection ?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Being from South Dakota, the human critter is not a big problem. So, typically I carry two tools, cell phone and 9mm beretta. I cache alone a lot and many places in SD, the cell serivce is minimal so if I fell and broke an ankle or leg, I would use the pistol to signal for help.

     

    I didn't used to carry, but more and more reports of mountain lions in the area, it only seems right to carry some sort of protection, just in case.

    Longest slump between caching?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I had a three-week (approx) slump in February, where between "Life" and "Weather" I couldn't cache at all. Went caching like ONCE.... and here it is, the very end of March, and I haven't been caching since. Severe thunderstorms kept me cooped up all last weekend. Thinking that this coming Sunday afternoon (possibly a quick cache or two Saturday a.m.) will be my best bet for escaping! If I'm cooped up inside much longer, I think I will offiically finish going completely insane, LOL!

     

    /End rant

     

    So...what's the longest slump you've had between caching? :)

     

    I first discovered geocaching while on an army land navigation course. I liked it and then found myself with other priorities. I know, a lame excuse. :lol:

     

    Anyway, 569 days without a find is my shame.

    Longest slump between caching?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I had a three-week (approx) slump in February, where between "Life" and "Weather" I couldn't cache at all. Went caching like ONCE.... and here it is, the very end of March, and I haven't been caching since. Severe thunderstorms kept me cooped up all last weekend. Thinking that this coming Sunday afternoon (possibly a quick cache or two Saturday a.m.) will be my best bet for escaping! If I'm cooped up inside much longer, I think I will offiically finish going completely insane, LOL!

     

    /End rant

     

    So...what's the longest slump you've had between caching? :)

     

    I first discovered geocaching while on an army land navigation course. I liked it and then found myself with other priorities. I know, a lame excuse. :lol:

     

    Anyway, 569 days without a find is my shame.

    Saturation

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    It seems like when I first got into geocaching, one of the stipulations was that saturating an area was not the way to go.

     

    Now I find that people are putting caches every 600+/- feet along a bike trail, or a highway, or some other trail just to get 'numbers'.

     

    Personally, I think this is not the intent of geocaching. Some may think that having hundreds of geocaches hidden is cool, but you and I know that they are not well maintained or kept track of.

     

    I have made a decision NOT to search for these 'saturation' caches. To me a cache should give you something to enjoy besides getting your numbers up. To travel down a highway and every 528' find a cache just doesn't seem like it was what geocaching was meant to be.

     

    Opinion 101 :lol:

    What is the biggest cache container you've ever seen?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    So I was thinking about how difficult it can be to find micros, and I had another thought from the opposite end of things.

     

    What if I were to hide a ridiculously large cache? Would I be able to achieve the same level of difficulty as a micro simply because people aren't able to see the forest through the trees?

     

    For instance, if a geocacher arrives at a restaurant and the coords take them right to the front of the building, the typical response would be to search all around the front of that building. What if the building itself IS the cache? If somebody works up enough nerve to actually walk inside and ask about the cache, the hostess will tell them congratulations and break out a log for them to sign.

     

    What do you think, clever or idiotic?

     

    Has anybody ever actually found a cache like this? If not a building, then possibly an abandoned car, or a dumpster? I am curious to hear stories about the largest geocaches that are hidden in plain sight yet still go undetected.

     

    There were two different caches I found that were the size of 30 gallon plastic tote container. One was full of 35 mm film cases and the log was hidden in one of them. The other was at a rubber band gun factory and inside the cache were free rubber band pistols.

    Geocache Language

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    As a newbie to this forum, I noticed a number of different letters used as shortcuts to written out words,

     

    tnln - does that equal took nothing, left nothing?

     

    are there any others that i should know before it really get into this hobby?

     

    lol - laughing out loud

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