CheekyBrit
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You two are making me feel great. Love feedback especially when I did something right rather than messed up.
Though i'm still pondering how to compare counties to see how many in the fizzy grid each has. Any thoughts?
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I built some fizzy grid challenges in Bannock county as a part of some interactive geoart project GC8X0WP. I contemplated making them restricted to caches within Bannock county and waiting till I had built the remaining 4 missing spots on the fizzy grid but opted away from it. Until I showed up, the county was missing 20 or so spaces on the grid and for a lot of DT combinations there is only a single cache in Bannock county.
Restricting to areas is great but IMHO there should be several options on most spots in the fizzy grid. Im sure there are counties that fulfill that but in my area it'd have to be an Idaho wide challenge to be realistic. Our high terrain and difficulties are brutal.
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Avoiding that debate (because i'm not brave enough to tackle it) but thinking of how to calculate the most caches found in a day excluding three cache monties, could someone build a challenge for x caches outside of state of Nevada in one day? That'd exclude Nevada's ET highway. You could also see who has the most with The top caching days tool on project-gc but selecting every state except Nevada. That only works for caches within the states and doesn't handle other power trails being done with the 3 cache monty. It also doesn't impact using challenge caches signed over the previous years but logged that day.
With that filter excluding Nevada it looks like Macgyverandflo has the most in a day with a whopping and suspicious 3595 with the runner up way back at 3092 in a day.
I have only found a mere 32 in a day and that was for the brilliant 'day of hell challenge' GC3RKQ4.
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Loosely connected - some cache containers would be damaged by the cold. My semaphore diffusal pair GC88TVK have outer combination padlocks that I didnt think would hold up to the weather since they are at ground level and Pocatello's weather would cover them.
Last winter I contacted the reviewer and disabled for 3 months and brought them home for maintenance. But this year i'm leaving them out to see if they can handle it.
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Are there any counties that host caches covering all 81 combinations of terrain and difficulty (a full matrix)?
YES! Multnomah county in Oregon, for example.
But finding them is tough. Is there a way to compare counties and see how much of the DT matrix each of them offer?
The fantastic
'Map DT Matrix' tool on project-gc gets you a pretty good idea if you run it with a newer account (I use my sister in law's who has 2 finds), but that tool stops after 1000 caches and doesn't show a full picture. This isnt what it was designed for after all.
But why? I'm curious mostly.
Also, i'm trying to make the gameboard as good as possible, working to make my home county offer as much as possible. It is fun to try and build up our small town to offer more diversity than full cities.
(I make sure my caches are all accurately rated. If I have a terrain 5, it is a rappelling cache or equivalent.)
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On 6/5/2014 at 2:19 AM, Oxford Stone said:
No agenda to put out rare combos.
I confess, I do have an agenda to put out rare D/Ts, but they are accurately rated. Some
On 6/13/2014 at 5:34 PM, The Rat said:people have no problem listing an event as a 5 Diff / 1 Terr (at a restuarant)
and that kinda ruins it. I've had an event that was elevated in the trees thanks to a set up of angles slacklines and a tree tent, and had a trail maintenance CITO with multiple miles covered with rugged terrain in the mountains. Those two events made sense with higher terrain ratings but many do not.
My shameful agenda is to tailor my home county to have everything someone could want - all types, all D/Ts, gadget caches, teamwork caches, rock climbing... this only works if the caches match the description, so my rock climbing hides at terrain 5 literally require rappelling equipment.
It means my highly rated caches dont get much traffic at all but those who do find it get an absolute adventure.
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Just now, Hügh said:
That's not going to work; JavaScript is not allowed in geocache descriptions.
Thank you for saving me some time and a headache. I'll look around for a non javascript option.
I could always have a hyperlink to the gif perhaps...
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Anyone else looking to start a geo tour and held back by the multi thousand dollar ongoing price tag, a geo trail is a great place to start. You can still have passports and coin rewards, but it lacks the expensive marketing and promoting of your geo trail. That is the biggest difference but the cost becomes ONLY the caches and rewards.
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Just had an idea: try uploading each individual frame of the gif as separate images but use a piece of html for an automatic gallery with the carousel speed set down to 300 or so...
https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/w3css_slideshow.asp
I'll try it once i'm home and let you know.
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I am trying to build a couple of caches that use gifs and am running into some hurdles that seem to have been put up since Mn-Treker's solution in 2017.
Here's a breakdown of what I've tried
1) Upload the gif to the cache page - it only displays as a still image. I tried using img src like I have for a lot of images in my cache pages but it only displays a still image.2) I tried to skip the cache page upload and link to the gif on a site. I am blocked by geocaching.com saying I need to, "Remove all images hosted on a third-party website to save changes. Tip: Upload images directly to the cache page with the user-friendly editor."
3) Next I looked at the URL of where geocaching uploads images to: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images..... and tried to set up my own s3 amazon web service storage. Well... It still counted it as a third-party website.
I'm guessing there might be some other way to upload to the cache page that stops it just becoming a JPEG or imitating the s3 link that looks more like their own but I can't find a solution right now.
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On 8/31/2020 at 3:42 PM, TTO2 said:
Can the new attributes be added to existing caches with 'edit'?
Yes. I just updated all of my caches that needed bonus or challenge attributes.
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I'm just spit ballin' here, am I allowed to do a zip line geocache? I have built zip lines and high rope courses everywhere I have lived and am getting ready to build a really good one at the house we just bought. I figure I could have a retractable line suspended in the middle of the zip line so to reach it and pull it down you need to do the zip line. It'd probably end up being part of a multi cache going to different parts of the yard, maybe having a key hanging from the zip line. It is on my property and I would have to be ready for that kind of liability on my homeowner's insurance. I recognize it is a massive liability to me, just like having a swimming pool or a trampoline in your yard (trampoline geocache high up would be cool!).
I do love mixing my hobbies with geocaching, like the rappelling caches I have put together and this would be a fun one.
My main question is, am I allowed to do a zip line geocache as far as geocaching.com and Groundspeak are concerned?
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am truly sorry if I have ruffled feathers with my question. I have removed the cache in question since it was on BLM land and I don't YET have permission. If I manage to get permission I can put it back but it'd have a 2020 date. Problem solved. Sorry if my silly question caused a ruckus. I admire all of your intellects on geocaching topics like this. Thank you for keeping it civil going forward.
It would be cool, though. I'll let you know if I get permission.
Best regards - that silly Englishman who thought he might have a rare old cache.-
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I'm setting up a palindrome cache for palindrome day (02.02.2020). It's great because it works in the US date format and the format the rest of the entire world uses.
I'll set it up as a multi or unknown cache and it'll have coordinates like: N42°53.221' W112°23.524' so the numbers 425322111223524 read the same forwards as backwards, just like the date.
What are you doing for palindrome day?Or have you ever seen any other palindrome caches
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Thank you for your brilliantly insightful thoughts everyone. I need to contact BLM about this one since that's who's land it's on. I'm on first name basis with the guy I need to talk to but I feel like I should remove the ammo can while waiting for permission, in which case it wouldn't have been hidden for years and years - just mere days. I'm glad I read my journal and remembered this.
This was a great thought exercise though.It'd be nice to somehow patch the thinning parts of the Jasmer chart worldwide, but at the same time, perhaps the rarity is what makes it so fun. Also, the chance of containers being genuinely hidden on those specific summer months in 2000 is so unlikely, I'd even call it suspicious if we see it crop up.
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3 hours ago, niraD said:
Assuming that someone else hasn't already found the cache during those 5 years.
I found a mountainous geocache this summer that had a ton of written names that are nowhere to be found on geocaching.com or similar websites. It's like a few hikers found it and joined it. I could see that happening to a long time hidden but not published cache.
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5 hours ago, HunterandSamuel said:
It's in the news at least three times a year about bodies being found.
Near me is American Falls reservoir, built in the 70s. The now flooded valley used to be part of the town, including a cemetery. Thanks to decomposition, there are gaseous byproducts that occasionally cause bodies to float out of their graves. This doesn't happen too often and the closest geocaches are around the edge of the reservoir, but people swim, fish, pleasure boat, and water ski in that reservoir all the time. I've considered placing a scuba cache there but the cemetery makes me hesitant.
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Undertaker here,
My job is to retrieve bodies, typically inside buildings, but you get the occasional outdoor venue for someone's last moments (crashes, lost in woods...). I haven't stumbled upon a body while geocaching, but I have been geocaching and suddenly had a death call in the area and had to nip off. That's probably not what you were after.
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While on holiday as a kid, some friends and I hid an ammo can container as a sort of time capsule. This was before any of us knew geocaching existed. Looking back to it, this container is set up just like a geocache since there is a half blank notebook in there that would function as a log, and a bit of SWAG from our childhood (so it's mostly junk kids didn't mind leaving behind).
What are your thoughts on turning this into a geocache and using our original hide date as the hidden date? That would make it one of the oldest caches in the county.
Hangup 1) At first I didn't think it was a big deal, but then I realized there are people who strive to find the oldest caches in each area for challenges and stuff. This would mess up their progress.
Hangup 2) Also, if this is allowed, it might open the door do people "fake hiding" a cache years ago that turns out to truly be only weeks old, not decades old. Lying is messed up and that fake hiding would be some sort of cheating and ruffle feathers. Some cachers I know place hides only wanting favorite points. Having a supposedly old cache would definitely help them cheat their way to more favorite points that would otherwise go to cache owners who truly earned them.
Keep it civil in the comments, people. We all want to have fun and support geocaching and it's rules.-
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I for one thoroughly enjoyed all the webcam caches I've done regardless of stats or the rarity. If they came back, those that don't like it could just not do them - much like terrain 5 caches, if you don't like them, don't do them. We all play the game differently.
I agree, if brought back, webcams should be done on a case by case basis to ensure they'd be sustainable, good quality caches.To be honest, if there was an option to donate $xxx a price tag to place a new grandfathered cache, like an individual webcam I'd do it. I'd gladly pay a few hundred dollars for a chance at placing a new webcam. I recognize it takes a fair amount of HQ's effort to handle new grandfathered caches compared to regular caches.
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On 5/3/2019 at 4:04 PM, niraD said:
Well, a busy day with 10 types could be done with:
- traditional cache
- mystery/puzzle cache
- multi-cache
- EarthCache
- letterbox hybrid
- event
- CITO event
- Wherigo cache
- virtual cache
- webcam cache
- I think combining Geocaching HQ and the nearby Project APE cache would be your best bet for 12 types. Or maybe if there's a mega- or giga-event near Geocaching HQ, although I've heard that event stacking rules make it hard to list regular events or CITO events near a mega- or giga-event.
There is a band of people who have all done 12 types in a day. I I think someone could do 13.
Someone could do the 10 you recommended, and add:
11) A project APE cache12) Geocaching HQ
13) A mega event they'd need to help organize so it is on a weekday while HQ is open. This would need to be a fair distance away from HQ and the other event too.
They could also do a waypoint and benchmark, though they don't count. If there are any lab caches, locationless caches, or GPS adventures exhibits nearby, try to do them too.
So.... I'm trying to start a mega in Portland on a weekday during summer 2020.
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I enjoy the full range of sizes, but I absolutely love it when I am fooled by someone somehow hiding a large or a regular in an urban setting thanks to camouflage. My mind is blown and I'm left with a big grin on my face just like after a magic trick. It is certainly harder to hide larger containers in urban settings than it is to hide smaller containers. I don't claim anyone here is micro shaming, but I can empathize with an area with hardly anything else.
Back to topic, your signature should definitely adapt to the space available.-
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11 hours ago, thebruce0 said:
That'll be one heck of a gps that can measure 1 planck
I laughed so hard.
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Yes, it will take a MASSIVE group of friends. And both of mine are busy that day.
I plan to do a youth group invite. There are a few thousand in that group in Portland. They'd all need to have accounts and be genuine geocachers though.-
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Ive had my share of those. I actually cut my hand on a beer bottle shard in the snow digging by hand last week. Never did find that cache. I'm a first responder and an undertaker so the blood was no issue, kept everything sanitary and all that jazz.