BigWhiteTruck

I can only respond to what I think you are saying. There are no issues of compatability between cd readers/writers of different loading mechanisms.

Yeah but the going over part is scarier than the going down once you are over the edge. I don't know why. Sorry, there seems to be a problem with the datacenter that my web server is located in. This is the second time this has happened in a year. I am expecting things to be back to normal soon. And then I will likely change providers I would be honored to have a "Found it" log from you.

Use google maps to generate directions between the two points. That's the only way I can think of to highlight two specific points.

In the context of trying to find this particular cache which isn't placed yet. . . yes.

Some geocaching friends of mine from south carolina were in town for their own wedding (they grew up here and then came back for their wedding because of where family was located). We had a great time this weekend, and on Sunday my wife and I went out with the newlyweds to scout a very special potential cache spot. When it is placed, it will be a 5-star terrain for real. Getting set up. This is one of two anchors we used at the top of the cliff Rigging the gear. First rule of climbing: Double and triple-check everything. Out of hundreds of times doing this, I once found an error on the double check. That's when I started doing the triple check. Going over the edge. For some reason, this is always the scariest part of the whole thing. Onlookers We aquire an audience from a strange family who didn't stay long. You can also see the waterfalls in the background. Personally, my kids would never be that close to the edge without harnesses! Cache spots? Checking out the various cracks and crevices. A lot of these would easily hide an ammo can. Continuing down to another possible placement. Fooling around I can never resist doing this! Some people think it looks dangerous, but this particular harness is very secure. As you can see, this is a very cache-worthy spot! This place is called Carpenter Falls and is on the western side of Skaneateles Lake in NY. Thought I would stir the 1.5/1.5 pot that is central New York! Would you hunt this one? What if I offered my services as a guide by teaching you how to use the equipment and letting you use mine with me there (I would totally let you look in the wrong spot with a smile), would you try it then?

Took this one just yesterday at this cache. If you like, the full res version (5 MP, 461 KB) is available here.

First off, let me say: All due respect to you and sorry that you have a disability, but: Lets keep it real here. This has nothing to do with your disability and everything to do with not being allowed to place virtuals on vacation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought there weren't going to be any more virtuals at all, so this really doesn't have anything to do with anything, right? Basically, you go on vacation and there are no caches there for you to do. Theere are caches there for other people, but not for you. You wish you could place one of your own, but you can't do that because you wouldn't be able to maintain it. Also, you can't place a virtual for whatever reason. I don't follow the logic here. Would you make the same argument for a place that has no caches at all? For example, if I travelled deep into Boondock, Montana I would have the same problem as you. No caches for me to find because there aren't any, can't place one because I don't live there, can't do a virtual because they don't do virtuals anymore. Should I say to Groundspeak: "In places with few caches that are available it must be OK to place virtual caches. " is that what I should say? I just don't see how this relates to you having a disability. I don't own a boat so I can't do boat caches. If I traveled to a place where there were only boat caches, I would be upset about it, but I wouldn't scold Groundspeak for not letting me place a virtual there. Where does it end?

At the school where my wife works, the 8th grade has an Earth Day celebration each year on or near Earth Day, which is April 22nd. Some of you may know it as CITO day I have been asked by the organizers to run a geocaching presentation as one of the activities. Attending will be about twenty 8th graders (around 12-13 years of age). I will also have 4-5 chaperones at my disposal, and I have plans to beg borrow or steal at the very least 5 gps units for them to use, although I am shooting for 10. The rough outline will be that I will give an indoors presentation about geocaching to the children and chaperones, spend a little time showing them how a gps works and how to enter coordinates. After that I will send them all off in groups with one gps per group to find some multis that I will have hidden around the school grounds (with permission). I plan to have one multicache per group, and each multi will have enough legs so that each child in the group can have a turn with the gps. The final coords will take them to a cache of Earth Day stickers or something along those lines. The school grounds are pretty large so I won't have a problem hiding 20 "caches". I have almost 2 hours for my presentation. I would like to get some feedback from you guys with good ideas, or why I have a bad idea. Things to watch out for, etc. Especially if you have done this sort of thing before. Some Idea's that I have already given to myself: Print out a bunch of geocacher-U pamphlets. Print out a map of caches in the kids' town get permission for placements from school admins (they know i am coming) make sure I know how to work each gps unit I borrow explain to the kids that they need to be moving for the arrow to work Any and all feedback is appreciated.

I am making a night-only cache called "Fear of the Dark". I think I will have a Surefire Nitrolon for FTF prize.

The Gimp is a full-featured image editor that rivals photoshop in it's power and feature set. It is also free through donations of time and energy developing it by a community of programmers who just want to see good software available to everyone (or maybe they needed a free graphics program). Install gimp for windows Go to the webpage with the image you want to see, right click on it, and select save image as. . . Run gimp and hit file->open, and pick the image. go to the dialogs menu and select "layers" unclick all the eye icons next to each layer, then turn each eye back on, one at a time to view the frames individually if you want to slow it down, double-click on the layer name and change the delay to a larger number it is measured in milliseconds, so 1000 is one second, then re-save the image and open it in your browser have fun

Can you input coordinates into plucker and have plucker tell you which caches are the closest? Can you hook your gps to the palm and have plucker navigate you to the cache? You can't write your logs into plucker? Can you mark caches found in plucker? Can you sort caches in plucker?

A pocket query is like a search on the web for geocaches in your area. For example, you have probably done the search where you put in your zip code, and on the screen you see a list of caches near your zip code. A pocket query is just like that, except the results are emailed to you in a special file. Using various different softwares, you can take this special file and load it onto a PDA to go paperless. Your PDA will then have the coordinates, descriptiopn, and even past logs from other people for all the caches that matched the query (or search). You can also use the file to automatically load the waypoints into your GPS. You can set a pocket query search to run automatically for you on certain days also. For example, every friday, you can get an email of the caches in your area. Also, you can do much more than just query for caches in your area, you can search for specific caches, certain sizes, only one's that you haven't found, etc. go to this page to get started

The moral of the story is: Don't judge a cache too quickly or quit whining. did i win?

Well, if you are following the arrow on your gps, it doesn't really matter which one you are using. If you are using your gps to get a bearing and then using a compass to follow that bearing, magnetic would be better, unless you can calibrate your compass to true north using the magnetic declination at your location

How belly buttons relate to Lent: Lent is an observation of Jesus fasting for 40 days in the desert. Jesus was the third person to be created by God, and the first one to have a belly button. Back on topic: In the almost two years that I have suffered this obsession enjoyed this hobby, caching hasn't changed much, except micros seem to be more and more the norm. There were 500 caches within 42 miles of my home, now there are 500 within 20 miles. My first cache was a micro in a bush near a church that I had been to only a couple weeks prior for a wedding. That first impression spoiled me for a while, and only recently have I come to have a bias towards better caches, like ammo cans in the woods. I hid one micro because there really was no way to hide something better in that spot, and one that was a magnetic sign with log heet on the back slapped to a transformer box because I thought it was clever. My third was a nice ammo can in a good spot in the woods packed with good swag and marked well. All my other hides going forward will be just as good or better. I also have a much greater appreciation for the outdoors than I had before, and love using maps and compasses as well as my gps. I have made hiking staffs, maps, bought tons of stuff, spent money on things I never would have believed 2 years ago, and spent more time in places I never would have been. So in two years, the sport has not changed too much, but the sport sure has changed me, so there is my evolution of caching.

Are you able to hotsync the palm with the mac? If so, you are only a step away from going paperless. That is, you need to be able to generate cachemate files from your pocket queries. Traditionally, this is done on a pc using either cachemate's cmconvert program, or using GSAK. I know that there is a linux version of cmconvert, it is available as source code and and you compile it on your system. If you have Mac OS X, it should be easy to compile the linux version on your mac, since OS X is unix-based, like linux. You should contact the cachemate author at smittyware.com, there may even be a mac version already.

OP said they posted a note on the cache page, not a find. So we can't find this cache in their list of finds.

I would be all over it

Turned 26 yesterday! And had a great time doing it!

yes you should

Cause you can't kill the dead ones topic shut down in 3...2...1...

well, there's only one left

I logged my own cache last night, although it was a DNF, not a find! Log here Had I found it, I would've posted a note, not a find.

You shouldn't feel bad about what happened. Caches that promote illegal activity put geocaching in a negative light. It doesn't matter that it's something as minor as jaywalking. Negative focus on geocachers' activities have hurt us in the past. While you or I or any sane person may downplay jaywalking, someone who is intent on hurting the sport for their own agenda only has to say "you had to dangerously cross a busy highway with cars whipping by at high speeds" to bend the ears of all kinds of alarmists. I think it's a good policy to archive a cache that has logs like that, it keeps Groundspeak safe. Here's some more: Illegal activity in logs

Interesting read.