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Thanks Keystone, for the "peek" and the link. Thanks also to Jamie Z and Lil Devil for your confirmation and comments. Twas helpful. My question is pretty well answered but I think I will leave the thread open a few more hours in case someone wants to chime in. Thanks again all Edited for spelling

Looked through many threads on "archived caches" but couldn't find the help I was really after. I'm trying to discover the chronological history of geocaches both in my own state (Oregon) and overall within the GC.com umbrella. My initial reason has been to facilitate an interesting and factual description for a new cache I intend to place where an archived cache used to be. The original cache Arago Cliffs seemed to me a cache worth resurrecting because of finders' comments and it being one of the first (if not THE first) caches placed along the Oregon Coast. So I would like to be able say in the cache description that it was indeed the very first geocache place along the Oregon Coast. To know if this accurate I apparently have to use the GC.com mapping application (with "List Archived/Disabled Caches" and "Identify" boxes checked) and just start panning through the entire coast keeping track of placed dates. That took some time! It would also be nice to state that it was cache number "whatever" in the overall history of geocaching (on GC.com anyway). Anyone know of an easier way to do this kind of historical research? I see no way to do this in PQ's in their current form. I could just put the new cache out there without all the history but I think it makes for a much more interesting hunt/find experience. I know that I really enjoy hunting caches that have good stories behind them.

Thanks klossner. Just tried it and got what I was looking for! The larger the area you're interested in the more work it will be to discover the archived caches but this method works for me.

Introducing myself from down in the Coos Bay, OR area. As the radius of my "cleared" area is approaching 50 miles from Coos Bay I am letting local cachers (and others that have placed caches down here) know that I am willing to consider adopting and/or stopping by to check on caches in this area. I recently adopted Baby Loon from R&T4Sure who adopted it from Coasties who moved from the area. Team Misquided, regarding R&T4sure's caches I've tried emailing him but get no response. I was going to offer to adopt his eight(8) caches wholesale. He used the adoption request/accept process GC.com has in place now to give me the above mentioned Baby Loon cache. That worked great and it's back online and being found. However, I've had no more responses from him when I offered to adopt one of his other caches. All of these caches would fairly easy for me to maintain. Could you initiate an email to him to see if he will release them? Most of them are active and functioning ok but one needs maintenance and he doesn't seem to very active in the game these days. Very early in the life of this thread a request was made to get someone to adopt Coastal Cavern. Others made mention of Arago Cliffs and Arago Cliffs, Happy 4th being highly rated cache hunts (for the great views of the coastline experienced there). These have all been archived but I plan to scope these former locations out and try to put new caches here soon. Watch for them Sparrowhawk, yumitori and Lazyboy since you were the ones raving about them. Along these lines of resurrecting old poplular (but now archived) caches I am having difficulty discovering the "history" of cache locations for this region. Unless I'm missing something you can't search for these using PQ's nor can you find them using the Hide and Seek a Cache search page. Only if I stumble across them in people's logs or in the forums can one get the archived cache page. Anybody know of an easier way of looking for archived caches for a region for the purpose of possibly putting new one's in the old location? Some, like the one's mentioned above, seemed to have been highly rated and it would be a shame not to keep bringing people to these locations. Whew, that was a long introduction! Sorry.

USAPhotomap isn't perfect either (Terraserver actually) as I've discovered caching along the southern Oregon coast. Check out the image misalignment near Port Orford, OR There are caches along this area of high bluffs that show up out in the Pacific!

Just noticed a user limitation not mentioned (I didn't see it anyway) on the "About Google Earth KML" link on GC.com. It appears you have a daily limit on the number of "views" each day. Each time you scroll you use up a "view". I didn't noticed it until I was down to ONLY 190 views left today! For the average user 200 or so "views" per day will be more than adequate. However, if you're worried about the limit you should just uncheck the GE folder called Geocache Name while scrolling and zooming into your area of interest, then turning it back on once you're ready.

Works now - whooaaaa, here we goooooooo.........

Just tried loading the network kml and got the following message when opening Google Earth. Fetch of NetworkLink "Geocaching Network KML" failed Http: Forbidden Anybody else have this happen? I downloaded the kml to my desktop and then just opened it. Was I supposed to do something more? Glad to see this feature, BTW - great job Jeremy and staff!!

Here's one for MS Streets & Trips plus GSAK - Caches Along a Route

I tested the adoption page and noticed that when I just type in a user name that I'm sending the request to, then tab down to write in the next text box that the SEND button is grayed out or unavailable. However, if I type the name of the user and click the GO button to the right, the SEND button becomes available. Hope this helps - if you're just typing in the user name without clicking on the GO button, I suspect you won't have the SEND button available either.

My avatar was part of my surprise 50th birthday celebration last week. My wife (a web designer) had a connection to a pretty talented cartoonist (affectionately known as EEF) who created it based on photographs. I had been wanting one for awhile but I haven't got a creative bone in my body so it wasn't going to come from me! It captures me pretty well and my demeanor while caching!

Seeing your pic of Denali reminded me of a recent walking stick gift from my parents while they were vacationing there this summer. Dad picked up a walking stick for me made from "Diamond Willow". The wood is a very light colored but at each side-branch node the darker, inner wood is exposed in the shape of a diamond. I like it alot. Check out my profile gallery to see pic's of it.

Handy tool - one of my geocaching goals is to "clear" a specific area of caches. Once I accomplish that feat I could then use this tool to quickly compute the size of the area "free of unfound caches". This is by no means my main reason for geocaching but it's cool to be able to say how large of an area you've "cleared". For example, I've been working on an area along the Oregon Coast for about a year now and have found all the caches in roughly a square block bounded east/west by HWY 101 and I-5 and north/south HWY 42 and HWY 38. Well, not quite - have 3-5 more to go. When I finally find those, I will have cleared an area of about 1.3 million acres (just sounds cool to say, yes?)

I see that the running cache info on the website's homepage is about to roll over to 200,000 active caches! Wow. Congratulations to all who have contributed to geocaching's growth. I just passed my one year mark and am having a great deal of fun. Kudo's to Jeremy and staff, moderators etc - this site runs pretty darn well given the number of people involved in this activity.

and the "identifier" could be a hyperlink to the user's actual log entry

I've seen problems with the terraserver images that USAPHOTOMAPS taps into as well. Here on the southern oregon coastline there are several obvious misalignments of images. It's irritating but there is no perfect product out there and besides these images only serve as one piece of my geocaching experience.

Going inside may not be a problem in the near future - see this thread. Maybe this thread will get more of a response here.

Saw [/url]=http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,20967,1077265,00.html]this[/url] article in popular science - okay, now I need to adjust my HOME coords to reflect the postion of my lazyboy! Seriously, this could be helpful in urban "canyons" Edit: Sorry for the URL goof above, article is below...... article

Tab - got a link or pic of this? Sounds like something I would be interested in...thanks.

Please share what you found - I've wondered the same thing. Thanks

Came across one recently that was a TB tag (just the tag - nothing attached) that the FTF'r could then create his/her own TB! Great idea!

Thanks, Clyde - that should get me started. Woohoo, something new to play with....

I see uses for managing waypoints other than geocaches as well and would like to check out GPSBabel for myself (I hate bugging busy people and enjoy learning new applications). So does one need to install GPSBabel as a standalone program or is there a way to use it through the GSAK program (which totally rocks BTW!)?

I was checking on a cache that I had previously found and was located in the state forest where I work and discovered someone had left a baggie with 20+ rounds of live .22 ammo! YIKES! I removed it and notified the cache owner. The "depositor" never logged the visit on GC.com but did leave a note in the cache. This was several months ago and I don't remember the user name. If I remember correctly, I tried looking up his profile with no luck. We have inmate crews working all over our forest doing work like brushing along roads. This cache could have been discovered by these crews - not good.

One question though. All the instructions say "for S&T 2003 and 2004". Will it all work the same for 2005? I can attest to the procedure PDOP referred to working without a hitch with my new copy of MSST 2005. Well, there was a little hitch but it was just me rushing through the steps too quickly. It's a very good procedure and well written, thanks Xangxa! EDIT: I guess I should have clicked on PDOP's link before I posted this....not the same procedure I used. I used this one