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Several years ago I placed a Mystery Cache (GC4DZFW) and the description contains two pictures that you need to look at to find the North and West coordinated for the cache. Well, several people have posted that these coordinates were up to 46 feet away from where they actually found the cache. I've been by the cache several times and always had my GPS show me within 10-12 feet of my posted coordinates. This morning I get another DNF and so did a walk by and today my GPS has my 20 feet off so I thought I would update these pictures. Now I have new pictures but can't remember how I placed them into my post. Can somebody offer a quick message as to how I would go about replacing the pictures with new ones. Thanks Tim

You can use the menu item "Upload Images", in the Navigation menu to the right of the cache description. This sends the file to GC's servers and makes a link to the image on the page. Use that link in the HTML, wherever you wish to see it on the page. A stereogram will be tricky on a cache page, since the size is dependent on the screen. Some people might be viewing it on a phone. So be sure to point out the link, so that people can print it full-size if they need to. I think it will be OK for most people, or at least for most people who can see the things. That did it! Thanks. Now to finish off a couple of other items and I'll get it summited.

With the images on my desktop, any html code I add looks for them there! I need to be able to upload them somehow to the geocache server or at least my listing for them to be available to others to see. At least that is my understanding. Tim

Placed a cache earlier today and plan on making it a puzzle cache of the Stereogram style. I've got the stereograms created, but when I go to do the description, I find no easy way to place them in the description of the cache. I can add them as pictures (upload images) but would rather have them on the main page. I do see the 'add image' icon in the description block as I am entering the cache info but after several attempts and the results of each being 'file not found', decided to ask here. So, how do I do it? TIA Tim

Yeah.... How about Number Nine?? It is used like this: Having looked around a bit now, I was wondering where you got the Lanyard you're showing in your pictures. The couple of lanyards I've found connect with a very small cord that looks like it might break real easily. Tim

Yes, the Garmin Montana will do all this. UTM posistion format, driving directions (you will want City Navigator or 24k Topo for your area & the powered auto mount for spoken directions). In auto profile and in the auto mount, it's like a nüvi, except you can also have BirdsEye images (etc) that a nüvi doesn't do. Great for caching. My Nuvi 500 also has the ability to use multiple different Coordinate systems, the list is several pages long even. It also has a Geocaching function, something that the newer Nuvi's don't have. It is however obsolete and so I wouldn't recommend even looking for a used one. While I've only had a Montana a couple of weeks, I can second the comment 'Great for caching'.

Yeah.... How about Number Nine?? It is used like this: Like Nancy, I sort of dismissed this. Thanks for the post and the pictures. Now to find a lanyard. Tim

For the past several years I have been using the Nuvi 500, which has a geocaching mode, to both find and place geocaches. This past week I placed yet another cache, doing as I always did, visit the location several times and save a waypoint for future use. On the first 2 trips I'd walk a short way away then return and after standing in the future cache location save yet another waypoint. On my third trip I used the average location of the previous locations and it showed me to be 1 1/2 feet away when I was standing at the cache site. This week I bought a new Montana 600 to replace the Nuvi for caching and this morning I walked out to this new cache location. BTW, this caches has been found by one user during a snow storm and his GPS reading was jumping around a quite a bit. When I got to the cache, my Montana showed the programmed location to be ~30 feet away! Hence my following questions - 1) Has the technology improved so much that the old Nuvi 500 is less accurate then the newer Montana? 2) Should I update the cache location to the new reading I got this morning? 3) Is there perhaps a setting on the Montana that I might have missed to improve the accuracy? 4) should I just wait till more people find the cache and see what they have to say about the accuracy? 5) for Montana 600 owners - What sort of accuracy are you typically seeing? Thanks Tim

The exact issue I ran into. Bought the download version of the maps for my Montana and also a lifetime map card from Best Buy and the two wouldnt work together. Called Garmin and told them what I had done and they sent me a DVD version and assigned my LMU card to it and I now have lifetime maps on my Montana. Best part they charge me nothing!!! I use my Montana mostly for Geocaching as I have a nuvi for automotive use but have used the Montana in nuvi mode and was well pleased with it in automotive use (I do have the cradle when I use it in my truck). Yeah the screen isn't as large as my nuvi but was completely useful none the less. Did they charge you for the DVD or send it to you for free? I ask as I've just ordered the Montana 600 and am looking around for mapping options. How good are the Topo maps as far as locating roads?

Confusing YES! I thought that might be the answer but I had set it that way the looked at true listing and it still showed the traditional cache icon. It appears now that I didn't save my changes so it never really changed. Tis time through I saved it and finally submitted It for publishing. Thanks for your quick answer.

I've placed several traditional caches over the past couple of years and earlier this week decided to do a puzzle cache. One problem, where do I define the cache in the listing as a puzzle cache? I'm given 1)tradition, 2) Multi-Cache, 3) Letterbox Hybrid, 4) Event, 5) Unknown Cache, 6) Cache in Trash Out event, 7) Earthcache, 8) Wherigo Cache as options. What is it I'm missing? TIA for your help.

I went after a cache once that was listed as an ammo can. Looked everywhere an ammo can could possibly be, and after 30 minutes gave up and went home. Found out later it was really a micro, and the cache owner had forgotten to change the write-up. I found an 'Ammo Can' last year and it _was_ a micro! There are places you can buy them. I thought I was looking for the full sized one but found this instead, It was then I noticed the size was checked as 'unknown'.

While all of the different sprays/ointments are a great help, get yourself a lint roller and carry it in your car. Roll yourself down when you return from your hike, and roll down your car seats when you return home, in case you missed something and it dropped into your car.

I use an iPhone with the official Geocache.org App and while it works well, the accuracy does not approach that of a dedicated GPS. It is getting better however and many people, hunting regular size caches can deal with a 16' accuracy. that might be a bit much for finding micros. YMMV

Well, I was apparently doing something wrong but having seen that the waypoints remain for you, I went into the app this morning and tried again. Quit the App, reloaded, search and found the same cache and my saved data is also there. Thanks for letting me know it does work!

I go out geocaching into a new area that has several regular geocaches and one Multi. Due to the trail I pick, I find all of the regular caches and near the end of the hike, find the first way point of the multi. I know I can load it onto the cache page by tapping the flag etc., however, if I'm done caching for the day, how do I go about saving this new information with that specific geocache? I can add a note via notepad which seems to be the answer but then I need to re-enter the coordinates once I am again looking for that next waypoint. Second question - there is a puzzle cache in my area with 22 actual caches. Check GC37JC0 to see what I mean. While I've solved several of the puzzles, is there some way for me to add this 'new' waypoint to each of the caches on my iPhone and save them (other than the notepad) with the cache so I don't need to re-enter them each time I'm moving on to the next cache in the series? Am I missing something? Tim

Unfortunately, I don't know what you mean by either term, "update" or "resubmit". What I see is a disabled, unpublished cache with some reviewer notes, by you, posted since the cache was disabled by the reviewer. That disable log by the reviewer says, "Re-enable when ready" and at the top of cache page you have the standard language Cache issues: *The reviewers will not see this listing until you enable it. Reviewer notes are NOT forwarded to reviewers. They're just laying there on the cache page. When the cache is first seen on queue, the notes are there. If after an initial review, the reviewer wants to continue to see notes as email, they have to put the cache on Watch. \ When I added my notes by editing the site page, I checked the 2 boxes at the bottom of the listing and then hit the 'resubmit' button. I have totally missed the check box at the top of the page on the re-submitts so guess it's my fault that I've heard nothing. Since I've moved both caches earlier today I will now check it and resubmit. Thanks for finally getting it into my thick head I was missing that one more step.

Your cache is disabled. No one has it on watch, so no one sees the reviewer notes you've been posting. I don't know whether your reviewer would prefer that you email directly with the GC Code, and ask that he consider your question, or just enable it to make it visible again. When I update my listing and resubmit it, doesn't it go back to the reviewer?

Best idea in this thread. While this might sound like a good idea, it really isn't. mrducky is using laminated plastic tags tied to trees with all of the next 'choices' for you to check out. As such, he would need to verify each 'new spot' (at least IF the reviewer is making you avoid _all_ waypoints), make new laminated plastic tags, go out, remove the old and replace with the new. I guess I'm confused. Are there laminated tags at the dummy waypoints? What Too Tall John was suggesting was asking the CO to edit the waypoint style in the cache listing (change it from Stages of a multicache to Reference Point). As long as there isn't anything physically at each waypoint, dummy or otherwise, he wouldn't have to change a thing in the field. By changing the WP to a Reference Point, that dummy waypoint would no longer be subject to the saturation guideline. As long as there is nothing physically at the waypoint, the CO might be willing to make the change and free up the spot for your cache. If there is something there, such as a laminated tag, then it needs to be listed as Stages of a multicache and block off a 528' circle. As for your confusion - from the posting of the multi "The correct answer will lead you to the next waypoint. The incorrect answers will lead you astray. There is nothing to find at the coordinates given by the incorrect answers." I'm off to move at least one of the caches in a few minutes so the problem will be solved, I hope, later this week.

How did you send your questions to the reviewer? If it was via a note on the page, it's possible he hasn't seen it. Did he disable the page? It's likely he'll never see the page again unless you enable it. I posted a note on the page and resubmitted (enabled) it. I also (IIRC) emailed him directly through the web site.

I've done the Multi and know that there is only a physical presents at one of the 4 locations given at any of the waypoints so my caches should not cause a problem that way.

Um, can you confirm that GC code? GCQMZ5 is in Austria. Sorry - it's GCQZM5. In New Hampshire. Sorry for the Typo, and if your in the area, that multi is a fun one to do!

Not according to the guidelines. Looking at the pictures at <http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=304#saturation> it shows as acceptable placing something 400 ft (122m) for, as the guideline call it "non-physical stage with no physical elements placed by the cache owner"

Best idea in this thread. While this might sound like a good idea, it really isn't. mrducky is using laminated plastic tags tied to trees with all of the next 'choices' for you to check out. As such, he would need to verify each 'new spot' (at least IF the reviewer is making you avoid _all_ waypoints), make new laminated plastic tags, go out, remove the old and replace with the new. This weekend, weather permitting, I will be moving one and checking out a couple of new spots for the other. Still haven't figured out why I've never gotten an answer to my questions sent directly to the reviewer!

At first I was about to go full on against this reviewer. I've never had someone post something so logical that changed my opinion completely. I never looked at it like that! Thanks! I agree with reviewer then. I really don't think my caches would cause that type of a problem. Looking for the Multi, the owner suggests you use a Topo map and uses UTM coordinates. I'm using the more standard WGS 84. Certainly you can convert them but the clues ('closest to a beaver dam') would get you to look at the map, not other caches that might, or might not be, in any certain area. The original comment however is a valid one that I had thought about but didn't really spend much time with. All you can do is wait for a reviewer response now... and I'm still waiting! Haven't heard word one from the review after he gave me the initial 'to close' response, even thought I've asked him twice to please verify the info and if he knew which waypoints has stuff at them and which were just dummy placeholders. I'm now thinking of making it a puzzle cache but guess I would have the same problem even then.