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You can get images using Plucker. You don't even need a Pocket Query Just download the GPX file from the cache page. If you have several, create a folder and put them in there. Drag and drop the folder into GPXSpinner (freeware). Open Plucker and follow directions (found on Geocacher U) for using that software. Indicate the Index file in the Cache folder created by GPXSpinner as the file you want to use, set "limits" to 3 (pages - more if you like), set "Image" tab to 256 colors. It will make it a pretty big file so be sure to put telll Plucker to put it on your expansion card. You get great full color images that way.

Reading glasses mostly. Lost a travel bug once when I fell during a buswhack.

When you click on the cache in the map, in the bubble that pops up, bookmark it is the first option followed by send to garmin and log visit! HOpe it helps But you can't generate a visual list of the caches you want to look for in a particular area since they've eliminated the sidebar that lists the caches numberically. UGGH. I used this feature ALL THE TIME!

I hate the new format. Can't bookmark, no list of the caches on the sidebar. I liked to print this page to help with a day of hiking - it worked really well with using my PDA - only one piece of paper needed to identify the caches I wished to seek. Why go and fix something that is not broken!!!

Thanks to those who suggested using the Travel Bug Graveyard. I hadn't known about them. Put Jack virtually to rest in one and now I fell SOOO much better. Cheers to all, Janis

Someone else recommended this. I hadn't known they existed. Did drop it in a virtual graveyard yesterday and I feel SOOOO much better now. Thanks!

Here's what you need to do. Post a note on your cache. Before you submit the note, in the lower left corner is your bug drop inventory, if you haven't already done so WRITE DOWN THE TRACKING NUMBER. Select the bug and post a note. Go to the bug page and you will see an option to 'mark bug as missing'. Click Go. (Not 100% certain but you may need the tracking number. Probaby not, but it's always best to write down the tracking number of every bug you've found and keep it forever.) You can delete your cache note and once the bug page updates you can delete the cache drop. It'll stay in an Unknown location and out of your account. Thanks. I'll try this.

I confess. I lost a TB - quite unintentionally. I was on my way to place it in a cache and fell on an overgrown path. The bug must have jumped out of my pack, because it was nowhere to be found when I reached the cache. I looked in vain for it but gave up after an hour or so of searching. I emailed the owner several times advising him to disable it. No response. Now it lives on my account page, plaguing my already guilty conscience. I asked Groundspeak if they could disable it but they said only the owner could. What can I do?!?!

OK first question. How do I post a picture on MY HIDDEN cache page? When I upload a photo using the editting page, it only appears as a jpg icon that the viewer must click to see the picture. How do I put a picture or photo or wallpapaer on the page of a cache I own so it is on permanent display? Second question: is anyone else having porblems with the geocaching Googlemaps feature? I'm a premium meber, but it excludes me from seeing members only caches and does not icon my found caches on the map. I've reported it to the tech folks at Groundspeak, but they have not resolved the problem after several weeks. Thanks Janis

Check out www. bookcrossing.com. I think this would be an ideal bookcrossing cache!! (You register the books with Bookcrossing and people log the books they've found so you can track them.) There are a couple of Bookcrossing caches already, but for us book lovers, there can never be too many.

I'm about to give up. I'm trying to use Cachemate to achieve my goal of paperless caching using my Plam Zire 72. For awhile I used Geocaching Swiss Army Knife to download gpx files, but to be honest I was never really sure how I accomplished that either. I'm sure there is a way to directly export my pocket query files to Cachemate and then to my Palm with a hot sync, but all I get is error messages. I do use Windows XP, and I know that that does not unzip the files correctly, but I can't seem to cirmcumvent it and then get it to my Palm installer. Can some friendly fellow Geocacher walk me through this? Thanks, Janis of Runnerfam