T@rget

No, no, no...it's really hard when you live in a teeny place like poor little Rhode Island. Small area, lots of dedicated new cache watchers. Really, the casual player doesn't stand a chance. I got my one and only FTF quite by accident, as a newbie. And then only because four new caches appeared over a Friday night in one small area. There were at least five of us chasing each other around at dawn like Keystone Kops. I managed to get to one of them first, but two people walked up on me as I logged. My FTF prize? Squishy frog. I pretty much decided that wasn't a variant of the game I much wanted to play. I didn't mean getting the FTF was easy, I meant checking for new caches in the area is easy. If you live in Rhode Island and see a new cache has been listed, you know it is close.

I assume most people in my area just check the Rhode Island cache page for newly listed caches. I guess its really easy when you live on the border of a state the size of your fist. Texas is a different story. I guess you could always bribe your local approver for some conveniently timed cache approvals

In that case I'll add my only hide A Killer Smile

My only hide is set up in html format. I didn't do it to make the page prettier, just more functional. Looking at it now, I need to fix a few spelling errors and probably should tweak the alignment. A Killer Smile

I feel the need to post in this thread just because I'm 22.

I've got the typing faster than you part down. But I'm still working on the timely answer part. Edit: on second glance I got answer to #2 in first. I don't feel as bad now.

1. Log into geocaching.com. Click on your name in the top right corner of the screen. Click "Edit profile" (found next to the words My Account Details). There will be a section to upload an avatar. 2. Go to your cache page and click the "edit attributes" button on the list on the right. 3. Not sure what you are talking about. But if you are talking about placing background music on a web page, html can be used. You would need to host something like a midi file somewhere. Then, you can use html code on the web page linking to that file. Something like: <bgsound="http://www.page.com/sound.mid"> That might work, but its been awhile since I've used background music.

I was stopped by a reservation officer this week (first time being stopped). Quote from my log: "We were stopped by an officer while looking for this cache. Wohoo!! Team TARG3T's official first stop!! He instantly spotted the GPSrs and knew exactly what we were doing. Nice Guy. We chatted about how he owned a GPSr (but wasn't very familiar with using it) and thought that the geocaching thing was pretty interesting. He pointed us to where he saw other people searching for the cache and we found it there." Basically the longer version of the story was that it was just a little after dusk on a roadside cache. I was standing on a side of a nearly deserted road letting my GPSr settle when he stopped by. He instantly called out "is that a GPS?". He knew exactly what I was doing. Although he was not a geocacher, he knew of the sport and of the cache in question. He liked the idea of geocaching as it was "something to do". He also stated it was "nice to see people out here doing something positive instead of wrecking the place." We also talked a little about how he had a GPSr, but wasn't very familiar with it. He then pointed us toward the general spot he saw other people looking for it before and continued on with his patrol.

I just placed my first hide last night. I'm kind of anxious to see if it will get approved. Its a little ambitious for a first hide so I'm a little worried about how well it will go over. I'm mostly worried about my tracks in the snow leading people to caches, bad coordinates, some rule that I overlooked, or the whole general concept of my cache being confusing.