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VEry much yes... dozens of them. Many squares on the puzzle had ALT text so as you moved your mouse around the puzzle, little boxes would pop up at your pointer with different numbers in them. Sounds like I need another way of doing it. Rollover images might work but to change the puzzle into a hundred or so individual images might be too much work for the purpose. Worked fine before. Maybe what I'll do is have them solve the puzzle then go to another webpage (I'll host) to solve the puzzle. Why is it the more we seem to "progess" the less options we have?

Oh yeah, if I copy the code directly from the GC webpage and paste it into Dreamweaver, then view that with IE7, it works perfectly. View it on the GC site and NO ALT TEXT DISPLAY....

I have a cache called Crossed Words and it's written in HTML. The whole theme of the puzzle is dependent upon ALT text for hotspots on the puzzle image. When I wrote this it worked perfectly, if you hovered over certain areas on the crossword puzzle, a small box would pop up on your mouse with a three digit number in it. Worked enough to get over a dozen finds. Then GC updated their website. Now the ALT text doesn't work anymore and the whole puzzle part of the puzzle is broken, doesn't work... click-click-boom. Any way to get ALT text to start displaying again when a cache page is written in HTML????? This is sample code for a hot spot on the image : <area shape="rect" coords="49,260,90,297" href="#" alt="319"> Used to work... now it don't.

We returned from CacheApalooza 3 here in Florida only to find an email that a member of our close geocaching family, Jimear1e, had passed away due to cancer. A close friend of his set up a dedication thread page HERE We also took a cache he asked us to adopt when he was starting to head down that sad road, and made it in dedication to him. But we were wondering what ways other cachers have honored fallen fellow cachers and how it has worked out. There are some caches which are based in honor of people such as In Memory of Roger which has become almost a shrine. Just still feel it necessary to honor Jim's passing and place something in some way to have his memories live on with the geocaching community.

Geocaches are like works of art....give everyone a Nikon D3000 won't get you great photographs. Give everyone an ammo can and you won't get good hides. And there are as many opinions on what's "good" as there are grains of sand. I can remember many years ago talking to my daughter when she was upset because her softball game was getting rained out. I asked her what she was thinking and she said she was mad and it was terrible it rained. I asked her what farmers thought about it and she said they like it because it helps their crops grow. I looked out and said it was the same rain both she and the farmers were looking at. How they felt about it was all in their perspective. If a hide isn't up to your standards, change your perspective and find good in something about it... even if it's as simple as being thankful someone put the hide there for you to find, or thankful that you have the health and freedom that allows you to go out and find it. More then a lot of people in this world can say...

Was going to use tomato in my example but figured that's cross too many lines. Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. The term "vegetable" has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term. ~wiki

Seems the question is right up there with asking if an apple should be classified as a different TYPE of fruit just because it's smaller then other apples The TYPE of fruit is an apple, the SIZE of the fruit is small.... hmmm, that's tough to figure out?

Just because I posted a picture of a honkin' big poisonous snake in Florida don't assume they're everywhere... never seen any of these guys go any further north then Summerfield so you have nuthin' to worry 'bout way up there in Belleview... Speaking from a Floridiot's experience there is some major points to watch for. When you have to cross over a fallen tree (which is every ten feet some places around here), be sure you see what's on the other side or hiding underneath on the other side. Also, snakes like to warm in the sun especially during cooler weather so make your presence known... if you're being stealthy and walking softly, be sure you see where you're walking. Snakes feel ground vibrations so stamping your hiking stick on the ground can alert them you're coming and they'll usually get out of your way. And by all means learn the difference between king snakes (red on black) and coral snakes (red on yellow).. best to just stay out of all snake's way, after all, you're prancing thru their bedroom

TYPE of cache (traditional, puzzle, multi, etc) is a totally different attribute in the listing as SIZE (micro, small, regular, large, etc). So a puzzle cache would still get a size listed... that's already there.

Hmmm, brings up a strange thought, is the cache size the size of the container itself (including camo), or the size of the volume inside that can hold items? I can see making a 5-gallon bucket that's filled with concrete except for a waterproof match holder cast into the top, according to the classifications, that would have to be listed as Large (5 gallon bucket)

I'm fairly certain on a Southwest flight last month that the list of approved devices in their magazine included GPS.The appropriate term is approved use during CRUISE. Which mean you need to have them off during take off and landing. And good luck trying to obtain a satellite lock from powered off state in a big aluminum can while trolling along at 575mph.... let alone the attention you'd get while holding your GPSr over your head and moving it around trying to get a signal

Shark teeth....

Order and pay for an ammo can from online surplus store. Wait for it's arrival. Clean it, re-paint it. Using QuickCrete you dig a hole in the yard and form the "mold" of a rock. You tape off the handle and latch and plastic wrap the lid. Place the ammo can in the hole and cast QuickCrete around it. Carefully remove it the next day. Remove all tape and plastic. Repaint exposed sections and check seal. Print out cache info page. Draw neat little picture inside front page of log book and place with pens into heavy plastic bag. Head to dollar store and buy swag. Pick and place good swag in ammo can. Get geo-coin and place in baggie as FTF prize. Find great location hidden away from public around concrete rocks near riverbank with beautiful view. Place cache and enter listing. A few weeks later get notice that signs of homeless in area and cache container is gone. Start over... Or get bag full of 35mm canisters for free or 80-cent waterproof match holders from Wally-World. Place in secure spot bring people to same river view. A few weeks later get notice that signs of homeless in area and cache container is gone. Replace for free or 80-cents. Keep on truckin'... When people visit the site they remember the view, the walk there and the peace of the area. The size of the container won't be much a part of that memory. Yeah, micro's are easier and less expensive to hide so they tend to attract the lower end efforts, but if ammo cans were free or cost 80-cents you'd have just as many "lame" full sized hides as you do micros.

Agreed, the discussion was if a puzzle cahe takes up "extra" space. Hmmm, that brings up a bit of curiosity... what if you placed several puzzle caches and the starting point was the same on all of them? Since a GPS has trouble when waypoints overlay each other, that would play h3ll on people's searching. "When I say go to the next geocache, it says it's 2-feet away but I can't find it on my map!!!" For some reason I don't see the challenge in : "Okay, signed the log, what cache do you want to do next?" "Well, we have six to choose from and they're all 528-feet away"

Been thru Tampa, Atlanta, Omaha, Chicago (both) and never had an issue. Did have a co-worker with the same MAP60CSx who left his on during his flight and showed me his GPSr had trip information showing maximum speed was like 575mph. He cleared it before I could snap a picture of it so my last trip I tried it for chuckles... (shhhhh, don't tell TSA) but I never got a signal so got nothing...

I have a cache called Shark Talez and it "was" a full sized Lock-n-Lock, it was in a nice spot but got damaged. Replaced it then it got muggled. Replaced that with a nice concrete-camo'ed ammo can, that got muggled, too. The location was more the attraction here (big giant fake shark hanging by it's tail) so I replaced it with a micro. Was cleaning up some stuff in the garage yesterday and found a big container of shark teeth my kids and I collected over the years so I decided it would be good swag to put a bunch of shark teeth in the micro container along with the log. That way it's cache theme appropriate swag in a micro at a neat location. What else could a micro-hater want???? Personally I think micro-haters are kind of like many Corvette owners, trying to make up for some kind of "inadequacies" thru obsessions about something large.... hehehehehe

Almost forgot, this guy posed for me really nice while Paddler Found and I were cachin' and kayaking on the Hillsborough River near Tampa :

Unless they're all regular caches then that number would be a lot lower. A five part multi with parts more then 528' apart would take up 5 cache locations. A puzzle cache would take up at least two. I'd say you'd be more reasonable around 900,000,000.... you could do those in around 5,500 years as long as you don't get stuck on puzzle caches like GC1GMA0 or GC1GMK9 I've used up at least 36,000 cache find's worth of time on these!

Lost my little Gerber pocket knife on a kayaking trip so I replaced that with a Gerber Clutch, awesome tiny lightweight multi-tool... And when we're trekkin' in the woods I always have my Gerber Titanium Drop Point Skinner on my belt... nicest feeling knife I've ever owned. .... nice enough to back track thru a couple miles of active wild hog country at dusk in the middle of nowhere by myself because I stupidly left it at a cache site

I used to do that but then I found once that I had good accuracy and settled coords. Then I walked away, turned around and did a find and when I reached GZ my GPSr was telling me I was 20-30 feet away. ACK! So ever since then I always check a couple times. I did maintenance on five caches last evening and updated the coords on several as my GPSr was taking me 10-feet or so from GZ. 10-feet is normally acceptable, but when you get good readings that hold less then that, you stick with them. Someone else spoke to me about "averaging" but I haven't looked into it yet. The eTrax and the MAP60CSx have a lot of same features so I am sure the MAP60CSx can do that. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that often I plug the coords into Google Earth or Google Maps and look at where the satellite is telling me the coords are and that can flag a potential issue.

A common complaint in some forum postings has been about the accuracy of the posted coordinates of some hides. We all have experienced this and from an owner’s point of view, our GPSr is no more accurate then the seeker’s is. Compound those two things and you could get some pretty broad variations The reason for this post is to see what the different methods are that owner’s use to validate the coords they’re Waymarking for their hides. For me I always stand directly at GZ and hold my MAP60CSx still and wait for the accuracy to settle to it’s most accurate reading. I mark the point and then walk about 20-30 feet away. I do a find on the waymark and see if it takes me back to GZ. Then I repeat this several times from several different directions. If my coords aren’t settling well (heavy cover, story day, etc) I’ll waymark several points at GZ and then re-approach several times from several directions and see which one hold truer. Regardless, I never mark the spot and leave, I always check. If I do cache maintenance at the hide, I always check the coords again as I have found that the conditions might be better then when I hid it and I want them as close as I can. I also recently upgraded from a MAP60C to a MAP60CSx so I trust my newer numbers better. And if cachers email or log issues with the coords, it gets added to my maintenance list. I am always out to improve my hides and improving my listed coords falls under that umbrella, so I figured it’d be nice to hear how other owners validate their coords

job  [job] –noun 1. a piece of work, esp. a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price Hmmmm.... I guess they could say "job" as long as the agreed price was zero Same price as we owners get for hiding and maintaining our caches.

But doo-doo doth occur. At work today I answered a call from a caching buddy. He's trying to do a new multi that's a 1.5/1.5 and 3 others have failed at. People complaining that the final (which was listed as 1 mile away) was in the Gulf of Mexico 11 miles away. We figured it out that there was a typ-O in the puzzle in the listing. Oh well, it'll get fixed as the owner is a good local guy. I have also found caches that were DNF'd by a handful of people, by reading the hints and the listing I went off gut instinct and found it 175-feet away from GZ. The errors don't bother me as long as the owner checks it out and resolves the issue. What bugs me is when something is way off at GZ and the owner does nothing. GSPr's aren't 100% for the people hiding any more then they are for the people finding. And just because someone has a bazillion dollar nuclear powered GSP with lasers doesn't change the fact that the person hid it using a fishfinder held together with duct tape and rubber bands. Some people out there rely on things like Google Earth and find caches with no GPSr. Asking for always getting +/- 5 feet to GZ is a nice wish, but it ain't reality. The latitude for variation is part of the challenge And typ-O's happen, too. I mis-typed the coords one time submitting a new hide which put my cache in the wrong STATE, and the reviewer approved it....

Guess I missed the reason people would want to pad their HIDE numbers. Geeze, my maintenance list stays populated and I spend a lot more time on that then finding caches. I do it because to me it's fun reading good logs, not because there are some kind of kudos for number of hides. And since I see the local reviewers are getting tougher on owners not maintaining their hides (at least here) I would think being a slacker owner is getting tougher. I guess anyone wanting to point and complain about people in the GC community could not only look at people who hide supposedly "lame" or not-so-creative hides, could also equally complain about : - People who cut-and-paste log entries - People who type 4 letter or less log entries (TFTH) - People who don't re-hide caches as they found them - People who don't close cache containers tightly - People who do not write appropriately on the log sheet (ie-full names and date on a nano log) - People who do not trade swag equally - People who do not log trackable items properly or in a timely fashion - People who snag trackable items like coins for their personal collection - People who never add photograph's to their log entires - People who quote a mile long quote in a forum message so they can type a one line reply - People who double post forum messages and don't delete the copy - People who double post forum messages and don't delete the copy - People who do not take the time to have a profile picture of some kind - People who put their critique of a cache hide in their log entry - People who do not rate the difficulty/terrain of their hides properly - People who put food in a hide as a trade item - People who log a cache is missing when they just couldn't find it - People who make lists of things people could complain about

Here in Florida it would tell the deer and hog hunters that a target is on the way.... ::BURP!::... pass me another one, here comes a hog and I think it ate Santa! Nothing more fun then hiking miles and miles from civilization (when it's not hunting season), start noticing emptied shotgun casings on the trail and then start hearing random gunshots echoing thu the trees.... directly between you and your path back to your car....