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Well, I'll rethink this one and see if I can make an offset cache out of it. I don't really want to just stuff a tiny strip of paper in it cause then the finders can't write much. Thanks everyone

Those are all some pretty good suggestions. I have my own personal quips with most of them but that's neither here nor there. But none of you have answered my question yet. -> What is a codeword cache classified as? Do they fit under one of the geocaching.com classifications or are codeword caches just not allowed (like locationless caches)?

There's a cornerstone, left over from an old building, that's a very interesting piece of local history sitting in the middle of a large, flat, treeless, lawn with heavy traffic. I wanted to make a chace out of it so I submitted it as a virtual cache, requiring the name of the archatect and what not, which was engraved in the side of one of the stones. My cache was declined because physical caches are the basis of geocaching. Alright. I can deal with that. I spent a couple of weeks after that scouring this entire field for a hidy-hole and a container that will fit in it. Eventually I found a 5ml microtesttube that fit in a hole in the base of the rock. I camoflauged it so it was muggle-invisable. But the cache is so small that there's no way a log book would fit in it. So I created a website with a guest book, copied the url onto a piece of paper, laminated it, and rolled it up into the cache. I resubmitted the cache as a micro. My reviewer rejected it saying that a traditional cache has at least the container and the log inside and the virtual logbook doesn't count. Apparently the paper with the url is closest to a "codeword cache" aka, a cache that contains an onbject or codeword to verify the find. So what is a codeword cache? Is it a type of Mystery or Puzzle cache or maybe does it count as a multicache? What other options do I have with this cache?

I don't know if this has come up here yet (I've been away from these boards for /so/ long) but here's a fellas guild to building your own GPS Ghetto-GPS

Sounds like what you're wanting is a gpsr with a built in web-enabled cell phone. But heck, if you're going to have something like that, there's no reason to stop at just streaming radar images. You could stream in a basemap from mapquest and have your gpsr do everything your pda could do too. Not to mention emergency cell phone capabilities of some sort. Obviously, this would take some sort of a monthly rate. And it would need one heck of a battery. Now if we had a gps with built in /sonar/...

I just aquired a Zire M150 Palm. I've never had a palm before but I thought it might be interesting to try going paperless. I hope to use it primarily with a Linux box but I could use it with a windows too. What software should I use? What other things should I know about palms?

There's some guy whoes been going around my otherwise peacful town and tagging everything with his name. Obviously, I don't want to encourage this type of behavior but I thought of what might be an interesting cache that plays off it. I would provide the coordinates of one tag. Cachers would have to include the coordinates for a different tag by the same guy in order to get the find. This would serve as a means to list all the tags. It would also make it harder as more people logged finds. What do you all think?

So I think we've established a good rule of thumb here. Avoid contact of deet with anything plastic. Do this and you're pretty much fine

Oi! Thanks for pointing that out. That design was, by every stretch, a rough draft. In the final one, I will rearrange some things a bit, re-dreaw a few bits. And spell check /everything/. I am an awful speller.

If you can't find a completely waterproof container, you can just make the log out of rite-in-the-rain paper.

ah. copyright. I always forget about that. As for putting the image in here, you first have to put your image on the web. Then you hit the IMG button at the top of the reply page, enter your image's http, and hit enter. Nothing could be easier. Ok, here's one that doesn't violate any copyrights. I'm not quite sure I like it as much but what do you all think?

Well... I did make one. Or at least tried to. Would people be interested in getting a sticker label for their caches that looked like this? I could, of course, make it without the weathered look or something.

Sweet! Make sure to post a link to them when you're done! I'd buy a couple of cache lables! I should make one...

There's only 4 more days till I finally get my eXplorist 100. That will make a total shipping time of 19 days. I have pretty much chewed my fingers down to the bone during the wait. Now I can finally get off the forums and get out to actual geocaching again!

I haven't found anyone who has been able to decode my own code yet. And that's why I haven't used it for a cache. I think it would just end up frustrating people.

That's actually pretty good to hear... I hadn't heard anything about the iFinder but I knew they are signficantly cheaper than the other brands. I've been wondering what they sacrificed for the low price.

Those ARE pretty cool. (Now time for a shameless plug. I have some stickers over at my cafepress store that, while not directly related to geocaching, I think would look great stuck on a larger cache. I've got one on mine )

A HazMat suit! LOL! That would be hillarious! I don't know how invisible you'ld be, but it'd be funny!

Kids act as great cover too. Kids can get away with just about anything. And those who watch and play with them are either treated the same or arested as pediphiles. Sorry. Bad joke. Couldn't hold it in. And yes, a geocacher can be pretty obvious to another geocacher. Just yesterday I was in a park and saw a family walking around. One of them looked in the direction of a cache I know of and said "400 feet" and I didn't have to wonder any more. So I went up to them and introduced myself We all have a common interest so it's almost like having hundreds of friends who you haven't ever seen all over the planet just waiting for you in parks and on trails!

I think it's the navajo word for native but I can't tell you how it applies to geocaching. Perhaps if you gave us the cache in question so we could look at it in context?

I sure will.

So how can the iFinder be so much cheaper? Surely they are sacrificing /something/ to drop the price. Or is it just a brand name thing? Why hadn't I ever heard of these or seen these before?

I'm not fashion shopping for a yellow gps. I had just noticed that both those entry level gps units happened to be yellow. I hadn't seen a Lowarnce gps before, so thank you. Cheaper you say? What is the price tag on one of these?

Antartica? Man, that would have to be the coolest cache ever! (pun intended)

I was indeed getting frustrated. It was cold and windy and nasty out for a long while. But just last week it started letting up and this past weekend was beautiful! Course, we're supposed to have 30mph winds today but it's a step in the right direction. Just keep telling yourself "The sun'll come out tomorrow!"