AutisticMajor

Here's a radical idea, publish more EJMG caches!

Nope! This winter, what with the wild temperature shifts, I'm with the skunks! I come out when it's cold and retreat when it freezes again.

A wet, unwrapped sucker.

I've used "not abandoned" to indicate subtly that while there is an abandoned structure near the cache location, you don't need to search inside. No phone" would be a good way to indicate that there is no phone/cell service at the cache location.

Notepad. I solved it. I clicked Source and saw some extra html that had been added. I removed it and the page let me go ahead. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

I have. The short bit of text is nowhere near 500 characters. It still won't go.

I'm trying to publish a new cache. I keep getting a Cache Summary cannot exceed 500 characters. error, despite leaving that area blank. The only text is in the Description area, but the Summary area is blank. The text is 461 characters long. What am I doing wrong? I've never encountered this error before.

I went to Picturesque (GC5BTYK) , an event that involved a photo scavenger hunt. I wasn't able to participate in the hunt, but there was a potluck afterward, and I had a good time talking about geocaching.

If you want to get fancy, trace a projection, or print the "barcode bug" huge in pieces on several pages of paper & trace it. I don't think people will notice if it's not exactly the same. Can you draw a scarab beetle? Maybe a generic "bug" silhouette will work, if the barcode pattern is a problem. The silhouette will work, I think. Thanks!

If it's supposed to look like an official "The Travel Bug" trackable dogtag, it's gotta have that barcode bug symbol. If you're simply wanting people to automatically know it's a Trackable, you may include text such as "Track me at geocaching.com". Maybe fill some empty space with a large public domain Geocaching image that's easier to replicate than the "barcode bug". What about the size? On a trackable, the bug takes up most of the space. Also, do I need to have the pattern replicated exactly?

I had an Idea for a large event trackable that I intend to launch next year. I intend to copy the number onto the traveller. The problem I ran into is if the 'barcode bug' is required. It would simplify things greatly if only the code and the text were required.

Manny

http://www.realitytea.com/2014/06/25/real-housewives-of-new-york-recap-10/ "It's some kind of scavenger hunt in the woods involving GPS and buried treasure." "The two friends yell at each other while storming through the woods as Kristen tries to demand they all look for some GPS coordinates to unearth a prize. Who thinks the 'treasure' at the end of the hunt will end up being a bottle of Ramona Pinot?" Clearly they haven't tried to find a certain cache in New Brunswick...

That doesn't sound it would be fun for someone that wants to find caches that exist for reasons other than to see who can place the most caches in an area. And when they start trashing each others caches, it can really escalate...

I recently update my Magellan Explorist GC to version 2.15. When I checked my caches afterward, I noticed that all my finds had reset. How can I restore the order? I backed up some of the files, but apparently not the correct ones.

I was wondering if there were any geocoins related to Homestuck yet?

My username was a random mashing of "Autistic" and "Major". Although the first part is significant to me, the second part is less so.

I use the c:geo app (Samsung Galaxy Gio) and a Magellan eXplorist GC (v2.15) to find caches. The Magellan takes only a few minutes to lock on, while the app on my phone takes at least five minutes (more in wooded locations). I only use the app for logging and sometimes, triangulation.

I leave erasers. And not just your standard pink ones either.

I had to double check that this wasn't by The Onion. I LOLd at the part: "...how close these hidden treasures are to strangers."

Guess I'm not the only one with the winter blahs. Who knew it went all the way to the top?

Will do. Thanks.

Sorry, your method still gives me the same results. Removing the brackets gives me a mess. Someone posted a good method, but when I refreshed, it went away.

Each set of brackets results in a single digit. So in your example, you have to solve for the value of A and B. Usually, you will observe something on a sign that tells you what each letter is. So if you determine that A=7 and B=3, you can solve what's inside the brackets and end up with 13 in this case. The example was not relative. A = a 3-digit number. Thanks for trying, though.

Have you asked the Cache Owner? That person probably knows the solution. I don't want the solution, I want to know how to figure it out.