[Can I put out a Copy Tag?]

12 hours ago, NanCycle said:

If your COPY tag says "KEEP ME" you might not want to send it out into the world.

Ah, yes, good point.  I think I will try writing the code on a keychain and sending that out as a TB.  That way, if the TB gets lost, I can just use the code angain on some other item.  Saves replacing the TB tags themselves.

[What's a good bet goal for a TB?]

Points well made, thanks cerberus.

[Can I put out a Copy Tag?]

Thanks cerberus, good advice and great suggestion about making objects trackable by using the code, I just might try that!

[What's a good bet goal for a TB?]

I've been out of the geocaching scene for four years now but now that I'm back at it, I'd like to get a few TB's and possibly geocoins out there.  The last two TB's I placed went missing rather quickly and I wondered if it was that their goals were too ambitious.  Are there typical goals that are more likely to end in successful travel for the hitchhiker?  

[Can I put out a Copy Tag?]

Both of my TB's have gone missing but I have the copy tags and was thinking of using them as replacements for the originals.  Is that OK to do?

[First TB: how to add background photo to TB page?]

I could be wrong but I believe they removed that functionality with one of their upgrades. You used to be able to add a background by adding a HTML string in the right place in the description but all of my bugs that used to have a custom background no longer have one.

 

CF30

 

 

Oh, too bad.

 

thanks for explaining.

[First TB: how to add background photo to TB page?]

OK, I'm finding lots of info on how to post up the TB photo on the page but can't figure out how to create the background photo that sits around the outside of the TB info page. Please point this newbie in the right direction! Thanks

[How do I look up caches in another city?]

So one other newbie question, when I clear old the old cache info before adding the new pocket query info, do I have to delete the GPX's one at a time from the GPX folder or can I just select all and delete? I'm not sure if there's some files in that folder that need to stay? Thanks for holding my hand through this, guys!

[How do I look up caches in another city?]

Thanks Chief301, I'll try that search using the map....good idea.

 

6NoisyHikers...yup, did that signout-signin again and now my PM status doth show! Yay!

[How do I look up caches in another city?]

Thanks for your suggestions and thanks for the welcome, 6NoisyHikers.

 

Gitchee-Gummee, I just signed up for a Premium membership earlier today so maybe the software hasn't updated all the details yet.

 

Yes, indeed, it does look like Markwell's suggestion of using the geocache.com seek function is exactly what I need. Shesh, why didn't I see that first! D'oh!

 

Gitchee-Gummee, thanks for pointing out that data can get stale and that I may as well not have too many caches stored on my device at any one time. I wanted to have some handy so that if I found myself with extra time while in a certain part of town I could just grab the GPS and go for a quick cache hunt. I guess I could just refresh my data bank now and then, eh? Maybe that's where the Pocket Query will come in handy - is that part of its beauty, that it can refresh the info on a regular basis?

I'll have to take a closer look at that now....

[How do I look up caches in another city?]

I'm new to the geocache scene. I now have a whopping five geocaches logged. All my 'finds' have been in my own neighbourhood here in Vancouver BC. Next month I'll be spending four days in San Francisco and would like to try to hunt for a few caches there. How do I look up what is available close to where I'll be staying in SF? Can I add the possible sites into some sort of a separate folder on my Garmin Oregon 450 so that they don't get mixed up with my local caches?