Boomhawr

AWSOME!!!! Thank you sooo much. Findacontrol looks like it will work on my phone (it's not an I phone). I'm loading it now. It also showed me another app called Benchmap, that it says DOES view the Geochaching page. Maybe we should start another thread on just listing apps that can be used.

Alright, thanks. Along with a note, I also PMed the CO and the TB owner. 1 CO replied and fixed it, but on the other 1, I never heard back. Thanks again for all the help.

English isn't my first language nor my second but I believe you So ya see what I did there then? Hey, I gadiated 8th grade. I know what I'm talking about.

hmm. well, I post the number the find is, but it's more for myself, and just to not have the comments box blank. BUT, I don't think you can really call a piddly little 50 caches "gloating". Not how I intended it to come across. But I see your point.

Now, I'm no gramer teacher, but I'm pretty sure it should be A mistake, not AN mistake. So my question is: Typo or sarcasm?

hmmm. I post the number it is of my finds( #1, #23, #......). IF there is something I see special about it, THEN I will post extra. If not.... then I guess I'm 1 of the boring. So, impress me for a little more comment. of course, I'm not the most sociable person anyway.

oh, and holydays end this weekend, and its back to military training. It will probably be later into the summer before I get to do much of anything.

huh? You just got WELL past me there. I'll have to work on figuring out all that. good luck with the birds. I found another interesting 1 further back west. Part of the description is "ABOUT 400 FT. IN A NW DIRECTION FROM THE N END OF THE ELECTRA TOLL BRIDGE OVER RED RIVER". But there isn't a bridge anywhere near it now. EM0782 I even checked http://www.historicaerials.com/ back as far as 1953, looking at aerials, and topo, and they didn't show 1 either.

OOhhhh yeah. Kayakbird, check out the set up on this 1. Go to the NGS Explorer map and zoom in on it with the map in satellite mode. Nice landing from the river at the train bridge, then a dirt road to fallow right up to the target. I think I can have some fun with all this. Always good to be able to combine multiple hobbies. DM0040

ah, so that's a blazed tree. Ok, thanks. I'll have to see if I can find the 1 in the data report and post it too. Of course, a tree may not even be there anymore.

Cool. Thanks for the tips. I had thought about maybe taking some survey type flags or small cone to mark it for pics in the future. I'll see what kind of programs I have to mark the pics like ya said. Thanks again.

Anyone else having trouble with the Interactive Map on the NGS Data Explorer? I try to post marks, but then I get horizontal lines across the map, and then it won't work. Can't zoom, or click, or move the map, or anything.

Cool. Thanks again. Yeah, I've done recon on that bridge already. Has an area directly underneath to park and launch from. Of course, good thing about a kayak is that you can launch form almost anywhere. BUT..... last summer the river and Lake Texoma (just down stream) flooded and broke the previous depth record. They thought they were going to loose the bridge. So the launch area could be messed up, and no telling what it could have done to the target site.

Ok. I read the "pinned" post. A number of the links in them don't seem to work anymore. Also, (unless I missed them) there are a few terms I've seen, but didn't see in the threads. Witness Post? Blazed tree, or blazed post?

Hey, thanks for the help. I'll try it out next time I find 1. I have a Pescador Sport as my first kayak. My best trip so far is the one that got me hooked. I was training in Little Rock, Arkansas, and 1 day I rented a kayak and paddled up the Little Maumelle River. Beautiful paddle. I don't know if you're on any paddling forums, but I posted pics and all on one of them. I looked, and found benchmarks along the Red River along the Texas/Oklahoma boarder on or near the bank of the river. Get time, I've wanted to paddle the Red anyway. Guess I got something else to do along the way. This one DN1294 is right off the bank and says: "RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1995 MARK NOT FOUND". Maybe I can see if I can find it for them (if it IS still there. Like the pics on yours. Good looking country.

haha. Ok, thanks. I still haven't figured out posting pics to the forum. Is this 1 that you have to first put it on photobucket or something first to post them? I like the name. I kayak when I have the time. Wish I had it with me here, but I flew up here. Plus it's turning cold. Like to find some waymarks, caches, and benchmarks that I can kayak to. The benchmark I found today is AB8735. http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=AB8735

Ah, alright. Thank you. I Found my first benchmark today. When I log it, should I post the pic of it? it's 1 of the survey disk type. I have a pic of just it, and a pic of where it is. Geocaching, that would be a spoiler, Waymarking it wouldn't, but not sure on benchmarking.

oh. Well, wish they'd get to it. I can't even find how to get to the page to look up the Benchmarks on the geocaching website with out using a link someone posted on the forum.

ok, thanks. think Im getting the hang of the site now (somewhat anyway). But why don't they have it mapped on the geocaching benchmark web sit like on the other "games"? (geocaching, Waymarking, ect). also, if you find 1 on the NGS Data Base that is not on the Groundspeak Data Base, then do you add it by posting it then? Thank you again.

Hello. Started on geocaching a couple years back, just started on Waymarking, and now I'm trying to figure out Benchmarking. The other 2 you can show a map that displays the cache/waymarks in an are. Is there a way to display Benchmarks in an area on a map like that? would help on long trips (driving, hiking, kayaking, ect) to see if there are any along your route, but I can't find a way to display like that.

ah. ok. Just wondered about that 1 when I saw it.

Hmmmm. So what about the cache that has this for the hint: If you're hungry, go buy a Big Mac and fries. Eating the cache may have a metallic taste to it. Pretty much everyone knows where you get a Big Mac from. And, that is where this cache is hidden. Plus, it's telling you to go buy these products, so how does that play into the rules?

The Rat, you mean like this? "For others devices is suitable set up navigate to the center of zone (if this is allowed by setting)."

This is assuming they even BOTHER to log the retrieve. Cache inventories (on the right side of the screen, and down a ways) list the TB's that are SUPPOSED to be in them. But, I have found the cache only to discover that the TB isn't there, and if there was any kind of log, it was a "discovered" log (saying they found it), not a "took it to" or "retrieved it from" log. Rather annoying when you just hiked 4 miles to this cache specifically for the TB.

I know an app for phone caching that does the equivalent, loads up satellite images, in your choice of two different ways. Both for free, and quick too. (Well, the app is a few bucks, that's all.) </aside> oh, thanks. What app is that?