Things I am wondering about.

[+bobandia]

I think that we are growing as geocachers and getting good at finding the caches. But, I still have questions.

 

1. After I download a photo for my new cache, how do I get it on the cache page?

 

2. If a trackable item is missing, how do you get it off the cache. If someone took it, but never logged it.

 

3. I recently placed a cache in a crack in a granite pier at the river. You have to lay down on top and reach about 3 feet down to feel the crack. I wedged a piece of granite above the small micro so you could not see it from above. I also wedged a little dirt in with a small plant. You might be able to see the container from the side if you wade out to the next pier. In order to get to the cache site without getting wet, you need to leap about 4 foot to a 4 inch ledge at the bottom of the pier and then climb up about 6 feet to the top. The only other ways of getting to the site is via water or through a dense pricker forest. There is a path that leads to the leaping site.

Question: What should I use for terraine and difficulty. I ran it through GC.com and got a 3, but posted it as a 3.5 for both. Three of the better cachers in the area have tried and failed so far. Should it be higher? Is there any guidelines available?

 

4. Is there a good place to find out how to use my stocking stuffer Oregon 300? I get the basics, but there is sooooo much more I don't know how to use or what it is for.

[+briansnat]

1. You need to use HTML code to do it. First be sure your photo is on the Internet. Use a website like Flickr, Photobucket, etc., or load it to your cache page (click upload photo)

 

Then use an IMG statement in the text. The basic statement is <img src="name"> where name = the URL of your photo. You can also add tags to center, left or right justify it and change the size but you'll need to know a little HTML.

 

2. If its in your cache, go to the trackable's page and mark it missing. It is an option in the pulldown box. If it is your TB you would do the same thing

 

3. Hard to say without seeing it, but from your description 3.5 sounds about right

 

4. Ask questions over in the GPS and Technology forum

[+bobandia]

1. You need to use HTML code to do it. First be sure your photo is on the Internet. Use a website like Flickr, Photobucket, etc., or load it to your cache page (click upload photo)

 

Then use an IMG statement in the text. The basic statement is <img src="name"> where name = the URL of your photo. You can also add tags to center, left or right justify it and change the size but you'll need to know a little HTML.

 

2. If its in your cache, go to the trackable's page and mark it missing. It is an option in the pulldown box. If it is your TB you would do the same thing

 

3. Hard to say without seeing it, but from your description 3.5 sounds about right

 

4. Ask questions over in the GPS and Technology forum

 

Thanks so much for the info. I will try to figure out the photo issue.

[geoclegg47]

OMG on question #3. On a scale of 1 - 5, I would have given that one a 10. Oh geez, I have so much to learn.....

[+bobandia]

OMG on question #3. On a scale of 1 - 5, I would have given that one a 10. Oh geez, I have so much to learn.....

And as of today, no one has found it yet. I just checked this morning because the river was extra high this weekend for a Kayak race and it is still there! Some very good cachers have crashed on this one.