Webcam Finds

October 13, 2016

I'm in the USA at the moment and am targeting webcams as there are only 14 in the whole of the UK. Whilst ALL webcams require images from the actual webcam to log as a smiley it seems that over here many cachers are just taking photographs proving they've been at the location. There's one near Lake Winnipesauke NH which is only seasonal but still folk are claiming the smiley though they can't even access the location let alone get the webcam image! I'm rather surprised really as following that logic they could go somewhere near ground zero on any cache and log it as found because they were there!!! Come on guys - if you can't get your image from the webcam you haven't 'found' the cache!!!

October 13, 2016

It is a frustrating trend. I can excuse someone with very few finds not knowing the rules, but I've seen people with over 10,000 finds do that.

Another new trend is to take a picture from any webcam and post it.

21.9k · October 13, 2016

Proper owner maintenance of a webcam cache would result in the deletion of bogus logs, like selfies. But, some owners are absent or inattentive. Therefore, the quest for a rare webcam smiley through "creative alternatives" puts the webcam cache at risk of being archived by a reviewer for lack of maintenance. When I'm compelled to reach out to webcam cache owners, I allow a bit of extra latitude since the cache type is so rare. If the webcam link is dead and there's no prospects for its returning to service, however, archiving the listing is the inevitable result.

4.8k · October 13, 2016

Webcams were a fun addition to the game while they lasted.

2.8k · October 13, 2016

Our favorite webcam find is from Clemson, SC this past May taken on the day one daughter graduated. She's in the picture in her cap & gown.

https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=501762c6-173a-425f-b23c-542eb35c55fd

Geocaching is a hobby/game and there's no competition except with yourself. For those that cheat to inflate their finds/levels/badges/challenges/grids, that's an ethical shortcoming they have to live with and it doesn't effect me. I see it happen more often then one would hope when I look at an easier D/T cache that has 4 DNFS, 1 find with a description of just TFTC, and then 4 DNFS.

13.7k · October 13, 2016

I'm in the USA at the moment and am targeting webcams as there are only 14 in the whole of the UK. Whilst ALL webcams require images from the actual webcam to log as a smiley it seems that over here many cachers are just taking photographs proving they've been at the location. There's one near Lake Winnipesauke NH which is only seasonal but still folk are claiming the smiley though they can't even access the location let alone get the webcam image! I'm rather surprised really as following that logic they could go somewhere near ground zero on any cache and log it as found because they were there!!! Come on guys - if you can't get your image from the webcam you haven't 'found' the cache!!!

I agree...

Curious, did you log NM, or NA on any yet?

3.8k · October 13, 2016

Another new trend is to take a picture from any webcam and post it.

I am not condoning the activity but thought I'd point out that neither is a new thing. People have been doing selfies and alternative webcams since I started caching in 2005. I know as I am one of the few cachers that chases webcams and have over 100 finds.

5.7k · October 13, 2016

Webcams were a fun addition to the game while they lasted.

The last web cam cache I visited had a broken link and the owner has not signed on in a few years, but there was an active link in the web Camera category on the Waymarking site.

They still are a fun cache type, but obsolete from requiring to call a buddy to take a photo from a PC when we can do the same on site site with a smartphone. :laughing:

4.8k · October 13, 2016

Webcams were a fun addition to the game while they lasted.

The last web cam cache I visited had a broken link and the owner has not signed on in a few years, but there was an active link in the web Camera category on the Waymarking site.

They still are a fun cache type, but obsolete from requiring to call a buddy to take a photo from a PC when we can do the same on site site with a smartphone.

Excellent point and one that points out my disinterested attitude towards the cache type now. It was quirky fun to try and coordinate the picture capture aspect of the challenge with someone at home. Now it's meh....just another icon.

October 13, 2016

I'm in the USA at the moment and am targeting webcams as there are only 14 in the whole of the UK. Whilst ALL webcams require images from the actual webcam to log as a smiley it seems that over here many cachers are just taking photographs proving they've been at the location. There's one near Lake Winnipesauke NH which is only seasonal but still folk are claiming the smiley though they can't even access the location let alone get the webcam image! I'm rather surprised really as following that logic they could go somewhere near ground zero on any cache and log it as found because they were there!!! Come on guys - if you can't get your image from the webcam you haven't 'found' the cache!!!

I don't have much to add on the webcam topic, as I don't go for them, but I'm about an hour north of Lake Winnipesaukee just above Franconia Notch. That's a nice area down there and if you drive up I-93 to Franconia Notch, the foliage is still pretty good although it's past peak. Still worth the drive if you have time, very pretty area

Edited October 13, 2016 by JeepFreak81

1.7k · October 13, 2016

Webcams were a fun addition to the game while they lasted.

The last web cam cache I visited had a broken link and the owner has not signed on in a few years, but there was an active link in the web Camera category on the Waymarking site.

They still are a fun cache type, but obsolete from requiring to call a buddy to take a photo from a PC when we can do the same on site site with a smartphone.

Excellent point and one that points out my disinterested attitude towards the cache type now. It was quirky fun to try and coordinate the picture capture aspect of the challenge with someone at home. Now it's meh....just another icon.

Taking a picture of yourself on your own phone at a dead-link webcam site and submitting it - isn't that like going to a traditional cache that you can't find, taking a piece of paper out of your pocket, writing your name on it and claiming the smiley because "you signed a log"?

7.5k · October 13, 2016

They still are a fun cache type, but obsolete from requiring to call a buddy to take a photo from a PC when we can do the same on site site with a smartphone.

Excellent point and one that points out my disinterested attitude towards the cache type now. It was quirky fun to try and coordinate the picture capture aspect of the challenge with someone at home. Now it's meh....just another icon.

Just because you can use your smartphone doesn't mean you have to use your smartphone.

15.3k · October 13, 2016

It was quirky fun to try and coordinate the picture capture aspect of the challenge with someone at home. Now it's meh....just another icon.

Huh... I never coordinated my webcam finds with anyone, even before I had a smartphone. I just configured my home system to cache the webcam images, went to the site and posed for a while, and then returned home to sort through the cached webcam images to pick the one I wanted to use for the online log.

But that's just me.

4.5k · October 13, 2016

It was quirky fun to try and coordinate the picture capture aspect of the challenge with someone at home. Now it's meh....just another icon.
Huh... I never coordinated my webcam finds with anyone, even before I had a smartphone. I just configured my home system to cache the webcam images, went to the site and posed for a while, and then returned home to sort through the cached webcam images to pick the one I wanted to use for the online log.

But that's just me.

That's easy for you. But i have no idea what you're talking about or how to go about doing that. I agree with Touchstone in that it was more of a challenge (made it more fun for me) when i had to depend on someone being at home to grab the image. I still like coming across them, will use my phone too, but they aren't quite the same as they once were.

I agree with the OP. It's a shame that so many are on auto pilot these days and that proper maintenance isn't being done.

October 13, 2016

So far I haven't failed to capture an image but then I've only got 10 in total anyway- there are only 14 in the whole of the UK. I do check that the cameras are working before I go there though! Today's, on Cape Cod was the first one I've needed a friend on a computer back home to take the image. He might be needed again when we reach Mount Washington in a few days time.

October 13, 2016

For the one and only webcam cache I have found, I setup a scheduled job on my computer to capture the webcam picture every minute. I then went out to the cache, posed in front of it for 2 minutes, and noted the time. When I got back home, I looked for the webcam picture taken at the appropriate time, and logged the cache.

10.1k · October 13, 2016

I will admit that I delete about 30% of the logs on my webcam. Selfies. "I was there. I deserve to log it." &c It's a webcam cache. A photo of you taken by the webcam and posted with your log is required.

So far I haven't failed to capture an image but then I've only got 10 in total anyway- there are only 14 in the whole of the UK. I do check that the cameras are working before I go there though! Today's, on Cape Cod was the first one I've needed a friend on a computer back home to take the image. He might be needed again when we reach Mount Washington in a few days time.

Ah! My webcam!! Good luck! Have fun! I don't know when the road closes for the winter. I assume you've checked this out. There has been snow on Mount Washington. When my sister and I climbed Mount Washington, there were pay phones. I'm told that those are gone. Some cell phones work okay. Some do not work well. It can be spotty.

Good luck, and don't forget to post the webcam photo with your log.

7.8k · October 13, 2016

For those that cheat to inflate their finds/levels/badges/challenges/grids, that's an ethical shortcoming they have to live with and it doesn't effect me.

It can affect you when their bogus logging causes a cache to be archived (see Keystone's post above).

7.8k · October 13, 2016

I will admit that I delete about 30% of the logs on my webcam. Selfies. "I was there. I deserve to log it." &c It's a webcam cache. A photo of you taken by the webcam and posted with your log is required.

It's great to see someone actively maintaining their Webcam cache so effectively. The majority of the Webcams and Virtuals I've done in the last few years have been rife with clearly-bogus logs, indicating that the COs aren't doing their job.

1.9k · October 13, 2016

I wish we had some close to us - the closest is over 600km away! We are planning a roadtrip that way next year.....

October 14, 2016

I haven't checked out whether the road to Mt. Washington is closed no - I hope not!

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October 14, 2016

I haven't checked out whether the road to Mt. Washington is closed no - I hope not!

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Its getting late enough in the season that it may be closed. My cell phone didn't work at the summit but worked off and on during the trip up. If you are able to get to the top dress warm. I went when it was 90 degrees at the base and it was below freezing at the summit.

October 14, 2016

Its getting late enough in the season that it may be closed.

Oh I do hope it isn't - I've got my stone all painted up for the nearby Mt Washington 9/11 Memorial (GC1D9A)!

2.8k · October 14, 2016

For those that cheat to inflate their finds/levels/badges/challenges/grids, that's an ethical shortcoming they have to live with and it doesn't effect me.

It can affect you when their bogus logging causes a cache to be archived (see Keystone's post above).

The cache being archived is due to the cache owner not maintaining the cache per the guidelines. The bogus logging highlighted the cache not being properly maintained.

October 14, 2016

Its getting late enough in the season that it may be closed.

Oh I do hope it isn't - I've got my stone all painted up for the nearby Mt Washington 9/11 Memorial (GC1D9A)!

I had a few extra minutes on my lunch break so I checked it out and looks like as of today the road is open for passenger vehicles. Motorcycles are on weather hold. If you want to check it out on the day you plan to make the trip just goto http://mtwashingtonautoroad.com/ and it will tell you the status right on the home page. Good luck, it's quite an experience. I hope you're not scared of heights :laughing:

October 15, 2016

If you want to check it out on the day you plan to make the trip just goto http://mtwashingtonautoroad.com/ and it will tell you the status right on the home page. Good luck, it's quite an experience. I hope you're not scared of heights

Thanks for that - I'll check it out on Tuesday when we plan to go up there. If the road is shut can we take thecog railway instead?

10.1k · October 15, 2016

If you want to check it out on the day you plan to make the trip just goto http://mtwashingtonautoroad.com/ and it will tell you the status right on the home page. Good luck, it's quite an experience. I hope you're not scared of heights

Thanks for that - I'll check it out on Tuesday when we plan to go up there. If the road is shut can we take thecog railway instead?

Mount Washington Cog Railway

The Mount Washington Cog Railway schedule says it runs through October 30th.

3.6k · October 15, 2016

I'm in the USA at the moment and am targeting webcams as there are only 14 in the whole of the UK. Whilst ALL webcams require images from the actual webcam to log as a smiley it seems that over here many cachers are just taking photographs proving they've been at the location. There's one near Lake Winnipesauke NH which is only seasonal but still folk are claiming the smiley though they can't even access the location let alone get the webcam image! I'm rather surprised really as following that logic they could go somewhere near ground zero on any cache and log it as found because they were there!!! Come on guys - if you can't get your image from the webcam you haven't 'found' the cache!!!

I've seen some in Europe they have done that. One is at an airport.

3.8k · October 16, 2016

I will admit that I delete about 30% of the logs on my webcam. Selfies. "I was there. I deserve to log it." &c It's a webcam cache. A photo of you taken by the webcam and posted with your log is required.

So far I haven't failed to capture an image but then I've only got 10 in total anyway- there are only 14 in the whole of the UK. I do check that the cameras are working before I go there though! Today's, on Cape Cod was the first one I've needed a friend on a computer back home to take the image. He might be needed again when we reach Mount Washington in a few days time.

Ah! My webcam!! Good luck! Have fun! I don't know when the road closes for the winter. I assume you've checked this out. There has been snow on Mount Washington. When my sister and I climbed Mount Washington, there were pay phones. I'm told that those are gone. Some cell phones work okay. Some do not work well. It can be spotty.

Good luck, and don't forget to post the webcam photo with your log.

Still one of my favorites ever. +1

10.1k · October 19, 2016

Congrats, Titus Adduxas!

October 19, 2016

I am fairly vigilant in checking the logs on my webcam cache (the only one left in my state). There has been a few that I deleted because they did not "pose". In other words, it looked like a webcam capture of some random person walking by. The only time I have accepted a non webcam picture is when the webcam was down, but before I knew about it. As soon as I realized it was, the cache was disabled with no other selfie logs accepted.

October 20, 2016

Congrats, Titus Adduxas!

I think I deserved it! Wow it was cold up there!

Edited October 20, 2016 by Titus Adduxas

October 20, 2016

Congrats, Titus Adduxas!

I think I deserved it! Wow it was cold up there!

Glad you were able to make the trip to the top. It's a great experience! I'm going to try and do it again next year on ATV weekend when they only allow ATV's to go up.

3.8k · October 24, 2016

Congrats, Titus Adduxas!

I think I deserved it! Wow it was cold up there!

Glad you were able to make the trip to the top. It's a great experience! I'm going to try and do it again next year on ATV weekend when they only allow ATV's to go up.

I am also planning another trip to the great northeast this coming year and I plan to revisit MWO. I want to redo my webcam picture since the last one stinks. The real reason for the trip to the top though is that I noticed in pictures posted by others that my stone at the 9/11 memorial rock pile cracked in half. Only half of my stone is visible in many of the pictures :-( Need to drop a replacement.

10.1k · October 25, 2016

I am also planning another trip to the great northeast this coming year and I plan to revisit MWO. I want to redo my webcam picture since the last one stinks. The real reason for the trip to the top though is that I noticed in pictures posted by others that my stone at the 9/11 memorial rock pile cracked in half. Only half of my stone is visible in many of the pictures :-( Need to drop a replacement.

Ah. My sister and I did that one in 2004. On the Presi Transverse. Twenty-four miles. 9000' of climb. Four days. I carried in a one-pound piece of West Milford purple puddingstone. That was quite a chore! I'm sure it is long buried.

October 25, 2016

I have been wanting to get to 25 webcams for some time so I hit them up anytime I travel. When we took a trip through New England last summer, I discovered a great way to get webcam photos is by posting that you are so far away via Facebook and asking people to snap your picture for you. Your friends can get into it and it is fun to see someone you know on webcam 2500 miles away!

Well this summer I drove from Southern California to Washington and across to Minnesota and I got my 25th and final (for challenges) webcam in Washington. However, my first of the trip in Oregon was only possible because I told people I was about 5 minutes away and they got me on camera when my cell phone didn't work. I took a selfie just in case, but I really, really wanted to avoid that as I don't think it is kosher. Turns out two of my friends got it for me and posted it to Facebook. It worked out great. https://coord.info/GLNRMM6Y

So don't underestimate the power of social media when out hunting webcam caches.

Edit: LOL. I was just looking through the other cache logs at the webcam I just posted and the last log seems fishy. What do you all think? https://coord.info/GLP75QFM

Edited October 25, 2016 by elrojo14

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