kiya1994

We solved this cache a couple of years ago. It isn't quite what you mean but was good fun any way - GCJDVM The Mountie always gets his dragon. This (GCWQCR Mick Tucker Trbute) is our longest multi stage with about 100 miles between the first 2 stages. In the UK distances aren't so great as in other countries but it was still a challenge.

Sounds like a great idea

I'm so pleased to hear you have a new geo dog. We have always had dogs and can't imagine life without one so when your hound has a professional role to play, it must have been unbearable. We look forward to hearing about more of your adventures and what becomes of the roposal for the Geolympix

In London UK there have been a couple of security alerts as a result of furtive skulking around cache hides so generally, cachers seem to be getting a bit more thoughtful about where they hide. Although I'm not a great lover of nanos/micros in towns (parks etc excepted), I decide what to do when I get to the site. If there are lots of CCTVs (we are the most watched people in the world here in UK), utility boxes etc, drug apparatus, rat bait traps or people I don't bother otherwise I root about for as long as I feel comfortable; I make the call. I've only been stopped once by officials but walked away from plenty of other sites as I wasn't happy. For me caching is about great locations and ingenious hides rather than the numbers. For others it's different. There is room for us all so long as we think about the implications of what we do

I looked back at your caches. It was probably removed because you posted the TB# and a photo of the coin on the log for your find. The TB# is unactivated. With the photo of the coin and TB# anyone could activate the coin virtualy. A coin can not be de-activated. It was a coin left as swag. The person that dropped the coin probably did not want someone at random not actualy holding the coin to activate it. This may be the answer. Thanks for this. i appreciate your help. We are new to caching but have become hooked and don't know all the "rules", especially about geocoins. That said, we have never kept a bug/coin and always swapped like for like ordinary swaps - it only seems right to do so. I can't remember if there was a message in the coin case to keep it moving : we have picked up and moved on a few so i can't remember exactly. Anyway, we enjoyed looking at it and moving it on and i hope someone else does too. I will need to read up about activated and inactive coins now!! Thanks again Kiya1994

Earlier this week, I found a lovely coin in a cache in Northunberland England. I got it home, logged it and put it in a different cache ( Clayton Wall) the following day. I even put pictures on the cache and coin log pages. I saw the record on the cache site but the next day, the coin log had disappeared, it has gone off the trackable link and the coin is now recorded as unknown. What may have happened? I am assuming the owner de-activated it. I certainly didn't want to offend the owner if they didn't want it publicised but it would have been helpful if they had sent me a mail. Has anyone else had this experience? If it was a trade item i would have been happy to keep it.

We are new and absolutely hooked. My daughter's friend told us about it and so far we've managed to find 22 (local ish and without the use of a GPS in most cases, although we borrowed one for our recent trip to Canada). We're busy saving to buy a GPS as i suspect this could grow and grow.