Delta68
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Our dogs are the reason we started Geocaching in the first place. MrsD bought an Etrex to record how long our dog walks were. They used to accompany us on all our outings and have done many long walks: Chiltern Hundred, LOTC's Mega Series, Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Scarfel Pike etc etc
Nowadays, Poppy (the 13½ yo Black Lab) is too slow and stubborn so hardly ever comes with us anymore
Whisper, (12yo Yellow Lab) only comes with us on local stuff where it's no big loss if we have to abandon a walk due to cows.
She's great company/cover for nighttime FTF trips though
I don't think they mind too much because they'd rather run around the woods or chase a tennis ball anyway
Mark
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The cache is still going strong, has been looked after by visiting cachers when necessary, has a fist full of favourite points and gets great reviews from all who find it. If you're up that way, go and see for yourselves what care in the community can do.
The cache is GC6308 - 2002 A Space Odyssey
Well it took me 30 seconds to track down the owner of that cache!
In the past I've tried to contact owners who have given up caching but I don't usually have that much luck
Mark
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This si what im getting at.
If you take your own 'whatever' its normally free. Bike, food, drink,sports equipment. Why not caching?
If you want to take a piece of tupperware to hide in the woods for another member of your family to find using a GPS, I'm pretty sure you could.
You are asking why you should pay to take part in an orgainsed and staffed activity. It surprises me why you think you shouldn't have to pay!
Mark
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That's pretty neat actually! When I wanted one for France last month I downloaded the whole country and had to put it on its own card even though I only wanted the middle of Paris and a smidgen by Calais
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You can take your own bikes there and there's no charge for using them on site, and is a recommended alternative to hiring their bikes.
You can also take your own food as well!
When going to the [far cheaper and much more exciting] European parks we hire bikes because it's a lot less hassle than taking our own.
Mark
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No point in reporting it here!
Stick a note or a Needs Maintenance on the cache page
Edited to add:
Or send the cache owner a message
Mark
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I note Center Parcs call it Geo Caching. And can't spell Centre.
'Center Parcs' is deliberately spelt that way so as not to be specific to any one country!
There is no country in which spelling of both words is correct.
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)Mark
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If you had never done anything with a GPS before but liked the idea of it would you not actually consider paying that?
I'm sure people pay more than £15.50 to cover 4 people on a 2 hour activity on other things so to me it sounds like a good deal.
Yup!
I don't have a problem with it, nor would I do it!
They also charge for canoing, climbing, rowing, horse riding and all sorts of things you can do for free in the outside world if you've got your own equipment!
Mark
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Just run a new Pocket Query
Alternatively, if you are using GSAK 8 you can refresh the caches already in your database and/or download all the recent logs
Mark
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Just found out that I am equal first in the UK for finding virtual caches in foreign countries
How do you know that?
There doesn't appear to be a 'caches in all countries except UK' option
Mark
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We've had logs saying . or :)
Th other day we got one saying a bit odd but the cache did actually return and post a proper log
The strangest ones we've received were on a series of five cache and they just said 11+1 or 11+2 etc. No idea why.
All our caches are pmo as well which stops a lot of the crud but obviously not all of it
Mark
Edited for typo
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Personally, I think the FTF thing shouldn't be on there because it relies on individual cachers logging their finds in a particular way.
According to that site, we have one FTF and I certainly don't care enough to go back and edit several hundred logs
Even if ours are correct there is no guarantee anyone else's areMark
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Ooo! I've just been having a play and found my spurious claim to fame is I'm #1 UK cacher for 4.5*D/5*T caches (and 1.5/5*s)
Yay! Congrats and all that!
Mark
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Good attempt Lilian, but only just in the top ten!
I think I'm #1, unless anyone knows differently! Delta - is there a way of extracting this info?
Steve.
Yeah using project-gc Link in original post
Unfortunately the event types are split into the separate sub-types
Counting just 'normal' events, stevo185 is #1, mollyjak are #14
Mark
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Not sure about #1 but IIRC I'm ranked pretty highly in terms of US caching by a UK cacher. I forget whether it was the number of US caches found or the number of US states cached in (it might even be both).
Cassandy are #1 UK cachers with the most finds in the US
link (might not work)
Don't seem to be able to show the number of states
Mark
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... but I would be very interested to see how other nationality reviewers interpret and apply this guideline...
If it's a non English speaking country, it will most probably be ignored just like most other guidelines are ignored
Mark
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I was playing with http://project-gc.com/ yesterday and discovered that we (Delta68) have found more EarthCaches in Belgium than any other cacher from the UK!
Whooo! Fame at last! OK, Maybe not
Can you find a spurious category in which you are #1?
Mark
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Looks like someone has hacked into Simple Paul's account...
There's been no mention of Geolympix for a couple of posts now!
Mark
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I appreciate that castagnari is the forum mod, but his account does state that he is a reviewer.
castagnari publishes caches so presumably he/she is a reviewer
Mark
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The IP addresses I use to access their site
Nope, this info can only be accessed by the GS Lackys (employed at GS HQ)
Hmmm.... I'd assumed that the reviewers could identify sock-puppets quite easily if they wanted to
Mark
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You were detected to come from the country United States, which is not supported yet.
Needless to say, I'm NOT in the United States
Mark
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I expect it has been mentioned before, but it's the first time I've seen it
This one is a PQ overlay on the map:
This one is the same area but viewing the map directly:
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Garmin maps for Spain
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted
Whereabouts? I can't see any
Mark