Stuey

I'm puzzled. A road goes pretty much all the way there?

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Quite right. I have stage 2 of a three stage that starts and ends in Alabama. There is also a round the world multi cache that starts and ends not far from me in Dorset. There are probably dozens of caches like this.

Hi John, I use the corrected co-ordinates option in GSAK. Right click the cache within the GSAK list, then choose Corrected Co-ordinates. Type them in, and those co-ords will hold against that cache, even if you delete all caches from your database and then re-load the gpx file into gsak. I have a separate database of corrected co-ordine caches which I load over the top of other databases that I may have created (but only match "existing" caches) and it will correct the relevant ones in that particular database. Corrected co-ords seem to be database specific. I don't use the corrected co-ords in geocaching.com. Instead, I type the corrected co-ords into the note field when I solve them. That way I can see them when I browse to a cache using mobile internet (in case of GPS failure).

Absolutely ridiculous. An event cache should be no different to any other type of cache as far as "all welcome" goes. I imagine you are not going to suggest that no underwater caches are placed, or caches up trees? They are in no way "all welcome" and are actually probably the better type of cache. Something different, slightly unique, and slightly challenging. This is a pity. It was an opportunity to right what a lot of people feel is a wrong decision.

My Back from Down Under TB is now in Australia again, to be placed in a cache quite soon. This should move the mileage to about 88,000 miles. I'll report back when it is in a cache.

Fantastic! I hadn't spotted that menu option. Nice one, thanks!

I disagree. In my early days, I moved the co-ordinates of a cache a few metres based on the OS 1:25k map, assuming the Ordnance Survey would be more accurate than my £180 Garmin. When the first people went out to find it, the revised co-ords took them to the middle of a main road, but my original co-ords were perfect. It turns out that the maps are not always perfect and in some cases they even introduce deliberate errors. Do you disagree that you should not check your coords or my suggestions of maps? I have found Magic Map to be very accurate so far, and I think it is based on the Ordnance Survey. Are you sure you were using the correct datum? I disagree that you should check co-ords against any map at all. I was using the right datum. I did say "a few metres", which if I recall was probably about 5 metres. Like I said, the original co-ordinates were perfect, it was just that I had adjusted them to match the OS map, which thinking about it would have been drawn before GPS was invented and would be subject to various errors.

I disagree. In my early days, I moved the co-ordinates of a cache a few metres based on the OS 1:25k map, assuming the Ordnance Survey would be more accurate than my £180 Garmin. When the first people went out to find it, the revised co-ords took them to the middle of a main road, but my original co-ords were perfect. It turns out that the maps are not always perfect and in some cases they even introduce deliberate errors.

Hi Becky, I'm still here.... I FTF'ed most of your Beautiful Dorset series, and very nice caches they were too. Welcome back! Stuey

You ought to try the Waypoint Averaging function on your Oregon. You can leave the Garmin in the place where the cache is, and it will take hundreds of readings over however long you want and give you an average automatically.

I can't see it, no. I live in Devon and couldn't care less what my (or your) areas are called on Geocaching.com. If it offends you that you get "classed" as something you don't want to be, try ignoring all the names of things and just use co-ordinates. I've got no PQ selections based on region or country for that matter and get by absolutely fine. Try it?

Hi Peter, welcome back. It's up to you of course if you read the hint or not, so you can make it as easy or as difficult as you like. I prefer to read a hint if I'm going to draw attention to myself, and if I see an accurate hint when I feel like I should give up in fear of being approached, I'm very grateful.

Am I the only one who is getting bored stiff of your dog stories? This is a geocaching forum, and if we all start banging on about problems with things that are not caching related whilst "out caching" then this forum will go downhill fast. I suggest that you post your message in a dog related forum.

If you put out 100 caches in a series, what do you expect? If you placed 10 individual caches you'd be more likely to get individual logs.

What a ridiculous thing to say! Thank goodness for that. In my experience, the majority of cachers that I interact wth are in favour of quality over quantity.

I've found three or four which use mobile phones which you need to call for questions and/or co-ords. Race the Clock in Bath was probably the best one of those as it used fully automated texting of questions and answers based on geographic locations which you had to get to within a certain time span. Lots of people used it for landmarks, and it is still in my Top 10 caches list. There is at least one of the ones that I found still active, but as it is a mystery, I'll not give the GC code out. I say "Go for it".

Probably not, and like Mrs B says, there are varieties of cache, so this is a variety of CITO. I asked what people's thoughts were, and we've had a few.

To be less harsh here, different environments will dictate different levels of littering. I can't imagine that Dartmoor will ever get as bad as what has been collected in the two photos above. There is obviously litter about, and any cachers who go out with the mission to collect litter should be commended. I just can't help thinking that a dedicated meet up time would allow cachers to at least get together if they wanted. The other thing which I don't think all CITO's adhere to is the "Cache In" bit, where a new cache is placed in the area which has been "Trashed Out". I don't suppose this is mandatory anyway.

Here's a great example of a CITO event: The 2011 Water of Leith CITO Event With the hard work, planning and organisation such as at the above event, a group of cachers not only cleared up an area of a lot of "trash" but they almost certainly made new friends as well.

What are people's thoughts to a CITO event being held by placing a box with log book on the rear step of a parked vehicle? If you sign the log book and go for a walk picking up some litter you can log the find. It's pretty easy to organise, and you don't even need to speak to anyone, and you probably won't even see anyone either.

Now that this thread has drifted completely off topic (although to be honest it's not really ever been relevant to caching), what's the chance of it being closed?

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Oh just get over yourself and do as you're told.

I wouldn't worry about it. It's not that long to be stuck to be honest, and you never know what will happen next. You might find it is picked up quickly then placed and muggled, or it might stay there for ages and get picked up by someone who takes it on a long distance adventure. It would have been worth providing a link to the bug page, and the cache page. Cache: Band of Brothers near the Somerset/Devon border about 6 miles north of Honiton TB: Moomin Papa It's not toooooo far from where I live, and if I am going to be going past any time I'll check to see if it is still there and needs moving on. If it's still there in 6 months time I'll go out of my way to rescue it.