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Firth of Forth

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  1. Yes, I volunteer. I offered to help a Paris-based cacher who posted on here with the same idea over a year ago, but nothing came of it. I have been thinking about placing a cache in the glen near Rosslyn chapel anyway, as it is a super location, but it would be much better if the cache were to be linked to a multi based on the book. There was a cache near the chapel, but it was muggled and has been archived, and the cacher who placed it does not seem to be active any more.
  2. Hold the stylus down over the notes section on the line of the cache name - then select 'field notes' - took me a while to work that one out too.
  3. Hi Coupar Angus, The first SGDO (Scottish Geocachers Day Out) was a hike up Ben Nevis last August - pity that you missed it. You can take a look at the logs at 1st SGDO and the write up at geocachingtoday. If you are reasonably fit and have the proper gear, then the hike is achievable, though I for one would never have thought I could do it. It took me 3 and a half hours, but the much fitter ones did it in 2 and half. You need to be aware of the bearings needed to get to the summit and off again if visibility is poor. Go for it by all means and I hope that you can find some companions.
  4. Something funny going on here...one minute this thread had 7,717 views... two minutes later it had 8,595. That can't be right!!
  5. Well... since the 1st SGDO at Ben Nevis/Glen Coe last August, there have been two others: Water of Leith Walkway in Edinburgh and Jocks Road in Angus. The next and 4th SGDO is a child-friendly affair: Ratho Park just to the West of Edinburgh, on February 26th. But the next one is much more ambitious, and is a whole weekend event: Isle of Bute, which promises to be a busy fun-filled caching weekend during the first weekend in April. Bute boasts 18 Billy Twigger caches, 8 of which are on the 'West Island Way' geohike. Time to start planning a trip North!!
  6. Oh good! Now I can plan a trip to Gothenburg!!
  7. Having only scraped through Latin 'O' level, can anyone enlighten me on the meaning of; "Veni - Quaesivi - Inveni"? Does it mean " I came, I searched, I returned"? They look great btw, and I'm sure that you will be overwhelmed with requests to buy them.
  8. Couldn't have said it better!!
  9. I agree with others that it's up to Deego what the table is about - but if it's a table for UK cachers to represent their caching exploits, then it excludes foreign based cachers, but does not necessarily have to exclude foreign caches. Lots of trigpoints up here - trouble is, many of them are on top of hills or mountains!
  10. Just to complicate things further.....if you follow the logic of this argument, then us Scottish cachers could argue that the much lower cache density North of the border (just have a look at the map of Scotland) puts us at a severe disadvantage, compared say to a Londoner who could pick up 30 or 40 caches in a day. For that reason, I really cant see why it matters where the caches are found - it's still a cache listed on the g.com website, however long it took to walk to and find.
  11. Happy Birthday Rutson - you just missed having your birthday on the same day as Rabbie Burns! I remember asking you at the weekend how many caches your children had done - its great for kids to keep track of their own 'score' if they are interested. My two teenagers both have their own geocaching names - and when they can be bothered - they log separate finds for those (few) caches that they have done with me. One day, they may retrospectively get around to making sure that they have logged all the ones they have done, and I hope noone starts objecting when/if they do. They do sign the logbook too. Geocaching is now included as a skill in the Duke of Edinburgh award, so it's likely that a lot more teenagers will be logging finds on trips out with their families.
  12. Bumping this event up so that it's not forgotten about. The next SGDO following this is likely to be a weekend event on the Isle of Bute in April.
  13. Congratulations Paul! See you tomorrow in the Northeast.
  14. Likewise, but I have no hesitation in coming out of my self-imposed ban to say that I appreciate all of the hard work that both of you have put into the Uk geocaching scene, and very much regret that this situation has led to this understandable decision. However, the good side is that at least I now know who you both really are! Well, your geocaching IDs anyway!!
  15. Great work WLW!! The first one hundred is the best!
  16. I think that there are lots of good reasons to phone a friend. In one example, I was searching for a TB hotel just north of London and couldnt find it. Deego had given me a TB whose mission was to go abroad and thought that this would be a good place for it. After a good long search, I phoned Pharisee in desperation, who in turn gave me The Hornet's number. The Hornet told me that he was on his way to collect the ammo box from someone who had rescued it from being muggled. I was very glad to find out this information i) because it saved me a longer fruitless search, ii) because I didn't feel silly not being able to find what should have an easy cache and iii) I was hundreds of miles from home. It's great to meet and get to know other cachers, and inevitably this kind of communication will occur.
  17. Easy when you know how!! Thanks again. Will close topic now.
  18. Done it. Thanks to Stuey and Clyde (who has already led me by the hand through this techie maze!). I knew that I would get a speedy and helpful response here. One last question though - presumably it's easier to surf through the cache names on the PDA if they are listed alphabetically? Or not? What do you find is best?
  19. My aim for 2005 is to become a paperless cacher, but I have got stuck on the last hurdle. What's the easiest way to download the filtered cache file from GSAK to the PDA using Gpxsonar?
  20. Ran 5 today and all arrived safely. Possibly it was due to a filter on my email system that I had set up to block certain emails, and have now deleted, but I'm not sure.
  21. For the last two days I have run 5 PQs each day. According to g.com they have been generated, but I have received only 2 out of the 10 emails. The PQs have run correctly and I have verified, using 'preview', that they generated the caches that I wanted. All of the 10 different PQs were the same except for requesting caches placed between different dates. There is no apparent reason why the 3rd and the 10th of the PQs were sent to me and not the others. Any ideas why I haven't received the emails?
  22. Ok, I give up. I have tried hard for several months to ignore the snide innuendoes and more recently the outright insults, but now I've had enough. I apologise to the UK geocaching community in advance for posting something that will not concern most people, for bringing a negative tone to the Forum, and for a very long post. After the nonsense on this thread, I received no less than 3 abusive emails from The Forester in one day. I decided to ignore them, and set up a filter on my email system to block him from sending me anymore. I think that most people would agree that this was a reasonable course of action. Since then, The Forester has used whatever opportunities there have been on the UK Forum to have a dig at me, and most recently to make direct insults. Such as these excerpts from his posts: "Back in late February or early March of this year I started to put together some course materials for a course to teach a geocacher some intermediate and advanced level land navigation. Unfortunately, my student lost interest and so my easy instructional course never came to fruition." and this: "On the other hand, I've also recently visited (twice!) a cachesite which was placed by a very highly experienced cacher. That one broke several rules of geocaching and of common sense. It was placed without bothering with such niceties as considering whether the landowner/landuser would co-operate. It was placed in a location where a regular sweep for foreign objects could reasonably be expected. An array of light coloured rocks had been placed in an arrow shape immediately adjacent to the cache to indicate its location, thus inviting muggledom. Inside the cachebox the name of a completely unrelated (and possibly nonexistent?) cachesite was listed both on the inside of the lid and in the logbook, thus making it impossible for a benign muggle finder to look it up on the GC.com webpage. A polite email enquiry about that to the cache-placer did not receive either an answer or even the elementary courtesy of an acknowledgment of receipt. Not a very good ambassador of geocaching!" Due to problems with the aforementioned cache, I archived it some time ago. and this, in response to my comments about Scottish Laws of access: "Do we in Scotland have absolution from our own geocaching rules? Which geocacher gave us that right? Gawd bless 'im/'er!!!" and this: "Something else which considerate cache-placers can do to avoid caches being treated as litter by landowners is to write the name of the cache inside the cachebox so that a muggle finder has a reasonable chance to look it up on the GC.comwebsite. That's not too much to ask, is it? Another thing they could do to the credit of geocaching is to privately respond to privately sent emails which enquire about such things. That's not too much to ask either, is it?" and this: "Oh Gawd. Now nationalist/tribalist strife hits geocaching?! The Tribal Chieftain of the Embra clique has taken up the cudgels on the dark side of Hadrian's Wall." There have been others over the last months, but that gives enough of a flavour. I ignored all of this, and was prepared to continue to ignore further negative remarks, but to use one of The Forester's own phrases, he "has gone too far" with his most recent post: "Their narrow mindedness is unfortunately abetted by their narrow-minded leadership. It is a sheep-like imitation of the non-communication which is characteristic of their leader, the Good Shepherdess, whose family dictum is "Shut the flock up". It is the ultimate in non-communication. It is caused by a closed mind and it is the result of blinkered thinking. One of the several beauties of geocaching is its inclusiveness. The exclusivity of the gang mentality is the opposite. It is exactly the type of racism/nationalism/tribalism which is the bane of human civilisation and is exempified by the idiotic England v Scotland tribalism which was so regrettably disclosed and promoted recently by a clique chieftain." If the Forester insists that this does not refer to me, then I can easily post part of one of the abusive emails to me which echoes, more rudely, what he has said here. The Forester seems to think that he can insult whoever he chooses - other geocachers, me, or my children - and never apologise. I have no idea why he has developed an irrational belief that I lead Scottish geocachers in some negative fashion. The theme of his negative comments is his frustration with my non-communication. Is it any wonder that I do not wish to communicate with him? Thanks to everyone, apart from The Forester, for making the UK Forum a fun place to be. But if this Forum can be used as a vehicle for carrying out a personal vendetta against another geocacher, then I have no further reason to frequent it. In fact, maybe I shall give up geocaching altogether and find another hobby. Thanks to The Forester.
  23. HH: Don't think the muggles can see me now!
  24. Actually, it was the English who started that banter - and it was all very good humoured for the most part. Who cares whether the Americans understand it or not? It would appear that there there are many purposes for the Forum, and that as well as learning something or exchanging information, a great many people enjoy the humourous side too. It seems a little shortsighted to me if contributors are offended by a bit of good natured banter.
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