Realmofchaos

Plenty around Matlock including the LQ:Riber View one. Check out Cats-eyes "Curiosities of Derbyshire" series.

Not totally stopped, but not done any for at least a year. My reasons as follows: 1) New hobby, airsofting, much more physical and to me, much more fun, but takes up much more time. 2) Saturation of caches, i guess thats to be expected as the hobby becomes more popular 3) Quality of new caches being placed, I like being taken to a new (nice) area that i've not seen before, not a fence post in an industrial estate that's clearly been wazzed on, just to get a micro. 4) Cycling, doing much more of this but prefer the non stop run rather than stopping to get caches. 5) New allotment, this takes more time up than all the above lol! Caching will probably be relegated to a holidays only, we had a fantastic caching experience around Snowdon/Betws-y-coed last year, and in Cyprus the year before that which we will probably repeat at some point.

Just to add, Aliens hideaway is one of my all time favourite caches and is one i will continue to maintain. In fact, i'm already regretting putting it up for adoption lol.

Hi all, yes all my caches are up for adoption due to not having the time to maintain, and a new hobby has kind of taken precendence. I've already had a request for LQ:Derbyshire for which an adoption request has been sent. I won't be archiving any until they've found good owners or are at the end of shelf life for maintenance requests in which case they will be retrieved and the containers removed. The "Don't go at midnight" cache has been archived as it was replaced recently but appears to gone missing again therefore I'd rather have someone else place a cache in the vicinity in a slightly different location. We will still be caching but it will be finding rather than placing. Many thanks Leon

I've had a quick play with it and it's fast, faster than IE, faster than Firefox and faster than Opera. (it's not as fast as FirefoxX64 edition though).. Unfortunatley I can't use Roboform with it so until support for that is integrated then i'm sticking with Firefox32.

Another vote for PDA & TomTom here, you could get an IPAQ HX4700 off ebay with 2Gb, TomTom6 & Bluetooth Mk2 receiver for just over a ton. Then as budget allows, buy memory map and add to it as you go along. In my opinion (and experience) these dedicated GPS are a load of hype, have you seen the UK TOPO maps for the Garmin units? Absolutley DIRE. If all you want is Tomtom then the TT Go is ideal for exactly a ton, but when you can get all the above for just over, why bother

/bugger

what version memory map you using 6 or 7? There's a version 6/7? I thought the latest version of MM was V5?!

Congrats all, hope you enjoyed my LQ:Derbyshire cache!

Woah! That is impressive Cats!! We knew it was going to be high but 528! Congrats!

I personally find Quo2 [windows PC] from Mapyx.com and Quo Mobile [Windows Mobile] a cheaper and better solution than Memory Map, as 1:50000 map tiles are only 99p each and the software is cheaper too, 29.95 for Quo2 and 19.95 for Quo Mobile. Hope this helps someone? Any other Quo2/Quo Mobile users out there? I also use CacheMate on my Windows Mobile device... Regards, Martin Looks interesting, not heard of this before. The prices look pretty competetive as well, especially for the Landranger stuff Does it do elevation profiling and OS25k aerials like memory map? In fact, i've just seen this "Add contnet such as video files, image files, document files,...to your points, tracks, routes" NICE!!

Memory map for PPC if you live in the UK, OziXplorer for anywhere else... Or if you're hardcore, BeelineGPS and NO map

Only one of these, thankfully not in the UK lol

WAIT! I have a great idea for an extreme cache! Hows about this?; 1) You have to locate a map in an attic, tie a young man down (Deceangi) then proceed to a location on childrens bikes whilst listening to Cyndi Lauper 2) Check the co-ordinates against 2 islands at sea to get the co-ordinates for a taverna on the cliffs 3) Enjoy a fish "surprise" at the taverna whilst querying the taverna owner for the next set of co-ords 4) Abseil down a hole in the floor where you will meet a previous cacher named "Chester Copperpot", in his hands are the co-ords for the next location 5) After negotiating several tumbling boulders end up in a well where the next set of co-ordinates are handed down via a bucket 6) Navigate through a hole full of bats to a room where you have to play the right notes to get the next location 7) Slide down a multitude of water tubes into a main cave whereby the final location is revealed 8) Locate the final cache and make sure you get out in time, before the cave collapses, clasping the log book (and a set of gold geocoins) to return to your mom & pa with the sheer jubilation that you just completed the world most extreme cache (and possibly saved the goon docks too!) Now, a plan to put that into practice! /Realmofchaos rubs chin

Falling from a 150 high cliff / getting destroyed by a UXB same result I suggest. Nope, because you wouldn't be falling from a 150m cliff with the right safety gear, getting destroyed by a UXB is much easier, and it doesn't involve plonking the nose cone, trust me my father works in bomb disposal

Good spot, are these the official lock n lock ones do you know?

I never carry a whistle, 1 blow and i'm surrounded by doggers!

My point precisely, a drive in a comfy air conditioned vehicle to a cache which you dont even have to climb or abseil to. Don't touch the UXB as indicated and hey boy this is a walk in the woods [actually that could be more challenging!!] Seriously though it does highlight my comments that by assessing the risk and overcoming any problems then any challenge is within your reach. And yes this does sound a good challenge but hardly extreme. Depends on your definition of extreme I suppose, i'd rather abseil/canoe/hike/bike/crawl naked over glass than navigate a minefield to be honest! We thought it was pretty bad, at least a 5 hour walk back to civilisation if the car broke down, definately not something you want to do in 100+ degree temps in summer, unexploded mines, mortars and god knows what else and then there's the snakes, oh yes the snakes, oh and the "hunters" taking pot shots at you whilst you recover the cache in question! A quick edit/ I guess if you placed a cache in the middle of an area containing unexploded munitions in the UK i would imagine (read hope) it would be archived el pronto!

Want risk assement, try this bad boy that we recently did in Cyprus. Difficult to get to and then you're treated to a nice unexploded mortar shell next to the cache lol http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...32-ac4e86683f1d

Same here LOL, you've just been looking at my multiple DNF's for GCF81D It was my week off, i got annoyed and ended up replacing the container myself lol (owners permission by the way)...then it started raining

2004 3 0.014 2 / every 107.5 days 2005 9 0.025 6 / every 60.8 days 2006 33 0.090 21 / every 17.4 days 2007 61 0.192 28 / every 11.3 days I can DEFINATLEY see an addiction starting there fella!

I show them my dog tags (read TB's) and say "Whaddya reckon"

It's possible, but i reckon it's more likely to be school kids playing a prank. The original placer of the cache was at Highfields school which is in the vicinity of this cache and I know for a fact that the PE lesson's "cross country run" passes by this spot. It's a good location for a cache (IMHO) and I guess if it continues the cache could always be moved 50ft. I'm tempted to drop a few "dummy" coins in there and see what happens...if they go walkies then I know it's being tampered with

Hobby for us, but at certain times i can sense an addiction coming on... then it starts raining

Tis this one -> GCVXDM Several well known members have left items in this as well as a good friend of mine and they have all gone walkies! 4 items left in the cache, only 1 rescued (by me).