klaus23
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I'm hoping to do Scarfell Pike and Ben Nevis this summer if I can afford petrol for the journey.
I have been on Snowdon and there are plenty of caching opportunities in the area. Most of the well-known starting and parking spots have micro caches, and there's a cache on the Pyg track on the way up.
Best of luck doing the three in 24 hours!
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Any experience you may have can be considered subjective. You may have many more better experiences, or you may not. It all depends on the day, the weather, the adventure and so on. There are so many variables.
Personally, I had my best experience while placing a cache. I placed a cache on Ireland's highest mountain, Carrauntohill. I was in the company of my girlfriend's uncle, who had previously completed a three peaks challenge and had (living in North Wales) been climbing Snowdon every New Years Day since he was 15.
His sense of achievement, having climbed the four peaks, was immense. And that reflected on me, not only in the cache that I placed, but in the emotion I felt in climbing Snowdon with him last year.
Not a whole load to do with geocaching, but as I have said before, I would have never started mountaineering without geocaching. So far, I've done Carrauntohill (Rep. of Ireland/26 counties) Slieve Donard ('Northern Ireland'/6 Counties) and Snowdon (Wales). Hopefully before the end of the year I will be able to complete the challenge in the Lake District at Scarfell Pike and on Ben Nevis in Scotland.
You'll never know, I may even make it to the Isle of Man. But this would have all never happened without geocaching. And that is something I am grateful for, each and every day.
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Could it be new functionality to move a TB?
Say you go to cache A. Cache A has no TB, but you find one and bring it home. Upon checking it turns out the TB is listed as being in Cache B. You transfer the TB from B to A and then log it from there?
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I can't resist...
...figaro magnificaro...
...I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me...
*runs away*
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I was offering to facilitate, speaking fluent German. I was not being condescending.
that we areThey must be. That's not English
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I see this thread hasn't had a response yet.
I know Berlin quite well, but that was before my geocaching days.
If you could let me know where in the city you're staying, I could put a post in the German forums for you, and then translate what comes back?
If that sounds like a plan, e-mail me through my profile.
Klaus
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Klaus covers most of Ireland anyway but that's another matter
I get by with a little help from my friends
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It's one of the risk that unfortunately can happen in the game of geocaching.
Don't take it to heart, get a nice new box together, mark the book with the previous finders names, and place it a few hundred yards away. It would be a shame to archive it because of some young idiots.
As kbootb said (Illegitimis non carborundum), ignore it and carry on
Also remember that at least nobody did a poo in yours
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I sympathise with the people who have had their car broken into while caching. Car crime, apart from in the cities, is pretty rare in Ireland and I (living in a village with my car parked on the driveway) would be comfortable leaving it unlocked. In fact, I lock my car out of habit but my Dad rarely does.
The only people that broke into my car in England were the AA... but that's another story
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if you wish to try and define a c0mmercial cache.. try this..what happened in 2001
For those of you that don't have 20 minutes to piece the whole thing together, it appears that this gentleman placed a large number of caches west of London. He works as a GPS software developer and left CD-ROM's with his own GPS software product in the caches. The caches were archived en bloc by geocaching.com.
In the interest of democracy, and as one side of the story were left out, here's a link to Robin Lovelock's website. You can even ring him up if you want.
registerd charities to my mind aint commercial..[sic]Here you're being subjective. Remember the fall out just after Christmas? Citing the "Lovelock" caches being archived as a watershed of defining what a commercial cache is may be one thing, but referring to your own personal opinion that charitable caches are non-commercial is another. To quote from geocaching.com's cache guidelines: "caches perceived to be posted for religious, political, charitable or social agendas are not permitted". Compare that to the example you cited, about a software developer who felt he could reach a new target market. He saw nothing wrong with it, and you see nothing wrong with charity caches. But gc.com has a problem with both. That means that, as I and fruity said, the final word has to come from the admins.
We will bump into the But "GEOCACHE.COM" are being commercial.. well it is there sight and they need money to fund itFair enough, but that doesn't stop members expressing their concern about it. I would like to think that they can sustain themselves from accessory sales and premium membership. Don't forget that you, the member, forms part of the commerical enterprise. Sure, geocaching.com is a private, for-profit company, but if that's what they are, they need to be more overt about it. The attitude of "it's my ball, and I'm going home" when it suits, as has been expressed by them in the past, is not what I would consider a good disposition to have towards it's members, who, at the end of the day, buy the t-shirts and the travelbugs, visit the APE caches, and carry the Daimler-Chrysler Jeeps around.
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I'm sure that the cache owner may have sympathy and would help you out here - but why not just do the lot again? Forget about the piece of paper and start from scratch on a sunny afternoon. That's what it's all about.
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I wonder if anyone can help me here. How can you define a commercial cache???
Have a look at the of a commercial cache on Geocaching.com definition
If I were to set up a cache which mentioned 'red nose' would this be allowed due to it being a charity which is I guess commercial.I understand that Charities can be mentioned in certain circumstances, for example, there have been Geocaching Events in the past where money has been raised for charities. I don't know where the interaction of geocaches and charities begins and ends - for that you'd have to speak to the friendly Admins. Whatever you do, don't mention the Tsunami.
On the other hand, if I were to set up a cache which was sponsored by a major national film company say 20th Century Fox and the cache basically advertised their wares like the title of one of their films then would that be commercial???Believe it or not, this has already been done by geocaching.com in the Project APE series of geocaches. Most of them were in the USA, but there was one in the UK, near Titsey (nudge, wink), just inside the M25
What defines commercialism differs between the US and the UK. For example, US Admins would not allow someone to say that "The Dog and Duck next to where you park your car to find this cache serves a lovely pint and has good value food" - but here our Admins have the common sense and courtesy to know that this is not soliciting, and realise that this would just be a friendly heads-up to somebody who may not know the area they're in. This isn't bending the rules, it's just an appreciation of cultural differences.
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LOL
Niche clothing at it's best
London - Paris-somewhere in the woods near Bath - Milan
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ah feck... I knew there was something I was meant to have done recently
Dave, be assured work is in progress!
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and a VW camper for the long expeditions come the summer...
ahhhh.... another thing to add to list the "I'd love..." list
I reckon I'll get the Mk2 Golf GTi 16v as my next cachemobile, and then the camper!
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Hi
If you use Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) it has a post code 'centre' facility wher it will show the nearest caches to a UK post code.
Enjoy your trip.
erm... so does geocaching.com
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This site could be a good start. I'm sure there would be locals in Kent or Greater London willing to help with postcodes, not to mention caching recommendations.
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a bit more info pls
i would like to know how to put aan avatar next to my name ( a photograph of jess).........please make it simple as i am computer illiterate lol
Have fun with this...
Click on your username beside the first post on this thread
Click on "Edit Avatar Settings"
Click on "Account Settings"
Log in if necessary
Click on your Profile Statistics to view your profile
Click on "Edit Your Profile"
Half way down you'll see avatar settings
Go in there and you can upload an avatar from your local machine
Then make sure it shows in your profile, and head back to the forums.
It may take a few hours to update, but bear with it!
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and talking about jess i was reading in the forums about people who have made there dogs travel bugs.........i would really like to do this just by attaching a bug to jess's collar
i think it would be great for you all to know she was a bug and meet me in the "field" one day and you try to log her and me saying catch her if ya can lmao
anyway is this a good idea or not.......
any help appreciated
It is a good idea - Chris and Maria did it with their dog and I did it with my car. It's a novel way of tracking caching mileage and gives the dog exerise.
The downside is that you've got to log the TB in and out of every cache you visit.
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It gets better... lost in translation or what... click here
I wonder what would your bank manager say when you presented that particular business plan.
"Erm, are you sure that's the name you've got in mind for your establishment and range of clothing?"
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If the location shows the cache location it should be labelled "SPOILER".
But as Deego said, if you have concerns, a friendly e-mail should be all it takes.
If need be, you can delete the log which removes the photo's too.
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The bus has just arrived.
Brace yourselves
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Nice pic!
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They're not the first to leave fishy things in geocaches.
Cairnteam (Dutch Cachers) left a tin of Herring in one of my caches. It was in date, so I brought it home, and absentmindedly ate it a month later.
Afterwards, when throwing the can into the bin, I remembered where it had come from
Best Ever Cache
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I know, I just couldn't leave it out! The concept of no speed limits would be enough to tempt me
Thanks for the kind offer, I'll let you know if I make it over.