Leoness

When I was living in North Yorkshire, it got to the stage where my nearest unfound cache was over 40 miles away. Fortunately for me, my husband is in the army and we move house every two years, so once I have found every cache near to home, I just move house to a new area and start again!

Just to bring you up-to-date, in 1993, the 17th/21st Lancers amalgamated with the 16th/5th Lancers to form the Queens Royal Lancers who are currently based in Catterick, N Yorkshire. Queens Royal Lancers

Also the names of the people involved and the submission time / date... I can't believe that, at least for a little while, I was taken in. And for that matter I also can't beleive I am actually admitting it here. Still if we can't laugh at ourselves.... I think that the reason we're taken in by such stories is that our views of American culture make them just so plausible!!!

Have a look at this then... RAIL DRIVES WALKERS UP THE WALL Why, then, haven't they strung a net across the top of the Grand Canyon to stop people from accidentally falling in?!!!

I guess it depends on your motivation. If you're just trying to increase your numbers for CotM then some might frown upon such a thing. If the TB wants to go to Outer Mongolia and you happen to be visiting there the next week and can help it on its way, then some might say that's OK. I think that most would say you can play the game your own way and if you can live with your actions, then that's all that matters.

Hi HH Having spoken to you a couple of times on the 'phone yesterday, I know the cache to which you refer. I found one of The Wombles caches up at the Uffington White Horse muggled. They had taken the very nice, large ammo box, put the contents into a white, plastic carrier bag back and stuffed it back into the hedge. I had gone to the cache to retrieve a TB which I had left there a few weeks earlier and ended up taking the whole cache home with me instead! It has now been relocated nearby by the owner and remains a very popular cache. (Maybe when you come caching down this way, it will be one of the ones you will find ) Edited to add... A couple of weeks later, I went to do a maintenance check on one of my caches and found that it had suffered the same fate... ammo box stolen, cache contents stuffed into the hedge!

Must be his leanings towards schizophrenia!!!

Looks to me like you're doing everything correctly and above board... after all, weren't rules made to be broken?!!!

May I suggest that you ask Postie as he may be willing to take it on. He agreed to adopt "Over the Edge" on the Cleveland Way when it was going to be archived and he does own several (excellent) caches in the area.

Welcome to the addiction and to some wonderful caches in the Yorkshire Dales. I can recommend nearly all of them!!!

Maybe Phoenix needs to download Adobe Acrobat!

Aren't gas pipelines marked by those fluorescent orange markers on posts which can be seen from the air by helicopter? It would be interesting to find out if there are any in the vicinity.

I hope someone takes a metal detector with them or else there's the potential for a very big hole to be dug in the general area!

Meanie!

Is that some sort of euphemism? Is that what earned you the night in the Governor's residence? HH !!!

errr .... with ..... or without ...... errrrrrrrr the Governor????? LOL! Without!

I've sat in the royal box for a performance of the Tattoo and then slept the night in the Governor's Quarter at the castle!

Here in Shrivenham (Oxon / Wilts border)... Nearest 20 caches - difficulty + terrain = 77 20th cache is 10 miles away

I recommend Go Forth GC6DAB as it's on an island in the Firth of Forth which is reached by a causeway at low tide (or a boat at high tide!). There are some good views of the Forth road and rail bridges from the island too.

Yes, Stuey - he was charging £80 !

No - that's not me!!! I can't see the one we took - it was of the dog. In fact, we had a friend's chocolate Lab with us that day too and I may have taken a photo of both dogs. Looks like it didn't come out I am also flattered that you think I'm approximately 30 years younger than I really am!!!!!!!

I'm also saving them up for a day's cycle ride sometime in the better weather and after the clocks have gone back (or is it forward?!) Should be able to grab over 2 dozen caches in a single day.

I came across one the other day which is listed as a mystery cache because you need to solve a puzzle but when you get to the co-ords, you find a small cache with another puzzle inside which also hints that there is another stage to solve too, before finally locating the cache (none of which is indicated in the cache description as I think it is deliberately meant to deceive). I shan't name it in here but I did find it a bit annoying as I shall probably not be going back to that area to complete it.

At least you have owned up and been honest about it! Don't forget to log the TB out of and into the correct caches to keep its records up-to-date.

There aren't any Virtuals really on the route I suggested you do along Swaledale. There is one in Wensleydale, "Spinning Sculpture" - GC8726 but it would take you off your route to do it. Apart from "Roaming Round Richmond" (which is a multi) the others are all Traditional caches ranging in difficulty & terrain from 1 to 3.5 - so nothing too taxing!