Wilburii

Many thanks for that (two logs for number 5 and none for number 4) - how did you do that so quickly!

Not tried GSAK as I'm not a Windows user and haven't found a good alternative. It's only at times like this that I miss it!

No - no YOSMs - I've found a couple and never logged them as I've never got round to working out what's supposed to be done.

My stats say that I've found 2089 caches (2088 distinct). By my reckoning this means it thinks I've been somewhere twice; but obviously I don't think so! So, how do I find out where it's all going wrong. I did a PQ of my finds and used some code I'd put together to work out which days I'd not cached on to read the xml file. I sorted the contents by name and then asked for a data set of those records which weren't unique and came up with an empty dataset. So, either I need to refine the code I wrote or it's not on that list. Whilst I can look at the first, in the meantime does anyone know of a good way to find my double dipping visit?

I nearly always carry spare log sheets when I'm out and about, especially if I've read beforehand that logsheets are full or too wet. Actaully, this time I was considering not doing so, to cut down on clutter. But now you've said the word I'm more than happy to help and I'll be glad to print some more sheets and take them along with me. Do you have a feel for how many are likely to want a little TLC - just so I can work out how big a wedge of paper to take with me?

Yes we're still on for next weekend - if you're free then you're more than welcome - as would anyone else reading this!

Right folks, having been silent because of other much more boring things, and then a crisis about doing this because of needing to be a chauffeur for an exam (got out of that one), I'm now ready to think about this properly. I'm definitely doing this, so it's a question of is anyone still interested and how we sort out the practicalities. I was planning to find somewhere to stay overnight on Friday to get an early start (dawn or there abouts) on Saturday - how early depends on a number of things, like, how close I get to stay, how many caches folk want to do (ie The 100 and then some, or just stick with The 100), how early other folk can turn up. etc. Thoughts, observations anyone on how you'd like this taken forward? I'm quite laid back about how it happens; but unless anyone comes up with something better, then my half-baked idea is to start early, do The 100 in sequence and then, if the fancy takes me, go off to find another ring or two close by. Then I plan to crash out where I stayed the previous night and get half a day's caching in before returning to the bosom of my family to celebrate the remains of fathers' day! I'd quite like to stay somewhere that won't object to a car driving off at/before dawn. This would suggest either a campsite or a chain hotel. I can't see that going down well at a B&B. As I'm stingy the camping sounds good (or is it just that it's been so long since I did any that I'm getting nostalgic). Having said that I've not found a spot especially close yet. Either sort of place would mean that breakfast shouldn't be a problem - just get your own when you want it! Other food during the day would be either acquired en route (if places are passed where these things can happen) or, more probably, brought along from home. Evening meal to be something from a hostelry or restaurant or chippy or whatever delusions heat stroke brings on.

I was considering having a bash at the Chiltern Hundred on the weekend of the longest day which is 20th/21st June. This would be something of an expedition - go over on Friday night, get up ridiculously early on Saturday morning (in the dark and greet the sunrise) and then keep on caching until the job's done and then crash out until Sunday when it's time to go and grab some more - there are other rings not too far away, although not of the same intensity - and then slither away home in time for another week's slog at the office. This therefore is not for the faint hearted as the walking's quite a way, and the hunting will take a while; but more folk looking ought to make it a bit easier... So my question is - would anyone care to join me?

If it's like the Colorado, then on the "Trip Computer" page, you can choose between two formats for "Location", one called "lat/lon" and the other "selected" - or you can have them both on the screen at once. "lat/lon" is "hddd°mm.mmm'", eg N45°12.345 E001°33.345. That's probably what you mean by "WGS84", although in fact WGS84 is a model of the earth, and you can use it with lots of coordinate formats. "selected" is whatever you've chosen as "Position Format". If that's "hddd°mm.mmm'" then you get the same thing twice. [] Thanks for that. I've had a play but I've not quite got there yet - I can get to see 1 lat and long and 1 osgb as required but then it expects everything to be in OSGB co-ords - not much use for caching. Alternatively I can get to see 2 sets of lat and long, having specified hddd mm.mmm as the format but using the osgb map and you get the slightly odd set up of showing 2 sets of lats and longs but which are different (not surprising given the maths but a little unnerving if you don't expect it). Haven't yet found a way of showing a GB grid ref that also allows you then to enter waypoints as hddd mm.mmm! But having played around I'm coming to the conclusion that it's not that vital as it's very quick to switch between data formats so it's probably irrelevant!

Can't help you with the two format query but if you want to see the strength and position of the satellites screen just lightly touch the small satellite bars at the bottom of the screen ( near to where you can see how much battery you have left ) and up the big satellite screen will pop . Hope this helps Wow - so it does! Thanks for that, I'd have got there eventually, no doubt by accident halfway up a hillside and wondering how I did it. I should have thought it through a little harder because, as previous posts have pointed out, most things can be replaced by something else if you tap on them. Help for the hard of thinking is always appreciated!

OK then, whilst we're at it.... Does anyone know if it's possible for an Oregon to show 2 types of position, e.g. WGS84 and OSGB, which I used to be able to do on my aged Magellan Sportrak and is useful for finding out where I am (with reference to an OS map). It's less of an issue with the limited map on my 400t but there have been a couple of occasions when I'd have liked to know so I could tell which was the best route to the next cache. Also, does the Oregon have a nice screen showing the position & strength of the satellites like the picture in an earlier post? I've had a little look and not found it yet but then finding things isn't my strong point. (I should really take up a different hobby!)

I like the idea of a good trail's worth of caches. Last month on my birthday I went to Gt Bedwyn and took the train to Hungerford and walked back, along the Kennet and Avon canal and picked up 14 caches during a day's walking. I was then able to pick up my car, which I'd left at the railway station and drive home happy that I'd had a really good day's walking and caching. I picked up my 100th during the course of the day so it was a little bit more special for me. I have to cache on odd days when I can, so if I can plan a whole day's worth and get a good bag then that's my idea of a grand day out. I would look forward to a power trail even if it meant a bit of an expedition to get there. Better, for me as a lone cacher, would be to have it as a circular walk, so there's no messing about with cars, or with ready access to a train. In a similar vein I'm looking forward to going to do the Alchemy series, either as a really long day out, or over a weekend, if I can get permission to abandon the troops for that long! So, a series or a power trail, I'm up for it!

And there I was about to place a cache in two of our local churchyards! From this you will gather that I have no qualms about mooching about in cemetaries; but then I grew up living next to one (occupational hazard for the son of a clergyman) and am a regular visitor to cemetaries as a regular churchgoer. I am well aware of the problems of misbehaviour in churchyards as I am also a churchwarden (responsible, amongst other things, for stopping the buildings and their environs from falling apart). There have been problems with people doing things with needles in one of the churchyards but we've sorted that and would be happy to have more people enjoying the area. It should be remembered that one of the points of a headstone is to act as an aid to remember the person whom it commemorates, therefore their use as clues is good because it can make us think about the person that was buried there. I stand and look around the cemetary and it's a who's who of the families of the local worthies and it brings to life (as it were) the history of the area. So do I go ahead and place the caches? They'd neither of them be under a headstone. My preferred spot in one place is a bush that covers a very old grave. Technically speaking the bush should not be there (the rules are quite clear about what's allowed in a churchyard), so I could try and chase up the relatives (after some 70 years) and say get it out - or I can make use of it as it is quite a feature and rather more tasteful than some of the other illegal additions. I'd rather see more folk around. It's true that some folk won't behave in the churchyards but my advice is to keep the caching away from the areas that are in current use (churchyards get filled up in areas) and then those folk who might be there for more serious purposes will not have to put up with the others. I was doing an almost local cache in a churchyard and kept it very quiet as there was a lady who was paying her respects to a relative. So my plan was to use those graves where the dates were no less than 60 years old which would keep everything out of the way of anyone paying their respects and to hide the caches in bushes/trees thereby ensuring that there's no tomb-robbing.

On Saturday I was doing "Dunkery Gate" which involved cavorting around on a steep slope. On my way back up to reassess where it might be, I launched myself into a substantial piece of woodwork resulting in a pretty lump and graze on my forehead, the bridge of my glasses being rearranged and concussion! In my defence I was helping my daughter up the slope and had glanced down to take her hand so I looked up just in time to see my downfall. Needless to say I felt that I wouldn't carry on as I wasn't entirely sure where the car was, let alone a hidden cache. It was a good day out though!

Thank you good people for your felicitations! Compared with many of the folk being celebrated on this forum I've just walked in the door! I would like to thank Daisy and her Man for such a good series along the Kennet and Avon canal - the caches are a real treasure. I'll carry on gently pottering through my local and not so local caches but I'm now going to concentrate on putting a puzzle sequence out in the not too distant future - I've just ordered 15 containers from Lakeland but I'm still working out some of the locations as I want the caches to be worth a visit in their own right, even if it's only in the "pleasant stroll" category. Jonathan (aka Wilbur II)

Well done Subarite. Hadn't realised it was at one of mine. I hope it was a worthy challenge for such an auspicious occasion!

Thanks for that, I knew I'd read it somewhere I just couldn't remember where and then wandered round all the wrong places looking for it! I'll make sure it's less than 125K in size! Thanks for you help. Jonathan

Strangely it's not important what it looks like! It's the physical properties that are important. I suspect that I'll have to just give it a try and if it fails then I'll amend the cache to a more normal one. Jonathan

I want to upload a photo to a new cache that I'm going to place shortly. It's important that the photo arrives on the site in the same state as when it left me. Does anyone know what the process is for uploading pictures (technically speaking not the physical one which is simple and straight forward). For example, do they all get compressed, or if I send a tiddler anyway will it get left alone? Don't ask why it needs to be sent "as is" - you'll (probably) understand when I put the cache up. Mind you, I'm not sure where to put it at the moment, I just haven't got quite the right spot yet. Jonathan