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I've dithered over gaiters and decided not to bother.... I did an 8 mile walk last weekend over quite tough terrain in wellies and thoroughly enjoyed it.... splashing through everything in my path while the walking boot brigade hopped around the drier edges and still got their boots filthy - and I just waded through a deep puddle at the end to clean my wellies. Expected pain, blisters even - but had no trouble at all. Does anyone else walk in wellies?

Thanks everyone for all your comments. I think in the initial honeymoon period we were spoilt for choice, if we had a spare half-hour we could sneak out and bag a cache, but now, it's going to take more time and more planning! As winter approaches I think we're also going to have to take the weather into account - take advantage of clear dry weather to do more difficult terrain ones and ones involving lots of effort! We'll save the easier urban ones for foul weather. Unfortunately we can't make the Knowle event, but will watch out for the next Brummie event.

I'm very new to geocaching (been doing it for 6 weeks), and love it. Today I was browsing the site for some caches to plan for the coming weekend, and realised I've already found all the caches within walking distance from my house. Any future caching expedition will need some driving and/or cycling and/or a bus/train journey. Carrying on like this, I can forsee a time when the nearest unfound cache will be a considerable distance away. To those of you with hundreds and even thousands of bagged caches, what do you do? Do you save some nearby caches "for a rainy day", or start with your nearest and methodically work outwards (IYSWIM)? Do you deliberately plan weekend trips to bag caches further away? Do you get withdrawal symptoms if you want to cache but there are no unfound ones for miles around? And what's the placement rate of new caches, is it likely that lots of new nearby ones will appear within a few months? Thanks in advance!

Hi, I've got this model of Garmin too. The map file needs to be located in a folder called GARMIN on your memory card. If you connect your Etrex to your computer via the USB cable, switch it on, go to Menu > Setup > Interface then click on USB Mass Storage, the memory card details should display on your computer. The memory card should have a folder called GARMIN, which contains the map file (mine's called GMAPSUPP.IMG). My first attempt at doing this failed too, because I didn't create a folder called GARMIN first. Hope this helps.

Why would they??? We used to have caches when I was young - for guns (not real ones), food (usually black jacks and fruit salad) and "stuff". This was on the edge of the New Forest in the 70's, and everybody knew what cache meant. But then, we'd all grown up reading war comics ....... But the 1930's Arthur Ransome children didn't store any loot in their cache, they created it, signed their names and so recorded their visit. It struck me as more of a geocache than a cache, IYSWIM.

Congratulations on reachng such a momentous milestone in caching! I've seen "Isaac with the cache" or "Self-portrait with the cache" on almost every log I've visited!

Here's the actual text... None of them question the term “cache” – they all (apart from maybe Dick & Dorothea) seem to know what it means. No loot this time, but their Eskimos are our Muggles. They're doing some excellent CITO too, although the use of a glass bottle as a cache would be frowned upon nowadays! Makes you wonder how many pre-GPS caches there are scattered about. Signing their names, and adding their own loot (but they didn’t take what was already there).

I'm a huge Arthur Ransome fan, but am very new to geocaching. Yesterday I realised that there are two references to caching in his Swallows & Amazons series - there may be more, but at the moment I can only think of two. In Swallowdale, they find the hidden box on top of Kanchenjunga. In Winter Holiday, they create a cache and hide it on a tiny island, which they then name Cache Island. Both these books were written in the early 1930's. I'll try and copy the actual text and add it to the topic for reference. Has anyone else come across any literary references to caches or caching?

I've used netweather.tv for some years and it's usually pretty accurate.

Thanks for the welcome! We were introduced to caching by some family friends whilst on holiday in France, and the first cache we found was a FTF. Once we returned home, we were given a new GPS by our caching friends as a "thanks" for the holiday. Since then we've done some on foot, some via cycle and some via car. All extremely enjoyable! We had planned a series of 4 for this afternoon, but the incessant rain has put paid to that.

I hope that ebay seller gets no interest in their geocoin. I went and got a geocoin because I want to release one, not because I want to keep it or collect a set. And I think that's why Garmin have issued them (obviously to stimulate sales of their goods first and foremost) - to be released and tracked.

I got the last one at Blacks in Merry Hill (it was a London Eye). The manager said he'd had lots of people asking for them and wanting him to arrange swaps etc., he was quite surprised when I said I'd be placing mine in a cache!