Peztone

Hi John, The tree is kind of split into 4 with a hollow middle open to the sky, as I said in the other post I even climbed up into it to check into the parts I couldn't see from the ground. There's a picture of the cache itself on the cache page, and it's pretty big.. I'm not discounting that I simply missed it, but I searched that tree for 30 minutes! It's very close to home so no doubt I'll look again. I'm telling myself the cache went home for xmas.. ahem..

I have a feeling one of them had been stolen, it was in a hollow tree, I found the tree, I climbed it.. I dug all the muck out of the bottom of it, I removed all the fallen branches.. when I got home I mailed the owner (It was last found in August) but he hasn't got back to me.. The second one was under heavy tree cover in scrub and I couldn't get a gps fix on it so that one was definitely me not finding it.. but as you say I should go back and find it.. it doesn't do to be out witted by an inatimate object now does it Thanks for the welcome -S.

Hello everyone, I'm new to all this too.. went on my first cache hunt last Sunday, searched for 2 .. found nothing.. I was convinced that they must all be buried to a depth of 5 feet under established bushes, a most frustrating day. But today all that changed, I searched for 4 and found 4! and now I'm afraid I'm hooked.. -Steve

Reading my mind there GPSax.. if I get all my chores out of the way tomorrow I'm going to spend the pre-xmas onslaught knee deep in mud looking for tupperware.. I need to find a couple to get the ettiquette before I stash mine, there's a huge gap on the map crying out for something to be hidden there.

Thanks Jamie & Ol'Gem, you nailed it, that's why I left that info in the screen grab in the hope I was doing something wrong.. I did some practising with coordinates from caches on this site and coordinates thrown up by multimap and I can get the software to pretty much pinpoint the right places.. Now I can happily enter all the caches within easy strike distance ready for the GPSr .. come on Xmas.. Thanks again! -Steve

Hello everyone, As the title suggests I'm new to all this, so new I don't have a GPSr yet, Santa's bringing me one, I do however have a set of 1:25,000 OS maps and the Fugawi CD's containing the 1:50,000 scale versions of the OS maps. Here's my confusion, I found the cache nearest ro my house (Roman Around) and looked it up using the british grid sysyem on the 1:25,000 map, the cache description lists it as being on the old roman road and sure enough, there it is: However when I load the Fugawi OS maps into my PC and insert a waypoint based upon the coordinates given, I get this: Now either I'm not entering the coordinates right (more than likely..) or the Fugawi software is totally innacurate. Can anyone shed some light on my problem/stupidity? Many thanks, -Steve