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Not meaning to be a killjoy, but anyone else reckon this is setting the site up for a major crash as everyone tries to log together (time zones or no time zones)?! I always notice a slow-down on Sunday evenings, and imagine it's just going to be exacerbated tomorrow. Anyway, their problem I suppose, and I'm still going to attempt like everyone else...

Yup, I'm only getting Groundspeak notifications. The same happened after the Mega. I tweaked something or other and got notifications again. That said, I'm only meaning info on new caches isn't coming through; I'm getting notifications about my caches, watchlists, etc.

Although obviously a modification, it fair takes me down Memory Lane! I wonder whether a less observant shop keeper might have been fooled by that in "yon olden days"?

I don't know how you do the hyperlink thingy, but The Covenanter's Grave (GC1YMAZ) was one I earmarked ages ago and which doesn't get very many visitors. It's only a year old and has only had 8 visitors (actually 9 because it still awaits Allieballie's log), but is in what I think is the style of the old traditional caches, i.e., a nice long walk with some history thrown in. A really worthwhile cache. The other one doesn't carry the same history, but it involves a lovely long walk with spectacular views too: Penthouse Views (GCRA4G). It hadn't been found in two years before I found it, and still only 15 in nearly 5 years which is a crying shame as it's a wonderful cache. Perhaps we "suffer" from cache saturation in the area? I don't really think so, but this one perhaps gets overlooked because of the walk involved? Do both!

I don't know, and I'm not sure what unit you use, but if it's an iphone, you should be able to stop it by going into Settings > General > Network > Data Roaming OFF (or ON if you want it back on). However, far techier people than me will be able to advise you further...

How topical! I didn't see this thread before my latest series was submitted and published, but I did put a note to the reviewer asking that they all got published together (or rather, if there was any problem with any of them, not to publish the others till it had been resolved - luckily there weren't!). The reason behind that was that they are a fair way from where I live and I wanted to be sure they were all in order, rather than trogging up and down the road, with the side effect I suppose of muggling cachers finding the others, or vice versa. We have some very keen FTF hounds in my area and it's inevitable that one of 3-4 names are likely to be the first there, which can be a little annoying for everyone else, but I don't think I'm mean-minded enough to make them hare back and forth bit by bit. If it were for something more strategic, perhaps I'd think differently, but at the end of it all, it's a game and I want them to enjoy finding them, and am glad that they bother. (I nearly put them off with the previous set which are rather on the sneaky side!)

What about a screw-top tupperware pot? Or one of those metallic outdoors drinks bottles with the rubber seal top? Or a Kilner jam jar? Or a film developing tank? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_tank) That's just off the top of my head, not having ever attempted (nor likely) to hide an underwater one.

So you mean to say in one measly 24 hour period, you and your mates found as many caches as I had in 1 year, 6 months and 27 days? (I bet my logs are more memorable!)

Erm - Cowdenbeath IS in Fife... You're there... I put Cowdenbeath as the largest nearby town. Will that do? MrsB Jeez no try Kelty ... but quite rightly pointed out as being better ignored, but for the fact that that's the 101010 I'm supposed to be going to!

Wasn't caching, but Schiehallion did for my left knee 11 years ago, almost to the day. I've probably mentioned it somewhere here before, but I was 1/3 of the way back down, and never fell. However, as you've just mentioned, it's full of boulders which move under your feet and my ligaments went. Have never been the same since, and descents are the worst. Is that a TB/GC attached to the plaster? If so, can I discover it please (given I just have!)?!

Without hesitation I'd delete a log like that on my cache... Obviously hasn't found it, and just doing copy/paste on any/all caches in the area! Disagree here. They may well have found it, but with the multitude of others by the series cacher, may have forgotten that it wasn't part of the series. Dunno about you but if I've had a busy day caching in a series, I don't always pay attention to the cache setter's name when I'm writing all the logs later. I would give them the benefit of the doubt and call it plain carelessness, but agree that I'd feel pretty narked if they grouped it with another series. I have a series out in West Lothian, and there's another one very close to a couple of them; hopefully no-one finding my set does a "TFTC for the Sherbet Fountains" on that one too! Then again, I always put SOMETHING (usually too much, so equally well, people are probably yawning at my logs!). TFTP

I think it's something like 600 odd. One of those Desert Road set in the US where a team of 4 C&Ded all day - a world record. Me? I think it's about 27 or so. Seemed like 600!

Nothing like most of those above, but I FTFed in Dumfries and Galloway last year by accident. That's about 60 odd miles from here.

lol I haven't come across this type of cache yet. My first instinct was "That shouldn't be allowed - it should be a level playing field for all", but then I suppose there's all sorts of caches I'd never be able to do in any case, more in terms of terrain. Examples are ones where diving is required, or the good old Space Station. So the playing field of course develops a ***** terrain rating with good cause. (As a red herring, do you remember the days when a 5* hotel was THE bee's knees? Do you think Groundspeak might forge ahead with 6* or 7*, especially in the Middle Eastern countries?!)

Yup, this is topical for me as I e-mailed a cacher a couple of days ago about a couple of DNFs on their cache. The cache has been disabled for quite a while, is close to where I live and another cacher is coming to the area at the weekend and wants to do it, if possible. I have offered to check and replace to save them the bother as I've already found it and know where it should be. Perhaps they haven't caught up with the e-mail; perhaps they're onto the case anyway, but I've not had a response.

I've been lucky enough to get that massive patch of red with just one find in Russia in May (St Petersburg, which only has about 6, but I didn't get any other opportunity to find others). Ditto in getting another massive patch of red in Greenland about 2 weeks ago (1 chance, 1 cache, etc.). So in 19 months: Scotland England France Switzerland Germany The Netherlands Russia Norway Spitsbergen (officially Norway, but it carries its own little patch of red which you don't get if you haven't cached there) Greenland Iceland Argentina (Tried and failed in Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica, but that's because where I went there weren't caches, other than South Georgia where the GPS just wouldn't get a fix, and someone subsequently told me a photo of mine had a rock behind which the cache had been - arggggh!) It's a start, and lots of red, so I'm happy enough. Funny how there's a little part of me that wants to go visit countries I haven't cached in though...

(Double post)

The travel bugs in the lowest and highest aren't in the inventories...

Edinburgh has loads, and with newer cachers busy setting new caches, there's fresher hides going out all the time (I've only found about half of the "older" ones, so plenty for me, but presumably more interesting for the longer-lasting cachers). Stirling and Perth also have heaps. I've not cached that much in Dundee and not at all in Glasgow or Inverness, so not so up-to-date there. Aberdeen could have more. Was well-chuffed to clear out the grand metropolis of Weston Turville in one afternoon this week (thanks Alibags!), but feel that Chiltern Hundreds excluded, there's heaps more places in Bucks to add to the caches already out (if I lived there..., etc.).

But Sue - you never DO fall on your *rse in the mud... Do you????

Can I have your car You assume I have a car...!

There's obviously one or two reasons why a cache might be abandoned. Usually, it's presumably because the COs have got bored with the game (could this be possible?! ) and have found something more boring to liven up their lives. But it could also be that they've changed e-mail addresses, during that period of not caching and forgotten to update things on here. And of course, some do unfortunately die. Although I have various caching buddies, I think if anything happened to me, I'd perhaps get a few e-mails and calls but no-one would know I wasn't around any more and therefore be none the wiser (probably think I'd just become very antisocial!). With 34 caches out there, that's a lot of plastic. So if no-one hears from me for 6 months(!), please adopt away. There - a Living Geowill - the first?

(I read further down the page...) Now normally I think it's a bit odd if you log a find on your own cache but in this instance, I think it's fair go, assuming they fulfilled all the requirements they're asking of others, as a bit of spadework has to go into achieving them.

It's not a condition of logging to write more than "n" number of words, or that you can't put a full stop, or that you need to write more than "tnlnsl tftc". Deleting finds because you don't like what they wrote is wrong, I think. Just accept that some people write a lot, and some don't (or can't.... for whatever reason). Haven't read the rest of the thread, but I agree with this. They've still made the find, so it seems churlish to me to delete a perfectly valid find, just because you don't like the style of logging. I have one of these devices and have cached just with it (when the GPS doesn't contain the relevant cache, etc.), but I've never logged using it, as that would muck up my nice GPS list (I manually add the data later). However, I have long since removed the suffix to my e-mails announcing "Sent from my iphone". I think it's poncey! So in short, I sympathise, but don't agree that they should be docked finds because of it.