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    That's it had enough

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Hi ashreigney

     

    I have no gripe about co-ords being a few feet off due to tree cover or such like.

    It's when co-ords are out by 100 or so feet in the open that gets me going, lost count of how many I DNF'd only to get notification co-ords changed to 100+ feet away due to this phone or that phone ect ect.

     

    Tony

    That's it had enough

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    I'm sorry to hear that.Is this one cache owner that does this or several?I tend to see the same on less experienced cachers but very rarely on the veteran cacher. Maybe it's just where you are?Edit: I'm presuming you're referring to the system problems? Of course the coords on the site being wrong from time to time is not GC.com's fault

     

    Ah - it's not me then!I was just trying to look at all my hides to see what had the most favourite points (it'll be a modest number, don't worry!), but it keeps asking me to input username (by hidden) without a box to type in.So looking at Tony's profile, similar silly things are happening.I hope it's just a temporary blip as I have some logs to make... :blink:

     

    Beach_hut

    It is a mix of cachers (old and new), I think it is down to modern technology.

     

    Original A1

    Yes problems with the site, seem to getting more frequent in my mind.

     

    Tony

    That's it had enough

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Just spent 20 minutes going nowhere on my profile page, when GC get things back on track I might consider returning.

     

    Nearly every 3rd cache published nowadays has co ords changed after less than a week, not worth going after for a month after publication.

     

    See you all next year.

     

    Tony

    If geocaching was around 100 years ago

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    Today marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen's FTF to the South Pole. If geocaching was around then, he'd be very happy with his FTF. Scott would have found it a few weeks later, and be gutted at being beaten to that FTF, but would never make it back to log his find. And a few years later, Shackleton would have logged a DNF, as his transport failed.

     

    My Bold

     

    But that would mean that he was the second person to the pole, as someone had to leave the cache there for him to find.

     

    Tony

    Scam warning

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted · Edited by tony and carina

    I usually answer with the words "Duty Officer How can I help?"

    When asked who I am I ask how they got this number as it is a secure line in to GCHQ.

    They usually hang up pretty quickly.

     

    Tony

    Is your favourite a virtual ?

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted · Edited by tony and carina

    not sure what it shows, may be more people do virtuals, may be they have been round a while so they have more chance of being remembered, may be that actually it doesnt really matter one jot as long as people enjoy it
    So far I haven't given a favorite to any virtual, but it's possible that may change tomorrow when we visit Imber village on our way to Bath.

     

    I'm mostly not a fan of virtuals (including EarthCaches, which are just a specialised virtual), even though I use OpenCaching extensively (.org.uk, not Garmin) where virtuals are still permitted. It slightly irks me to call them caches when plainly they are no such thing. I think Groundspeak have got it mostly right by providing a similar alternative facility (waymarks).

     

    Rgds, Andy

     

    Andy we may see you there, hoping to arrive about 11 ish all being well

     

    tony and carina

    Geocaching UK Data

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    My GSAK database, updated this morning, shows that we've just passed the 71,000 mark for active caches in the UK (71,002)

    Time to 'open a book' on when we'll hit the 100,000 mark?

     

    February 2012 :laughing:

     

    Deci :laughing:

    I wasn't really being serious but if we're having a guess then I reckon we're averaging 100 a day... call it 10 months.... the end of July, next year :laughing:

     

    It all depends how long Deci holds it before publishing! :laughing:

    Olympic coins

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    I don't go to any other geocaching forums.

    I tend to look at most of the threads here.

    Until now I was unaware of any plans for a NW Mega Event in 2012.

     

    Just thought I'd mention it.

     

    Likewise, I haven't the time to trawl through all the Geocaching forums.

     

    Tony

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