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Alrighty ... time to be mean. No-one likes tree cover, do they? This one is BAD
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The vessel began her maiden voyage from Southampton, bound for New York City on 10 April 1912, with Captain Edward J. Smith in command.[1] As Titanic left her berth, her wake caused the liner SS New York, which was docked nearby, to break away from her moorings, whereupon she was drawn dangerously close (about four feet) to Titanic before a tugboat towed New York away.[31] The incident delayed departure for about half an hour.[32] After crossing the English Channel, Titanic stopped at Cherbourg, France, to board additional passengers and stopped again the next day at Queenstown (known today as Cobh), Ireland.[1] As harbour facilities at Queenstown were inadequate for a ship of her size, Titanic had to anchor off-shore, with small boats, known as tenders, ferrying the embarking passengers out to her. When she finally set out for New York, there were 2,240 people aboard.[33]
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1 minute to late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can have it, scmp, as I need my sleep now!
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Fenway Park opened five days after the Titanic sank (http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/fenway.htm).
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Uh-huh.
Next please!
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Here's another titanic challenge!
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The owner has archived the whole series (and then some). See pages 2 and 3 here.
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Ye Old Royal Exchange (which has the co-ords out and isn't adjacent to the bank, but is actually across the road)
In view of the monetary theme ...
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KER-CHING!
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KER-CHING!
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OK then, let's zoom out a bit.
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OK, then if you don't mind, a trickier one ... what cache is this man guarding?
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He choose to place the cache next to barbed wire, when non-barbed sites were very near by. IMO, that's a bad choice.Barbed wire should be your responsibility to watch out for, not the cache hider's.knowschad> I doubt that it was sticky on the outside when it was placed earlier this month, so that is outside of the cache owner's hands.
Nope, CO had simply failed to clean the still-tacky adhesive from the container after peeling the label off.
knowschad> The plastic bag may well have been added later by a cacher... I don't know.
I was FTF: it was there when I arrived. I removed it.
knowschad> And the matches almost certainly were not original swag.
I was FTF: they were there when I arrived, along with the complimentary 5-pack of airline tissues (or something).
knowschad> You had little, if anything, to complain about, the way I see it.
Well you're wrong, of course. Except for one thing: it was quite a "catty" log
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An army, as in frogs
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A new circuit's been set up here. It's in wonderful countryside, and the first three caches that I found were all good lock 'n' lock type containers. The fourth cache was not so good (careless placement, poor container, junk inside), so I said as much - and in reply the CO threatened to remove the entire series!
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From memory? I'm impressed!From memory, that's called something like Hell Bay. It's on Bryher in the Isles of Scilly.Oh, mustn't forget ...
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DING!
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DING!
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Yay
OK, how about this:
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Your next challenge will be to learn how to write critical logs
I mean, no-one with more than a few finds has enjoyed every cache have they? So, tell it like it is!(And when you work out a good way of doing that, let me know ... I've upset a few people this way.)
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This is http://coord.info/GC25E0R isn't it?
You are very kind to replace the cache, but I think in general it's best not to. The by-the-book response, if you're sure the cache has been disrupted, is to post a Needs Maintenance log. If you're not sure, post a DNF. If LetsOffRoad had done that, perhaps the owner would have fixed-up the cache in time for your visit.
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One way a rating system could (just conceivably) work is to have an unobtrusive (and optional) question appear on the web site asking you: "please place these four caches visited recently in preference order". Thus the web site gradually learns a ranking of caches.
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Wow ... good timing ... this post contains what you need: Magic MapIt!
To first approximation: if the arrow points to an unshaded patch of ground, you should be fine; otherwise, you'll need permission (which won't necessarily be granted).
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It depends on land usage. If a footpath runs through an SSSI or Woodland Trust land, for example, you'll need permission from the site manager whether your cache is 10 feet from the footpath, right next to it, or right on top of it.If a Cache is nr or on a public footpath, is that public or private land?Or by the side of a road etc.?
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Posting a NM log on a cache when you know the owner is one of those who ignores NM logs is a waste of time, although perhaps it's polite to post one of those first. But after the NM has been ignored for a while, go ahead and post the NA. That will either get the CO's attention and the cache will be fixed, or it will be archived and open up the area for more responsible cachers.
I think NM is fine if yours is the first such log; maybe NA otherwise.
I found a wrecked cache on a circular walk. I pieced it back together as best I could and left a helpful description of the problem in a NM log. A couple of other people have since done the same circular and, encountering the still unhealthy cache have posted their own NMs. Would it have made any difference, apart from offending the cache owner, if I'd gone for NA immediately? I doubt it. Should the subsequent cachers have NA'd instead of NM'd? Probably, yes, IMO.
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Plotting the caches using the cache map can show circular walks.
For example, near the OP:
Another good trick is to look at the caching history of those who have been on some of the longer walks. Chances are they've been on several such trails, some of which may be near you.
I mean, no-one with more than a few finds has enjoyed every cache have they? So, tell it like it is!
A Pictoral Mapping Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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