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  1. I went out for a walk with the family once recapping my steps of an old small trail which had since been archived. The caches ad been disabled for some time and archived for a little while before I did the walk, Out of curiosity I looked in all the places i remember there being caches, and managed to grab myself 6 nice containers. I do think that when we archive a cache, it should be retrieved, but now you have brought this issue to light, I may start going out and seeing if archived caches are actually still in place. Unless of course there was 10 or so DNF's on it which was the cause of it being archived.
  2. Of the thousends of Geocachers on this forum, I find your thread Yeah I see where you are coming from on this, When i did the chilten 100 with cassandy and melray we used stickers, we put them on the log book, mainly for speed, but to sign the log then put a sticker on your container, i don't really see the point! Another thing which annoys me is putting cards saying "found by ***** TFTC' "you've signed the log I know you've found it' I would make some cards if I was going abroad saying " found by an Essex Geocacher UK" or something, but not for a cache in my area. I suppose everyone plays differenty, but i can't see the point!
  3. I did this, My first travel bug went with me to wales from my home in Essex, I place the TB in a cache, which is regually attended. I get home, then realised the key ring i attached i wanted back, so i changed the TB name to 'lost from home' and changed the goal to return to South East England, after a little while, and after the cache had been found a couple of times, my bug hand't moved...I emailed the cache owner asking if it was stil there... but nothing... about 9 months later, i get an email saying that who ever had found it was a student placed it in a bag and forgot about it, they then wuickly moved it on... luckly... someone from wales had a friend in Essex who was staying with them at the time, he haded them the bug and said they would return it... Well.. They did... about 10k away from my house... the day i went to get it... it wasn't in the cache O.o Well where was it? I got home, to find an email saying someone had picked it up and logged it while i was out, their log wrote " my first tb, moving it to Poland' DOH!! I did email them asking if they wouldn't mind placing it in a nearby cache, or if they wanted, I could meet them and i could exchange the my TB for a few in my inventory, but not reply
  4. I'm the guy who sits with a pen and paper, and writes down every sngle trackable which is placed and 'discovers' them all when i get home.. or i wait till someone else does my job... then i take a picture of the list on my phone
  5. Actually Church is fine, but I find the word "Micro" offensive. Jon Maybe a re-branding of Church regular series?
  6. I've serached that code on the Goecaching site and it came up with nothing for me, are you sure it's a proper trackable, or maybe it hasn't yet been activated yet? Really you should just plum in the code written on the trackable and no mater where it is/has been/was you should just log it as being in your hands... hmm strange.
  7. I did hear of some mapping softwear that did show point's of intrest, I know Tomtoms and sat navs do, might be worth picking one of them up cheap? I would reccomdend, Dakota 20, cheaper (if got on the right place) over the 450 persoanlly!
  8. squirtchy

    New Bugs

    No mission card/statement with the TB? Yet they probably would not have known that it was on it's way home. But, even then... "stuff" happens. As it was there first, i'm guessing they got too excited and thought 'sod it, lets take it to Poland' Im not too fussed, would have sent it on it's way after i had seen it again anyway, nice to see it going to new places.
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    New Bugs

    I dropped a bug off in North Wales, in July last year, I live in South East England, so decided to see if it could come home, after a year it found it's way back to 10km away from my house, the day I went to retrieve it, there was no travel bug in the cache? Where could it be? .... I got home to find somone else that day had found it, logged it and said " My first Tb, very excited, taking it to Poland... DOH! Oh well.... I've also had a Tb go straight from near to my home coords, to Scotland, then to Spain, then to a Small Island off spain, now it's back in spain... this was all within two weeks... At the end of the day, with TBs... it's all down to luck.
  10. I suppose at the end of the day, everyone plays by their own rules. I've been in numerous situations where I have been caching with people, but haven't actually found the cache myself, i've seen it, but it wasn't me who found it. My game is, I find a cache, I log it, if I don't have a pen, i email the Cache owner with a picture of the cache location, ect and hope it's alright. As a cache owner, i haven't actually checked any of my log books to see if they fit with whats written in the 'found it' logs on the internet.. makes me quite intrigued now
  11. In this case, I would probably hide the cache in the nearest innocent place, closest to GZ as possible. I would send the CO a polite email explaining that you can see damage is being done and that it would be in the walls best intrest to re locate the cache, hopefully you will receive a nice email back agreeing with your point, voila, sorted. Should you not recieve a nice polite email back... maybe contact a reviewer, take a picture of the wall, or say that if the cache still continues to damage old property, that you will consult relevent bodies and possible get all caches band from being places on historic old places. Maybe that's being a bit extreme but i don't think having an extra smiley face on the map is worth damaging and ruining old walls which have stood for years and hopefully years to come.
  12. I've added a few local cachers and cachers i go out with, but apart from that, I don't see the point of adding them, If i had friends in reality... i wouldn't be sitting on my sofa drinking horlicks talking to fellow box people on the internet
  13. I wouldn't mind doing the 'worldwide challenges' or what ever they are called, meaning I could do them anywhere, like kissing a frog, climbing a tree, holding your boots up in your fav location, but I would only consider them if i was intending to climb a tree, I'm not going to go out of my way or make plans to do a challenge unless it's conviniently near to where I am going/ what i'm doing. It's a shame, I like the concept but it just hasn't kicked off.
  14. I started off with the Garmin Oregon 450, would highly reccomend it, cost me about £300 when i was camping in wales, I then regretably had to sell it to fund my new camera lens as I'm doing A level photography and needed it urgently, Garmin are bringing out Etrex 10 and 20 I think they're about £100-£200, paperless and you can download maps, might be worth having a look at.
  15. Litrally just done a church micro with nothing more than a glimpse on google maps, the hint, and some caching knowlage, brings a whole new challenge to the game!
  16. What's peoples views on carrying spare containers of various sizes, getting to a cache, spending ages looking for it, think you're in the right place, deciding it is not there, so replacing it, with a fresh log, signing it, then assuming it was muggled and moving onto the next cache? Without actually knowing for sure that the orginal cache has gone, or getting into contact with the CO? I have known this to happen?
  17. And that's why i moved to Apple, My macbook pro does me the job fine
  18. Food..... ngl... when youre doing 80+ caches in a day from 5am-7pm... you need it
  19. I would never post a 'found it' log, if I hadn't actually found the cache and signed the book, to me, the satisfaction of the game is 'finding' the cache, yes the walks and intresting locations are a bonus but at the end of the day, you're out geocaching to find caches. Under very certain circumstances would I email an owner to ask if I could log it as found if I hadn't actually signed a log, for example ' going to Gz, finding a box/lid, some paper and a green army man scattered in a woods' which blatently implies someone/thing had ruined it. I woud take a picture of what I had found, take a picture of the location and send the CO a polite email asking If I could still log it as a 'found' not just make the effort to go to GZ, look for 30 seconds, see it's not obvious, then email CO saying "well i did look but i couldn't see it" Yes everyone plays their own game while geocaching, but as a CO myself, a cacher better have a very good excuse as to logging my cache as found if they hadn't actually physcially found it.
  20. Wow that's a lot of caches * books Flight to Germany*
  21. So a well respected new reporter who is representing the coutry as a new reporter, watched by millions is wearing a T shirt brought in a chariety shop..... hmmm I think not.. I think he told a porky
  22. One this that annoys me and this may be deifferent to other people, is when you walk say 4 miles, two there and two back, for a litlle micro or nano. I would at least like something worth walking that distance for.
  23. WOW I'd never thought about doing it on a motorbike... great idea, as long as you do it in good weather! My plan to do it is to stay in Lincon for a coulple of days, do Skeggs 1 - 50? then loads in lincon, then go to somewhere else (sleep in the car to regain sanity) then do more plus more of the series, (sleep in the car) ect.. good luck!
  24. Hey, Ive been caching for over a year now, I'm 17, from Essex, I'm the only one in my famiy who geocaches so I have to make my own plans and go out myself to cache, which as you can imagne can be very boring. I just wondered how old the average cacher is, I notice a lot of older retired people cache, and familys which include people of my age, but not individual cachers of my age, just wondered how old everyone was?... Now I don't sound like a creep... O.o.. but you know what I mean. None of my friends find it remotly intresting, which is understandable as it isn't the 'in' thing to do is it when your my age
  25. If you are going far away from home, say on holiday, I like to place a new TB there, and let it's mission to be to get back home. I have one in Wales (UK) which is trying to get back to south east england... so far its gone the opposite way and has gone up north
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