NickPick
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If you are the slower runner, you could always trip the quicker person up...
Or give them a good kick in the kneecap before you leg it!
Fortunately, we don't have many bears in the UK, in fact, when you compare this country to the animal hazards you get elsewhere (snakes, spiders, bears, wolves, axe wielding maniacs, etc), we're quite danger free.
Wild big cats are another matter though. What should we do if confronted by a wild black panther? Should my cache bag include a quick opening tin of Kit-E-Kat (preferred by 8 out of 10 cats apparently - hope the panther's not one of the other 2!)
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Well, a 1oz gold krugerand seems to retail for about £200. So if you don't live too far away, it could be worth hunting for it.
I wonder what they have done regards landowners permission for burying it.
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Mmmmmmmm, Easter Eggs! A complete ovoid of chocolate pleasure!
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There's also a car that's a Cache! I can't remember the name or the number, but I think it's a black VW golf, and the co-ords are published on its tracker website. I think you have to find it, then follow the instructions in the window to get access to the cache.
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Just make sure you're prepared properly. Do it at night, and wear all black clothes, hood and balaclava should do the trick
Or, go the other way and wear a flourescent vest, and carry a large black plastic bag, then the soldiers will just think you're picking up litter (and you can CITO at the same time!)
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Yeah, but imagine one device that's the best in it's class at everything....
And imagine how much it would cost to repair if you accidentally put it on a 60 degree wash!
Or had it in your pocket whilst falling out of a tree!
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Sounds like an OK idea to me. Very novel, and I'd certainly have a giggle if I found it in a cache.
You could put a book mark in the "How to log TBs" section to make sure that it gets logged properly.
The size might be a small problem. If it's the same size as any of my other 'dummies' books, I rekon it should fit in most Ammo boxes, and the larger tupperwares.
You might just have to put up with people holding onto it for a while because 1-They're reading it, and 2-They haven't found a big enough cache to drop it into yet.
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It would be really fun if there were actually a cache there in reality, as well as in virtual reality.
Perhaps Rutson could visit the actual location while he's there anyway?
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I'm worried about this...A machine that re-produces? What happens when it runs out of space and decides that humans are in its way? It's definitely another pre-cursor to the Rise Of The Machines.. Thay'll be enslaving us soon!
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I shall have to listen out for that then. unfortunately I won't be able to listen online as I won't be at work!
Do 3CR have a 'listen again' section on the web like the other BBC radio stations? I can't see anything about it on their website?
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When I were a kid we lived in ' old septic tank. Got up at half past three in t' mornin' an' Licked road clean wi' tongue. Never did us any 'arm.
You had an old septic? Posh eh? We had to make do wi an upturned bath for the fourteen of us, an' it 'ad an 'ole in it!
And we didn' 'ave shoes, 'ad to paint us feet black!
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And a very Happy St. Patricks Day to you too!
Hey, does that mean you all get the day off to go caching?
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The more I read about things like this, the more I feel like locking myself in the house and sealing all the windows and doors, but then I realise that the house dust mites would get me!
edit: And I'd eventually run out of oxygen too!
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Believe it or not, I've actually been on a training course about Weil's disease (Leptospirosis). - it's an occupational hazard of working in the water industry!
Without going into huge details, generally, if you are careful to wash your hands before eating if you've been rummaging in the undergrowth, you should be OK, and you should be doing that anyway right?
A very useful giude to leptospirosis is at leptospirosis.org
Hope this helps / puts your mind at rest / doesn't make you worry unneccesarily
Nick
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looks like I can make my first post at last! ???
Yay, a new poster! Please keep it up.
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I caught c2rm just as he was putting the cache back at Hellfire's Caves. I came around a bush thinking to myself "and the cache should be about 10m that wa...Oh, gosh, there's someone there. Is he a cacher? Is he just a visitor caught short using the loo behind that bush? Is he a mad axeman laying in wait for me?". From the look on his face, he must have been thinking the same, and I realised he was furtling at the exact cache location, so I introduced myself and had a little chat.
I met Oldragbag whilst doing one of his caches, but I think a lot of people do that, since the first clue is in his front garden!
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Indiana Jones - he finds some spectacular caches
And some very nice FTF prizes!
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I think the best Geocaching movie is Simply Paul in "Countryfile", followed by Simply Paul in "BBC Points West".
I haven't seen his directorial masterpiece "Search For The Missing Geocacher", as I understand that it contains spoilers, and I may want to do that cache in the future.
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Oh, I didn't realise we got more points for doing it quicker. I'd have tried harder if I'd known - although it probably says that somewhere in the rules I didn't bother reading!
Well done to Finn - all 10 in 39 seconds is good going!
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It seems that markandlynn's homepage is a victim of its own sucess. They have so much useful stuff on there that it gets so many hits it runs out of bandwidth. I think it's only limited daily, so it should be open again tomorrow. Meanwile, if anyone desperately needs the paperless guide, I can email it to them.
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As far as going paperless goes, I can reccommend markandlynn's paperless caching guide. You can access it through their homepage via their profile (markandlynn). It's a very usefull guide to pocket queries, gsak and cachemate.
Of course, if you don't want to become premium members just for the pocket queries, you can go paperless by using any palm PDA, and copy-pasting the cache description into memo pad, download the .loc file into your GPSr, and then use the palm to view the description in the field. More advanced palms can view photos aswell, so you can always download spoiler photos or clue photos for viewing in the field aswell.
Hope this helps,
Nick
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Sorry Tony, I was NOT singling you out for criticism and there was none meant (although I accept that it read that way). My comment was meant as a flippant and unhelpful dig in general!!
Um...
Now is this the bit where we all get to join in by pointing fingers and going "tsk tsk tsk"?
Tb As A Car
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That's the one.