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Alibags: 1. Participating: 13/2/08 2. Received Name:30/10/2008 3. Mission Complete: 4. Package Received!:

I have used some sample tubes passed on to me from a customer. They were designed for sending samples of water through the post, so they are pretty good. However, one cache I have set using one of these is reported as soggy. Doesn't matter how watertight your caches are if people go caching in the rain and don't attempt to keep the logs dry!

Ew, that pants up the crack of the *rse thing is just plain uncomfortable, and thanks Paul, you have shown us your ladyboy picture previously. I'll vote for Little Miss Naughty any time (in biker chick mode).

Sounds like fun, please add me to the list (I am in the UK)

My RA card does that too Roundhead Association? ooh, I must try and see if mine works!

Put a note on the cache pages too, as I notice that Troll Free has 5 watchers... not everybody reads the forums.

I can set one in Alistair's garden next time I am home

I pay because considering the amount of time I spend geocaching, and therefore using the gc.com website, $30 seems like a very small and reasonable amount to me. I don't think of it in terms of what I get out, but more in terms of what I can give back.

Absolutely! That sort of thing is disgusting. If you cannot persuade somebody to your point of view by reasoned argument, then threats are hardly going to do it, are they. Loser/s!

It is not entirely clear what point the OP was trying to make with their posting. Having found some letterboxes when I was looking for caches on Dartmoor, I would suggest that the hiding techniques of the latter were very similar indeed to the former.

yeah, nip back and put a new box in place!

I would like to know that too. I have been trying to find out and it all seems a bit confusing. Do you, for instance, have to pay if you use the GPS on your mobile?

Funnily, although I don't neccessarily agree with Deci, I didn't think he was teddy throwing, just stating his position. I was a bit dismayed at the in his posting, as I had thought this discussion had been just that, a discussion, hopefully no need for anybody to chuck teddys. BTW, I asked if I could attend that certain camping event that is being discussed, as a visitor, and was told no, the campsite owners did not want extra people on site (especially driving on and off at unsocial hours). I accepted that, did not throw a hissy fit and attended the Sunday event. As I have said, if I had wanted to camp, I could have done so, but I preferred not to.

This is an interesting topic. In the past I have seen events which included for example, a meal, and sometimes there was a restriction on numbers due to size limitations of the venue. As these were run on a first come first served basis, they were open to all. Would these now be allowed, as open to all is not quite the same thing as a free for all? In future, would I need to have a 15 minute flash mob outside the venue doors to enable it to be published, and then run a meal as a separate thing? I don't think that the guidelines, as quoted in this thread actually say that. I don't personally have a problem with a camping event which is not open to non-campers. In fact, I chose not to camp at the dreaming spires event a couple of years back as it was so close to home and I do enough camping already. I didn't get a smiley... was I bent out of shape about it?... no. It's only one smiley, not the end of the world. It was my choice, the event was open to me if I chose to camp, I simply did not chose to do so. If in future we have to avoid pubs, campsites, restaraunts, mountains, islands, boats, etc because not all dogs, kids, oaps, people who are skint, etc can attend, then I guess we are down to holding events in shopping malls, preferably on a day when they are shut so there is no temptation to go shopping.

drat! duplicate posting

Ooh er, not sure I like the sound of 'the fist bit'

Comments from 'outraged of Berkhamsted' sent to the One Show. tsk tsk!

Hear hear! Or even better... the neighbours garden

I am on it already!

Hi, I have an angel of the north coin that I would swap. What have you got to swap it with? All sorted now, thanks very much for the offer

the boxes were empty every time I peered hopefully into them

Nope, you cannot do it, I am afraid. Grandfathered in caches are preserved in aspic... they can live as long as they are in their original form, but any sneaky wheezes to get round the rules will not work.* * I refrain from voicing my opinion on the above, this would take the thread waaaay off topic (besides, it's all been said before).

I agree with all of Paul's bullet points. This is a very timely posting as I was out this weekend doing some cache maintenance and I archived one of my caches. I have archived a couple more in the last few weeks and I have at least one more lined up for the chop. I will always go back and retrieve the cache. My last three archivings were muggled caches and I was unable to find the box, which I found incredibly frustrating, as I hate the idea that I may have left geo-litter out there somewhere. I will try my best though. I used to be quite sentimental about my caches, but now I am happy to zap them if I have changed my mind about the hide or my own caching ideas have just changed (or, lets face it, the cache is somewhere I cannot be bothered to go an maintain it any more!!). I too would stress not archiving caches that you have adopted. The previous owner adopted them over to you to keep them going. If you don't want them, then I think you should offer them up for adoption in turn. I know of at least one historic cache which was put up for adoption, lots of people wanted to adopt it, but the 'winning' adopter archived the cache a bit later, because they couldn't be bothered with it, loosing an old, historic and popular cache. Yeah, you could go and put a new one in the same place, but it's not the same! I myself have adopted a cache from 2001 and reading the logs from when there seemed to be about 10 caches in the entire UK is very interesting. People drove 100s of miles and made a day trip to do this one cache that they had seen popping up.

Is this the forum thread where we all come to bash The Spokes then? Am I too late?

Yeah, looks like I should learn geography! (drat, and I thought that my A level would help!) I think I can see JollyJax' point somewhat. I have no issue as such with the regions and I will update my caches as an when I get round to it, but apart from people being confused as to which region they are in, searching by region for me is of limited value as there are so many caches and the region is so big the search results would not be helpful. A proximity search is more value to me. To be completely fair, as I live right on the Beds Bucks and Herts border, and work on the Bucks/Oxon border, if TPTB had plumped for UK counties and not regions, this would have also not have worked for me... I would still have had to do more than one search! Anyhow, as this does not create an actual problem and may be helpful to some people, I will dutifully fill the region in and generally pay it no attention after that.