Dave from Glanton

Wow - I was surprised to read that. Reading Eckington's post it seems that it's not just a knee-jerk reaction to that other recent thread, however, I feel sure that that was a contributory factor. Maybe this should serve as a reminder to us all to think carefully before hitting that "Add Reply" button. Sensible debate is good, but the forums need to be kept friendly and unheated. It's good to read Lactodorum's post that this is a break, not a resignation. The break is well-deserved and I hope that Eckington enjoys it, and is able to use the extra time to get out caching. Hopefully it won't be *too* long before the Eckington/Lactodorum double-act is back in business. Just a quick question - in the interim, are we going to be left with Lactodorum as a single reviewer/moderator/sensible grown up, or will we be seeing a greater contribution from the elusive Hydee?

Plenty of people have already expressed a similar opinion, but I think it bears repeating. I've got no complaints whatsoever with what L and E contribute to the UK geocahing community, and all on a voluntary basis. Thanks, guys - you do a great job, and long may you continue to do so.

Airflow back and ability to carry a hydration system like a Platypus are must-have's IMHO, especially if you're planning on walking any sort of distance. Personally I'm a big fan of LoweAlpine kit - not the cheapest, but well made and very comfortable.

Congratulations Dan (and Mrs. Dan) - quite a milestone. Here's to the next 500

I'd say delete it, but if I was you I'd send them a brief and polite message explaining why.

I used to swap at each cache I visited at first, but then realised that all I was really doing was moving stuff around for the sake of it. These days I just tend to go for the TNLN option unless there's something in a cache which looks useful or shiny. Now and again I might take nothing and leave something which I've found knocking around the house which I think someone else might want, but generally such spare oddments get saved up and put into any new cache that I set. I keep and treasure the swap I got from my first cache find (an old 286 processor).

111 within 25 miles of me

I believe that a byway is theoretically open to all traffic (I say "theoretically" because I've walked along some that were so muddy and chewed up they would be unpassable to most vehicles). However, I'm no expert, so feel free to ocrrect me. I could be wrong, but a computer printed, laminated sign sounds like to me like somebody living nearby doesn't want too much traffic going past. Certainly, I wouldn;t see anything wrong with yuo taking your pooch, provided you kept him/her under control on the end of a lead.

I wonder if what the airline is actually concerned about is devices which transmit their location back to somewhere using something like GSM/GPRS - they could be problematic. Far easier for them to say "no GPS" rather than to have to differentiate between specific types. Similarly, they always say "no mobile phones" - they don't say "no mobile phones, except for those new ones from SonyEricsson which have the 'aircraft' mode on them which disables the transceiver"

From a more general point of view than just plastic bag removal... I think that if some immediate remedial work is needed for the general wellbeing of a cache - such as moving it if its hiding place has obviously been badly compromised, or replacing a badly damaged cantainer - then that's fine. Anything else should be the responsibility of the owner as regular maintenance - as is required under the guidelines. In that case a polite email to the cache owner should be in order.

Depsite being taight metric at school I still tend to use imperial, although for measuring some things I stick with metric. Lengths/distances I always quote in imperial unless it's something small in which case I use millimetres rather than fractions of an inch (except guitar string gauges, for some reason, which I still think of in terms of thousandths of an inch). Temperatures I always think of in terms of centigrade rather than fahrenheit. Incidentally, have you noted that when decsribing weather, we tend to adopt the unit which makes the measurement sound more extreme? In winter "Brrrr...it's only about 1 or 2 degrees out there" sounds better than saying it's in the low 30s" But in the summer it's "phew what a scorcher - it's in the high 90s out there".

Nice one, Greg. Very well done indeed

I saw this one being discussed on one of the other forums.

A great idea. It's a shame that there isn't any information on the "about" page yet, as I'd like to congratulate whoever is responsible for this highly useful resource.

Sorry if I've missed something, but how do you "accidentally" hide that many caches (and, more to the point, still have time to go out finding other peoples' caches)?

My cache hides, and their inspiration... "You can see my house from here"...you can, 'nuff said "Carve her name with pride"...named for lover's carving on a nearby stone outcrop "Dr Beeching was here"...along the route of a former railway line "Abberwick Mill"...the nearest location - not my most imaginative cache name "The hills are alive with the sound of music"...a CD swap cache, up in the hills, no nuns or nazis involved "Walking on the ridge"...on the border ridge in the Cheviot Hills. I was going to call this something else, but on the day I went to set it, an old Wilko Johnson song called 'Walking on the Edge' got stuck in my head, and that inspired the name "It's a mystery to me"...on the splendidly named Conundrum Farm, so it just had to be done "Moving Target"...location is given on 4 TBs which should be constantly on the move around the country

Most valuable thing? FTF......priceless

Congratulations Kev (and Amy)

Apparently, so is sitting at my desk and developing software for a living, but I still seem to find time to surf the GC forums

Wow! No seriously that will stop...It's got to! It probably will. Despite having been in this game for over a year my finds count is fairly modest (or pathetic, depending on who I compare against) and some of those caches are remote/less frequently found. I agree with you though - at some point (I hope) I'll have too many finds for watching every found cache to be managable.

I keep a watch on all of the caches I've found. As for trackables, there are a couple which I'm interested in and I check up on from time to time (e.g. the first TB I ever found). I'm not interested enough to add them as Watchlist items though No, it's not just you. And it's doubly anmnoying when its one of my own TBs that has gone into suspended animation. Coincidentally, one of my TBs has been dormant for a while - picked up from a cache in Cambridge a while ago, and then no further logs. I got a message yesterday from someone saying that they'd picked it up in a cache in Malta. That's something else which really annoys me - when a TB does something interested like move hundreds of miles, with no explanation as to how it did it. Oops - I may be turning this into another "rant" thread...time to shut up.

I was thinking that too.

I went shopping for camo cloth at local army suprlus stores, but it was all in huge sheets...no, let me rephrase that...it was all in huuuuuuuuge sheets. fine if you want to hide a Landrover or two, but a bit OTT just for Tupperware. Solution - buy whatever's the cheapest item of camo-pattern clothing thay have in stock and cut down to size. I got a something like a pair of overtrousers for about a fiver which so far has provided enough camo material for 3 large-ish cache boxes, and I've still got plenty left.

Five syllables first Then seven on the next line And five on the last Reading the forums I somehow get the feeling I should be working

Inspired by SP... Cache cannot be found I did not bring my Etrex Just a banana