Birdman-of-liskatraz
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I'd blame Slaters of St Ive... though only because I tripped over the final part of one of their mega multis.. and looked in the box and copied down the www.geocaching.com URL....
Now I'm hooked... Thanks Jules and Co
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I want to know how they jammed the UK Geocoin in a 35mm film cannister
I was wondering that too... I almost went to look... But hey at least they found the cache - more than some experienced cachers have...
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You nutters! Well done and congratulations - and now I know why Moote didn't want me to remove the "Right Side of the Tamar Micro"
What an honour that my cache was used to start the record attempt... Many thanks
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Well Done Jim... We met you once on Dartmoor doing the Tavy Challenge series...
Birdman & Acidboy
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Nadelik lowen ha blydhen nowydh da!
Onan hag oll
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20,000 Leagues under the sea?
or even better at - The Centre of the Earth...
Sits backs and awaits the FTF!
Merry Xmas all
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Ohhh I'm not sure about that Stuey - Adam seems to have his Dad well enough trained when I spotted them on the North Cornish Coast!
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Congrats Adam - was nice to meet you on teh day of Kernow Kachers event at ST Tudy... Gosh remember all those steps to get to Varley Head?
Steve
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Actually it was piracy and treason that still held the death penalty until the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Yep the Arson in Her majestys Dockyards was withdrawn in 1971! But yep it's getting a little off topic...
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Yeaaaa.. I have a white jeep icon now.. now I want a Yellow one..... Just waiting for the local one to be put in a cache...
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Laminated money, isn't defacing currency treason...
and I think - more useless trivia coming up - You can still be hung for treason... and comitting Arson in Her Majestys Dockyard...
I await correction!
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Imagine your frustration though if the cache had been a puzzle, or a multi with a much larger off-set than the one at Carwether appears to be. The co-ords for the final cache might be a mile away from the start co-ords. Just check all the hedgerows
If it's an offset or multi... I'm assuming that the published cache coordinates will take you to the first cache? Rather than the final cache where the TB would be?
So wouldn't this work for any cache - where you don't need the actual cache page to find the start location? i.e it wouldn't work with a puzzle cache... but should work with a single, offset or multi....
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I had a similar problem... I think in my case I exported teh file from GSAK in CSV format and that worked perfectly.
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I'm not sure who was first to do it! It may have been me in this neck of the woods.
You can use Google Earth to find unapproved caches.
If (and this is the crucial bit) a cache has a Travel Bug in, and a T/B that you have on your watchlist.
If this aforementioned Travelbug is then placed in a cache - an unapproved cache- at the moment the cache is submitted for approval then you are sent an e-mail saying the T/B has been placed in the new cache.
You can then use the Track this Travelbug using Google Earth option to get rough coordinates of the unapproved cache. In my case I used this "Trick" to find minimises Castle Vies 3 cache - which happened to contain a White Jeep T/B.
Since then Janpe has used the same technique to recover the same Travel Bug from the Lets Rock! Christmas at Carwether cache.
The coordiantes obviously aren't accurate, but close enough to put me in the right field - and by walking around the hedgerow, the cache came to light.
I think people should be aware this can happen and either not put T/Bs in new caches or maybe Geocaching should stop the e-mail being sent, until the cache is approved.
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I've just set a series of seven caches - in this case for an Xmas Cache event - naturally enough they were all prepared the weekend before and I wrote the cache descriptions up - saying that all the caches were ready to go live, but adding a note to the reviewers asking for them not to be made live until the day of the event.
It strikes me it would make more sense if you could write the cache description up, check the cache description page - location etc. Get it approved by the reviewers and then make it live - either by clicking a button, or setting it to go live at some time in the future - BEFORE any other cacher can see the cache online.
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Well Done Stuey and for the ones you've set.
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Well I'm at my Grannies in Trowbridge.... Ready and waiting....
Actually I made that up!
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I guess I'm odd! It wouldn't bother me in the slightist. Amongst the Viagra, Rolex Watches, Mortgage etc e-mails... an invite to a Caching event would be a positive bonus - Go for it!!!
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Yep - I use one and my two sons use one as well. No problems... oh and my eyesights not perfect and I cope well with the screen.
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Nothing I can think of that wouldn't get me banned from the forum *whistles*
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Was that a White Discovery flashing past my Window on the way to Wiltshire?
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I tried both GPX Sonar and the option of Exporting HTML Pages from GSAK.. and I quite like the later method over using Sonar.
I played with Memory Map on Dartmoor - with the caches as an overlay, which I managed as an export from GSAK.
Now I'm just trying to work out a weekly system for keeping everything up to date. Does anyone have any useful hints for that please?
Do I just clear the data from my IPAQ and start again? or can I just run an Update of some sort?
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Ohh I remember Devious Devonian Cache - it me about 30 seconds to find. I know that Spannermans equally devious Cache - Can You See it? - it causing problems for some *Grins* no names mentioned....
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Checks to see if Mike has an Iowa Coin Icon.... Nope..
What's In Your Kit
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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1) First Aid Kit
2) IPAQ + Cables
3) Torch
4) Swaps Bag
5) Food + Water
6) Spare cache!
7) Cache repair kit. 1L Ice Cream container, ZipLoc Bags, Pencils, Notebooks, Pencil sharpener, 35 mm film containers and Logs for same.
8) Coat
9) OS Map and compass
10) Ham radio 70 cms Transceiver
and if i'm going onto Dartmoor or Bodmin Moor then I'd carry a few extra bits.