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Originally posted by The Hornet:Most in a day - 17
Furthest travelled for a cache (well 3 actually) 5250 miles London to San Francisco!! Does that count?
Only if you went to San Francisco just to do the caches. If you went there for some other reason and happened to do the caches as well, it doesn't count.
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Another problem is that the IP address is tied to a machine. I could try rigging the poll by voting at home, at work, from my parents house etc.
Much better to require people to log in.
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The caching guidelines say no alcohol or tobacco or foodstuffs. There are plenty of other goodies you can put in instead, so the answer is simple: don't do it.
Many adults don't cache for the goodies anyway so they probably should be biased towards children.
If you want refreshments while out caching of the alcholic or non-alcoholic kind, here's a plan: take your own with you (which is what I do). BTW if you are in need of warming up, alcohol is actually very bad - it makes your body think it's warm when it isn't.
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Originally posted by el10t:It was in a fairly dodgy area full of people appearing from bushes etc. When I went looking for it I had to give up due to the amount of unwanted "interest" from passers-by.
el10t an I went to look for it after spending some time at lunchtime in the Mitre (also a cache). By the time we got to the location, which is somewhere on Hampstead Heath, I was in need of removal of some of the liquid imbibed at the Mitre. There were plenty of bushes around to provide cover, however there were also lots of strange men standing around doing nothing except watching our attempts to find the cache and - more worryingly - my attempt to feel more relaxed about the beer inside me.
I wouldn't recommend anybody to do the final part of this series on their own even if it wasn't trashed.
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Originally posted by SimonG:So are we going to move the goals now?
We could just reverse the goals. We'd probably still score before the odds touched the ball
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Originally posted by haicoole:Can you suggest some caches that could be had from public transportation? (and do you know a hostel or low cost inn nearby?)
How low cost do you want? The YHA offers about the lowest cost accommodation around here. As for caches, if you stick to the ones in London, you'll be able to do all of them on foot or by public transport. I can only think of a couple of others that might be within range of public transport. Tombraider 1 stands out in my memory. The combination of train and bicycle will extend your range to most UK caches as long as you can persuade the train company to take your bike on their trains.
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Do you know of any local fiddle jams, preferably in a pub with good beer?
We have strawberry jam (jelly to you)
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Originally posted by SimonG:You'll also need to add
at the end of each paragraph, or it will all run together.
The correct syntax is
the text of the paragraph
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more text is also correct.
Note that with HTML 4.0 you should use lower case for your tags. Note also that you can usually omit the
although it is technically illegal. Note also, also if you put align="right" in the img tag you can get the text to flow around the photo.-------
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Originally posted by Teasel:What I'm asking is why this cache is listed under the UK, whereasthis cache is listed under Ireland?
I don't care about politics - just populating databases with "UK caches"
(The pragmatic solution is to define the UK as including Eire for the purposes of the stats page, and hope nobody with a stronger belief system than I myself posess decides to object and demand we rename ourselves geocachingbritishisles.com
)The pragmatic solution is to define the UK as those caches which were registered under the UK. Then you only have to do one search on the gc.com database and you won't offend the cachers who do hold stronger views than you.
FYI the UK includes Northern Ireland. Your first example is correctly logged (assuming it is in NI rather than the Republic). The second cache is only correctly logged if you take "Ireland" to mean the island of Ireland rather than the Republic of Ireland (again assuming it is actually in NI). Bearing in mind that the other country categories are political units (e.g. UK and USA) rather geographical units (e.g. Great Britain or North America) I think we should be consistent with Ireland and assume it means the Republic of Ireland.
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Why not accept the fact that the "caches near you" list was never intended as a "to do" list. The correct solution is not to log fake finds but to implement some feature that provides the required functionality e.g. perhaps request the feature from gc or use some alternative such as gcuk.com
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Originally posted by MCL:What do they need a thing like that for just to lift bubbles anyway? They're not made out of heavy water or something like that are they?
It's a ski lift a bit like a chair lift, but the passengers are completely enclosed in a fibreglass shell or "bubble".
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Alex's idea fails abysmally on the "easy to check" criteria. It's hard enought to figure out which the 30 caches in the right direction that I haven't visited are, let alone for somebody else.
It also means that people who have been to lots of caches can kick the ball further.
I would say, drop the "haven't visited" bit and extend to say 50 caches in the right direction.
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Errr, so are the rules totally relaxed now? Could I just pick up the ball and put it in the goal?
Alex's idea fails abysmally on the "easy to check" criteria. It's hard enought to figure out which the 30 caches in the right direction that I haven't visited are, let alone for somebody else.
It also means that people who have been to lots of caches can kick the ball further.
I would say, drop the "haven't visited" bit and extend to say 50 caches in the right direction.
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Originally posted by MCL:- Alkaline Cells have reliability and good durability on their side. They still work well when very cold.
Not Kodak ones. I was skiing last week and the temperature could be as cold as -10 C or colder. The alkaline batteries I was using could go apparently dead after about four hours. I once had the bizarre experience of holding the GPS in a bubble lift and watching the battery meter go *up* as the batteries warmed up in my hand.
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Originally posted by 4x4xFinch:I'm using GRB36 and OSGB as main datum. I thought that I'd be able to get faily close using an OS map grid and then still using the OSGB datum on my GPS, find the Cache. Is this not the case?
The waypoint has its position posted in degrees and minutes in WGS84 and as a British grid ref which is always in OSGB36.
If you type the lat/long into your GPS to make a waypoint, make sure you are in WGS84 mode when you type it in.
If you type in the British grid ref, make sure you are in OSGB36 mode when you type it in.
Once you have the waypoint in the GPS you can change datum and the coordinates will be changed automatically to always refer to the same spot on the ground.
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"Well, my son in law published a really unfunny picture of me and Peter on this forum thingy and tried to encourage other posters to think up abusive captions implying we were ugly old buggers.
"So we stuck a javelin up his arse and buried him on a golf course right here."
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Originally posted by Team Minim:I don't think anyone of us should feel personally responsible for the changes in this forum.
Things haven't changed much, we have always been having heated arguments about stuff. When i first joined, it was using caches to promote your own commercial interests. The tone is the same, it's just the subjects that are different.
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the changes have been due to a number of factors and pressures, it's worth just thinking about them.
Yes, absolutely.
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The community was split on the subject of recruitment/expansion, and had a varied response to publicity courted by various members. The result being unexpected self questioning about how should the "sport" go.
which is good to discuss
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By accident we had a first contact with another group whose interests overlap with ours, the contact and response were completly alien cultures meeting and colliding.
which is good to discuss
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I appreciate this must make these forums really wierd places for any new cacher. I wouldn't be surprised by anyone deciding to take a back seat after all that's happened.
I have the feeling that this is a time of "ordeal by fire" for the geocaching community.
As I said, it was ordeal by fire of a different sort when I joined. The day I leave the forums is the day there are no ordeals by fire for fear of offending somebody.
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Originally posted by Huga:Frankly these forums have become a wasteland of politics, poorly-thought-out posts and bad jokes in recent weeks.
Errr.... when has this forum ever been anything but the above?
Politics... well if we do discuss politics, that is good IMHO.
Poorly thought out posts... every since I've been reading the forum there have been poorly thought out posts on it. I acknowledge guilt on more than my fair share. At least they're often funnier than the...
Bad jokes... so what?
Don't forget *you* are a contributor. By refusing to take part, you make the forum poorer as does anybody else (even you Pid).
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Originally posted by Teasel:I don't think I'm allowed to list archived caches on web pages, as that's how the trouble between GC.com and Buxley's maps originally started. I'll ask Elias for some guidelines before putting anything online.
I've emailed you a raw list of archival dates. Please don't distribute the list, but if you come to any statistical conclusions, please let us know!
The UK stats page is due for a bit of attention sometime (graphs needed!), and I'll probably add 'caches archived this month' while I'm at it (no details of individual caches, though).
[This message was edited by Teasel on February 05, 2003 at 10:02 AM.]
Teasel, can you run cgis written in C on your web site? I have a piece of open source software that can generate graphs in pdf format on the fly from text files.
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Well, I didn't see the joke, but I can guess what it was since it i saw it published in the New Scientist at the time of the last shuttle disaster along with a couple of others that were equally tasteless and yet funny (to those of us who were not affected by the tragedy in any way).
Humour is one way of dealing with the shock of something terrible so don't lynch Pid too hard - delete the offending post and move on.
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Originally posted by el10t:On the sliding scale of not-being-liked it seems to go geocachers -> letterboxers -> metal detectorists -> the BBC.
Rich
_mobilis in mobili_
Surely it should be:
eocachers -> letterboxers -> metal detectorists -> the BBC->Time Team
I had an e-mail today from somebody who I assume is a letter boxer about my 1,000 boxes in the New Forest. Basically, the answer is that they do have permission from the relevant agencies but there are lots of rules about access land etc.
If letter boxers can get permission for 1,000 plastic containers. It should be easy for us to get permission for a few tens (after which we would regard the area as saturated).
Also if there are really 18,000 letter boxes on Dartmoor, it must be hard to go anywhere there without tripping over them.
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Originally posted by el10t:When Sam was very little we had a thing that strapped to your front and supported him pretty well. I once took him on a three mile walk in it and it nearly killed me!
Rich
_mobilis in mobili_
If I got out of my car at the nearest parking spot and the GPS still said 1.5 miles, I would seriously consider posting "not found, too lazy" even without having to carry a small child for the round trip.
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What did you put into altavista to turn that up as a result?
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Hmmm...
1,000 boxes in the New Forest? Do they have permission for all of those
On a more serious note, their web site says that ammo boxes on Dartmoor are being removed by the park rangers due to the possibility of them being confused with military debris. Something to bear in mind when placing caches near military areas. e.g. Salisbury Plain.
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Originally posted by el10t:quote:
Originally posted by Nia:This is not just about Wheelchairs, it is also about Prams/Buggies. We cache with a vey young baby, and we are not alone. As the sport grows older some of you 'young' men might find yourselves in a simalar position.
To be fair, Nia, the original question _was_ specifically about wheelchairs.
However, thats not to say the issue shouldn't be opened to pushchairs and buggys.
As one who has taken my son caching I would say that the safest bet is to take him in one of those back-pack rucksack type things. We have done quite a few caches like this and you only really run into trouble where there are low branches on trees - have to remember to duck lower than you otherwise would normally.
Rich
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As a whitness to one of these events I can testify that Richard's son absolutely loves suddenly being the tallest person around.
Anyway, my comment applies to a lesser extent even where prams are concerned. If you are prepared to accept the challenge of taking a pram to a cache, that's great, but I think you should be prepared for disappointment on numerous occasions.
If there was a pram rating, I for one wouldn't know how to apply it. What is pramable? Does it have to have a made up path to the cache? Does it matter if it's five miles away from the nearest road. Do steps make it non-pramable? Or a style?
I think I'd make all my caches pram-free caches to avoid abuse from people who think that my definition of pramable is too hard.
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Using trig points as Cache location/clues
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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The Thames Valley Trigpoint Trail makes use of five triangulation pillars. The OS serial numbers on four of them are used as virtual clues and other features of the remaining one are also used (you can't get close enough to read the number). Before submitting the cache, I asked Tim and June about the best way to do it. I was half thinking about making four virtuals leading to one real a la Sherlock. However, the locations of the clues are not that exciting (other than to make you drive around the nicer parts of the Thames Valley) so it ended up as a single multi albeit with the clues some distance apart.
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