derrylynne

Well worth subscribing. After all, this site has to be paid for somehow. Being able to use the search facilities is really good for paperless caching. And it's cheap. I think if someone can afford to upgrade to premium it is value for money. Those that are not so well off, unemployed etc, fair enough that they use the site and would hope when times get better they would also support the site by upgrading. We do get a lot out of this, after all, can you imagin geocaching without geocaching.com?

seems to have been a problem with this site for some time now...

Saw the containers on television as the police showed one of them during a news conference. Would not worry too much, they are much larger than what we use for caching, and the wrong shape as well. I don't think the bomb squad will blow up every little plastic container found in the countryside, although it would be wise not to plant caches in cities....

I must agree two weeks to hold onto a t/b seems long enough. That is what Lynne and I aim for, and if for any reason we are not able to get out to do a cache within that time, we take the bug to one of our own caches and release it there. That way at least it moves on and is able to be picked up.

I meant to say gps mapping in the cab....

Looks like my mapping will be well and truly seen to for two weeks in the brecon area. This will affect not only geocachers. I use a gps for mapping for work as well as geocaching. Ok, I can use a map, as I have for years, but come on, lets be honest, having mapping in the cab makes life real easy.......

I expect that many caches have been looked at by the police in the past. A shady looking charactor hanging about, and we can all look like that while waiting for a muggle to go away, may then be watched from a hidden vantage point. The person watching may then conclude you are not up to any good, and then phone the police reporting what could be a drug hide. Or worse in this day and age, something worse. Most caches are hidden in countryside, but a good point has been made about caches in cities. Personally I would not hide a cache overlooked by a ctv camera. Common sense is all that is needed.

The problem of suspicion should not arise. We all, well should, have a card in the cache explaining what the package is, and in my case my email and telephone number is included. However, of course, not a lot of use after the bomb squad has blown it up as a suspicious package. lol.

Thanks for your kind thoughts. The british will never bow to murderers and cowards. As has been said that has been tried a few times before and never worked.

nice one. Liked the end comment. lol

Finding new and beautiful places that we would have never known. We have been to some wonderful places, all thanks to this sport. We also enjoy the excercise.

Oddly we did that last weekend, decided to give geocaching a miss for the weekend and went to one of our favourite coastal walks. But we did not feel lonly, we took the gps with us. lol. But only because we use mapping and wanted to find a quicker route. Well our excuse anyway. Must admit though, when we go for a favourite walk where we live, we just have to check on our caches, without the gps though, however, still sad isn't it. lol

Cachers that find t/b's then hold onto them for weeks. t/b's not being logged. I don't mind, nettles after all we don't know what is going to grow when summer comes. I hate mud in winter. Caches that are hidden right beside, or on a ledge next to a steep long drop.

We all visit caches that maybe we think could have been done better, but then again when I look at one of my caches I wonder if that one could have been done better in hind sight. I think what I would object to is what seems to be the wording of the logs. Yes, I can see the cacher had a bad day, and we all get one of those from time to time. But maybe an email to the person that hid the cache would have been much better- or tactful to say the least. Of course, at the end of the day, as already has pointed out, it is only one bad log out of many good ones, and probably future cachers would not be put off, we would not for one. I am sure there is not one of us out there that is perfect, we all make mistakes, and of course a cache hidden in winter can throw up all kinds of horrors in summer with nettles, brambles, fern, etc. That is not avoidable, unless we were to research probable future caches in summer. At the end of the day, this is only a game. I have seen a fair bit of militancy of late, and that does not help the game in any way. Isn't it about time we all had a bit more tolerance of others, and enjoy the game even if we get the odd niggle from time to time..

Must admit he sounds like a rude, arrogant, grumpy old man to me. D:

Yes good answer Kitty Hawk. I will wait and see what is said by the first finders. Must admit though, the thought of shaking holes opening up, makes you wonder if the ground you walk on is at all firm. Would hate it to open up and find myself, or my dearly loved, falling into a cave. lol. Not having a map of the area I of course have not been able to determine footpaths. I have added this cache to my watchlist, will be interesting who will be first. Who knows, if none bother by the weekend, we may even go up and 'take a look.'

A new cache appeared about 15 miles from me some 10 odd days ago, to date no finders. Looking at the profile of the placer, it appears the placer has zero finds under their belt. It also appears that none are too keen at looking for it, as to say the least the cache looks a bit hazardous. What are your opinions on caches hidden by anyone not having found a cache themselves, especially if the cache looks hazardous?

Come on Sparticus. You have us all gagging to know what spooked you now. Tell all we say. lol

A very good common sense reply Andys101 & Miss Redfrock. We agree fully with you, as you say, it's only a game, and there will always be cheaters, but at the end of the day, they only cheat themselves....

I bought a palm zire 31 from ebay last week and loaded cachemate. What a bit of software for about £5. We load all caches within 40 miles into the gps and the palm. That way if we are near a cache, we can look it up on the palm, read all the info, hints etc, and not have to worry about bits of paper. Paperless caching is the way to go for sure. We can't link the palm up to the gps as we use a quest, but that does not matter as the quest gets us to the parking, then to the mark. The palm only used for the info. Another useful thing about the info in the palm is being able to log the visit into the palm, by date and time, and what was took, left, travel bugs, etc, meaning if we are away for a couple of days we can have a good record to refer to when we enter it onto the geocache site without worrying about bits of paper all over the place.

I'm as old as the woman I feel, that's Lynne at 44. Me, ok, real age 57, like most sometimes feel much younger, other days older. A mental age of 21 though, that's why we geocache.. I am sure that all the exercise we get out of geocaching will add a few years to us though, and keep us active. A brilliant hobby to stay fit as most will agree.....

Thanks guys. Found the problem in the end. When I downloaded the gsx file, I opened it with easygps first, and this stripped down some of the info. I found I had to import the raw file first in cmconvert for it to be converted to pda. Works fine now thank god.

thanks deego. How do I remove it from the pda first though? Or do I just reinstall over the one that is there?

I use cm convert, but have tried using gsak. Neither seem to give the hints

I have installed cachemate in my pda. The problem is that I do not see hints even though I am a member of geocache.com and download the gpx files. Does anyone else have this problem? Or had anyone had this problem and resolved it?