Mark+Karen
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I know this will probably get deleted. But I have to say the new arrangement of the forums with some being here and some being over at "Get Satisfaction" which has an absolutely horrible interface is a complete disaster from my point of view. The forums were fine where they were, why change it? And especially why change it to something as bad as it has been?
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For larger caches I don't see any problem with popping in a new log book if the old one is full, but leaving the old one in there. Since caches are legally still private property I'd be very wary about removing logs even if the intention is to post them on.
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Why do people do that anyway? You need to put the cache there to make sure the location is good anyway?
Personally I've done somewhat of the opposite that one of my caches was in place for nearly 3 weeks before I set it to be published on the site.
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I would suggest posting in a country specific forum on this site but there doesn't seem to be one for Africa (apart from South Africa) never mind Egypt!
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I would suggest finding a friendly contact in Egypt, or someone who is going there anyway, to put your TBs in caches there, and then have them make their way back to the UK. Agree with others that expecting them to make their way out there and back to the UK in the time is asking a lot. But they could probably make a one way trip.
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For me it gives some purpose for going out places. I almost never go on a day trip now which doesn't involve picking up at least one cache!
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But there is a problem. We basically take it on trust that a cacher has actually found a cache they they have claimed to found. Sure, many CO go through their physical logs and match them against those on the site, but not all do and certainly they don't do that after every single find.
So it's perfectly possible for someone desperate to hide a cache to claim they've found the required number, when in fact they haven't done anything of the sort.
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IME there are a lot of micros and nano's in urban / semi-urban settings. But out into the countryside then larger caches are more the norm. If you're in the middle of London, I'm not surprised you're struggling to get any bigger finds.
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From this, it looks like the old cache is still in place too. So a good chance for people to log two caches at the same spot! Great for the numbers...
Yep, although I haven't found it myself it's a reason why I put my cache in a new location, rather that just duplicating what had already been done. Although aside from the post in this thread I'm not sure how anyone would know about it.
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I have quite a popular cache which I've placed near where I work "York Science Park", it gets found once a day on average.
Recently I've had cause to walk past the cache site a couple of times a day and kept looking to see if anyone was around looking for my cache.
But last night coming back from work, two people had it open on the fence and were in the process of signing the log book
. I decided to introduce myself as the cache owner and had a quick chat with the couple but didn't have time to stay to long so didn't catch who they were.As a cache owner have you came across people finding your own caches? And if so do you make yourself known?
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Thanks for everyone's help. It's been a long process getting permission etc but it's done and the cache is published!
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Are you thinking that it should count your hides too? As it doesn't...
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Even if a cache is no longer there we should be allowed access to it as if there is now no record of it, what was the point of it being put there in the first place and people visiting it?!
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Yes, it is. Although they called it "buried treasure".
Which is crazy as we all know geocaches are never buried!
And who decrypts the clue anyway? You just click "Decrypt" on the website and then print that out.. Or just use an iPhone.
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I generally keep a paper clip handy, and when in hotels or other establishments abroad that offer free wifi, I pop in the paperclip, pop our the sim card and happily download everything I need and do my emails and it doesn't count towards any data count.
Instead of the SIM extraction tool? I keep that on my keyring!
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Well I've got my permission now! Subject to singing and returning a list of terms and conditions.
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It helps sometimes that I cache using my iPhone, hold it to my ear it just looks like I'm talking on the phone.
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some in parking lots?!
Quite common. In the UK we call these ones "Off Your Trolley!" when they are in the car parks of supermarkets. I'm the owner of one of them myself! They can be quite devious hides! You stand there looking at the trolley bay and think - I know it's here somewhere!
The trick, I find, is to learn the techniques for hiding the caches. I was at the seaside the other day and the clue was that the cache was under a rock, there were hundreds and hundreds of rocks! But there was that one rock which was sitting underneath another one which just didn't look right somehow, and sure enough the cache was hiding behind it!
Sometimes it's obvious, in the forest when you have a big pile of sticks and rocks it couldn't be anything other than a cache hide!
Personally, I find about 2/3rds of the caches I look for.
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i have found the iphone 4 is really good so far for finding a cache but as for placing them i dont rely on the coordinates they can be out a bit.
I have three caches out there, all placed with my iPhone and the coordinates are spot on. In fact the last log I got through said "Coords spot on". So I don't see any issues with the iPhone 4. We/You i.e. the community as a whole need to stop tarring the iPhone 4 with the same brush as the others, it's a different chipset and a different antenna design, it's just a completely different setup and cannot be compared to the other iPhones.
but the phone is fast and reliable, as for the data you dont use data when using geo as it runs on gps not a data plan.
Sorry to say but you do! Where you do think the maps and cache information come from? You can cut down on that by using your home wifi to save the caches and map / satellite photos.
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Or what I've discovered recently, every good cache hiding place is covered in nettles!
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There was one cache which was located in an area of very high radioactivity and you needed protective clothing to find it. But people did!
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I previously used a Bluetooth GPS receiver and I would say the iPhone is even more accurate. Although it was a bit jumpy today in Sheffield looking for a cache right next to a building but it took me to GZ just fine. As I say the caches I have done and tests I have carried out show the iPhone in agreement with google maps to within 2-3 metres.
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My two caches in Chester-le-Street are still sitting unfound after being published on Sunday evening.
My York cache has had three visitors since Tuesday evening.
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Generally, I say I am geocaching if asked. Some people are interested and some confused
. I've also had people then help me find a cache on a couple of occasions- a nice way of getting someone else interested in the game and a pretty minimal chance that they will then sneak back and trash the cache unless they were confrontational in the first place.Yep, that's true, and while the person you talk to may be interested. Who's to say that they don't talk to someone else who thinks geocaching on "their" land is the worst idea they've ever heard and do all they can to get rid of it.
The thing with saying you're on a walk is that it's a legal entitlement to be able to walk down public footpaths, whereas geocaching is not.
. I decided to introduce myself as the cache owner and had a quick chat with the couple but didn't have time to stay to long so didn't catch who they were.
Help me persuade a county park site manager
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Sounds like a great location for a multi. Presumably only the final stage of the cache needs to fit within the guidelines for cache placement, if you are doing a multi stage, go here to find clues type of cache then you have the whole of the rest of the park to go at, as someone walking to a particular part of the park to look up a clue is no different to anyone walking by that particular area.