Mark+Karen

Like some of mine where I get 'Log Full', 'Log Full', 'Signed Log' hmm really...

That remains their only cache find, perhaps you should delete it to set them back to zero

Indeed on Opencaching as part of the logs you are asked to rate the cache out of 5 on (I think) 4 different categories, Groundspeak should do something similar so we can see at a glance the 'awesomeness' of each cache.

What you often find around here is that the CO puts out a nice hide in an accessible place in the winter. Come the summer it's protected by 6 foot tall nettles and impossible to get to!

I usually only go and check on a cache if there is a DNF log, just one DNF with no subsequent finds will be enough for me to head out on the weekend to check it out. Last weekend one of my caches had 4 DNF's in a row (after a lot of finds) with the loggers insisting the cache was missing, but on checking it was where it always had been! But there are other caches which get found maybe twice a week but I haven't personally visited for over a year!

And a lot of them have a requirement that you take a TB that you leave one, which defeats the purpose which IMO is that you should look at the inventory (on the site) and then see if any have goals which match your current travel plans, and if so you can take the bugs. Similarly you can drop off any bugs you have if you happen to be in the area.

There has been many many updates to the app since then, all through the standard updates procedure.

This seems extremely unlikely, as even busy caches are usually only logged at most once per day, usually much less.

It is important to not rely on your GPS too much. Even now I still tend to think "well it can't be there as the GPS says here", but the GPS is only supposed to get you close to the cache, not the exact spot.

It isn't always easy, even with over a hundred finds (180 I think!) I only find perhaps 80% of them, so one out of every 5 I don't find! But I usually try to go back to them and try again, and I usually find them eventually. One locally to me I had to go back 4 times, but I got it in the end!

There's only twice I've been 'discovered' and on both occasions it was by another geocacher who handed me the cache!

I'm wanting to put out a cache where I work and the best hiding place I can see is a street sign, which has removable caps on the top of the posts. Now I've found quite a few of these types of cache, usually you remove the cap and the cache is sitting there. But how are they done? As the post is just hollow, presumably you fill it up with something to stop the cache falling to the bottom, but what?

I've found a few, including my first one, and all those were from Google satellite images. In general I rely too much on the GPS. I'm like "Well it says 0m, so where's the cache!!"

You would have thought a once a month visit would be sufficient. I imagine most geocaches get less attention than that! As far as I know the cache hiding guidelines don't say that you must live near the cache, but rather you have a maintenance plan in place, which you do. (I've found a total of two caches on Skye!)

It was my understanding that GLONASS isn't fully active yet? It would indeed be good to get away from the iPhone == poor accuracy falacy.

THE SMILIES are certainly very active around here. Seemingly anywhere you go in Northumberland or the Lake District, if there's a cache to find chances are it'll be a Smilies cache. I don't mind because they are always well done with accurate coordinates and a decent container. They must spend a lot of time maintaining all of those caches!

Tupperware boxes with click lid tops. Cheaply available from most supermarkets.

I had hoped if they were bringing virtuals back it would have been on a sparing basis, e.g. you'd expect in an area the size of the Lake District to find 1 or 2, no more, which would make them 'special'.

Ashgill Force near Alston in Cumbria http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=54.757765608910645~-2.3752773330115073&lvl=15&dir=0&sty=s&eo=0&ss=yp.Force~pg.1~rad.0,954877237876668&form=LMLTCC NY758405 near Garrigill A wonderful little place where you can walk underneath the waterfall!

I actually thing Challenges are a fine idea. Gets people out doing things they wouldn't have otherwise done. But they are a game in their own right and have nothing in common with Geocaching, so counting them as a 'find' is just offensive IMO. In fact challenges are diluted by being associated so closely with geocaching, just as geocaching is diluted by being associated with challenges.

Typical, I found caches on Friday and I found caches on Sunday, but not Saturday! . PS. My Sunday caches were ones you put out in Herrington Park, good to see some new ones there as we'd already done all the existing ones

Another couple of things to bear in mind when considering the Police/Army response is that Wetherby is near Catterick, a large army garrison; and we were coming up to the anniversary of the 07/07 London bombings so everyone would be on high alert in case there was another attack given the recent demise of Bin-Laden. It's nowhere near! 40 miles away!

We should all make a point of going caching in Wetherby!

I really hope nobody follows the advice to archive caches along the A1. I have no intention of doing so.

I didn't mean the CO but the person who was arrested for finding the cache!