Mark+Karen

They couldnt have just gotten the finder to retrieve it and show it was harmless?! A bomber isn't likely to do that.

Nice! Thanks for that.

162m, to be exact!

When we reach a cache site, the first thing my wife looks for is a 'pokey stick'.

You can make any time or day out interesting by just finding caches.

Most of the time I don't do multi's - I just dont have the time, or quite often the patience. The ones I have done have tended to be where I've visited a city for a day.

Based on the location is usually best. But I've seen ones like "Bob's First Cache" before.

There's a multi that when you follow the route it goes right past my house! (Mind you I did put it there!) I can think of about 5 other multis within 10 miles of me as well as a puzzle cache.

I personally think having to do it that way puts people off putting in a NM log. It would be better if you could do it within a 'found' log, just check a box to say that the cache needs maintenance - but you found it all the same. Rightly or wrongly some COs see NM as insults.

I was surprised when I was in Fort William to see there were no caches in the town itself. Not even a nano on some railings!

How many of them are there? I've got a "10 Years of Caching" one and a "Portugal" one - for finds in Maderia. But around 110 finds in the UK has resulted in no more.

When you've had a right hassle getting to the cache, parking at the side of the road in a ditch and tramping across fields, just to find the cache is right beside a big car park.

I think mine is pretty much the same as everyone elses - going to places I've never been before. Second to that is going to places I have been to before but seeing them in an entirely new light!

Then he's not geocaching. That's one of the required tasks, being able to actually sign the log, it's a fundamental part of the game. Geocaching is very flexible in that you can play the game any way you like, you don't even need a GPS for example - but one of the few 'laws' of geocaching is that you need to sign the log - with the possible exception of the odd one here and there when you've forgotten your pen.

There is, he explained the procedure and it was followed to the letter. Personally I don't think reviewers should be under any obliagation to justify what they are doing in their personal lives.

Two main ways. Search for caches in the usual way, when you find a cache you like choose "Add to favourites", this will save the cache info in your phone. You may want to also choose "Download Maps & Photos" Second way is to set up a pocket query, but you'll have to obtain a premium membership for that. What I usually do when I'm visiting an area is get a cache ID for pretty much the centre of where I'm going and then do a pocket query to return (say) 250 caches around that, so that I know whereever I'm planning to go I already have the cache descriptions downloaded so I don't need a signal. The only issue is that it doesn't download all the maps, you have to do that cache by cache, so often without a signal you are restricted to a 'follow the arrow' situation instead of following your progress on a map - many would say this is how geocaching should be done anyway!

The reason for archiving is explained exceptionally clearly in the cache logs. I think your cries of 'dictatorship' are not called for. Mark

Before you approach the National Trust scout out the location and get the coordinates and convert them to OS grid, which is what they'll require. Then provide them with an exact description of where you'd like to put the cache. Which island btw? Just that if there isn't any caches there at the moment there may well be a reason for that!

Ah yes. I've seen these but I was thinking of transparent plastic screw top as I've heard the pet tags aren't water proof.

When the clue says "on the left" which no reference point.

I'm looking to get a very small container for a cache. The idea that I have is your standard type of sample container but much smaller, probably only around an inch long, for an urban hide which isn't magnetic. I've seen that sort of thing on various caches before but I can't figure where I would buy them from? Many thanks!

That doesn't really help anybody, just saying "go back to the old one" isn't the way to proceed. EXACTLY what extra steps do you have to go through.

Thread (not mine) here: http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1786207-bring-back-the-old-smilies-?ref=title

You can click a button in the bottom right that says - dont show this again Still no luck with my map Aye, found that . Still don't want to have to click personalisation every time.

I've started a new topic on the feedback site to ask for the old smilies back, if anyone else would like to add their votes!