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Hi there - for twitter users, has anyone worked out a way to get cache finds auto tweeted ? Rgds Brandwood I have just set up another twitter account for geocaching @brandwoodgeo

Hi - I am thinking about creating a cache within Second Life. If any one else on here is a resident in Second Life, I would appreciate your thoughts. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by 650,000 people from around the globe. Second Life If anyone is a resident there - my in-world AV name is Brand Woodin - drop me a IM and we can plan the first cache!

anyone know how to delete ans entry? - we are on twice through our error cheers Brandwood

Weve been registered with geocache since Feb 2001 and only found 56 so far - albeit in four countries, with a tribe of bugs somewhere around the world! All good fun every one of them. Brandwood

aha, a stats game we can contribute to: furthest found 11621mi from home coordinates furthest placed 11342.4mi from home coordinates. This has now been removed due to the high number of muggles reported in the area. closest placed (for what its worth) 5mi from home coordinates. Not bad for very occasional caching Martin et al

I found the leaflets useful but does anyone know if similar leaflets exist to explain travel bugs. I am considering organising a travel bug 'race' for our primary local school - with each year having their own bug which they can track around the world (?) - with a n element of competetion of course! Cheers Martin

Interesting thread. i am flying down to NZ via LAX next month and thought about using the GPS to track the route and past the time. Any one experience of Air New Zealand and GPS?? Regards, Martin

If anyone is thinking of visiting caches in the Forest of Bowland area over easter, please note that all access land areas were closed by rangers yesterday, and will remain closed for two weeks due a very high fire risk. In fact there has been a fire out of control for a few days now. This certainly affects my cache on Fairsnape which may be a molten box by now and the cache at Langden castle.

I have found this thread very interesting and would add my 2p. I strongly subscribe to the 'leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures' approach to the outdoors. I am also inspired by the 'No Trace Use' approach as promoted by the Applacaion Trail for example, which includes guidance such as '...your challenge is to leave no evidence of your visit so that the next person can enjoy a natural scene ... tread lighlt so that nature can endure and replenish...' As such, whilst I love the idea of geocaching, I am also wary of a rapidly increasing number of tupperware boxes littering our countryside, presenting a potential hazard to animals etc. Any promoting of the sport must include the environment friendly aspect, ie 'the cache in, trash out' ethos, and of course make reference to the virtual, trig point, benchmarks forms of geocaching. Any mass increase in the number of people geocaching, may, unfortunately lead to more inappropriate caches or rubbish being left in the countryside. Anyone agree or am I alone on this aspect?

This trig point site looks good- well done. If all the suggested features are added it will be the bees knees. Take a look at The Angry Corrie, http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tac/ Scotlands Hillwalking Fanzine for some fascinating insights to trig bagging. The fanzine carries a regular feature on progress of baggers to trig-bag complete OS maps, for example. Not sure how the trig point plate reference number works, but would seem to be the best bet for proof of visit. (has a trig point been bagged if the number is not recorded?, maybe not according to TAC. Note that some trig points have disappeared under concrete, motorways and such like!, others are only accessible by boat and overnight stops. This will be an interesting game !!! One trig plate not on the list, sits in my study. It is a reproduction plate, made from an orgininal mould, presented to me by the Benchmarking Institute for services to benchmarking. Now theres another story and angle to benchmarking ! Brandwood The first was the easiest

any news in getting this off the ground?

is the geocaching future virtual ? anyone else concerned with the proliferation of caches in natural locations around the UK or world?, caches which could be seen as litter or a hazard to wildlife? recently back from a trip to western ireland where I thought to leave a cache on the Blasket Islands... but that would have been leaving something unaturalal in an amazingly natural setting ... even though the cache would have been a 5/5 making me think again about the whole geo cache thing - so maybe the future is virtual, adpting the old saying "leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but photos", hmm

I have been away from geocaching for a while, but picking up on the thread on UK trig points back in may. A file of all 6557 trig points - converted to WGS 84 can be found at http://www.36haroldstreet.freeserve.co.uk/trigpoints.htm I have been using theis as data for a while for walking etc and is reliable. The site also refers to a WGS convertor on the OS GPS website. So with only 6557 options ....

interesting to note requests for high level, no tree caches. take a look at the Fair Snape cache I posted this morning. High 510m asl. No tress at all and the walk starts with 'a brutally steep climb' (walk guide book description) By the way what is the highest cache in the uk, or the cache with the highest difficulty and terrain grade? cheers

This is becoming challenging. None of the ideas or descriptions fit for me. If you take a 5k/3.5m radius from the tower there is very little open land and very few bridelways marked oon the 25,000 OS map. Dan, as you left Blackpool, placing the cache, what was your route, where did you join the M55, or M6 or any other landmarks. The quest continues...

This is becoming challenging. None of the ideas or descriptions fit for me. If you take a 5k/3.5m radius from the tower there is very little open land and very few bridelways marked oon the 25,000 OS map. Dan, as you left Blackpool, placing the cache, what was your route, where did you join the M55, or M6 or any other landmarks. The quest continues...

I live not too far from the area, if fact the kids have just gone off to Blackpool Zoo. Any chance of an OS grid ref - either from a map or on-line options. With a ref we could get to it soon

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