Afterburned

With entries from the UK and Jersey coming in I thought I would remind the guys in the USA that you can post a TB over to me to join in the race.

Wow, good find! That's my friend Andrea in the middle on the front of May!

Very nice 4 page article involving our local reviewer - explains GC very well! Some great photos, it was a bit wierd to recognise the caches pictured even though the photos were taken so as to hide the location. Nice 'POWERED BY ME' GC T-shirt Yvonne!! Obviously I cannot copy the article here, but it does go to every home on the island and was a really good intro to the obsession! I predict a caching explosion over here

I use cachemate, works fully offline so you have to fill it with caches first, but does not use your data allowance.

Hmmm, guilty of this one myself, and have found at least one of all the others! Also the T5 film can.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH. Wow - that feels better! I put a 'Stig' TB in a 5/5. It was almost a year until the next finder, and it was gone. Bloody teenagers. A few of them died near GZ a few years ago. Can't have been them then. Should have read 'Snoogans' thread first. PS. serious about the deaths... thought the TB would be safe.

Get the other user to 'grab' the TB from you. They will have the code and will be able to log it as found.

What he said! Was er sagte!

TB1VPG2 I picked this up the other day and thought it was a great idea, a picture of the coin is in a GC style holder, giving the impression of a coin without risking the loss. A bit like a pre-emptive copy TB I guess...

Dont know but there are a few bookmark lists for the Church Micro Series - here is a link to 1000 to 1499 http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=5bb0741d-96fe-4c1a-a31b-1027c0519244 Edited for spelling...

This is a cachers log, not your own experiences. Flag it up to a higher authority if you wish, or investigate yourself if you dare.

Why not? Win win as far as I can see! The location (assuming it is a good location) will keep attracting people to it, and locals will get another smiley!

Nothing wrong with using a smartphone, most new smartphones are as accurate as old or cheap gpsr's. If you are finding you will soon get a feel for your accuracy, if you are hiding then after taking the fix walk away and see if you can navigate back ok. Triple check on a different day and you should be fine. This is the same advice as I would give anyone setting a cache, not just a smartphone.

I just set an 11 stage multi with a HTC Desire Android phone. The local reviewer has done the cache and noted in the log that every co-ord was spot on. So it can be done. My method is to take the fix, walk away and navigate back, adjust if required. Do this until it works. Try again another day to make sure. My caching buddy has a yellow etrex, sometimes he is more accurate, sometimes I am. Kwhart- as with all caches it is the quality of the hider that counts, if the coords are not double checked they could be out regardless if the device used. Edited for spelling - obvoiusly a phone is not as good for forum posting!

Nice read! I hope you keep the content coming in, post when issue 2 is out!

I think people have found that putting it on a watch list and then ignoring it works so that it doesn't keep showing up works. Aaah, had not thought of that, thanks!

I found one recently that had had some soil fall on it (had been un searched for in a whole year) so we had to dig to find it! Not originally buried, but needed to dig to find. Bad precedent? We just left a stone and some moss on top of it like it was originally hidden.

We write both names in, only one account is the owner but the other marks it as found and puts it on a watchlist.

We have about 250 Geocaches and 40 Waymarks. One waymark is a shipwreck, to claim it you have to visit and take a photo. Now I am not saying that the person who posted that has not visited the shipwreck 40m below some pretty fast tides (can only dive around low), but they have not posted a photo! It would be very easy to add every shipwreck around to Waymarking. With Geocaching the Cache Owner has to visit the site, possibly several times, and has to be able to maintain it. I have almost run out of geocaches on the island, so will probably go for all the waymarks except this one eventually, but there really is no sense of achievement when you get to the location, and hardly any of the local ones have clues to find or tasks to do. Armchair logging anyone?

Ah yes, I do remember reading / watching that one!

Ah, log out then back in. No matter that I have had it set on GC for a week...

Cant get signature to work...???? Or Forum title - is set on Geocaching profile page...

Got a FTF today (yay), sitting here this evening and updating my profile made me look at my previous FTF's - and I have to say the most memorable was my first. It was the day after an event and there was one cache left, down a country lane. I parked a little way away, got the cache which was in the roots of a large tree - then a car came down the lane, lost control and hit the tree I was behind! It was not that damaged and drove off, I am sure they saw me as they drove away, in a suit and tie I must have looked odd standing behind a tree! The cache was called 'Duck, Duck, Goose'. And that was my first FTF! Others have been fun but not quite as memorable - any other stories out there?

Another vote for the lack of maintenance

I want to get a PQ of all my caches (not many) but WITH the waypoint info that may be hidden to other users - I have a multi, a mystery and a Wherigo all with hidden waypoints that I would like to be able to see on Google Earth. I tried a PQ of all my caches but the waypoint gpx was empty (I dont have any with visible waypoints). Any ideas or is this going to be a manual jobbie?