HazelS

Most cachers lovingly refer to www.Geocaching.com as GC dot Com in general conversation....

To be fair... what has he got to gain by lying about it????? I know the media are scoundrels and usually not to be believed, but there ARE some that are ok!!!

And mine, Ali... does it for me!

Wow.... well spotted!!!

D'you know what? It's always the way!! Last night I spent ages looking for this thread, and eventually found it, although it DID take a while!! Managed to register my new Oregon 450, and a friend's old Legend. He managed to get a month's free premium membership, and I got mine extended by another month.... well worth doing if you're a newbie and wondering whether Pocket Queries etc would be useful for you. Well worth a bump of the thread with the number of newbies about at the moment!

Ooooh now then Andybug and Lady bird and Team Tan are all big cachers in Luton. Once a month they organise a caching walk too - but certainly Team Tan cache every weekend........ I'll give them a nudge for you....

Sorry - I was just looking for the emoticon that showed me spitting tea all over the screen!!!! In your dreams!!!

Oooh - shame you're not in North Wales.... Team Marzipan LOVE setting night caches, and have great pleasure in dragging me around them whenever they have an event... I hate night caching - I get really disorientated (even more than normal!) and I have a tendancy to fall over!!

LOL - and Me, Ian!!

Awwww - he's cute!! I was being an insomniac this morning and lay in bed with the windows open listening the the dawn chorus... Spring is on it's way, people!!!

Kids??? Eh??? Great for this 37 year old kid too!!! Still as addicted as I was after my first find 6 years ago... and still astounded by the number of amazing friends I've made through finding a bit of tupperware in the woods!!!

Legend is a series, not a trail - it's actually several circular walks joined together, so not strictly a trail....

I'll be there I think.... Just need to try and work out the logistics of all these bloomin events, I'm not half as organised as I usually am this year!!

Yeah... We added a couple of other caches in there - we could have added more, but decided early on not to stray from the route and only pick up caches that we physically drove past.... If you only intend to do around 20 or so a day, you'll only be out for around an hour and a half.... we were averaging around 15 an hour I think.... We certainly didn't thrash it, we were doing it as a girly weekend away and treated it as such.... and what a laugh it was..... What happens on the Skeg to Ness run stays there!!!

<sarcasm> Oh Nick... You're hilarious! </sarcasm>

Very!! ALL the caches are drive bys - with the exception of one, which was only a very short walk. In fact, I'd say that biking it would be fun - some of the roads were great!!! Shame I wasn't the one driving when we did it! I'd suggest breaking it up and doing it over 2 or 3 days - there are the odd (and I use that term on purpose) few that have done it in 24 hours straight, but we did it on a Friday / Saturday starting in Skeggy at 7.15am on the Friday until at 7.45pm with no break - staying over in Stoney Middleton in the Peaks, and resuming at 8am Saturday and finishing in Wirral at about 3pm.... Luckily we didn't have far to stumble as I live only 4 or 5 miles from the end of the trail... so a decent cuppa and we were back out caching again.... Bonkers. After that I think I would have been happy never to see another piece of Tupperware for a while!

Not thinks but knows!!!

Yeah - he was my first guess too, Steve!! Hazel I'm sure as your such a well travelled and event experienced Geocacher, you'll be bound to have meet him/her at some point. And the same applies to Steve Deci I've had a small tip off, and yes.... If my source is correct, I know them relatively well!!! Is that a not-so-subtle hint there Hazel? LOL - no..... it's not either of my parents / any other relative!!!

Yeah - he was my first guess too, Steve!! Hazel I'm sure as your such a well travelled and event experienced Geocacher, you'll be bound to have meet him/her at some point. And the same applies to Steve Deci I've had a small tip off, and yes.... If my source is correct, I know them relatively well!!!

Yeah - he was my first guess too, Steve!!

Oh yes... that was funny.... but a DREADFUL cache, and DREADFUL people living in the nearby properties....

I second everything that's been said above, but think it's important that you, as the cache setter, know the area, and know what's what with it.... For example... I work in a town that's not the best area around, and has relatively few caches in and around it. A cacher that lives near me (not in this particular town) and who is new to the area, slung a cache out a few years ago JUST because he'd seen a footpath there, and it "seemed" a good place for a cache... <RANT> Now, having worked in the area for around 10 years, I know the history - I know that it's a hangout for druggies expecting their next drop (it's close to a main road) and I also know that there was a murder and rape on that footpath only seven weeks prior to the cache being set.... why on earth would anyone, let alone a (possibly) lone female cacher (for example) wish to put herself in danger just for a smiley?? I know I wouldn't - and I wouldn't expect another cacher to put me in that possible situation!! I'd like to think that the cache setter has taken me somewhere for a reason, a walk, a view, or just something interesting to see, not "because there's not already a cache there." </RANT>

Bloomin heck.... I'm due to be in London town the following week Grrr!!! Have fun though, don't envy you the steps!!!

We went to the cinema to see that film last night and wondered how many drive by caches would be on the trail!! :laughing:

When I go to the States, I don't bother with maps, but then again, I don't use the GPS for navigating (other than caching LOL) and I'm generally in a city! I just switch it on when I want to find a cache. TBH, I've never missed having them when I've been away, I just follow that arrow blindly - makes it more fun!