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DizzyPair

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  1. To clarify things. The GAGB has an agreement with the Forestry Commission with regard to caches placed on FC land within the New Forest. The agreement is for a maximum of 150 caches (physical containers) to be placed at any one time. This agreement covers all listing sites, not just geocaching.com. We manage the practical side of things within the agreement and also maintain a ‘Waiting List’ of people who want to place a cache in the New Forest. Today, there are 149 containers in position. I use the word 'containers' because there are some multi-caches that use several Stages, and therefore several 'containers'. 146 are listed on geocaching.com and 3 are listed on Garmin opencaching.com The ‘terracache’ was removed several months ago, and was archived yesterday or today. The 150th space has been allocated to the next on the waiting list and their cache should be published shortly. There is one other person on the waiting list.
  2. It is important that some of us take responsibility for caches that are not maintained. No-one wants to cause angst, but non maintained caches spoil it for all. We've posted NUMEROUS logs on caches that have been neglected, and only had a handful deleted. Keep up the good work, Madame Hoomer and if we ever meet, we'll tell you how many "Needs Archived" logs we've posted....
  3. Last year we found a cache hidden in a dry stone wall, and wrote this 'Found it' log.... We used the hint and found the micro after only a couple of minutes.....An excellent hide. Then we went along to the main cache and were surprised to find it in a dry stone wall. We have left the cache in about the same place as it was but it is now not in the wall. Thanks for this cache. We also wrote this 'Needs Maintenance'.... Today we found the cache within the dry stone wall. Please note this extract from 'Geocaching Resources for the UK and Ireland' about caches in dry stone walls. "Dry Stone Walls by definition have no mortar holding them together, their construction alone being the strength they need. Removing stones from these walls can seriously weaken their structure so caches are not allowed on such walls or in them. If the reviewers believe a cache is in such a location it will be challenged. If a cache is published and later found to be in such a location it will most likely be archived and the owner asked to remove it." We removed the cache from the wall and left it close by. We then wrote to the Reviewer that published the cache, informing them about the hide. They then Disabled the cache the next day. The cache is now back on line and the hide is not in the wall. The trouble with this sort of situation is that yes, you can get backlash, but on the other hand, the longer term future should also be considered. If 'experienced' cachers turn a blind eye to caches in walls, then all the newcomers will think that it's OK to hide a cache in a wall and then the circle goes on and gets worse. The only 'backlash' we have had was the deletion of a couple of 'Needs Archived' logs that we posted. They probably mutter about us behind our backs, but so what?. The 'Needs Archived' logs alerted the right people and sort of forced the cache owners into action....But that's another story.
  4. We were approaching a cache a couple of months ago, and I stood on a wasps nest that was in a hollow in the ground. Of course they were angry, and stung me 6 times, and did not give up until we were about 50 metres away. Today we were out and saw a wasp nest in the ground less than 3 metres from a cache.
  5. We take all the general stuff. We also take a knitting needle, which is great for poking here and there. And we use 2 bags for trackables. One pink and one blue. All go into the Pink, and they come out of the blue. In the car boot is my climbing gear...50 metre rope, harness, and all the things to get up and down. Sometimes we have the inflatable canoe in there too.
  6. For those of you that do not know, qrang maintains an interesting list of the Top UK Cachers. qrang kindly updates it manually around the 20th of each month. This must be a lot of work and we would just like to give them some recognition for this. Thanks very much Guys. To see the list, go to qrang's profile page.
  7. Looks like you were staying in the wrong place. There are 124 geocaches in the New Forest.
  8. Having checked, PC Pugh is genuine, and a member of the Totton Neighbourhood Safety Team. If the Police had been concerned they would have removed the cache. Might be worth bringing it to the attention of the CO. Don't see the need for NM log as it doesn't NM and isn't a suspect package anymore. When I was in the military we were taught to place our explosives on the item you wanted to demolish and not in the bushes nearby. Maybe it's worth taking a bit more time to hide caches, even if you are in a rush as as you have discovered not hiding them properly leads to muggling and caches being archived.
  9. Beolw Above - Mind the Trains The Explorers
  10. http://coord.info/GC2GT74 Below Above - Mind the Trains A snapshot taken whilst exploring the area near the cache.
  11. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate http://coord.info/GC2JPKZ abanazer climbs towards the cache. For those that have not yet found this cache, this photo was taken at the other side of the cache location. To find the cache, the climb is easier.
  12. For information on permission, go to www.gagb.co.uk/forums/ and click on "LANDOWNER AGREEMENTS". Scroll down to "FC South East England" and all the information can be found there.
  13. From this weeks Groundspeak Weekly Newsletter The 2010 Lost & Found Celebration was so much fun that we decided to turn it into an annual event: the Geocaching Block Party. The 2011 Block Party will be on August 20th from 11 am to 3 pm. This is the third Saturday of August, which will be the first International Geocaching Day! The event will be in the plaza next to our soon-to-be new HQ office building, so make sure to check the cache page for coordinates, since they are slightly different than last year's celebration.
  14. Harbour Mouth On the Isle of Wight Mrs Dizzy with the cache.
  15. From the online Oxford dictionary Canoe noun • a light , narrow boat with pointed ends and no keel, propelled with a paddle or paddles. verb (canoes, canoeing, canoed) [no object, with adverbial of direction] • travel in or paddle a canoe:he had once canoed down the Nile Kayak noun • a canoe of a type used originally by the Inuit, made of a light frame with a watertight covering having a small opening in the top to sit in. verb (kayaks, kayaking, kayaked) [no object] (usually as noun kayaking) • travel in or use a kayak.
  16. Thanks very much for the Bookmark, and other information. We appreciate the help.
  17. That's a dimension we hadn't thought of, and those are the sort of caches we're looking at. Thanks for the replies Looks like a canoe is best then. Now to find a bargain
  18. We have noticed that there are several caches where some sort of boat is needed to get to them, so are thinking of buying some sort of inflatable. Which is best though, dinghy or canoe? We need something for only one person, but room for any other equipment that might be required. We don't want anything that has to go on the car roof, so only inflatables. All suggestions welcome.
  19. We are Dave and Pauline....Dave here now. Pauline never goes on the forums. She does spend lots of time on geocaching.com planning which area to go and explore. She looks for a 'special' cache and then we plan our day out round that. They can be 'special' if they have not been found for a long time, or if they have a trackable. When she has chosen the area I do all the PQ and GSAK work loading the gps' etc. Pauline spends a lot of time checking out trackables. She has the patience to solve some puzzle caches, but if after 10 mins I cannot work out what to do, then it often goes on the ignore list. I am always looking in the Forums. I like to know what is going on and also to learn things. I don't often reply though because of the way that some others respond.
  20. WE HATE CALLING CARDS We did a Series recently and in nearly all the containers was a really annoying, and fiddly laminated piece of paper about 1cm by 4 cm. "O also left calling cards to speed up the caching time" "But luckily we had removed one tedious task of our quest and had laminated calling cards with the date of today with mine and *****'s name on". Most of the caches had a film pot containing a log roll, within another larger container. So, as the container was opened or the log unrolled, these darned "cards" would fall out onto the ground and of course had to be picked up. I found 3 of the caches, not with a gps, but because the "calling card" was lying on the ground! Leaving a calling card may make it easy for that person, but it makes it worse for the rest of us. PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE CALLING CARDS
  21. Remains of an old house next to Lyscombe Chapel
  22. An old building seen along "The Pimperne Walk"
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