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Trekbuddy will work on a wide variety of phones, as long as they have Java (most do) - Works on Android phones too. You'll need some kind of GPS (internal or Bluetooth) to get navigation. Combined with Mobile Atlas Creator, it makes a really useful paperless caching tool with mapping. What it doesn't do is query the GS website - you'll have to upload GPX files, either from a PQ or from GSAK/EasyGPS.

Dragging a topic up from many moons ago! We've just had a little discussion over on the NorthWest forum about caches in dry stone walls, which went off onto local guidelines in general. We all agreed (including a tame reviewer ) that the current GS Cache placement guidelines pages doesn't give a clear indication that there may be additional local guidelines. Rather than just whinge about those pesky yanks, I've put a topic on their feedback forum, suggesting an amendment to the guidelines page and linking to local groups and/or reviewer details. If anyone feels the urge to make the fact that local guidelines are in place, but not well known, feel free.

The map itself just uses whatever county is in the county field. That can either be filled in by hand (!), automatically when loading new GPX files, or by using the getcounty macro. That uses rough shapes - Close enough for jazz, but near boundaries you might get some oddities. If you have a cache that should be in one county and is calculated as another, just change the entry in the County field, and then re-run FindStatGen and it'll update your map. The cache setter doesn't set the county - they only set the region and that has no bearing on the county map. Recent releases of FSG allow you to install map files direct from the server, rather than faffing about downloading them to the right location. Oh, and once the county is set, GSAK won't overwrite it unless you specifically ask it to - something to do with the code entered into the 'update county field' on the load page - I think 'YB' will only update blank entries.

Fantastic! Go on, give rough idea where it is. Even if it means trying all the caches in a 5 mile radius. Absolutely brilliant!

We'd not spotted that!

According to their MP, round those parts that's positive LUXURY! Anyway, Thanks for getting it back & running! As other have noted, it lost the additional waypoints feature a while ago. But that's not so important.

OK - a bit of cheating here... The image upload system is rather flakey at the mo, so I've uploaded some pictures to my own website to link to. We've had a busy month, by our standards. At Ye Olde Pitch and Putt on Walney. Taken on a Phone Camera. A bit further south - Durdle Door. And Finally, caching to us is about getting out as a family. And we're really proud of our littlest who climbed Hallin Fell, her first Mountain. The only assistance she got was holding her hand on the steepest bits. Here she is, with mum, at the top.

I'm getting a server timeout with the script as well.

We had our first 'wild' log just after this topic started, from the trip dowj whilst parked at Hilton park m6 services (avoid if you can- among the worst services!)

Move along. Nowt to see here. Double post gremlins are out in force.

Wasn't us, although I suppose our van could be mistaken for maroon in odd light, it probably couldn't be mistaken for a VW Camper Van. It doesn't belch blue smoke and grind to a halt on an slight incline . Bizarrely though, we were also travelling from Cumbria to the wrong end of the country and would have been just north of there around that time. Turned off at Gloucester to head cross-country to Salisbury. We had signs warning us that the M5 had Long delays from J21-25 and J15-19 pretty much from leaving the M6. How bad was it? If you're around the Salisbury/Ringwood/Fordingbridge area over the next few days, keep an eye out.

Referee!! I AM the referee! I think the Google satellite view of the same spot is impressive too. The Trigonometry that must have been involved!

Not really disagreeing - the Large wheels are what make the difference! I think they're 12 or 16" on ours and really free running. It makes even large boulders easy (well, sort of). Beautifully balanced too - only the lightest of downward pressure lifts the front. No good for shopping though! I used to think that those things were pointless, but I've changed my mind. Now for the action shots! Bell Hill Boogie before we got an appropriate pushchair. It was hard work going up a lane where the path was an eroded 18" strip between nettle & bramble hedges about 3ft apart. The 'Not suitable for buggies' icon has never put us off. And a more appropriate chariot for proper hills. Barrow, overlooking Derwent water on the 2nd wettest day of last year - the campsite at the bottom of this hill made the national news by being washed away that day. Freecycle/Freegle is your friend.

I Suppose I'd better get on with the judging. Nick & Ali: Disqaulified of course. But who's the schoolboy in the picture, and did his parents give permission? Shorts & Satchel - could have been me in the 70s, except for the slight hint of beer belly No doubt the Ninja frogs will be after me now. Haggis Hunter: What a brilliant location and landscape sculpture. The exposure is pretty good too - the sky may be a little overexposed, but then you'd not have got the colours so strong in the important bit. Gamsby's Goose: That's a really difficult skill! You've managed to capture the movement of the wings whilst keeping the rest of the goose nice and sharp. I love the frozen splashes too. Daffodil: Lovely - great colours and nice use of limited depth of field. I'd have tried to isolate the flower a little more from the background by changing the angle so that the river (lake?), boathouse and sky were out of frame. Blorenges twig: interesting texture study, nicely exposed. I keep trying this kind of thing & failing miserably. How does it look in black & white? Silly picture : Really nicely done. The exposure is brilliant considering the difficulties posed by the scene. Lovely inviting blue sea. And a really interesting feature. Sid&Bob: I love the humour. I can imagine that capturing the dog at exactly the right spot took some doing. A great shot. The only slight downer is that the colours are a little muted. On your second attempt even if it is a specially trained ninja wolf, that's a cracking shot. The reason it was disqualified was that it was supposed to be WILDlife. The_Street_Searchers: Its easy to forget how bleak and lonely some parts of this country are, even when you're not far from the road. Beautifully exposed and gives a real sense of wide open space. The M62 emphasises how insignificant human achievements are in comparison with nature. How many people whizz along here without a though of the poor souls who built the road!? MarkandLynn: I'm sure anyone who's walked in the countryside much has been there at some point! There's an ironic humour to the pictures. Anyone doing the Sunday Stroll/Westfarthing Wander series near Kendal needs to be prepared for this kind of thing! Izzy and the Lizard King: Beautiful! You've not been tempted to go with current trend for blurred water - you've got all the inidivudal drips from the moss, capturing the magical aspects. The bright light has caused a few of the rocks to be overexposed though. Martlakes: Where's that ice cream then? I can think of someone who'd love to go there! I didn't know you were into leather clothing! Got the human side of caching. No tree-top photos then? EphemeralMoment Alleyway: Beautifully exposed image - I find it so hard to get those right (and haven't yet!). Personally, I'd have tried to fill the frame a little more. Roseberry Topping: It's MANY years (at least 26) since I went up there whilst staying at Saltburn Youth Hostel with school. But I recognised it straight away. The colours and detail are spot on. And you've used the rule of thirds to get the peak just right. Maybe see how it looks cropped up from the bottom a bit - take out the slightly messy immediate foreground? Now, to decide which is best Very difficult to choose! Martin's done himself out of any chance by being far too cruel with his cache placements. I think it has to go to Haggis Hunter's first picture It just makes me want to go there. The same could be said of Izzy and the Lizard King's picture.

Congrats to LMN &Mcp! Shouldn't curtail caching too much yet, but when he gets bigger it'll get harder to do the more involved or higher terrain caches. i can heartily recommend a carrier or a STURDY 3-wheel chariot (not on of those fashion pushchairs)

Well, our youngest 'found' a cache within a week of coming home from Hospital after she was born! I'm sure there's younger as she was in for about 3 weeks with one thing or another, mostly linked to incompetence. The first cache she GENUINELY found was Iron Mad Wilkinson at the tender age of 10 months. At that point she DID have a slight advantage of being closer to the ground. But of course, she's not Welsh.

Probably holding it wrong.

One up in Thurso. They've done the decent thing and given two sets of clues - one for decent weather days (so, about a week per year ) and one for foul weather days, which is based at the Library. The staff there are pretty helpful too!

Bump... Get your lovely photos in here by the end of the week.

Just read the follow-up article. All excellent. I love the idea of the dictaphone as the logbook. Don't read the follow up if you don't want a slight cache spoiler. Again, a fantastic idea.

Just in case anyone's missed the joke

That's excellent - I'd had a bit of correspondence with Dino-irl t'other day about that subject. Whilst my response was sort of right, Lignumaqua's knowledge is far above mine. Good to see a solution in progress. Can I just politely request that if you've got a bee in your bonnet about what county names should be, PLEASE don't bother hijacking the thread. It's been done to death! Counties have been changing forever - no county is the 'correct' one for any location. Some people get really het up when discussin Kendal being in Cumbria rather than Westmorland, conveniently forgetting that at some point in the past, westmorland was a new entity. Kendal was within Strathclyde before that! There are parts of Warwickshire that have, historically been part of Worcestershire, the disappearance and reappearance of Rutland, Is York is Yorkshire? Is Manchester part of Lancashire or Greater Manchester? - the list is endless. To quote the great Crocodile Dundee its like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog.

It depends on the time you have... If you want the numbers, then go for the Safie series - Kendal to Sedgewick along the river and back along the old canal. With a few little diversions and preparation, you can get a few other caches too. Its porbably 3 hours total for the full lot, but you can cut it short - Romney road to Hawes Bridge along the west bank of the river and then back along the old canal and river will get you a fair few. That's about an hour. If you want to learn about the place, then the town centre has a few multis that'll take you to some secret places, along with going right past a few trads. A sort of three-looped route of about 3 miles centred on the Birdcage (top of Finkle street) will get you all the clues and a few other caches along the way. Give yourself about an hour and a half for these. There's a google street view cache as well, but to be honest its one of the poorer cache locations. The Krates & Kingfisher series, starting from Morrisons, is a shorter series, but also well worth it. The Lord of the Rings set of caches on the Helm are really good to. Not a series as suc, just caches with a theme running through them. Lovely views from up there too. Scout scar is one of the Lake district's best-kept secrets. There's a car park on the road to Underbarrow. But we prefer to park on the Brigsteer road, just after crossing the bypass and approach from 'Kendal Gold Cup' You might even walk right past another cache on the way... There are very few bad caches in the Kendal area. Have a look here for cache details.

I'd support the reviewers to the hilt on this one. You might have more knowledge than them about the specific site, but if it IS an SSSI or SAM, then its pretty clear that the onus is on you to get written permission. If, as you say, it'll have no impact then surely the owner/manager of the site will have no issue. The reviewers haven't said you CAN'T put your cache there, just that you need something to show that you've consulted the owner of the land before doing so. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. With all due respect, publicly criticising the reviewers because they've not given the answer you want does come across as playground behaviour. Now, where's that touch paper... Just to ad, one of my caches is in a SSSI managed by the woodland trust. Getting permission took a while. Another of my caches is in an area that is far more unique in terms of flora, but strangely ISN'T an SSSI (though it might become one in the near future). But that's a completely different subject.

No - I'm far too much of a cheapskate to sped more on softare than the camera, lenses and computer combined! But I do have The Gimp, so I might give it a go. Then again, we have two absolutely stunning original portraits of our girls, painted by their Nana that'd knock socks of anything I could produce! And she reckons she's not very good!! I'll have to give that technique a look though.