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The app is excellent. I even used it last year when I was new to geocaching in the lake district where coverage was patchy at best but still managed 6 caches. I have since bought a gps that I use most of the time (as I like multis etc) so it's easier for those types. But really for most traditional caches the iphone is absolutely fine only under dense trees have I had a problem with it but then 9 times out of 10 you can use instinct to track down where it may be! And as I always have my iphone on me anyway I can log my finds in the field.

I know this is perhaps a bit too far out of the way but I'd recommend Smuggler Quest 6 - Ravenscar to anyone. Bear in my that your 999th would have to be The Ravenscar Beast in order to complete the Smuggler Quest cache! Oh and in order to do The Ravenscar Beast you have to complete Ravenscar Treasure Trove and (the simple) Heather Haven But couldn't recommend them enough. Amazing scenery and challenging caches. Perfect for a huge milestone!

Hi I'm from Scarborough. Best caches in our area are any hidden by TheWhistleBlowers in my opinion - their smuggler quest caches are amazing. Must agree there are tons of micros popping up around the town when a proper box could be used & some caches in really unexciting places too. I always try to place the biggest container I can as I know that kids like finding a box with 'stuff' in! I have a couple of quite cool ideas for my next caches as well. Hopefully they'll be out before Christmas! Also, I'd be up for meeting some local cachers sometime. Feel free to message me.

There is a puzzle cache near me that has been out for over two years and still no one has found it!! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f5bd8d57-23d4-4e63-b36a-defaf237bdbb

Thought of another one. Cachers who don't understand or follow the Difficulty/Terrain ratings. Found one cache recently that was rated a 3* difficulty and 2* terrain. It was one of the most straight forward caches I've done (once you took into account the fact the coords were about 40 feet out )

In the past 7 days there has been more than 10 micros (most of which I reckon will be nano's) gone live in my area by a group of friendsw who have clerarly re-discovered caching! Fine to a certain extent, I'm happy for new caches to appear in my local area. Now I'm not one of these people that is against nano's per se either. I even have a couple out myself, sometimes there is a place for them. My "pet hate" I suppose, is the location of some of these caches. For example, one is on a main road opposite a (very very average) pub. Absolutely nothing worth seeing at GZ whatsoever. So why bother? I can think of 4 or 5 locations within a 1 mile radius that would at the very least be a pleasent place to walk and grab a cache. Next to one of the busiest roads in town is not one of them! As someone on here keeps saying something along the lines of "If the only reason your bringing someone to a location is for the cache, think of another place to put it" - It's so so true. I'm beginning to see why some of the more experienced cachers get frustrated over issues like this. I can't imagine putting zero thought into a cache location. And one more thing, I hate seeing a lack of effort put into the cache descriptions. If you can't be bothered to write anything of note in the description then why should I make the effort to visit your cache? Anyway, rant over!!!

May as well add my two penneth to this debate. The reviewer was absolutely right in their actions. It's not as if Deci went to GZ, found the cache and burnt it in front of the CO's teary eyes, is it? The decision has been reversed so there really is no harm done at all. You can't p**s about where needles are concerned, used or unused (who was to know there weren't other dirty ones) the cache had to be made so no one would go to it. I think the time frames for such a case were reasonable.

Ending up in remote, quiet places I wouldn't usually see. For example my favourite cache to date was a multi (one of the excellent Smuggler Quest series) GZ was down a steep cliff, it was a misty day and I arrived when the tide was in and the sea was rough. 10 feet from the sea (but totally safe) and on my own signing the log. Was just a fantatsic experience. In fact my profile pic is a photo I took of the cache & my GPS!

Thanks for all the useful help guys, really much appreciated.

Yes I will, thanks. To be honest there is no guarantee I'll get permission. It's the National Trust I have to approach about it, hopefully they'll agree to a micro cache being placed on their land but we'll see.

Yes, it's allowed. In your cache page description, it would be a good idea to let cachers know that they're in for a long distance hunt, or give them some indication of the time to complete the whole multi. Boats to islands are usually OK, but run it past your local reviewer to check first. MrsB Thanks for clearing this up for me. I'll certainly check with my reviewer regarding the boat/island one. There are other permissions I'll need in order to get a cache placed here as well but I reckon it'll be totally worth it if I get that permission!!

1. I have an idea for a Multi Cache which will tell an interesting historical story taking in several beautiful locations in the process. However the start and end points could well be over 50 miles apart. Is this distance allowed? I can see nothing that tells me it's not but I don't know if anyone knows any different? 2. I also want to place a cache on an island that is only accessible by boat. There are daily boat trips to the island in question but obviously all will cost money. Again I'm fairly sure this isn't a problem as long as I'm not trying to flog tickets for any of the boat trip companies but just grateful for advice, things to consider etc.

When I am doing an extensive Multi Cache that involves lots of walking and I don't take a drink with me. Only myself to blame I know, but it annoys me how often I do this!! :laughing:

I must admit if I wasn't going away all weekend then it would have been the perfect opportunity to get a good few hours of caching alone in tomorrow! Oh well you can't have it all!

Well we're heading upto Northumberland for the whole weekend with a group of friends, planning on going to Holy Island and Bamburgh. We're also heading to Durham tomorrow but we're planning on getting to Durham in time to find a pub with the wedding on. As mentioned above, not bothered about the X number of hours of boring build up but would quite like to see Kate arrive & the vows. Anyway basically Durham and Northumberland - 2 places with tons of new caches to find and I'm sure we may introduce our friends to it as well!!

Depends if your followers include geocachers or not I guess.

Dave Gorman fan?

Fantastic! Good to see it's in a nice prominent and obvious place to see!

I know you can do it using the official app. Link the app to your twitter account and then when you use the app to log caches, it automatically sends a tweet. As the ones you mention have the cgeo hash tag I assume it was using that app. I have the official app and can't seem to find a setting on there to link my twitter account to. I wonder if it is just the cgeo app that does it?

On twitter I keep seeing people tweeting the phrase "I found CACHE NAME (http://coord.info/GC1T1EQ)! #cgeo #geocaching" However I don't seem to be able to do this and also all the caches that are tweeted seem to be American. Is this something only available in the USA right now or can you do this on UK caches? Has anyone done this here?

Of the caches I have found so far I have 2 that are absolute stand outs. The first is a traditional cache in the Lake District called Walla Crag - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a1a66d0d-bd07-4216-accf-ac1b1dd86b98 The reasons why I liked it so much are because it was a large cache in a great location and you had to go off the beaten track to get it. My second and my favourite cache so far is Seekers Quest 11 - Filey http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=9e98dacf-63a6-472e-9c92-10a0cb23adae It's a multi and part of a series of 16. It was the first I did and it was a real adventure with the final location being about 10 foot from the sea. Absolutely brilliant experience.

Ooops, Sorry. No need to apologise! I can understand your point of view regarding this thread. Personally I think there are more tactful ways of making the point that was made rather than going on Street View and posting a big picture of the cache location and some condescending text. But that's just my opinion.

I wasn't just talking about this thread, I was making a more general point about the way some people deal with new cachers. However I would agree with your last sentence.

As i said in an earlier post there is a big difference between constructive criticism and just being rude to people.

Absolutely my point. We are all beginners at one point and you do live and learn. But it appears to me that some people (a small minority I'd like to add) can't let a newbie have a learning period before trying to show them up.