
gazooks
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I had a TB go missing from one of my caches a little while ago. When I visited the cache and looked at the log it had been visited by a 'closet cacher'.
The cache is not one that anyone would stumble over and so they had to have got the co-ords from somewhere or someone. !!
The TB has still not surfaced and as it was my cache I feel guilty for the owners loss.
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Last July I had an idea for a miscro at each of the Cambridge Park & Ride Sites which pointed to a final hidden somewhere near the hub of the system. I applied for permission from the council but was rejected as 7/7 had just occurred and they were worried about strange persons sculking about there sites.
They suggested leaving it for 9-12 months and retrying.
In March this year I was just about to retry when up popped caches in the Park & Ride sites. Even the cache names were the same as I had intended with a final near the hub.....
I was flabbergasted - the only differance was that I was going to use a normal sized cache as the final and this was another micro.
The owner got into trouble though because he had not got permission and had to move them. _ but I got 5 x FTF's though before he moved them.
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Aren't they all...
Boris ....... Russian
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I didn't used to worry about caches I had found until reading the log after mine on a cache that reported the cache trashed.
Even though I had carefully re-hidden it (I did report however that the hide was a little exposed), I still felt others reading the log may have thought it was me.
Since then I don't add a watch to a cache but look back for a few weeks to check all is OK.
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Starlight Express
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are your boots bovvered ???
an old one but a long shot....
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Well, I took Miss butterfly's advise and attempted to 'post' the postcard (in protective ziplok bag) into one of eight caches I did yesterday..... sadly none of them were big enough to fit the card in....
even the so called regular sized ones!!
I'll have to try another time - looking for ammobox described caches me thinks...
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Injection moulding
The cheeper method used to undercut his competorts in turntable covers
Botox Injection
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I completed a FTF on the World Cache - UK and the FTF prize were pre-paid postcards to all my teammates in Germany, Australia, US and Canada. The latter asking for his postcard to be sent by Geomail.
I have not dropped it off anywhere yet to try the system but was thinking of starting it off this weekend.
Does anyone know if I have to use a Geopost cache or can I just drop it into any cache and treat it like a TB ?
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I take it that the 'No food items' rule applies to pet food as well. ?
I did a series 8 of new caches recently where the owner (obviously a dog lover) had placed packets of dog treats in most of the caches.
A cacher with a dog opened one of the packets and removed a few treats and left the rest. Surely that now puts the cache at risk from the local wildlife.
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I am personally against plastic bags for all the mentioned reasons and would love to remove them but....
yesterday I did a series of caches by the same person and all the caches were in plastic bags. Fortunetly they were all brand new caches but I think the main reason that they were in plastic bags was because the containers were not what you would call watertight. A couple of them looked like the sort of containers you get in supermarkets for salad !!
So removing the bags would expose the caches to the elements.
... catch22
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I wanted something original so ...
I always loved the knightly expression Gadzooks as a child and my colleagues at work call me Gazza so I just joined them together.
what more can I say .......
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My logs depend on my mood at the time and whether I enjoyed the cache or not. It also depends if there is any important info to relay to sucessive cachers.
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Have a good break and see you on the flipside.....
Thanks from me for all your efforts.
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I had a similar problem around Christmas with Google mail but they offered no real explanation but it went away after a week or so.
One email arrived a month after it was sent !!
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You know you addicted when....
.... you raid every drawer in the house looking for possible swops...
.... every car journey is punctuated with " ther a cache over there... there behind that etc.
... the only POI's on your TomTom are caches and trig points
.... you search around a remote wood muttering to yourself, in the drizzle for over an hour looking for a plastic box you know is here somewhere...
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Last September I did 'The other wedgewood' cache (GCHTNA) in Staffs. As I approached the cache site a guy with his dog asked if I was looking for the cache.
When I asked him if he was a cacher, he replied No but his dog found it a month before......
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I try and swap at every cache I visit and occasionally a useful item turns up which I keep and use. These are few and far between though.
Most of the time its mainly kiddy type items which I just swap and rotate with other caches.
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314 within 25 miles of CB3 7XF Cambs.
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If you download your GPS to mapsource it will tell you in the tab how many waypoints you have.
Also I thought the legend could only hold 500 waypoints !
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When I started caching last year I used the spoiler pictures once or twice but as I have got used to the sport more I find the clue is usually enough (if needed).
If I don't need it I don't look - simple as long as they are marked spoiler of course.
Cachers met while caching
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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I've bumped into Sweepy & Geowife - as I was starting a multicache they had just finished it.
I bumped into Webby962 as they had just found their 1st cache.
and apparently Peteseaker passed me recently.....
--- as to how many others I have past - heaven knows - I don't know what you all look like !!