Jester1970

Amen to that.

I have an underground cache, it uses an existing hole. No digging required, so no problems.

I disagree with that. I put my first cache out after only doing about twenty, and have had fairly positive feedback on every cache since. That was before the march of the nanos. If you were to start caching and do 500 caches and 75% were nanos what would you probably come up with? Another nano.

BUT. A log to sign means it's not a virtual cache... Exactly why have a Virtual if you can have a nano Why have nanos when we could have virtuals?

Cache maintenance days are great fun, Old Haunts GCRNA0: Olivia at the cache Jester2005

From the CO: Metal Mile - Thank you for your wonderful support for my 1st cache placed!! I was very new to the game at that point and was doing my best - No wonder so many people don't even bother to hide there own if people can be so nasty, I wish you all the best for your future caches and hope they live up to your perfect standard :-) Sam - Someone who appreciate everyones effort :-) And that's it. I shall re-log the cahe as found with minimal comment.

I'm on a work computer and can't access email until midnight, there may be an explanatory email somewhere. Once I've checked I'll take it from there.

I visited a cache this morning, Metal Mile http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=31aa1157-a01b-4411-b197-0b7bc22c3efc and logged it when I arrived home. This was possibly one of the most awful caches it has been my displeasure to visit, and my log reflected this. The cache owner mentions a snack bar near here, which I remember only for its proximity to an abattoir and rendering plant, and the smell which made any thought of consuming food disappear. A previous cacher had said this: August 8, 2010 by kinghenry (411 found) Hardly worth stopping for. In a totally uninteresting spot! This evening I found that my log has been removed. Having never had a log removed before (or indeed had to remove one) can someone explain if there is a procedure or etiquette which should apply, or can cache owners just remove any non-positive log entries?

Well done, hope it survives.

Here's two taken on 2nd October in Wolverhampton, en-route to a canal side cache: I love signs with speling mistakes and this one of the football stadium:

I've had that! Nasty I slipped and banged my head setting one of my caches. Blood all over my jacket and a surreal night in hospital. Mind how you go!

Found it!

Stealing ammo containers is pretty low. Why can't they steal crap nanos?

I've got one on ebay just now... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...=STRK:MESELX:IT

I very seldom come on this forum. Now I remember why.

Thanks guys

Sorry but you haven't edited out all personal details Unless either one of my colleagues or myself has the full details of the request with generated the reply and the full reply that means including the headers. We are unable to assess or reply to the request. As you seem unwilling to provide this information, please provide all the evidence including GC Code and Proof of the Landowner where every cache is located to one of my colleagues or myself. In the case I mentioned, it is outside of the Fenced off area of the rails. And is a RoW forming part of a Coastal Path, which is being upgraded by the local CC. The reason I asked for Proof was due to the original cache location being a SSSI. The owner contacted the local CC Rangers for Permission, presuming as they'd just upgraded that section of Path that the CC must own it. It was the Ranger who provided information that the location was owned by Network Rail. At no time did I or do I have access to information showing the actual boundaries of Land Owned by Network Rail. and have to work on the basis of the Boundary Fence marks the Boundary. Caches on the other side of the Fence are not not knowingly published I've refused caches placed within the fenced area at Pedestrian Level Crossings accessed by stile or Kissing Gate. As for Side Tracked Caches, I use as many as possible resources to insure that the container is off Station Property! Again I have no access to the actual Boundary of Land owned by Network Rail. So try to insure that the container is off all indicated Network Rail Property, that is off the Station, Car park and any approach which appears to belong specifically to the Station. IE: is not also access to Non Network Rail Property. So as you have access to this information, please either provide it to my colleagues and myself, or provide Landownership and GC Codes for every cache that you have Proof is on Network Rail owned Land! Please stop beating around the bush claiming that it is down to the UK Reviewers to do the work! You obviously and intentionally started this issue, and claim to have the Proof. So please provide this proof to the UK Reviewers. Deci I know of at least two which are clearly listed as being on station property, so it is really not on to be having a dig at someone, making out he is lying.

Its obviously not my 'shout' to pass this information onto Network Rail. Hopefully TPTB/Reviewers can deal with this. ...... Please foreword the entire email including headers to one of us. It would help if you would also include the email you sent to them so that we can actually see what was sent to them to generate the reply. Because until one of us receives a copy of the emails including headers so that we can appropriately reply to the appropriate person. We are unable to proceed forward. ............ Deci I can't find any trace of "Brian" anywhere in the UK. However his twin is a backhaul manager for Walmart in the states. However, I've punted a mail to his most likely address, but I expect it to be returned to sender. You don't have an imaginary friend do you? According to my Network Rail address book he is a Communications Executive, based in London.

Its obviously not my 'shout' to pass this information onto Network Rail. Hopefully TPTB/Reviewers can deal with this. Rather than trying to Publicly ambush the UK Reviewers and Groundspeak, by posting part of a email you have apparently received, at a unknown date. Please foreword the entire email including headers to one of us. It would help if you would also include the email you sent to them so that we can actually see what was sent to them to generate the reply. Because until one of us receives a copy of the emails including headers so that we can appropriately reply to the appropriate person. We are unable to proceed forward. I would be interested in why Network Rail are implying that caches are located on or within the boundaries of the Rails! I am aware of one person who applied for permission on Network Rail Property who was refused. But in that case the location was a Public Footpath (RoW), outside of the fenced off Rail Area. And was a Designated SSSI along a Costal Path. Needless to say the cache was relocated off Network Railway owned land onto County Council owned Land. Deci They aren't, and nowhere do they imply that they are. The railway boundary is ANYWHERE within the railway boundary fencing.

I've found I'm having trouble with my Oregon 550. Fitting either the supplied rechargeables, or standard alkaline batteries (Energiser/Duracell) gives an erratic performance and a very short life. I find that within about twenty minutes the unit has frozen up and stopped recording or has shut down completely. If it has frozen I have to remove the batteries to reset it, as the power button will not respond. Lithium batteries when fitted from new show 3/4 full, dropping soon to 1/2 full, however it does not cut out while in use. Has anyone had similar issues? I contacted Garmin about a month back through their website, and since then I've had NO RESPONSE Anyone know how to get an answer from these people?

Anyone seen the article in TGO magazine regarding GPS? According to the magazine article, the GPS satellites are coming to the end off their life and their replacements are behind schedule, with the magazine foreseeing a danger to GPS reliant hillwalkers. You can read the magazine for free here: http://tesco.goreadgreen.com/ Any thoughts by those more in the know than myself (mine are on the TGO Forum).

There are some god awful caches out there, I despair of them. A cache I visited recently was simply the worst cache location I have ever seen, in an urban drinking den, littered with broken glass and goodness knows what else. There was no way I was moving ANYTHING with my hands to find it. Again, pointless nanos in urban areas suck the life out of geocaching for me. I'm with Forester on this, it's about the journey and the location, not the numbers.

But the argument would be - just as for clauses c and d - that the fence wasn't put there " for the main purpose of preventing or deterring any person entitled to exercise these rights from doing so".... but was simply there to stop animals escaping. Probably followed up with a little apology for the inconvenience caused.... Well there is one on a ROW near here which runs across open land and seems not to be to keep beasts in, but to catch out the unwary. Were it attached/adjacent to a fence I could perhaps see the point, but it's set up like a trip wire....

For a traditional cache FOUR MONTHS for this one, and only eleven finds in three and a half years. This one was FOUR WEEKS, but is, I think, one of, if not, the most remote cache in MAINLAND Britain. Only six visits in two and a half years.