gingerbreadmen
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Well done chaps, time to go and buy some new batteries for the torch for those early starts for the next thousand
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Why do so many cachers think 800 is a significant number?
100,500,1000 maybe...but surely not 800!!!!
Apologies MarsBars, my mistake, it was a genuine error. I take it back and will wait until your 1000th.
Sorry Dave, the pint will have to wait.
I don't know how I could have been so inconsiderate.
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A big well done to The MarsBars for reaching 800 today, and to think Dave doesn't look a day over 799.
Well done all, but you'd never have got close to that number without sending Jorf'n into, through and under all of those spikey bushes!
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Received my three today, great coins. Will release them into the wild pretty soon.
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Get a Dave MarsBar
Walk behind him with no electrical gubbins turned on (saves batteries)
When in immediate vicinity of cache turn pda/gps etc on, by the time it's warmed up he should have found the cache
When it looks like he's found the cache but before he's touched it move in close and say "There it is"
Get in quick and open box
Say "Ooh, look, a nice shiney coin, would you like a look Dave?"
Return to car and say "Well, that was an easy one, where next?"
I can't be too rude, I'll need something computery sorting out soon
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If you only go to half the games next season..then thats 50% less dissapointment!
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As you obviously have a system that suits you already when geocaching, why not simply upgrade your Bluetooth GPS to a Sirf III one, such as the Global Sat BT-338. Total expenditure £69 and next day delivery if ordered by 1500hrs. Just a suggestion!
That's the one I have but I am forever losing my signal, I suppose I could always get her to pay for half of next season's season ticket for Everton but she doesn't hate me quite that much... yet.
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I go caching with an etrex legend and a small ipac pda utilising Mem Map which is linked to a gps receiver via bluetooth, when it works it's great but unfortunately it loses its signal requiring many a soft reset (ain't life hard, huh?).
Christmas is on its jolly way and my nearest and dearest is going frantic not knowing where to splash her hard earned cash, she is going to give me a certain amount and I will make up the difference but what to go for. I fancy a Garmin 60CSx but I have been wondering about a higher spec pda with built in gps receiver (SiRF lll). Having said that, I could do with a lap-top.....
I really don't want hundreds of pairs of socks...oooohhhh what should I do????
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Argh! I've just seen Dave MarsBars's competition!!!
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...4b-89cc02b084e8
Full credit where it's due, such an aged gent holding up something that heavy must take some doing......
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Watching with baited breath....
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We should all immediately wrap ourselves in cotton wool and lock ourselves in our houses, sealing all the doors and windows with gaffer tape to keep the nasties out!
... and suffocate?
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What are the most inventive TB's out there? Or what have you got plans to do?
Favourite TB so far is one I've not found..... Tea Brick
I would suggest a prototype I saw in t'pub the other night, I can't wait for it to be released into the wild, it's going on my watchlist for much mirth and amusement, not that I'll be looking for it myself.
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I'm trying to get hold of a large number of 35mm film canisters, and am not finding it easy. I don't want to give too much away, but they are not for micro caches - but I do need over a hundred.
I've been to Jessops and asked - they reply was "we don't collect them anymore" and they could only give me four... this is going to take a long time!
I know I can get them from the US on ebay, but the only people selling them in large quantities don't take paypal, and the rest are overpriced on delivery. I'm generally not having much luck and wondered if anyone had any ideas.
Thanks
ZoomLens
I've found loads around here in trees, up trees, behind trees, under trees, same goes for gorse bushes and bits of old wall, usually they have a bit a paper and a very small pencil in them, I just chuck those bits away and keep the pots, I'll forward some on if you like.
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I hate leaves. I've got four week of raking them up
J
So much caching, so little time, don't waste it by clearing the garden, do what I did ...get a wife... oops ... runs for cover (if I hide in that pile of leaves in the garden she'll never find me...)
ps for the pc brigade, I would never, ever in all seriousness suggest that my lovely wife should clean up the leaves in the garden, it is a preposterous thing to ask her to do ... the chain from the kitchen sink wouldn't stretch that far for one thing... OUCH!
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And this is our new caching hound called Magic
She is only good for micros at the moment
Very cute, but why are you about to kick her up the bum?
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I recently watched a seagull standing in one place and stamping its feet really fast.
I have never seen this before and I can only imagine that the worms think its raining
and come to the surface.
Funny thing was, I saw another one doing it the next week in a completely different place.
This is a common sight round this way and you are right they are making worms think it is raining.
But has anybody ever seen a seagull doing this in the rain?
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Hope they don't put it on a database like that bank t'other day, then some dullard takes his lap-top home and has it pinched. Imagine the smile on the crims face when he finds a list of houses and what they have to pinch inside.
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Andy'll put you straight, then I'll tell you how it really works.
Dontcha just hate it when your Dad has a go at you in public?
The Griffin tomorrow night at 7.30 Bill and the old fella will explain all, I'll be the youngster in the corner with a pint of bitter and a pda that works. -
Here's how I do mine:
First of all, don't attempt to make a filter consisting of 500 in GSAK, you may need spare waypoints in your gps when attempting multis, wanting to find your way back to the car etc, 400 caches is more than enough for one day for anybody
Using this system you don't really need to bother with Cachemate as when you touch and hold the icon on the memorymap after a few seconds it opens showing you all the info required, having said that I do load up Cachmate as back-up.
Here goes:
1) Delete Output.csv and Cache folder from C drive. (obviously the first time you try this it may not be there)
2) Open Memorymap <Overlay><Delete All>
3) Delete "Cache" folder from your SD card on your PDA.
(This might take it quite a few minutes).
4) Open Memory Map on your PDA <Overlay><Delete All>
(4a) I have my MM sored on a CF card on my pda - I still send stuff to my SD card though, it still works ok, if you also have a CF card as well as an SD you should have a file called "Geos" open it and delete it's contents too)
Everything should now be clear.
5) GSAK <File><Export><Custom Export>
6) GSAK <File><Export><HTML files>
7) GSAK <File><Export><GPX/LOC files>
(7a) If you want to use TomTom to get to the area then GSAK <File><Export><TomTom)
8) Open Memory Map <Overlay><Import> Output.csv
9) Hook up PDA using Active sync as normal.
10) In Memory Map <PDA><Export Data to PDA>
11) Use Activesync and navigate to your SD card
12) Drag "Cache" folder (which is on “C drive”) onto your SD card
13) Drag GPX file onto your SD card (File that is, not folder)
(13a If also using Cachemate then drag the same GPX file onto your Cachmate icon)
14) Hook up your GPS with the PC
15) GSAK <GPS><Send Waypoints>
Hope the above is of some help.
Thanks to Dave MarsBar for the above to which I have added the merest tweak!
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No no no, it's far too early. Kick Christmas into December...
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So micros..Good or bad?.....
If placed anywhere near where a regular (or even small) could be hidden then they are a pain in the Harris. Urban ones I can understand, rural ones? GRRRRRRRR
Mind you, re my above comment, I may have been in a slightly more benevolent frame of mind if I hadn't just 1, cut my hands to ribbons, 2, gone flying and landed on an already injured back and 3, am now suffering the mother of all colds after spending half a day's caching in the rain ... all for micros. Ask me next week when I'm fully recovered and I may give a more positive answer
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My PQs have been arriving a day after my request (if at all), and to think I started to use Googlemail cos of the troubles I was having with AOL
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So micros..Good or bad?.....
If placed anywhere near where a regular (or even small) could be hidden then they are a pain in the Harris. Urban ones I can understand, rural ones? GRRRRRRRR
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I understand that MM can't be uploaded onto the GPS60CSx (although I don't understand why when other maps can). Now, never wanting to be mistaken for being cynical (moi? nah!) but what are the chances of the next Garmin model being able to do so, thereby incresing their sales potential to those already tooled up with the current top of the range model, or is there some reason why MM is never likely to be uploadable?
Yorkshire geocoins
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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I must have lost my piece of paper with t' instructions on and can't seem to find it on any site I visit, but where do I go to obtain my activation code for a Yorkshire geocoin?