CrazyL200

Must be SPAM, why the errors in the text ? Not going to do anything until someone ( a moderator) can confirm if it's for real or not. Hope this isn't the first of many caused by a compromise of security. Appologies to Geocaching.com or Groundspeaj if I'm wrong

Congratulations to HazelS on hitting the 300 today at Roll Over Rover

So why aren't we allowed to run a charity event. There must be thousands of sports organisations around the world that do, what's different about Geocaching, surley it would help raise a profile of being supportive of the institutions that need financial assistance. If it's a charity you don't support, then don't go, if it's one you do or don't mind supporting then why not do two good things at the same time - caching and fund raising.

Wet plastic bags, yuck, and don't be surprised if someone clears it up and throws it in the skip thinking it's rubbish been dumped in our lovely country side. I found one once, in a plastic bag, in a bin bag, in a field that had sheep grazing, what would happen to one of those sheep if they found it. Also done a few where the camo bag has been chewed by local wildlife, imagine the suffering that could be caused (and probably has been) if they were plastic.

As I've commented on the "commercial cache" thread - the speed this thing runs at sometimes is dreadful. If a web based business had this sort of speed and number of "busy server" responses it would be calling in the receivers soon.

Weeeell. If the money it raises gets put back into Geocaching.com, perhaps to improve the service/s, then it is good for all of us. If it goes towards a new Merc for Jeremy, I'm less impressed. Put back into Geocaching.com - what, like buying a new, faster, server or some more bandwidth . I'd dread going out and finding 50 caches over a weekend, only to end up taking a week to log them on the current, dreadfully, slow server that's in use at the moment . Seems to take for ever some nights, especially if logging trackables. As for a "training event", at that price, no thanks, I learnt from a friend and I'm sure most newbies will do the same - better to spend the money on a new / better GPSr and/or mapping software. I don't remember (wasn't around maybe) anything about charity events - but, if we can't organise a charity do , then why should this be allowed to go ahead.

Well, they went for it today. Started at 10 pm last night. 32 caches, in 32 counties, in 22 hours and 50 mins. 1118 miles driven, plus what it took to get to the start and home from the finish. Knowing the roads in Ireland I'd say that's a pretty good challenge now completed. Well done to The Windsockers, Kili or bust, Donnacha and Hezekiah. While it's not a UK record as such, it's good to see similar events/challenges going on across the water.

Looks like the county record could be under threat by the boys in Ireland. Seems some of them are thinking of going for a mad trip of the 32 counties of Ireland. They even have a groupie now Having met and cached with some of them I'd say they stand a good chance, but I also have reservations about the distances involved and the roads they will have to contend with Heres wishing them all the best and good luck if they do go for it. See Step up Steve and Sean on the www.geocachingireland.com forum.

I'm sure I've seen you around on the Wirral, I live in Wallasey. Nice Landie. Give a wave next time I see you

I'm only bias because I have Range Rovers, like you are with yours. All 4x4 cars are equally as capable, its just some drivers are not! As for the byways....I just can not understand anyone else going off them. I have a cache sat by a byway that crosses with a foot path and a bridleway, it can be reached by anyone who wants to do a cache. on two or 4 feet, 2 or 4 wheels. You will see a small network of caches for 4x4's appearing, I like to do them, as I do have arthritis issues that mean I can not walk far, so my feet are my wheels. It's the one's who go off the rights of way that give us a bad name. There's one or two caches out in North Wales that are close to byways and can be reached by what ever method of transport you choose. Will watch with interest for the network of caches for 4x4s - it'll give me an excuse to do two of my hobbies in one go !!! Already have the Wiltshire Greenlanes caches set up as a PQ and will (hopefully) get round them soon. Maybe we could have a green laning / caching event one day ? A friend of mine is wheelchair bound, but is able to drive. It's amazing the places he can get his Freelander to and it's the only way he gets to enjoy the country side. Those who complain about "off roaders" sometimes miss this point when the go on about (legaly drivable) tracks being destoyed by 4x4s. I sometimes wonder at cache logs that say they drove almost to the cache - I wonder how many of them actually realise that, for some, they were driving on private tracks or drives and even more wonder at what car they were driving !!!

Driving a Mitsubishi L200, I can echo their comments. Except the bits about Range Rovers Only to add, that we only drive tracks that are know to be legal public rights of way.

congrats? - for spending more money than the rest of us???? ????? - cant wait till these coins make their way down to caches down here if they have been released - impressive icon/geocoin list there is there, it would be great to find them! But I dont think they will - they are still sitting a long past event waiting to return to a collection, hardly being released into geocaches! I've never featured high up in the COTM comp, and I probably never will... but I have a real problem. Coin collectors who's coins sit in a folder on their desk and get dragged around Meets to be logged then get "reclaimed" by the owner and then when they get logged out again, they claim the numbers as a move. Now, I'm not saying that Matt, or any other person high up the table did this - but I did overhear a collector at a meet tell another cacher not to replace the coins he logged into the designated cache as he wanted to do it "for the points on COTM" Surely this is not playing ball??? Totally agree, coins that just get passed around as part of a collection shouldn't be counted as TBs released even if they are logged into an (event) cache, unless they are REALLY released in to the wild (with a mission of some sort) where they could spend their life as a proper trackable. In my simple eyes, that's just counting for the sake of numbers !!! The COTM table clearly says Travel Bugs. NOT trackables, NOT coins ............... I thought TBs were thoses dog tag things you can buy to fix to an item and sent it out on it's travels. Maybe the COTM tables should drop TBs altogether as this discussion seems to go on every month. Just count caches. End of rant.......

As long as you change stuff before you eventually tick the box for review, you can do what you like to it. Once it's up for publishing, or been published, I believe the most you can change the co-ords by is 50 m.

For best results (and obviously speed during use) make sure they are Hi Speed cards. The faster they are, the faster your PDA and mapping software will work when opening / loading lots of data.

The other way of doing it is : yyyyyyy[/url don't forget to add a ] after /url (can't do it in this example or it'll try to add a link !!!) where xxxxxx is the weblink www.etc... and yyyyyy is the text you want the link to appear as

I use a hi speed 2GB card and have 3 or 4 complete map areas on it at any one time. Works fine, just a bit slow sometimes opening up, depending on how many overlays are being opened at the same time. (But once opened for the first time that day I never shut MM down on the pda). I have this many due to the amount off travelling in a week I can do and can't be bothered with reloading different areas. Seemless operation when moving from one map to another. Just export the relevant MMO file from the pc to the sd card and overlay on the pda. Just need to be good with house keeping and delete cache flags as you do them, therefore reducing the posibility of duplicated overlays when you come to do the next pq and subsequent overlays.

So, the following records will all be achievable in one go by doing a blast around the motorways - once there's enough of them out there. Most UK in 24 hours (current record = 54) Most counties in 24 hours (current record = 27 (England)) Most in a week (current record = 114) Most in a month (current record = 216) Quickest 100 (current record = 5 days) Surely, they deserve a "class" of their own. Most in 24 hours Fastest 100

Doh - knew it would be me !!! Thanks for that. Topic locked.

Looking through all the other country boards (with the exception of one or two), it seems as if nothing existed on here before the beginning of Feb 2006

Just been trying to find an old thread and can't. Seems the UK forum only runs to 7 pages and the last one posted to only as far back as the begining of Feb 2006. Or have I missed the archives somewhere ? Or have we lost a lot of good info ??

My vote is NO - and agree with all Mancunian Pyrocaher says, in particular devaluing the the way records need to be planned. Motorway Mayhem - simply jump in your car and do a round robin of motorways and hey presto, you've several records in one go. The only way then to beat that record is to keep pushing the driving speed up on the motorway. I think this would encourage motorway speeding - not good from the point of view of promoting the sport. Both in the press, to the authorities and to new cachers. Yes, it's up to us which caches we do and in what way, but don't add this to the record attempts (it's only a bit of fun, but some will take it seriously). If needed, give them a unique set of records. Most in 24 hours - (encouraging speeding on the motorways ??) Fastest 100 - (encouraging speeding on the motorways ??) Quickest time to do them all ..... but that will never mean anything because there's new ones all the time. I can just see the headlines..................

In a similar vein, 3 of us were out caching over the last 3 days - 4 different GPS units (3 garmins and a pda with a bluetoothed receiver), nearly every time we approached a cache we were looking in 3 slightly different places. Not far from each other, but enough to notice a difference. We also noticed that tree cover affected each of them differently, some times by as much as 5 or 6 metres.

Well, three of us did 4 MM caches yesterday on the way home from a meeting and 2 days of caching. Just some observations. 1st one - not bad - in a layby, just off the junction, fairly easy to get at, but you'd get easily muggled if other vehicles were parked in the layby. Took ages to get to it from the motorway in rush hour. (Serves us right). 2nd one - easy to get to, but cache was amongst some nasty rubbish - it's obvioulsy a place folk just drop rubbish out of the car and the path it's on is only about 10 yards long - only a cut through from one road to another. Also right under the windows of a hotel and parking spaces, also overlooked by nearby houses. Didn't feel too happy looking for this one. Would not be good in a suit or decent clothes - got tangled in thorn bush. 3rd one - quick to get to, but again, rubbish around. 4th one - quick to get to, but not easy to cross the very busy road in/out of services, and good luck to anyone who tries to park close to it - it's right on the side of a roundabout - muggled by every vehicle going around the roundabout to/fro the services. During the 3 days we were caching together, we did one that could easily be turned into MM cache with a bit of a move, or a note to say take you boots and a pair of over trousers to stay clean (it was a bit muddy). Reading the cache pages for several others, we got the feeling that there could now be a quite few caches being put out for the hell of it, just to build the series up. (Record attempts coming soon ??). Rant over, I'll go back to walking in the country side now - tried them - not sure I like them - but that's my personal opinion.

Just sent the payment for mine, thanks very nuch.

Order sent, Regards, Nick.