Foinavon

Really, so do you keep a tally of how many of the Welsh 914.4m have you climbed?

I'm in my 30's so I was born after decimalisation. I think at our school we were taught both systems. I think that the acid test is what settings you have on your Geocaching.com profile. Don't tell me you find out how many kilometeres a cache is from your house. Come on admit it I bet you have them on imperial.

Now that the EU has finally abandoned plans to enforce the metric system on the UK. Would there be any chance of ordnance survey going back to using miles and in particular using feet for height? How many of you when looking at ordnance survey map information don't perform mental calculations to get the data in a form we can actually process? I am not completely against the metric system, I work in engineering and always use it in that context. However as far as distances and heights are concerned nearly everyone uses imperial don't they?

As the person who rekindled this debate I would like to point out that as far as I was concerned Chav stood for Chatham Average, i.e. the term originated in Rochester. Any readers from that area please don't take offence, any town in the country has people like this but their yobs were the origin of the phrase. I have heard the term council housed and violent but I think its commonly accepted that this was something put to an existing concept as Simply Paul put it well a "Backronym". I know from where I live in Bolton "chavs" are quite common in places that are miles away from any council estates.

Heavens above! At least none of them tried to pee on me!

It was a bit early for that kind of thing but at about 8.00am this morning the local youths where shouting abuse at me when I returned to the car from a quick find on the way to work. Its just as well they didn't see me rooting around in the bushes. How common is this nowadays. Do we need a new icon "beware of chavs" for particular caches? It could be a baseball cap!

STUPID CLUES! You are in the middle of a forest and the clue is "Tree". or even worse is when the clue has nothing to do with the actual location of the cache and is some kind of joke. I don't mind cryptic clues but I prefer no clue at all to a useless one.

Both these happen to me all the time! 1 You rely in Tom Tom to take you somewhere near the cache. TomTom does its job and finds the nearest road to the cache site. Unfortunately somebodys house is in the way. 2 You have manually entered the coordinates by hand and you drive to the area where you think it is. Flick the gps on and alarm bells ring when the map does not show the waypoint with a little dot. Then "Find my nearest waypoints" does not have it on because its listed as being 10 miles away.

Its possible that they have found a cacher whos prepared to go out and check their caches for them so they don't need to bother.

If you do Merseyside Hazel I can do Cheshire as I work in sunny Runcorn.

How tantilising , a cache on my doorstep I'll only be able to find by visiting cornwall!

The thing is that I went to check on it because, someone emailed me with a DNF but did not log it online. Its a fake rock at the bottom of a tree. I wonder if somebody has moved it to a different tree.

Thank you!

My brother in law and I are the only people to have visited Wolfhole Crag in the last 12 months. I left my own TB in it which in hindsight might not have been a great idea!

I went to check on my Bolton Town Centre cache on Saturday and I could not find it. I assumed it had been muggled. This was the second time that it had gone so I decided to archive it. Since then two people have logged it as a find. One of them wrote to me with an perfect description of the cache and its location. He was there two days after I had been. Its seems I have been a bit hasty. Can one of our kind reviewers unarchive it please? I am completely baffled as to how I missed it.

Just to seperate this from the congratulations thread, how many cachers have held the top spot in the Uk? M1EYO and briefly Pengy and Tigger, and I beleive Seasider was first to 1000. Has anyone else ever been top of the shot? I suppose who ever found the first cache in the UK was by definition at the top for a while too!

Absolutely. What often happens also is that their names are often so unimaginative. They will have something like dulltrail no1, dulltrail no2 ..... dulltrail no56 etc etc. The problem is that when I log them I can't remember which one was which. I suspect this is the case for most people as these trail caches all seem to have the same log repeated 30 odd times (nice quick find etc, or number 6 of 23 tftc). I tend to do about three of them and then go somewhere else. Its caching for numbers!

I see that Alan ironically regained his lead on one of Pengy and Tigger's caches! Well done to all three of you, I am quite enjoying watching this battle at the top. Just another 556 people to overtake and I'll be challenging you (thats if you don't find anymore caches for the next 10 years )

I broke my own personal record yesterday by finding a grand total of EIGHT caches. So congratulations on 121, I have someway to go before I can attempt to break the record!

Hi Silver fox You have saved me the prod! I can see you held on so you could specifially help with its mission so that's good thanks! Also I was very pleased to see it got to the outer hebrides as they are special places to me as thats where my Mrs and I had our honeymoon. In fact I think I have been to that very pub! Talking of TB's one of mine has been out of action for 9 months. The current holder was no longer logging on to geocaching.com. However I was very pleasently suprised when it got moved only last week.

Right I'll get my prod ready. The cacher concerned is someone who logs on everyday and is a regular finder so hopefully it should be ok.

How long do folk usually leave it before contacting people who are holding on to travel their travel bugs? One of mine has been with someone for two months now. Is that worth a prod??

It is a shame. I have climbed the mountain in question and was hoping I would be able to up my Munro count.

(This is the first time I have done this)

Its a congratulations thread and a don't log multiple YOSM thread all rolled into one. Double the fun. Is there anything else we can tack on? Micros, power trails, popcorn?