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Thank you ever so! I shall check those out for next time I am down. I'd printed out a few that you mention last time I was down, and also a multi-cache one in the New Forest which seemed to mainly involve driving.. but unfortunately the weather was miserable! Another time... One friendly fellow cacher also pointed me in the direction of this site: handicaching which looks like it might be a useful search tool, though I haven't actually tried it out yet. Thanks again, Clare

Sorry to double post but.... Is it possible to search for caches with specific attributes? I'ld like to take my Dad caching, but i'ld need them to be reasonably wheelchair friendly (pushchair friendly should be comparable). Though I could trawl though all the caches within a half hour drive of southampton, I was hoping there might be an easier option. Any ideas? Clare

Just to update / add.... My mistake! You can get google earth cache finding option without being a premium member. A friend has just shown me, it's on the right hand margin of your profile page. (Click on download google earth, and you can just choose the 'open' option if you already have google earth on your computer. easy!). I was expecting to find it on the 'hide and seek' page . So, more than a month into my geocaching... I am now finding the initial planning part of the process a lot easier ! Hope that may help another newbie! When I was just doing a keyword search, failed to find any near the Gare du Nord in Paris (we just had a reasonably short stopover). Checking back on google earth confirmes that there aren't any. But we managed a few in London before we hopped on the Eurostar, so all was not lost! Clare

I use google earth to recce an area that I am going to ski in. I 've not found a cache while skiing, but I have found caches in the summer in mountains that will be ski pistes later in the year. The other thing I do is use GSAK and then export them to Autoroute. Of course you need a pretty good map of the area before you start hunting around. Piste maps are rubbish for working out what the area is going to be like before you get there. Thanks, but I think google earth 'searching' is only avaliable on the premium membership options... if you are not a premium member is there any way you can track down caches overseas? To be honest, I think the chances of finding caches while snowboarding is pretty low, but we have a bit of time in Paris on the way over, and it'ld be good to know what the options are.

Thanks Mark and Lynn... all tips very welcome! I've got a question about tracking down caches in other countries. I'm heading off to France end of this week, but all I seem to be able to do is search under the drop down menu 'france', which throws up loads of caches, and I can't sort out which might be near where I am going. Does anyone knw how I can order them more helpfully? (also, is there any likelyhood of being able to combine geo-caching and snowboarding... or is that simply ridiculous?!) clare