scottpa100
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It's a shame that these caches are going, but I think the police have acted with remarkable good sense.
Putting myself in the cache owners position here, I would certainly either comply with the requests or remove the caches- and if I was unable to remove them in the timescale I would ask for help on this forum for local cachers to remove them for me.
This is a sensible comment. There is plenty 'oh couldn't have been done this way, and what if people were contacted this way' but the police have a job to do and as have the reviewers and I think if we just stop.... and think... a very reasonable middle ground has been found.
If people are unable to maintain the caches, then get them advertised on the forums asking for others to look after them, and after, I don't know, 4 weeks, no response, archive the cache. Then a new cache can be located in the vicinity by someone else.
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I've not been to a camping type event yet, so I'm squeaky clean (so to speak...). Anyhow, I think comments already raised saying that if people are discrete about it and what not then surely its not that much of a problem? I mean, let's be honest. If the camp site were not to be full of geocachers, it would be full of other people who are also on holiday / having break / enjoying time with someone special / hoping to meet someone 'special'.
However, I do think that the more than reasonable request about being discrete is a modest request that everyone should try and accommodate. It would be dreadful to the geocaching community in general if the camping events were to diminish in popularity.
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Now if some kind soul slits his throat and dumps him in the canal, we really will need M. Poirot
Oh my God!
Looking at his profile and even in this day and age of the jet engine, flying between California, Rome, Arkansas, Croatia etc etc within three days, its just not possible. I know we all of different ways of playing the game / sport (call it what you will) but there's flexing the rules and downright cheating!!! -
United Kingdom England
United Kingdom Northern Ireland
United Kingdom Scotland
United Kingdom Wales
Cornwall ?
Channel islands ?
Outer hebridies ?
The UK would be better served by a states (counties) list. One level of coding for the current counties list no need for sub levels.
I think that the word counties means something different in the UK i mainly cache in Shropshire cause thats where i live
I definately think that we should just use United Kingdom, England; United Kingdom, Northern Ireland; United Kingdom, Scotland and United Kingdom, Wales. Why? The names of them don't change, much like the names of the 50 states don't. However, the names of the administrative counties / regions / boroughs etc do. Whilst I can think of the benefits of searching queries by country (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) I can see no benefit of searching by county. Where I am in north Wales, geocacheuk.com thinks that we have two counties (we actually have 6, due to changes in 1996) and in those 'two' counties we have under 300 caches. Some counties are going to have even less, and in other areas (south east England springs to mind) there are many many caches.
I like the idea of making the search more specific, if required, for the UK, but going down to a County level just turns it into a paper exercise of keeping records up to date and we'd only complain when X county is not available when it has been known as Y for the past 3 and half years anyhow!
So, for reiteration, stick with the names of the four home nations. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent!
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Bounce + is anything happening on this idea?
Jon.
Cool, glad to see a bounce. I was wondering with it all going quiet whether things were still happening... hope they are!! I'm in hill training! Stretching those quadraceps!
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I paid to be a premium member yesterday evening and i'm still a normal member. How come? how long did it take for you guys?
radsem
Check your mail, check your paypal and make sure that money has been moved / taken. Mine come through within an hour or so (which I just put down to e-mail processing and what not). Of course, check your anti-junk mail filters too.
Once you go paperless, you won't regret it!
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I just went to my local specialist photography shop. Asked if they had any 35mm pots. They would have given me tens of them - they seem mildly gutted when I said 10 would do!
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This chap Michael Barron AKA Utterchaos picked up a geocoin of mine on 23rd May 2006. I've emailed him numerous times through gc.com and also the yahoo address below but to date have not had a reply.
Though he's not logged a cache since June 2006 he still accesses gc.com, indeed his last visit was today
.I'd very much like to get my coin back into circulation, and if anyone knows this individual I'd appreciate it if you could give him a "nudge".
These are the contact details I have for him .....
Michael Barron
Cowplain, Hampshire
edited to remove the email address. Deceanngi
With the power of the internet and telephone directories and stuff, why don't you find out his address and write a letter? A typed letter? Much more formal, much more sincere than an e-mail and if presented with a polite but assertive tone saying things about stealing someone else's property etc, I think that should get something moving. Its much easier to ignore an e-mail (indeed how many of us just read the titles and go.... Delete, delete delete) than it is a letter.
And just to be a devil's advocate - maybe he is not receiving your e-mails. E-mails that are sent to me via geocaching.com are actually flagged as spam for me and my filter automatically goes and puts them in my junk folder. Fortunately I have recognised this so have set up a filter to unfilter so to speak to make sure I still get my very important caching messages!
Hope you get your geocoin moving soon.
Scott
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Hi, I have to agree with PopUpPirate
I have a GPSMap60CS. A Garmin with colour screen and maps. I have both City Select and Topo Great Britain v2. City Select retails for about £90, and Topo, because of licensing from OS, costs about 140 but I got mine for £120.
I originally started using City Select on the GPSr and my OS maps. Thought 'Hey this is an modern technical hobby, I want the maps with me but I don't want to duplicate effort'. So I bought the Topo Great Britiain. The theory was that I don't have to use City Select, I can stop carrying around the OS maps.
PopUpPirate is right though - if you're used to OS maps, the Topo maps on the Garmin just are not suitable. They are slow (compared to City Select which just has roads), not as much information as a normal map and ends up using much more space on the memory of the GPSr. I still use Topo for my routing as its more modern and up to date than the City Select but I have gone back to taking an OS map out with me. I enjoy rural caching and being able to read the topographical information for an area is also useful (in fact in mountainous areas, more than useful its a requirement!)
In areas I don't know, the reassurance, the gravity of respect that OS has from people from all walks of life (even though there is a get out clause on the OS maps) you feel you could argue the toss with an unhelpful landowner regarding rights of way etc just makes you more comfortable tackling caches (or scientific school surveys) in those areas.
Those are my experiences, and I have not used Memory Map on a PDA so can not legitimately comment. However, I have seen Memory Map on a Windows PDA, and that is good. 1:25000 scale map (same as OS Explorer series) in the palm of your hand, scrollable and searchable. Might be something on my Christmas list for 2007!
PS You used to be able to get FREE Topographical data of the UK and Ireland from the Scottish Mountaineering Club's website but even following the links on the site, it all seems to have gone!
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I've been in the UK and France. Compared to the UK which has over 14000 caches now, last July I managed to get all of France's cache on my PDA on one search. There was less then 500 caches in a country three times the size (land mass) of the UK!) After all the prep I only managed to get one because of distances. We went to Poland last May, and the two caches were tried had been muggled. The one near Auschwitz (amazing humbling experience) and one in the city centre of Krakow.
Hoping to grab one or ten caches in Portugal when I go there in March.
Happy geocaching!
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Just my ten penneth for this conversation. I think some people are giving becca&dan a hard time here, especially if their comments are valid. So what if they have done the caches and then chose to complain afterwards? There's no point complaining BEFORE you've visited. There is a large series of caches where I live and I've done most of them and I didn't enjoy them that much. But I've done them to get them out of the way.
I could have ignored them, even used the premium feature to just get rid, but whilst there maybe over 14000 caches in the UK (which is a lot!) it depends where you are. Scotland doesn't have so many. Where I am, there's plenty along the A55 corridor and in northern and very southern Snowdonia but get away from those areas and the density really goes down. So maybe some people like to visit their own local(ish) area and to give the cache / cacher a chance.
An observation, even if critical, is always valid.
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I guess I must be a rednec... not quite there yet. I think I do almost all of them except the last two!
Where are the tablets?!!!!
I don't know what tablets are???
Sorry, a 'Britishism'. You might call them pills?
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I guess I must be a rednec... not quite there yet. I think I do almost all of them except the last two!
Where are the tablets?!!!!
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Any examples of sizes and cost?
The 468ml works out £1.49 normally, but 75p each when buying two (BOGOF). I've bought a total of 8 boxes, they'll all be suitable enough to small TBs and geocoins, and I just need an ammo box for the top cache that heads of the series then I can start laying them out!!
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Not really
Short succinct answer. Why 'not really'? An explanation why it can't be done would be better.
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Couldn't you put them into the cache log in cachemate or equivalent, and then log the TBs as you log the caches?
That's what I do and it works! I note from the previous log, it stress 'Free'. Cachemate ain't free, but at 8 dollars, thats oooo, £4.40 or something. For comparison that's about 5 loaves of bread or 2 pints of lager or about 16 pints of fresh semi-skimmed milk or 3 Kg of bananas.
Not a lot is what I'm getting at! Cachemate is a bargain!
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I'm using Firefox 2.0x patched up blah blah with loads of add-ons. The window is not resizeable for me either - not that it is a problem. It displays at a size that allows all the smileys etc to be displayed. If I recall (some HTML uber expert will probably correct me as I only mess around with HTML anyhow) you can get HTML to open a new window at a predefined size. It its predefined, my logic (not the best!) says to me you shouldn't be able to adjust the size because it is different to the size that the web developer type bod wants you to use. So you can't adjust.
That's my thinking. Any other comments?
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Look up an event cache, hover over the icon next to the hidden date, this will say 'Remember this date!' Click it at you get a download stright into MS outlook!
Well i thought it was pretty cool......
Anyone know when this came about?
Yep, I didn't know about this, so a top tip! Thanks for sharing.
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Just installed this as recommended in another thread, and it ace! I've always gone the long way round for the 25k maps, and now it just soooo much easier! Thanks very much!
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Any examples of sizes and cost?
er, I didn't buy any (its not pay day until Monday!) as I need to buy about 10 for a series I'm planning. However I recall that there was 450ml size box, which was the half way one, so I can assume a 1 litre-ish box and there was 280ml ish box too. One of them was priced at 99p, but I can't remember whether that was the 450ml or the 280ml. I've looked on Morrison's website and they are not listed there.
Anyone else know? Otherwise it sounds like you may have to go to the shops!
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Just got back from the weekly dirge of shopping (stops me from caching!) and I noticed that clip-it plastic storage boxes are on offer. Buy one, get one free. Across the range, not just the small ones either!
I hope that a load of cache creation will now take place!
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what really bugs me is people planting a cache in a tourist-prolific zone, knowing they'll have at least a visit a month from a foreign cacher
Ha!! That'll be me in March. I'll get a few but I won't go crazy though, I'm going to Portugal with my distinctly non-geocaching brother!
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Ooooo! You're all harbingers of doom! The tunnel is being closed for a month a survey according to the linked article and then and only then will we know if the tunnel will be closed off. Yes it has a history of subsidence, but they've found ways around it in the past (don't forget as a canal tunnel it has probably been there for over 200 years) and as for the budget cuts, they are budget cuts. They will never be as bad as the budget cuts experienced by British Waterways in the 1960's, and the canals managed to scrape through that (though it was a rough ride!)
Keep positive UNTIL the actual yay or nay has been said. Sounds a good cache location though, I'm sure it'll be around when I reach that area!!
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I searched too and there's
1 coming to Newcastle and 1 going to Durham.
I sure there's going to be a race for those 2.
When I start mine off do I "grab it from somewhere else" ??
Yep, just grab it. And then place it your nearest cache!
That's all I did. And its all ready been moved on.
Looking at his profile and even in this day and age of the jet engine, flying between California, Rome, Arkansas, Croatia etc etc within three days, its just not possible. I know we all of different ways of playing the game / sport (call it what you will) but there's flexing the rules and downright cheating!!! 
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A decent two man tent that would be good for camping events?
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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I need to get a tent. I'm going to my first camping event this year. Looking around, there's a huge variety for all sorts of budgets etc. My budget is about 60 - 70 pounds. I've been looking at a Vango Gamma 250 Tent which on this website I can pick up for just under £50.00.
I'll be going for that one most likely but I thought there is going to be a wealth of knowledge
in the geocaching community so thought I'd ask here.
Thanks in advance.