Fifth Barrowcliffe
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Elzzep caches, ...
Now I have a problem with forum posts. What's an Elzzep cache?
Puzzle spelt backwards (and miss-spelt)
I figured out what was meant, maybe thats why I like some puzzle caches!
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K&G,
I am so sorry. That response was sarcasm on a fantastic scale! I don't think the OP meant to speel it rong. (bet they'll come back and say they did. Ho hum)
Hence the smiley..
On this occasion I didn't mean to spell it incorrectly, that is what happens when you post whilst being half asleep.
Editied to correct - whilst - I'm going back to bed.
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A list of good way to stop geocoins getting nicked
SNIP.....-
- Place it in a cache where no one visits.....ever...
End SNIP
Seems to be working for one of mine, if it still there in Jan 08 I will pick it up myself! The other Coins I have sent out have gone bye bye!
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I now know how deep the water is as I tried it today. It’s about 3 feet deep and another two feet of mud. Yeeeuch!
So we are talking about 5 foot to break the surface of the water, from the photographs the bridge is at least 3 ft above the water surface - OK waders are out - Looks like I will have to figure another way!
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There really needs to be a quick and easy way to generate these map image addresses...
Go for it, until there is I'll stick with the one I use. (all the other ones I have tried are eithe not Mac friendly or requre use of the fine adjustment hammer!)
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Been looking at my caches today after reading this thread.
Two long strenuous multis a couple of visits a year (the older one has 16 finds in over 3 years).
Ohh, I'll have to go and find those! The longer the walk the better - I did 18 km up and down Kinder scout a few weekends ago - ok I got 7 caches and 1 DNF for that, but the walk was what drew me there (Ok on the boggier bits of Knider it was the sink!).
If memory serves me right then my highest cache count was the whole of the Plough series in 1 day, quite a short walk.
Then again, 1 cache and a 14km walk, decending from 1700m to 1600m and the climbing to 2450m and back, just for one cache, that was more satisfying then any of the multiple cache grabs I have done. Me thinks Jerro might agree he did it a couple of days later!
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Elzzep caches, I enjoy them, there is something satisfying about figuring out how to find where the cache is. Some are easier than others, though (sp??).
On The light of life series - I spent almost three month trying to figure it out - on and off - PS as per my log I did actually visit Greece and an ex Mental Asylum before I solved them (These trips may or may not have helped - it may just be my strange and warped mind!).
100 Degrees and Alfred's accolade I figured out quite easily - One I have found the other I haven't got to yet - although I know exactly where it sould be!
I like making my brain work, it makes finding the tupperware even more interesting, keep them coming!
OK so my sister and me disagree on Puzzle caches - She avoids them like the plague - with a couple of exceptions - but everyone should know the answer to the twist to "Who was born here" if not stay behind the Sofa.
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Wow - impressive. Though it doesn't seem to like Safari nothing displays at all. Luckily I use both Firefox and Safari.
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(I haven’t recovered from that Mont De Grange cache yet ;-)
Just been looking at your stats - I will make the assumption that the one at over 2500m was done on the cable car then.
. Mont De Grange from Col de Bassachaux in 2 hours is good going. (Insert out of breath Smillie!) -
I've had a couple of caches where I have had to use a bit of lateral thinking to find them.
A multi with one of the stages missing, where I met my Nemesis.
The other (also a multi) was a first to find, where the known half of the coordinates were incorrect, but again I managed to find it.
One question though - how about if you do find it, but don't sign the log, can you still claim it as a find?
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At least the virtual caches are still 'logable' but its a pity that new ones cant be added. My favorite has to be the one on the site of the Blàr Allt a' Bhonnaich near Stirling.
One of my favourites as well. (I know a the response if a bit off topic!)
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Does anyone have a good way of keeping track of solved puzzles that they have yet to venture out to find? I see some logs where people have logged and said they solved the puzzle months ago but only got round to doing the cache.
I am useless for keeping hold of any info for more than 5minutes somedays.
A small A6 notebook, that fits in my pocket when I am caching. I also use it to log down comments etc, it is also quite useful as a muggle interferance tool. I just sit down on a convinent rock or the ground and appear to be writing in the note book.
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Nothing particularily weird. Stumbled across the front half of a rusty old Studebaker, though.
Get any good photographs of it? I am a bit of a car nut - except I like to see them rusting as well!
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When I am not using Shanks Pony used to pick between a 2003 Td4 Landrover Freelander or an 1992 200Tdi Landrover Defender - for when the going was rough, but now a 2006 Hyuandai Coupe (I believe its called a Tiburon in America)
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I thought they made cookers?
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Yet another one sent. And xcuse the spelling - I am still getting used to this keyboard.
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Well I was not expecting that, and it was quite large.
Whilst out caching today I found a music festival. (Couldn't understand a word the band sang, must be getting old! or possibly I had my head in too many speakes as a lad - at least it wasn't a folk festival
)What have you come across that you were not expecting?
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Totally agree, I you don't know where you are, on a map, a compass is as much use, safety wise, as a chocolate fireguard.
Both the compass and the chocolate fireguard could be pretty useful. You could use the compass to determine your location relative to landmarks or natural features on the map, and then you could use the chocolate fireguard as a tasty snack.
If Ray Mears happens to pass by the he can show you how to make fire by rubbing your PDA and your GPSr together.
And if you do get stuck, and its cold, and have had the training from Ray Mears you can use the map to as kindling to start the fire, and then you would need the fire guard (Hot Chocolate anyone!)
Seriously, there is something wonderful about maps, especially old ones that someone has used before, and has marked or put annotations on them (So why did they go there?) Plus their batteries don't run out.
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Give me paper maps, I am obsesed with them, nothing beats looking at old and new maps, and seeing what has changed over time.
I used to use memory map ploting cache locations and then use the OS map to get there (Some times an old Inch to the mile!), but as I have changed to a Mac from a PC, I don't yet have any digtial maping software on it (does any one using a Mac in the UK have any recomendations?).
I rely on the OS maps and my Garmin Nuvi 360 (Except when it tries to take me down roads I know don't go) and my trust Etrex Yellow to find the cache.
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Here's one for you, a seven part multi, with both physical caches and information to find. I find parts one and two, but cannot find the third part. However using a bit of lateral thinking I do find the final part, and sign the log.
So as I didn't find all the parts does this count as a find?
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That is quite a distance. What is the shortest distance, 1.09 kilometres is mine!
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As my date was free, added myself in.
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The Easter Egg hunt you organise for your nephews involves the use of GPs units and is in the form of a Multi.
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Water
Haven't figured out how to make them big, but
DING!
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He of lord of the rings/hobbit fame JRR Tolkein
Ding!
While we're waiting for a question from Fifth Barrowcliffe...
Which was the first jet airliner to enter commercial service?
A nice easy one.
What is this the chemical formula for?
HIJKLMNO
. Mont De Grange from Col de Bassachaux in 2 hours is good going. (Insert out of breath Smillie!)
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Ever had an "Evil" cache?
in General geocaching topics
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This is one of my favourite caches but also one of the most Evil caches I have found (so far). As per it's name it isn't at the posted coordinates...
Erased to protect my students:The cache isn't here.