Amanita_d

Shiny brand new newbie here! I've found one virtual, and that's it, can't seem to actually get my hands on the things. Is there anyone in Central London/Soho who'd be willing to meet up occasionally at weekday lunchtimes or after work to run me through the ropes and maybe let me play with their GPSr? I'm getting a bit disillusioned at my crap finding skills please restore my fledgling faith in this pastime!!

Any advice to a newbie as to how you can tell? I was scared off GCWB33 by a couple of guys with backpacks and notebooks last weekend. They didn't seem to be together, but did seem to be doing the same as each other. I was a bit too shy to approach them, and didn't see any signs of a GPSr, so gave it up after a while when they showed no signs of going away and indeed seemed to be waiting for me to leave... There should be some sort of secret signal or password or something

As a newbie in London I thoroughly enjoyed London Invasion, but didn't manage to find the final part, not sure if that was due to my inexperience or trouble with the cache.

That sounds interesting, but from what I've been able to find out from my brief research this morning, that is a US-only solution? Is there an equivalent in the UK that I could use? I've always been interested in mapreading, and I loved orienteering since I was a kid, so I wouldn't be shy of trying that kind of challenge

Wow!

I used maps.google.co.uk to find the places marked by the co-ordinates. Because of the particular type of cache it was, all the co-ordinates were listed for the intermediate places, so I then marked them all with pushpins on local.live.com and printed out a map with pushpins. Maybe it was a puzzle rather than a multi... I'm not sure gotta get the hang of this lingo! It's probably not the best way of doing it, but it saves investing a fair chunk of money in a hobby before I've even tried it (been there, done that, would rather avoid it in future!) and at least here (Central London) the co-ordinates and map seem to match up pretty closely, so I had no trouble finding the 5 locations I did yesterday, anyway.

Thank you!! I'm having a lot of fun with this - good to know I can do it my own awkward way for the time being

Tried my hand at my first ever cache today, a multi which I didn't have time to finish, but will come back to at the weekend. I plotted the co-ordinates on a map and printed it, and used that to find the places, but it only occurred to me afterwards that maybe the GPS part of it was obligatory? I know this is probably the sort of question where the answer is really obvious to everyone reading this, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't breaking any rules before I claimed a cache 'found'. So, is it ok to do it the way I have done, or do I actually have to have a unit in my hand for it to count? Thanks