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Thank you both Dave's for the brief history lesson, excellent. I'm all in favour of this type of post as it adds to my personal history of caching in the UK. I'm probably confused but isnt Erik "erik88L-R" or is he another one?

Oh, Er, what happens in 2013 then? We wait..... 88 years! All right for you young 'uns..... Juat a thought, do you think we will be knee deep in film cans and small plastic boxes by then?

I think I might do one next year on Nov 11th, probably shortly after 11am Oh, Er, what happens in 2013 then?

Another excellent reply in this topic from martlakes. I was just about to say the same......

Don't worry - it'll only take just under a year and eight months, at your current rate, to get to the 200

scooby666, you could place one in an existing circuit and see how it was received by comparing the comments in your log with the others surrounding it. If it catches on then others can be added, as far as I know there is no etiquette to stop you doing this other than the minimum cache spacing specified by GC. Personally we enjoy a challenge, and look forward to something a bit out of the ordinary. The mind numbing repetition of a series of similar/identical hides is usually pretty tedious, especially if its a so-so walk near busy roads, uninteresting area, etc. Good luck. H.

Have a look here: Linky It was covered recently (but it didn't include jeeps )

Our first challenge, or objective, was to get the Little Quest series of caches done in 12 months, we actually did it in just under 13 months. We also decided fairly early on to try to do the most Northerly, Easterly, Southerly and Westerly caches in the UK, which we have now done with the help of Simply Paul. Trouble is he's now set one further South, for the British Islands set, than the one we had done on Jersey a few years ago so we may have to visit there again if we can find some others who would like to share a boat to Les Minquiers! We keep a record of caches in a 25 mile radius of home and our hit rate is about 50/50 inside/outside that area, 686 of the 3040 in that 25 mile radius being completed so far. As our main interest is caching in the UK, we make a point of going for caches away from our local area. This is because the cache setting ethic or stlye varies so much across the UK, which we enjoy immensley, and keeps caching fresh for us. We don't bother with many local caches, mainly due to what we percieve as not being worth the hunt, so cant see much point in clearing the local area. Unless its a local cache, or set of caches, that appeal to us we either travel or don't bother!

Congratlations to Team Caracache who clocked 800 "sometime this afternoon"

We can with binoculars! Our first cache was set with that in mind - see the last posting in this thread: Linky Not so easy at present because the tress and hedge have grown up quite a lot over the years....

We placed our first cache, which is quite difficult, about 0.3 of a mile from our front door so we keep an eye out for visitors and can watch their progress with bino's from upstairs if we see them arrive. Not long after it was set a young family tried for it but didn't find it, they came back looking quite dejected so we gave them an extra clue and they set off back to the cache and returned with great big smiles! Priceless.... More than once L has also jumped on her bike and ridden over to give an additional hint if required. We sometime meet Wrighty at his caches as he checks them regularly, and have been accompanied by him and Mrs Wrighty when doing one of his trails - always a pleasure!

+ 2 = 33

We followed Niall's link to the Irish forum and read it with interest, and some degree of sadness, as we really had hoped to come to Ireland for a Mega soon! Equally, we understand the reluctance to invest the time and money on something that the people on the ground over feel may not be a success. But, I if I have the numbers correctly, should there only be half the attendance at an Irish Mega as there has been at the three so far there would still be over the magic 500 to count for the status. I bet it would still be a brilliant do. Thinks, all those counties, a different take on caching and another Ceilidh...... We think MrsB's suggestion of trying a pre-mega event in the next year or two has merit, especially as England, Scotland and, after next year, Wales will all have held a Mega. We would be very tempted to plan a trip around it. Definately promote it in the US and Europe - we met more non-GB cachers in Scotland than we have ever met at any previous Mega - don't underestimate the pull that an Irish Mega would provide. We wil be watching the proverbial space.....

GC1Q4HV - Let's Off Road 8 caches + a bonus in the Stroud/Cirencester area. Not done them yet but hope to soon. We nearly always cache in our Discovery, especially when further away from home or on hols in Scotland etc. We enjoy the comfort and being able to see over hedges, it is handy for some gentle greenlaning if necessary though.

Mmmm, I was pondering the similarities between caching and CB in the early 80's the other day. CB was great fun (I'm told ) and it effectively forced the then government to legalise it. It then became somewhat mundane and almost went away. Might caching go this way? There has been a huge increase in interest over the last couple of years but because it is going mainstream it may peak and then start to die away leaving a hardcore to carry on, or not as the case may-be, as CB did. There is also a similarity between equipment. The old CB was AM, with sideband for those looking for distant contacts and could only be aquired by the few in the know. When CB became legal and rigs were plentiful, and you didn't need to take your "twig" down before it got light it became run of the mill, it didn't provide much of a challenge. GPS technology in the beginning was not readily available, then yellow etrex or similar became available and then hand held PC's with MemoryMap, and now the current spate of readily available technology all make it so easy to find the average cache. Will we see the current government take caching on board and direct it's various departments to encourage it big time? Only time will tell. The London Parks scenario dosen't bode well, but there are always hurdles to over come. If it's a good thing that caching becomes mainstream, or otherwise, remains to be seen - one thing for sure is that it will evolve in a way that is acceptable to some and not to others. We shall see. H

Given your previous with the site owner, I expect he is ecstatic with that statement. There is no commercial activity associated with the site (for profit), as far as I can see. If there was only one offer in the world, we'd all be on MS Office, all buy fuel from Shell, and get our caching info from GC or GAGB. It's called choice. There is a different offer, including information, data, forums, etc. from each site. Ukcachers might feel their site offers more. Somebodys saved this SP for a long time

^^^^^^^^^^^^ And there's all the office work afterwards

No email! Drop us a line via our profile if you still need help......... L&H.

Merlin - this might be of interest Link to BaSHful stats site I shouldn't worry too much about the odd cache being down, just go for it, as most soon come up again especially when the CO knows you are after their specific one. Good luck, hope you enjoy your tour of England! L&H.

Thers a few in the Northern part of Worcestershire, with more being added recently, and seem to be lots in Shropshire from our few forrays up there. South Worcestershire dosent have may yet......

What CF said ^^^. It's a small minority of the UK caching community that reads and/or posts here.

Eh? Whats wrong with the CO taking the responsibility of getting it right first time? Please explain why you think it's some one elses responsibility to sort others _______* out! There are plenty of good examples about if folks get out and about and look and learn..... * insert lack of understanding of equipment, incompetence, idleness,- the list is endless - LOL.

Don't know how the rating system works as I'm not a fan of that type of thing - too subjective, but if no one did the cache because it was poor or if there were lots of TFTC's only, or poor logs, even if it had a good rating then surely the more experienced/discerning/sad* cachers would be reluctant to visit the cache. H. * Delete as applicable

It seems that "I think the co-ordinates are near enough" brigade are moving into this part of the world too from some of the caches that pop up in the area on my watch list. Not sure which is the worst those that own up to not having much idea where they have placed a cache or those whos first cache logs tell them they are some way out and do nothing about it. We remember doing loads of readings on different days before we set our first cache's to ensure we didn't incur the wrath, or jibes, of our locals. It seems a lot of new caches are placed without a care, anywhere, just to get something out there. One or two locals have asked why we haven't cleared our local patch, yet go some distance from home to do caches, and look a little bemused when we explain the above and that we can't be ar5ed bothered to do a 35mm film can on the side of a busy main road. We just don't bother with them and plan our caching trips based on quality, not quantity - but each to their own.