JasonW

quote:Originally posted by Moss Trooper:I aint bitein.. yet ) Looks like Moss is planning to let your tyres down Tim ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

quote:Originally posted by Tim & June:I'm happy for you to buy us a couple of pints, but not so sure about you letting the wind out of me tyres though. That's OK - someone living near N54:58:02 W1:29:10 will be able to reinflate them for you without drawing breath.... assuming hot air will do ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

quote:Originally posted by Tim & June:I'm happy for you to buy us a couple of pints, but not so sure about you letting the wind out of me tyres though. That's OK - someone living near N54:58:02 W1:29:10 will be able to reinflate them for you without drawing breath.... assuming hot air will do ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

That Ford thing reminds me vaguely of an old version of Autoroute (think it was the first Win 95 compatible one) - if you had a route that passed J1 of the M6 it used to turn off the M6, do a lap of the Coventry ring road before rejoining the M6 at J1 - most entertaining ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

While I've been Geocaching - well while I've been looking for caches to do I've happened across some non-GPS-related sites that are probably useful to the caching fraternity - here's one for starters: WhereOnEarth.com has a gadget that enables you to find the latitude/longitude for any address in the world even with incomplete information, routes between 2 addresses (in the UK only) etc. Anyone else care to share ? ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Forgot to say - I'll be arriving on Saturday Morning, and I'm booked in at the Moorlands on Saturday night. The lady (whose name temporarily escapes me) at the Moorlands says that the 'thing in Dalby Forest' is the talk of the town. ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Forgot to say - I'll be arriving on Saturday Morning, and I'm booked in at the Moorlands on Saturday night. The lady (whose name temporarily escapes me) at the Moorlands says that the 'thing in Dalby Forest' is the talk of the town. ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Depending on the cache location & distance to it, all of some of the following: GPS (every time)4 AA Batteries (every time) Calling Sign Paper Punch (every time) Topo Map Compass Spare Compass (I've lost mine on a hike twice - soon as you buy a replacement the original turns up) Trekking Pole Cache Swaps Water Chocolate bars (handy if you need a quick dose of sugar) Baseball Cap (if it's sunny - thin on top) ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Does that mean you're getting 30+ hours out of your eTrex batteries then ? I get minimum 15 power-on hours (if it's not continuous usage that goes as high as 22-23 hours) with my Magellan 315 and only had one shock when it lost all the ephemeris data (turned out to be a fault in firmware - cured by a unit cold reset) ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

I guess there's no 'right' answer but maybe those that are going might like to reveal themselves (as going, so put your kit back on Moss ) ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

I guess there's no 'right' answer but maybe those that are going might like to reveal themselves (as going, so put your kit back on Moss ) ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Yup - for me the places are more important than the goodies when you get there - more than once I've been to a cache having raced past it countless times before - Lead Mines is one that springs instantly to mind here - I spent 18 months commuting weekly from Newcastle to Manchester and I passed within a mile of that cache but had no idea that there was a large country park there. That said I have a box full of cache gear in the boot of the car and always take a handful of stuff in case there's something worth swapping for - otherwise it's out with the batman cutter and punch a hole in the log book ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Yup - for me the places are more important than the goodies when you get there - more than once I've been to a cache having raced past it countless times before - Lead Mines is one that springs instantly to mind here - I spent 18 months commuting weekly from Newcastle to Manchester and I passed within a mile of that cache but had no idea that there was a large country park there. That said I have a box full of cache gear in the boot of the car and always take a handful of stuff in case there's something worth swapping for - otherwise it's out with the batman cutter and punch a hole in the log book ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

quote:Originally posted by Lost in Space:I agree wholeheartedly! What is the use of being told a tree is "pollarded"? Thanks, Hornet! Fancy being near 3000 trees and told "it's under a tree ?" - I did that to Moss Trooper when there were only 10-12 caches - at least if it's in a pollarded tree you'd have some clue that the tree you were looking for might be different to the other 2999 around you. ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Yup - seems to be about as humourous as a long distance cross-country cycle ride with no saddle when you have haemorrhoids - but maybe that's my British eye attempting to see the humour in an American strip - although I do find Dilbert funny and rather enjoy reading Dave Barry's column, so that can't entirely be it ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Yup - seems to be about as humourous as a long distance cross-country cycle ride with no saddle when you have haemorrhoids - but maybe that's my British eye attempting to see the humour in an American strip - although I do find Dilbert funny and rather enjoy reading Dave Barry's column, so that can't entirely be it ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Usually cache with BumbleBee - but occasionally there are caches that I want to do that she doesn't (usually ones involving walking uphill) so I wait until I'm on my own to do them. ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Jeez you guys are unbelievable - if it's a straight choice between the cache becoming waterlogged or otherwise damaged and replacing the container - whatever you replace it with - (not the content) then the right thing to do is what you would hope someone else would do to a cache of yours in the same circumstances. Just use some common sense - it makes the whole world a better place than constantly worrying if you're doing the right thing. I've replaced an over-filled small box with a larger one more than once now (nothing but thanks & positive noises from the cache owners I might add) - why'd I do it ? well because the box had actually burst open with the amount of stuff inside it - and you guys would probably be the first ones to whine if someone went to a cache and had to take more than fair trading in order to close the cache wouldn't you ? Are you going to trade into a cache that's damaged and letting in water ? What would you do faced with the dilemma of a cache you can't close in a smaller box than the one you have in your bag - replace the box or take more than a fair trade ? In any case the worst that will happen is that the owner might want his original box back (highly unlikely I'd have thought - who is going to fret over a $2 box or even a $5 ammo can) ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

quote:Originally posted by Jim M. Furubotten:If you are not using a map to find location, is map datum still important? The whole thing stems from the fact that the Earth is not a perfectly definable simple spheroidal shape so each of the map datums is making a representation of the earth - these representations are a pretty good fit, but not perfect and they vary in different ways. Imagine you want to describe where the USPS depot is in your town - if you describe it with respect to the Police Department you have one representation, if you do it with respect to the Fire Department you have another representation - both equally valid, but if you're just given the direction and have no clue whether it's based on starting at the PD or the FD you won't end up in the same place. Now read that paragraph again but substitute the following words: USPS Depot = Geocache, Police Department = NAD27 datum, Fire Department = WGS84 datum. Does it make any more sense ? ----8<--------8<---CUT-HERE---8<--------8<----

Either take a large pile of AA batteries (get them cheap from somewhere like 7dayshop or a euroadaptor for your charger - because you may end up paying insane numbers of £/€ for your batteries otherwise

quote:Originally posted by Moss Trooper:Word of warning.. don't hit tunnel between 7:30am an 9:30am.. or between 4:00 pm and 6:00pm total bottle neck.. I'd go along with that but extend the hours slightly based on probability of jam - 7.00am start more times than not, and 6.30pm finish equally regularly.

Well it's actually the picture of the winning pilot in the 1929 Schneider Trophy - Flying Officer HRD Waghorn - not sure why he'd look familiar to you though

Well from my home co-ordinates there are (right now) 140 in a 100 mile radius - the Northumbrian being further south than me probably has more than that in his list.... 83 for me and counting

Well from my home co-ordinates there are (right now) 140 in a 100 mile radius - the Northumbrian being further south than me probably has more than that in his list.... 83 for me and counting

I believe the same thing is happening to the signatures - I cleared mine out several hours ago from my profile page, but it still pops up here....