sidewallwolf

We did the one in the Forum, which was really good. It's quite a busy area though, you have to be quite discreet.

Hi, I'm not that new to caching, but often struggle with searching using geocaching.com. A frequent requirement is to find caches near a town or village. For example, this weekend I will be travelling to Basingstoke, Hampshire (holiday mecca of S.E. UK), and would like to see what geocaches are nearby. 1 If I start my search with "Hide and Seek a Cache" > by country [select list - UK], I then get a list of 7573 caches across 379 pages. This is not very useful. 2 If I then select "New Search" and start another search (for example keyword, Hampshire), I get the list of all caches worldwide that have a Hampshire keyword. Which includes new hampshire in the US. Does anybody else struggle.?

I would, but my server is down at the moment. But, S&G.Davison have their own web server, and I am sure they would be pleased to help.

Hi, Just wondering... How many people "belong" under GC.com usernames. Sidewallwolf is a team of 5 families, making a total of 24 people. Are we the biggest geocaching team?

Hi, Just wondering if anyone knew you needed "installed" on you rmobile phone to use the cache details on your mobile on geocacheuk.com. I have tried it with a Nokia 6610, a Nokia 6310i, a Nokia 5210 and a Motorola E365. Please Help!

We are running TomTom 3 with an iPAQ 3700. It is great for in-car navigation, although quite expensive. We put the maps on a 256MB CF card, and have the maps for the whole of Western Europe. The only thing annoying with it is the "Turn around when possible" voice which you hear slightly too often. So, I found the wav file which it uses, recorded my own, which was slightly more entertaining, and overwrote the old one. You can never get bored of "GET OFF THE ROAD" being screamed at you when you take a wrong turning

Congratulations, there was a post in the forum only a couple of weeks ago about your 100th cache. That's extremely good going!

I reckon a good multi is one that has an interesting background to it, and is based around a theme. Take Team Paradise's Aircraft Avenue cache. It has an interesting, historical theme and combines that into getting clues for the actual cache. Water Lily Lake Loop (also by Team Paradise), also has a historical side to it, and it also offers great scenery. I'm sorry if this sounds like I want to make people visit the caches, but they are brilliant caches.

A couple of things I think you should do to find this TB: 1. Email Eldar, to confirm that he put the TB in the cache. 2. Email aeb (the owner of the TB) to let him know that it is missing. 3. There is every possibility that Eldar got the date wrong. According to their profile, they live in Yorkshire, and may have been on holiday in Edinburgh. That maybe why there is no mention of a TB in crustyloafer or spioradsaor's logs. 4. And finally, the big job. Email all the people who have visited the cache since. Especially Team Falcon, as there is a month's gap between the logs there. If you still cannot track down the location of it, the cache may have been geo-trashed. In which case there is nothing you can do execpt get aeb to send it to the TB graveyard.

We have never had a cache nicked, but one of ours (Revirhsa), was completely geo-trashed by some unknown people. The contents of it were spread across a field of cows, and a poor geocacher had to go round and pick it all up. Also, Robin Lovelock had 32 caches geo-trashed. Even if he is an "exile" of geocaching.com, he still shouldn't be treated like that. Shame to the miniscule proportion of the geocaching community who geo-trash.

Send us your snail mail address and we'll post you one of our calling cards. sidewallwolf@hotmail.com

The name of the surplus store in Reading is: Storms army store Bristol and West Arcade Friar Street Reading Jamie

Hi sidewallwolf, which shop in camberley? It's down the London Road, about number 121 (thanks TomTom ), near the shopping centre. You can't access it from the main road, only from the high street. Jamie

OK, I'm gonna have a guess here...but I think the army surplus store in Reading that is mentioned is at the bottom end of Friar Street (towards Market Place), in a little arcade with a sign outside it. Personally, we buy ammo bags and just put a normal tupperware box inside them. They are dead cheap from the surplus store in Camberley, and are perfect for camofluaging geocaches.

Oh, yes...haven't quite got round to doing Roman Remains. #20 is definitely Subarite, that grey hair is on every cache photo within a 50 mile radius of us.

And, I see you are a linux man, so if you want to do any converting, GPSBabel is the one!

Our current set up for the car is as follows: iPAQ 3700 with CompactFlash adaptor 256MB CompactFlash Card TomTom Navigator with all Western Europe maps Arkon PDA Mount. eTrex legend We link the iPAQ and GPS together. As for the caches on TomTom, we have had very little luck with them. Unless you get GPXSonar or CacheMate, you cannot get anything off the co-ordinates. Personally, the best buy is the PDA Mount. They are quite expensive, but they save you buying extra cables to power the IPAQ. They also have a speaker, which makes the TomTom person easier to understand. All you need for this is a DC/DC power cable that fits in the slot on the IPAQ. I bodged one of this together from two old transformer cables. A dap of solder and a bit of glue and you're done.

Extremely well done from us, that was fantastically quick.

Trust Pharisee to add some liveliness to the thread

Well done!

The URL for Waypoint Workbench is [url http://www.sheps.clara.net/WW.htm]here[/url]. Not only that but it is made by one of our fellow cachers.

We all (24 of us) offer our condolences to nodrog. It really is awful to lose a four legged friend.

Well done Mr Blakey! I would have said that it is the same possibility of any of us getting a FTF, you just have to be on the site at the right time to see a new one.

Those pocket queries are really starting to persuade me to get Premium membership. They look brilliant

Any chance of posting it on the forum or something? I would be quite interested to read it. Jamie