The Red Kite

Personally I never log a DNF unless I have really had a good look and satisfied myself that it's not to be found. That doesn't always mean it's not there.. If I see DNFs on my caches I go out to make sure they are still in place. That sometimes is a long trip by bike so I would rather not have DNFs on caches where no one has bothered to even look. However, I have now started emailing the person who logged the DNF to find out if they were actually in the right place before I set off to replace it. Last week I went out for a FTF on a new cache and spent an hour (with a friend I was hoping to convert!!)searching everywhere. That was a big DNF; the cache owner checked with me where I was looking, and confirmed I was in the right place. He is now waiting for the next couple of logs before he goes off to check that its still actually there. As a non premium member I do my own searches and dont have to rely on information that shows up on PQs so I guess that makes life easier.

Even more gutted now I have seen Bareclawz' last post

Really sorrry to say that having checked out the train times and fares, its not likely that I will be able to make it after all. Hope you all have a great time, and will keep on praying for sunshine for that weekend. Gutted!!

My youngest son is 21 and has never shown any interest in joining me for the hunt, but will get very animated when coming up with devious places I could hide caches and what I could make them from. I agree that with teenagers, or kids of any age, you have to sell it to them. Let them get involved. My grand daughter is 9 and she has her own account (~*Tinkerbell*~) and her own series of caches. She has to have the GPS and be in front ALL the time, leading the way, and she HAS to be the one to find the cache. For christmas she was very excited to get her very own GPS. I laid a cache trail especially for her and she borrowed her parents' GPS to find the clues, which led her to her present. Now Mum and Dad have their GPS back but with the price of petrol (but thats another topic!!) they dont get out much. Some schools use caching for teaching various subjects and even have their own coind and TBs which they can track on their travels. My friends think I am mad when I talk about it, but if I can get them to come out with me they always enjoy it.

Brilliant!!! Brought back happy memories of my first event.

Will take BIG tent just in case Lesley gets rained out! AGAIN! Thanks Liane, but I will be bringing the small wigwam this year... not the magic mushroom

Sad news indeed! Thanks to both of you for all your efforts reviewing and keeping the forum on the straight and narrow. Hope you enjoy the chance to get out and actually FIND some caches. Best of luck.RK

Ahh yes, but nobody would come, they wouldn't know where it was being held, because we wouldn't be able to say the name of the pub it's being held in, for fear of being told it's advertising! HA! That would be a mystery cache then Just give 'em the coords and they will be fine

Will try my best to make it.. wouldnt miss it for the world if last year is anything to go by Anyone heading in that direction from N Wales ish who could offer a lift? Otherwise will make it a very long weekend by train

It's near the door Hazel, ready for a quick getaway!! If you are still stuck, I have a spare one you can borrow

Sorry to hear that. I hope they turn up. My racer bug went missing nearly a year ago and has never turned up. Only did 111 miles

I know a supermarket next to a railway station 2 miles from the M1. (Note to self: order magnetic nano's) ;-) Sounds like Flitwick. Any Bedfordshire cachers want to take this up

I felt it here in Aberystwyth on the west coast of Wales. It was like someone had dropped a heavy item of furniture in the next room, as my chair was moving; then like someone upstairs was throwing stuff around as well. the whole room was shaking. I went up stairs to see if anyone else in the house was awake but it was all in darkness . I had a call from Samurai Dan who asked me if we had jsut had an earthquake, so I knew I was not imagining things. When I went to bed I dreamed that the quakeshad broken bits off the earth and they were floating off into space. When I went to work yesterday and asked if anyone had felt the earthquake they all laughed at me and said theres no way it would have been felt over here. Today one colleague had the cheek to come and tell me I am not going mad, there really was an earthquake and her neighbour had felt it too. So that's alright then if the neighbour felt it There was a quake in Birmingham three or four years ago (ish) and I felt that one too, it shook me out of bed and everything in the room was rattling. ?So yes, I have been in two as well.

Good to see you keeping in touch Ratty! Hope you dont have to buy too many beers Stay safe xx

My first TB that actually went travelling on its own (ie without ME) got moved from the start cache and put into another 111 miles away. It then disappeared off the face of the earth. There are logs to say its not in the cache but no logs to say it has been picked up. The thing that ticks me off is that its label clearly states it is in a RACE! At least other cachers have been kind enough to leave a log that its not in the cache it should be in. One of them even forwarded a note of the log to me, to let me know that it was missing.

Great to see you got this off the ground!! Good luck to all with the race

Blimey what a SCARY thought

Congratulations from me too!!

http://garmin.blogs.com/uk/2008/01/colorado-offers.html Posted on our local cachers forum today by forces-of-nature.

What a lot of hopping!!!! VERY well done xx

Well done Dave!!

Well done from me too!

My grand daughter ~*Tinkerbell*~ is eight years old and has been caching for nearly 18 months. Her parents (Dancing Samurais) are 39 and 34. She loves caching and will go out at any time, day or night, or even ALL night sometimes. She now has her own GPS which I bought her for christmas and she loves it. There's no stopping her and she has found 392 caches, four of which are events, which she really enjoys. She has her own series of caches called Nursery Rhymes which are very popular. As for myself, guess I am an old bigger...

Late as usual. GREETINGS OF THE SEASON TO ALL FELLOW CACHERS, THOSE MET AND THOSE YET TO MEET.

Not exactly caching in the true sense, but one of Tinkerbell's presents from me was a GPS, so we set her a puzzle cache which she had to complete to find the present. We all had great fun watching her try to figure it out and she was so excited when she finally made it and realised what the FTF was. (or should that be the OOeTF?). We made a video so maybe one day soon at a very small screen near you ....