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  1. Having taken advantage of Go Outdoors' offer on a new Garmin GPSMap 62s a while ago, we are now selling our trusty Garmin GPSMap 60CSx which has helped us find over 500 caches in the US, France and Cyprus as well as the UK. However, I found this 'topic' on this forum after listing the GPSr on eBay. So if interested, please do a search for Garmin GPSMap 60CSx item number 201069771045 on eBay. Thanks
  2. Apologies, I meant to add this to the Car Boot Sale topic above and can't find how to delete it now.
  3. Having taken advantage of Go Outdoors' offer on a new Garmin GPSMap 62s a while ago, we are now selling our trusty Garmin GPSMap 60CSx which has helped us find over 500 caches in the US, France and Cyprus as well as the UK. However, I found this 'topic' on this forum after listing the GPSr on eBay. So if interested, please do a search for Garmin GPSMap 60CSx item number 201069771045 on eBay. Thanks
  4. A couple of years ago, we spent a week on the Grand Union Canal, cruising from Gayton (south of Northampton) down to Berkhamstead and back and collected quite a few caches en route. There appears to be a series along the route that has specifically been done for canal cachers. The route is very pleasant, even going round Milton Keynes !
  5. Pretty as it may be sometimes, caching in East Devon can involve serious arguments with equally serious gorse which we have taken to referring to as "The Path of Pain". Several paths of pain were encoutered this weekend doing the Aylesbeare Common series (GC2B01W and others). Ouch !
  6. We spent a week cruising slowly along the Grand Union Canal last week, and spotter a familiar name. Could this be a secret hideaway for Chris when he needs a break from caching ? This must be a fairly permanent mooring as the boat can be seen on Google Earth. The exact coordinates can be kept secret / provided for a small fee Also spotted another boat which could be that of a former reviewer not many miles from this one.
  7. £2 beer tokens have been popular around where we are. I have a cache soon to be sent for review which will contain the same reward for the FTF.
  8. We (me and 10yo son) were looking for the sidetracked cache at Exeter St David's one evening after dark. I had seen a BTP policeman patrolling the car park (near where the cache was located) so waited until he was walking away towards a far part of his patch. Anyway, we hadn't found the cache and the BTP PC started heading back our way so we were asked the inevitable question about what we were doing. After a quick explanation he knew exactly what we were doing, where the cache was and pointed us at the hiding place. All in all a positive experience with the Police that evening.
  9. But what can be done about it? We have two caches we would, in hindsight, prefer to change category. GC12P81 from multi to traditional and GC176KY from puzzle/unknown to multi. However, we have been told this is not possible as it mucks up peoples stats.
  10. How about making friends with Paddington Bear at Paddington Station. A cache you can hug
  11. The Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. OK it's not in the UK, but we were on a caching trip from the UK. Is that close enough ? Anyway, came across this chap guarding the way to GC1C525. It was hot and good sun bathing weather for coldblooded critters.
  12. David is correct, the website at http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...A11727#g2367.r0 is where this information has come from. It had been picked up by the ordnancemaps@yahoogroups.co.uk mailing list of which Maliplex is a member.
  13. The following has been posted today on the ordnancemaps mailing list; Government to close the Magic mapping website The government has announced that it will close the Magic website by April 2011. The removal of this source of interactive OS based large scale mapping will certainly be a great loss to many people. I guess this is one of the coalitions moves to save money. It isn't going to make the cache reviewers job any easier.
  14. And we'll try and get to Holyrood park and the Earthcache whilst we are 'Fringing'
  15. There appears to be a high caching opportunity to go with some good looking walks and views along the Fife Coastal Path. And only about an hours drive from Edinburgh. Would that make a good day for us (possibly via the Falkirk Wheel) ?
  16. Precisely why, whilst I know there are caches to be found right in the centre, we needed some ideas for caching away from the Festival crowds. Many thanks to HH and everyone for your suggestions and especially HH's bookmarks which are just what we needed. Mrs T (AKA Maliplex) will be pouring over her good old fashioned paper OS maps to see were we will be going. DD is performing in a number of shows at the Fringe, so we will no doubt try a get one or two of the central caches whilst we wander up and down the Royal Mile. Hope you enjoy your visit to Edinburgh as well Mrs B.
  17. Thanks for that. I had heard about the trams and as it happens, the hotel we are staying in is right next to GC1M386 - so appropriate !
  18. We are spending a few days in Edinburgh for the Fringe, but also intend to spend one day away from the city to bag some more rural Scottish caches. Can anyone recommend a day trip destination involving some decent walks and scenery where we might also find up to half a dozen caches en route. Many thanks Chris
  19. Apparently there is also a military event in Weston the same weekend as the Mega Event. According to the Sealed Knot website, they have a 'Major Muster' in Weston on 8th & 9th August. A Major Muster involves over 1000 participants, a living history camp together with plenty of musket and canon firing as the Royalists and Parliamentarians do battle on the seafront on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Boy, its going to be crowded in Weston at the weekend
  20. You can always take your own personal portable tick control unit. Below is a picure of ours we had whilst caching on holiday at the Eastern end of Long Island, New York last summer I have also seen people mention the use of Marmite. Not for smearing it over your bare skin, but just the regular consumption of it. I am a Marmite lover, and haven't found any ticks on me yet. But that could just be luck.
  21. Many thanks people. I will have a go at the PQ and try and select some in our area that way. I was hoping someone would come up with favourite cache placer, so we will certainly check out the FAC caches. JAWSIII looks interesting and as we are staying in the Greenport area will have to be on our list. As far as NYC is concerned, we are there for 8 nights, so will be quite happy to explore the outer areas for some caches. I am hoping we might be able to colour in more than one state so might get the ferry from LI to CT one day, not sure about NJ though, unless there are any close to Newark airport we can grab before getting on the plane ! Thanks again.
  22. There a quite a few along the Exeter Ship Canal set by a variety of people. However, the Canal is not particularly long and can be walked in a day, or you can hire canoes from the Quay in Exeter which is more fun and only one set of locks to cope with placed very conveniently next to a pub.
  23. I have a Garmin nuvi 610T satnav which I have used to find a few caches though our normal unit is a Garmin 60CSx. With this satnav, I can enter co-ordinates as you can with a normal GPSr. When on foot, you can change the driving mode to 'pedestrian' and the 'fastest' route to the 'shortest' and hey presto. However, the maps away from the roads aren't that detailed and the direction arrow is a bit hit and miss at walking pace. The best way to track down the cache is to watch the distance (in feet) reducing as you get closer. It can be done.
  24. True, but there are three defences to this, two of which would apply in this scenario and the third might. 1) You appropriate the property in the belief that you would have the other's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it. If the original cache placer had been but was no longer an active Geocacher, it could be argued that it would be reasonable to believe they would have no objection to someone else maintaining their cache for them. or 2) You appropriate the property in the belief that the person to whom the property belongs cannot be discovered by taking reasonable steps. Where Groundspeak or a moderator or another cacher local to the original cache placer had tried to contact them directly or via the cache logs and they had received no reply, then this would apply. or possibly 3) You appropriate the property in the belief that you have in law the right to deprive the other of it. If the cache had been abandoned and there was no intention to replace it with a new one, then you might argue that removing the old cache was the same as picking up litter while you are out for a walk. Surely with 2 above, a 'forced adoption' would remain within the law. And just to labour a point, for theft, property has to belong to someone. If something has been abandoned, it is deemed to no longer belong to anyone. However this would have to be proved and that would be easily resolved with a string of logs relating to the cache stating it needed maintenance, or had been disabled or even archived by Groundspeak but the owner had taken no steps to remove or repair the cache.
  25. To be in danger of being guilty of theft, there have to be two issues proved, amongst other things, which would not happen in this case. Firstly, for it to be Theft, the item has to be "Dishonestly appropriated". If you are rescuing an abandoned cache, then it could easily be argued that there was no dishonesty involved. Secondly, there also has to be “the intention of permanently depriving the owner of the property”. Therefore, if you are taking an abandoned cache for safe keeping and try and notify the owner that you have it and how it can be retrieved, you are not depriving them of it. Consequently, in the situations described above, there is no theft.
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