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I cannot find it on-line but its a 3/4 page article in the 'Weekend' P17 part of the edition 'south of the border'.

 

Gives us a frighteningly good press.

 

As the missus says - eeeek our two recreations - getting our kit off and geocaching are now mainstream - time to retire!

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Do you actually combine these two recreations

 

Ummmm .... now there's an interesting proposal.

Given the truly tortuous places we have found some caches - errr - NO :P:DB)

 

However a quick search of geocaching does bring up this Nude Beach No More in California so there's obviously more than one of us. I rather like the idea of that cache.

 

B)B)B)

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I have found the Telegraph's Screenprint page which has a link to weekend on it. However you have to be a paid member to view the page, which I am not one. B)B)

EEK! I get the Telegraph every Saturday, and have done for years (why? long story! To do with ex-husband and cryptic crosswords but let's move on...), but I was away all day this Saturday and didn't sit down to read it until this morning. Pulled out the weekend section and there was this headline bit screaming at me "Geocaching Cut To The Chase". Excitedly opened it to the appropriate page.. was pleasantly surprised to read a reasonably positive article (at least compared to another one I'd read recently). Even more exciting (sadly!) was the fact that whilst on our holidays about two months ago, we had parked up to do the very same cache in the photograph, but had abandoned our plans as it was absolutely lashing down with rain that aftrnoon - still, it was a thrill to point to the picture and say "We were going to do that cache but...." .

 

Anyway I digress, I digress.... HH if you still want a copy of the article just let me know and I'll photocopy it and send it to you!

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Not sure about posting it here but I've scanned it and have put it (temporarilly) on my website...

http://www.philcooling.co.uk/geocaching/telegraph.jpg

It's about 600k so will take a little while to download & please, don't go all hitting my server at once! You may need to use the "view full size image" command (or equivalent) on your browser (IE6 & Firefox scale it down) to read it properly.

 

Edit: Just resized the image slightly - it's now around 330k but still readable.

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Posted (edited)

I read it on Saturday - and who calls the fruit of their loins "Linus" and has him saying "Wow" in a national newspaper?

 

Am I getting old?

 

[Missing question mark]

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I read it on Saturday - and who calls the fruit of their loins "Linus" and has him saying "Wow" in a national newspaper?

 

Am I getting old?

I think you are getting old B):P but never mind the fact he has called his son Linus (may be a big fan of Peanuts), fancy sending him into the gorse bush. :PB)

 

We spot our quarry, a green ammunition box, hidden under gorse. Linus crawls into the bush,
Posted
Bought my GPS unit to use as a speedo for my kite buggy :P But having read this article the family are off at the weekend to find our first cache B) We may be gone some time :P

Welcome to both a very silly, but great fun hobby (I've decided it's not a sport as it's not competitive. Is it folks? B)) and the fun-n-games of the forums. A good place to get info if you can't track down what you want from GC.com's FAQs.

 

Good luck with your hunting!

 

SP

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Bought my GPS unit to use as a speedo for my kite buggy :P But having read this article the family are off at the weekend to find our first cache B) We may be gone some time :P

Is the handle "Captain Scott" already taken, I wonder ? B)

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