Favorite Drive Cache

2.5k · November 17, 2005

Most of us have done at least one some several, but what are your best drive by caches? I enjoyed doing Get Cross in a Field by Happy Landins; this is just in a nice part of Wales. So where are your fav drive by caches?

November 17, 2005

This is a kool one as well,But you do have to get out of your car......for a 5ft walk :cool:

Jodrell View

2.9k · November 18, 2005

When this thread dies someone could turn it into a bookmark list ??

Heres my two

A king could hide here and virconium sadly archived.

1.7k · November 18, 2005

When this thread dies someone could turn it into a bookmark list ??
Heres my two

A king could hide here and virconium sadly archived.

I'm bookmarking these already Mark - thought it might be useful to have a list of classic drive by caches!

Anyway, here's my fav drive by, not for quality as such, but because it was so close to the road we sat in the car to sign the log book!

Wimbledon Park Cache

Keep them coming - I'll neaten up and publish the list over the weekend, when I'm not supposed to be working!

Dave

3.1k · November 18, 2005

I liked Get Cross in a field too - just such a strange place to see the cross there - I also liked Pen-y-ball top which was quite nearby!

2.9k · November 18, 2005

Another one

A 55 star hotel for TB's

Edit to add

Glad about the bookmark list nice one :anicute:

Edited November 18, 2005 by markandlynn

3.9k · November 18, 2005

This is a kool one as well,But you do have to get out of your car......for a 5ft walk
Jodrell View

It must have moved then, I had to walk a couple of hundred yards across a muddy field.

November 18, 2005

I'm no able to link the page sorry to say, not that IT literate, but there is a very straight forward drive cache at Junction 17 on the M4. I think a list of these would be brilliant to have in the car as a quick reference.

3.8k · November 18, 2005

This is a kool one as well,But you do have to get out of your car......for a 5ft walk
Jodrell View

It must have moved then, I had to walk a couple of hundred yards across a muddy field.

I was thinking that <_< :anibad:

November 18, 2005

This is a really nice little reservoir on Dartmoor and whilst it is well worth a walk around it, the cache can be bagged from the comfort of your DB9 (in my dreams):

Venford Reservoir

:anicute:

November 18, 2005

I'm no able to link the page sorry to say, not that IT literate, but there is a very straight forward drive cache at Junction 17 on the M4. I think a list of these would be brilliant to have in the car as a quick reference.

This Thread may help Motorways

2.5k · November 18, 2005

here are some that I have done. The longest walk was 50 feet, and the shortest was stay in the car :anicute:

Derbyshire Coin Exchange

"Ivy" accused of cover up!

A Novel Idea !! Geocaching & Bookcrossing Together

RIDGEWAY RUN - Danger, High Voltage!

CHEQUERED HISTORY (Bucks)

The Mystery of Deadman's Hill

Tube Test (Notts)

County Compass West (Bucks)

Spotters' Heaven

I am looking forwards to this bookmark list when it becomes available.

1.7k · November 18, 2005

here are some that I have done. The longest walk was 50 feet, and the shortest was stay in the car

I am looking forwards to this bookmark list when it becomes available.

In the car???? wow - was that a real or virtual?

I have been tempted to put a micro somewhere that you can get at from the car window - maybe on a traffic light!

Bookmark list is created and shared - check my profile. I'm adding to it as wel go along, and at the weekend I'll put something in the description with its rough location (as in, where in the country)

1.5k · November 18, 2005

Bookmark list is created and shared - check my profile. I'm adding to it as wel go along, and at the weekend I'll put something in the description with its rough location (as in, where in the country)

Hmm - where on your profile? I had a look and couldn't see anything. Where exactly do I look to find the link to the bookmark?

2.3k · November 18, 2005

In the car???? wow - was that a real or virtual?

Holds hands up :anicute: - and it is a semi-micro (i.e. not quite as small as a 35mm can).

November 18, 2005

seems most of the caches round here involve yumping up hill and down dale then back up some mountain :anicute:

1.7k · November 18, 2005

Hmm - where on your profile? I had a look and couldn't see anything. Where exactly do I look to find the link to the bookmark?

probably my fault - i assumed it just showed up somewhere if I ticked share on the list. If not, could someone tell me how to do it? Do I jusy need to put a link to the page on my profile??

Cheers

Dave

2.9k · November 18, 2005

Hmm - where on your profile? I had a look and couldn't see anything. Where exactly do I look to find the link to the bookmark?

probably my fault - i assumed it just showed up somewhere if I ticked share on the list. If not, could someone tell me how to do it? Do I jusy need to put a link to the page on my profile??

Cheers

Dave

Make sure its ticked for all public and point us at a cache you have put on it.

aha here it is

bookmark list

Edited November 18, 2005 by markandlynn

1.5k · November 18, 2005

Thanks.

1.1k · November 18, 2005

One of my memorable dashes was this one!

Micro Jems 2

Unfortunately it is now archived!

Jon

1.5k · November 18, 2005

I did this one, with Dewdrop, and it is one of my favourites:

Fly By (Bucks)

1.7k · November 18, 2005

cheers mark - i assumed it showed up on my profile, clearly not! Will add some more when i get back from lunch - some things in life are more important, namely my hunger!

Dave

2.5k · November 18, 2005

Now, can we bookmark your bookmark list? LOL

two or possibly three of those caches are possible from the car. Spotters Heaven involved driving up to a sign and reading the info form the comfort of my car. Tube Test involved a park right beside but I did actually get out to look and the Ivy accused of cover up would be searchable from a 4x4 but I opened the door and stood up to reach.

November 18, 2005

The closest I have been able to drive to a cache is at Windmill Hill near Avebury in Wiltshire. Infact its that close to the car, if you open your door to get out, you may tread on it!

Windmill hill cache

Edited November 18, 2005 by Roving Rangies

November 18, 2005

Once you have solved the puzzle, this one is is only 10 ft from the car

Where's Ireland?

November 18, 2005

This is a kool one as well,But you do have to get out of your car......for a 5ft walk
Jodrell View

It must have moved then, I had to walk a couple of hundred yards across a muddy field.

I was thinking that

I can vouch for Clyde as I was with him on this one......

Check out the listing as it says that its a drive by on there <_<

3.8k · November 18, 2005

These Scottish caches should bump up your bookmark list a bit?

Local Hero

Built from top to bottom

Fairlie easy

The Meadies

Summit to Sea - Change from the canoe

A Silver Thread in a Ribbon of Green

Last of the Celtic kings

The bristly hog

the meeting place

Slochd Mimetolith earthcache

Edit: Yes I know The Bristly Hog is in England! :rolleyes:

Edited November 18, 2005 by Haggis Hunter

November 18, 2005

These Scottish caches should bump up your bookmark list a bit?

Local Hero

Built from top to bottom

Fairlie easy

The Meadies

Summit to Sea - Change from the canoe

A Silver Thread in a Ribbon of Green

Black Earnside

Atomic number 1

Bookworm

Model Village

Last of the Celtic kings

The bristly hog

the meeting place

Slochd Mimetolith earthcache

Edit: Yes I know The Bristly Hog is in England!

Add to those:

A Fleeting Glimpse

Wolfs Bane

Forest Fruits (if you know where to park)

Greenknowe Tower (Northumberland)

The Heart of Manchester (yes, in Manchester)

The Little Boy Having a Pee

Causeway Capers

Protect & Survive

A Drive in the Country (3) Northumberland

Hadrian's Treasure (Northumberland)

Sun God (Northumberland)

A Drive in the Country (Northumberland)

Ward's Hill 1 (Northumberland)

It's Huge!

Electric Brae

Is there Life in the Tree

MOCKBA

That should be enough!

Edited November 18, 2005 by Firth of Forth

1.8k · November 18, 2005

Ninestar005 in Devon is one I liked. It's almost a compulsory driveby - the only place to park is pretty well bang on top of the cache!

Afternoon Fun in Wiltshire is one I found a little uncomfortable - you can park by the cache but you're right in view of the windows of a country house (now a nursing home). The owner says the cache has their permission, but I still felt as if I shouldn't have been there.

November 18, 2005

Both of my caches you can drive to within a couple of feet of IF you have the right vehicle. It makes maintenance visits nice and easy. Its no coincidence that The Land Rovers FTF'ed both.

Motte & Bailey

The Banana Line

I hope to set a few more like this next year.

Edited November 18, 2005 by molrams

1.7k · November 18, 2005

I meant to ask earlier - what do people suggests constitutes a drive by? obviously, it needs to be close to the car, but how close? 50 feet? 100 feet? thoughts?

Dave

I'm still updating the bookmark list - if anyone feels this would be useful, you're more than welcome to link to it from homepages - I don't have one yet!

1.8k · November 18, 2005

purple_pineapple wrote:
I meant to ask earlier - what do people suggests constitutes a drive by? obviously, it needs to be close to the car, but how close? 50 feet? 100 feet? thoughts?

Three feet? :rolleyes:

I think I consider it a driveby if it's so close that the easiest thing to do is to retrieve the cache then take it back to the car to deal with.

1.8k · November 18, 2005

How on earth do you get near A Fleeting Glimse by car? Ah! I see! There is more than one UK cache with that name.

1.7k · November 18, 2005

a good argument i feel! it might rule out some of the ones on the list!!

1.7k · November 18, 2005

How on earth do you get near A Fleeting Glimse by car? Ah! I see! There is more than one UK cache with that name.

yeah i thought that too LG - although in theory you can park on top of the london one!

Is there a requirement that one must be allowed to park at the closest spot? lots of london ones are next to the road, but you'll be in trouble if you park there!

November 18, 2005

You can park within 30 ft of Boots. I confess that this is one of ours, but it is a drive by.

November 18, 2005

The closest I have been able to drive to a cache is at Windmill Hill near Avebury in Wiltshire. Infact its that close to the car, if you open your door to get out, you may tread on it!

Windmill hill cache

Oi. Mind my cache!

:rolleyes:

November 19, 2005

Emma's TB Hotel in West Yorkshire's fairly memorable! :rolleyes:

November 19, 2005

For the premium members amongst us this members only cache What's all that about then does not even require getting out of the car :rolleyes:

3.8k · November 19, 2005

Add Welcome to the Kingdom to your list.

November 19, 2005

The closest I have been able to drive to a cache is at Windmill Hill near Avebury in Wiltshire. Infact its that close to the car, if you open your door to get out, you may tread on it!

Windmill hill cache

Oi. Mind my cache!

While we are on the sunject of minding caches...... How the hell am I suppose to get the westlings coordinates when I never see one? Ah? Emm? Well?

I would love to get a womble back pack for the little baby I am helping in the USA. Mum and Dad lost everything in the Hurrican, the media was focusing on the edge of it and all the devistation, but the eye went straight through Bay St Louis. Here there was TOTAL destruction, and I mean everything! They lost there job, home, car, pocessions, pets the lot! They left with just the clothes on thier backs!

Thier little girl is now only 5 months old and am trying to put small parcels out to the family for Christmas, I was hoping for a womble back pack, but its like a needle in a hay stack!

(This really isn't a sympathy note, I want to get one fairly!) so when and where can I get the last coordinates from in Wiltshire?

Vivien

Roving Rangies

3.9k · November 19, 2005

Emma's TB Hotel in West Yorkshire's fairly memorable!

Where is/was that Bexy?

November 19, 2005

I think I smell another FtF hunt in the air... :anibad:

Edited November 19, 2005 by bexybear

November 20, 2005

Roving Rangies, I know that you do not just want the co-ords, but I do know someone who has a Westings Womble in their hands currently. They are looking for a Northings Womble. Perhaps they could drop it off in a cache near them that you have not yet found for you to 'find' . Contact 'The Dawn Patrol'

November 21, 2005

My favorite drive-by was The Pub Quiz by Jan and the Percy Boys.

Also close by and a drive-by is The Karaoke Night which is also by Jan and the Percy Boys.

November 21, 2005

This is a cache that you can grab without even getting out of the car, great views as well:

Pump Hill, Louhgton, Essex

November 21, 2005

Apologies... double post.

Edited November 21, 2005 by OzzyUK

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