Trigpoints

[+drums4monty]

Just a quick question to find out peoples opinion. To log a trig would you say it is fine to see the trigpoint, e.g. while driving past and spotting it in a field etc, OR would you say that you have to physically touch it to say that you have found/seen it?

[+walkergeoff and wife]

Not sure what the rules are. I always take a picture of the TP with my GPS resting on it as proof that I have been there.

 

Try Trigpointing UK for the info that you need, although a quick look just now did not reveal any rules about what constitutes a valid log.

[+Moote]

In my opinion, it's not really exciting, only walks to trigs are exciting. I have 3 exceptions to this,

• I log if I walk passed one or if it's next to a cache. 'Rye Loaf Hill' Yorkshire Dales
  
• If it is a bug or coin mission (But this has nearly got me arrested) GeoCoin on a Mission
  
• If it is one of the Ye Ole Survey Monuments series
  

Moote

Edited January 26, 2006 by Moote

[+walkergeoff and wife]

In my opinion, it's not really exciting, only walks to trigs are exciting.

I agree. I would not go out simply to get a TP, but if one was within walking distance of a cache, and especially if the hill it was on gave great views, then I would go for it.

[Deego]

Don't forget that not all Trigpoints have access to them. Thats what the unreachable but visible log is for. Its your call how you log it, I wont be deleting your log

 

However, I tend to get to most of the ones I log, it can make it more fun.

Edited January 26, 2006 by Deego

[Deego]

I would not go out simply to get a TP

I do

 

But I am lucky in that I live near the Peak District and have some cracking trigpoints not far away :(

Edited January 26, 2006 by Deego

[+Moote]

Don't forget that not all Trigpoints have legal access  to them. Thats what the unreachable but visible log is for.  Its your call how you log it, I wont be deleting your log 

At CLRC Daresbury Laboratory, where the incident occurred there was no indication that this was Private property, It was on a Public Road, with no fence Gate or visible security. But we were informed that visiting the Location was prohibited. I made this clear in my Trigpointing Log. But if anyone does fancy a night in a Military Police cell feel free to visit.

 

Moote

 

Edit : Link to log added CLRC Daresbury

Edited January 26, 2006 by Moote

[Deego]

Normaly, it only a farmer telling you to get of his land :(

[+drums4monty]

Great replies so far. I normally do walk to the trigs, just today I was driving past and saw one a few hundred yards on top of a small hill. I would have stopped and walked to it but the drivers behind me might not like trigpoints the same as me, and I could not see another way to it. I will leave it for now and see if there is a way to it next time I'm passing as it is not that far from where I live.

 

Just wondered what the general opinion is?

[+Moote]

Just wondered what the general opinion is?

Please remember that Deego's view can't be taken as an opinion, as to him Trigs are an obsession!

[+drums4monty]

I saw a programme on trigs not long ago, it was about the history and how they were built, it was a good documentary.

[+Bear and Ragged]

"It's only a game, play it the way you want to"

 

I/we tend to log a trig if it's near/on the way to or from a cache, rather than a special trip to a trig.

 

Only a thought, if just seeing a trig counts, if you see one on tv -do you log it?!

[+Kitty Hawk]

I work on the basis that I should touch it.

 

I will make exceptions though - If I can see it, but need to walk over/through a crop to get there I'll claim it without walking through the crops. If I can see it, but I'd clearly be unwelcome getting from there I am to the trig I'll log it as unreachable. If I can't see it, and it is unreachable I don't log it. I don't count a missing trig as missing until I've looked myself.

 

Just seeing it, for instance, from the car - I wouldn't count that, although if you do, fine, as long as you don't overtake me on the table!, bear in mind that the chances are on you'd be able 2 - 6 other trigs from the one you are at, so on a clear day with a pair of binoculars you could get some serious numbers done if seeing it was the only criteria.

 

Why do them - there is a radius around my house where caches are thin on the ground. So, I get the trigs as well. Sometimes it's fun for a change, there is almost always a good and sometimes unexpected view from a trig.

[+drums4monty]

Only a thought, if just seeing a trig counts, if you see one on tv -do you log it?!

 

Good point.

Edited January 26, 2006 by drums4monty

[+Walker Dan]

I reckon you need to get close enough to get the Trig Number. Did a one the other day, which was just behind a hedge, the challenge was getting near enough to get it's number. We did one in Shropshire a couple of years ago that was in a thicket but still needed to get through to get that number.

[+John Stead]

I went for one a couple of months ago and it turned out to be in the middle of one of the thickest thickets I have seen. I scrabbled around for quite a while but never actually set eyes on it. When I looked at the GPSr log it was evident I had been all round it.

Sad I could not log it as it is a YOSM!