Motorway Mayhem

[+rutson]

There's already a couple on the A1(M), I'd go for it.

[+lordelph]

Ian is clearly needing things to do, so I'll throw down a Greasemonkey challenge!

 

Write a GM extension which can look at a route plan from, say, Mapquest or RAC, and tell you which motorway madness caches you could have a go at

 

Go on

[+Moote]

I'm planning to place up to 15 Motorway Mayhem Caches these will be:

• M60 Juction 9, 10, 11, 13, 16 might do J14 but need to think as I have a cache there already.
  
• M602 J1 & 2
  
• M62 J 8 & 9 might do J11 but need to think as I also have a cache there already.
  
• M56 J 8 & 9
  
• M6 J20, 21, 22
  

Moote

Edited February 7, 2006 by Moote

[Deego]

I will have a look around M6 Jun 15 + 16 soon as I get some time

[+Hillhappy1]

Does this one of mine count - GCRFMV

I had permission for Corley itself and set the cache. It was soon muggled!!

Too many folks in service stations watching but you can't see them.

[+Archer4]

I will have a look around M6 Jun 15 + 16 soon as I get some time

 

I live about a mile from and have been scouting about M6 J17/Sandbach Services...

[+CrazyL200]

How about a quickest 50 (or 100) MM cahces challenge - once there's enough.

[+HazelS]

hoping to get out to either Junction 6 or 7 of the M53 as there's a great place for a micro in both places, although I could get a small cache in one of them...

 

Should be able to do something by the weekend there!

[+rutson]

Do both Hazel

[+HazelS]

Do both Hazel

 

Lol, ok.. I'll do my best

[+The Bolas Heathens]

I could possibly do some along the M54 if that's any help.

 

I'd need to get some cache containers etc etc as I do not have any small or micros handy but that should not be too much of a problem.

 

Anyone any idea how to get hold of film canisters as we only use digital photos now and have exhausted our small supply of old canisters.

Edited February 8, 2006 by The Bolas Heathens

[+purple_pineapple]

I've heard (but not tried yet) that if you wander along to the local Jessops or other processing shop, they will happily supply you with a bag of them for free.

 

Dave

[Deego]

 

Anyone any idea how to get hold of film canisters as we only use digital photos now and have exhausted our small supply of old canisters.

 

Look out for me at the meet on Saturday if you go. I will put some in the car, I have loads somewhere

[+rutson]

Jessops etc. are only too keen to give you more than you'd ever need.

[Deego]

Jessops etc. are only too keen to give you more than you'd ever need.

 

Whats wrong with looking for me

[+adambro]

That must be quite strange, "Hey Mr Jessops man, you got any 35mm canisters?".

 

JM: "Why?!"

[+rutson]

Didn't work like that for me

 

"Hey Mr Jessops man, you got any 35mm canisters?".

 

JM: "How many would you like"

 

Me: "oh, a couple of dozen?"

 

JM: "OK, here's a carrier bag full..."

[+adambro]

More likely to be like this:

 

Me: "Hi, have you got any 35mm canisters I can have?"

JM: "Wow, you're the second person to ask us that today! See that guy just walking out, he's cleared us out!"

[Turns round to see rutson walking out of the door]

[Deego]

Knowing my luck, he would tell me micros are frowned upon and to pop along to the army surplus store for an ammo can

Edited February 8, 2006 by Deego

[NickPick]

Knowing my luck, he would tell me micros are frowned upon and to pop along to the army surplus store for an ammo can

 

Wow, does Pharisee work at your local Jessops then?

 

I've found my local snappy snaps are good suppliers of film cannisters aswell - they'd only throw them away otherwise.

[+The Bolas Heathens]

Great idea - not thought of that.

 

Mrs Bolas Heathens has just found 2 more micro containers and I've found a small size container....

 

I've heard (but not tried yet) that if you wander along to the local Jessops or other processing shop, they will happily supply you with a bag of them for free.

 

Dave

[+Black Pig & the Piglets]

Latest Motorway Mayhem cache is at the end of the M90. Let's see you deflower that one then Steve

[+Team Vorvik]

Hi I'd like to see this series of caches nationwide, i travel down the M5 on a regular basis from Birmingham to Exeter can someone please help me break my journey???

 

Just done 2 of the A1/M1 caches... very easy and broke my journey TY.

 

Team Vorvik

[+Roving Rangies]

We are happy to put a cache out at Junction 16 of the M4, how do we log the cache? is it the same as a normal one or what?

 

Viv and Gary

Roving Rangies

[+rutson]

See http://www.bpss.demon.co.uk/motorway%20mayhem%20main.html

[+steviep]

Latest Motorway Mayhem cache is at the end of the M90. Let's see you deflower that one then Steve

 

Was on my way for that one, but got distracted by the 2 new ones on the M62 J36/37 this morning

[+Pharisee]

I could almost certainly put an easy one at junction 10/10a on the M1 if it would help.

[Deego]

I could almost certainly put an easy one at junction 10/10a on the M1 if it would help.

 

A Micro ?

[+Alibags]

I have M1 J8 covered... I am going to spruce up the page in a while so I can be assimilated into the Borg collective, oops, I mean "join in the fun"

[+Black Pig & the Piglets]

Hah! resistance is futile Alibags of Borg. (you wouldn't bear a passing resemblance to 7 of 9 by any chance would you? STOP! ENOUGH of my mid life fantasies) Where was I? oh yes, we now have the end of the M90 covered thanks to Snaik, so that is the northern most. We could now do with the southern ends of the network closing up, so do we have cachers that can cover the ends of the M20, M5, M23 M62, M4 M9 etc. It's a bit like doing a jigsaw, get all the corners & edges & the rest fills itself in.

 

DaveH

[+Pharisee]

....you wouldn't bear a passing resemblance to 7 of 9 by any chance would you? ......

DaveH

 

Only if you're passing about 1,000,000 miles away

 

(Sorry, Ali... Luv ya really )

[+Alibags]

Sorry? Did the Ferengi say something? I didn't quite catch it... please repeat yourself Pharisee....

[alistair_uk]

I have just noticed a Motorway Mayhem bonus cache appear on the list of new caches on GC.COM. It looks an alright cache, but is it really a “Motorway Mayhem” cache as it is not a quick easy find it it’s own right? ...or am I doing my usual trick of thinking to much.

[+Chaotica_UK]

Theres a motorway mayhem FTF up for grabs.

 

GCTGVZ Motorway Mayhem - J18 - M4 (Bath) by Gowenhouse

 

[markandlynn]

J14 M6 is allready served by the Iron Mountain Travel Bug Hotel so its probably an honourary mayhem cache that can take TB's and large animals in the case of this cache!

[+rutson]

Dropped in there on Friday, it was full of files. I think Iron mountain are using it as a secondary repository

[+Gowenhouse]

M4 J18 (Bath) placed yesterday by ourselves and found today by 3 lots of cachers.

[alistair_uk]

Is GCTRJ6 ( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...19-3a66e1909f0b ) technically a Motorway Mayhem cache?

 

Don't get me wrong, I am always keen on a good new caches close to me (although north of the river word be better ) but this one technically is not near a motorway.

 

I guess what I am really asking is are we classing larger trunk roads the same as a motorway. Not that I have an opinion either way, I just this we should try and be consistent.

[+Stuey]

There's only a short bit of motorway in Devon, and no motorway in Cornwall, so I'd be in favour of major trunk roads where there were no motorways anywhere near. I'm thinking A30, A303 perhaps?

 

It's going to have to go to the jury though.

[Deego]

Maybe its time for " A Road Mayhem"

[+Alibags]

Is GCTRJ6 ( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...19-3a66e1909f0b ) technically a Motorway Mayhem cache?

 

Don't get me wrong, I am always keen on a good new caches close to me (although north of the river word be better ) but this one technically is not near a motorway.

 

I guess what I am really asking is are we classing larger trunk roads the same as a motorway. Not that I have an opinion either way, I just this we should try and be consistent.

 

I reckon major routes, where there are no motorways as such, should be acceptable, but may be a bit much when there is a perfectly good motorway nearby. Or should there be a parallel 'A Road Anarchy' series?

 

As to the above cache, nice and easy for me to grab when I am in the NE (yayy!), however, I thought that part of the remit of MM caches was a quick cache and dash when you were on your way somewhere, and I set mine with the idea that the cacher may be dressed for business and not want to go hacking through the undergrowth, etc The fact that the cache site for this one is described as 'muddy' would put me off a bit.

[+Boardslider]

I thought I'd resurrect this thread rather than start a new one, because of the last few posts.

 

Living in the Westcountry - although travelling up and down the M5 / M4 quite often - meant that a lot of these caches are not on my way anywhere so will remain out of reach except on special trips, so I would welcome the idea that it was extended onto trunk roads where there is no motorway i.e. Devon / Cornwall or are there so many other good ones about they are not required? Having just got GSAK to export to Tom Tom I can see how many caches are actually 'quite near' motorways and main roads whilst not actually being cache and dash.

 

Anyway I got to thinking that I could at least visit them vicariously through TB's and have just released Mini Mayhem 1 & 2 at GCNP4G with the goal of them 'racing' to as many MM caches as they can this summer and then returning to the start point. The only rule is that the only move a max of twice a day - this is to stop someone on a 20 a day habit giving one too much of a head start and to allow as many people as possible a chance to participate.

[+Black Pig & the Piglets]

Hi all, I've just done some long awaited maintenance to the MM home page & contributors list. Sorry for the delay, but work keeps interfering with the more important things in life If anybody is missing from the list, please let me know & I will update it asap.

 

DaveH aka Black Pig

 

PS we've still got a few Yorkshire Geocoins left, if anyone wants one, but hurry, our colonial cousins across the pond are snapping 'em up sharpish. Although they are whingeing a bit about the $/£ exchange rate

[+Black Pig & the Piglets]

I thought I'd resurrect this thread rather than start a new one, because of the last few posts.

 

Living in the Westcountry - although travelling up and down the M5 / M4 quite often - meant that a lot of these caches are not on my way anywhere so will remain out of reach except on special trips, so I would welcome the idea that it was extended onto trunk roads where there is no motorway i.e. Devon / Cornwall or are there so many other good ones about they are not required? Having just got GSAK to export to Tom Tom I can see how many caches are actually 'quite near' motorways and main roads whilst not actually being cache and dash.

 

Anyway I got to thinking that I could at least visit them vicariously through TB's and have just released Mini Mayhem 1 & 2 at GCNP4G with the goal of them 'racing' to as many MM caches as they can this summer and then returning to the start point. The only rule is that the only move a max of twice a day - this is to stop someone on a 20 a day habit giving one too much of a head start and to allow as many people as possible a chance to participate.

 

I can't see aproblem with extending the concept to trunk roads, the A19 has already got one. After all the A30 is the "motorway to the sun" let's keep it to dual carriage ways though, where there aren't any "real" motorway alternatives nearby.

 

DaveH aka Black Pig

[+Jango & Boba Fett]

I can't see aproblem with extending the concept to trunk roads, the A19 has already got one. After all the A30 is the "motorway to the sun" let's keep it to dual carriage ways though, where there aren't any "real" motorway alternatives nearby.

Having had the privalege yesterday of driving the A17 from Newark to Norwich this does seem a little harsh on East Anglians. Anyone who has tried to drive the 140 miles from the A1 to Norwich should expect a break along the way, that is unless they are facinated by watching the rear ends of caravans or like dodging sugar beet as it leaps off the backs of vast mud splattered lorries. Its not our fault that roads across the Fens have to be "floated" making upgraded single carriage way roads more expensive mile per mile than traditionally built dual carriage way. Back when the A17 and A47 were originally built they used French Prisoners of War and "floated" the road bed on brushwood faggots, hence the unusual rolling ride. A more objective measure might be any trunkroad maintained by the Highways Agency (or Scottish/Welsh/NI equivalents). Check this MAP

 

I would like to beg your indulgence for A17 Motorway Madness - Sugar Beet Shutdown, I've got the ammo can, the coordinates and can fully recommend the service area to all coach, lorry, car and even carvan drivers, particularly if your idea of a breakfast includes tea so syrupy the spoon stands up and platter sized all day breakfasts. Have a look here.

[+Black Pig & the Piglets]

Having driven this road (A17) many times on my way to the land of the one eyed carrot crunchers, I fully sympathise. I think the A17, 15 & 47 fall well inside the "no alternative motorway" category. go for it. After all, what's in a name?

 

DaveH