So few in Scotland

[wibblemonster]

Newbie to Geocaching, but I've already noticed that there's a lot less caches in Scotland than anywhere else.

 

Given the amount of climbing, mountaineering and walking that goes on up here I would have expected a lot lot more.

 

I'm a climber myself and thats how I discovered geocaching but I'm surprised how relatively few we have up here.

 

There's hardly any in Glasgow and surrounding areas and even the Trossachs with Loch Lomond on our doorstep only has a dozen or so.

[+Write and Mane]

So what are you waiting for, go and grab some of the best places for caches!!

[wibblemonster]

LOL.

 

I knew someone would say that but I also want the excitement of finding the little blighters too.

 

Funnily enough went out for a plod up Ben Lomond yesterday and my sandwiches nearly had to sacrifice themselves for the tupperware box but the Ben was too busy at the time to hide anything.

[+Flyfishermanbob]

Newbie to Geocaching, but I've already noticed that there's a lot less caches in Scotland than anywhere else.

 

Given the amount of climbing, mountaineering and walking that goes on up here I would have expected a lot lot more.

 

I'm a climber myself and thats how I discovered geocaching but I'm surprised how relatively few we have up here.

 

There's hardly any in Glasgow and surrounding areas and even the Trossachs with Loch Lomond on our doorstep only has a dozen or so.

 

 

Shouldn't come as too big a surprise, Wibblemonster, the number of caches are to a degree proportional to the number of cachers and their location ..... in that for maintenance purposes there is a limit to how far from your home co-ords you can place a cache.

 

In rough numbers there are more caches in Scotland / head of population than the rest of the UK ....

 

UK pop.60 million..... 9% Scots.....

 

UK caches 20,000 Scottish caches approx 2500 approx 12.5 %

 

The hot spots tend to reflect the number of active cachers in the area ....using the simple search a cache tool, within 25 miles of the major cities gives....

 

Edinburgh 560 ; Perth 413 ; Glasgow 315 ; Aberdeen 347 ; Inverness 167.

 

A few other hot spots are Arran and Bute with 1 cacher each ... and Cowal has 50 caches with 3 cachers.

 

(edit sp.)

Edited July 28, 2007 by Flyfishermanbob

[+Munkeh]

I was going to "visit" relatives in castle douglas next weekend, but after consulting memory map to see how many caches are around within walking distance I'm not going to bother!

[+Team Incredible]

We've been trying to place caches in the Trossachs, but both ourselves and another local team have had permission refused by the landowners.

 

There are loads of caches out there, not all of them up hills, mountains, long walks. There were lots placed around Loch Lomond for the recent event and we could recommend a couple of others out that way if you want a good walk.

 

Wish you had sacrificed that piece box on Ben Lomond, we going up with some caching friends soon, would have given us one to find. Guess we'll just have to place one instead.

[+Primitive Person]

Any good ones in the Ayrshire area? I'll be up there in a couple of weeks.

[wibblemonster]

Really wanted to pop one on the Ben when I was up but there was just too many people and all that would have happened is someone shouting to tell me "ye've left yer pieces over there son"

Edited July 28, 2007 by wibblemonster

[+NinjaPete]

Any good ones in the Ayrshire area? I'll be up there in a couple of weeks.

 

I'm sure Flyfishermanbob will post here soon to put you on the right trail, so to speak, just make sure you don't miss out on this experience

[+darkoncoan]

I've just started caching in hte last month or so, its such a cool 'sport'!. Found a program today called Cachemagnet a allows me to do paperless on my 80 gig ipod, cool eh? Tomorrow I'm planting a cache!!

 

Darkon

[wibblemonster]

Installed cachemagnet, quite useful on my ipod but still has quite a few bugs to iron out. It's still a bit fiddly but dont be honest dont fancy taking my ipod on some of the climbs I go on.

[+sTeamTraen]

Two words:

 

- chicken

- egg

 

We have about the same number of caches in France as you do in Scotland. So it could be a lot worse. (But we are doubling every 9 months!)

[K and J Rawley]

There has been some fabulous caches all around loch ness.

Off down to tarbet for diving in loch fyne in a few weeks and already got 20 planned for the local area from oban.

Dec 05 spent a week walking round the north scottish coast with more caches than i could shake a stick at. Moray Firth numbers are rising and rising.

Are there enough north scots members to consider hosting an event??

 

Planning to spent a few days around the black isle and then next month just north of fife as a fair few have sprung up there too.

[+snaik]

 

Are there enough north scots members to consider hosting an event??

 

 

Only one way to find out!

 

Host an event!

 

[+Firth of Forth]

 

Are there enough north scots members to consider hosting an event??

 

 

Only one way to find out!

 

Host an event!

 

 

We did, in fact, have a very successful 3rd annual cache bash up at Talmine in 2005. You can see some good photos here. Wherever an event is, you'll find that cachers will travel. Indeed, we had a contingent from Cornwall for that event!

Edited September 14, 2007 by Firth of Forth

[+Sue and Bernie]

Actually, some of the best locations are up there in Scotland. I was up the Cairngorms in Aug 05 and managed to bag a few caches round there.

 

My personal favourite cache was Mollie Walk (GCC24E), the easiest of finds at the end of stiff climb with a glorious view that has now been shared by a total of 33 others. Not one that attracts the numbers crowd but certainly a rewarding caching experience.

[+Teuchters]

(snip) ...at the end of stiff climb

 

Not if you approach from the other side!!!

[+Sue and Bernie]

HN, local knowledge and hindsight are great bedfellows!

 

...it was still a good cache of the best sort, really made the day for us.

 

Nice to have the opportunity to say "thank you" err... screen-to-screen!