quimbly Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Hello, I'm new to all this, found 5 caches so far (plus one Did Not Find). I'm finding it OK searching for caches near to home, because I have a postcode, or someone else's postcode I know, to search on. But tomorrow I had planned to go out to the Roaches, or perhaps a bit further out in the Peak District, but still closeish to the Roaches for preference, so we don't have to drive too far. Does anyone know of any caches around the Roaches/south Peak District? NB - we do not have any climbing equipment ;-) Help gratefully received. Quote Link to comment
+Wood Smoke Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 If you use the searches and interactive map at Geocacheuk,com you will find it easy to search from anywhere in the UK. I like the interactive map personally, but you do need to make sure you have the latest version of Macromedia Flash installed for it to work at it's best. WoodSmoke GeocacheUK - very useful resources for the UK Geocaching community Quote Link to comment
Sparticus Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Hi, welcome to the caching community. You can use the GC.Com website to find nearby caches but one site I ALWAYS use is here. If you register using your GC.Com user name you can navigate around this site and find a very useful interactive map with all geocaches found, hidden and not found by yourself. After the map has loaded you can move the curser over the caches and bring up there web page on GC.Com. I have found this little tool immensly helpful when looking for nearby caches, or looking for caches around the area I'm going to visit. I hope this helps in locating a relevant cache close to where you want to be. Onwards and upwards. Never retreat, never surrender. Quote Link to comment
+Grynneman Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Shame you're not a climber, I have one placed here on the upper tier, called Don't Look Down. A fantastic place to walk around anyway...See if anybody is doing the overhang test piece, Sloth. Quote Link to comment
+Bill D (wwh) Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 The interactive map at geocacheuk is very good, as others have said, though slow to load. There's also a map of caches in England on the geocaching.com site, here. You can zoom in to the area which interests you. Bill ------------------------------- "Ah, take the Cache and let the Credit go..." The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald Quote Link to comment
+Wood Smoke Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Bill D (wwh):The interactive map at geocacheuk is very good, as others have said, though slow to load. Hi Bill, Try going to www.macromedia.com and installing the latest version of Flash.......you may find it will load a lot faster.....eg. 30 seconds :-) WoodSmoke GeocacheUK - very useful resources for the UK Geocaching community Quote Link to comment
+Wood Smoke Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Here's the direct link to it http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash Just click "install now" it's only 400kb :-) WoodSmoke GeocacheUK - very useful resources for the UK Geocaching community Quote Link to comment
+Bill D (wwh) Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 quote: WoodSmoke wrote: Hi Bill, Try going to www.macromedia.com and installing the latest version of Flash.......you may find it will load a lot faster.....eg. 30 seconds :-) Wow! What a difference! I'd got used to waiting for the map to load, and hadn't thought about updating Flash. It is indeed more like thirty seconds now. And all those 'Do you want to abort the script' boxes are gone, too. Thanks, WoodSmoke! Bill ------------------------------- "Ah, take the Cache and let the Credit go..." The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald Quote Link to comment
+Wood Smoke Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Hi Bill, Glad to help :-) WoodSmoke GeocacheUK - very useful resources for the UK Geocaching community Quote Link to comment
+Lance Ambu Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Doh! Try loading the latest version .... So, Why didn't I think of that? (Rhetorical question, no answer needed) Thanks to Woodsmoke and quimbly, see, anyone can ask a good question. It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Grynneman (Liam & Sharon):Shame you're not a climber, I have one placed here on the upper tier, called Don't Look Down. A fantastic place to walk around anyway...See if anybody is doing the overhang test piece, Sloth. Nar! That evil cache is 10th on my nearest list and rising! Is it possible to do without a rope? MarcB Took Log Book, Left Nothing Quote Link to comment
+MaccLad Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 quote:Originally posted by MarcB: quote:Originally posted by Grynneman (Liam & Sharon):Shame you're not a climber, I have one placed here on the upper tier, called Don't Look Down. A fantastic place to walk around anyway...See if anybody is doing the overhang test piece, Sloth. Nar! That evil cache is 10th on my nearest list and rising! Is it possible to do without a rope? MarcB Took Log Book, Left Nothing It's been the closest on my list for some time now . I keep wondering whether it's worth taking a look at, to see if you do need a rope etc, but then I get a grip of myself and say 'NO dont even think about it' . I'm gonna have to find someone with ropes etc, and organise a trip out there...... Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 We could organise some kind of group assault on the thing... If you look the first 2 people logged did it without a rope- may not be worth the risk though! Bad luck about having it top of your list though- I've got a virtual which involves riding or driving around the severn valley railway at the top of mine. MarcB Took Log Book, Left Nothing Quote Link to comment
quimbly Posted August 25, 2003 Author Share Posted August 25, 2003 Thanks everyone for your help - that interactive map on the GeocacheUK site is great! We actually decided to go to Dovedale in the end, and just have a walk without hunting for geocaches. Gosh, it was busy down in the valley, but we headed upwards onto the hills and found it pretty empty up there apart from sheep. Amazing how different it can seem just a mile away from a seething throng of people. Next time we go to Derbyshire I need to spend more time with the interactive map and the OS map and see how we can work caches into a good route - I left it too late this time. Quote Link to comment
+Grynneman Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 quote:Originally posted by MarcB: quote:Originally posted by Grynneman (Liam & Sharon):Shame you're not a climber, I have one placed here on the upper tier, called Don't Look Down. A fantastic place to walk around anyway...See if anybody is doing the overhang test piece, Sloth. Nar! That evil cache is 10th on my nearest list and rising! Is it possible to do without a rope? MarcB Took Log Book, Left Nothing It has been soloed by climber whose grade is a lot higher than VDiff (possibly E1+), but I would strongly recommend that it should be done with a rope. Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 I think this topic may have saved my life as I was thinking of going to The Roaches this week - it being also near the top of my nearest not done! It doesn't now seem to be a good idea for a 66 year old with back trouble. Member Geocaching Association of GB Quote Link to comment
Krazy Kats Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Bill D (wwh):The interactive map at geocacheuk is very good, as others have said, though slow to load. There's also a map of caches in England on the geocaching.com site, http://www.geocaching.com/map/england.asp. You can zoom in to the area which interests you. Bill ------------------------------- "Ah, take the Cache and let the Credit go..." _The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald_ The question is though, how do you get to the maps in the first place? There doesn't appear to be a way from the main page or on the searches. Quote Link to comment
+Lance Ambu Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Try searching, from the find a cache page, for a country eg UK, when the list comes up there is an option for map or visualise caches IIRC Yep - just checked it from home page - hide and seek a cache - select UK (country) - on next page,click on *seek* - on next page click map - select country of choice under UK Hope that helps It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Quote Link to comment
+Wood Smoke Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Krazy Kats: The question is though, how do you get to the maps in the first place? There doesn't appear to be a way from the main page or on the searches. After you have created a search from the 'caches' page there is a button second down on top left called 'Interactive Map' - try that :-) WoodSmoke GeocacheUK - very useful resources for the UK Geocaching community Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Apart from saving my life, this topic has reintroduced me to GeocacheUK - I hadn't realized how many improvements had been made and with the interactive map now usable with the Flash upgrade find it brilliant, especially as you can combine Trigs and GCs in one list/map. Thank you Mark and Ian and those who raised it here. Member Geocaching Association of GB Quote Link to comment
Krazy Kats Posted September 6, 2003 Share Posted September 6, 2003 Thanks Lance Ambu. Have tried it out and it works. Not quite the same way that I usually find caches which is why I never saw it. Woodsmoke, thanks for your comments too. I do use GeocacheUK.com already so I knew about their maps. Thanks anyway though. Quote Link to comment
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