+Stuey Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Talk about a cache drought. I was looking at my Memory-Map with all caches displayed and there is a great big gap around Hereford. Doing a search on GC:UK shows 20+ kilometres to the nearest cache. You'd need an efficient car to get started caching. Does anyone live in Hereford? Do you live in a similar cache desert? Quote Link to comment
Big Black Bunny Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Maybe it's because the SAS are based at Credenhill right in the middle of that area. With all those sneaky peaky guys & girls hiding in the bushes, there is no room for caches. LOL Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 DNF cache, FTF SAS O.P. Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Lincoln is pretty bare last time I looked too - strange why some places are so empty. MarcB Quote Link to comment
+rutson Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Talk about a cache drought. I was looking at my Memory-Map with all caches displayed and there is a great big gap around Hereford. Doing a search on GC:UK shows 20+ kilometres to the nearest cache. You'd need an efficient car to get started caching. Does anyone live in Hereford? Do you live in a similar cache desert? Flipping heck! I've got 120 within that radius, only seven unfound though. Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Try postcode LD65HP they are scarce there too,mid wales. Its a great area for walking but the caches are few and far between,managed to do only 20 in two weeks in the summer inc 7 near Snowdon which was 2.5 hr drive away!!! Quote Link to comment
+Beds Clangers Posted November 14, 2004 Share Posted November 14, 2004 What's wrong with Hertford, caches all over the place??? Whoops, Hereford sounds doggy to me!!! Nick Quote Link to comment
+Stuey Posted November 14, 2004 Author Share Posted November 14, 2004 Whoops, Hereford sounds doggy to me!!! Hereford? That's complete bull Quote Link to comment
+DomHeknows Posted November 14, 2004 Share Posted November 14, 2004 there weren't many near congleton until I arrived on the scene :-) Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted November 14, 2004 Share Posted November 14, 2004 Whoops, Hereford sounds doggy to me!!! Hereford? That's complete bull Oooh *groan*! Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted November 14, 2004 Share Posted November 14, 2004 Crikey - I'll echo Rutson's comment - 197 within 20 miles of here. A great deal more than 7 unfound though Interestingly they are laid by a huge variety of cachers, there must be some areas where a single cacher is responsible for the majority of the caches and without these people other "deserts" would exist. Quote Link to comment
+rutson Posted November 14, 2004 Share Posted November 14, 2004 Going out to 20 miles, there's 242 set by something like 67 cachers. Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted November 14, 2004 Share Posted November 14, 2004 Hmm, only 100 with 20km, (I automaticaly favoured imperial over metric without checking, oops) Someone with a better memory of A level maths will say obviously because of Coles Law and Pie or something, but I reckon it's to do with there being only 15 caches in the Solent. (13 on IOW, 1 on Pewit and one on Burrow.) Quote Link to comment
+The Forester Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 there is a great big gap around Hereford. Doing a search on GC:UK shows 20+ kilometres to the nearest cache. I suspect that there are a helluvalot of unpublished caches around Hereford; they're just not geocaches. There's a local Army Regiment near you which is superbly and frequently trained how to make and find caches. They do so because their lives sometimes depend upon being able to find caches when they need to. Their caches contain anything from food to ammunition to data and they do not have geocaching's limitations which prohibit burial with digging implements, but they are otherwise very similar to the sort of caches which we love to hide and find. Troopers in 22 are well trained by instructors who were very well trained in how to measure the co-ords (with or without GPS) of cache sites. At least one trooper in each patrol is trained to a very high standard of land navigation in how to ascertain co-ords and how to find the physical location of any given set of co-ordinates. The problem with finding their caches is, for us, that they tend not to publish the co-ords of them! Cheers, The Forester Former CI Quote Link to comment
motherduck Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 (edited) Tell me about it!!!!!!!! I live in Herefordshire, why else would I do my caching in North Wales and Yorkshire!!! ( Only joking I love North Wales and spend quite some time up there.) Once I get my Gps for xmas (hopefully) I hope to place some caches near home.I live in the country and there are some lovely walks nearby .Have had the local regiment very close coming in by parachute and the helicopters come low over the house maybe they are looking for there secret caches.!!!! Edited November 20, 2004 by motherduck Quote Link to comment
+lathama Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 i would rather places be empty then have caches every mile or so, fewer caches makes days out enjoyable because you see more of the country Quote Link to comment
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