October 11, 2004
On the way back from Harlow
Managed to fit in a couple of finds on the way home from Harlow this afternoon. The first was Ramblin' Rosie which is next to the Royal Rose Society. A couple of minutes later and several blind curves and country lanes navigated we arrived at Passport to Pimlico which took us a while to find. Just as we were in the trees, dressed in office clothes, someone walked passed and never gave us a second look!
We then tried to do Cache and Carry but weren't able to find this one, despite slipping and sliding down the slopes.
October 10, 2004
GpxSonar 1.3 release
Just as I was using gpxsonar yesterday and thinking it's been a long time since it was updated, there is a post in the forums with the news of gpxsonar 1.3 available
October 9, 2004
200!
Its been a couple of weeks since I thought I had got to 200 and hadn't. With the aid of Stormcat and Arrks, the total had risen to 197 found and I just had three more to do and today was the day.
I decided to head off to (hilly) Buxton and do a couple of caches there and then head to Cheshire's Highest Cache for the 200th.
Back of Macc Forest was the first find which was straight up a hill and then back down to the carpark. Not too steep, but uphill all the way.
Lightly Wooded Walk was next with a short steep walk, which I don't think is quite what the cache owner had in mind, but I did discover the lightly wooded wood on the way back, along with a "house" in the middle of the trees and several peat bogs.
Cheshire's Highest Cache was the final cache and a very rewarding cache. Had to wait for ages for other walkers to disappear who were sheltering from the wind just down the stone wall from where I was.
Now I'm sitting at home nursing the blisters - but happy.
Congratulate me here
October 7, 2004
streetmap links in firefox
My post with a firefox bookmarklet on the geocaching forums has details on how to create a bookmarklet to link from a list of coordinates to streetmap.co.uk
October 4, 2004
wsg to streetmap.
benchmarks translator is an excellent page to transfer from coordinates to a streetmap location. Very handy - now to somehow get this working on a bookmarklet.
New cache hidden
Finished off the hiding of my latest geocache - this one is rated a 5* difficulty and is a members only cache so it will be interesting to see how long it is before someone cracks it - Between the lines
If you've worked it out, then please don't spoil it for the other people who haven't found it yet - one of the reasons this post is not commentable.