TIL that we have trainspotters on here, but somehow geocaching is weird?
I get blank looks when I explains to folk..
I just say I use billions of £s satellite equipment to find tupperware containers
@Edwardoka I would like to get into geocatching.
Have perused the site several times for the rules, but haven't got my head round to it yet
@Pat "5mph",
I've a few along Route 75 which I can guide you, teach you the ropes if you promise not to do more than 5 mph
Pester
@Bobby Mhor too, he's a gimp (that's what they call them...
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You're claimed, 4 o'clock ootside Saughton.
It's really quite easy, install an app on your phone (c:geo for android is excellent), sign up on the site, open the app, "near me". Find one that seems interesting near you. Look at the map, travel to that place. Find the cache, write your name in the logbook, mark it as found on the website and onto the next one.
As pastimes go, hunting for tupperware in bushes is only sometimes fun but it is an excellent excuse for a trip and it has taken me to some incredible places.
I've been places within 20 miles I'd never known about and everyone thinks I know every pebble in Renfrewshire and beyond
Is there a (good) app for iPhone?
App store ratings?
I use Android, c:geo I recommend, free and rated.
Yes, it was always a good incentive to get out on the bike until I had found nearly all of the caches within my daily cycling range . I had a rule that cycling and walking were the only modes of transport permitted
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That's the fun, I have an idea where I'm going and just load the caches into my Etrex 30...
There's the official one from groundspeak. I've never used it so no idea.
I went out one day on the bike around Glasgow to get an FTF in a park (which I missed by 5 minutes) and ended up finding several magnetic nanos on metal railings in crappy parts of town. My enthusiasm for it died that very day.
Probably the best one I never found was
A Plane Cache (GC1H89R). Proper wilderness. Shame I didn't find it. Worth the visit, though.
Keep meaning to get back into it, but as I get older I start to look altogether too shifty rummaging in bushes.
The official app is a bit expensive, I can't say for iphone but for android, c:geo..
I hate magnetic nanos....
I can understand that, I ignored the urban sites and searched only in the more pleasant rural areas
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I do draw the line at prowling around schools and parks...
Funny story..
I related this on the Tea thread,
I was going through Erskine Golf Course and got the first one as I got ready to avoid the wee white balls and my GPS beeped, one within 30m..
I got off the bike and ran up into this wood..
I found and signed the log..
I picked up my bike and then some blue rinser accused me of using the wood as a toilet blah blah..
I did manage to convince her of the geocaching part by showing the GPS map that one was in the wood..
I stopped at the gate out and had a wee..just for badness.
It breaks up a ride and it does take you to some cracking out of the way places..
I lasted about 80 of the 90 minutes before I had to sit outside and cool down/rehydrate. I had my legs and arms in positions I never knew they could be in (steady!) All in all, I did enjoy it even if I am a little stiff today (now, now you're better than that!) Hopefully it won't be too long before I can complete a full class 
) but have procrastinated.
- I'd never heard of it before but now notice quite a few classes advertised in Edinburgh. I'm not sure I (or anyone else for that matter) would want me to be that sweaty. Turbo sessions are bad enough.
, OMIL(otWM) 
