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This Week..
What is the Little Bridges series?
There is a new Geocaching related podcast on the block.
Doctor D gives his opinion on cache maintenance.
GeoPaul is back.
We announce the GeoFleaz.com competition winner.
Last Week..
Caches found this morning
GC5KE1M Little Bridges #414 - Diseworth by Team-Triplet
GC5KE74 Little Bridges #417 - Wartoft Grange by Team-Triplet
GC5KEA7 Little Bridges #418 - Thistle View by Team-Triplet
GC4R27R Barn Stormer by snotpants
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast, Damian from Winter Foxes has created and updates a list of cachers who has found 10 or more little bridges and can be found at legresley.me.uk/LittleBridges. if you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan on his Geocaching.com page stanthews and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xx then name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to Damian’s list.
We dialed in to The UK Geocaching Podcasts live hangout, whilst we were out Geocaching.
Congrats to HHH and Wife Amy on hitting 100 shows of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast
News..
Geocaching.com have announced the dates for CITO Weekend, they are April 25th and 26th - check out the official Geocaching.com BLOG for more information.
Newcomer to the Dutch Geocaching podcast scene Geocacheradio.eu, hosted by GeoGilian and DeMecheleirs.
New National Trust website ntlandmap.org.uk
Its main component is ‘Land History’ which covers the buildings, countryside and coastline we own, each with a short history of why we acquired them, including dates, details, scale, how it was funded, by whom and the important designations or listings.
Whether you are curious about your nearest National Trust place, want to research ownership of an area or get a visual picture of it, or find out a bit more about somewhere you plan to visit, there’s a lot to discover.
Feedback..
From Redbeard4570..
Greetings again from the American mid west. Have not gotten in a lot of caching due to the weather. It has either been Arctic cold or spring time temps. I am not into caching in wind chills below 0 degrees F.
I want to thank Dave Debaeremaeker for his comment on the joys of a road trip in the USA or Canada. (cue Dr. D for his trade mark statement when the name of the country Canada is spoken) Sadly, your fine and great country is lacking in size to have the option of experiencing this wonderful event. That said, this gives you yet another reason to cross the pond and visit. I do one question or correction, depending of your point of view, for Dave Debaeremaeker. I am not aware of any highways in the USA that do not have a posted speed limit. Montana did, for a short time, have the interstate highways listed as "reasonable and prudent". Sadly the law makers and enforcement officers did not believe that speeds over 100 MPH were either. So they posted a speed limit. Interstate speeds range from 55-75. Speeds are set by the states. Texas has a few highways posted at 85 MPH. Being a truck driver since 1986 I have been in 47 states and experienced all the speeds listed above.
Keep up the excellent work on this fine podcast.
One last item. What do you and your listeners think about changing "dumb things geocachers do" to "things Dr. D might do".
Nemesis Geocaches..
GC49Y2V SB3W-04 by Team-Triplet and Cerises
Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..
From Collin French..
So, I was out last night, cheeky spot of caching. Had the gps with me, phone is in the car. It's about midnight. Got to GZ, couldn't make the hint make any sense so started looking at the logs. We had been here about 15 minutes. Checked a couple more places and my buddy called it and we headed back to the car. Grabbed my phone and looked and the cache had been disabled sine 31 December! I have my PQ set to ignore disabled and the gps to filter them so I have no idea how we ended up hunting a disabled cache, at midnight, in a town at zero degrees C...
Ask Doctor D..
From Yorkshire Yellow..
Dear Dr D,What’s your opinion on maintaining another cacher’s cache?We've all seen it when we’re out caching. It may be a full log roll or a wet cache, it might be soggy and manky contents, or a damaged container. Should we maintain the cache? If so, how far should we go? If we do carry out maintenance for a CO, are we encouraging lazy cache ownership? I’d be interested to hear you expert opinion.Love,Yorkshire Yellow
My view on this is that I’ll carry out basic maintenance if the cacher is a regular one, someone who’s known to me, or someone who is clearly usually what I'd consider to be a responsible CO, as they might just be too busy to attend to maintenance and quickly as they might like to.If I am planning a walk to attempt a series and see something that looks like it might need maintenance, I’ll drop a quick message to the CO. I've sometimes asked them if I can do any minor maintenance for them, even if it’s not clear from any of the cache pages if any maintenance is actually needed.What I won’t do is carry out maintenance, or offer to in advance to, for any low numbers hiders (as they should be able to do this themselves quite easily), people who aren't that active in the game any more or haven't logged on to the website in a long while.I will definitely not carry out maintenance on behalf of the small number of what I’d call “serial non-maintainers”. For example, in my part of the world there was someone a while back who was an active cacher and reasonably regular hider, but they never seemed to maintain their existing caches, and either left them to be disabled by a review or disabled them themselves if there was a pattern of DNF and/or ‘Needs maintenance’ logs.
GGH Tips..
A terrific option for backup power in your cachebag are Lithium AA, AAA, C, or D batteries (provided you have a GPSR or flashlight which uses those batteries of course). Lithium batteries last up to 10 years in storage (e.g. the bottom of your geocaching bag) and they last much longer than either similar alkaline or NiHM batteries (as a bonus they also weight less). You'll probably find that it's worth the extra cost for the backups you carry on the trail. Hear more on "GGH 116: Batteries III" and let us know your experience with these lightweight, high-power, disposable batteries.
Travelbug Race..
Oh Beep! Where Are My Other Legs? is still doing the rounds in The Australian Capital Territory. It is currently in the hands of cacher SiteHound and was last dipped in the cache Chemical Fore!mulae (GC10EP7).
Southern S@m - Last seen in Cache Der Romer (GC1JAJK), but has now been reported as missing
GeoPauls Video of the Week..
Geocaching Around Vancouver - January 20th 2015 by Mr David Archer
Check out GeoPauls YouTube Channel
Ey Up Me Duck Challenge..
Listener Ey Up Me Duck will be setting us a challenger each month throughout 2015. The current challenge is:
As Feb is the month of love and as some people declare their love for each in church, your challenge for this month is to find 5 Church Micros.
We've decided to extend these challenges to our listeners. So, let us know how you've got on with this challenge. As an incentive, at the end of the month we will put all the names, of those who have taken part, in to a random draw to win a prize.
Competition winner..
The winner of last weeks GeoFleaz.com contest.
What is the tagline printed on every Geoflea?
The answer is Along for the ride.
Winner Paul Weston
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