Geocaching....

TigerTail

TigerTail

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Anyone else come across this?!

Am halfway across my field tonight when all of a sudden the dogs went nuts and legged it back to the gate, I turn around and see 2 people ferreting around my car, the gateway, looking over the gate, the ditch....

So I tramp back and ask if I can help them with something to be told I have a geocache in my gateway.... A what now says I - some little thing they hide and people wander around with gps on their phones to find apparently!

So now I can look forward to months of people messing about in my blinking gateway! Anyone else had this joyful event?

You'd think they could have put it in the next gateway along which is clearly not used.
 
My cousins from Oz came to stay and they are mad geocachers so I went with them a ferw times. Fine in public places like churchyards but odd in private I have to admit. Find it and move it! (I can get on the site if you pm me details and I can give you clues...)
 
i've heard of it, know of several 'caches' around by our yard and in the local park. Never been to find any of them though, too lazy!!
 
Email the cashe "owner" and ask them to move the cashe- they are not allowed to be on private property. If the adress of the geocashoing organisation is in the cashe , email them as they will know who owns the cashe.
 
I have done this out hacking. Join in its fun!
I have one in my horses gateway which gets found from time to time but hasn't caused me any problems.
 
I've done this, its brilliant fun. Would be annoyed if it were that close to my house though. They have a website with the location/ clues/ co-ordinates so you could check that out? The problem with moving it is people will still have to go to your gateway to find the next clue. Would suggest contacting http://www.geocaching.com/
 
Hmm Ive had a look on there and put in the location but its not coming up - are there other sites? Or do I need log in?
 
Find the cache- open it up and look inside- if the contact information makes sense to you- contact the person involved and ask them to remove it. If the contact information does not make sense to you, post it on here for someone to interpret.
 
It is a blinking private one grr - have emailed geocoaching on FB and given them the details and asked for it to be moved.... no reply as of yet.
 
Tigertail - we have found no less than 43 around the farm - none of which are on public rights of way, several of which are in paddocks with the horses, and since discovering what it was, it has been the answer to why the same fence posts get broken time and time again, and when tree guards are wrecked.

I wouldn't mind if it actually involved a good walk, but these lazy gits drive up our private driveway to find them, just a glorified treasure hunt in a car, blocking narrow country lanes up trying to scribe in old film pots and Tupperware containers - bit sad if you ask me.

Anyway we went on their website and asked nicely in all of the 43 geocasche were removed from private land, and was met with a barrage of abuse and "but it's not doing any harm" ... until they get kicked in the head by one of the boys and his handy back legs.

So I downloaded the app and removed them all. Every time a new one appears I remove that too. I am like the anti Christ to be honest - but after spending hundreds each year on planting saplings in tree guards, it is a bit disheartening to have all and sundry sticking their grubby hands in there and snapping the tree.
 
Geocaching is the modern version of letterboxing and I have to say it has brought about a bad name for us letterboxers.

With letterboxing it is very rare to find them in urban areas, especially in Yorkshire where it is popular. The vast majority are out on the North York moors or Sutton bank and require a lengthy hike to get to them with cryptic clues requiring maps compasses and determination! There are also strict rules on where they can be planted. With geocaching you simply plug the coordinates in to a machine and it takes you straight to them in a car - where's the fun in that?! With letterboxing you also find a stamp in the box which is individual to that letterbox which you take an impression of and leave an impression of your own stamp in the boxes logbook - some of the hand carved stamps you come across are breathtakingly beautiful - you can tell someone has taken hours to create it.

You could maybe contact the company where the clues are hosted and ask that no more are planted on your land.

Just remember - geocachers = badies and letterboxers = goodies and even if we are sad old gits, it brought hours of fun to us as kids and I still go now I'm in my 20s :D
 
Letter boxing requires a lot more effort and brain cells - I completely agree with you love, I dislike the fact that it is done by car by loads of lazy sods - on private land too!!
 
Well I haven't had a reply to my message :(

Someones been looking as they've moved the bright orange posts I have marking the dyke edges. It feels rather rude just to throw the thing frankly but not impressed at all.
 
Urgh, no I wouldn't be impressed either. Think the trouble with chucking it is that people will just search harder for it and cause more damage.

I'd be tempted to go to the other extreme & jazz it up, decant it into a nice big bright coloured box put in clear view on the boundary closest to where they try to enter will soon ruin their fun, maybe even write geocache on it in big letters just so they get the message :biggrin3:
 
RunToEarth said:
Tigertail - we have found no less than 43 around the farm - none of which are on public rights of way, several of which are in paddocks with the horses, and since discovering what it was, it has been the answer to why the same fence posts get broken time and time again, and when tree guards are wrecked.

I wouldn't mind if it actually involved a good walk, but these lazy gits drive up our private driveway to find them, just a glorified treasure hunt in a car, blocking narrow country lanes up trying to scribe in old film pots and Tupperware containers - bit sad if you ask me.

Anyway we went on their website and asked nicely in all of the 43 geocasche were removed from private land, and was met with a barrage of abuse and "but it's not doing any harm" ... until they get kicked in the head by one of the boys and his handy back legs.

So I downloaded the app and removed them all. Every time a new one appears I remove that too. I am like the anti Christ to be honest - but after spending hundreds each year on planting saplings in tree guards, it is a bit disheartening to have all and sundry sticking their grubby hands in there and snapping the tree.
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Good on you.
 
Just had a response via fb he's going to ask the owner to move it to another bit that's not someone's private gateway - can't say fairer than that!

I used to letterbox with my grandad as a child on exmoor - certainly no vehicle access there and I still have my book of stamps we made together :)
 
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