You may have noticed a few of these popping up the last couple of days if you are local, a couple were published just last night and so as I am writing the FTFs are still available. I am not racing to claim them. A couple require rope work of great height / depths, don't have enough equipment for those at the moment, and my vertigo kicks in at shear drops of just a couple of metres sometimes now any way. But just a few tips for non-local people if they are looking to attempt a couple of them:

Sapperton Canal, Danesway - This one shows the 'may require wading' attribute. Having explored from this end a couple of times, be aware that depending on the time of year, and weather, a floating craft may need to be utilised to get to the fall. On one visit I couldn't get very far by wading.

Also note that this end used to be gated up as per the tunnel house end, the gates were flat down in the water just inside the entrance on my last visit. I tried to get permission for a cache here myself a while back, but failed. Hopefully the CO has gotten proper permission, but if not then be aware of possible civil trespass.

Shafted! - Don't know if you need to climb down the shaft at the posted coords. If so, intrigued if it goes right to the bottom as that would go down to the railway line wouldn't it? Hopefully there's a clue somewhere at the posted coords that direct you to another of the 'canal' air shafts.

Locationless Caches


Terracaching LC - Coordinate Palindromes

What is a Locationless Cache?
A Locationless Cache (LC), typically challenges you to find a particular object and log your find by posting the coordinates.

Some LCs require you do a little more to claim your find, for example post a photograph of yourself, or of your GPSr, at the location to help prove you physically visited the location.

To add an extra element of difficulty to obtain a find, some COs include an additional twist to the 'little extra'. An example could be "Find a street sign with a colour in the name, e.g. Caches Green. Take a photo of yourself by the street sign wearing an item of clothing of the same colour." ...some include much harder challenges.


What I like about Locationless Caches
I was a relatively latecomer to Geocaching, discovering the activity ten years to the month after the first ever one was placed. As with many people, after just a few finds it became vey addictive. Every time that I found myself visiting an out of town location I would look up Geocaches to hunt down.

After a few months of playing this game I began to learn of other geocaching hosting sites, some of which hosted related games, for example gpsgames.org. Some had LCs listed, and this became an additional work lunchtime activity for me when there were no new physical caches close by to hunt down.

LCs, as Geocaching did near the start for me, now form part of my way of life. If I am visiting a new area I will check the listings to see if I can grab a find that I ordinarily would not be able to near home. I am also mindful of the vast amount of listings I have perused, and have a different way of looking at my surroundings to see if I can spot criteria for logging an LC whilst out and about my normal daily life. Like Geocaching, Locationless Caching has taken me to places, shown me things, and made me do things I would maybe of never have seen or done, otherwise.


Terracaching LC - Have you hugged your body artist lately?


Where can I find Locationless Caches to go hunt?
LCs have not been a type of cache available on geocaching.com for many years. You will need look at other hosting sites to join in this fun activity. Here are a few:

waymarking.com – Groundspeak’s site dedicated just to LCs. You can log in using your existing geocaching.com account.

terracaching.com – Over 1000 active and mostly unique LCs available to hunt, as well as other hosted cache types like Traditionals and Cybers. They a have points systems to add an additional element of fun and to help keep general quality high, and leaderboards.

geocaching.com.au – Australia’s own all-in-one cache listing site, but available to the world to play. In amongst its plethora of hosted cache types are hundreds of LCs of varying quality.


Want to try finding a Locationless Cache right now?
We have one hosted right HERE, so you can start straight away without leaving this site 

If you haven't tried Locationless Caching before, I recommend you do give it a try. Let us know how you get on below

Have fun!
V Gackt V

This thread is for everyone to bring to other’s attention Geocaches that have been placed on listing sites other than geocaching.com. They could be ones you have recently found, enjoyed and want to let other cachers know about. Or could be ones you have seen published that look interesting, or would like to pair up with others to go find. Or, even promote your own alternative cache listings if you are proud of them and want others to know they are there… whilst on Groundspeak’s original geocaching forum it is frowned upon and deemed unnecessary to promote your own caches, alternative listed caches need a helping hand to get them noticed and so go head, it’s fine to do so right here.

Here’s a few examples to get started, you may have to log in to the listing sites to see the listings:

RAF
GE0324
gpsgames.org
Hidden by SoccerFanatics

A traditional type cache hidden in the decaying remains of RAF Chedworth. Lots of old interesting buildings around including some intact air raid shelters.

A couple of mine that have yet to get a FTF yet:

Take A Drink
GA10653
geocaching.com.au

A resurrected geocaching.com Challenge on Crickley Hill, anyone remember those? Originally set by walk tall I think, this is now a Virtual Cache on the Australian Geocaching listing site.

Manic Miner
TC55K7
terracaching.com

Do you dare to go retrieve Miner Willy’s lunch box for him?

Route
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...cache is not in the area you might think, it's not even in the same county as the Below Aboves

I have email notifications come through for a few topics, the 'CacheWalker SuperBike Challenge 2015' is one thread. The email that came through a short time ago after Griff Grof posted on the thread was worded a bit weirdly. See attached.

A family passing through Ashley County alerted law enforcement on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 31, after discovering a geocache container inside the Morris Pine on Hwy. 425 south of Hamburg that was mistaken for  a pipe bomb...

Family Mistakes Geocache Inside the Morris Pine as Possible Pipe Bomb

There is one particular thing that could of been done by the CO of this cache that could of avoided all of this. Can you guess what I am thinking of?

Also posted on CC, but posting here too so there is full awareness...

Use geocheck.org for your puzzle caches?  You should be aware that the site has been hacked and all hides compromised.

GAGB Photography Competition

Each year, the GAGB intends to produce a new geocoin depicting a location of significance or distinction within one of Britain's National Parks. Members of GAGB are invited to submit pictures to be judged for the following year's geocoin design.

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No I don't need a psychological evaluation. It wasn't me, honest.