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Messages - Griff Grof

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General Caching / Re: Memory Lane
« on: June 26, 2020, 11:12:34 am »
I haven't even got the first one yet, as I haven't found any this month due to the situation :'(

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General Caching / Re: Memory Lane
« on: June 05, 2020, 01:27:30 pm »
I agree, lots of people are out caching. So many caches are being published!

Personally, I’ve only found one (very local) cache since lockdown restrictions were eased, and I’ve decided to postpone the publication of my new series until this is over.

So I’m glad that we have until January to complete Memory Lane  :D

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General Caching / Memory Lane & Wonders of the World
« on: June 01, 2020, 05:18:16 pm »
New souvenir campaign!

"From June 1 through January 3, earn up to five souvenirs by logging geocaches to move forward on the game board. Log your finds by January 6, 2021 to earn souvenirs."

More info here.

Seems fairly straightforward, and not much of a challenge... but maybe that's not a bad thing, considering the circumstances.

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General Caching / Re: Geocaching stories
« on: June 01, 2020, 05:15:51 pm »
There's still plenty of time to submit your geocaching story (or stories)!

The prizes have been confirmed... first place will win £30 GAGB store credit. That's the largest prize ever offered in a GAGB competition - double the value of the first place prize offered in 2018 and 2019.

You can buy lots with store credit - from customisable clothing, to geocoins and more.

Send your story to: stories@gagb.org.uk

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General Caching / Geocaching stories
« on: April 03, 2020, 01:42:56 pm »
If you've got a great geocaching story to tell, or just a memorable experience/day out, why not use up a few hours of your time at home to write it up?

If you do, you can enter it into the GAGB's story competition :)

Email your story as an attachment to stories@gagb.org.uk by July 31st to be in with a chance of winning!  :)

More info: https://www.gagb.org.uk/story-competition.php

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Caching Events / Re: Possible event
« on: March 15, 2020, 10:15:10 am »
Sorry to hear this - but perhaps for the best during this virus episode.

Yes, that was the main reason I was waiting and decided not to organise at the last-minute. I see several events have already been postponed, and there’s some question about those in the summer, including the Megas. Looks like the Prague Giga will be postponed too. Hopefully the situation calms down soon and we can go back to normality. But the most important thing is health.

Stay safe everyone  :)

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Caching Events / Re: Possible event
« on: March 12, 2020, 10:57:51 am »
I unfortunately haven't got round to organising this one  :'(

Hopefully there'll be another opportunity soon...  :)

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Caching Events / Possible event
« on: February 09, 2020, 01:02:28 pm »
I might organise an event for my geocaching 10th anniversary.

Would people be able to attend something on the evening of Friday March 27th?

Like I said, I still haven't decided, so it may not happen, but I thought I'd check to see whether people are free to see if it's worth bothering.  :)

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Caching Events / Re: Twixmas 2019
« on: December 30, 2019, 04:35:53 pm »
Thanks to @Hogshunters for organising a great event  ;D

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Caching Events / Re: Twixmas 2019
« on: December 02, 2019, 11:34:41 am »
I’m sorry to hear that she didn’t enjoy the walk. It’s not the first time this point has been raised.  :(

I’m sure those at the front aren’t doing this intentionally - they might not realise, it may not cross their minds, or they might think there are enough people behind them to accompany the slower walkers.

My suggestion would be to make an announcement before setting off - something along the lines of “remember it’s a group walk, so we need to stick together and give people time to catch up before moving on”.

Maybe we could count how many people there are before setting off, and check that everyone is at each cache location before announcing that we can move on to the next?

In addition, we could have a few volunteers staying at the back of the group for the duration of the walk.

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Caching Events / Yorkshire Christmas Fayre
« on: November 25, 2019, 09:45:21 am »
Is anyone planning to attend? It's quite a popular event, and I've heard good things about it:

GC8CVNR, this Saturday (Nov 30th), from 11am.

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Caching Events / Re: Twixmas 2019
« on: September 29, 2019, 09:17:07 am »
I have a family member’s birthday on the 29th, so the 5th would be ideal for me personally.

I say go with the date you - and others - feel most comfortable with. If that’s the 29th, then that’s okay, if it’s the 5th, that’s obviously good too :)

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General Caching / What does this mean? (EarthCaches)
« on: September 28, 2019, 10:56:35 am »
Geocaching HQ posted this on social media: “We’re happy to announce that EarthCaches are available to all geocachers in honor of International EarthCache Day on October 12th and 13th.”

What does this mean? Aren’t EarthCaches always available? Or does it mean premium ones will be available to basic members? Or were they meant to say a souvenir is available to all geocachers?

 ??? ??? ???

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Caching Events / Twixmas 2019
« on: September 15, 2019, 10:55:14 am »
Thought I'd start a thread to get the ball rolling.

Any ideas?

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General Caching / Re: Adventure Lab
« on: September 12, 2019, 10:38:53 am »
Now that I’ve actually completed some Adventure Labs (four at Aberdeen and one at GCF) I’ve got some more comments.

I actually quite liked them - it’s great how they can lead you on a tour around somewhere. The app works very well. I really like the sense of achievement after completing each one (e.g. the stars displaying on the screen, which is a nice touch).

They seem to have really caught on - in Aberdeenshire, people (including myself) were spending an afternoon completing them rather than finding a ‘proper’ series of caches elsewhere. There are lots more on the app now, and people are travelling to complete them just as they’d travel to find a ‘proper’ cache.

So, I do think they have a place in geocaching.

But Lab caches still need to be taken more seriously if this is going to work long-term.

I spoke to several others at GCF who agreed that Adventure Labs should have D/T ratings, size, and integration with the geocaching website and app (i.e. the starting Lab appearing on the map). Project-GC don’t include Lab caches where they would be appropriate (e.g. number of finds per month, per year, etc.) which is really annoying as GC.com says August 2019 was my best month but Project-GC doesn’t. Apparently Project-GC do include Labs if you’re a paying member... but with Adventure Labs possibly being permanent, and lots more around, people’s Lab cache counts are increasing fast and I really think they should be included on Project-GC just like any other cache type... they’re no longer one-off caches available for Mega and Giga events.

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