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While passing a bopring 12 hour night shift i stumbled across the concept of Geocaching and immediatly looked at climbing areas near me and came up with:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0471c1dd-f552-4c7f-8...

Switching into hyper-geek mode i though cool - what a great idea. And the thought to myself about GPS co-ord's being published for starting points of routes in the route database's etc. After all i think that they are accurate to about a meter or something aren't they?

So a general question, what do people think about the idea and also does anyone know any good sources of climbing specific GPS geek websites??

In reply to jaswa: I thought that one on Slanting Buttress was brought up at an area meeting and rejected as a bad idea...?

In reply to Touching Centauri: There's a Geocache at the top of Little Tryfan, I bagged that one some time ago. My colleague decided to take us the 'quick way' to it, and we ended up tramping across about a mile of bog before we got to it! We had a quck scramble down the right hand side and followed the proper path back to the road

In reply to jaswa:
>>After all i think that they are accurate to about a meter or something aren't they?

Depends . . . about 6m (ish) in nice weather with a good view of the sky, noticeably more wobbly under even fairly light tree cover or round the bottoms of crags. Was out after a cache at the Roaches last night, and knowing which route I was looking for was more accurate than the GPS.

(I am saving the one on Slanting Buttress for cache #1000. Done the route before and never even knew it was there.)

There are a few caches placed on climbs loads on the top of hills.

Your GPS no matter how good will not work accurately at the base of a crag due to the fact that GPS signals bounce off rocks adding to the innacuracy.

You can find out more here

http://www.gagb.co.uk/forums/

In reply to Wingnut:

It was only put there last summer.

It was definitely brought up at an area meeting but a quick look through the minutes and I can't find it.

All my caches are on mountain/hill summits. You could do a rock climb to reach them. eg. Tryfan, Y Lliwedd, Cadair Idris etc. I've even got a website for them www.summicaching.org.uk
from Charlie

In reply to charlieg0pzo:
Found one of yours last weekend!

(Geocache as "Harry the furry squid" . . . old joke from uni.)

In reply to Wingnut: Hello there. Yes your on my league table.
I wonder how many climbers are geocachers

In reply to charlieg0pzo:
Don't know, I'd suspect it comes across as being a bit geeky!

What *would* be interesting is some stats on how many cachers automatically ignore ones with a high terrain score (excluding the ones that genuinely need specialist skills such as climbing/scuba diving).

(Currently trying to find somewhere to put a physical extreme of my own . . . quite hard to do in Brum!)

In reply to charlieg0pzo:
We are now up to three in this thread.

In reply to charlieg0pzo:
Btw, are you going to do anything about that one on Moel Cynghorion?

In reply to Wingnut:

Not us some cachers go the opposite way.

But probably quite a lot ignore 2 terrain and above.

In brum with all those tunnels surely there is somewhere ?

In reply to markandlynn:
I've been looking at canal bridges . . . plenty of scope for potential splash-downs! :

(At the last West Midlands meet, one of the local numbers monkeys was dishing out lots of free sample pots that make good micro containers, the idea being to generate lots more local caches to get his numbers up. I only normally set puzzles and don't usually use micros - don't think it's fair to do that on top of a puzzle. However, I don't want to make things too easy (and would quite like to wind up the numbers monkey in question), hence the desire for a physically hard one instead.)

In reply to Wingnut:
I can guess who that is. Ive a local numbers man who will bend heaven and earth to be FTF on our caches, got a plan for this year to thwart him.

I can tell you just how to make a series really really hard with little effort on your part.

In reply to jaswa: Been geocaching for years, tried placing a couple of climbing ones but usually beaten off by the weather.

We did place one in Coire an Lochain (called Another Failed Climbing Cache) but it was removed when the area became a national park.

Accuracy best about +/- 3m.

Never found any climbing specific sites for geocaching. Even the geocache uk website went down a few years back.

5/5 ftw

In reply to markandlynn:
>>Ive a local numbers man

There's always one! "Never mind that it's a wet log in a leaking film can in yet another ivy-covered tree in that copse with the knee-deep mud between the sewage works, the chemical factory and the motorway . . . the numbers are going up, so we must be having fun!"

In reply to Wingnut: I'm thinking of archiving it. It's only been
found 5 times.

In reply to charlieg0pzo: is that url correct? i'm not getting a working link from it.

In reply to Touching Centauri: interested to know why it was considered a bad idea? Are you talking about Clwyd Mountaineering Club?

In reply to jaswa: Sorry it's www.summitcaching.org.uk