Geocaching in the UK

[Folk Trakers]

We recently visited England and, of course, hit a few geocaches. Upon our return, we found the following information in an e-mail we received from geocachingUK:

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Hi,

Welcome to the mad, mad, mad world of geocaching!

You’ve found your first cache, congratulations (but beware rumour has it that if your find count gets as far as ten you are hooked for life!!)

I am sure you will soon want to place a cache or two. Great! But first may we suggest that you find a few so you know what makes a good cache (and a not so good cache!)

Then place your first cache……

The cache will be reviewed for publication by one of the UK reviewers, either Lactodorum ([email protected]) or Deceangi ([email protected])

Before it is published the information on the cache page, the location of
the cache and the proximity of the cache to others will be checked against
gc.com guidelines (http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx) .

In UK we like to think that cachers will also uphold the UK guidelines
(http://www.gagb.org.uk/guidelines/guidelines.php). Many of these are very similar in nature to the gc.com guidelines, however we would like to draw your attention to the following, nos: 1, 3, 8, 9, 14 and 15. The reviewers hope that you will note these and try to follow them when placing your caches.

Other helpful links are:

http://www.geocache.co.uk/ , for a plethora of useful resources and
http://www.geocacheuk.com/ for, amongst other gems, Teasel’s amazing
searchable stats database…

..and, finally, don’t forget to visit the UK Forum!

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=35

for news, information, debate and scurrilous innuendo. 😉

If you have anything you would like to ask us please get in touch.

Many Thanks and Cache Well,

Lactodorum & Deceangi

p.s. this message is automatically sent to cachers when they find their first UK cache. If you are an experienced cacher who’s just visiting the UK, or if we’ve just got it wrong (eg you logged a mobile cache which has just moved into the UK), then please accept our apologies for troubling you!

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It stated it was sent through http://www.geocaching.com, but I’m not sure how it was generated. I thought this was a really neat idea to welcome new geocachers. Also, it did some helpful encourage to newbies about how quickly they should place their first cache.

Just thought I’d share!

Mrs. Traker

[zuma]

Hi,

I got the same email with my first find in the UK too. I was lucky enough to meet several UK cachers and it was a great part of my trip there. I would suggest if anyone is planning a trip abroad to check out an event there. Easy to make great new friends.

Except for downtown london, I thought the caching in the UK was great. There seems to be a lot more geocoins floating around over there.

zuma

[Cachew]

I had the same reply, too. Considered it thoughtful.

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