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Devon UK Mega Gnome Games Life's a Beach Devon UK Mega SEEKER Gnome Games Life’s a Beach Summer is just around the corner... Summer 2017 #32 The 2017 Committee Sharon Reid Sharant GAGB Chair Caz Turver border caz Treasurer Adam McCreadie Skippy and Pingu Publicity Graham Haddock Grahamthegray Webmaster (joint) SEEKER 32 Arthur Griffiths Griff Grof In this issue... Webmaster (joint) Cover: Longdon, Staffordshire,GC51DYN . Courtesy of Graham Haddock Kim Leonard Above: Billinghurst, Sussex, Courtesy of Graham Haddock 03 Chair’s Message Leonards193 04 GAGB News Round-up Online Shop Manager 05 Devon UK Mega Ant Reid Sharant 07 Piratemania 10 Preview GLAD Manager and The Geocaching Association of Great Britain (GAGB) is the leading 11 Village Sign series Joint Editor, Seeker UK Geocaching body, recognised by and acting on behalf of 12 Coniston Old Man geocachers. The Association was established in 2003 to provide a 18 Life’s a Beach series Adam Redshaw national organisation that represented geocaching, and to serve as a UK point of contact for geocachers, landowners, the media and others ukcachemag 19 Racing against the Sun with an interest in geocaching. Find us online at www.gagb.org.uk. 24 The Gnome Games Secretary Contributions to Seeker are welcome; please contact [email protected]. The Association is unable, at the present time, to pay for submissions. Copyright in all such 26 GAGB CITO Weekend Abi Hamilton-Thompson contributions will revert to the author on publication of the subsequent issue. Pictures 28 NGAs 2017 Abiherts are published on a single-use, non-exclusive UK editorial rights basis, under which copyright remains with the photographer. 30 Cachers’ Tales Joint Editor, Seeker Seeker 32 design and layout by Jamie Douglas (Paperballpark) 2 Chair’s Message Sharon Reid Members’ Discounts... Sharant GAGB Chair, 2017 Welcome to a Mega Geocaching 20% Discount 10% Discount Summer! With two UK Megas Cicerone Press are pleased to offer GAGB 5% Discount members a discount of 20% on all Cicerone GeocacheKit are pleased to be able to offer all www.ukgeocachers.co.uk this summer in the South-West, GAGB members a 10% discount on all items on titles purchased online at UK Geocachers are happy to offer GAGB the website www.geocachekit.co.uk. Including it’s an action-packed time www.cicerone.co.uk members a 5% discount on their products. In geocoins, trackables, readymade caches and All members need to do to claim the order to obtain your discount, you need to coming up. much more. discount is to add the voucher code ‘GAGB’ email UKgeocachers and set up an account, so on the shopping basket page of the Cicerone The discount code is available from the that the discount is applied to each order. In this issue we have a practical website. Members’ Chat section of the GAGB forums. guide to the Mega Events to help you plan your geocaching summer holiday. We also have a couple of interesting geocaching 5% Discount stories from our members as well 5% Discount NE GEOCACHING SUPPLIES are happy to offer as a geocaching trip to Coniston, Base of Tree geocaching supplies are happy to GAGB members a 5% discount on their 15% Discount offer GAGB members a 5% discount on all wide range of geocaching products — see the Village signs series and the geocaching supplies www.negeocachingsupplies.co.uk. Life’s a Beach series. Cotswold Outdoor offer GAGB members a The relevant discount code is available from 15% discount. More detail and the discount Visit their website for details, and obtain the relevant code from the Members’ Chat section the Members’ Chat section of the GAGB The GAGB have been at a couple code are available from the Members’ Chat forums. section of the GAGB forums. of the GAGB forums. www.baseoftree.com of events in the past few months - at the Kent Mega, Gnome Games and the Caledonian Cachefest, all of which were a great success! 5% Discount Geotees: For geocoins, travel bugs, caches and Don’t forget about our annual 10% Discount 5% Discount more. We can also have your own coins or tags Pulse72Geocaching are happy to offer made for you to your design. Please visit us at CITO weekend on Saturday 23rd GAGB members a 10% discount on their Geocache Land are happy to offer GAGB www.geotees.co.uk where GAGB members September and Sunday 24th wide range of geocaching products — see members a 5% discount on their wide enjoy a 5% discount. To get your discount, www.pulse72geocaching.co.uk. range of geocaching products — see open an account, then PM or email me September - and you'll earn a www.geocacheland.com (Mongoose39uk) through the GAGB website The relevant discount code is available from before you place your order. This only needs to Groundspeak souvenir too! the Members’ Chat section of the GAGB The relevant code is available from the be done once, the discount will then be applied forums. Members’ Chat section of the GAGB forums. to all future orders. 3 GAGB out and about Worcestershire to Wales, from Cambridge to Cumbria, these are some We have been busy getting out and of their favourite walks and have about the past few months meeting our geocaches at heart. Find out more from members. We had a stall at the Kent the National trust website. Mega over the 1st May Bank Holiday weekend and had our very successful Geocaching blogs on the map game. Kim & Abi were also at the internet Caledonian cachefest again selling our GAGB merchandise and raising funds Groundspeak have a YouTube channel with our Map Game. Graham and Adam News Round-up with an archive of – mostly older – were also at the Gnome Games in June. video blogs that are fun to watch. The Podcache show has seventy episodes We have hosted 2 successful roving View Finder reports “A quick play and seems stable that you can download – all related to events the past few months. The GAGB and simple enough. On the "finding" side, caching, and focused on Britain. The It’s free, it’s only available on iOS 10.3 or visited the YHA at Malham in Yorkshire you go to one of the locations, and click Geocaching Junkie has a fun website above, (iPhones etc), and there’s not in April where we met several to say you are there. You get points with a series of well-written blog posts much in it. But if you are interested in geocachers, some local and some who depending on how close you are. On the on geocaching exploits. Check out the great views of our landscape and want had travelled very far making a holiday submitting side, it seems you can just links and decide which of these suits and visiting this beautiful location. Our to help build a national map of them, take a photo, give the location your blogging needs. 7th Roving event in May was back at perhaps head over to the iTunes information and details, and submit.” preview site and download this app. https://www.youtube.com/user/ Dearnford lake in Shropshire where we If you know the app Sighter, this is like a You can find and submit great views, GoGeocaching again canoed to the island and met specialist version of that, purely for and perhaps it’ll go some way to http://thepodcacheshow.com/latest- some muggles, who we showed how to good views. You can download it here. cache in the grounds. enhancing your geocaching experience. episode.html https://thegeocachingjunkie.com/blog/ Adam Redshaw was live on Radio 2 on Mark Bryant has had a look for us and Geocaching competition Simon Mayo’s ‘Drivetime’ show in April at Mountain Warehouse Do you have a favourite blog, podcast for a 5 minute chat about Geocaching. or vlog that you think we should all hear There’s a freebie available to you at about? Post your thoughts to our FB UK Cache Mag Mountain Warehouse. Pick up a group, or in our forums: trackable from one of their stores, take https://www.facebook.com/groups/ We’re not the only geocaching-related a photo while out geocaching, and then thegagb/ magazine in the UK. Our very own enter their competition on social media GAGB committee member Adam to be in with a chance of winning one http://gagb.co.uk/forums/ Redshaw runs the commercially- major or six minor prizes. Good luck! forumdisplay.php?26-Members-Chat available UK Cache Mag. He’s very Please note that none of these reticent about using his GAGB role to Geocaching at the advertise his commercial business, so news snippets are paid-for let us do that for him – if you are not National Trust articles. Their presence here in aware of UK Cache mag, why not take a The National Trust has published a list no way constitutes an look at his website, and see if it’s the of the top ten places to cache (on their endorsement of any product or a sort of thing you’d like to get. properties, of course). From recommendation to purchase. 4 Devon UK Mega 2017 The annual Mega is not just a single event – there is a week of festivities across the county, so take a look at this lot and start making your plans for fun! Every day there is an event somewhere out in Devon, and every evening there are a couple of events back at the main site in Bicton – an informative chat and a fun evening activity later on. Look for the geo-art on your map. After the Mega there is the wind-down – Yorkshire Day will keep you entertained and informed, and on Monday morning why not pop in for a bun and brew (and chat with like-minded cachers!) Monday 31 July 2017 Tuesday 1 August 2017 a very good working relationship, so 11:00-13:00 GC75DBD The Imps 11:00-14:00 GC6X3EM A day on there will be plenty of caches to bag in Meet & Greet Dartmoor.
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