Further browsing of the Geocaching site revealed that there is a cache which is almost directly on my route to work! "Watt Mast? #6 (HP Railway Station)" is barely a couple of minutes deviation from my regular route, so I left the house a bit earlier than usual to go and have a look for it. Another 35mm cache in quite a public area - this would probably be quite a challenge to find.
I use the very nifty Richesse GPS application. The only problem (and it's a small one) I seem to have found with that particular program, is that it doesn't like finding satelites while the Activesync program is running - close Activesync and all is well. I fired it up at the bottom of my road to give it time to locate me and work out it's directional information, and headed for the station. It had me sorted out by the time I got there, and I walked towards the mast.
Unfortunately, even when standing right by the fence beside the mast, It still gave a reading of 19 feet from the target. I have a feeling that this might be on the platform-side of the fenced off area rather than footpath side - which would make sense as it's a very public footpath which is heavily used by students from the nearby college. That point at platform-side is way up the platform and away from heavy 'muggle' (non-geocacher) traffic. As I didn't have time to turn around and look for it up there, I intend to check again on the way home but on the other side this time.
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Also, my package from UKGeocachers arrived at work this morning! In it was a rite-on-rain logbook, a tiny pencil, a green test tube style micro-cache, and some yellow geocaching logo stickers. The lot cost me about £5 including postage was very well packaged, and sets me up for laying my first ever cache :-) I'll have to give some thought as to where to put it. My first instinct was to lay it at work - but being a place full of students I think maybe not.
I use the very nifty Richesse GPS application. The only problem (and it's a small one) I seem to have found with that particular program, is that it doesn't like finding satelites while the Activesync program is running - close Activesync and all is well. I fired it up at the bottom of my road to give it time to locate me and work out it's directional information, and headed for the station. It had me sorted out by the time I got there, and I walked towards the mast.
Unfortunately, even when standing right by the fence beside the mast, It still gave a reading of 19 feet from the target. I have a feeling that this might be on the platform-side of the fenced off area rather than footpath side - which would make sense as it's a very public footpath which is heavily used by students from the nearby college. That point at platform-side is way up the platform and away from heavy 'muggle' (non-geocacher) traffic. As I didn't have time to turn around and look for it up there, I intend to check again on the way home but on the other side this time.
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Also, my package from UKGeocachers arrived at work this morning! In it was a rite-on-rain logbook, a tiny pencil, a green test tube style micro-cache, and some yellow geocaching logo stickers. The lot cost me about £5 including postage was very well packaged, and sets me up for laying my first ever cache :-) I'll have to give some thought as to where to put it. My first instinct was to lay it at work - but being a place full of students I think maybe not.
Photo of our first cache constructed follows. Just got to work out where to lay it now.!
Lifson
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