LoisInTheForest
16th July 2009, 10:30 AM
When I got the bug, I registered with GC.com in November 2003 but various circumstances (helping run our family’s pub until late 2006 – holding a part-time working from home job as a website manager and steadily worsening back problems – no apathy or laziness involved at all, oh no) subsequently conspired to curtail my geocaching activities.
The mobility difficulties stemming from a couple of naff spinal nerves and discs have been significantly alleviated by surgery a few months ago and (having flipped up the lethargy switch as well) I have recently recommenced my geocaching efforts. However, I often find it quite difficult to walk more than moderate distances to find a cache – at the moment, 2 to 3 km over flattish terrain is about my limit, and that’s usually with a walking stick (varying degrees of necessity for this), although I am starting to think I might be able to use my mountain bike again which would open up somewhat greater distances (as long as there was some way I could get on the bloody thing without a mounting block and off it without falling over sideways).
So, although it’s not anywhere near as bad as it might be, I need to establish which caches I’d be able to do fairly easily. I’ve just submitted a PQ to list up to 200 caches near my home location with difficulty and terrain ratings of 1 or less (are there any rated a half, I wonder?). On submitting the query, the automated message says that it currently returns 0 results. Am I doing something wrong? I’ve set the following criteria for the PQ: Days to generate: Friday; Run this query every week on the days checked; Show me 100 caches of any type; Any container; That I haven’t found; And terrain is less than or equal to 1; Within United Kingdom; From My Home Co-ordinates; Within radius of 100 miles; Placed: None Selected; Output to my account’s e-mail address; In .GPX format (compressed). When I got the zero message, I tried different terrain and difficulty ratings and still got zilch!
I’d be grateful for any advice/suggestions. Maybe I could get those jolly nice folk at GC.com to add the search criteria “decrepit old codger with a stick/with a bike/without a bike”!
The mobility difficulties stemming from a couple of naff spinal nerves and discs have been significantly alleviated by surgery a few months ago and (having flipped up the lethargy switch as well) I have recently recommenced my geocaching efforts. However, I often find it quite difficult to walk more than moderate distances to find a cache – at the moment, 2 to 3 km over flattish terrain is about my limit, and that’s usually with a walking stick (varying degrees of necessity for this), although I am starting to think I might be able to use my mountain bike again which would open up somewhat greater distances (as long as there was some way I could get on the bloody thing without a mounting block and off it without falling over sideways).
So, although it’s not anywhere near as bad as it might be, I need to establish which caches I’d be able to do fairly easily. I’ve just submitted a PQ to list up to 200 caches near my home location with difficulty and terrain ratings of 1 or less (are there any rated a half, I wonder?). On submitting the query, the automated message says that it currently returns 0 results. Am I doing something wrong? I’ve set the following criteria for the PQ: Days to generate: Friday; Run this query every week on the days checked; Show me 100 caches of any type; Any container; That I haven’t found; And terrain is less than or equal to 1; Within United Kingdom; From My Home Co-ordinates; Within radius of 100 miles; Placed: None Selected; Output to my account’s e-mail address; In .GPX format (compressed). When I got the zero message, I tried different terrain and difficulty ratings and still got zilch!
I’d be grateful for any advice/suggestions. Maybe I could get those jolly nice folk at GC.com to add the search criteria “decrepit old codger with a stick/with a bike/without a bike”!