We arose early (well, early for us anyway) at 7am, loaded the X-Trail up and set off for the Lakes around 8am.
Following a brief "comfort break" at Sandbach Services (there was a cache there, obviously), and after battling our way through the Bank Holiday traffic, we finally arrived at the campsite just after noon.
Got the tent up in double quick time, and then realised that Julie had brought the pump for the air bed, but not the adaptor to plug it into the car!!!!! Luckily the guy setting up his tent next to us had one, and he kindly loaned it to me.
Had a quick brew, and as planned, made a short drive to Staveley to have a crack at the Jason's Jaunt series of caches, based on Jason and The Argonauts. I'd planned these in advance, and from the listings they seemed as though they may be tricky, as they were all micros except for the final bonus cache. As it turned out, all the micros were contained in a further container, that made them far easier to find, and we managed to find every single one, although a couple still needed a bit of a search. Managed to pick a further cache up that wasn't in the series, but was on the route, making 13 caches in all for the day, not a bad start for the weekend.
We got back to the car around 6.30pm, and got the kit out for a well-earned brew and a bite to eat, closely followed by an early night ready for our assault on Scafell Pike in the morning!
Unfortunately, the air bed decided to slowly deflate through the night, and we woke up on a cold hard floor.....never mind....
Report on Day Two to follow.
Total caches found at the end of Day One......2123.
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