A Great Weekend's Caching!

We took advantage of the (occasionally) good weather again this weekend, and got out and about.

On Saturday, we went to Maidwell (which is right at the top of Northamptonshire) to do 2 series in a figure of 8 walk of about 8 miles. The series were A Scenic Trail, and a nameless series of caches nearby which was toy animals with a micro container wedged in them.

Due to a lack of forward planning on my part, we end ed up stumbling into the middle of the Scenic Trail Series, and suddenly realised that 6 of the first seven caches contained a number for calculating the whereabouts of the 8th cache.....oh dear....

A quick look at the map, and it seemed that we could find 4 of the numbers before getting to the area we thought the bonus cache would be, so off we went.

After getting 4 numbers, I had a stab at the other two (I actually got one correct!) but it didn't help find the cache, as the clue was "base of tree" and well, err, there were lots of trees.

So, we decided to continue on and find the rest of the caches, then come back for the Bonus cacge, which added another 2 miles to the walk, so at the end of the day, we covered 10 miles rather than the planned 8.

A good day out nevertheless!

We woke up on Sunday (Julie's birthday, so I took her caching as a treat, well, I thought it was a treat, she wasn't so sure).

At first we headed towards Ashby-de-la-Zouch to do one of 2 series of caches with no info on container, and no hint, so I'd mentally prepared myself for a frustrating day. However, as we neared Ashby, the weather turned and pouring rain came in and seemed to be set for a while, so we decided to about turn and drive 40 miles to Telford in Shropshire to do a new series (published last night) in Granville Country Park. A total of 19 new caches, and 4 older ones, gave us plenty to go at.....and all "regular" size boxes too...what a treat!!!!

We spent the 2nd half of the series in the company of Snerdbe (Des and Bren), and came away with 21 finds in all.

A truly excellent series of caches over some beautiful countryside, although the terrain ratings on some of the caches listings seemed a little on the low side!

We also bumped into The Washers near the end, as they were just starting at 5pm!

Caches found at time of posting....2333