"The Other Way" pointed to the summit, so I went that way.....
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Sunday, 10 May 2009
Which Way Would You Go????
I saw this sign yesterday half way up The Wrekin....
"The Other Way" pointed to the summit, so I went that way.....
"The Other Way" pointed to the summit, so I went that way.....
Saturday, 9 May 2009
Plodding Along
I've been plodding along with the cachin' this week.
Managed 12 on Thursday, mainly cache and dashes along the Bromsgrove Feeder road on my way to Brockencote Hall for a fabulous dinner.
Did the new series of caches based on Hindu words near Meriden over a couple of evenings while walking the dog. Incidentally, these caches have completely scuppered my forthcoming series for the summer, as most of them are on my proposed route! I'm currently searching for an alternative route, maybe one near Shustoke.....
Been out to climb the Wrekin this afternoon with the dog and the girlfriend (not one and the same I can assure you!), and grabbed the 4 trad's and completed the Earthcache. Not bad visibility up there today, so I took a picture or two.
Julie and the mutt at the summit trig point.....
View from near the summit......
Caches found at time of posting....2034.
Managed 12 on Thursday, mainly cache and dashes along the Bromsgrove Feeder road on my way to Brockencote Hall for a fabulous dinner.
Did the new series of caches based on Hindu words near Meriden over a couple of evenings while walking the dog. Incidentally, these caches have completely scuppered my forthcoming series for the summer, as most of them are on my proposed route! I'm currently searching for an alternative route, maybe one near Shustoke.....
Been out to climb the Wrekin this afternoon with the dog and the girlfriend (not one and the same I can assure you!), and grabbed the 4 trad's and completed the Earthcache. Not bad visibility up there today, so I took a picture or two.
Julie and the mutt at the summit trig point.....
View from near the summit......
Caches found at time of posting....2034.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
My First D5/T5 Cache.....sort of....
I've had one eye on the weather this week for two reasons....firstly, me and the better looking half of the household are thinking about a camping weekend, and secondly, I wanted to go "darn sarf" to complete the Chiltern 100 and grab the 5/5 Bonus Cache.
I watched the news last night (after the football, obviously!), and it seemed that today would be better than Thursday, so I got up nice and early...well, vaguely early....at 7am and set off for Buckinghamshire with plans made to grab enough additional Chiltern Hundred caches to convert my 97 into 100+ and to grab the bonus cache. I then had a nice little series of 13 caches in Ashley Green to do.
Anyway...parked up in Chesham at about 10am, and soon had two more to add to the total, making 99....one more needed. Toyed with moving the car, but another 4 were within a mile, so decided to walk the dog!
The next one was a DNF, ch050 on Westdean Lane, notoriously difficult for some reason. I bagged the next two (one to get me to a 100, and another as insurance).
I found myself a perch (a bench on the main road) and sat down in the sunshine and using the iPhone slowly entered the numbers I'd got from all 101 caches into a web page....I hit send....I waited.....slow connection....and it eventually tells me I've got 98 and need 2 more!!!!!!!
I must have typed a couple in wrong then....so I typed them in again....same result!!!!
Luckily I had a PAF on hand (Mark of Delta68) and fortunately he answered his phone. I was horrified to learn that he had heard that the Bonus cache had been muggled! Oh no!!!!!
He gave me the coords for the Bonus (I had found more than a 100, so surely this isn't cheating), and he said he'd get Donna (Mrs Delta68) to e-mail me the numbers they got from the caches.
I drove on to Chesham Station to grab No.102 of the series for me, by which time an e-mail had arrived, which upon scrutiny revealed that I had got one of my numbers wrong. I then typed 102 numbers (which matched Delta68's) into said web page, only to be told that I now had 99 correct, and I could bugger off, I wasn't getting the coords!
Little did the web page know, I already had them, so I drove off towards GZ and found myself a suitable parking spot. By now I'd checked the listing for the Bonus cache, and it was active, so maybe drsolly had replaced the Bonus cache already?
On arrive at GZ, I find a blue piece of string...that's all...(see photo):
Dissappointed, I walked back to the car, and pointed the X-Trail towards Ashley Green for the series.
Now, the day gets better, I had one DNF, but a tremendous 4 mile stroll around the countryside, fabulous views, and some good caches.
Even the cows were paying an interest (I think they were checking I'd signed the log, the cache was in the bush at the bottom of the photo...)
Much happier now, I decide to head back to Brum by using the A5 rather than the M1, and bag a few caches on the way home, which I did....a rubbish Off Yer Trolley (dull), and interesting micro (Birth of Radar), and the final cache of the day, Roman View, making 25 caches in all on a day of ups and downs.
Upon my return home, I logged my caches, and logged the Chiltern Hundred Bonus as a DNF, and contacted the cache owner, who has kindly allowed me to log it as a "Find", which I have done, although it would have been nicer to have actually got my hands on a box!!!!
Total caches found at time of log: 1954
I watched the news last night (after the football, obviously!), and it seemed that today would be better than Thursday, so I got up nice and early...well, vaguely early....at 7am and set off for Buckinghamshire with plans made to grab enough additional Chiltern Hundred caches to convert my 97 into 100+ and to grab the bonus cache. I then had a nice little series of 13 caches in Ashley Green to do.
Anyway...parked up in Chesham at about 10am, and soon had two more to add to the total, making 99....one more needed. Toyed with moving the car, but another 4 were within a mile, so decided to walk the dog!
The next one was a DNF, ch050 on Westdean Lane, notoriously difficult for some reason. I bagged the next two (one to get me to a 100, and another as insurance).
I found myself a perch (a bench on the main road) and sat down in the sunshine and using the iPhone slowly entered the numbers I'd got from all 101 caches into a web page....I hit send....I waited.....slow connection....and it eventually tells me I've got 98 and need 2 more!!!!!!!
I must have typed a couple in wrong then....so I typed them in again....same result!!!!
Luckily I had a PAF on hand (Mark of Delta68) and fortunately he answered his phone. I was horrified to learn that he had heard that the Bonus cache had been muggled! Oh no!!!!!
He gave me the coords for the Bonus (I had found more than a 100, so surely this isn't cheating), and he said he'd get Donna (Mrs Delta68) to e-mail me the numbers they got from the caches.
I drove on to Chesham Station to grab No.102 of the series for me, by which time an e-mail had arrived, which upon scrutiny revealed that I had got one of my numbers wrong. I then typed 102 numbers (which matched Delta68's) into said web page, only to be told that I now had 99 correct, and I could bugger off, I wasn't getting the coords!
Little did the web page know, I already had them, so I drove off towards GZ and found myself a suitable parking spot. By now I'd checked the listing for the Bonus cache, and it was active, so maybe drsolly had replaced the Bonus cache already?
On arrive at GZ, I find a blue piece of string...that's all...(see photo):
Dissappointed, I walked back to the car, and pointed the X-Trail towards Ashley Green for the series.
Now, the day gets better, I had one DNF, but a tremendous 4 mile stroll around the countryside, fabulous views, and some good caches.
Even the cows were paying an interest (I think they were checking I'd signed the log, the cache was in the bush at the bottom of the photo...)
Much happier now, I decide to head back to Brum by using the A5 rather than the M1, and bag a few caches on the way home, which I did....a rubbish Off Yer Trolley (dull), and interesting micro (Birth of Radar), and the final cache of the day, Roman View, making 25 caches in all on a day of ups and downs.
Upon my return home, I logged my caches, and logged the Chiltern Hundred Bonus as a DNF, and contacted the cache owner, who has kindly allowed me to log it as a "Find", which I have done, although it would have been nicer to have actually got my hands on a box!!!!
Total caches found at time of log: 1954
Thursday, 23 April 2009
A week off work!
I've got a whole week off next week, and hope to continue my cache a day quest (today's finds make 62 consecutive days). I originally wanted to get to 50, but now I'm aiming for 100!
Saturday, as per previous posts, there's 9 or 10 of us trolling up to Lancashire for a bit of power caching, so that should get me well into the 1900's, so maybe next week could see the 2000 cache landmark achieved.
Some plans I'm toying with for next week.....
Completing the Chiltern 100, as I only managed 97 of them last October and it's bugging me!
A possible trip to do another section of the UK Mega Series as I enjoyed it last time.
The circular series around Carsington Reservoir in Derbyshire (I worked on the reservoir when it was built)
Plus a few other local trips...so plenty to choose from, and so little time!!
Saturday, as per previous posts, there's 9 or 10 of us trolling up to Lancashire for a bit of power caching, so that should get me well into the 1900's, so maybe next week could see the 2000 cache landmark achieved.
Some plans I'm toying with for next week.....
Completing the Chiltern 100, as I only managed 97 of them last October and it's bugging me!
A possible trip to do another section of the UK Mega Series as I enjoyed it last time.
The circular series around Carsington Reservoir in Derbyshire (I worked on the reservoir when it was built)
Plus a few other local trips...so plenty to choose from, and so little time!!
Coventry......twice
I managed to find 11 of 15 of the Coventry city centre caches yesterday, it would have been 12 but for some reason I didn't have the latest GPX file for one that had been moved, so I went back in my lunch hour today!
Eight of the caches I found were placed by DivingDJ, and upon my return home last night I discovered he'd hidden another 6 just outside the city centre....I grabbed one of them today after clearing up the unfinished business. Looks like they are all drive by's, so I'll pick them off at random when I'm in the area.
Eight of the caches I found were placed by DivingDJ, and upon my return home last night I discovered he'd hidden another 6 just outside the city centre....I grabbed one of them today after clearing up the unfinished business. Looks like they are all drive by's, so I'll pick them off at random when I'm in the area.
Sunday, 12 April 2009
Easter Caching
I've had a slow caching easter so far, 5 on Friday, 5 on Saturday, and due to the Webbies, 15 on Sunday. It was busy out there today, did half the series in the company of Delta68, and we met Monki, Snerdbe and Shanks Pony on the way round.
Kev will be gutted, another series gets published on his doorstep while he's on holiday...mind you, he could come back from Arran with a couple of FTF's under his belt!
Not sure if I'm caching tomorrow....yet....
Kev will be gutted, another series gets published on his doorstep while he's on holiday...mind you, he could come back from Arran with a couple of FTF's under his belt!
Not sure if I'm caching tomorrow....yet....
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Geocaching Update
I've been keeping the numbers ticking over nicely since my last post (1715 as of today), and I've been keeping up the "cache-a-day" project. Today's one and only cache is likely to be "Trail of Destruction" (a Mumbo Jumbo multi that I've got the final coords sorted for) or the new puzzle cache "Primal Happiness", which I struggled over all day yesterday, and fianlly cracked it about 9pm last night....it is simple....honest.
Preparations for the trip to Blackburn are almost completed, and I'll be e-mailing the details out to all later this week. The team now consists of yours truly, plus Team Balders, Pete3, [Monki], Blue Nora and Graham1875 (complete with Zimmer frame).
Over the weekend I went over to Bromsgrove to do a few of Cakemaker's caches along the canal, along with a short Kaitlin's Railway Walk, and a few Garrison Works caches dotted around. Still a few to do over there, so a return visit won't be too long coming.
On Sundat, the geo-mutt and I travelled up to Swynnerfield near Stone to do the new Swynnerfield Circular series of 12 caches over about 6 miles (with "Fifth Gear" thrown in for good measure). A nice walk, and some challenging hides, but I managed to find them all. In 6 miles, I saw 2 people.....weird....
Preparations for the trip to Blackburn are almost completed, and I'll be e-mailing the details out to all later this week. The team now consists of yours truly, plus Team Balders, Pete3, [Monki], Blue Nora and Graham1875 (complete with Zimmer frame).
Over the weekend I went over to Bromsgrove to do a few of Cakemaker's caches along the canal, along with a short Kaitlin's Railway Walk, and a few Garrison Works caches dotted around. Still a few to do over there, so a return visit won't be too long coming.
On Sundat, the geo-mutt and I travelled up to Swynnerfield near Stone to do the new Swynnerfield Circular series of 12 caches over about 6 miles (with "Fifth Gear" thrown in for good measure). A nice walk, and some challenging hides, but I managed to find them all. In 6 miles, I saw 2 people.....weird....
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