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!!
Thursday, 23 April 2009
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.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
New Caches Placed!
I've just got back from walking the dog, and came home with less in my pockets than I went out with....as I left the house with a few cache containers!
I've placed a little mini series of 3 caches along the river Tame near Water Orton, nice and simple, and a nice and simple stroll along the river. It's also allowed me to "bagsy" a spot I might want for a high terrain rated cache at some point in the future....but you'll have to wait a while for that!
My car is in the garage tomorrow for a service, so I'm going to Coventry to do the Scent2Cov series of caches around the city.....I'll report on how I get on!
The trip to Blackburn for the weekend is still on, with even more cachers joining in the fun after word got around at the recent meet in Walsall.
AJIGeo, The Washers, [MF] Taz are joined yours truly, Team Balders, Pete3, Blue Nora, Monki and Graham1875 on the trip, so now we are taking three cars! We are still planning to attempt 100+ in the day, but terrain will make this difficult, we'll have to wait and see!
I've placed a little mini series of 3 caches along the river Tame near Water Orton, nice and simple, and a nice and simple stroll along the river. It's also allowed me to "bagsy" a spot I might want for a high terrain rated cache at some point in the future....but you'll have to wait a while for that!
My car is in the garage tomorrow for a service, so I'm going to Coventry to do the Scent2Cov series of caches around the city.....I'll report on how I get on!
The trip to Blackburn for the weekend is still on, with even more cachers joining in the fun after word got around at the recent meet in Walsall.
AJIGeo, The Washers, [MF] Taz are joined yours truly, Team Balders, Pete3, Blue Nora, Monki and Graham1875 on the trip, so now we are taking three cars! We are still planning to attempt 100+ in the day, but terrain will make this difficult, we'll have to wait and see!
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
FTF on Witton Walkabout!
Managed a FTF today, GC.com log as follows:
"I was sat at my desk on a slow day after returning to work after the Easter break, when an e-mail popped up at 11.38am with a new cache only 3 miles from the office. I had to go out for food, so decided to go for a FTF attempt.
Parked as recommended, and half expected to see Graham1875 walking back towards the parking area with a big grin on his face. Luckily, I saw no-one on the way there, and all was quiet at GZ. Found the cache straight away....it's refreshing to see a good size cache after all the micros I've endured over the Easter holiday!
Opened the box to find a card congratulating me on my FTF, a gift (nice one, that will certainly come in useful!) and a nice blank log book! Plenty of good quality swaps in the cache too, although I TNLN other than the gift.
Signed the log at 12.02pm, 24 minutes after publication!
T4TC, the FTF, and the gift! Excellent cache!
Stokesy."
"I was sat at my desk on a slow day after returning to work after the Easter break, when an e-mail popped up at 11.38am with a new cache only 3 miles from the office. I had to go out for food, so decided to go for a FTF attempt.
Parked as recommended, and half expected to see Graham1875 walking back towards the parking area with a big grin on his face. Luckily, I saw no-one on the way there, and all was quiet at GZ. Found the cache straight away....it's refreshing to see a good size cache after all the micros I've endured over the Easter holiday!
Opened the box to find a card congratulating me on my FTF, a gift (nice one, that will certainly come in useful!) and a nice blank log book! Plenty of good quality swaps in the cache too, although I TNLN other than the gift.
Signed the log at 12.02pm, 24 minutes after publication!
T4TC, the FTF, and the gift! Excellent cache!
Stokesy."
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....
Monday, 30 March 2009
A Record Breaking Month Comes to an End!
My record breaking month has finally come to an end....and I've managed to achieve the following:
Some series I've completed (or attempted!) this month are:
Mutt's Trek - Excellent walk for 7 in the series plus 2 en route
Finding Flyford - Great walk for 9 in the series plus a puzzle if you can solve it
Hatherton Canal Walk - series of 6 on a linear walk, great stuff
UK Mega Series - Completed 1-70 with no DNF's
Big Kids Challenge - a complex 13 cache route, still 2 left to find!
Sezincote Stroll - Lovely walk in the Cotswolds for 10 caches
CacheWalker Kids Trail - completed these 7 caches on a figure of 8 walk with the Sezincote Stroll
March Mayhem - completed the original set, another 13 just published!
They are all worth doing!
The Oregon 300 has certainly been broken in this month, and the Field Notes function on it has saved me alot of time logging all those finds!
- Most caches in a calendar month : 270
- Most caches found in 1 day : 72
- Most caches found in 1 week : 133
- Fastest 100 finds : 3 days
- Found a cache on every day in the month, and hence....
- Increased my cache-a-day record to 39 consecutive days....and counting
- Passsed the 1500 and 1600 milestones
- Managed to get 6 FTF's (not a record for me, but cool nevertheless!)
Some series I've completed (or attempted!) this month are:
Mutt's Trek - Excellent walk for 7 in the series plus 2 en route
Finding Flyford - Great walk for 9 in the series plus a puzzle if you can solve it
Hatherton Canal Walk - series of 6 on a linear walk, great stuff
UK Mega Series - Completed 1-70 with no DNF's
Big Kids Challenge - a complex 13 cache route, still 2 left to find!
Sezincote Stroll - Lovely walk in the Cotswolds for 10 caches
CacheWalker Kids Trail - completed these 7 caches on a figure of 8 walk with the Sezincote Stroll
March Mayhem - completed the original set, another 13 just published!
They are all worth doing!
The Oregon 300 has certainly been broken in this month, and the Field Notes function on it has saved me alot of time logging all those finds!
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