I know I've been remiss lately with regard to my blog, so apologies to me when I read this rather slack diary in the future.
Christmas and New Year have both been and gone, and I've worked pretty much through it solidly. I've been caching quite a few times but simply not had the chance, or really the motivation, to blog it.
So here is a summary:
29/12/2010 - Did 12 drive-by caches with Patrick. He was pushing to get his 1000 before his 12-month caching anniversary and as the weather was rubbish he decided to do these - they're pretty much ones you wouldn't want to do in nice weather. We only walked to a couple and the distance was under half a mile.
29/12/2010 - In the evening we popped out to get the last three Patrick needed for his 1000. The plan being that they'd be Mr Truffles as his very first cache was also one by him. Sadly one of the caches had been muggled so we left at 999 having walked 1.4 miles. (Patrick actually got a good result here - that very evening Mr T published a very tough puzzle which Patrick got the next morning for his 1000th cache with the bonus of also being the First-To-Find.)
02/01/2011 - Went to a BBQ(!) at Snoopyisboss's house. This was a small event with 15 fellow geocachers and a great time was had by all, Snoopy (Sarah) really did herself proud. No walking or caching but certainly lots of eating and drinking!
03/01/2011 - Went to do a Mr. Truffles series at Barnburgh, one we'd thought we might squeeze in at the Halloween event but ran out of time. This was a nice walk with Patrick & family who were just along for the walk as they'd found them all before. Four miles in total.
08/01/2011 - Did a series called 'Scooby Doo - Where are you?' near Hooton Pagnell. This is all reclaimed pit land and made for a nice, albeit very wet, four mile walk. It was also a good test for my new 'real' walking boots which I had treated myself to over the festive season and of which I am very proud. (There was a small footbridge which had flooded so I carried the kids across.)
And that's that. I'm hoping to get some good solo walks in this month as I have holiday days I need to use up. Fingers crossed I sort my act out and do it!
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Monday, 10 January 2011
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Ghosties and Geocachers
Hannah's parents Julie and Martin (Geocaching name Fat Bloke) came down for the weekend to do a spot of local Geocaching and also to attend a Halloween Geocaching event with us.
After catching up on our geo-gossip we set off to Barnburgh, near Doncaster, about 11am on Saturday, arriving a little early for the Noon meet but not early enough to do any nearby series although we did pop off to do a single find just up the road.
There are quite a few series around this area almost all placed by Mr Truffles. He has a local Barnburgh 1-12 series, plus two small series (each with 4) placed specifically for last year's Halloween event and another series of 8 placed for this year's event. He also has two random single ones locally too.
It was really nice to meet so many Geocachers and to have a proper chat with Ea51ron and Mr Truffles, both of whom I have a lot of respect for. Ron has done several well planned series with nice hides and always manages to make really interesting walks. Mr Truffles has found over 9000 caches and has about 200 of his own hides; he almost single-handedly keeps Rotherham Geocachers busy. He kindly complemented me on my recent puzzle cache and container and pointed me towards two other infamous puzzles that I've since started work on solving.
I must thank Angellica for organising this event, the travel bug swap box and for scattering lots of horrid creatures around the tables, but I must also make a mental note to myself so that next time I do not do as many or even any caches and to invest the time in meeting and greeting and exchanging stories and tips with fellow Geocachers.
Anyway I had planned two routes to take in most of the local caches but by the time everyone had arrived and we'd met many familiar names (and put faces to them) and then eaten, time was pushing on so we decided to just do one of the circuits.
We set off with Patrick and family and planned to meet up with Yorkypudding & AgeingHippy later.
A few easy caches later we came across one of Mr Truffles epic hides. This was an off-set cache where the coordinates point to a location that has the coordinates to the actual cache. Nine of us spent 40 minutes hunting high and low for these coordinates all to no avail. It was one of those occasions where you've invested so much time it makes you less likely to quit but eventually we had to tear ourselves away and get on with the day.
We completed the part circuit and arrived back at the carpark far too late to meet YorkyPudding and AgeingHippy who I correctly presumed had gone on without us. We left Patrick at this stage and Hannah, myself and her parents decided to quickly do another nearby series of 4 before retiring for the day.
In total we did 5.4 miles and picked up another 11 caches - I ended the day (without realising at the time) on 399 finds.
After catching up on our geo-gossip we set off to Barnburgh, near Doncaster, about 11am on Saturday, arriving a little early for the Noon meet but not early enough to do any nearby series although we did pop off to do a single find just up the road.
There are quite a few series around this area almost all placed by Mr Truffles. He has a local Barnburgh 1-12 series, plus two small series (each with 4) placed specifically for last year's Halloween event and another series of 8 placed for this year's event. He also has two random single ones locally too.
It was really nice to meet so many Geocachers and to have a proper chat with Ea51ron and Mr Truffles, both of whom I have a lot of respect for. Ron has done several well planned series with nice hides and always manages to make really interesting walks. Mr Truffles has found over 9000 caches and has about 200 of his own hides; he almost single-handedly keeps Rotherham Geocachers busy. He kindly complemented me on my recent puzzle cache and container and pointed me towards two other infamous puzzles that I've since started work on solving.
I must thank Angellica for organising this event, the travel bug swap box and for scattering lots of horrid creatures around the tables, but I must also make a mental note to myself so that next time I do not do as many or even any caches and to invest the time in meeting and greeting and exchanging stories and tips with fellow Geocachers.
Anyway I had planned two routes to take in most of the local caches but by the time everyone had arrived and we'd met many familiar names (and put faces to them) and then eaten, time was pushing on so we decided to just do one of the circuits.
We set off with Patrick and family and planned to meet up with Yorkypudding & AgeingHippy later.
A few easy caches later we came across one of Mr Truffles epic hides. This was an off-set cache where the coordinates point to a location that has the coordinates to the actual cache. Nine of us spent 40 minutes hunting high and low for these coordinates all to no avail. It was one of those occasions where you've invested so much time it makes you less likely to quit but eventually we had to tear ourselves away and get on with the day.
We completed the part circuit and arrived back at the carpark far too late to meet YorkyPudding and AgeingHippy who I correctly presumed had gone on without us. We left Patrick at this stage and Hannah, myself and her parents decided to quickly do another nearby series of 4 before retiring for the day.
In total we did 5.4 miles and picked up another 11 caches - I ended the day (without realising at the time) on 399 finds.
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