On Sunday we set off in the morning to do another of Easiron's series - Ford Walk. This is in Ridgeway, an area of Sheffield that's relatively near to us as the crow flies yet awkward to drive to,
This walk starts from the same car park as a previous walk of Ron's called Plumbley Walk (which I completed two weeks before I started my blog) and is a series of 8 hides, the eighth being found using coordinates taken from 6 of the first 7 hides.
I have a lot of respect for Ron's walks as he takes you through areas that are very changeable. For example they can go from woodland into farmland onto a short stretch of road and back into woodland, up hill and down dale as they say. Couple this with good hides you always seem to enjoy Ron's walks and this was no exception.
We made a few wrong turns (missing footpath signposts), and had a bit of a panic when we realised at find #3 that we'd forgotten to take the coordinates out of #2, but we soldiered on figuring we would be able to calculate this missing coordinate when we'd found #7 and had to get back to the car park - they're almost always on or very near the obvious route back.
And find it we did. The actual single digit missing meant we had to check a spot roughly every 30 feet heading in a particular direction and based on where that trail was going it was pretty much a given that it was the third number we tried. After hunting around in the area we were soon rewarded with a Geoclunk when my walking pole hit plastic hidden deep in dead leaves.
Not so much a lucky find but certainly a fortunate one.
After this it was a quick mile hike back to the car park and the adjacent pub for a lovely Sunday lunch and a couple of drinkies to reward ourselves.
Total walk was 3.6 miles and included 8 finds - the first of which I had completely forgotten was my 400th.
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010
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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