On Sunday, once the rain had abated, we popped out to plant Hannah's new series. We'd done an exploratory walk a couple of weeks previously and had made approximate location plans for each cache so that they wouldn't fall foul of each other regarding the 0.1 mile apart rule and also wouldn't infringe on my 'reserved' spot for another mystery cache. (It's not really reserved but Hannah was kind enough to let me keep it as I'd planned it a month before. More news on this cache in a couple of weeks hopefully.)
We wandered around a very sodden landscape looking carefully for the best locations and taking multiple averaged GPS readings which we then manually averaged in order to be able to publish the best coordinates possible.
The fifth cache is a clever, yet easy little puzzle using wildlife carvings on posts alongside the River Rother between Catcliffe and Treeton and adds some interest to a part of the walk where you have to backtrack on yourself.
We published them at 8pm last night, they were live by 9pm, and there's already been two finds of each cache today by midday!
I'm very proud of her and in one fell swoop she's equalled my total number of cache ownerships!
(Series Final cache is here: Geocaching - Wildlife Final)
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Monday, 4 October 2010
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Return - and revenge
It's been a busy week with little time for Geocaching since our Bank Holiday but we have managed two quick runs...
On Tuesday, when we were supposedly having a night off, we had just finished watching a film when an email arrived at 20:55 reporting a new cache only 4 miles away. Well of course we couldn't resist and dashed off in the car, arriving and signing the log by 21:15! FTF of course, but more satisfyingly also our quickest to date. On the way home we detoured several miles and picked up a drive-by down at J31 of the M1. A nice easy 2 in the pitch black.
Tonight we planned a quick walk back to Rother Valley - firstly to get revenge on the one that eluded us on Monday and secondly to pick up another very close to it that was frustratingly published on Monday while we were already out.
The bridge was a doddle - it was a bit annoying we didn't get it before, but at least it's now done.
Two caches and two small miles.
On Tuesday, when we were supposedly having a night off, we had just finished watching a film when an email arrived at 20:55 reporting a new cache only 4 miles away. Well of course we couldn't resist and dashed off in the car, arriving and signing the log by 21:15! FTF of course, but more satisfyingly also our quickest to date. On the way home we detoured several miles and picked up a drive-by down at J31 of the M1. A nice easy 2 in the pitch black.
Tonight we planned a quick walk back to Rother Valley - firstly to get revenge on the one that eluded us on Monday and secondly to pick up another very close to it that was frustratingly published on Monday while we were already out.
The bridge was a doddle - it was a bit annoying we didn't get it before, but at least it's now done.
Two caches and two small miles.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Frogs, Friends and Frustration
The Bank Holiday weekend just gone has been a hectic few days of Geocaching.
We started with a lazy day on Saturday and just picked one up as a drive-by while we were passing; it was competely unplanned and we actually forgot to log it for two days.
However on Sunday we went on a trip arranged by our new Geocaching friends "patdhill" and family. (Patrick and I have emailed each other a few times and we went around to meet them last Tuesday). This was a 10 mile hike around the top of Froggatt Edge for our two families, and included some serious rock-climbing to get to 3 caches rated 5 difficulty and 5 terrain.
The day started off pretty grimly with driving winds making the drizzle pretty awful but within an hour it was easing off and by lunchtime the sun was shining brightly. The wind never let up in the exposed places but it was a very pleasant day.
Owing to the complexity of some of the finds (12 overall) the 10 miles took us 7 hours but we had a great day (well most of us did, I think the kids are sick of hiking) and we cemented a friendship we hope will last a long time. Incidentally for the logs we came up with an on-the-spot group name of Team PADS for Patrick, Aggrajag, Donna and Spandannah which is of course much easier than writing 4 (or 9 with kids) names.
On Monday rather than rest our aching legs (and arms!) Spandannah and I decided to go to Rother Valley and pick-up the new series dropped there only 2 days earlier. Patdhill had, coincidentally, picked up First-To-Find on all these on the Saturday so we were, in a manner of speaking, following his trail again. As it was Bank Holiday Monday, and we didn't set off until about 1pm, we were already about 8th on the logs with 3 other Geocachers finding them before us on the same day - it seems like a very popular trail and it's not even 4 days old!
It was a pleasant 6 mile walk with no 'bush whacking' or 'jungle thrashing' but we did manage to get lost once when we added in another cache that wasn't from the same series and deviated from the desired route.
The series of 17 had 16 normal caches, some with clues in their lids, and a final puzzle cache you found from the lid clues. Out of the 17 there was one we simply could not find despite spending a good half an hour looking. Blasted bridge, it's frustrated us both and we'll have to go back another day and try again.
Typically the one we couldn't find included the last clue we needed for #17 but fortunately with one of the coordinates complete we used logic, the hint, skill and a dash of luck to successfully find #17 - and very proud we were too. Overall this was another 17 finds.
Tonight we need a night off - my back, my legs, my arms and even my aches are aching.
We started with a lazy day on Saturday and just picked one up as a drive-by while we were passing; it was competely unplanned and we actually forgot to log it for two days.
However on Sunday we went on a trip arranged by our new Geocaching friends "patdhill" and family. (Patrick and I have emailed each other a few times and we went around to meet them last Tuesday). This was a 10 mile hike around the top of Froggatt Edge for our two families, and included some serious rock-climbing to get to 3 caches rated 5 difficulty and 5 terrain.
The day started off pretty grimly with driving winds making the drizzle pretty awful but within an hour it was easing off and by lunchtime the sun was shining brightly. The wind never let up in the exposed places but it was a very pleasant day.
Owing to the complexity of some of the finds (12 overall) the 10 miles took us 7 hours but we had a great day (well most of us did, I think the kids are sick of hiking) and we cemented a friendship we hope will last a long time. Incidentally for the logs we came up with an on-the-spot group name of Team PADS for Patrick, Aggrajag, Donna and Spandannah which is of course much easier than writing 4 (or 9 with kids) names.
On Monday rather than rest our aching legs (and arms!) Spandannah and I decided to go to Rother Valley and pick-up the new series dropped there only 2 days earlier. Patdhill had, coincidentally, picked up First-To-Find on all these on the Saturday so we were, in a manner of speaking, following his trail again. As it was Bank Holiday Monday, and we didn't set off until about 1pm, we were already about 8th on the logs with 3 other Geocachers finding them before us on the same day - it seems like a very popular trail and it's not even 4 days old!
It was a pleasant 6 mile walk with no 'bush whacking' or 'jungle thrashing' but we did manage to get lost once when we added in another cache that wasn't from the same series and deviated from the desired route.
The series of 17 had 16 normal caches, some with clues in their lids, and a final puzzle cache you found from the lid clues. Out of the 17 there was one we simply could not find despite spending a good half an hour looking. Blasted bridge, it's frustrated us both and we'll have to go back another day and try again.
Typically the one we couldn't find included the last clue we needed for #17 but fortunately with one of the coordinates complete we used logic, the hint, skill and a dash of luck to successfully find #17 - and very proud we were too. Overall this was another 17 finds.
Tonight we need a night off - my back, my legs, my arms and even my aches are aching.
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