Jeremy Creak

Well my long-awaited new puzzle cache went live last night Jeremy Creak and the lost cache (GC2GC32) which took much longer to make than I had anticipated. I had written the puzzle a couple of months ago and I believed it to be 'nicely' difficult but blow me down if the cache wasn't found within 10 hours by 'snoopyisboss' aka Sarah.

I hid it at 8:30 last night in the pitch black, it went live on the servers around 10pm and Sarah solved it during her work shift, ahem hope no-one is reading from her workplace!, and she found it at 8am.

Well done Sarah!

The cache is currently for premium members only but I'll likely open it up for all to see after a couple of months, just like I did with my previous puzzle Not a Bit Sticky (GC2C5QM) last night.

This has took a few nights of my time so hopefully I can now get back to some 'proper' caching and continuing on from that hopefully back to more interesting blog posts.

Wildlife

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)

Puzzles within puzzles

I've not much to report this week so I'll keep it brief. We've had a quiet one mostly and also Hannah has been away visiting relations this weekend so I decided to have a lazy one for a change.

I planted my new cache yesterday which has a multitude of false co-ordinates hidden within the listing; codes within codes and false trails leading to the middle of lakes and empty fields. I can't say much here as this blog is linked from my Geocaching profile and I don't want to give any spoilers away! It's a bit of a tribute to Treeton too - I'm very patriotic about the place! (Link: Not a Bit Sticky). I've rated it 4.5 out of 5 for difficulty as the container is also a devil too.

Anyway I'm hoping it gives people the satisfaction of solving a puzzle and doing some armchair Geocaching!

*sigh* Back to the ironing...