Saturday, 28 April 2007
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Mystery and Earth added to the list!
Having sorted out a Multi recently, we decided it was time to tackle some new Cache types! Looked at this one a while ago, and finally worked it out today - a very clever puzzle! Went out for another Caching trip, again discovered something new near to home!
Were close to Wren’s Nest, so grabbed an Earthcache while we were at it, though we found no trilobites as it was getting pretty dark! Up to 14 now!
Monday, 23 April 2007
Rock and rollin!
Trying to make up for yesterdays DNFs we do a local park after work. Nice to discover it, and the dog enjoys herself. We struggled a bit on this one, but got there in the end – helped to hone our Caching senses I think!
Sunday, 22 April 2007
Still rolling?
Decide we’re on a roll, and we should do the Motorway Mayhems nearest home. Find M5 J1 easily enough, but cannot find J2 despite searching for a long while, far too much rubbish and broken glass around. Find J3, and go for the bonus, but there are far too many *clues* in the search area, so we give up. Try to find M6 J7 on the way home as a consolation, only to find that missing too...
Saturday, 21 April 2007
On a roll!
Spurred on by yesterday evening’s success, we do our first Multi. We have great fun tramping round the park where we often walk the dog, and eventually find the Cache, our first Ammo can (awesome!) which we have walked past so many times! Drop off the TB and take two more, who seem to have been in here for months!
Friday, 20 April 2007
FTF attempt
Home again. Amazed we managed to double our Cache count on hols, including doing two abroad!
A new Cache pops up so we go for a FTF. Turns out we are STF, but get a rosette for our troubles and pick up our first TB. Go for a trio of caches nearby, and end up being 4TF on those as well! In one trip we’ve doubled our score again lol
A new Cache pops up so we go for a FTF. Turns out we are STF, but get a rosette for our troubles and pick up our first TB. Go for a trio of caches nearby, and end up being 4TF on those as well! In one trip we’ve doubled our score again lol
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
It’s my birthday and I’ll Cache if I want to!
We’re in Tenerife, staying with schnarff’s Mum who lives out here, and it’s my birthday. When asked how I want to spend it the answer is obvious…walking, and Caching! We get up early to climb the local mountain, stealing schnarff’s Mum’s dog, Mollie, to keep us company, as Kai is back home in kennels.
A little later we convince schnarff’s Mum to play taxi, and she drives us to the bottom of a steep hill. We take our nephew with us, as he’s had enough of his 3 sisters and we think he’ll enjoy a treasure hunt. Schnarff’s Mum waits in the car. “It’s only 200 yards away” I say, happily. No suncream, no water, and it’s baking. Little did we realise the 200 yards is vertically up! We scramble our way through boulders and prickly plants. Schnarff’s back isn’t too keen, and I slip at one point, scraping my left leg!
Eventually, after about 20 minutes, the terrain eases a little, and we’re on the plateau at the top. Nephew dashes off towards some boulders in the correct direction, and finds the treasure before we even get there! We’re a little disappointed to find no Travel Bugs in the cache, as there were about 6 on the listing! L After more logbook filling and swag swapping (thanks for the swag Mum-in-law!) we take some pics, re-hide the Cache (GCN12Y) and set off back down.
Down is almost worse than up, but we struggle on, burning and gasping for water. Interestingly the human sixth-sense seems to be a pretty good GPS itself – looking at the screen, we automatically took an almost identical route down to our initial climb upwards!
MIL looks happy we’re back down safely, and takes us to a roadside café for a drink, which we all need. Somehow we convince her to drive us another 15 miles to find another Cache (GCMX1T)! This one is near a lovely lighthouse. She’s not been this way before, and again waits in the car for us. The Cache proves to be on far easier terrain, though quite tricky to find, so we get her to come and join us! She finds the Cache for herself, with a little directing, and enjoys looking through the swag and reading the logs. Obviously being a holiday destination there are people from all over the world in the book!
On the way home we explain about TBs and MIL says she’d like to send her Humpty keyring round the world!
A little later we convince schnarff’s Mum to play taxi, and she drives us to the bottom of a steep hill. We take our nephew with us, as he’s had enough of his 3 sisters and we think he’ll enjoy a treasure hunt. Schnarff’s Mum waits in the car. “It’s only 200 yards away” I say, happily. No suncream, no water, and it’s baking. Little did we realise the 200 yards is vertically up! We scramble our way through boulders and prickly plants. Schnarff’s back isn’t too keen, and I slip at one point, scraping my left leg!
Eventually, after about 20 minutes, the terrain eases a little, and we’re on the plateau at the top. Nephew dashes off towards some boulders in the correct direction, and finds the treasure before we even get there! We’re a little disappointed to find no Travel Bugs in the cache, as there were about 6 on the listing! L After more logbook filling and swag swapping (thanks for the swag Mum-in-law!) we take some pics, re-hide the Cache (GCN12Y) and set off back down.
Down is almost worse than up, but we struggle on, burning and gasping for water. Interestingly the human sixth-sense seems to be a pretty good GPS itself – looking at the screen, we automatically took an almost identical route down to our initial climb upwards!
MIL looks happy we’re back down safely, and takes us to a roadside café for a drink, which we all need. Somehow we convince her to drive us another 15 miles to find another Cache (GCMX1T)! This one is near a lovely lighthouse. She’s not been this way before, and again waits in the car for us. The Cache proves to be on far easier terrain, though quite tricky to find, so we get her to come and join us! She finds the Cache for herself, with a little directing, and enjoys looking through the swag and reading the logs. Obviously being a holiday destination there are people from all over the world in the book!
On the way home we explain about TBs and MIL says she’d like to send her Humpty keyring round the world!
Sunday, 8 April 2007
STF, well, SF anyway!
It’s Easter Sunday and of course the whole family got together for a feast! Ended up discussing Geocaching with my sister (Scab C of The Swindon Scabs) of course and she gave us the co-ordinates of a Cache near the Motorway on our way home (GC11Q5H), as she had failed to find it previously, but the co-ordinates had since been updated!
Popped in on the way home, had to avoid a chap and then a camper van, but finally went to search. The clue, as discussed earlier with Scab C – who thought she’d actually parked where the new co-ords were, and hadn’t spotted any *clues* between there and the old co-ords, was a little misleading *lol* but found it in the end! Our first Motorway Mayhem, our first micro, and Cache 2 overall!
Popped in on the way home, had to avoid a chap and then a camper van, but finally went to search. The clue, as discussed earlier with Scab C – who thought she’d actually parked where the new co-ords were, and hadn’t spotted any *clues* between there and the old co-ords, was a little misleading *lol* but found it in the end! Our first Motorway Mayhem, our first micro, and Cache 2 overall!
Friday, 6 April 2007
First Find
Today was our first time Caching. I was given a Garmin eTrex Vista Cx for Christmas, cos I love gadgets and wanted to know what we have been up to when we go walking. I discovered this strange item on the setup menu ‘Geocaching’ and had no idea what it was. I looked it up on the internet and found it was basically treasure hunting! I used to love car treasure hunts when I was at school, and it sounded like something we could do while we walked, and it might help us to find new places to walk!
A few days later I mentioned it to my Dad, only for him to say ‘Yes, I know all about it, your sister does it with the boys!’ So that was that!
When Good Friday came round it seemed a good time to do a nice long walk with the dog, and to see if we could track down one of these treasure chests! I’d discovered there was a nature reserve near my workplace, so sorted out a 6 mile walk, taking in the nature reserve and the Cache it contained – GCN141 – Do you come here Ufton.
We printed off the Cache details, packed up a flask of coffee, some food, a map, various swaps, and, of course, the GPS. We arrived at the parking and faced challenge 1 – how on earth to get to the Cache! The GPS was pointing straight across the woods, but we decided to follow the very windy path round and round the reserve, getting closer, then further, then closer again!
Eventually the GPS beeped ‘you’re getting close!’ We had no idea what we were looking for, and checked out an obvious object near the path, but no treasure there, just rubbish. Eventually we decided to go over a stile to leave the reserve, especially as we had read the clue which said something about a gate. Stood around looking blank for a while, until we suddenly spotted a small cairn in the trees, off the path. It looked a little out of place, so gave it a go, and BINGO!
Read the logbook, and swapped some swag, then continued our walk feeling very smug! Hurrah! We’re Geocachers!
A few days later I mentioned it to my Dad, only for him to say ‘Yes, I know all about it, your sister does it with the boys!’ So that was that!
When Good Friday came round it seemed a good time to do a nice long walk with the dog, and to see if we could track down one of these treasure chests! I’d discovered there was a nature reserve near my workplace, so sorted out a 6 mile walk, taking in the nature reserve and the Cache it contained – GCN141 – Do you come here Ufton.
We printed off the Cache details, packed up a flask of coffee, some food, a map, various swaps, and, of course, the GPS. We arrived at the parking and faced challenge 1 – how on earth to get to the Cache! The GPS was pointing straight across the woods, but we decided to follow the very windy path round and round the reserve, getting closer, then further, then closer again!
Eventually the GPS beeped ‘you’re getting close!’ We had no idea what we were looking for, and checked out an obvious object near the path, but no treasure there, just rubbish. Eventually we decided to go over a stile to leave the reserve, especially as we had read the clue which said something about a gate. Stood around looking blank for a while, until we suddenly spotted a small cairn in the trees, off the path. It looked a little out of place, so gave it a go, and BINGO!
Read the logbook, and swapped some swag, then continued our walk feeling very smug! Hurrah! We’re Geocachers!
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