WoooHooo - making up for the weekend!

Well, after a Cacheless Weekend Monday seems to have dawned bright and sunny on the world of Caching for bikermel76 & schnarff!

Remembered (amazingly) to check GC.com for the new Cache this morning. Amazed to see it was still unlogged. Convinced schnarff that neither of our bosses would care if we were late...and off we went.

Once the GPS had got satellite lock we tried to find the Cache so we could drive there (although I had a vague idea where to go, it being on the way to work). Unfortunately it wasn't in the GPS - DOH. Fortunately the parking WAS in there (not sure what I was up to last night...)

Got to the supposed "Cache and dash" parking and zoomed right by. Stopped to chat & turn round and almost decided to give up as it seemed like it wasn't going to be simple (no wonder no-one's logged it yet!). Went back trying to work out where exactly the parking was, and spotted it. Stopped again and decided to go for it, so turned round again!

Parked up (almost in the ditch - this is NOT going well!) Wasn't convinced as it just looked like a field, no sign of a footpath! Finally spotted the sign well hidden in the hedge, so decided to go for it. Fortunately had the co-ords in the PDA, so plugged them into the GPS. Set off across the field, and remembered I also hadn't picked up the map - double DOH! Vaguely recalled that the path from this end turned left at some point and then we needed to double back to the Cache.

Decided we had plumped for the wrong side of the hedge when we started across the field, so when the Cache appeared to be to our left, and we got to a hedge, decided this was probably where the path turned. Unfortunately when we got to the top of the ridge we found that we were now in th emiddle of the field and the hedge disappeared off to our left, with the Cache still ahead, and a little to the right now. Loathe to retrace our steps (and having been so naughty with the Trig before) I declared we should play lost again, and we snuck across the field!

The Vista is a bit vague on its paths, and when we reached another 'midfield' hedge, it seemed we were on track - though the path didn't start for a bit (Topo has this habit of having bits of paths everywhere, but they rarely join up or meet roads :S) Turned along this hedge, only to find that the Cache was now off to our left - BAH! Again had to skip across the field, and this time THROUGH the hedge - oops!

Finally found ourselves on a proper path, and now very close to bip point! GPS did indeed bip within a few feet, and we started looking for likely hidey holes, despite having 40ft to go - you can never be sure, especially with a bit of tree cover! There were quite a few possibles, one looked VERY 'tampered' with, but no sign of a Cache. Continued along a bit and spotted what absolutely HAD to be the place, and so it was!

Very well-stocked Cache, several TBS and coins, and....FIRST TO FIND!

Hurrah! Our second LQ Cache, and our 8th FTF. Swapped coins and wrote log & set off back to car - this time along the path properly! Disturbed a green woodpecker which was lvoely - Kai would have loved this place - we must bring her back!

Not far to work for me - further for poor schnarff - so I got there still huffing and puffing, sweaty and covered in mud - but who cares! What a way to start a Monday!!!

As I was writing the Cache log I got a text from csi -wellesbourne to say she was STF - BAH *lol*It's good to be up with the lark sometimes!!

Have also just listened to this week's PodCacher and heard our 100th Find Milestone namecheck!!! Yay!