It was a couple of days after going to Whixley that I could go caching again, and this time it had to be a shorter trip as it was mid afternoon before I could set off… 16 days and 38 or so caches to do – down to 2.3 or so a day. There were a couple of puzzle caches of Team MX’s that I had solved but hadn’t gone for in a nearby place called Dawson Woods – which joins on to Buck Woods, a place where I have been caching many times before, and there were up to about 10 caches I could go for if I had the time Continue reading →

Monday, and I was down to 62 caches needed in 17 days, but with forecast of the weather getting iffy later in the week I decided to take the afternoon and go and do a series I’ve had on my radar to do for 6 months, but never got round to doing, but now with the numbers required and the weather turning, it was a case of make hay while the sun shines, or at least go walking before it rains and the paths all turn to mud. Continue reading →

The next few days after doing the Timble series I was either busy or it was raining, I had had 92 caches to do in 23 days, 4 caches a day… but as the days go past I was recalculating the avarage number of caches I needed going up day by day, by Saturday it was 92 caches in 20 days, over 4.5 per day – and no guarantee that there were going to be many days when I wasn’t busy or that the weather was going to be fit for caching. What I needed was to plan some places to get a large number of caches – 20 days at 4.5 caches a day is the same as 4.5 days of 20 caches… and 4.5 days of caching in 3 weeks is a lot more likely than 20 consecutive days !
So I worked out some locations, the furthest away of which, a 21 cache drive by series north of York was both the furthest away and the one I decided to do first. Continue reading →

It was about this time I realised that I had found just over 100 caches in September, was nearly at 2,900 caches, and that the Halloween Mega was about three and a half weeks away… So as I had made the 2012 Mega at Cartmel my 2,000th cache, could I make the Halloween Mega my 3,000th cache ?
My reckoning was that with the Friday night event and four or five drive-bys on the way I needed to get to 2,994 caches by Thursday 24th, so between now and then I needed to find 113 caches.
Then on the evening of the last day of September a new cache series was published which made the task a lot more likely… 21 caches only three and a half miles from home !
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Sunday morning, and an email pops up at 11:30 informing me of the publication of two new nearby caches by my friend Goldfish58. Do I rush out now for the FTF, or finish preparing and eating the Sunday Lunch ?
So one pork chop with roast potatoes and veg followed by apple and blackberry meringue (made with apples of the tree in the garden and blackberries from the back hedge) later I drove up to Fewston Reservoir car park
Not a space in sight ! Lovely sunny Sunday afternoon and as it’s unlikely we’ll get many more of these this year everyone was out enjoying it. Continue reading →

The Ordnance Survey list shows no Benchmarks in grid SE2350 Continue reading →