Back in March last year (March 2015 that is) I was at an event in Harrogate talking to Robin (Harrogate Hunters) and Steve (Mad Yokel) – or rather I was listening to them discussing the …
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July 10th 2009 – Jake’s Jaunt GC1R2KD – Cache #48
My first puzzle cache.
It involved a bit of work to find the solution… the ‘Jake’ in ‘Jakes Jaunt’ refers to 70’s folk singer Jake Thackray, and …
July 8th 2009 – Old Hollings Hill GC1GBGY – Cache #47
I’d looked for this cache a couple of times before, it being quite local to where I work… but I hadn’t found it, mainly because …
When I had been camping with my friends I had been impressed with DivingDJ’s Oregon 300 and the map function thereon, so when I got back I started watching Ebay for a suitable replacement to …
July 3rd 2009 – The Canker Well GC11Q8C – Cache #38
This cache is just at the end of a parade of shops… I have been a regular to the parade of shops for all my life and …
A couple of quickies picked up on my way out shopping one Saturday morning.
June 27th 2009 – Denton Jct GCX8KK – Cache #36
The finders logs for this were a bit confusing, some had spotted it easily …
June 18th 2009 – A Riverside Walk, Stumpy GC1PD5K – Cache #33
A couple of days later I ventured out once more to find some more caches… although I had one cache missing I had enough of …
Being keen following my weekend caching with friends for the first time I also felt a little bit of a beginner as I had found so few caches compared with them… so the n ext …
On a hot weekend in June I went camping at the Dalesbridge Outdoor Centre just outside Austwick. I was camping with members of Plus groups from around the country and a couple of these are also …
June 11th 2009 – EGNM – Holding Point Echo One GC1BGJX – Cache #16
Holding Point Echo One is at an Airport viewing car park next to a graveyard, I had gone there a couple of …
My Garmin Etrex GPSR arrived, £40 on Ebay.
June 8th 2009 – Off Yer Trolley! (Otley “W”) GC1G2HK – Cache #9
The first cache of the day I found on my way home… in the supermarket car …
June 7th 2009 – Dachevronron GCR44F – Cache #7
Another cache in a familiar place to me, in the final remains of a local landmark known as Jenny’s Cottage (see photograph and details here)
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June 6th 2009 – Harrogate Urban Micro #1 GCOQ4E – Cache #5
Saturday morning, a pedestrian shopping area in the middle of Harrogate. Didn’t have my GPS, didn’t have any details of the cache… I was …
As we saw in the last post, Andrew Perry was the son of William and Sarah Perry. From the 1861 & 1871 census’s we can see that William Perry was born in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, …
11th May 2019 – NEC and LG Arena Cache GC1M16N – cache #4735
I came down to the NEC to attend the ‘Makers Central’ exhibition, a show put on by Youtube craftspeople, and saw this cache …
The 25th Anniversary of WASH was little different to all the previous 24 – but then, that’s the way we like it !
The major difference this year was that the dates for WASH had been …
And so Monday dawned and it was time to drive the 200 and odd miles home again, I had a route planned that took in a few more YOSM’s – as there was now only …
