I needed a cache for a blank day on my geocaching calendar – and this one was it…

9th July 2014 – gurglefins grave GC4RWEB – cache #3317
Straightforward enough find, armed with the information that GPS co-ordinates weren’t going to be particularly accurate under the trees I went to where the hint said and looked around for the other part of the hint… only one place looked the part and I could see the cache inside it from the path.

A FTF that for once I was not suprised to get… Usually there are other FTF hunters who drop everything and rush out and get to any new caches, but this cache was published 40 minutes before the roads were closed off and 8-10,000 people descend on Otley for the annual Town Centre Cycle Races – so it was only likely to be someone who lives within walking distance who could get the cache… and as there was no football on TV I decided that it was time for some exercise (I had watched all 32 World Cup matches it had been possible to watch over the past 18 days)
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Sunday morning and I decided that I had spent so much time watching football over the past few days that I needed to go out and get some fresh air. So I headed to Horsforth to find a few caches, one I knew exactly where the area it was in was as I used to work about 100 yards away and walk through the woods at lunchtime. The first cache I looked for, GC5092R Nymph I didn’t find – as with everyone else who has looked over the past 3 months I couldn’t find it. It is (or at least was) by a fishing pond, you have to think that some fisherman found it while waiting for a bite. Continue reading →

I went to York to do Church Micro No. 6000 and Quest in the combo, a new puzzle/multi cache (that actually I can’t write too much about without spoiling the surprise of anyone who reads this before doing it) – those being the only caches within the city centre I haven’t got smilies on… The four (and a bit!) mile trail of the puzzle cache took me near the Minster so I did a detour from it to circle round the minster gathering the clues for the CM – loads of English and foreign school parties looking around it when I was there. Continue reading →

With the World Cup starting the following day this was the last chance for a few weeks that I would have chance to go out caching in the evening, I have a habit of watching all the football matches at the World Cup, or at least all you can, so 56 out of the 64 games… So for the last evening I thought I needed to go and check on my cache placed at Kirkby Overblow, make sure it had stood up to the heavy rain over the previous weekend, then if it was okay I could have it published. The nearest caches to Kirkby that I haven’t found was a long established (well 5 year old) series called the Sicklinghall Saunter, so off to Sicklinghall I went. Continue reading →

After dropping Angel78 off back home there was still daylight, and I wasn’t expected home until 10pm-ish  so I made a quick plan to get some more caches, my main ‘aim’ was to get a YOSM Trig Pillar at Hilton just to the West of Derby and in my GPS I had all the Church Micros in the area as well, so I looked at what was what and decided that there was an obvious route that got me a few more Church Micros as well as the YOSM   Continue reading →