14th August 2012 – Hidden Aireborough III GC3MWBT – cache #2026
Some caches just can’t be found on one visit, maybe because there are too many people about which stops you searching properly, or maybe because you just can’t find the darned thing. This particular cache took me four visits to find, admitedly because these were lunchtime visits from work I only had less than ten minutes each time to search for the cache, which was in a hedge, out of sight, retrieved by pulling a green string (in a green hedge) and furthermore the co-ordinates were known to be inaccurate so the cache was described as ‘slightly downhill’ from a fixed object – so who’s to say how far ‘slightly’ is ? Anyway I became familiar with the dark tunnel like steps between the shops leading up to the cache… eventually I spotted the green string and wondered how I could ever have missed it the previous 3 times I had been there… not sure I could find it easily again though ! Continue reading →

Following the Mega Adam and I went back to our B&B for a good nights sleep, then in the morning we had a huge fried breakfast and felt in need of a little stroll to work it off… so of course we went caching Continue reading →

11th August 2012 – North West England 2012 – The 5th Annual UK Mega GC2X1TM – cache #2000
My 2,000th cache – The Annual Mega Event, the largest gathering of cachers in the UK. I was attending really to help Adam sell his UK Cache Mag – and we did brisk business all day being given a stand by the organisers in an excellent place where everybody had to pass as they moved about the site.
The founder of Geocaching – Jeremy Irish, had come over from Seattle for the event (what a job eh ? flying around the world going to geocaching events) and the headline picture shows him addressing the crowd. Continue reading →

A few days before the Mega I was playing around with some Puzzle Caches, and found one that had been put out 3 months previously but no-one had solved yet, a Five Star difficulty cache, so I thought I’d have a look at it and half an hour later I had a set of co-ordinates that the Geo-checker said ‘Yes’ to – It was more by luck than judgement that I got the answer, but I had the opportunity to go and get a FTF on this cache. The problem was that it was fifty miles away and in totally the wrong direction from anywhere that I was likely to be going to in the near future… However, as I was going 80 miles west to the Mega, I thought I may as well take a diversion that doubled the distance to grab the cache, because I still had to get 10 more caches before the Mega the next day… so I set off early in the morning and headed North East Continue reading →