I have fallen right out of the habit of going out Geocaching by myself… almost all the caches I have done for months have been associated with an ‘Event’ either found on the way to, the way back or during the event itself… May 2016 was the last time I went out by myself just to find a few caches.
The announcement that we were losing GC45CC – YOSM further put a dampener on my interest in Geocaching in that if I can’t go finding trigpoints when I am driving to events part of the excitement of going to the big far away events at all has gone. Continue reading →

Just a few days after the 15th Birthday celebrations for YOSM it was announced by Groundspeak that they were changing the way their database worked to stop people being able to put a find log on the same cache twice, and so GC45CC was doomed… Despite many pleas for it to be treated as a special case (and the similar cache in North America) Groundspeak announced that it would be archived and locked in early May. This really put a dampener on my enjoyment of geocaching.
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Of course once one 15th Birthday event had been organised and the hotel booked other events were arranged, and it so happened that one was arranged for the Sunday to be held on Hadrians Wall near Haltwhistle, and that was near enough on my way home, so I booked a B&B for the Saturday night and had a walk along the wall on Sunday morning.

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My favourite cache, GC45CC – Ye Olde Survey Monuments was 15 years old, and fellow YOSM’ers decided to hold an event just north of Glasgow to celebrate, so I booked a hotel room and started planning my route to Glasgow, calling at a few YOSMs on the way of course, which meant that my route wasn’t the most direct ! Continue reading →

As several of the 2018 Mega Committee like puzzle caches the rise in popularity of Escape Rooms is a good thing. For people that don’t know an ‘escape room’ is where a team of you get locked in a room and have to solve various puzzles to find the key to get out. Puzzle caches have led us to be able to recognise the puzzle methods so we consider ourselves to be good enough to take on any Escape Room.
Escape Rooms can be quite expensive so Groupon deals are a way of bringing the cost down… but you may have to travel a little further than expected to get a good deal. Combining an escape room visit with a ‘Meet The Committee’ meeting became a popular concept with us in 2017 !

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Adam was holding a GAGB event in Stratford on Avon, Shakespeare Country. So I decided this would be an ideal opportunity to publicise the 2018 Mega to the cachers in the Midlands. Angel78 decided she wanted to come along as well so while Adam booked a bed in the Youth Hostel where the event was taking place I booked a room at the Mary Arden pub next to where Shakespeare lived after he got married Continue reading →