At the end of April I had been to Green Hammerton between Harrogate and York to do a cache series, a couple of weeks after I had been there another cache series had been set out, so on a Sunday Morning I drove back to the same parking spot I’d been at before and set off on Jack’s Walk
20th May 2012 – G/H walk 8 GC3JNQD – cache #1688
Well actually, first of all I did a couple of caches that I had reported as being missing when I did the previous walk and had now been replaced and resited. The first of these hidden in a hole at ground level…
20th May 2012 – G/H walk 7 GC3JNPQ – cache #1689
… and the second one head high in a tree
20th May 2012 – jack,s walk 1 GC3J4NK – cache #1690
Then it was on to the new series. I was quite surprised to find the first cache, as previous cachers had reported it had gone missing, so I was only having a cursory glance at the spot where I thought the cache should be – and there was a cache ! It wasn’t that the previous cachers had been looking in the wrong place, the cache owner had been along earlier that same morning and replaced it
20th May 2012 – jack,s walk 2 GC3J4RV – cache #1691
Even though this cache was fairly out in the open my GPS had me going many yards past it before I realised that I was in the wrong place and headed back to where the cache was. It was easier spotting the cache than getting it out of it’s hiding place… and then after I had put it bacl and walked away I realised I had not taken down the clue so I had to go back and winkle the cache out again to find the number
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 3 GC3J4TF – cache #1692
The hint for this said that there was only one place it could be, but With poor GPS due to the trees I thought there was more than one and searched 2 or 3 before I found it
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 4 GC3J4V0 – cache #1693
If I had followed my GPS and trusted the result I would have found this cache a lot quicker than I did, but I didn’t spot it and so searched round all the trees and hedges for 20 yards either side before coming back to the GPS’s target and looking closely to find the cache
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 5 GC3J4VB – cache #1694
When you are walking along a road towards a cache site and the only feature visible is a large tree at the side of the road it is not hard to deduce where the cache is going to be !
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 6 GC3JRKQ – cache #1695
An easy find, my boot laces needed retying and so I put my foot up on the board of the stile and bent over to tie the lace… and there in my eyeline was the cache
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 7 GC3J4WA – cache #1696
A tiny cache, but out in the open hung on a fence post at the side of the path. It took longer to get the cache out of the container than it did to find it… I carry a pair of tweezers around in the car especially for retrieving caches like this… but I’d left them in the car !
After this I didn’t find GC3J4WZ jacks walk 8 – The previous cachers hadn’t found it either, and there was plenty of sign of people looking with stones and branches obviously turned over and disturbed. The cache was there if I’d looked long and hard enough, but it was getting near lunchtime and I didn’t have time to spend searching (The hint has since been changed to make finding it easier)
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 9 GC3J4XM – cache #1697
‘Above your head’ says the hint, and even stood on the stile I found it only just within my reach and I’m not vertically challenged ! I replaced it slightly lower down in the tree after signing the log
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 10 GC3J4Y5 – cache #1698
The most obvious cache hide on the walk, a small pile of stones at the side of the path where there is no real reason for a pile of stones to be – except to hide a cache. I do think that the stones were originally further in the hedge than they are now !
20th May 2012 – jacks walk 11 GC3J4YZ – cache #1699
A cache hide of a style I have seen before, but never one quite as big as this, it needed a large stone to cover it up
20th May 2012 – jacks walk bonus GC3JRNX – cache #1700
I had not got all the clues, but I had enough to give me only two possible options as to where the cache was… One in a tree at the side of the road near the parking place, and there was an obvious path to the tree which leads me to believe I wasn’t the first person to look for a cache there. The other possibility was a sign post where on close inspection I noticed something not quite right, and discovered the top half of a cache… unfortunately the bottom half of the cache and the log were lost in the depths… so I couldn’t sign this, my 1,700th cache
(I’ve since noticed the hint has since been changed to direct people to the signpost rather than the tree)
