The previous Saturday I had done one of the two local cache series I had been avoiding due to mud, so this time I went out to do the other. I had picked up the first cache in the series – Huby Do. The Bench – as a drive by on a snowy day in early March, it being the nearest Drive-By to home on a day that I needed to fill for the Calendar grid, so I started off with the second cache of the walk Continue reading →

I’d got to 2,490 odd caches so it was time to decide whether to do anything special for my 2,500th or not bother – it’s not really a major milestone in the geocaching world (they are every 1,000 between 1 and 10K caches), but to me it was a number worthy of note, so I decided to work out how to at least get it onto a puzzle cache… and it came to pass that if I went cycling along the new cycleway at Harrogate – The Nidderdale Greenway, and an older cycleroute that I had been on before – the Beryl Burton Cycleway I could get the 2,500th to be a puzzle cache that was cycling themed. It all seemed to fit together nicely Continue reading →

There are challenge caches that require you to find a cache no-one has visited for 12 months before you can log them, and the nearest one of these is also the nearest one of a particularly uncommon Difficulty / Terrain rating which you need to have found for another challenge cache. So I have been looking out for these long unfound caches, I have had my eye on a handful, but due to the poor weather I hadn’t been out to any and had been beaten to 3 of them, a 4th was C++ that I had visited but failed to find on my birthday, and there was another I had lined up as well
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May the Fourth is International Star Wars Day… and this coincided with the date picked for the tenth World Wide Flash Mob (WWFM-X). The idea of the WWFM is that all over the world cachers get together simultaneously for a 15 minute Flash Mob, so while the event is at lunchtime in the US it is at the same moment, i.e. 6PM, in the UK etc.
My local event was in York, so in the late afternoon I set off to join in the madness Continue reading →

The Leathley Loop is the nearest set of caches to home that I hadn’t found, the nearest caches on it are only 2 miles from home and have been in place for 6 months. However this 6 months has represented the wettest Autumn and Winter in recorded history and almost all the logs from people who have found the series talk of lots of mud… and mud and I don’t get on.
Bank Holiday weekend and I was being visited by the Twirlagirls from Wiltshire (who are my Sister and family), so as the weather had been dry-ish for a few weeks and the mud had mainly gone away it seemed the opportune time to do the series Continue reading →

29th March 2013 – New Stray Conkers GC43XCB – cache #2391
I had found the previous incarnation of the Stray Conkers cache back in 2010, so after a good look round I found the cache container – though at first I couldn’t find a log in it at all… then I noticed a soggy mush of paper right at the bottom of the tube which I couldn’t get out as my tweezers weren’t the right size 🙁

And that completed my second row of green boxes… Adam (UKCacheMag) had managed to complete January and February himself, but had missed out on the caches at Billing so had a white day still and so gave up Continue reading →