There is a cache near me that has it’s co-ordinates on 6 Travel Bugs which circulate in Yorkshire, I had never found any of these TB’s and it didn’t seem worth the bother to go out specifically to find them, but at the st December event someone brought along TB#3 which I photographed it so I had record of the numbers.

One morning a a couple of weeks later I was downloading photographs from my camera to my PC and came across the one of the TB, so I opened up the cache page to note the numbers in the Personal Cache Note section, and for the first time read the full cache page… and I read that the TB’s lead you to various mileposts which you use the numbers from to work out the co-ordinates of the final waypoint which is a milepost with Kirskill Hall on it…. Continue reading →

Last year I wrote a post called “Caches No’s 1385 to 1394 – Not Christmas Shopping in York”, which started off “Every year I take my Mother to do some Christmas shopping in York on or about the first Saturday in December, normally for me this means a few hours mooching around the shops, but as this year it promised to be such a nice day I took along my GPS loaded up with York City Centre caches and went caching” – well this year the caching trip, I mean shopping trip was on a Monday, but apart from that last years tale can be repeated for 2012 Continue reading →

I was on Ebay the other day, just browsing, not really having anything in mind to buy, and I got onto the GPS section as I was looking to see how much I could sell my Garmin Dakota 20 for as the screen is really too small for me to use, and there I saw a Garmin Montana 650T brand new, being offered at a price that was below bargain price. The Montana 650T is Garmin’s top of the range unit, 4″ screen, built in 5MP camera, rechargeable battery, all the bells and whistles that you can get – RRP of £550, typically sells on Ebay at £380 – £400, Selling price for this one £220 plus postage !
I didn’t really want a new GPS but some bargains are just too good to be ignored, so I bought it, not confident that it was going to be as described, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it really was a brand new sealed box unit. It arrived on Saturday morning when it was raining, so I waited until Sunday and then went off to try it out Continue reading →

After meeting other cachers you come away full of enthusiasm and so rather than my normal hibernation from caching in December I was quite keen to go out and find the local ones that had so far eluded me… but only on nice sunny days !
And preferably only for caches where there was a firm path and so not much chance of mud. So my first plan was to get some recent caches that had appeared down by the canal, the towpath would be fairly solid and mud free I reckoned ! Continue reading →

As it was getting near Christmas a carol singing flash mob had been arranged for late Saturday afternoon in the main shopping street of Harrogate.
As Flash Mobs are only a few minutes long a normal pub meet had been arranged for later in the evening, though due to a Craft Fair taking place in the pub there was a gap of about 90 minutes between the two.
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On Saturday evening on the Geocaching UK Facebook group, Yorkshire Taff put a posting on that he had been up on Ilkley Moor, hidden a new cache and had it turned down by the reviewers as being too close to the final co-ordinates of a Puzzle Cache.
Nottins then chipped in and asked whether it was near ‘some masts’, and that if so it was probably a five star difficulty puzzle cache called “All About Yorkshire” that was blocking the publication…
All about Yorkshire is a cache where the co-ordinates are to be found on 4 TB’s one that floats around West Yorks, one South Yorks, one East Yorks and the last one North Yorks… it has only had 13 finds in the 4 years since it was published, and I had never come across any of the TB’s in the 1,700 odd caches I have found in Yorkshire

So this morning armed with nothing more than that the cache(s) were somewhere near the transmitting station on Ilkley Moor I set out to see what I could find… Continue reading →