I love the light evenings! Went to do the multi stage Harecastle Tunnel cache tonight and the final piece was not quite where I thought it would be but very close. A very enjoyable cache through areas I'd not been to (yet again). I am now on 83 finds and there are 15 in the Alchemy quest which I hope to start. I want the Gold to be my 100th cache so I need to plan any more finds carefully.
Did Stormcat's Beyond Wellintonia Avenue cache this evening after tea. Kristen told me to go and enjoy myself so I nipped out and did this one. I had planned to do another multi cache in Stoke/Kidsgrove but as I started off parking in the wrong place for this one it took me longer than I thought - but at least I didn't have much of a hill to climb up. The walks through Biddulph Country Park are great and will be really pretty when the rhodedendrums are out.
Found Winterley Pool whilst out delivering some left over furniture from the office move to the local playgroup.The cache was placed this morning by ARRKS and had already been found by StormCat earlier in the day (who then came into the office to gloat ;-) ) so that was two finds within 4 hours of it being (cunningly) placed.
I hid my first multi-cache, Around-about Congleton last Saturday and in my haste managed to muck up two of the calculations needed to find the cache. Regardless, three people still managed to get the data needed for the final location, but this was the elusive bit of material needed. By Monday morning I had apologised profusely and it had been found.
New UK Caches can be found at this listing and my new cache in Congleton has been placed - just waiting for it to be approved
The second coat of paint went on the ammo boxes and fuse cans tonight to give them that camoflague look. It doesn't look too bad although the green was in small stripes and the brown was in big swatches (and I did the green first) The next set will be painted brown and then the green over the top. When the paint's dry I'll post some pictures.
A bit of a cheek to call this one a dam, so I didn't submit it as a locationless find, but Another Dam Cache was a pleasant walk around Bosley Resevoir after I got home whilst Kristen finished up the wall papering.
Went to my second North West Cache meetup on Sunday which was good fun although I spoke to more cachers out on the trail than I did in the pub itself. On the way there I did It's a crime and the only crime was how long it took me to find the thing, followed by Poor struggler which was hard to do without any muggles spotting me. By this time it was getting close to the event cache but I still managed to squeeze in Serenity which was a weird place (without giving too much away) and I managed to find a frog! It then started to chuck it down with rain so I went to the Cache meet, had a fantastic Beef and Ale pie - I can strongly recommend the food in this pub - and then nipped over the field to find Forever Bury where I met up with Rev n Doc and Taylor and had a quick chat with them as I was coming back and they were going. Shortly afterwards I met them again at Burr's Mousetrap which is a very intriguing cache location, especially with the train trying to make people jump.
On the way back from Ben and Liz's house on Saturday I wanted to stop off and try and do Cambox 2 again.The first time I had gone there, the tree that it was meant to have been hidden under was nowhere to be seen. This time I managed to find the cache and I posted the correct co-ordinates. The cache has now been un-archived by the moderators so it will be interesting to see how long before the next finder.
Found two more caches on the way home from a client in Leeds this afternoon. There didn't seem to be any easily accessible caches in Leeds near where I was working and I wanted to get most of the motorway driving done as soon as possible so I wouldn't get stuck in the rush hour traffic. Did Platitude first and then did Ineptitude which although was a nice cache, the area is digustingly filthy with rubbish. There were several bikes, supermarket trolleys, beds and settee's lying on the ground - not too mention the hundreds of empty cans and crisp packets :-(
Seeing as though it was bank holiday friday and Monday I took the advantage of the weather and got three days of caching done which was really good. Nice and relaxing although my legs ache.
Friday we went to Chester and did Stop on the way there and then Steps in the Wall and Shropshire Union canal which was very sneaky (without giving too much away). On the way home we stopped off and I got a photo of Helsby for Where's My Name.
Saturday was a hike around Macclesfield Forest for the Monster and despite ARRKS's disbelief I did manage to walk all the way round AND do the Shutlingsloe cache (and trigpoint) too. My legs were really aching at the end of the day although not as bad as they were a couple of weeks ago.
Sunday was a day off from caching and then today we went over to Chesterfield to see my Sister and Brother in law and Mum and Dad. Whilst there we did Hipper Sick, followed by Alien Hideaway (which was a nightmare) and then whilst the girls went shopping in Bakewell we did Wash your woolies
Managed to find the 5/5 cache in Birmingham, Cut Down Cache. As this is a special cache I can't really comment much more on this one!
Also found A King Could Hide Here which was near a National Trust hall and a pleasant drive on the way home from the Cut Down Cache one.
Trippy976 has developed the Cache Page Editor which helps you create better pages for listing your cache without needing to know html
GeocacherBB has a page listing active locationless caches categorised to make it easy to hunt for them. Well worth bookmarking.
Realised today that I hadn't logged my recent finds, so here they are:-
This last one was on a quick visit to Manchester and there were several others that I had lined up but Kristen wasn't keen on doing more and it just started to rain when I finished it so it was time to head home.