Sunday 9 January 2011

8th and 9th of January

On Saturday I placed a new geocache GC2M63X which is an ammo box that I received as a Christmas present from Secret Santa. Inside I left a FTF badge as a present to the first to find and started off two trackables a hamster travelbug and a Welsh Lovespoon geocoin. Hope these last a little longer than some of my other trackables I have released. I'm not sentimental about my trackables and I don't expect them to return to me but I do hope for a decent mileage and logs before the trackables go awol. The first to find was within two hours of publication, impressive!

Today we went looking for 3 geocaches near Cheshunt, 1 along the River Lee and two at Holyfield Weir. The first cache, a micro, was one I have looked for previously. Unfortunately it was rather busy on the river path as it was a lovely Sunday and we were struggling once again to solve the hint. This was a cache by P Smithy Clan who has created some difficult hides in the River Lee series. The next cache we arrived at was Holyfield Weir. I think I have figured out the location for this geocache but there were too many twitters at gz so we had to leave it for today. I decided to also leave the cache across the water until the next time we come. I dropped off my husband's trackable at Waltham Abbey Scouts 1.

Moral of today's posting is to go out caching at popular locations on weekdays or rainy days and to head somewhere quieter.

8 comments:

  1. what a coincidence, have only just started following your blog (after you commented on mine), and you live nowhere near me, and it turns out that the FTF on your cache today was a friend of mine :) (outside of geocaching)

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  2. I'm so glad about your friend's FTF, indeed what a coincidence!

    Thanks for following me

    Abi

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  3. Hi abi, I was your FTF, love the hambob too. Will move on asap.

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  4. Arghh have an armchair logger trying to claim FTF, please ignore while I report him/her to Groundspeak.

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  5. That looks a great new cache; we love ammo cans! I can't believe that arm chair logger, just read back through some of his logs, 200 finds in one day he is claiming. Why cheat yourself, though I guess we all cache for various different reasons!

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  6. I had your new cache flash up on my phone whilst I was squeezed under a bridge doing Climate Chaos: The Design! We're gradually getting a bit closer to Ware as our caches near by are running out, so hopefully we will be able to get and do some of yours soon. I'll make sure yours are top of our list when we visit the area! :)

    Thanks for alerting me about the armchair logger. They even had the cheek to send me an email and say how they loved the hides and asked how do I hide such great Geocaches! Talk about rubbing salt in the wound!!!

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  7. I messaged one of the local reviewers about the guy who advised me to check the cache log book and if it was indeed unsigned then to delete the log which I did. The guy may well be genuine but after reading through his other logs there seemed to be several discrepancies and on the very last log he mentioned finding 200 in one day, a near impossibility and even more so for a newbie. It sounds like you had a difficult day Cass, hope it doesn't put you off caching!

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  8. It seems very random, the caches that the armchair logger chose. If I were going to do that I would have just picked one spot with lots of caches rather than jump all over the place. Seems strange someone would waste their time doing that! Crazy! It'll take a lot more than being stranded in the dark in the middle of nowhere to put me off caching! We shall be out to get that pesky cache this weekend, rain, shine or snow! I'm not letting it beat me!!! :)

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