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.

Today we did another walk from Hertford, this time the whole family came. We followed the Cole Green Way, a former train line, to Hertingfordbury where we found one of the Church Micros. Inside the church yard I got a clue towards The Last Witch. I now need two digits to find the cache but the clue for these are at Walkern and as I don’t drive it’s awkward to get to. I have however tried guessing the location and I think/hope I’m right so I may have look at said location in the next few days. Here’s hoping I’m right!

My nearest 4 caches are multi-caches, I know roughly where two of them are and the other one is a group of 7 caches which you need to find to get your smiley…. I keep putting this one off as it sounds like a lot of hard work to get it.

We then headed onwards to Footpath Fumble: Tree Treasure which was a fairly easy find between muggles. One doggy stole a sandwich out of our bag, the poor owners were mortified!

We continued onwards towards Where’s Wally?. The mud along the footpaths were quite bad and we had a few centimetres added to our heights.

Where’s Wally is located in Roxford Grotto a Victorian garden with a pheasant feeding wagon still in situ. Picked up a car tb which is in a race so shall drop that off shortly maybe in my cache that I got for Christmas.

Hopefully will be out caching again later on in the week.

Winter caching

Over the last twenty-four hours I have been doing what a lot of cachers do during the winter months when they can't get out - solving puzzles. Admittedly some of the harder more mathematical puzzles I passed over to husband to solve but so far we have hopefully the right co-ordinates for 14 puzzle caches which I will endeavor to go out and find before the summer. Most of the puzzle caches that I have been solving have been by the infamous duo bill&ben who have created a large of number of puzzle caches in my area.

Tomorrow we're intending to go out grab two traditionals and one or two clues towards The Last Witch. This will be another date off the Finds for Each Day of the Year section of my statistics. I've discovered shamefully that I've never cached in December, something which I intend to rectify this year. I would also like to increase my average difficulty and terrain score. Does anyone have any new year resolutions for geocaching? Mine are to find 5 a week at least and to update this blog at least weekly.

Good luck for 2011

Happy New Caching Year

Today is the start of a brand new year and a new year of caching. Today, myself and two of the children decided to grab some nearby caches as I was feeling housebound after the recent snow and festivities. We headed over to Hertford intending to find 3 caches and a clue towards a multi cache - The Wicked Lady.

The first cache was 7th Hertford Guides "All Saints". This cache is in the grounds of the Guides meeting hall adjacent to All Saints church. I'd previously looked for this cache twice before, the first time there were too many muggles and then the drainage ditch was swollen with molten snow. However today the cache was an instant find as I'd taken advice from previous finders' logs.



Then we headed uphill to find an old driveway for Brickonbury Hall called Morgan's Walk. Here my daughter easily found 7th Hertford Guides "Morgan's Breather".

We carried on along Morgan's Walk to arrive at an imposing gate with barbed wire around it and the following sign.


We then found White House Whereabouts. My son found this one as my daughter was too scared to poke her hand around under the leaves and sticks.

We lastly tried to find one of the clues for The Wicked Lady which is located near a housing estate on the outskirts of Hertford. My gps got us within 30 ft of the micro cache so we tried to find a likely spot fitting the clue. The next minute my son is screaming that he'd found a gun, on further examination it turned out to be a 1960s replica Lone Star P38 automatic which looked very real. We gave up after this but will return at some point once I've got over the shock of finding a gun of any type!