Caching Tales

As the weekend arrived there was none of the usual map searching and indecision as to where I should go caching, my destiny was clear...another trip west! Yes, with six unfound series’ still to go on Poshrule’s doomed dozen list, I hopped into the trusty red German car and headed towards Peterborough - Clopton to be exact. Yet again it was a nice circular walk, partly on quiet roads and not too long, as fortunately I hadn’t got up that early. Realistically there was only about three hours of daylight left by the time I arrived, so I walked as quickly as I could.  Most caches were found without a hitch, and it was actually only the very last cache that particularly stumped me.  After a lot of back and forth I finally found a white film pot, a bit squashed under a stone. Strangely, the last logs were a couple of years old, so I may have signed an old cache, but failing to find anything else, I logged it as found.  The light was starting t...

I kicked off the new caching year by continuing my personal challenge of trying to complete some of Poshrule’s soon to be archived caches. Over 300 of them! A couple of months before Christmas I’d found out at a local event that Poshrule was planning a great new series out Peterborough way. However, in order to make room for it, 12 of his existing series’ were set to be archived at the end of January 2020. Now, I have to put my hands up, despite the fact I now often travel up to an hour to go on some decent caching walks - as I’ve found so many closer to home - I’ve been rather lax in heading towards Huntingdon & Peterborough.  The key reason has been the dreaded A14 upgrade and the years    of road works. Not fancying spending half my weekend crawling through miles of traffic cones, I’ve avoided heading west.  As a result, I really have missed out on finding the hundreds of caches set out that way - by Poshrule and Marcus Maximus - and the ...

Yes it’s that’s time of year in the caching calendar when two souvenirs are up for grabs, one to bid farewell to 2019, the other to welcome in the new year - and in this case a new decade.  Due to various family engagements over the festive break I hadn’t got out caching as much as I’d hoped.  My key day out had been on Monday to Warmington in Northamptonshire, to complete another of Poshrule’s soon to be archived series - ‘Poshrule’s Preambulate Warmington’ - where I picked up over 40 caches. It was a great walk, although a little muddy in parts due to all the recent rain. Caches were mainly tubes and film pots, and were on the whole quick finds.  Three appeared to have gone walkies, so I did put out a few replacements, which was hopefully ok and will enable other cachers to complete the trail before its archived.  There were a couple of well placed rock caches, which blended in really well. And the final cache, custom made, look...

It’s that time of year when we all look back on the good and bad of the past year. Following the popularity of last year’s A-Z of Caching Tales we decided to do it again.   So here’s our geocaching highs and lows of 2019, plus some of our most amusing and memorable caching moments of the past year. A is for A&E & Appendicitis.  We may as well get the health problems out the way first. Yes just hours after a long caching walk on RYO62’s ‘Bourne Boogaloo’ and ‘Caxton Circumnavigation’, the blue lights came calling. One ambulance ride and an emergency op later, and I was soon out caching again. B is for Bognor Regis.  An 80s weekender at Butlins gave us the opportunity to go caching in and around the south coast resort, including ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ series at Binsted Woods. C is for Coton.  On a warm bank holiday Friday we completed Steve & Geosprog 4789’s brand new series ‘Coton Trapise’ and grabbed a rec...