Caching Tales

We start this week’s blog from the base of the Old Man of Coniston. Yes, I really do mean the base.  Due to not studying the map properly, we had not realised until 30 minutes into the uphill climb that there was actually a car park 250 metres up. Needless to say we had stupidly parked down in the village and started our walk from there. There’s nothing like making it a proper challenge!    Fortunately, it was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and we were in good spirits…to start with at least. After marching our way up the tiny road, we were a little disheartened upon seeing the car park and the distance still to go.   However, our spirits were lifted a little when we met some friendly walkers who seemed more knackered than us just 400 yards from the car park and hence, were happy to stop and chat, giving us an excuse to take a break as well. It was nice to hear about their past visits and it gave us the encouragement we needed to carry on, despite not havin...

Finally, it was time for our first holiday of the year and we were heading north, to the Lake District! And what a great place for finding some interesting and rather different geocaches, we highly recommend it to others, especially if you’re holidaying in the UK this year.  As we made our way north on various A and M roads I was keen to stop and grab a few caches on the way to help towards an England ‘counties’ challenge I’ve been working on for some time. There were a good number of counties ‘up north’ that I still hadn’t found any caches in so the trip up and back down seemed like a good opportunity to try and get some.     After failing the persuade the other half to go the slightly longer M1 route, I reluctantly accepted that Shropshire and Lancashire would just have to do, and found a couple of suitable, and fairly quick diverts off the M6.   First up Shropshire, where we managed to grab two caches and dashes on a series called ‘Family at Woore‘, before heading...