Caching Tales

For quite some weeks I’ve been nudging ever nearer to the big 10,000 geocache finds milestone. It’s a goal I was hoping to reach before the dawn of the near year, but sadly, despite various caching trips out in the cold wind and rain over the festive period, I was still some way short of my target.  Determined to get to it asap this year, I’ve been heading out on some afternoon caching adventures to parts of the region that have an abundance of unfound caches, in order to grab as many as possible, as quickly as possible.    The first trip I have to mention, because of all the brilliant custom cache containers along the route, is Disa Urq’s ‘Fen Rivers’ series.  It was set on the footpaths, along the banks of the huge Great Ouse River and its relief channel, between Stowbridge and Wiggenhall St Mary, not far from Downham Market. Altogether, there were a brilliant 31 caches to grab in the series, plus a few extra older caches.     I parked up in a familiar pu...

A couple of months ago I was reading one of Geocaching HQs weekly enews’ and saw an interesting article on Snag the Tag. Rather intrigued, being a big fan and collector of geocoins and travel bugs, I clicked through to the website to read the full article with interest.   It’s always exciting when new elements are added to enhance the game, and I was quite surprised to see Snag the Tag had been running since 2018, yet it was the first time I had heard about it. I clearly don’t spend enough time in the Geocaching community forums.     The idea – similar to the main game itself – is there are hiders and finders. Anyone can play, all you need to do is sign up to the Snag the Tag website  www.snagthetag.com  by creating a free account, with a username and password. Once on there you can set up alerts so that whenever a tag is hidden somewhere near you, you receive a message, and can race out to find it.     The games seem to run every few months and when l...