Dan Q

Day: 11 August 2026

Dan Q found GC8ZYPV AMAGATALL MAS CARGOL – Camps

This checkin to GC8ZYPV AMAGATALL MAS CARGOL - Camps reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

I’ve been doing what remains of the Ruta Pels Volants del Mars De Salort series of took a diversion to find this cache. The impressive host didn’t need a hint – she’s pretty easy to find!

The cache container is absolutely excellent. Amazing camouflage! It’s a shame this is my 1001st find and not my 1000th because I’d have loved to make this great container my milestone! FP awarded.

Dan waves in a bright forest.

Signed log and returned to its hiding place. TFTC/GPA, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

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Dan Q found GC6QV1F #17 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

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A quick and easy find in a now-familiar hide and container format.

And while perhaps not as memorable as my walk through the abandoned olive groves to find the damaged cache GC6QTTM therein, this find was memorable fire a different reason: it’s my 1000th cache found!1

Dan with his arms raised in celebration, alongside the superimposed words '1000th find'.

Struck a pose for a victory selfie to celebrate. FP awarded for the memories.

Footnotes

1 GCCOM might disagree with because it won’t count my finds on other geocaching platforms, but my record at danq.me/geo/stats is canonical.

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Dan Q found GC6QTTM #5 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QTTM #5 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

It’s increasingly looking like this series might be in need of some love and attention. With numbers 3 and 4 completely absent and a nearly two year gap since 5 was last logged – coupled with my bad luck so far this morning – I wasn’t optimistic of a find here.

I enjoyed the walk, though. This long-abandoned, now feral, olive grove is tranquil and calm. And when I got to the GZ, I was delighted to see the “top” of a cache container, exactly matching one seen elsewhere in the logs, protruding from under a rock. Hurrah!

A bottle top style lid, with Dan's name written in it, sits alongside some plastic shards on top of a rock.

Unfortunately, that’s almost all that’s left of the container. I collected it up onto its host rock, along with several shards of what were once its body: a sort-of memorial to itself. Then I wrote the date and my name on the inside of the lid, declared this the closest possible thing to a “find”, under the circumstances, and left my little shrine alone. Will it ever be found again? I don’t know.

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Dan Q did not find GC6QQXW #1 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

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A disappointing start to this morning’s walk. There’s an obvious host that I spent some your poking under without success, after which I turned to the trees to see if they could help. But no luck for me. Maybe on my way back to the car, time-permitting!