Dan Q

Day: 27 August 2026

Dan Q found GCBX0JC Church Micro 12106…Standlake

This checkin to GCBX0JC Church Micro 12106...Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

After a walk out with the dog to claim the FTF on nearby GCBX0R7, I figured that I still had a little a few minutes on my hands before the code I’d been writing for my day job finished deploying and testing itself, so I thought I’d try to go two-for-two with this, a second FTF!

Coordinate components A through D were easy to collect, but E posed us a problem: from the way it’s put forward in the cache description, the answer I came up with didn’t make any sense! I double-checked A through D and, confident in them, mathematically inferred a range of possible values for E, but couldn’t find any way to conceivably get any of them!1

A fawn-coloured French Bulldog on a lead sniffs at a metal boot scraper attached to the stonework at the side of a church door.
She’s no good at the counting, but she’s a big fan of getting her nose in to investigate clue objects.

In any case: of the handful of possible values for E, only one made sense/pointed anywhere believable, and it fit the checksum so we set out. The cache was easy to find, and what an excellent container! Amazing work! The container alone would have been worth a favourite point, if only I hadn’t been completely unable to parse that fifth coordinate component.

Signed log and returned the cache to its hiding place. Hoping the next cacher doesn’t get as confused as I did! TFTC!

Footnotes

1 I’ll message the CO to get to the bottom of my confusion!

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Dan Q found GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake

This checkin to GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

After liaising with the CO to get the formula fixed following my previous effort, the geohound and I came out for a drizzly walk in-between the downpours to have a second attempt at the FTF. We’re living in Standlake temporarily while our house is repaired following a catastrophic flood earlier in the year, and while the dog – who doesn’t much enjoy rain – was initially hesitant about coming out with me, she warmed to the idea just in time for us to set out.

Dan, a white man with a goatee beard, sits on the steps of a rain-wettened village war memorial, hugging a fawn-coloured French Bulldog.
Out in the wet.

The cache was an easy find in the second place I looked (if I’d checked the hint it’d have been the first place I looked). SL and returned, before pressing on to attempt a second FTF, this time at GCBX0JC.

TFTC, and for the quick turnaround on correcting the calculation!

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