29 August, 2026

Dan Q found GC9BHWG Watercress beds

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Despite immediately honing in on exactly the right host, it still took me an embarrassingly long time to find this cache. This, despite having found – and even hidden – cache contsibers of exactly this type before!

My usual technique for lazily finding them, which involves swooping my phone through likely hiding spots with the camera in ‘selfie’ mode, as a mirror, somehow didn’t help me spot this one and it took until I bothered to crouch down (in the rain, in my already-wet trousers) and felt around free host before I reached it!

TFTC.

Dan Q found GC8ZWZ3 Letcombe Bridges 1

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QEF while passing through the village on a circular walk. TFTC!

Dan Q wrote note for GC4H2MB Church Micro 4008…Letcombe Regis

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Found the grave, but this is now the second offset I’ve found here that’s asked me to double-back on my walk. Nope! I’m just going to save the calculated coordinates for the next time I’m in the area! Looking forward to returning!

Dan Q wrote note for GC9F5YC GIs in Letcombe

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Found the clues and solved the coordinates, but I’ve JUST walked past the final location a while ago and don’t feel like doubling back today!

A=How many letters in the word underneath Knoxville?

B=A*2

C=Number of letters in place where “Beckett” came from.

D=C+1

E=F Number of letters in the word underneath Knoxville divided by 2

I should have worked out the likely location before I set out. Given that A must be a single digit number that can be doubled (B) to get a single digit number and halved (E, F) to get a second, there’s only one possible value for those four clues! The other two C and D are related to one another as well, resulting in a grand total of only 9 possible pairs of coordinates at which this cache could live (of which I’ll bet the “right” one stands out as the most-likely, even without making assumptions about the length of place names!). So yeah, I’m kicking myself slightly for not solving this before I visited.

But I’m glad I visited anyway. The historical connection is interesting and I enjoyed learning about it.

Maybe I’ll come find the actual cache next time I’m in the area!

Dan Q found GC9QWHD Plankton’s cache

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Like many before me, from the looks of things, I didn’t find the cache at the published coordinates but about 11 metres away at N 51° 34.086′, W 001° 26.441′. Possibly worth the CO checking if those coordinates work better for them, too, during their next maintenance visit. TFTC!

Dan Q found GC93M2N Segsbury Fort

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A challenging but worthwhile find during a walk along and around the Ridgeway.

My initial attempt to collect the coordinates was way off because I misinterpreted some of the instructions and it yielded a point almost 2km away! My second attempt looked better, giving a likely-looking spot… but the checksum was out by one!

I triple-checked all the sources and was still out! I was most-confident in my calculated latitude, so I permuted all possible one-point longitude changes that would satisfy the checksum. This yielded two candidates: one a tenth of a minute out from my original calculation, and one a thousandth of a minute out.

The one that was a tenth of a minute out from my calculation “felt wrong”, being way off the path, so I merely glanced its way as I walked past to the other. The one that was a thousandth of a minute – which equates to only around a metre! – looked better, and sure enough when I got there I found a multitude of likely hiding spots.

The hide itself was sneaky too: I had to go further from the path than I expected in order to “look back” and spot the cache – very tricky in the thickening undergrowth! But find it I did, and duly signed the log before returning it to its snug little spot.

TFTC! FP awarded for the adventure.

Dan Q found GC46RY8 It really is about the (2 millionth) cache

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This morning I came up to explore the Ridgeway and escape from thinking about Life Stuff for a bit. (Although escaping from the rain wasn’t a possibility! It was real wet up here today!)

I was wandering this path in a bit of a reverie when I spotted something unusual and thought it a good candidate for a geocache to hide, having momentarily forgotten that this was in fact the reason I was on this particular footpath in the first place! But my geosense was solid, because when I took my phone out to check I discovered that, sure enough, I’d stopped right alongside the hiding area.

The cache was an easy find and I appreciated the proper-sized container! The lid is slightly damaged and no longer makes a complete seal but so long as it’s properly returned to its hiding place it doesn’t need any urgent attention.

SL, TNLN, TFTC!

Dan Q found GC39X1K GH #11 twisted tree

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Found cache contents first, some of which I was only able to identify thanks to the photo in the previous log. Cache container, minus lid, was found a reasonable distance away, but this badly-damaged, nearly-destroyed cache is a goner, I feel.

It’s seen no owner maintenance in most of a decade and CO doesn’t seem to have even logged in to GCCOM for 6½ years ,and it’s clearly getting wrecked in between every single attempted find. It should probably be put to rest.

Dan Q found GC39WVC G h # 10

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A few attempts at hacking through the brambles to get near the hint location had me thinking that perhaps this was a wintertime only cache… before I realised that there was a different route by which I might approach it. Soon I was directly atop the coordinates and immediately sighted what I was looking for.

Unfortunately the cache was in the open, wide open, with a damaged clasp for its lid and its contents strewn about. Possibly somebody had put something ill-advised into the container and an animal had torn it open? Or else muggles, maybe?

Reassembled everything as best I could and returned it to its hiding place, but the cache container and contents would enjoy some maintenance.

Dan Q found GC4H2N6 Church Micro 4009 … Letcombe Bassett

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A quick diversion before a hike up Gramp’s Hill and along the Ridgeway. After collecting the required information I pressed on to the cache, meeting some friendly ponies and horses on the way.

The coordinates were spot on, which surprised me as the location didn’t seem to be accessible! But it is, just a little overgrown! TFTC!