Dan enjoys a variety of GPS-driven games including geocaching and geohashing. See some stats about his adventures.
Geocaching
- Geocache logs
- Articles tagged “geocaching”, which includes all of the above but also Dan’s blog posts on the subject
- OpenCache.uk profile
- Geocaching.com profile
- Terracaching.com profile
Dan’s geocaches
Dan’s geocaches include:
- Badge Cache Capel Madog (GC23P6J; traditional cache, hidden February 2010, archived May 2018)
- Back To Your Roots (GC24CQ0; traditional cache, hidden February 2010; needs adoption!)
- The Oxford Steganography Series, consisting of five mystery caches hidden in May 2014:
- Oxford Steganography #1 – Open In New Tab (GC54F78; archived February 2016)
- Oxford Steganography #2 – Selected Text (GC54F7B; archived February 2016) – source code for the puzzle
- Oxford Steganography #3 – X-Ray (GC54F7J; archived February 2016)
- Oxford Steganography #4 – Tilt (GC54F7N; archived February 2016)
- Oxford Steganography #5 – Secret Bonus Cache (GC54F7V; archived June 2016)
- (In cooperation with others) both of the Bodleian Libraries’ geocaches in the Oxford Medical History series:
- You Can’t Do It Alone (GC591VV, hiden July 2014, archived April 2018), an adventurous mystery cache that used some clever electronics to construct a cache that strictly required the cooperation of two geocachers together, as explained in this blog post
- The Oxford Zoo series, described in this blog post, and consisting of:
- Oxford’s Long-Lost Zoo (GC7Q96B / OK0456; traditional cache, hidden May 2018)
- Oxford’s Wild Wolf One (GC7Q9E6 / OK0457; traditional cache, hidden May 2018, archived September 2018)
- Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two (GC7Q9FF / OK0458; traditional cache, hidden May 2018, archived September 2018)
- Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three (GC7QG1Z / OK045A; multicache, hidden June 2018)
- Broad Street Webcam (Oxford Martin School) (OK045B)
The Fairy Elevator (OK045C / GC7R0HB, hidden June 2018; archived October 2019)Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take (GC1G4E3 / OK045D; puzzle cache, hidden September 2008 by Stemonitis, found April 2014, adopted June 2018 because I’m a huge fan of this particular puzzle and its cache, archived 2020 after a long period of deactivation following the GZ becoming a dumping ground for used hypodermic needles)- The Trout Trek (GCD6A6 / OK046A; traditional cache, hidden February 2003 by The Matson Bicester Clan, adopted June 2018 after a period of neglect because it’s a great location and one of Oxford’s oldest caches and so deserves some love and attention)
- 2019-01-08 51 -1, 09:19 (OK049E / GC827X6; puzzle cache, hidden during a geohashing expedition on my birthday, January 2019)
- Grove Farm (OK04AB / GC86M6V, hidden April 2019)
- Top of the Footpath (OK04AC / GC86MHH, hidden April 2019)
- Yarnton Lane (OK04AD / GC86MTH, hidden April 2019)