Checkin

Dan Q found GC6GGJQ Bilbos Hobbit Trail #1

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How fitting that I travel 5,300 miles from my home, which is a stone’s throw away from Tolkien’s grave, to my hotel near this series of caches themed after his work. Found my way “there and back again” to this cache and I was glad to have thoroughly read the description or else I shouldn’t have found it among the thick undergrowth. Container is damaged and clearly leaking; would benefit from some attention. TFTC!

Dan Q couldn’t find GC7WY9Q Community Orchestra Series #3 Nova Vista Symphony

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Think I know where to look based on a good GPS fix and the hint, but the bushes were very wet and I didn’t want to start pushing through them. Maybe another time, if I’m still in the area.

Dan Q found GC1CXDH Pogo Stick

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Easy find once I’d spotted the “pogo stick”. This kind of container is pretty common for urban caches in the UK (where the higher building density makes good hiding places for other common containers harder to find) so I’m very used to them and expected one of these before I even reached the GZ. TFTC!

Dan Q found GC2NEXJ CDC Cyber 70 Series

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Devious! I came by for a quick hunt yesterday, but no luck, but – not wanting to be defeated! – came back again this morning for another shot at it. Like many others have logged before, it wasn’t until I started circling around before I saw the right likely hiding place. And like others, I’m sure, I was disappointed for a split second when I saw the camo and thought I’d looked in the wrong spot. But no, the cache was in my hand. Nice urban hide, TFTC.

Dan Q found GC6KR0H Bay Area Calibration Point #4 – New Technology

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I visited the coordinates yesterday and quickly fount the number as well as collecting the following information:

N 37 23.340, W 121 59.198
Garmin Montana 600
6m
3m
Unsure
12
Unsure
?
Averaged samples over 5m55s using the Montana’s “Waypoint Averaging” feature
No

This morning, on my way to the second day off my conference, I swung by the cache itself. It was immediately obvious where it would be hidden, but getting to it in spite of muggles and the morning traffic was a little harder! Got there in the end. Greetings from Oxford, UK!

Dan Q found GC4YR26 Welcome to SCGC: grab a ham sandwich or some pasta

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Turns out my earlier DNF was not for lack of dexterity but strength. I’d touched the cache, multiple times, but it hadn’t budged when I pushed it pulled it and so I’d assumed it wasn’t the cache but something fixed in place. A nagging thought as I walked away brought me back and soon the cache was in hand. SL.

Dan Q couldn’t find GC4YR26 Welcome to SCGC: grab a ham sandwich or some pasta

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No luck despite an extended hunt. Pretty confident that I know where it is, but my fingers are neither slim nor nimble enough to retrieve it.

Dan Q found GCFEE8 Great America Station

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I’m attending a conference next door so I stepped out at lunchtime – braving the heat! – to find this cache. I spent a while looking in all the wrong places but it wasn’t until I stepped way, way back that I spotted something that looked like it didn’t belong, and seconds later the cache was in my hand. (The thing it’s in contact with is painfully hot to touch in this weather, though!)

Greetings from Oxford, UK. TFTC!

Dan Q found GCRJA8 Double Secret Trailhead

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My first US cache: greetings from Oxford, UK. I’m over here for a conference and a little sightseeing and as I woke early this morning (my internal clock still thinks it’s in Britain despite my incredibly long day off travelling, yesterday!) I figured I’d walk from my hotel to the conference centre and pick up a couple of caches on the way. I made a cache of my own in a similar style to this, recently (GC86MHH/OK04AC) but yours is way more resilient-looking. SL, TNLN, FP for being my first cache on this continent (and for it reminding me of one of my own!).

Dan Q found GC29M68 Virgin Mary’s Guard

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Found after a brief hunt. The hint had me searching on the wrong side of the hedge – this one is definitely best appoached from the car park, not the road, as others have observed. Greetings from the UK. TFTC.

Dan Q found GC6A6R5 Six Summits Challenge #5

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Second of the two caches I set out to find this morning after spending last night at nearby Wilderhope Manor to celebrate my partner’s husband’s sister’s wedding. This leg of the walk was especially beautiful, providing a fabulous view of the valley in the morning sunshine before the drizzle began, a little after 08:00. Cache was one of those where my geo-sense was tingling as soon as I was in the vicinity and the cache was soon in hand.

Cache’s pencil missing, found in bad condition nearby and returned to the container but I opted to sign the logbook with my pen rather than chance its structural stability!

Thanks for this and #6 in the series. I’d love the opportunity to return to the area and complete them all, but for now I have to get back to the Manor, have some breakfast, and begin my journey back to Oxfordshire. FP awarded for the care and attention that’s clearly gone into these caches.

Dan Q found GC6A6RR Six Summits Challenge #6

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After attending the wedding of my partner’s husband’s sister and their reception at the nearby National Trust/YHA property Wilderhope Manor yesterday, I woke up early this morning with an inclination to get out into the open air. Aftereffects of the previous night’s party still slowing me down, I hiked out to the cache location along the delightful Shropshire Way and found the container without difficulty. Cache is in great condition despite the recent weather. SL, TFTC.