Dan Q

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Dan Q found GC3PP3Q LOL #2 – Swimming

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Second time lucky! As the pup and I approached the GZ we found a strange handwritten note on the ground, and, having not seen it on the way up, figured that it must belong to a woman we’d passed a little while ago. So we doubled back and returned it to her – turns out it was her shopping list – and chatted about the beautiful bluebells (which is what she’d come out to see) before parting ways and returning to this cache.

At long last, finally uninterrupted, it was a pretty easy find in just the second place I looked. TFTC!

(And with that, we should get back home so this pupper can have a nap! Hopefully we can return and do the rest of the series sometime soon!)

Dan Q wrote note for GCB4774 LOL #5 – Shooting (revived)

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I let the man with the kids and the dog ahead of me so I’d be able to mount searches without having to stop and separate dogs, but I caught up with him literally at this cache! His buggy (which carried two of the kids – the third was strapped to his chest) had gotten stuck in a rut and he was busy extracting it.

So I skipped this one, for now, and tried to get some distance ahead of him to the next one: I can always try on the way back.

(I’ll kick myself if it turns out he’s geocaching, too!)

Dan Q did not find GCB476P LOL #4 – Weightlifting (revived)

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Coordinates seemed solid, hint item seemed clear, but a good feel around didn’t reveal anything to me except an alarming sign I had to walk past! (pictured)nnThen a man with kids and a dog came along and we needed to keep moving. Not sure where this could be hidden that I didn’t already check!

Dan points to a sign screwed to a tree, which reads 'Shooting in progress today' and 'Please keep out'.

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Dan Q found GC3PP1Z LOL #1 – Athletics

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Being between jobs, I decided to offer the geohound a longer then usual walk this morning and clear my head before an application form I need to fill out. We opted for the first leg of this series: let’s see how far the little pooch’s legs will carry her! Cache found easily, SL, TFTC.

A champagne-coloured French Bulldog wearing a harness at the end of a read lead trots happily along a dirt path.

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Dan Q did not find GC2WTXD JOIN UP THE NUDDSY’S~Pumping Station

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Might be here, or quite possibly was shaken loose by last season’s trimming and pollarding and it’s now who knows where. Too many disappointing DNFs in this series which, coupled with the increasing rain, feels like the Universe’s way of telling me to give up and go eat some breakfast.

Such a beautiful landscape with such caching potential. Hope it gets the love and attention it deserves.

A field, dotted with trees, in the rain.

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Dan Q found GC2WTZE JOIN UP THE NUDDSY’S~Forest View

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Huge thanks (and a big thumbs up) to Saintsalive1 for the replacement cache container; what a great hiding spot. Rain is starting, I’d better pick up the pace if I’m going to stay dry. TFTC!

Dan, with blue hair, throws a thumbs-up for the camera as he stands on a rural countryside lane.

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Dan Q did not find GC2WTZK JOIN UP THE NUDDSY’S~Oak Gate

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As others have observed, container (previously destroyed) is now completely absent. Needs replacement or archiving. Such a lovely area for a series; a shame to have so many spots made unavailable by the 0.1M circles of unmaintained and absent caches.

Dan Q did not find GC2WV01 JOIN UP THE NUDDSY’S~Field of Dreams

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Made a search around the hint area but this one is nowhere to be seen. Based on the string of recent DNFs, it’s probably gone or else so deeply buried that it’ll never be seen again. Shame, it’s a nice spot, and the snowdrop-carpeted woods beyond are delightful. Flagged for attention.

Bluebells and snowdrops among a thick grass.

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Dan Q found GC3110V JOIN UP THE NUDDSY’S~I ‘OAK’ THIS

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Woke early and unrested, grumpy and tired, after staying nearby, and figured a pre-breakfast walk through these fields might nice my mood. Coordinates pointed right to a candidate hiding spot that set my geosense tingling and soon had the logbook signed. Those nettles are fierce! One snuck up my trouser leg and got my ankle. Waved good morning to the noisy nearby sheep as I pressed on.

A field of sheep in early morning light.

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Dan Q found GC47GDB Kiln Crag – Knipescar

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A bit of an adventure! Coming directly from the next nearest cache on this pasture I first arrived some way above the GZ. Being a little wary of cliffs since my dad’s death1, I opted to loop around and approach from below.

A GPSr reads 4 metres to the destination, but points towards a cliff edge.

The scramble wasn’t especially hard, but it was unfruitful. Several attempts at the hint location, climbing and reaching, revealed nothing at all.

I decided to descend, find a spot of soft grass, and take a break, perhaps to look at the recent logs in case they revealed a clue: something I’d missed. And there, in the spot I chose for my rest… I found the cache! It must have been dislodged, perhaps over the winter rains, and fallen from its hiding place. The container is cracked (though it might have been already, based on the logs) and the logbook has clearly been wet and re-dried, but free cache was intact enough to sign the log.

Dan, seen from below, scrambles up a craggy limestone cliff underneath a hawthorne tree that clings to an overhang.

I returned the container to what I suspect must have been its correct home, based on the hint. Hopefully it’ll stay nestled safely there until the next cacher comes this way! TFTC!

Footnotes

1 He fell off a cliff off High Street, just over the valley: what a tragic coincidence it would be for me to go the same way, so nearby!

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Dan Q found GC1DH2A Knipe Scar – Haweswater View

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How delightful to find such a well-sized and well-placed geocache, and in such a beautiful spot. Some fellow volunteers and I are spending the week in Bampton, working on improving some software that underpins the volunteer and rota management systems of a few hundred different charities.

Never one to let a hard day’s voluntary work keep me from a geocaching expedition, this afternoon I took a hot brisk walk up the scar to find this (and hopefully next another nearby!) cache. Caught my breath sitting on a rock near the GZ, before pressing on. SL, TNLN, TFTC. FP awarded for such a delightful spot.

Dan examines his GPSr on a sun-drenched craggy hillside.

 

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Dan Q found GC1DH7W Knipe Scar – On the Edge

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A swift uphill scramble for my friend and fellow volunteer John and I, before dinner. We’re staying in a nearby farmhouse for a week of volunteer work, writing software to help charities. Beautiful view from the summit this evening! SL, TNLN, TFTC!

Two white men stand on a windy Lake District hilltop.

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