Dan Q

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Dan Q found GC1QYPN Back to Evergreen

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The geopup and I are out doing the North Leigh Loop from New Yatt, where we’re temporarily living while our house is dried and damage assessed by the insurance company following a catastrophic flood a few weeks ago.

Between Loop #3 and #4 we took a small diversion to find this cache, and I’m glad that we did! So nice to see a properly-sized (and tenured) cache still rocking it!

Lid was not properly attached by a recent finder, sadly, and the container spilled its contents as I picked it up. But once we’d reassembled it all we were able to sign the log and continue our loop.

TFTC to both the hiders and adopters. FP awarded for being the first decent-sized cache I’ve seen today.

Dan Q did not find GCAABMN North Leigh Loop #3

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While the geohound busied herself with the important task of collecting sticks several times larger than herself, I began the search for what I’d figured would be a QEF.

A French Bulldog pulls at the end of a very large stick, in a woodland.

Within the circle of uncertainty lay an obvious-looking host covered with obvious-looking candidate spots into which to squeeze a cache of this kind. After 15 minutes of searching where it “should” have been I wondered, per previous logs, if it might free fallen, and made a brief search of the mulch and leaf litter underfoot. No luck there either! After a total of nearly 20 minutes of searching, we had to give up.

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Dan Q found GCAABMJ North Leigh Loop #2

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Clearly I’ve trained the geohound well, because she found the geotrail out to this GZ before I did!

A French Bulldog on a muddy path.

This cache is definitely benefitting from its layers of defense against the elements: the log, in its inner sanctum, was dry despite moisture getting through all the other layers! TFTC!

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Dan Q found GCAABME North Leigh Loop #1

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Coming to the “start” of this loop having come from the “end” gave the geohound and I a perfect vantage point to sight this QEF. Now it’s time to find out how boggy the trail to #2 is! If it’s as muddy as the one from #8 back to the village then we might need to make an alternative plan!

Dan Q found GC7PC86 North Leigh Number 6

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Coming from Leigh Loop 8 the geohound and I figured we had an easy and direct run here, but intolerable mud at the East end of the field path drove us out onto the road and back before we could get to this cache. Even here, conditions were boggy and crossing the path to improve our certainty of our GPS coordinates was a drag! But we found it in the end pretty easily, although its logbook is so wet as to almost be unsignable! TFTC.

Dan Q found GCAABQ1 North Leigh Loop #8

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Since our house flooded a few weeks ago we’ve been living out of a series of short holiday lets, waiting for the floors to dry out and the insurance company to assess the damage, before we’ll hopefully be able to secure a slightly longer tenancy somewhere while repairs are done.

Right now we’re staying in New Yatt. I’ve cached a little around here before, but never this loop, so this morning the geopup and I came out for a walk and to begin this loop… at its end!

After some initial difficulty getting a GPS fix we eventually found a good looking hiding place. Despite this being the first find out this cache and the terrible recent weather, the cache and its log are in fine condition. SL, TFTC!

Dan Q wrote note for GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green

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Spring’s coming, and with it a stack of cachers either new or else returning from hibernation. Therefore; I’m briefly checking-in on my geocaches to ensure they’re in good condition. Today I peeped at this one, and found it happy and well and ready to be hunted. Go find it!

Dan Q found GCBAJC3 Cache me if you can, Jeremy

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Despite being relatively ‘local’ – only half a mile away, and fans of the show – it took until this morning before the family and I actually came to up visit Clarkson’s Farm. We’re even-more-local but now, after a flood made our house uninhabitable and we moved, temporarily, to a holiday let just up the road.

A family sits at a picnic table in a barn, eating sausage sandwiches.

This morning we visited Diddly Squat for a round of sausage sandwiches, after which the youngest child and I decided to make a run for this nearby geocache. The kid put his finger right on the cache before I’d even had a chance to take a look for it!

Dan and a child stand at a bus stop, with Diddly Squat Farm Shop in the background.

Log signed, and a car full of Hawkstone Lager acquired, we were all done. TFTC!

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Dan Q found GCAWR04 Take an Allotment Break

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The family and I are staying in Lyneham for a couple of weeks following the flooding of our house (on the other side of Witney). This morning the younger geokid, the geopup, and I came out for a walk to find this geocache as well as to explore Milton-under-Wychwood and tag some of the memorial benches for OpenBenches (1, 2, 3, 4).

Dan sits with a young boy and a French Bulldog.

We sat near the cache and the geokid immediately found it. Looks like we’re the second signatories of the New Year: somebody beat us to it on 5 Feb! TFTC.

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Dan Q found GC8X84J Crawley to Minster Loop – #1 Acrux

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One last cache on this afternoon’s walk before I had to take the geopup off for a doggy bath! We tried a couple of obvious hosts near the GZ before expanding our search and quickly finding its hidey-hole. TFTC!

Dan Q found GC8X88R Crawley to Minster Loop – #12 Zosma

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Walking backwards and forwards past the GZ eventually enabled the geopup and I to spot this very-visible but high-up cache. Soon it was retrieved, the log signed, and returned. Logbook is very full; I had to just initial it.

A damp and muddy French Bulldog on a rural footpath.

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Dan Q did not find GC8X888 Crawley to Minster Loop – #11 Wasat

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The dog’s walk needed extending to make sure she’s well worn-out and not too-excited for some guests we’re having over this evening, so she and I came and parked on Dry Lane (ironically-named, it seems, as the road was flooded) and walked down to try to find this cache. Unfortunately we weren’t able to find it, this time, but we’ll try again next time we’re in the vicinity.

A flooded rural road.

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