This checkin to GCBMAG7 #06 Northmoor Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Very easy find while the geopup dawdled behind me, clearly having found something more-interesting for her to smell. TFTC!
Tag: dog
Dan Q found GCBMAAD #04 Northmoor Loop – Little Bridges # 3326
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Briefly overshot this one in our excitement to get out of the field with the sheep (and so allow the geohound off her lead) and rushed to the little bridge. Doubled back to quickly find this great-sized cache. TFTC!
Dan Q found GCBMA9M #03 Northmoor Loop
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QEF when the GPSr dropped me right on it.
The dog complained that I wouldn’t let her go play with the lambs while I retrieved the cache – the playful pup can’t understand why I wouldn’t let her try to make friends with them!
Dan Q found GCBMA8X #02 Northmoor Loop – Little Bridges # 3323
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Two for two. The dog watched from below as I reached for this one. Amazing container; love it!
FP awarded for the container alone! TFTC.
Dan Q found GCBMA4C #01 Northmoor Loop
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In the second hiding place I tied, and the evidence suggests I’m not the first to make my mistake. I dipped into this series on release day from the other “side”; now I’ve returned (with my geopup pal) to do more of the loop! TFTC.
Dan Q found GCBMAGF #07 Northmoor Loop
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Imagine my surprise when the geohound and I are out for a walk from Appleton to find the Rainbow Bridge cache, to receive a notification of a new cache series at Northmoor. All we need to do is extend our walk a short way, I figure, and we can claim an FTF!
But it was not to be! By the time the little doggo’s legs could carry her this far, we’d been pipped to the post. STF it is, then, after the joint victory just half an hour ahead of us.
And with that, it’s time for the pupper and I to turn around and head back to Appleton. Hopefully we can return to do the rest of this series sometime soon! TFTC.
Dan Q found GC8B4J5 Rainbow Bridge
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Our taeget cache got the geopup and I: I’ve coated under this bridge, I think, but never found an excuse to go over it into today.
The doggo is running out of steam and the afternoon looks likely to be too hot for her, but we’ll make a quick run at one of the new Nortmoor Loop series before we turn back. Might even score a FTF!
Dan Q found GCBB3J9 Appleton Wharf
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What a beautiful spot for a geocache, which the geopup and I quickly found in the second host we checked. Then, we enjoyed a delightful few minutes of peace, sitting on the riverbank, before continuing our morning’s adventure.
TFTC, FP awarded for this amazing hidden gem.
Dan Q did not find GCBBDDV To The Thames
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The geohound wouldn’t let me search as long as I’d have liked, and my GPS must’ve been off because I couldn’t really find anything that matched the hint description. One for another day, perhaps.
Dan Q found GC8JWW9 Aslan’s Spring
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The geopup tested the waters while I retrieved the cache. What a wonderful spring on a delightful footpath!
TFTC, and FP for the wonderful location and proper-sized cache container.
Dan Q found GCBAZZN The Big Dipper
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QEF for the geohound and I on a walk around Appleton this morning. Excellent container with a fantastic hint, FP awarded. TFTC!
The Commute (Chicory House Edition)
My “commute” since moving to the Chicory House isn’t much longer than it is at our regular home, but it does involve going outside. Want to see?
Woof! Burglars!
The dog is concerned. Why, despite all her warnings, am I still letting these men take all of our (surviving) furniture?
Surprise Pig
It’s my final day in the cute garden office of the AirBnB we’re living in, this week, and every time I step through the door I catch a glimpse of our small, sandy-coloured dog squatting in the garden.
Except the dog isn’t even here. My brain keeps getting tricked… by this statue of a pig:
Dan Q found GC1FNVT SideTracked – Kingham
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Found successfully on an Easter morning dog walk from Bledington. The geopup and I came out across the fields, trying to get outdoors early before the rain that’s forecast for later in the day (though personally I’m sceptical that today’s weather will be anything short of glorious). The walk was delightful, although we unfortunately arrived right before a train was due and so there were many muggles waiting nearby to collect their arriving loved ones.
Fortunately the nature of the GZ provides a perfect excuse to be sitting around, and so I soon began my search. An initial lying-on-the-floor visual survey didn’t help, nor did a fingertip search through what I figured were the obvious spots. This, coupled with the lack of any logs yet this year and the fact that the last log was a DNF, might have given me cause to worry. But a deeper dive through the past logs indicated that perhaps this cache is just… hard!… and so I continued on.
The next trick in my caching toolbox was my phone. Switched to selfie mode and recording a video, I swept it slowly and methodically through all of the hiding spots I could think of. Watching the video back (while offering my patient pup scritches with my spare hand), I caught I glimpse of something: a flash of metal of an unexpected colour! Now I knew it was there! I renewed my search with fingertips focused on the spot I’d identified: an unusual area for this kind of cache, perhaps, but easy to find once you’re sure where to look!
Soon the cache was, at last, in hand. Careful patience, logical elimination, and a determination not to give up were the keys, here. TFTC!