geocaching – Page 28

Dan, wearing blue jeans and a grey hoodie, kneels alongside Demmy, a French Bulldog, on a dirt path between a forest and the wooden fences at the edge of some gardens.

Found GC54D9K WAG 1 - See the light

This checkin to GC54D9K WAG 1 - See the light reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Ignoring times that I've passed-through, I've only ever visited Goring twice before. It's time to rectify that! This morning, the dog and I drove down from Stanton Harcourt (near Witney), parked up, and begun …

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posted 28 August, 2023

Photograph showing a medium-sized geocache container with its contents laid-out around it: various pieces of swag for trade, plus a notebook.

Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?

Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs!

Posted a note for GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club

This checkin to GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Enjoyed solving this puzzle, although possibly not 100% in the way the author intended (I spotted some mathematical quirks that gave me a shortcut/cut down the number of possibilities for matching first and surnames!). Now I …

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posted 22 August, 2023

A green bauble buried in the mossy/grassy undergrowth of a forest floor.

Couldn't find GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica

This checkin to GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here this morning for the geopup and I. The undergrowth has come through incredibly thick your summer, and we had to work hard to hunt in likely locations. (The hint didn't help …

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posted 20 August, 2023

Dan, wearing a purple "Woo" t-shirt, crouches by Demmy, a champagne-coloured French Bulldog, in a path through the long grass between a wood and a field. In the distance, the church spire of St Peter & St Paul at Church Hanborough can be seen protuding above the treeline.

Found GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett

This checkin to GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy find while out on a dog walk. Not been out this side of the wood before! Might have struggled to find the GZ were it not for the remnants of a "geo trail" through the dense …

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posted 20 August, 2023

Dan, on a path through a young cornfield, stares towards the distant clouds.

Found GC340EG Leslie

This checkin to GC340EG Leslie reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I find myself in Cropredy but once a year, at most, and for the obvious reason. The festival atmosphere, not to mention the hordes of revellers, does not in general bode well for a successful geocaching expedition! But I've …

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posted 12 August, 2023

Photograph showing Dan, wearing a "go both ways" t-shirt and a rainbow-striped bandana and grey shorts, sits between a 6-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl (the girl is wearing a Pikachu hat).

Found GC340FP Sanders

This checkin to GC340FP Sanders reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I managed to log most of the local geocaches during last year's Fairport by getting up early each morning (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), while the other revellers were still nursing their hangovers, but I wasn't able …

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posted 11 August, 2023

Ruth and Dan walking through a lush temperate forest.

Not the Isle of Man

Ruth and I celebrated our anniversary this week by going to the Isle of Man. Except we never got there and instead Ruth lost her job and I got sick.

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posted 27 July, 2023

Found GCXWEX Villa View

This checkin to GCXWEX Villa View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with Ruth after coming out to explore the spectacular Roman villa. We'd supposed to have been out of the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary, but our 'plane got cancelled, so we've opted for staying at home …

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posted 25 July, 2023

Dan crouches in a forest; a French Bulldog is stretching up to lick his arm.

Found GC3742 SP9

This checkin to GC3742 SP9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Well this was a challenge! The woods threw off my GPS, but I'd brought a backup device so I averaged between them and found a likely GZ. The dog and I did an increasingly large spiral, checking all the …

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posted 2 July, 2023

Performed maintenance for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing

This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Maintenance check while walking the dog. Cleared some overgrown plants, but watch out because the nearby nettles ate still a little fierce (cache can be retrieved without a sting though!). Cache itself intact and healthy.

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posted 18 June, 2023

Found GC5KBK3 ISAP: Omonia

This checkin to GC5KBK3 ISAP: Omonia reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found! Took a bit of a search, because I had looked at the hint image which shows several trees at the GZ that are no longer there, so I was left thinking I must be in the wrong …

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posted 9 June, 2023

Dan, in a green park with water fountains, waves at the camera.

Found GC1B0P5 The Runner

This checkin to GC1B0P5 The Runner reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. What a great statue! Cache was very easy to find; despite its camo it was very visible as I walked along the adjacent path. Thanks for bringing me out of my way on my walk from my hotel …

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posted 8 June, 2023

Found GC2K167 Petraki Monastery - NIMTS

This checkin to GC2K167 Petraki Monastery - NIMTS reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF once I found the right hiding place! TFTC, and for the excuse to divert my morning walk this way. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

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posted 8 June, 2023

Dan, wearing a black t-shirt and a backpack, holds a tiny plastic container with a red lid. Behind him is a rough rock wall.

Found GC97N64 Under the Bridge

This checkin to GC97N64 Under the Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Walking from my hotel to the site of a conference I'm attending, this morning, I stopped to find this cache. It took an embarrassingly long time for me to spot this sneaky little container! Greetings from Oxford, …

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posted 8 June, 2023