Dan Q found GLMHN1GM #2 Alice in Wyederland – Drink Me or Eat Me?

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Now this is what I like to see: a fun (and thematic) little multicache! The sun’s well over the horizon and my co-volunteers will be getting up soon, so I quicken my pace in my plan to get #1 through #5 on this particular short outing. FP awarded.

Dan Q found GLMEZV9T Serpentine hide

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Once again narrowly beaten to a FTF by Go Catch! I don’t live a million miles from here, so I took a diversion on my cycle home. Knew exactly where to start looking, and spotted the container before I’d even dismounted from my bike! My pen’s leaking a bit, though: sorry for the inky fingerprints on the back of the log!

Dan Q found GLMDCFM3 Ghosts of Hampton Gay

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An Easter Sunday adventure for my 2 y/of neice and I brought us out here to find this cache. Yesterday we found the one on the other side of the river and had talked about the ruins we could see in the distance, so this seemed like an obvious outing!

Wellie’d up we hit the trail, although the little monster’s wellies were mostly unnecessary as she insisted on riding atop my shoulders all the way to the GZ. On the way, she observed that the old manor house – with fences and warning signs all around but a small agricultural shelter within the grounds – “is for pigs, not for people”.

Fix at GZ was a little shaky so it took us a few minutes to find, but we got there in the end. No sign of the World Travel Geocoin or AEC Routemaster travel bugs, but a different bug in situ. TNLN, SL, and saw what might well have been another ‘cacher dismount his bike as we headed back to the road: good luck, possibly-fellow-cacher! TFTC.

Dan Q found GLMCQ378 54 with the jokers

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Visited for an afternoon walk with my two-year-old niece. Easy find, and a nice cache in a nice location. Let the little ‘un choose where we signed the log (ultimately opting for one of the pictures of a lady): never seen a logbook like this one before! TNLN, TFTC.

Dan Q found GLMC2CK5 Have you got the right equipment

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When I first saw this appear I thought that I’d have the FTF in the bag this morning. After all: nobody would come out last thing on a Tuesday night to start a multicache series, would they? Hah.

Well, come the morning I saw that I’d been beaten and opted to, instead of tackling the rush hour traffic, come along for a leisurely lunchtime look-see. The first waypoint was easy: I’m already equipped for wardriving so I just drove my car past the place (I didn’t even have to stop!) and then checked my laptop later – sure enough, only one detected SSID looked anything like GPS coordinates. The second waypoint slowed me down: for some reason, it took my GPSr a good long time to latch on to the Chirp and get the data I needed. Next up was the NFC tag, which was an easy find in the third place I looked. And finally, on to the cache itself which the coordinates lead me straight to.

Fantastic to see people doing things a little beyond the norm: things that take a little effort. Thanks for fab little adventure this lunchtime, and for a nice little cache. FP awarded.

Dan Q archived GC54F7B Oxford Steganography #2 – Selected Text

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It’s proved impossible for me to re-create the lenses used as clues in the parts of this series that have been “muggled”, and it seems that the only solution is to dis-assemble and archive the entire series. The bonus cache (#5) will remain available until March 2016 for anybody who’s solved the puzzle but hasn’t yet found it.

Dan Q archived GC54F78 Oxford Steganography #1 – Open In New Tab

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It’s proved impossible for me to re-create the lenses used as clues in the parts of this series that have been “muggled”, and it seems that the only solution is to dis-assemble and archive the entire series. The bonus cache (#5) will remain available until March 2016 for anybody who’s solved the puzzle but hasn’t yet found it.

Dan Q archived GC54F7J Oxford Steganography #3 – X-Ray

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It’s proved impossible for me to re-create the lenses used as clues in the parts of this series that have been “muggled”, and it seems that the only solution is to dis-assemble and archive the entire series. The bonus cache (#5) will remain available until March 2016 for anybody who’s solved the puzzle but hasn’t yet found it.

Dan Q found GLKZW2HZ Silver Screen

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FTF! Happened to be in the city centre eating my sandwiches and looking at my phone when the alert came in: new cache, less than a kilometre away! Hopped on my bike and bombed it down to find this wonderfully subtle cache. Tweezers would definitely have helped here, but a safety pin that I happened to be carrying worked pretty well too. Nice cache, hope it lasts! TFTC.

Dan Q found GLKZDAQT A Cryptic Cache

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Solved the puzzle yesterday but didn’t get the chance to come hint for this one until this morning, even I took a diversion from dropping my niece off at nursery to come and hunt! Sapphirites wasn’t kidding: getting to the GZ by the obvious route (from the South) would be easier with wellies right now, don’t know about coming from the North but I suspect it might be better. Fun cache, nice puzzle, good hiding spot. TFTC.

Dan Q found GLKZAE27 Take it to the Bridge

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Found via a diversion from my cycle home this evening. Beaten to the FTF by Go Catch, of course, but that’s something I’m used to, these days! TFTC: nice to see a new cache this far out of the Oxford ring road.

Dan Q posted a note for GC6AH8Y A Cryptic Cache

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1st to solve… but I doubt that I can get there, first: probably won’t have time to visit until later this week, maybe even the weekend, unless I can rejigger my travel plans a little bit. Love the puzzle, though!