Guides and Trips
Trips
Hunter's Walks and then a few caches in Stourbridge
Great Dodford, England, United Kingdom
Geocaching | 28 miles
Geocaching | 28 miles
On Sunday myself and Isaac planned a trip to the lovely countryside near Bromsgrove to do the new Hunter's Walk 3 series as we'd seen really good comments about it on Facebook.We parked up near the church at the start of the walk and set off round the series. Some beautiful woodland, great walking and some ingenious caches later and we had finished the series. We had a DNF on #12 which...
On Sunday Isaac and myself were due at a NW 2012 Mega Event Committee meeting at the Barn at Rivington so did a few caches on the way and a few afterwards.We only had 4 hours to cache, so we deliberately chose the quick caches in the area. We started off near the White Crow pub (lots of events been held there) and then wended our way up through Coppull into Chorley...
Blithfield Loop, Old Hattons series and various other caches
Milford, England, United Kingdom
Geocaching | 76 miles
Geocaching | 76 miles
On Sunday myself and Isaac finally managed to get out for a days' caching. We'd not been out for 4 weeks - the first we were ill and then the next few weeks Isaac was studying for exams at school.We decided to start off at the Blithfield Loop, a series of 17 caches plus a bonus cache around Blithfield Reservoir to the east of Stafford. This is a familiar place as I...
This morning I dropped Isaac off at school and could not resist popping down to Ironbridge to try the new Severn Gorge Earthcache as no-one had logged it yet.I parked as suggested near the Ironbridge (60p for 2 hours) and set off to do my measurements by the bridge. Once I got these details I headed off up into Benthall Woods to climb up to the viewpoint at the top of the gorge...
Hunters Walk, Pike's Pool Loop and the Burcot Eight
Romsley, England, United Kingdom
Geocaching | 25 miles
Geocaching | 25 miles
On Sunday myself and Isaac decided to head down to the Bromsgrove area for some caching.We started off on the Hunters Walk series which we absolutely loved. A great walk, some really nice hides and we bumped into another cacher on the way round - meek19 - great to meet you.We then headed off via an easy drive-by in Bromsgrove to the Pike's Pool Loop series. As we pulled up we spotted...
Frankton Frolics, Ruabon Circular and a few other caches
Whitchurch, England, United Kingdom
Geocaching | 67 miles
Geocaching | 67 miles
Myself and Isaac had been suffering from a bad dose of cabin fever with all the Christmas snow stopping us going caching. As the snow had now just about cleared, we decided it was high time for a day out.We started off with two quick caches on the way to Frankton and then set out on foot for the Frankton Frolics series. This is a series of 21 caches, with one non-series...
I was busy at work when a new series of 20 caches on a circular walk came out not too far from home. A moment later Allun from the Shropshire Seekers called about them.We arranged to meet up in about an hour's time and were soon on our way to look for the caches. At the second cache we bumped into Tuco Ramirez, who had already managed 14 FTF's. Great to meet...
Wheaton Aston Circular, Black Gold Of Old and Whistle Down The Wind Series
Wheaton Aston, England, United Kingdom
Geocaching | 34 miles
Geocaching | 34 miles
On Sunday myself and Isaac headed off to do some newer caches along the A5 corridor near Cannock.First on the list was the Wheaton Aston Circular which is a set of 19 caches on a route round the village of Wheaton Aston, very close to the in-laws house. A really nice walk in the fog, so the views were not very expansive. We found all but #5, which was nowhere to be seen.We then...
Cheshire border caching and a few in Stoke On Trent
Wrinehill, England, United Kingdom
Geocaching | 37 miles
Geocaching | 37 miles
We'd not been caching last weekend due to not feeling 100%, so were determined to get out and find some caches this weekend.With the bad weather we opted to stay close to home and targetted browni's excellent Betley Wander series right on the Cheshire border, followed by the Bathpool Ramble series near Kidsgrove (again, very close to the Cheshire border).The Bathpool area is famous for all the wrong reasons as it was...
On Sunday myself and Isaac planned a trip to the Stratford On Avon area caching. This is an area we've not really cached in yet so we were looking forward to discovering it.We started off with a series of caches all named after people with unfortunate names. A really nice series of caches on a lovely walk. All were nice and easy to find and we managed to bag LQ: Warwickshire along...
Today myself and Isaac headed out to the countryside just to the SE of Birmingham to have a good old walk round a few series we'd been looking at for a while.We started with On The Catwalk, a series of 8 caches, plus a bonus cache. I say Bonus cache - a fact which we were blissfully un-aware of until about half-way round the series - doh! Needless to say we did...
On Sunday myself and Isaac planned a return to the Hinckley area. We'd been nearby a few weeks ago, caching just north of Nuneaton but since then quite a few new caches had come out in the area.We started the day with a good long walk on the Rammstein Ramble series - a set of 10 caches set around a lovely 5 mile countryside walk. All nice and easy apart from #3...
On Saturday myself and Isaac fancied not going too far from home, so headed off to clear up some of the newer caches in Cheshire. At one time we had most of the county clear of caches, but we're fighting a losing battle these days as too many caches are coming out (we're not complaining though!).We started off to the east side of Chester before heading over past Delamere Forest to Winsford. There...
On Saturday myself and Isaac spent a day caching around Merseyside. It turned out to be a bit of a problematic day at times as we had a ton of DNF's and just did not have our caching mojo.As you can see from the map, things started off badly when TomTom took us straight past the exit from the M58 near the first cache and we had to go 3 miles past...
On Sunday myself and Isaac headed to the Worcestershire / Warwickshire border for a day's caching in near perfect weather.We started off with our 12,000th find on the first cache of the day - a multi that was the start of the A Break From The Norm series. This turned out to be a fab trail of very unusual hides and containers, all with no hints. Loved it!We then moved on to some...
Yesterday myself and Isaac headed off to the Nuneaton area for a day's caching.We started off with the excellent Witherley Wander series - a set of 15 caches on a 5 or so mile circular walk. After that we headed off to do some drive-by caches before heading for a second series in Nuneaton.The second series was really well themed around Pokemon - we had the added benefit of finally bumping into...
On Saturday myself and Isaac went to the Leek area caching.Our initial aim was the SMW series, which we've been meaning to do for ages, but waited until there were enough other caches in the area to make a day out of it.After we'd done that series (really recommended - fab walk), we headed off for some urban caching around the town itself.After we'd done most of the caches in town, we...
Quest for Morgan's Rum Series plus a few caches in Uttoxeter
England, United Kingdom
Geocaching | 40 miles
Geocaching | 40 miles
On Sunday, Isaac and myself headed off to Ashbourne to tackle the caches that were set for the recent Piratemania 2010 event. These consisted of about 30 caches on two interconnecting loops.Once we'd finished these, we did a few caches around the lovely town of Ashbourne before heading over to near JCB World HQ in the Roman town of Rocester for a few more caches.To end the day, we did a circuit...
On Saturday Isaac was at school so after dropping him off, I set off to do the PAF series just north of Wolverhampton.After this I did a few more caches in the area before heading off for Penkeridge and the Food Trail series, which we'd been meaning to do for ages.Where to go next - Stafford or over towards Cannock? I opted for Stafford and cleared up all of the caches in...
On Saturday myself and Isaac decided to tackle the various new cache series that had come out in South Shropshire.It's not an area known for having lots of caches, but is a really scenic area we love visiting, so it was great that there were loads of caches to go after for a change.We started out with a walk round the caches set for gFab near to The Lawley then moved on...
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