Logs for GoldCircle
11-Nov-18
This is Cache No.3797 Found on Sunday, 11 November 2018 @ 15:39 Fav Point
**Deutsch Google translate:**
Alles begann vor ein paar Monaten, als ich eine E-Mail von Groundspeak mit einem Link zu einer Mega sah, die ebenfalls ein GIFF-Event war. Ich erkundige mich bei meinen Geofreunden Doug.G und Fitzet, und eine Gruppe kam zusammen - und wir haben an diesem Wochenende viele Caches mit dem Gruppennamen 4SOT angemeldet - das ist "4 Stars on Tour", ein Hinweis auf unser Lieblingsteam, Leinster. das hat 4 sterne auf seinem hemd! Flüge, Hotels und Autos wurden gebucht und dann verließen wir DUB und kamen in DUS an. Wir fuhren mit einem sehr schönen Mietwagen durch Düsseldorf, Köln und Bonn. Mit einem starken Dach! [: D]
Wie Kinder in einem Süßwarenladen gab es einfach zu viele wundervolle und interessante Caches zur Auswahl. Deshalb haben wir uns aus verschiedenen Gründen eine kurze Liste von Caches ausgesucht, die wir wollten - hauptsächlich DTs, von denen Irland nichts mehr zu bieten hat auf einer kleinen Insel leben - ein paar Jasmers, einige ungewöhnliche Typen, nicht zuletzt die Mega, aber auch einige Whereigos, Virtuals und Webcams. Ich habe auch mein erstes Multi in Deutschland angemeldet - also gab mir das Wochenende drei neue Typen in diesem Land! Zufällig haben wir versucht, Caches auszuwählen, die mehrere Kästchen gleichzeitig angekreuzt haben. Wo große verfügbar waren, wurde es bevorzugt. Wir haben am Samstag auch 9 Typen gefunden, was sehr schön war! Wir fanden auch einen Wert von 10.000 in Favorite Points, was unglaublich war! Wir haben viel Zeit in Bäumen verbracht, aber genauso viel Bier getrunken - aber nicht gleichzeitig!
Die Veranstaltungen waren wunderbar organisiert und machten viel Spaß; Die vielen deutschen Geocacher, die wir getroffen haben, waren freundlich und sehr hilfsbereit, zumal es schwierig ist, Geowerkzeuge in ein Flugzeug zu bringen - ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die uns geholfen haben. Es hat das Wochenende für uns zu etwas ganz Besonderem gemacht und es wurden sehr viele hapy-Erinnerungen gemacht - und einige unglaubliche Änderungen an unseren Statistiken.
Da wir nur spezielle Ziele ausgewählt haben, war dieser Cache einer von ihnen. Entschuldigung für das Ausschneiden und Einfügen-log - ein guter Cache verdient ein besseres log!
**English**
It all started a few months ago when I saw an email from Groundspeak with a link to a Mega, that was also a GIFF event. I check with my geo-friends and a group came together - and we logged many caches this weekend with the group name 4SOT - that's "4 Stars on Tour", a reference to our favourite rugby team, Leinster, that has 4 stars on its shirt! Flights, hotels and cars were booked and then we left DUB and arrived in DUS and began our journey around Dusseldorf, Cologne and Bonn in a very nice rental car.
Like children in a sweet shop, there were simply too many wonderful and interesting caches to choose from, so we each picked a short list of caches that we wanted, for various reasons - mainly DTs that Ireland can provide no more of - a few Jasmers, some unusual types -the Mega, but also some Whereigos, Virtuals and Webcams also. Also, I logged my first Multi in Germany - so, the weekend gave me three new types in this country! We coincidentally found lots of Large caches too. We managed to find 9 types on Saturday , which was very nice! We also found about 10k value in Favourite points, which was amazing! We spent a lot of time in trees, but also as much drinking beer - but not at the same time!
The events were wonderfully organised and lots of fun; and the many German Geocachers we met were friendly and very helpful, especially as it is difficult to bring geo-tools on an airplane - so a big thank you to everyone who helped us. It made the weekend very special for us and very many happy memories were made - and some incredible changes to our statistics also.
Thanks to **Airwolf26 (F=3884 H=67)** for **Altenberg**.
**Deutsch Google translate:**
Alles begann vor ein paar Monaten, als ich eine E-Mail von Groundspeak mit einem Link zu einer Mega sah, die ebenfalls ein GIFF-Event war. Ich erkundige mich bei meinen Geofreunden Doug.G und Fitzet, und eine Gruppe kam zusammen - und wir haben an diesem Wochenende viele Caches mit dem Gruppennamen 4SOT angemeldet - das ist "4 Stars on Tour", ein Hinweis auf unser Lieblingsteam, Leinster. das hat 4 sterne auf seinem hemd! Flüge, Hotels und Autos wurden gebucht und dann verließen wir DUB und kamen in DUS an. Wir fuhren mit einem sehr schönen Mietwagen durch Düsseldorf, Köln und Bonn. Mit einem starken Dach! [: D]
Wie Kinder in einem Süßwarenladen gab es einfach zu viele wundervolle und interessante Caches zur Auswahl. Deshalb haben wir uns aus verschiedenen Gründen eine kurze Liste von Caches ausgesucht, die wir wollten - hauptsächlich DTs, von denen Irland nichts mehr zu bieten hat auf einer kleinen Insel leben - ein paar Jasmers, einige ungewöhnliche Typen, nicht zuletzt die Mega, aber auch einige Whereigos, Virtuals und Webcams. Ich habe auch mein erstes Multi in Deutschland angemeldet - also gab mir das Wochenende drei neue Typen in diesem Land! Zufällig haben wir versucht, Caches auszuwählen, die mehrere Kästchen gleichzeitig angekreuzt haben. Wo große verfügbar waren, wurde es bevorzugt. Wir haben am Samstag auch 9 Typen gefunden, was sehr schön war! Wir fanden auch einen Wert von 10.000 in Favorite Points, was unglaublich war! Wir haben viel Zeit in Bäumen verbracht, aber genauso viel Bier getrunken - aber nicht gleichzeitig!
Die Veranstaltungen waren wunderbar organisiert und machten viel Spaß; Die vielen deutschen Geocacher, die wir getroffen haben, waren freundlich und sehr hilfsbereit, zumal es schwierig ist, Geowerkzeuge in ein Flugzeug zu bringen - ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die uns geholfen haben. Es hat das Wochenende für uns zu etwas ganz Besonderem gemacht und es wurden sehr viele hapy-Erinnerungen gemacht - und einige unglaubliche Änderungen an unseren Statistiken.
Da wir nur spezielle Ziele ausgewählt haben, war dieser Cache einer von ihnen. Entschuldigung für das Ausschneiden und Einfügen-log - ein guter Cache verdient ein besseres log!
**English**
It all started a few months ago when I saw an email from Groundspeak with a link to a Mega, that was also a GIFF event. I check with my geo-friends and a group came together - and we logged many caches this weekend with the group name 4SOT - that's "4 Stars on Tour", a reference to our favourite rugby team, Leinster, that has 4 stars on its shirt! Flights, hotels and cars were booked and then we left DUB and arrived in DUS and began our journey around Dusseldorf, Cologne and Bonn in a very nice rental car.
Like children in a sweet shop, there were simply too many wonderful and interesting caches to choose from, so we each picked a short list of caches that we wanted, for various reasons - mainly DTs that Ireland can provide no more of - a few Jasmers, some unusual types -the Mega, but also some Whereigos, Virtuals and Webcams also. Also, I logged my first Multi in Germany - so, the weekend gave me three new types in this country! We coincidentally found lots of Large caches too. We managed to find 9 types on Saturday , which was very nice! We also found about 10k value in Favourite points, which was amazing! We spent a lot of time in trees, but also as much drinking beer - but not at the same time!
The events were wonderfully organised and lots of fun; and the many German Geocachers we met were friendly and very helpful, especially as it is difficult to bring geo-tools on an airplane - so a big thank you to everyone who helped us. It made the weekend very special for us and very many happy memories were made - and some incredible changes to our statistics also.
Thanks to **Airwolf26 (F=3884 H=67)** for **Altenberg**.
This is Cache No.3797 Found on Sunday, 11 November 2018 @ 15:39 Fav Point
**Deutsch Google translate:**
Alles begann vor ein paar Monaten, als ich eine E-Mail von Groundspeak mit einem Link zu einer Mega sah, die ebenfalls ein GIFF-Event war. Ich erkundige mich bei meinen Geofreunden Doug.G und Fitzet, und eine Gruppe kam zusammen - und wir haben an diesem Wochenende viele Caches mit dem Gruppennamen 4SOT angemeldet - das ist "4 Stars on Tour", ein Hinweis auf unser Lieblingsteam, Leinster. das hat 4 sterne auf seinem hemd! Flüge, Hotels und Autos wurden gebucht und dann verließen wir DUB und kamen in DUS an. Wir fuhren mit einem sehr schönen Mietwagen durch Düsseldorf, Köln und Bonn. Mit einem starken Dach! [: D]
Wie Kinder in einem Süßwarenladen gab es einfach zu viele wundervolle und interessante Caches zur Auswahl. Deshalb haben wir uns aus verschiedenen Gründen eine kurze Liste von Caches ausgesucht, die wir wollten - hauptsächlich DTs, von denen Irland nichts mehr zu bieten hat auf einer kleinen Insel leben - ein paar Jasmers, einige ungewöhnliche Typen, nicht zuletzt die Mega, aber auch einige Whereigos, Virtuals und Webcams. Ich habe auch mein erstes Multi in Deutschland angemeldet - also gab mir das Wochenende drei neue Typen in diesem Land! Zufällig haben wir versucht, Caches auszuwählen, die mehrere Kästchen gleichzeitig angekreuzt haben. Wo große verfügbar waren, wurde es bevorzugt. Wir haben am Samstag auch 9 Typen gefunden, was sehr schön war! Wir fanden auch einen Wert von 10.000 in Favorite Points, was unglaublich war! Wir haben viel Zeit in Bäumen verbracht, aber genauso viel Bier getrunken - aber nicht gleichzeitig!
Die Veranstaltungen waren wunderbar organisiert und machten viel Spaß; Die vielen deutschen Geocacher, die wir getroffen haben, waren freundlich und sehr hilfsbereit, zumal es schwierig ist, Geowerkzeuge in ein Flugzeug zu bringen - ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die uns geholfen haben. Es hat das Wochenende für uns zu etwas ganz Besonderem gemacht und es wurden sehr viele hapy-Erinnerungen gemacht - und einige unglaubliche Änderungen an unseren Statistiken.
Da wir nur spezielle Ziele ausgewählt haben, war dieser Cache einer von ihnen. Entschuldigung für das Ausschneiden und Einfügen-log - ein guter Cache verdient ein besseres log!
**English**
It all started a few months ago when I saw an email from Groundspeak with a link to a Mega, that was also a GIFF event. I check with my geo-friends and a group came together - and we logged many caches this weekend with the group name 4SOT - that's "4 Stars on Tour", a reference to our favourite rugby team, Leinster, that has 4 stars on its shirt! Flights, hotels and cars were booked and then we left DUB and arrived in DUS and began our journey around Dusseldorf, Cologne and Bonn in a very nice rental car.
Like children in a sweet shop, there were simply too many wonderful and interesting caches to choose from, so we each picked a short list of caches that we wanted, for various reasons - mainly DTs that Ireland can provide no more of - a few Jasmers, some unusual types -the Mega, but also some Whereigos, Virtuals and Webcams also. Also, I logged my first Multi in Germany - so, the weekend gave me three new types in this country! We coincidentally found lots of Large caches too. We managed to find 9 types on Saturday , which was very nice! We also found about 10k value in Favourite points, which was amazing! We spent a lot of time in trees, but also as much drinking beer - but not at the same time!
The events were wonderfully organised and lots of fun; and the many German Geocachers we met were friendly and very helpful, especially as it is difficult to bring geo-tools on an airplane - so a big thank you to everyone who helped us. It made the weekend very special for us and very many happy memories were made - and some incredible changes to our statistics also.
Thanks to **Airwolf26 (F=3884 H=67)** for **Altenberg**.
**Deutsch Google translate:**
Alles begann vor ein paar Monaten, als ich eine E-Mail von Groundspeak mit einem Link zu einer Mega sah, die ebenfalls ein GIFF-Event war. Ich erkundige mich bei meinen Geofreunden Doug.G und Fitzet, und eine Gruppe kam zusammen - und wir haben an diesem Wochenende viele Caches mit dem Gruppennamen 4SOT angemeldet - das ist "4 Stars on Tour", ein Hinweis auf unser Lieblingsteam, Leinster. das hat 4 sterne auf seinem hemd! Flüge, Hotels und Autos wurden gebucht und dann verließen wir DUB und kamen in DUS an. Wir fuhren mit einem sehr schönen Mietwagen durch Düsseldorf, Köln und Bonn. Mit einem starken Dach! [: D]
Wie Kinder in einem Süßwarenladen gab es einfach zu viele wundervolle und interessante Caches zur Auswahl. Deshalb haben wir uns aus verschiedenen Gründen eine kurze Liste von Caches ausgesucht, die wir wollten - hauptsächlich DTs, von denen Irland nichts mehr zu bieten hat auf einer kleinen Insel leben - ein paar Jasmers, einige ungewöhnliche Typen, nicht zuletzt die Mega, aber auch einige Whereigos, Virtuals und Webcams. Ich habe auch mein erstes Multi in Deutschland angemeldet - also gab mir das Wochenende drei neue Typen in diesem Land! Zufällig haben wir versucht, Caches auszuwählen, die mehrere Kästchen gleichzeitig angekreuzt haben. Wo große verfügbar waren, wurde es bevorzugt. Wir haben am Samstag auch 9 Typen gefunden, was sehr schön war! Wir fanden auch einen Wert von 10.000 in Favorite Points, was unglaublich war! Wir haben viel Zeit in Bäumen verbracht, aber genauso viel Bier getrunken - aber nicht gleichzeitig!
Die Veranstaltungen waren wunderbar organisiert und machten viel Spaß; Die vielen deutschen Geocacher, die wir getroffen haben, waren freundlich und sehr hilfsbereit, zumal es schwierig ist, Geowerkzeuge in ein Flugzeug zu bringen - ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die uns geholfen haben. Es hat das Wochenende für uns zu etwas ganz Besonderem gemacht und es wurden sehr viele hapy-Erinnerungen gemacht - und einige unglaubliche Änderungen an unseren Statistiken.
Da wir nur spezielle Ziele ausgewählt haben, war dieser Cache einer von ihnen. Entschuldigung für das Ausschneiden und Einfügen-log - ein guter Cache verdient ein besseres log!
**English**
It all started a few months ago when I saw an email from Groundspeak with a link to a Mega, that was also a GIFF event. I check with my geo-friends and a group came together - and we logged many caches this weekend with the group name 4SOT - that's "4 Stars on Tour", a reference to our favourite rugby team, Leinster, that has 4 stars on its shirt! Flights, hotels and cars were booked and then we left DUB and arrived in DUS and began our journey around Dusseldorf, Cologne and Bonn in a very nice rental car.
Like children in a sweet shop, there were simply too many wonderful and interesting caches to choose from, so we each picked a short list of caches that we wanted, for various reasons - mainly DTs that Ireland can provide no more of - a few Jasmers, some unusual types -the Mega, but also some Whereigos, Virtuals and Webcams also. Also, I logged my first Multi in Germany - so, the weekend gave me three new types in this country! We coincidentally found lots of Large caches too. We managed to find 9 types on Saturday , which was very nice! We also found about 10k value in Favourite points, which was amazing! We spent a lot of time in trees, but also as much drinking beer - but not at the same time!
The events were wonderfully organised and lots of fun; and the many German Geocachers we met were friendly and very helpful, especially as it is difficult to bring geo-tools on an airplane - so a big thank you to everyone who helped us. It made the weekend very special for us and very many happy memories were made - and some incredible changes to our statistics also.
Thanks to **Airwolf26 (F=3884 H=67)** for **Altenberg**.
22-Oct-16
This is Cache No.2680 Found on Saturday, 22 October 2016 @ 11:36 Fav Point
Je suis désolé pour le log générique - et pour écrire en anglais!
Ech Entschëllegt fir de Glattauer log - an Englesch fir schreiwen!
Ich entschuldige mich für das generische Log - und für das Schreiben auf Englisch!
This was a Ryanair weekend - we got flights from Dublin to Charleroi for the princely sum of €12 - so a plan was hatched to go on a road trip. The first thought, naturally was to look for GC40 - the wonderful old Geocache from July 2000, but soon things got out of hand & all sorts of things were being planned - countries, regions, placed dates, challenges, trees, boats, planes, hot air balloons... so eventually, the common-sense kicked in. The list of possibilities was addressed alongside the amount of time available... it was narrowed down to just 13 Geocaches, in 4 countries (2 new ones!), a circular route through 12 regions (4 in Belgium, 3 in Luxembourg, a quick visit to Saarland in Germany, then 4 French regions), 4 placed dates that I needed and a virtual cache. There may have been other happy coincidences that I am unaware of also. I reckon there were 3 souvenirs received also - Luxembourg, DE-Saarland and France!
Oh, there was one other matter - a cache with a D/T rating of 4.5/3.5 - which now completes my 5th Loop of the D/T Grid!
My first cache was [Have a nice flight!](https://coord.info/GC59AMC) and was found while we waited for the bus to bring us to the car rental car park; and quickly we were at our hotel for the night. In the morning we headed north to [Circuit des chapelles et potales # 239](https://coord.info/GC3XWG2) to find a cache in Brabant Wallonia. Moving east, we then made for [Geocache GC40](https://coord.info/GC40) where we had a lovely walk in the forest! The cache was very easily found and the logbook signed and photographed.
We there moved south to intercept the motorway, stopping at [Arlon Cité militaire 26 bunker de la résistance](https://coord.info/GC67EYV), before diverting north into Luxembourg's Diekirch region for [The grandpa is watching](https://coord.info/GC3MBQQ). We then headed south almost to the French border to find the cache with the 4.5/3.5 D/T rating to find [A look behind](https://coord.info/GC5P94W) - a lovely entertaining puzzle with a few clever twists, that required serious research! In the end it was a nice hide also!
Then we stopped at [Park & Rail : Belval - Université](https://coord.info/GC55G0C) where I momentarily thought I had an FTF, before realising that the CO had replaced the log!
We had one last stop in Luxembourg - Grevenmacher Region - for a lovely vista at the [Tree Alley Panorama](https://coord.info/GC6KW7Q), before crossing the frontier to Germany to log a cache in Saarland - [Moseltal Ost](https://coord.info/GC5XWV6), which was particularly good container! We then returned to the autobahn and I let the Mercedes rental car show what it had under the bonnet for 30 seconds, before we hit the speed limits again...
We stopped in Schengen to visit all the flags and stars before heading onwards to [Les Vignes de Morlange](https://coord.info/GC2HVXY), where cache was in very poor shape, and then took a short journey to the very lovely [NLV #12 - L'EGLISE ET SON JARDIN](https://coord.info/GC2ARD9) which made me smile! The last stop today was after dinner - as we arrived in Reims, we parked near the[ Palais at Reims](https://coord.info/GC660D) to collect the virtual cache.
We we so struck by the cathedral, we returned in the morning to explore a little, before heading to [Chambry # Le barrage](https://coord.info/GC5T55G) to tick of Picardie region on the way in to Laon - to visit another wonderful cathedral. The final stop on this trip was a quick cache and dash at [AutoStop: A26 Nord - Aire du Plateau](https://coord.info/GC3Z1GJ) for the last region - Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Thanks to **Grokky Grokson** for **Geocache**.
Je suis désolé pour le log générique - et pour écrire en anglais!
Ech Entschëllegt fir de Glattauer log - an Englesch fir schreiwen!
Ich entschuldige mich für das generische Log - und für das Schreiben auf Englisch!
This was a Ryanair weekend - we got flights from Dublin to Charleroi for the princely sum of €12 - so a plan was hatched to go on a road trip. The first thought, naturally was to look for GC40 - the wonderful old Geocache from July 2000, but soon things got out of hand & all sorts of things were being planned - countries, regions, placed dates, challenges, trees, boats, planes, hot air balloons... so eventually, the common-sense kicked in. The list of possibilities was addressed alongside the amount of time available... it was narrowed down to just 13 Geocaches, in 4 countries (2 new ones!), a circular route through 12 regions (4 in Belgium, 3 in Luxembourg, a quick visit to Saarland in Germany, then 4 French regions), 4 placed dates that I needed and a virtual cache. There may have been other happy coincidences that I am unaware of also. I reckon there were 3 souvenirs received also - Luxembourg, DE-Saarland and France!
Oh, there was one other matter - a cache with a D/T rating of 4.5/3.5 - which now completes my 5th Loop of the D/T Grid!
My first cache was [Have a nice flight!](https://coord.info/GC59AMC) and was found while we waited for the bus to bring us to the car rental car park; and quickly we were at our hotel for the night. In the morning we headed north to [Circuit des chapelles et potales # 239](https://coord.info/GC3XWG2) to find a cache in Brabant Wallonia. Moving east, we then made for [Geocache GC40](https://coord.info/GC40) where we had a lovely walk in the forest! The cache was very easily found and the logbook signed and photographed.
We there moved south to intercept the motorway, stopping at [Arlon Cité militaire 26 bunker de la résistance](https://coord.info/GC67EYV), before diverting north into Luxembourg's Diekirch region for [The grandpa is watching](https://coord.info/GC3MBQQ). We then headed south almost to the French border to find the cache with the 4.5/3.5 D/T rating to find [A look behind](https://coord.info/GC5P94W) - a lovely entertaining puzzle with a few clever twists, that required serious research! In the end it was a nice hide also!
Then we stopped at [Park & Rail : Belval - Université](https://coord.info/GC55G0C) where I momentarily thought I had an FTF, before realising that the CO had replaced the log!
We had one last stop in Luxembourg - Grevenmacher Region - for a lovely vista at the [Tree Alley Panorama](https://coord.info/GC6KW7Q), before crossing the frontier to Germany to log a cache in Saarland - [Moseltal Ost](https://coord.info/GC5XWV6), which was particularly good container!
We then returned to the autobahn and I let the Mercedes rental car show what it had under the bonnet for 30 seconds, before we hit the speed limits again... We stopped in Schengen to visit all the flags and stars before heading onwards to [Les Vignes de Morlange](https://coord.info/GC2HVXY), where cache was in very poor shape, and then took a short journey to the very lovely [NLV #12 - L'EGLISE ET SON JARDIN](https://coord.info/GC2ARD9) which made me smile! The last stop today was after dinner - as we arrived in Reims, we parked near the[ Palais at Reims](https://coord.info/GC660D) to collect the virtual cache.
We we so struck by the cathedral, we returned in the morning to explore a little, before heading to [Chambry # Le barrage](https://coord.info/GC5T55G) to tick of Picardie region on the way in to Laon - to visit another wonderful cathedral. The final stop on this trip was a quick cache and dash at [AutoStop: A26 Nord - Aire du Plateau](https://coord.info/GC3Z1GJ) for the last region - Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Thanks to **Grokky Grokson** for **Geocache**.
02-Jan-16
Qualifying Days
2013-10-03 [Red]7 types[/Red]: NORTH.... TO ALASKA!!! (Virtual Cache) HQGT: Within Reach (Unknown Cache) HQGT: Beneath Aurora (Traditional Cache) High Five over Eye Five (Webcam Cache) Geocaching Headquarters (Groundspeak HQ) HQGT: Fremont Library (Multi-cache)
2015-02-28 [Red]9 types[/Red]: (FPE2008) De Waterspiegel (Earthcache) De Fantasie (Multi-cache) (FPE2013) 2VAN5 - DLCCW - THE BIG FIVE (Wherigo Cache) Haven (Unknown Cache) Ongeland "Paal 1" (Traditional Cache) poppetje (Virtual Cache)
2015-05-16 [Red]12 types[/Red]: GPS MAZE EUROPE - Germany (GPS Adventures Exhibit) Mainz Gutenberg 2015 (Giga-Event Cache) CITO under darkness (Cache In Trash Out Event) Eisenbahnfreund (Virtual Cache) RheinCam (Webcam Cache) CityView of Mainz [Reverse Cache] (Wherigo Cache)
2015-06-02 [Red]6 types[/Red]: Blarney Cache (Virtual Cache) 5 The Fairy Realm (Unknown Cache) 01 The Fairy Realm (Traditional Cache) 6 The Fairy Realm - Ogham Stones (Earthcache) 4 The Fairy Realm (Wherigo Cache) 3 The Fairy Realm (Letterbox Hybrid)
2013-10-03 [Red]7 types[/Red]: NORTH.... TO ALASKA!!! (Virtual Cache) HQGT: Within Reach (Unknown Cache) HQGT: Beneath Aurora (Traditional Cache) High Five over Eye Five (Webcam Cache) Geocaching Headquarters (Groundspeak HQ) HQGT: Fremont Library (Multi-cache)
2015-02-28 [Red]9 types[/Red]: (FPE2008) De Waterspiegel (Earthcache) De Fantasie (Multi-cache) (FPE2013) 2VAN5 - DLCCW - THE BIG FIVE (Wherigo Cache) Haven (Unknown Cache) Ongeland "Paal 1" (Traditional Cache) poppetje (Virtual Cache)
2015-05-16 [Red]12 types[/Red]: GPS MAZE EUROPE - Germany (GPS Adventures Exhibit) Mainz Gutenberg 2015 (Giga-Event Cache) CITO under darkness (Cache In Trash Out Event) Eisenbahnfreund (Virtual Cache) RheinCam (Webcam Cache) CityView of Mainz [Reverse Cache] (Wherigo Cache)
2015-06-02 [Red]6 types[/Red]: Blarney Cache (Virtual Cache) 5 The Fairy Realm (Unknown Cache) 01 The Fairy Realm (Traditional Cache) 6 The Fairy Realm - Ogham Stones (Earthcache) 4 The Fairy Realm (Wherigo Cache) 3 The Fairy Realm (Letterbox Hybrid)
Cache No.2059 Found @ 11:55:00 AM
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork.
Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.
As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork. Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
Cache No.2062 Found @ 1:48:00 PM - and a Fav Point awarded!
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent... After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork.
Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist... On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.
As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork. Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
Arrived on-site with Doug.G... to find a river in full-spate - flooding everywhere, water above waist high and a lareg tree stuck in one of the bridge archways...
A little birdy may have mentioned where the cache was - and if said birdy was correct, the chances of the container having survived are pretty low...
Shall be back when (if?) the nasty weather ever stops!
A little birdy may have mentioned where the cache was - and if said birdy was correct, the chances of the container having survived are pretty low...
Shall be back when (if?) the nasty weather ever stops!
Cache No.2060 Found @ 12:21:00 PM
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent... After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork.
Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist... On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.
As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork. Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
Cache No.2061 Found @ 12:45:00 PM
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent... After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork.
Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist... On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.
As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork. Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to sgtzara for this cache!
TFTC
Cache No.2063 Found @ 2:08:00 PM
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent... After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork.
Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist... On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.
As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to Matt&Adam for this cache!
TFTC
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork. Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to Matt&Adam for this cache!
TFTC
Cache No.2058 Found @ 11:44:00 AM
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent... After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork.
Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist... On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.
As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to Track Day Toys for this cache!
TFTC
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork. Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to Track Day Toys for this cache!
TFTC
Cache No.2066 Found @ 3:49:00 PM
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent... After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork.
Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist... On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.
As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to UlsterLatinos for this cache!
TFTC
I spent the morning with Doug.G on Wednesday assaulting a bunch of trees in search of an FTF on a new 5/5 in Dublin; in the aftermath, we conspired to take another trip up to Ulster to pick off several caches that we both needed for one reason or another - a number of high complexity challenges, some '?s' with high D or T ratings and even one that dated back to 2002! And with day-passes sorted out with our significant others, we disappeared in to the grey rainy Dublin morning, safe in the knowledge that blistering sunshine would await us two hours north.
Or something like that.
To be fair we, we managed to dodge the worst of it, finding the rain mostly already lying on the ground, so this meant wellies were used rather than hiking boots in many places - and when mucking about in trees this didn't help much.
Track Day Toys 5/5 Challenge was first up; it was easily found in a nice hiding place. Since I posted my qualifying list with 28 x D5s in June I have managed to up that number to 42 - which is now too big to screenshot...
We then popped up the road to the Six Icon Challenge - 4 Days cache - which I failed to find on my last trip despite a thorough search... but today not only was it easily spotted (no leaves on the tree in January) it was also easily retrieved in a matter of seconds - and with the help of just the first rung on our extendible ladder!
We then made our way to the Old Coach Trail #13; being the proud possessor of a 366 day consecutive streak, I was contact by the CO when he first published this cache and it had been on my radar ever since. I passed by in the summer - and had no hope of retrieving it then as we were ill-equipped. Today, it was a much more straightforward matter with a ladder and my first grab came up trumps.
We then moved on to the Puzzle/Unknown Setters Mini Alphabet Challenge - a cache that evaded me in the summer. Probably because it was wet and I had no rope to secure myself (I don't have a death wish) - and there's an outside possibility I am also a wuss. After I scouted the area and designed a solid technical approach (aka - 'nah, you do this one...' ) Doug.G went up... and after some meditation he levitated to the correct spot and grabbed the cache.
Next up was the mother lode. Why it was only a T4.5, rather than 5.5 is beyond me... I'm naturally talking about the Challenge Variety Pack... wow that was some ascent...
After the first two 'natural hollows' came up empty, what we didn't say about the CO. [:(!] If anyone is looking at fulfilling this challenge, I suggest you look at the tree first. It is in that fork. Yeah THAT fork.
Up there. 'nuff said. Epic assault - fully 45 mins with harnesses, two sets of ropes - and a ladder to boot. Awesome stuff!
With the heavy work done we headed back to the car which was conveniently parked 6m from The Project.
We then headed to Crawfordsburn - Doug.G fancied a look at seaview - an awesome 2002 cache that is clearly very well maintained. Alas, the only view was of mist...
On the way back we also logged The Archway - which had more magnets than CERN.As the light was fading, and the weather closing in, it was time to head. We stopped briefly at Minnowburn Bridge, but here was severe flooding and fast water, so we gave up and kept heading for home. Next stop was the Travelling cacher 3-in-3 Challenge - it has been over two years since I posted my qualification, but only managed to get here today.
The last stop was the Super Chef Challenge - an unnerving drive in the pitch dark! I only spotted this challenge during the summer and it was fun going through all my finds looking for tasty morsels - so again, the qualifying list was posted on 17 June '15.
Today a very productive and very satisfying day. A big thanks to Doug.G for the company and derring-doo and to UlsterLatinos for this cache!
TFTC
01-Mar-15
Cache No.1521 Found @ 10:10:00 AM - 18th of 31 this weekend
Having visited the Netherlands at Christmas to stay with my brother, I did a little caching each day to get some exercise; however, my research indicated that another visit was necessary, as the Dutch scene was ripe for the picking - loads of early Jasmer targets, many, many cache types and many interesting and beautiful places to be seen. And so a plan was hatched... and the Grumpy Cats went On Tour (The cache logs were all signed GCOT)- 4 flatulent middle-aged men from Ireland and a bewildered Aussie going in search of Tupperware! http://coord.info/GC5K837
Soon, it became clear that the original idea of finding 2001 placed caches (Jasmers) could be augmented with a run at 9 cache types in one day! And in achieving this, we would see several parts of the Netherlands - not content with Badge Gen Ruby badge for the Netherlands, a little 'extra' distance would bring us up to Sapphire standard! - North & South Holland, Utrecht, Flevoland, Gelderland, Limburg & North Brabant - and while we were at it, we dropped in next door... Nord-Rhein Westfahlen, just to add a new country and a new souvenir. And at the end of the three days I had managed to log 29 Finds, 1 Attended and 1 Webcam Photo taken and 9 cache types, visit 2 countries, eat 3 cheeseburgers, several dozen beers, laugh endlessly, drive about 1000km, walk 30km and meet the Police twice! And we didn't get wet, which was nice! and we had a very nice event in Amsterdam, meeting a large group of cachers both from the Netherlands and several other countries. By anyone's standards, this was a great weekend!
This was the 18th cache of the weekend - having just found Amsterdam Urban 2, we were returning to our car - and this was on our way - an easy find! Soon Team GCOT was on the log.
Thanks for the cache!
Having visited the Netherlands at Christmas to stay with my brother, I did a little caching each day to get some exercise; however, my research indicated that another visit was necessary, as the Dutch scene was ripe for the picking - loads of early Jasmer targets, many, many cache types and many interesting and beautiful places to be seen. And so a plan was hatched... and the Grumpy Cats went On Tour (The cache logs were all signed GCOT)- 4 flatulent middle-aged men from Ireland and a bewildered Aussie going in search of Tupperware! http://coord.info/GC5K837
Soon, it became clear that the original idea of finding 2001 placed caches (Jasmers) could be augmented with a run at 9 cache types in one day!
And in achieving this, we would see several parts of the Netherlands - not content with Badge Gen Ruby badge for the Netherlands, a little 'extra' distance would bring us up to Sapphire standard! - North & South Holland, Utrecht, Flevoland, Gelderland, Limburg & North Brabant - and while we were at it, we dropped in next door... Nord-Rhein Westfahlen, just to add a new country and a new souvenir. And at the end of the three days I had managed to log 29 Finds, 1 Attended and 1 Webcam Photo taken and 9 cache types, visit 2 countries, eat 3 cheeseburgers, several dozen beers, laugh endlessly, drive about 1000km, walk 30km and meet the Police twice! And we didn't get wet, which was nice! and we had a very nice event in Amsterdam, meeting a large group of cachers both from the Netherlands and several other countries. By anyone's standards, this was a great weekend!This was the 18th cache of the weekend - having just found Amsterdam Urban 2, we were returning to our car - and this was on our way - an easy find! Soon Team GCOT was on the log.
Thanks for the cache!
