Day 155: FTF 17

This normal, uneventful day was made all the better with a bit of coincidence. Mrs Pitts’ dad’s phone needed topping up so a quick trip out into the wilds of Cleckheaton was needed at 8:56. While Mrs Pitts was in the act of doing this at a hole in the wall, I checked my phone for emails. Up popped a newly published geocache – from five minutes earlier.

You may have noticed a sharp drop off in geocaching based posts lately, but that is because we don’t need to work on our calendar again until next week when a 19 day gap appears.

However, since we were already out and roughly a mile away, we thought we might at least give it a try. Being the first to find a cache is a fairly rare thing. There is, obviously, just that window of opportunity after it has been published and since there are quite a few cachers in the area, there is often a bit of a battle on to get them. Tonight was the 17th time we have beaten other people to a new location.

So, we arrive and park up 34 metres away from the published co-ordinates and make the short walk to a fairly obvious rough location. Then the hunt was on. Given that the cache (GC4DCTB) was called Philled The Gap, we assumed we were looking for an appropriate gap in the walls of the location for it. For the second time this evening, Mrs Pitts’ attention was at a hole in the wall. And she was the one that found it.

Like, I said, a nice ending to an unremarkable day.