I’ve been a little obsessive about caching lately – this target of reaching 1000 by the end of the month is weighing on my mind. It was beginning to slip out of our reach, but I think we’ve put things back into a manageable position now. Today we found 16 caches, the most we’ve done in a while. It moves the required average back down to 5.2 a day if we are going to make 1000 by the 31st as we need to find 90 in the next 17 days (5.294 caches are needed each day to be more precise…). Like I said, more manageable.
This has clearly taken most of the day. The 16 we chose to do were all ones we hoped we could drive to, park up and grab the cache without much faffing about. I’d chosen 17 this morning which filled that criteria, and then Mrs Pitts found quite a few more that we re close by to those ones while we were out. Some of those 17 will wait, a few weren’t there at all. This is our day.
- GC4G3WB Harecroft Walk 4: a simple little find. Mrs Pitts grabbed this while I stayed in the car.
- GC4G3TC Harecroft Walk 1: I grabbed this one which was hiding behind a tree (only 1 and 4 on the walk were easy to get to without lots of walking).
- GC2MPHM I’ve Got your Number! (Cullingworth Exchange): The I’ve Got Your Number series is all based around telephone exchanges that exist or used to. This one wasn’t even near a visible exchange, just a pot holed road.
- GC245MF On Yer Doorstep 7: Another series but we were focussed on easy ones. An easy find.
- GC16XF0 Great Northern Trail 2: A cache underneath a small boulder – another easy find as it was a white container and stood out…
- GC17BKG Great Northern Trail 3: Our 900th cache! A lovely tranquil area and another easy find as the clue given matched the area exactly. I love it when that happens.
- GC3F22C TT Bellies 40th Birthday Cache: Another one that Mrs Pitts found as there were no parking locations. I went to turn round and the log had been found and signed by the time I arrived back.
- GC3GWAY Bents Tree: A very sneaky hide here. The cache was on a hook around the back of the tree, not easy to see.
- GC3NZYJ Entonox: Hidden behind a gas pipe sign. An easy find. Entonox is the technical name for gas and air apparently.
- GC2RW78 L&LC – Gallows Bridge: We did not find this one. Again Mrs Pitts went for this as I stayed in the car. She couldn’t see it.
- GC2JG8G Roberts Park: This was a sneaky hide in the middle of a park. One of those that hundreds of people will never have noticed and probably never will.
- GC42XGZ Winter at Ferniehurst Dell: This was easy to find as it was laying out in the open. Not a good thing as it means that clearly someone has found it recently. It was all still usable but that’s never good.
- GC2NNZ1 ‘t Woolpack: This cache was at the location of The Woolpack as was used in Emmerdale until a few years ago. An easy cache.
- GC37FJ5 Crossing: We didn’t find this one either.
- GC31RY8 60 on ‘ere: This was behind a national speed limit sign on a road that would certainly never be taken at 60 miles an hour… far too rutted and narrow.
- GC3PB3X Moos and Moos and Rawdon Views: Mrs Pitts found this quickly and easily. After this we did a bit of plane spotting as we were next to the airport.
- GC3GB3Y Watch out for the Expert Haggis Hunter: This was a sign on an electrical box in Horsforth, near my old University. An easy find.
- GC3T7JE GOLD!!! Alistair Brownlee: For some reason, this country decided to paint post boxes gold whenever an athlete won a gold medal at last year’s Olympic Games. Alistair Brownlee came from Hosforth and so has a gold postbox there. His brother Jonny came third.
The caches tick a few boxes. It was a calendar gap and provided us with a new souvenir.
So, that was our day. I had planned on doing some school work today, but that can wait one more day, can’t it?
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