This challenge is nearly at its end. It’s almost fitting then that today we completed two Geocaching challenges. This post, like so many others, may well be dull to many people.
Three caches were found today.
The first was ZetaYgraeca – Challenge (GC4FXFR). This requires to find 26 caches in alphabetical order and on separate days, starting at any point in the alphabet. All cache types counted for this challenge, but only 2 caches per day could be used to count towards this challenge. Caches starting with non-alphabetic characters can be used – the first letter after the non-alphabetic characters would count.
When we first came across this cache, it took a little while to work out whether we qualified. It was a glorious two hours going through a spreadsheet… only to find we had 25 qualifying caches if we began at L, then a K could be organised to fill that one gap. Here are our qualifying caches:
- L – GC1TPHC – Lakeland View – 31/12/2010
- M – GCTQMM – Motorway Mayhem M62 J28 – 02/01/2011
- N – GC2KBJC – Night Swim – 02/01/2011
- O – GC2J2CQ – On and Off the Greenway: Headlands Road – 06/02/2011
- P – GC2DF1B – Psst – It’s me, the tree! – 25/02/2011
- Q – GC1J3XG – Quackers – 26/02/2011
- R – GC2GD5E – Road to Beresford Park – 26/02/2011
- S – GC1T2VP – Six Lane Ends – 27/02/2011
- T – GC2J63J – That’s an Andy Cache 1 – 13/03/2011
- U – GC2MT84 – U is for………Uptonfamily – 18/08/2011
- V – GC2MT87 – V is for………Vigilance – 18/08/2011
- W – GC292TJ – “Where the sun don’t shine” – 27/08/2011
- X – GCMAPJ – X Marks The Spot, Honest 😉 – 06/04/2012
- Y – GC3109W – You Can Lead a Horse To Water ……… – 03/08/2012
- Z – GC1ZZF7 – Zenzic Cache – 24/08/2012
- A – GC1Y9P4 – Alphabet Soup – Yorkshire – 05/05/2013
- B – GC3EYQ3 – Brighouse Zoo #3 – 17/06/2013
- C – GC35FT9 – Cache Bingo Challenge – 30/06/2013
- D – GC490X1 – DDH 20-10 – 30/06/2013
- E – GC357V7 – Electric Strength – 29/07/2013
- F – GCJMKZ – Freeview Zoo – 31/07/2013
- G – GC27NQK – Geocaching at the Fictional Smiling Feline – 02/08/2013
- H – GC2DK1V – Hoole Heath Skirmish – Stray Shot! – 02/08/2013
- I – GC2MPHM – I’ve Got Your Number! (Cullingworth Exchange) – 14/08/2013
- J – GC3D6Z0 – Joey B 1 – 18/08/2013
- K – GC4GND7 – KYS# Toy Soldiers #1 – 24/08/2013
The annoying thing was, we drove over half an hour to get to the cache location only to find that it had gone missing. We emailed the owner of the cache who allowed us to find it – the photo below proved our presence – and kindly replaced it. I bet he wondered what on Earth was going on as two other cachers have also found that today!
Initially we left there feeling a little depressed having travelled so far – at that point it was a DNF.
So we found a cache called Put your back into it! (GC1V6A2) in Sowerby Bridge. It wasn’t planned but it was on our way home. A standard urban cache on a sign.
Finally, we visited another cache called Cornered. This was another challenge cache. Every cacher has a 9 x 9 Difficulty/Terrain grid which obviously contains four corners. To grab this cache, you must have logged a cache at each corner. In other words we needed a find of: 1 Difficulty x 1 Terrain, plus 1 Difficulty x 5 Terrain, plus 5 Difficulty x 1 Terrain, and finally 5 Difficulty x 5 Terrain.
Here is our current grid:
All four corners are filled, so we could log this cache.
Our qualifying caches are:
- D1/T1 – Gomersal Treasure (GC1Q062) 19/09/2010 – found on our first day out caching.
- D1/T5 – QUANDARY IN A QUARRY (GC21DCC) 23/04/2011 – our only example of this rating.
- D5/T1 – Taurus Excretum Mentus Confundy! (GCV8YB) 02/08/2011 – a lovely archived puzzle.
- D5/T5 – This is weir-d (GC47ENM) 21/07/2013 – one of two 5/5s we have. Our first letterbox cache.
So quite a big caching day overall – this is not your basic geocaching! The rest of the day mostly involved work. Rubbish.
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