Last night Geohatter came up trumps and published this little series, Crobba's Severn Micro Mayhem: GC2R5PA, placed along the river Severn in Stourport-upon-Severn.
My daughter was appearing in the school Spring Show, and by the time I got home after, the series had been published for nearly 2 hours, meant that the regular FTFers were probably out claiming.
The evening slowly went by and I kept checking the logs and noticed on the Facebook caching group for West Midlands, Basketcase Crew was asking if anyone was interested in going, then changed their mind, so eventually by 23:30hrs I made the decision to attempt FTF on the series.
I had decided to start at the north end of the series and hop from one to the next by car, as most of them were within 300yrds of the road.
The first was No. 4, and after realising 'where' I needed to be, soon had the cache in hand. Next it was a quick jog in the rain to No. 3, and a quick find, then back to the car. After attempting to drive to No. 5, and failing, I then drove to the south end of the series, No. 9.
The car was quickly parked and I ran over to where the GPS was pointing, for No. 9, and couldn't believe I literally put my hand on the cache immediately. At this rate of finding the caches, I'll be finished in no time, but that was going to be proved to be the opposite later on, so back to the car and onto No. 8.
A short drive followed by a quick walk down to the cache area and No. 8 was soon in hand. Great, a nice quick series and so far FTF on each, back to the car we go for No. 7, sounds like a perfume.
Now this is where finding the caches was going to prove to be more difficult than anticipated! After approaching the GZ to No. 7, GPS was starting to play around with the rain clouds overhead. I was hoping this would be another quick find, but no, no chance of that! Things were not smelling rosy anymore after a good 20-30 minutes of searching and getting wetter by the second. I did eventually find a discarded man-made item nearby to help me look, and the cache was soon found.
No. 6 was next, and this was proving a little more difficult to get as well. The rain had made everything very slippy, and the steep slopes were hard to manage, but with perseverance, I soon had the cache in hand.
My energy was now dwindling after struggling back up the hill, and I soon drove to No. 5, to obtain another quick find.
It was now getting very late/early, and there were still two caches to go, No. 1 & 2, I was tired and the thought of doing these two didn't appeal as they were probably the furthest ones from the road, which meant a longer hike.
I parked my car on the main road, as close to No. 1 as possible, I had decided to do the last two as it seemed a shame to not attempt them while I was here.
Eventually after a long walk, I reached No. 1 GZ, and searched every possible place I could think of and after 20 minutes, I went back to one of the places I first looked, and yes, as usual, it's always in the first place you looked! Now, No. 2, here I come for FTF for the whole series!
Even though my energy was diminishing, I ran to No. 2 and it was a glorious quick find and FTF! YES!
All in all, the series is a very enjoyable one, from cache and dash to scratch and search. A definite 'must do', night or day, on your own, with a group or with the kids, but beware the river is very close!
Twitter me;My daughter was appearing in the school Spring Show, and by the time I got home after, the series had been published for nearly 2 hours, meant that the regular FTFers were probably out claiming.
The evening slowly went by and I kept checking the logs and noticed on the Facebook caching group for West Midlands, Basketcase Crew was asking if anyone was interested in going, then changed their mind, so eventually by 23:30hrs I made the decision to attempt FTF on the series.
I had decided to start at the north end of the series and hop from one to the next by car, as most of them were within 300yrds of the road.
The first was No. 4, and after realising 'where' I needed to be, soon had the cache in hand. Next it was a quick jog in the rain to No. 3, and a quick find, then back to the car. After attempting to drive to No. 5, and failing, I then drove to the south end of the series, No. 9.
The car was quickly parked and I ran over to where the GPS was pointing, for No. 9, and couldn't believe I literally put my hand on the cache immediately. At this rate of finding the caches, I'll be finished in no time, but that was going to be proved to be the opposite later on, so back to the car and onto No. 8.
A short drive followed by a quick walk down to the cache area and No. 8 was soon in hand. Great, a nice quick series and so far FTF on each, back to the car we go for No. 7, sounds like a perfume.
Now this is where finding the caches was going to prove to be more difficult than anticipated! After approaching the GZ to No. 7, GPS was starting to play around with the rain clouds overhead. I was hoping this would be another quick find, but no, no chance of that! Things were not smelling rosy anymore after a good 20-30 minutes of searching and getting wetter by the second. I did eventually find a discarded man-made item nearby to help me look, and the cache was soon found.
No. 6 was next, and this was proving a little more difficult to get as well. The rain had made everything very slippy, and the steep slopes were hard to manage, but with perseverance, I soon had the cache in hand.
My energy was now dwindling after struggling back up the hill, and I soon drove to No. 5, to obtain another quick find.
It was now getting very late/early, and there were still two caches to go, No. 1 & 2, I was tired and the thought of doing these two didn't appeal as they were probably the furthest ones from the road, which meant a longer hike.
I parked my car on the main road, as close to No. 1 as possible, I had decided to do the last two as it seemed a shame to not attempt them while I was here.
Eventually after a long walk, I reached No. 1 GZ, and searched every possible place I could think of and after 20 minutes, I went back to one of the places I first looked, and yes, as usual, it's always in the first place you looked! Now, No. 2, here I come for FTF for the whole series!
Even though my energy was diminishing, I ran to No. 2 and it was a glorious quick find and FTF! YES!
All in all, the series is a very enjoyable one, from cache and dash to scratch and search. A definite 'must do', night or day, on your own, with a group or with the kids, but beware the river is very close!
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