2020-12-02 17:23 hal an tow (28) - Notitie
Listing updated with new co-ords and hint . It's maybe 500m closer to the parking now, and the broad bridleway to it is mostly only mildly muddy, just one squidgy bit around the dip as you'd expect.
2020-11-27 13:45 Elz (4) - Gevonden
Having been in Leicester's lockdown continuously since 23rd March 2020, my forays into the countryside have been extremely limited. So today I decided it was time to take April, my whippet lurcher, out for a decent run and meet up for a socially distanced walk with Hal-an-tow. I parked at Wistow and the path from there was good, although a bit muddy in places. April decided that it was fun to run large rings around us at Mach 2, although on some instances she did spray Hal-an-tow with muddy splashes as she raced by a bit too close.
It was a pleasant walk up to the current cache location and the cache was soon found exactly as per the hint. I decided to move it to a more easily accessible part of the walk (e.g. not over the very muddy field!) to allow for winter caching. I gave the box a bit of a wipe out and the contents are dry and in excellent condition.There are some very nice swaps in there :D
On the walk back, April found something rather nasty and stinky to roll in, therefore earning her a dreaded bath when back home. Once back to the car, we had a treat of some ginger cake I had baked this morning.
New location is: N52 32.848, W001 04.061, New hint: Stickoflage at base of post to the right of the hunt fence.
Thanks for the cache and for the walk :D
2020-04-24 14:03 hal an tow (28) - Cache verplaatst
OK, so for a while this cache has been truly nomadic : forgotten about , having slid under the front passenger seat of my car !
Sorry, broke my own rules about relocating the cache in a timely manner. Bad cacher. I see I cannot log this as a 'find', fair enough, it is my cache after all , so a note it is.
Anyway, I had a nice little 11km walk the other day around the countryside from Wistow to Fleckney , on to the canal towpath and back to Wistow , and found a decent spot to place the cache soon after I set off . It is maybe a 20 minute walk up a broad dry (at the moment) bridleway from handy parking roadside or near the garden canter at Wistow . Arable fields to cross, but possibly a few very placid cattle grazing in the open area bounded by the cattle grids around the road junction. The location of the cache is pretty obvious at the moment, but the nettles will grow to conceal it soon, gloves and long sleeves a good idea , altho' I didn't have any with me when I placed it.
New co-ords N52 32.668 W001 03.915
I'll update the hint in a moment.
2019-05-25 23:47 hal an tow (28) - Notitie
OK, so I can't log finding this, as it is mine, but it's been where Martin left it for a while, and I was passing by, so thought I'd pick it up ...
The vegetation hid it rather too well , so it took me a while, but the co-ords were spot on (I just hadn't quite believed them !) and once I realised I was stood on the cache I was able to retrieve it ...sneaky !
Now , where next ...
2019-03-06 15:58 hal an tow (28) - Notitie
Hint and D/T updatedto reflect the new hide, thanks Martin
2019-03-05 11:11 martin112358 (4) - Cache verplaatst
I picked this up on 20 February intending to put it straight back out that day or the next, but as usual normal life intervened and it has taken me until now - a whole day short of the two-week deadline - to re-hide it.
I have chosen a spot close but not too close to two other OC caches (both also from Hal-an-tow) in the hope of making it more worthwhile to come and find them. When casting around for a suitable spot I realised I was almost exactly equidistant from the two other caches, and moved to make that more true - so this location and the other two now make a nice equilateral triangle as accurately as the GPS will allow.
The spot is not as pleasant as the cache's previous home, but there is a prospect over the fields, so it's pretty good. If you walk in from the A6 you will pass a modern pastiche of a British Raj pastiche of a maharaja's palace. It's not exactly a blot on the landscape, but I'm not sure why it got planning permission. (I'm just jealous really, I wish I had enough money to build a house like that. I wouldn't, of course, but it would be lovely to decide not to.)
When you get to GZ the cache is on the wrong side of the hedge in the sense that the path is on the other. But that side would have been wrong for the cache in that there is a ditch between you and any hiding places. Where it is D/T are both low - maybe 1/1.5 with the hint and only about 2/1.5 without it.
Hint: Ybbx sbe n fgbar gur pbybhe bs Cnfgvpur Ubhfr
2019-02-20 14:17 martin112358 (4) - Gevonden
Out for a little geocaching expedition with grandson Hugo112358, we decided to look for this different type of cache. Hugo was excited by being able to find the cache and take it away! He spotted it without help from me.
We put out crossed sticks to tell any searchers that there is no cache to be found.
A lovely spot. I don’t suppose I’ll find one as nice.
Thanks for the cache.
Further news when I have put it back out.
2019-02-20 10:36 martin112358 (4) - Notitie
I intend to look for this (and move it) in about one hour’s time. Ie at c1030 Wed 20/2/19.
2019-01-26 15:41 hal an tow (28) - Notitie
Nicest route to this first GZ is from the nearby groundspeak cache which has parking close by.
Crosses pasture, but no cows there when set ... plenty of trace evidence that sheep spend time there though !
2019-01-25 00:00 hal an tow (28) - Cache verplaatst