Log entries Steamed Up - Alresford
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sandvika
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- Archived
2010-02-05 00:00
two_bad_mice
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- Didn't find it
2009-05-28 12:55
Amberel
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- Found it
Logging in June 2010, after having found the cache on 28th May last year, when it was a TerraCache.
It took me two visits to find this one. On my first trip I found the first two locations OK, but the third and final set of co-ordinates did not match the impression I got from reading the cache page. To put it another way, the more fun I was having, the further away from the cache I appeared to be 
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So I read the clue, but that didn't help either. Trouble was that the nearest thing that fitted the clue was a little way off, but if I accepted that it WAS some way off then LOTS of things fitted the clue. And it wasn't clear if the direction referred to in the clue was before or after I had the little bit of fun 
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It has to be said that the enthusiasm with which I seach for a cache is in inverse proportion to the distance shown on my GPSr, so while I did look around, it was a somewhat desultory look. But not so desultory that I didn't get a rash of stings from some vicious early spring nettles - I had just about forgotten how much more virulent they are in the Spring.
Unsure if the problem was a misread clue, a miscalculated sum or an errant GPSr, I went back to check the numbers and the maths from the last waypoint, but nothing new presented itself and I gave it best.
When I got back I discussed it with the cache owner, and it transpired there were a couple of errors on the cache page. On the second visit, and with the right numbers, my GPSr took me to the area I thought it should have been from the description.
But what a difference 2 months makes! The logs I had used to bridge the river were no longer there, the strip of land which was pretty dry in March was a boggy morass in May, and the nettles had grown from 4 inches to 4 feet high! Altogether it was FAR harder than before, but though I came out with arms and hands covered in nettle stings, I also came out with the cache .
Many thanks for the cache,
Rgds, Andy
