We expected the strong NW wind today but had thought the weather be a bit drier than it actually was! We had spent a good half hour sipping coffee in the car before the rain showed signs of abating and we set off to find some caches around Great Mis.  

After searching for some time at  Gz, the gps changed its mind as to where GZ actually was! By this time the wet ground had soaked my gloves because it was too cold to take them off :(

I moved location only to discover the GPS didn’t like that place either. Whilst following a meandering path back to where we started I just happened to spy the cache tucked away and the log was duly signed.

There are two Opencache's on Great Mis Tor which claim to be a replacement for the original Great Mis Tor Jubilee.  I wonder which is correct?

Thank god for accurate coordinates. Picked this one up as was in the area for an event. Just a shame that the identical listing on the other caching site has been locked. Found in the company of Jaynie15, Ed-don and Chris from DJCLAM in rain that was cold and coming at us horizontally

TFTC

The Cooke Family

My second and final opencache of the day. The weather had deteriorated since the end of an event cache hosted on another site so we searched for this one in cold sideways rain. Fortunately the coordinates were accurate and we came up trumps after a minute or so. TFTC

Q: What's the point in a proximity limit for caches, why can't they be close together?

 

A: Well, the answer is that it's downright confusing. If the nearby geocache was any closer to this one, then I doubt I'd have known which was which if it wasn't for Double-D's helpful labelling. Luckily the coordinates were accurate too, and the GPS-gods in the sky beamed down to pinpoint the location of both boxes accurately. If they'd have been out, then all hell may have broken loose as the parameters for each cache's location would have been too great; they may have overlapped, even. Anyway, I got there in the end with these two being so close together, but my luck was not to last - here I had a Fine Pair of smilies, but I was to have an Odd Couple at the next 'double-tupperware' location slightly further north - one find on the geocache, one DNF on the opencache. If they're too close it skews your search area. I hope that answers your question. ;)

 

Many thanks for keeping this going Dave 

Found after a brief search while dodging some heavy showers.

Apologies for the extremely late log - making a determined effort to rectify our lax logging on Opencaches, using geocache logs from our aging Garmin!

TFTC.

happy to be adding to my open cache numbers

this one hadn't been found since 2015-07-05 

all is well with the cache

Wind very strong here today. Took a bit of finding but won through in the end.

TFTC 

I looked really hard but there were so many places where it could have been and I could not find it. Sorry.

Sorry for late log, DDs facebook posting highlighted that I hadn't logged these open caches, still finding my way around the site. TFTC

There are 2 pairs of caches on top of Great Mis Tor.

Groundspeak cache "Morning glory" is only 25 feet from opencaching.org.uk cache "Great Mis Tor Jubilee", and Groundspeak cache "Dartmoor Forest 25 Mystor" is only 60 feet from opencaching.org.uk cache "Great Mis Tor". In both cases the opencaching.org.uk cache was placed first, but though opencachers and opencaching reviewers usually check for proximity with Groundspeak caches, the converse is rarely true.

I found them all on this visit, with this one being the first. Several cachers have signed the log book who have not logged the cache online.

Nice cache, and special thanks for setting it as an opencache, now the short step on to "Morning Glory" .

Rgds, Andy

Came upon this cache on an 'orrible day. GH.