Do you Know the way to Lyme Park?

The sun was out so we went off for a walk today into Lyme Park from Nelsons Pit in Poynton to do some new caches that have appeared.


GC2ZD1M - Do you Know the way to Lyme Park? 1

Had the first DNF of the day on the first cache. We had a good look for this one on the way into Lyme park and on the way back but had no luck in finding it. We will have to do this cache again another day.


GC2ZD3B - Do you Know the way to Lyme Park? 2

Our first find of the day. We had our mind set on a particular type of cache for this one so we missed this one in the first few minutes of searching, but then opened our eyes to locate the cache. A great hiding place.


GC2ZD52 - Do you Know the way to Lyme Park? 3

Walking on we found this one fairly easily after waiting for a dog walker and cyclist to go by. Signed the log and replaced. This route gets very busy during the nice weather.


GC3098V - Do you Know the way to Lyme Park? 4

At first we got the wrong tree due to the GPS signal bouncing about a bit, but then one of the younger members of the group found the cache straight away. Signed the log and replaced. On the way up the hill we met Young Thropp and had a quick chat swapping our trackable numbers. Always nice to meet a fellow cacher out and about.

This is our first "GC3" cache.


GC309A2 - Do you Know the way to Lyme Park? 5

Last cache of the series, stopping to look at the views over the cheshire plains. I have done this walk a few times now and the view is always stunning, especially on a clear day. A clever cache hide.


GC242QG - Lyme Park No 38

I got to the GZ co-ordinates for the cache and located its hiding place which was nicely hidden. I had just retrieved the cache when the farmer had started driving his sheep up the road so it got a lot of muggles comming to stand near to the walls to watch. I had to wait a bit before replacing the cache into its hiding place.


GC2NP5W - Hase Bank Wood

A walk along a wooded path with lots of rhodi bushes. It was all the rage years ago to plant rhodi bushes, but they have become very purvasive over the years and taken over the wild forna. The park rangers and the NT (National Trust) are slowly reducing their numbers but its is a long process to allow the natural habitat to return.

We walked down the path until finding the spot. A nice easy find.


GC2ZCY2 - Poynton's Past

We solved this one after parking up, but decided to get the cache on the way back from our walk to Lyme Park as there were a lot of people about near to the cache site. Found the cache after doing the tying of the shoelace trick and retrieved. Signed the log and replaced.

Returned to the car and home. Another good caching session and walk.

25 Hides

I now have a total of 25 hides (plus 1 that needs to be done). A nice milestone to achieve.

Getting the hides is harder than finding caches with all the permissions and planning stages, but I think gives you a good feeling of satisfaction each time they are found and logged.

Mega 2012

A date for your diaries next year.

New Caches

Been out today planting 8 of 19 new caches round the area after recieving permissions to hide them.

Hiding a cache is in someways harder than finding one.

I had previously been round and surveyed where I was going to place them to get permissions and look at the size of container to use, but when you get the container there sometimes its too large or you think, hmm perhaps I should have brought a bigger one.

So with this in mind I have a few containers and experimented with different sizes where I good to give cachers the better finds. I like to hide larger containers where ever possible, but occasionally you need to resort to that 35mm film canister.

Back home to complete the many caching pages now awaiting the reviewers approval.

July NWCMM - Cynophobia Part Deux

I attended the July NWCMM - Cynophobia Part Deux this evening. A really nice evening for a walk which made this all the more pleasant.

July NWCMM - Cynophobia Part Deux - GC2WF7Y
We all met in a pub car park and everyone was reasonably suited an booted to start the walk lead by "The Magna Defender". There was a sort of consensus that as a large group it was easier to sign the logs as a team rather than everyone in the group signing them and taking a long time.

The photos are on the flickr site (see link on blog page)

Hypsidendrophobia - GC301T3
This was the first cache we came to which was a massive group FTF for "Team Tunnel", Pity we cant all have the FTF though on the Geocaching pages.

The Hunt for Pongi - GC17AWF
A nicely hidden cache under a foot bridge and another find for "Team Tunnel"

Cynophobia - The Cache - GC2CD1R
The main event and the reason for the walk was to get this cache. We stopped at the top of the tunnel entrance for a group photo and to get torches out. Slowly the group descended the bank and stepped into the mouth of the tunnel. The ground underneath was very muddy and slimy so you had to move slowly and deliberately through the water and mud so you didn't end up looing a boot or falling over.

We made the middle of the tunnel and found the cache. The cache was again signed "Team Tunnel" and carefully replaced.

Slowly the group mad its way through the tunnel and it took a while for everyone to get through.

The exit to the tunnel was shallower on the brickwork, but once out we were into a stream and it was a bit deeper than it looked. Some members of the team suffered from water logging, but all was taken in good spirits.

the way back was better through a drier tunnel, whilst some of the group did decide to walk back through the wet tunnel as scale the bank at the other end.

Everyone walked back to the cars and some on to a pub for beer/drinks and food.

A great first event for myself.