More Caching Stats

Well at least I know where I stand in the World Rankings. A new stats bar to add to my page as the Drunner stats dont seem to be updating much.

Maintanance Day

Finally got out to carry out some maintenance on my caches. Managed to visit the majority of them and form some sort of repair.

The repairs ranged from simple things like - Replace the Log Book to the drastic measure of replacing the whole cache.

Luckly I had thought forward about the types of maintenance I would need to carry out and had premade some more cache boxes. The drastic ones were due to water soaking everything or there was a hole in the box/mishapped because it had been stood on.

A good day followed by some finders saying that one of my series was a well maintened set of caches. That makes it worth it :)

I was quite impressed at the recent Mega Event in the UK as in the gift pack you recieved as well as getting the bits to make up a cache, you also recieved a cache repair kit which consisted of:

- Jay Cloth
- Spare Logs (Various from Micro to Large) approx 10ish
- Plastic Bags (That fitted each log) approx 10ish

I now carry this with me to assist out any Geocache with a quick wipe and log replacement if its very wet.

If you couldnt make the Mega then here is a good website with some printable Geocaching Log Sheets  http://www.techblazer.com/geocaching-log-sheets/

The Curse of the FTF

As of yet I have not been able to get a FTF (First to Find) on a cache.

Mainly due to three reasons:

1. People working closer to my home location where I get notifications.
2. Technology.
3. The same cachers always cleaning up on the FTF's and not giving anyone else a chance.

As technology has increased and given easy access to emails and Geocaching Applications it has now become even more of a race to complete a FTF.

A cache that I had published yesterday only took 22mins after being published for the FTF to go. That included the cacher parking up and then walking to the cache. According to the logs there were 2 people at the cache at the same time and they got a joint FTF.

It would therefore seem that the FTF's are only availble to an elite few who match the two reasons (and a few that match all three) and do not want to give anyone else a chance to get at least 1 FTF.

Mage at the Mega

Been a while since I have blogegd. Sorry about that..... 11/08/12 - UK Mega Event at Cartmel Race Course What a great event. Great weather for the day which really helped. Arrived as the caching event started which was opened by the Mega Event Organisers and Jeremy Irish (The man himself). A great day will lots of fellow minded cachers. Met lots of people from many countries and collected and swapped Tracking Numbers. Ended up with some 140ish trackable numbers by the end of the day. Thats taken my TB count up. A course of caches was layed out in the nearby woods and fields with the local Cartmel Community getting behind the spirit of the event and there were lots of great smilling faces from them. Doing caches at a Mega Event is slightly wierd in that instead of being really steathy there was a queue to sign the log at each cache. Made for a much different caching day, but was great fun. Found a Cuckoo Cache at the event GC4C35 of which there are not many about these days. A good mystery cache GC3RGBW - Sub Limina, Even if you cant get out to do the cache, have a go at solving the puzzle. If you havent been to a Mega Event before I would really recommend it. Bring on Mega2013 which will be at The Heritage Motor Centre on 03/08/13 www.mega2013.co.uk

Maintenance

A day of cache checking and some urgent maintenance needed on one of the caches. For some reason the cache box at GC2Y5ZE had been broken (probably stood on!). Carried out a full swap out as it was quicker as there were lots of people out walking today.

Hopefully will get out more this year and increase my cache count.