Persistance pays whilst geocaching

by Alan Cole · Published Friday, April 3rd, 2009 · Updated Friday, April 3rd, 2009

After a long search and several unsuccessful missions, air28uk has finally found our Assume Nothing #2 geocache.

These Assume Nothing caches are supposed to be a little difficult and tricky and judging by his log, the persistence paid off and made the eventual find all the more satisfying.

This is the log entry:

Location: United Kingdom
air28uk found Assume Nothing Wales #2 (Ivy) (Traditional Cache) at 4/2/2009

Log Date: 4/2/2009
and on the fourth day of searching (thanks for the helpful clues westies) i found it , i actually touched the hiding place every time i visited !!!! arrrgggghhhh

very very clever

remember assume nothing……..

Well done, and good luck with Assume Nothing #1, that one is proving difficult for most people.

Alan says:

Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am

This goecache has proved to be one of the most popular of my hides. We had another succesful find from someone this weekend who wrote:

On a golfing/caching weekend with JamesnKaz, searched for ages and getting to the point of giving up when we found a clue to say where it was, don’t want to spoil for others but this does need some very lateral thinking to understand the clues given in the text. Excellent hide. TFTC, TNLN, SL.

The log for the cache has many more like this.
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We scored a big fat DNF on this cache almost a year ago. Summer holidays meant we were once again staying at Ynyslas and were determined to have another go at this little blighter! Last year we were caching novices, we’ve since clocked up 400+ finds and thought we had more of an idea of where to look for this one.

Our initial idea was wrong… but our second idea was spot on! Yesssss! Very, very sneaky, ten out of ten for cunning!

SL, TNLN, TFTC.

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Alan says:

Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 7:41 am

Another find recently on Assume Nothing #1, Bark :

I love your tricksy cache’s.

We have done the ivy one so knew that traditional caching methods would not find this cache!

Nice valley, nice walk.

Took some finding but again once you assume nothing you find it! (it is true you need not destroy anything)

Love the camoflage!

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Alan says:

Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 9:11 am

And another on Assume Nothing #1, Bark. After a slow start people are beginning to find this one now.

A quick find on a nice stroll on a sunny autumn afternoon. There are some wonderful views from the cache site. The hardest thing about finding the cache was the quantity of other people in this quiet country lane! This included a couple with a dog, four ladies with another dog and 4 pensioners in a VW Passat who nearly ran me over. You could do this as a cache & dash and park within 2 metres of the cache but personally I’d use a Landrover…

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Alan says:

Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 3:06 pm

Assume Nothing #2 is still proving popular:

Tricky little blighter this one! Searched for a couple of minutes assuming I was never going to find it, but then took the advice of ‘assume nothing’, and then found it!!!

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Alan says:

Sunday, April 24th, 2011 at 6:17 am

People are still loving this cache and we;ve had someone over from the Isle of Man recently lately whi has been geocaching in the area. here’s their log on Assume Nothing #2:

solti found Assume Nothing Wales #2 (Ivy) (Traditional Cache) at 4/23/2011

Log Date: 4/23/2011
loved it loved it loved it!!!! look out isle of man cos when i get back ramsey is defo goin to have a few of these TFTC found straight away

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