Tagged: Geocaching

15 years of Geocaching 0

15 Years of Geocaching

Another busy bank holiday weekend for us, but we did manage to squeeze in the finding of a quick geocache in order to get the 15 years of geocaching souvenir. In order to get this you simply had to find any geocache on May 2nd or 3rd. The reason for this was that on May...

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Pi Day Souvenir

Happy Pi Day everyone… We celebrated 3.14.15 (otherwise known as Pi Day) with a trip to Welshpool and the finding of a mystery geocache. It was actually one I’d worked out months ago, but seeing as we were going to Welshpool for a day out anyway and there was a Pi Day souvenir up for...

Geocache Logs from Wild Wales 1

Geocache Logs from Wild Wales

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s always nice to get people visiting geocaches that you’ve hidden, and even better when they write nice things in the logs.[pullquote-right]”Definitely getting a favourite point. Thanks for a smashing cache.”[/pullquote-right]The best are those caches that are rarely visited, but that you know are something special. This means that when people do get around to making...

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New Year in St David’s

We were invited to spend a couple of days in St David’s. staying in a holiday home owned by some friends. We couldn’t go for long as we just so happened to be looking after their guinea pigs so couldn’t leave them for long but decided spend New Year there and make a start on...

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Geocaching Badges

What with all the geocaching we’ve been doing lately, we’ve been looking at our geocaching stats in a new way. As well as using the statistics on geocaching.com, we’ve subscribed to project-gc.com as well which provides us with a more detailed look at our stats and even gives us badges for completing certain milestones. It...

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Exploring Cwmorthin Mine – The Slaughterhouse

Whilst walking in the Moelwyns above Tanygrisiau the other week Morgan and I came across a whole load of mine entrances that led to caverns and passages that looked ripe for exploring. Not knowing much about them and not having the right equipment with us we resisted the temptation to enter them, but did look...

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A 5 Star Mountain Challenge

I think that having hit 32 consecutive days on Saturday we are coming to the end of our geocaching streak. We went out on a high though with a 5 star mountain challenge. That’s 5 stars out of 5 stars in case you were wondering. As mentioned in a recent post about our  walks up Cadair Idris and...

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Summer Continues

The schools might have gone back, but the weather has improved again and our geocaching streak continues. We’ve been geocaching for 30 days in a row now and have done some good caches during that time. We broke quite a few records last weekend and we’ve been trying to continue this streak even though Morgan is...

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A Record Breaking, Record Breaking Day of Geocaching

Phew, I’ve think we’ve broken more geocaching records than ever in a single day today! Most caches in a single day Most caches in a month Most caches in a year Geostreak and a 500 cache milestone too This was all down to the Loop the loop series in the hills above Llywngwril by ‘Puffing...

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A Soggy Cycle to Nant y Moch

With Wales in the grip of some proper autumnal weather we thought it wise not to head off too high into the hills today so instead planned a little ride from Pendam out to Nant y Moch, with a few geocaches to maintain our consectutive days geocaching record. It was blowing a hoolie up there...