Woodhead Wander

Yesterday the 19th May I headed to the Woodhead Pass to Meet up with Tony, Mongoose39uk to have a bash at the new caches by Mr Truffles. These were the Woodhead Wander Series and the Woodhead TPT Series. Both series having 8 caches in them, with the coordinates for the Master cache being split between two caches, one on each series.

I arrived slightly late due to the amount of traffic, this was due to the M62 being shut around J27. Once at the meeting point close to Woodhead TPT8 I picked Tony up and we drove to the other end of the trail to park near the tunnel entrance. The plan was to complete the wander series than the TPT series and use Tonys car to get back to the tunnel to pick my car up.
The rain was on and off for the first part of the day with the on setting being very heavy rain. Lucky for me I had put my waterproof pants on and boy was I glad. The going at first was rough until we reached the track along which the caches were placed and then it was easy going apart from the section between Woodhead Wander 4 and Woodhead Wander 3

After completing both series and checking where the Master Cache was it was decided to leave it for another day and head home to get dried out. Another good days caching.

Getting there with the Legend Series

Well after a very wet day on Monday out on the Warpers Trail I only need one cache to complete it and then its just a matter of finishing the Turton Section and the whole series will be completed. The cache I need on the Warpers is Lowe Hill which seems to be missing. There is no hint for it but after a couple of phone a friends and one call back LogieB and myself found what was described as the hide but no sign of a cache. Have added it to my watchlist so hopefully it will be found or replaced.

18 caches to find on the Legend Series

So it should only take me one more day hopefully to gain the completed medal to my profile, it all depends on how long it takes for confirmation on the missing cache.

New Caches on the way

Spent an hour today writing the cache page for one of the two new caches i'm planning on putting out. Placement day will be Wednesday and hopefully, fingers crossed they will get published later that day but we will have to wait and see. If all goes to plan one of them will be eligible for a place on two of PopUpPirates bookmark lists on GC.com.

One is going to be a Traditional and the other is a Puzzle but are going to be close to each other so possible to find in one visit along with some others in the area if it's a place you haven't already visited.

Cache Adoption

The other night I was asked if I wanted to adopt some cache as the current owner is moving out of the area soon. I agreed and within an hour I had 38 more cache to look after. Most of the cache are one that I started caching on the Oldham Way. They are located along the way in Daisy Nook and Park Bridge Country Parks and some around the Chadderton area. I will have to make a trip along them to see if I can find them again and to do a maintenance check ready for the summer as this seems the main time for these caches to get visited.  So for the time being I will have to put on hold some new caches that I was planning but this isn't too much trouble. So if you haven't done the Oldham Way series yet, get out there and have fun and write me some good logs.

Welcome to Eyemouth, Scotland

After a day of getting stuff sorted out, making sure I have packed everything I'm going to need for the weekend it was time to head off. I picked my mate up without hassle but then had to pick Steve up from the dive shop.  This was to be stop, load the car and go. One hour later we were finally on our way and it was looking that we weren't going to arrive before 10:30pm. With the Tomtom taking us via Leeds ringroad to avoid traffic we arrived in the fishing town of Eyemouth just before 10pm. Leaving the dive kit in the car it was bags in room and out to the pub. The following day (Saturday) was and early start with breakfast at 7.30 and ropes of an hour later. This would be the first dive in my new kit configuration so I would find out if I had made the right decision. The first dive was a drift in a gully with a max depth of 12m gained. We were the first in and the last out with a dive lasting 53 minutes. The second dive was onto a pinnacle that started at around 4 meters with the sea bed around 14 meters.  This only lasted 20 minutes as I lost sight of my buddies and was getting cold mainly due to the water slowly leaking up my arm from my wrist seal. Sent the bag up and after completing the safety stop was the first back onto the boat. 

Now what can I say about the night life in this quite fishing village. Well what happens in Eyemouth stays in Eyemouth along with the A Pink Care Bear, Little Bo Peep, Cat Women and Red Riding Hood.