Wait Until Dark 2

Well the day (Thursday 19th) didn't start out has planned. Had arranged to do the Wacky Races Series with The Syllogiser in the afternoon but on arriving in Shevington I could find my wallet in the car and after a couple of phone calls home it was looking that I might of lost it. So had to drive home only to locate it in a place that I never leave it. Back to Wigan and the time had passed so plan B was put into plan for a quick cache. We headed upto, well that would be telling as its a puzzle cache we went for. GC1VB4J - NYZN SVRYQ GC 0825. After following the instructions on the cache page the tub was found and the log signed. I was able to grab another micro in the area before we had to return ready for the main cache of the night. So leaving Shevington with Mrs Syllogiser driving we picked up Steve of Team SLuG in Standish and continued onto Brinscall via Chorley to pick up Ferreter38. Once at Brinscall we meet up with GamesRmeLife, ChannelFadge and JHewitt15. It was then the start of GCMW16 - Wait Until Dark 2. Heading up the lane to the start of the path and then onto the first firefly. It was then into the woods in the darkness of a November night. After about 3 fireflies the woods disappeared and so did the fireflies due to logging in the middle of it all. This was the hardest part of the terrain, making sure you stayed upright. On the other side when the trees started again there was no signs of any fireflies so it was upto the GPSr to find the way to the cache. The cache was homed in on and the final location was found by the final fireflies being spotted. Unfortunately the cache had been taken and the contents left buried under the rocks. It was now time to head back to the car via GC19MWT - Top o' th' wodds Stables and then onto Brindle for the Monthly Meet of the North West Cachers.

Cache Maintenance

Back in May I was asked by Mongoose39UK if I wanted to adopt the main trail of the Oldham Way Cache from him as he was moving out of the area. I accepted the offer and became the owner of 39 caches. I have found all of the caches I was adopting and didn't think it would be that hard to maintain them. Well, that was a mistake to think that. Since finding them, some over 18 months ago they have grown legs and wondered off from where I returned them after signing the log. My first big maintenance run was when I got DNF reports on 6 caches in a run. Off I set with replacement caches, logs and pencils and the dog in tow. I came home some time later with all cache I had left with having found them all. A couple of weeks ago I headed up towards Hartshead Pike to replace some damp logs on the furthest caches from home. Today it was a trip out fro more damp logs and a coordinates check. After a 3 mile stroll with the dog covered in mud I had replaced 2 logs, repositioned 1 cache to try and keep it dryer and got some new coordinates for another one. So the main trail of the Oldham Way from Medlock Vale to Harthead Pike is all OK, hopefully for the winter. The log in the picture is the one I replaced in Oldham Way - What's Next

A Quick Test

Just a quick test to see how good Androidblog is on my phone. I can't believe that seeing Google have come up with this operating system for mobile phones their isn't a native Blogger application built in.

Underground Manchester

Well it's been some time since I last wrote a blog but i'm hoping to get back into it.

So last night was Halloween and I ventured into Manchester for a Halloween and tunnels tour by Manchester Confidential. The tour started outside Bar 38 and headed straight into the Great Northern Warehouse. We headed down a steel staircase which lead to the old canal basin of the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal. This area was lit by uplights but the following sections were in total darkness. The photo here was taken on a long exposure of about 30 seconds and picked up light from another camera flash. Not to sure if that is a ghost in the middle of it or not. After about 30 minutes of being in the tunnels it was on with the rest of the tour.