James had set a challenge as he required 152 smilies to hit his 7,000th find. To do this everyone in attendance had to break there personal best and some of it would have to be in the dark.
Emma and James began the day before us by grabbing a series of 13 drive by's.
Griff picked me up at 5.15am and we met up with the others for a 7am start, we took in 3 series and any other cache on route.
The 3 series were Nassington Nobble by poshrule and Nassington and Back & Yarwell and Back by isaakwilson.
We knew we had to keep the pace at lightening speed so as soon as cache was found the finder signed the log whilst the others carried on to next cache. The ground was quite hard at first due to the cold snap we have been having but as we neared the end of the walk it was very muddy.
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| Griff after a find |
It snowed lightly for most of the walk and was pretty cold. We grabbed most of the caches but due to being in a hurry today due to James's need of 152, we did dnf a few. We don't usually allow only one minute to find a cache.
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| Hint: base of tree |
We had solved a few puzzle caches prior to the day and had mixed results regarding finding them. We found one, dnf'ed one and didn't attempt the other ....this was due to being told by other cachers that it wasn't there.
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| Camera shy Emma, caught in the act. |
We bumped into gazooks,Ursus Bear and Postie Grum on the walk and had some nice geochat. Infact the one puzzle cache we did manage to find was in their hands hehe.
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| A diversion |
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| The River Nene |
All of the series were in very nice countryside, alongside the Nene and a nice Nature Reserve.
Thanks to Isaak and Paul for setting the caches.
We normally have a pub break at the end of main walk but today it was different, we had all amassed over 100 by now and it was cache and dash time all the way to an event in Peterborough itself.
Amazingly we found every single cache on the way there which is pretty unusual when on a tight schedule.
We arrived at Beachie's Birthday Bash & Cutedeadkitty's Carnival at around 4pm, 4 hours after it started but 1 hour before it finished. We promptly ordered food and had a drink before hitting a small series in the park opposite.
The Peterborough cachers were very welcoming and the hosts did a fantastic job. Paul (poshrule) even hung on to say hello to us.
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| Kev checking out the menu |
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| He's a great bloke....poshrule |
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| Haha I caught Emma before she covered her face up. |
After grabbing the nearby caches we returned to pub for pudding and a coffee before saying goodbye to Kev, leaving the 4 of us to grab as many cache and dashes as possible.
I returned home at 2am bagging my pb of 173 smilies. Griff, Emma & James all had more than me which meant that James had hit his milestone of 7,000. Well done mate.
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