Beautiful hike on the Hooker track. Nice sidestep for this cache. The spoiler pic helped.
TFTC

Nice trail to the lake! We enjoyed it and the caches.
TFTC Yaws

Nice quick find. Tftc and it gets a fp.

Auf dem Rückweg einen kleinen Umweg eingeschlagen, um uns ins Logbuch einzutragen. T4TC from Germany

We solved the puzzle back in July 2017 with help from our Kindle device.
Finally, today we were "only" 40 miles away at an orienteering event so took the opportunity to collect this one. Very relieved that after all the driving that this was an easy find.
All is well with the cache.
Thanks to Mr Crow for a challenging mystery cache.

It's been a long time since a puzzle solver has stopped at the GZ.
We didn't find the cache, but we will report back to the CO on something we did spot.

This puzzle has been on and off the active to-do pile for years.
Mr J wrote many programs trying to extract some meaning from the numbers.
Finally nailed with help from other cachers.
Thanks, Mr Crow.

Solved 28/8/18
It has been quite a journey navigating around the roads of Essex. I’ve learnt a lot about the sneaky ways that course setters can trick you into going the wrong way. At least I can read maps. Possible routes were plotted online using OS Maps. I quickly learnt that you have to follow the route very exactly. It took me 10 days to navigate the course. Half of those were on leg 3 – saved by the CO after 5 days of trying. Keep going after leg 3! The Checker is more forgiving after that. At the end you are stuck with the problem of working out what the average speeds were. Not an easy one.
FP awarded.

Mr J spent ages on this puzzle trying to extract something useful from the photos, but in the end was let down by an old version of a favourite tool. Now using v2.10.
But that was only stage 1. Had some numbers but how did that relate to coordinates??
And finally the solution.
A great puzzle which is right on theme for a mature car rally navigator.

Lovely place. Only found with spoiler.

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Auf dem Rückweg vom Hooker Valley Track konnten der Riedenberger und ich den Weg und das Wetter besser einschätzen. Daher haben wir uns den Rückweg dann mit den vier noch ausstehenden Caches, die auf dem Weg lagen versüßt. Eine tolle Wanderung und eine gigantische Landschaft.
Wir haben die Wanderung und das Cachen hier sehr genossen.

Thanks for this nice cache in the impressive landscape.

Heute ging es zum Hooker Valley Track, der zwar etwas überlaufen war, aber dennoch eine sehr schöne Wanderung mit tollen Aussichten geboten hat.

Hierbei konnten wir (daisygirl71 und ich) auch diesen Cache gut finden.

Danke an den Owner.

#3928:
I spent the day in Tiptree, and needed a cache to fill in a calendar day before heading back home to the Dengie. This one was the nearest drive by, so I took a short diversion on my way to Maldon.

I cautiously sleuthed in the dark, avoiding passing cars and checking the wrong places. Suddenly something caught my eye and I gently investigated. I soon had the cache in my hand and the log was signed. TFTC, and have a fave for the great container.
___
This is my 325th Found Date filled in on my Calendar (Loop 1).

Quick find.

Jan/10/2019- OK here.

Jan/10/2019 - The cache is MISSING presumed stolen again. I will not replace until the next potential finder lets me know they are about to retrieve. Message me.

Jan/10/2019- OK here.

Jan/10/2019- OK here.
Nov/24/2018- OK here.
Oct/01/2018 - OK here.
Jul/03/2018 - OK here.

Only found with spoiler. Tftc!

Nsssss p

Today we made the Hooker Valley Track. It was really beautiful weather and a perfect day for a short hike ????. There were a lot (quiet a lot !) people on the track today! ... but the way is so lovely and at the end you can have a picnic with an awesome view! On the track we made all the caches which were placed here, this was one of them. All of them don’t take too much time to find, so we had enough time to enjoy the walkway. Many thanks for all the owners for hiding caches along this track and greetings from Germany ????!
#587

Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.
Apr/06/2018 - OK here.
Aug/20/2018 - OK here.

Found and logged with Lisa&Lee, pleased to have solved this puzzle prior to our trip to the area today, a nice quick find at GZ tftc

Found with ryo62, a nice easy find at GZ TFTC

Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jan/13/2019 - OK here.

Jan/13/2019 - OK here.

Jan/13/2019 - OK here.

Jan/13/2019 - OK here.

Jan/13/2019 - Cache is missing - believed targeted and stolen, again! I will replace when the next solver lets me know a find is imminent. Message me.

Jan/13/2019 - Cache is missing - believed targeted and stolen, again! I will replace when the next solver lets me know a find is imminent. Message me.

Jan/13/2019 - OK here.

Jan/13/2019 - OK here.

#1915
We found the cache "Aoraki Thalamorph" during our road trip through New Zealand. We started in December 2018 at Auckland and we'll travel with our campervan to the very south. The landscape and nature is overwhelming . It's always a lot of fun and a great adventure to go for this hobby in our vacation too . Thanks to the Owner "Mr Crow (maintained by drawp)" who placed the cache and his maintenance in the future!!! 

At this place of the log, I would like to put all the best regards from Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in this cache as well .

Trades: In: - / Out: -
Rating: D 2.0 / T 3.0

TFTC
Sephiroth99 / 15. Januar 2019 13:58

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/18/2018 - OK here.
Oct/14/2017 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/18/2018 - OK here.
Oct/14/2017 - OK here. The field puzzle is a bit tired but readable.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/18/2018 - OK here.
Oct/14/2017 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/18/2018 - OK here.
Oct/14/2017 - OK here.

Enjoyed solving this a month or two ago. Was in the area so made the grab. Tftc.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Jan/15/2019 - OK here.

Logtime: 12:50 #6740
Heute: 7. Cache von total 9 Caches.

Die Wanderung zum Hooker Lake war super schön. Der Blick auf den Mount Cook und die weiteren vergletscherten Berge war fantastisch. Die Caches an der Route haben wir dank den Hints gut gefunden.

Danke und Gruss
simeat und Frau
Switzerland.

Jan/16/2019 - OK here.

????

TB: K1FWYZ

Jan/19/2019 - Happily tucked under.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the leaf covered tree hole.
Jul/09/2018 - A bit of trek round checking the DNF's from Janechick and Loopyba's record breaking adventure. Present and correct here.

Jan/19/2019 - Disturbance here and cache missing. Replaced. Look for the brick.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the title place.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the fence corner.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the tree hole.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy up high in the tree hole.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the bottom of the tree hole.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the tree tube under the rectangular stone.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the horizontal hole.
Sep/16/2018 - Present and correct here.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy quack quack.
Apr/04/2018 - OducK here.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy NW corner of bridge.

Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the high tree hole despite the tree falling over.
Mar/26/2018 - On the ground; now not.

Jen had solved this a while back and as the dogs needed a walk. A muddy approach but a quick find at GZ. All replaced as found. TFTC

É só rezar

On our trip thru NZ we visit a lot of places and see many spectacular locations.
This cache was one of our stopps thanks a lot to the owner.
TFTC
Schmerzbefreit

Found while exploring the area today. Just was a shame is was a bit wet and cold

TFTC, had to hold onto the log book tight, super windy in the valley today, absolutely breathtaking views.

Bit windy today. Lucky for us we got a brief view of the top of Mt Cook while logging this cache.

Good Day for that Walk and a very chilled detour to this Cache
tftc
ps it is fluted u can Check it

Dieser Geocacher hat gemeldet, dass der Behälter beschädigt ist.

#3918 We did the Hooker valley track with our children, we liked it much! So nice views and swinging bridges. I liked also this lake. Thanks for the cache, greetings from Czech Republic.

In the area today to recce a future walk for our Norwich based ramblers group. TFTC.

Got the coordinates but didn't find today ????

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.
Jan/19/2019 - Missing, presumed stolen. Replaced with just a film pot.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.
Jan/19/2019 - Happily concealed.

Jan/26/2019 - Missing, presumed stolen, again. Replaced, but just a film pot though.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.

Jan/26/2019 - Both stages OK here.

Jan/26/2019 - Missing, presumed stolen. Replaced.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.
Sep/16/2018 - Present and correct here.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.

Jan/26/2019 - OK here.
Sep/16/2018 - Present and correct here.
Mar/29/2018- OK here.

Stole it!!!

(Only joking :-))

For a long time I knew half of the numbers but really struggled to understand how to get the remainder. Nothing seemed to work well and a process of gradually narrowing down and playing off hunches against possibilities did not seem to be working well for me :-(

In the end it was narrowed down enough to please the checker

And it was found very close to a place where I'd previously found nothing of interest! :-P

Thank you - a favorite

Nice place. The logbook is wet.

Jan/28/2019 - New log. OK here.
Aug/01/2018 - OK here.

Jan/28/2019 - New log. OK here.

Jan/28/2019 - OK here.

Jan/28/2019 - OK here.

Jan/28/2019 - OK here.

Found it with Martas10, thanks

Thought I would give this route a try but failed at the first hurdle and got the hump (also the sun was setting and I didn’t wanna be alone in the woods). One I am going to drag Nathan out with me to do.

We both searched for a while, then looked at spoiler photo, only to discover I was sitting on the rock in the picture, doh! Then a quick find. Tftc.

Nearing the end of the walk to the Hooker glacier viewpoint took the small diversion to the little lake.

Looked at various likely sites where the cache may be hidden before finding the right spot.

As it was such a lovely hot day it was a pity we did not have more time to properly dry out the log book.

Den heutigen Tag haben Heckenstürmer und ich im Gebiet Mount Cook verbracht. Wir staunten über die Kräfte, die ein Gletscher haben kann. Eindrücklich. Die Wanderung "Hooker Trail" hat uns sehr gefallen.

Greets from Switzerland

Day 7 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Lindis Pass to the Mount Cook and back to Wanaka.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of interesting places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

Well.... June 2010.... A beautiful day for caching.... Except for a DNF....July 2012.....A beautiful day to confirm it is still a DNF.....October 2017.....a damp miserable day to spend looking for inspiration.... Ended up still finding a DNF..... and that is the way it has stayed until now.. 2nd February 2019..An even more beautiful day than the others, especially because I can now put this blighter to bed... I think I scared some pheasants when the cheer rang out ????Thanks Mr C. (I definitely looked there before????)

A trip out Heybridge way today, have had these on our to-do list for ages and finally got round to doing them today. A nice 1.26 mile walk taking us 28 minutes. Shame someone had dumped a load of kids toys and a buggy in the car park. Phoned the Wildlife Trust to inform them. Attached photo not as expected. A favourite given here for the walk. TFTC

A trip out Heybridge way today, have had these on our to-do list for ages and finally got round to doing them today. A nice 1.26 mile walk taking us 28 minutes. TFTC

A trip out Heybridge way today, have had these on our to-do list for ages and finally got round to doing them today. TFTC

Depois de um dia de trabalho, para descomprimir lá vamos preencher o
mapa com mais um Smile! Com kopax55! TFTC

Tftc

Found it with Jeronimo.
TFTC
Vulpes

Today Jul1ane and me are in Twizel, and since Mt. Cook is just around the corner, we decided to head there and do some hiking. First we did the Hooker Valley Track, including an additional detour to the west side of Hooker Lake (but we couldn't reach the cache there), followed by the Kea Point Track. The day started cloudy and overcast, but just as we reached Hooker Lake, it started to clear up, the sun came out, and the mountains started to show their summits. We really enjoyed our hike, and of course we also searched and found some caches on our route.

Nice spot, again most people hiking the track seem to ignore this spot, just like the monument at the start of the track.

D4nielB and me decided to drive from Twizel towards Mount Cook today and hike the Hooker Valley Track and the Kea Point Track. Of course we tried to find some caches on our way.

Again, strange as it is, none of the muggles took the short path aside the track to go here. So we had enough time to search for the container undisturebd. Didn't take us too long.

Thanks for hiding and greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Juliane

A great walk out to the lake - enjoyed all the swing bridges. At GZ I hunted around for a while really ignoring the hint (and Mrs CF's advice) but eventually made the find. The container seems to be intact, just needs a new log book to replace the one there - not something I was travelling with today. TFTC.

11277
From our campsite White Horse Hill we made a hike to the Hooker Valley and glacier, crossing the Hooker river over three swingbridges. That was a great hike with spectacular views. It was quit windy and during the last part a drizzle now and then. We were able to find all caches that are hidden along this trail, including the one on the other side of the glacierlake. We had so much fun!
Thanks to the CO for placing this cache!

A nice cache, thanks :)

What a beautiful place. We went the Hooker Valley Track and had a great time. Thanks a lot for the cache!

I went the Hooker Valley Track and found this cache.

TFTC

Tilo2000

Unsere große Neuseelandrundreise haben wir natürlich auch zum Anlass genommen einige Caches zu suchen.
Oft entdeckten wir so interessante Orte. Danke für das Herlocken an diesen Ort und den Cache.
Grüße aus Germany

Some of the adjectives describing the puzzle : challenging, addictive, sadistic, pedantic.

The first few goes were wasted as we tried to understand the rules for correct answers. We would have solved this in 16 goes were it not for a typo in entering one answer.
We got there in the end - just in time for Christmas.
Now onto Puzzle Teacher ...

While researching a Folkfen puzzle cache Mr J came across a very interesting internet resource. "I wonder if this would help with a Rally Round puzzle with a strange title??" This one we had failed to solve using all other known MO's.
Found after a short walk from the car. Brambles OK at GZ.

Puzzle:
The Case for Polygrupal Forward-Error Correction has been a great challenge to the geocaching community.
Dr Dolly Quest’s early research into Mr O’s paper failed to provide any enlightenment. Without any filter there were just too many obfuscating numbers to be considered. The meson aquafluidity constant of Log(n51) = 49.930 is one we must now discredit as not being accurate enough.
Finally we resorted to a previous Methodology which has yielded results in the past. In a highly localized convergence with Dr Korvid on 18th June 2017 (ref GLR98K30) we were able to receive inferences about the nature of a filter that we could apply.
However, it wasn’t until recently that we applied the filter that led to today’s successful outcome.
Cache:
Thanks to the CO for checking the cache recently. The last search was at dusk so we blame the twilight for our DNF.
We notice this is a Cache Resuscitation - not found for 21 months!

Found the blighter this time! It was lying in the grass.
We put it back in the place where Mr Crow said it belonged.
Unfortunately, a spider was made homeless in the process.

We started lessons with Puzzle Teacher on Christmas and finally got the answer for question 100 at 11pm last night - just in time for our trip to Essex today.
Puzzle Teacher has been part of our life for the last 7 weeks with a 3 minutes session nearly every day and an average 2 puzzles to be solved every day.
One strategy which paid well was "if you don't have an answer for 9 points" then ask for a hint.
And there's one particular internet resource that will comfort you a lot.
Thanks for all the puzzling, Ray.

Yes!!

Great, arriving at the header coords, we didn't have to search for the cache.
A German family, handed it over to us for signing.
Thanks for searching and great support .
The logbook is soaked and should be replaced sometime.
TFTC and greetings from Austria

Here we had not to search because German cachers have found the box already. Thanks for this job, well done. We read it too late that someone should replace the logbook. The inner box is in good condition only the logbook soaked.
TFTC and greetings from Austria ????

Feb/19/2019 - OK here.
Nov/12/2018 - OK here.
Oct/01/2018 - OK here.

Feb/19/2019 - OK here.
Nov/12/2018 - OK here.
Oct/01/2018 - OK here.

Feb/19/2019 - OK here.
Jul/03/2018 - OK here.
Apr/03/2018 - OK here. Damp log replaced.

Feb/19/2019 - OK here.

Doing the Hooker Trail today, this was the last one we found, unfortunately it is very wet and we only just managed to sign it. Sorry but we had nothing to dry out the contents with or a new log book. NM put on so CO is aware.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Nice tarn, could see the reflection of Mt Cook in it, beautiful!

Lovely spot and not a lot were coming out to see this little gem. tftc

Zusammen mit Steffi985 habe ich mich auf den weiten Weg von Deutschland nach Neuseeland gemacht. Während unseres wunderschönen Urlaubs konnten wir nicht nur die Einzigartigkeit dieses wunderschönen Landes genießen, sondern auch diesen schönen Cache finden und loggen.
Vielen dank an den Owner fürs Legen und Pflegen :)
Grüße aus OWL / Deutschland

Together with Steffi985 I made the long journey from Germany to New Zealand. During our wonderful holiday, we not only enjoyed the uniqueness of this beautiful country, but also found and logged this beautiful cache.
Many thanks to the owner for laying and maintaining :)
Greetings from OWL / Germany

Thanks for that Cache- Merci pour la Cache - Dzi?ki za Cache - Grazie per questo Cache - Takk for at Cache - Obrigado por isso Cache - Gracias por el Cache - Díky za keš - A?i? už t? talpykl? - Paldies par šo Cache - Aitäh selle eest Cache - ??????? ?? ?? ??? - Kiitos, että Cache - Tack för att Cache - Tak for denne Cache - Hvala cache - ????????? ??? ?? ????? cache - ???????? - Önbellek için te?ekkürler - Köszönjük, hogy a cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Graças para o cache - Dankon pro la ka?memoron

Zusammen mit Firze habe ich mich auf den weiten Weg von Deutschland nach Neuseeland gemacht. Während unseres wunderschönen Urlaubs konnten wir nicht nur die Einzigartigkeit dieses wunderschönen Landes genießen, sondern auch diesen schönen Cache finden und loggen.
Vielen dank an den Owner fürs Legen und Pflegen :)
Grüße aus OWL / Deutschland

Together with Firze I made the long journey from Germany to New Zealand. During our wonderful holiday, we not only enjoyed the uniqueness of this beautiful country, but also found and logged this beautiful cache.
Many thanks to the owner for laying and maintaining :)
Greetings from OWL / Germany

One of the best trails we have done loved it and a great place to walk. Thanks for the trail and the caches.

Now we have never found one like this before what a great idea. TFTC

Loved this cache after the GPS settled and a few failed places we had it in hand. TFTC

Loving the trail will have to come back when the bluebells come out. TFTC

Took us a bit of time but after going over the same area a few times we got it in the end. TFTC

Thought we'd do the trail but in reverse love the cache took us a while was well camouflaged but got it in the end.

???? Had some troubles accessing with the O2 signal but once in this was trouble free.
Pleasant walk on a spring like day, and easy find at the end. Tftc.

Out this afternoon in the glorious spring sunshine (in February!!) to pick up a few more of my solved Rally Rounds. Only managed 3 in the time I had, due to frustrating DNFs, or Did Not Attempts, on a couple of others. Still very happy to add to my tally.

2/3. A really pleasant walk along the footpath from the SW to this one. Knew that I was approaching GZ, and then spotted somewhere that looked just the sort of place where Mr Crow would hide a cache. My instincts proved to be reliable, and there was the well covered cache. TFTC #3526

Out this afternoon in the glorious spring sunshine (in February!!) to pick up a few more of my solved Rally Rounds. Only managed 3 in the time I had, due to frustrating DNFs, or Did Not Attempts, on a couple of others. Still very happy to add to my tally.

3/3. Solved the puzzle years ago, but I do remember enjoying this one. Lovely walk across the fields with the sun starting to set. Felt more like April or May than February. Hide was not quite what I expected from the hint, but glad to bag it and head back towards the car. TFTC #3527

Out this afternoon in the glorious spring sunshine (in February!!) to pick up a few more of my solved Rally Rounds. Only managed 3 in the time I had, due to frustrating DNFs, or Did Not Attempts, on a couple of others. Still very happy to add to my tally.

1/3. Solved the puzzle ages ago, so can't really recall how. Found a place to park and made the short walk to GZ. Surprised to hear voices coming the other way, so had to walk on and let the muggles pass before doubling back to conduct my search. Particularly pleased to make the find, as this filled a gap on my D/T matrix. TFTC #3525

A stunning February day and a beautiful walk in some new countryside for us. A quick find here today. Log was absolutely soaked so disintegrated in my hand. Managed to kind of scrawl but will need changing. Sorry we didn't have nay logs with us today. TFTC

It was such a beautiful day we decided to head out for a local walk with the dogs and pick up some solved rally rounds. Parked up and wandered down to this one. The paths were nice and dry which made the walk in the sunshine even more pleasurable. A nice quick find today. TFTC

A beautiful walk in a new area today. Saw a hare out in the field and could hear a Buzzard calling above us. A quick find here and we decided to carry on for one more. TFTC

???? Some Soduko like logic had this puzzle solved for us a few weeks ago, and as we were passing.....
Trusted the coords and searched for the hint, which wasn't immediately obvious, but once seen there was no doubt. Tftc.

Published

Spent the night before at the campsite and walked the track in the morning. All clouds disappeared and it was a glorious day.
Thanks for placing the cache.
TNLNSL The Hoffies CH

I was in the area visiting a friend for coffee and a chat before walking the new series at Salcot. I managed to fit in finding this cache and the Really Side tracked Tiptree cache before making my way to the first one.

This took a bit of searching as the vegetation was starting to take over and hid the cache very well. I was quite disappointed it didn't work. Ah well it would probably have broken taking my picture.

Nice to be able to Resuscitate this cache.

Thanks for the puzzle and the Cache Mr Crow.

FTF

This is a log about tangents. Tangents, like logs, are called elementary functions, though for some reason nobody seems to learn about them in elementary schools. That may be because they are irrational functions. If that isn't confusing enough, meditate on the fact that they are also transcendental functions. Anything that can be elementary, irrational and transcendental at the same time is obviously absurd. Need I say more?

Fortunately I had the tools to hand to solve this irrational problem in a rational way, and numbers soon appeared, though a little more work was needed to get orderly coordinates.

Owing to a domestic crisis (resolved, thank you, the floor is now dry and no longer electrified ) I didn't have a solution until dusk today, but being in need of some exercise (domestic crisis, see above) I ventured out anyway. Fortunately it was too dark for me to see exactly what I was walking across, or my progress might have been more hesitant. As it was I had a pleasant half-mile walk, disturbing a surprising number of roosting fowl, and at GZ there was a fine example of a well-hosted cache.

TFTC, and a favourite for no elementary or rational reason I can think of .

???? Having solved this a while ago we were close so couldn't resist. Log very damp & difficult to write on. Sorry no spare with us. Tftc.

???? Solved recently and virtually passing today. Very quick find thanks to the hint. Tftc.

???? Micro 2 proved more of a challenge than expected. There are some wall repairs going on here and it looks like the bricks had been removed to hold down the tarpaulin covering the sand. Eventually found it and have left a brick at the base of the tree. That was a relief.
Completed the maths and checked the locations to ensure an efficient route.
No obvious sign where my gps put us for this cache so expanded the search a bit and found a likely location. Then a quick spot.Tftc.

???? No sign initially. Then read the previous comment about making allowance with the gps, expanded the search and spotted a possible at a good location. Gps said 16m. Soon in hand and signed. Tftc.

???? Gps spot on for this one, and after No2 went straight to it. Tftc.

???? Spotted a likely host here, and moving it found exactly what we were expecting. Tftc.

???? Went to the most likely location to start and a close inspection revealed the prize. Tftc.

???? Looked like a couple of possibilities here. Luckily a close inspection of the 1st revealed the object of our search. Trees were not helping, and out gps said 8m Tftc
So, all found on an afternoon walk in the glorious Feb weather. A pleasant stroll, and exercise as well.
Must have a fav for the series!

On a short expedition around Great Braxted to tick off a few Crows during this spell of unexpectedly warm weather. Having encountered similar puzzles before, I had a useful resource on file which soon supplied some numbers, and at GZ I had no problems identifying the host and extracting a log.

TFTC.

Solved a while ago. As I recall, the puzzle wasn't difficult in principle, but counting everything correctly was a bit like making horses walk sideways...

GZ was worse and it took several visits to track down the elusive container, but today it was in sight, though almost out of reach.

TFTC

Sixteen months ago I first visited this series and found four of the six before darkness forced a stop. Today I had no trouble with these last two, but I could see why I hadn't found them before, in the dark.

As on my previous visit, at times I felt like a one-man game drive, as the scenic views were peppered with rocketing pheasants.

With a large choice of possible locations this took a little longer to locate, but a previous log showed the way.

TFTC.

Sixteen months ago I first visited this series and found four of the six before darkness forced a stop. Today I had no trouble with these last two, but I could see why I hadn't found them before, in the dark.

As on my previous visit, at times I felt like a one-man game drive, as the scenic views were peppered with rocketing pheasants.


This was a quick find neatly concealed in an unmistakable host.

TFTC.

On a short expedition around Great Braxted to tick off a few Crows during this spell of unexpectedly warm weather. With a precomputed solution (isn't the internet wonderful?) it was a straightforward matter to link the hint to a characteristic location, even though the sun had long departed.

TFTC.

Bei einer Wanderung gefunden.

What a great long roadtrip around New Zealand, explored new views and did some exciting caches. Thanks for that.

TFTC

Struep and me hiked the Hooker Valley this morning and found some caches on our way back to the campground.

Container and logbook are in perfect condition, the spoiler picture did help ????

Thanks,
Schnex

Found 4

Schnex and me hiked the Hooker Valley this morning and found some caches on our way back to the campground.

Container and logbook are in perfect condition, the spoiler picture did help ????

???? Struep ????
16365

It's amazing what you find if you keep your eyes peeled when out walking.
Thanks

A cracking puzzle. All is well at the cache
Thanks

It's now half an hour after sunset so I found by torchlight though walked back to the car with it off to avoid drawing attention to myself.
Thanks

When I found this it had no container so just the log in a bag
The log was dry
I put it in a pot I had and tethered it in place.
Thanks

Puzzle/task solved. Didn't take too long.. A few days...
Hated the pink car by the end of it. Fun though. Definite favourite for when I get up and start collecting these 66 (so far) solved puzzles

I took the route that involved less crop treading even though the yellow arrow pointed more directly at the cache.
Where had I read about that before recently?
Thanks

I solved this one while doing others in the area today. The o ring is split but the log is dry
Thanks

I'd been trying to solve some of the harder puzzles in the area but was having no breakthroughs so I solved a few of these easier ones hoping that something would click into place on the hard ones when I was distracted from them. No luck on that front.
Thanks

Mar/05/2019 - Clue objects changed. Back in action.

#126

No trouble locating this one in the daylight this time. Loved the container. It was relatively quiet when I started my walk this morning from the school run. But I got rumbled by a very angry man when I was putting it back, he then decided he would walk with me around the rest of the woodland ranting about the youngsters touching things and how he had found some geocaches and taken them away mistaking them for rubbish.
Another instance of me not being able to walk around alone because an old man is concerned for my welfare. Cutting my caching adventure short for today sigh TFTC

#127

So despite having a ranting man in tow he luckily bumped into someone he knew (it was like a mother’s meeting, it was so busy) and I wondered off further a field just to have a bit of peace. He said earlier he had found “an item� at GZ because his dog had found it and he took it home. So he was non the wiser about what it was and he gives me the impression he does this a lot as he said he “likes to clear up after everyone� to the point I heard him rowing with the owner of the land because he has been cutting back trees etc when he isn’t meant to.
So after my ramble further away I saw everyone including this man leave in their cars and the woodland got eerie and quiet so I went back to see if it was still there.
To my surprise it wasn’t long until I had this in my hand because I was sure it had been muggled. It took me ages to get the log out .... I walked off at one point frustrated and actually went back and I finally got it open! My giant man hands really were my downfall here and I needed Nathan’s delicate lady fingers for this one, but unfortunately he wasn’t with me today haha. TFTC

:-)

Solved a long time ago - the generous provision of digits made it easy to confirm a hypothesis even before solving the anagram - but then put on one side, as a relatively inaccessible outlier.

Today was a day of cache & dash finding, rather than my preferred approach of planning a long walk with a sequence of finds, so it wasn't difficult to fit this one in. Approaching from the north-east, parking is easy and it's only a short walk to GZ along a surprisingly well-used path, considering that it doesn't really go anywhere. Thanks to the hint I soon extracted the container - the bag may have been well chewed, but its contents are in good condition.

TFTC.

#2000, probably my 254th RR, and a worthy find for a milestone.

Endless frustration (having to start from 1 every time ), punctuated by occasional long runs of correct answers, not helped by my geriatric computer stuttering so I didn't know whether I was entering the previous answer to the next question or vice versa, nor by my tendency to typos. But eventually I reached #100, and may even have learned a few obscure facts along the way.

GZ was a nice straightforward find, well hidden but obvious to the trained eye

TFTC.

Highly confusing at first, but it all made sense when I discovered the right resource.

Took longer than I should have done at GZ to locate the log, because for some irrational reason I was expecting a different kind of container.

The log itself was damp (I don't think the cap seals properly) but still usable .

TFTC.

Found this one after a long hike. First to the mueller hut and then the hooker valley. To bad the peak didnt reveal himself at that time. Luckily he came out when we were about to leave the area.

TFTC

Esta foi feita "às cegas". Estávamos perto e tentámos descobrir o santo. Lá demos com ele e com a cache = )

Found on our way back from hooker valley. TFTC

Beautiful trek to view of New Zealand's highest mountain Mt. Cook. The weather was fine, the sky was blue, the sun was sunbathing, some beautiful caches were on the way ... What more could you want. Thanks a lot, dak3

We suspect this has gone as the host seems to have had a serious trim lately.
DNF

Quickly worked out GZ and popped along. Found the host quite bare now and sadly no sign of the cache anywhere.

This is a common log for all the caches, I found today on the Hooker Valley track.
It must be one of the most beautiful one-way walks in the world. We were so lucky to be here on a sunny day.
All caches could be located fairly easy. And all deserves a favourite point for the magnificent surroundings.
This deserves an extra comment as there was an extra box in the cache from a Danish icemaker. Quite unnecessary but fun to discover.
TFTC
Family D
Denmark

Mar/19/2019 - Tree damaged. Moved slightly.
Jan/10/2019- OK here.
Nov/24/2018- OK here.
Jun/11/2018 - OK here
Apr/05/2018 - OK here

Mar/19/2019 - OK here.
Jan/10/2019- OK here.

Mar/19/2019 - Cache missing. Replaced. New location. New maths.

A quick stop here will return for the rest of the series TFTC

A rest day begins with Hooker valley :) Nice and easy, thanks

???? Understood the problem from the anagram, and then didn't take long. Info from the checker to locate gz.
The cammo mentioned has all disappeared. Found at ground level in what is left. Someone has been considerate as it had been placed. Replaced as found.

???? Solving the anagram pointed the way. Some were easier to track down than others but got there in the end.
A simple find at the gz, particularly compared to the work needed to get there. Thanks for setting.

???? A bit rusty with these, but it is a logic problem after all. Pleased to get there and get it confirmed.
Simple find at gz. Much easier than the puzzle. Thanks for setting.

???? Some of these were easy, others not so. Could have done so much more with Excel if only our ability with other formulas was significantly better.
A simple find at gz. The work had all gone in before that. Thanks for setting.

Found while out doing the Camps Circular today with Tuckerstribe, log singed as 2T, thanks for placing

Find Number 22367

TFTC Mr Crow

Cache number 49 of 53 finds today

Out and about today with Mr2DG's for a days caching in the area. All caches found with out any problems unless otherwise stated. Logs signed 2T to save space.
TFTC

Relogging my finds which were originally signed as 2 DG's as the account has now been split, any problems please contact me

Short detour on our way back to the car park. Well worth a visit. I added my name to the old logbook. Thanks for showing!

Mar/24/2019 - OK here.

Mar/24/2019 - OK here.

Mar/24/2019 - OK here.

Second of a very pleasant day - except I forgot my pen and didn't realise til I got to GZ so I had to go all the way back to get it! :-(

Thank you

#4063:
This is a cache I was unaware of for a very long time, due to being on the edge of a sea of puzzles.
I had forgotten about it again for quite a long time until noticing it on my saved caches map. I was in Tiptree today, and wanted to get a cache before I headed home. Today was the perfect day to attempt it, as it was dry and still daylight, so I needed to seize the opportunity.

It's not secret that I'm not a fan of these kind of multis, but I felt obligated to complete it as it had a low number and due to it being located in Essex. I managed to find the first two names fairly quickly, but it quite rapidly went downhill. Meanwhile, a man from BT Openreach arrived and asked how he was able to get into the churchyard. Unfortunately for him, he had to contact the vicar to unlock the gates. I left him be and continued trudging round graves.

I could bear two full sweeps of the churchyard before giving up and trying to solve the coordinates from what I had found. I had 7 names of the 9, but it was enough for me to solve the Longitude. Knowing this, it was fairly obvious where the cache would be. After searching two other trees, I had the cache in my hand. Unfortunately the log was so soaked that my pen wouldn't write on it. I've included a photo of the log to prove my find. TFTC.

I will say though that the area is absolutely gorgeous, and really peaceful. Well worth the visit.
___
602nd Church Micro cache found, and 269th in Essex.

Published

FTF

Clocks necessarily make one think of that voluminous verbal masterpiece known in English as Remembrance of Times Past or In Search of Lost Time. I think the latter may be the more appropriate translation here...

Something about this puzzle reminded me of two earlier RRs, one paradoxical, the other of questionable longitude, and a catchy line from a song, which had been used as a hint, or possibly a leitmotiv in the manner of a little phrase by Vinteuil, and that memory (as if evoked by a cup of tea and a madeleine ) inspired me to ignore the many colourful distractions around me and approach the core of the problem, which is (of course) its own solution, such that slowly a set of numbers materialised before my eyes and I saw, as if in a reverie, how the gaps were gradually filled in, forming an ever more convoluted and deepening sequence of meaning, much like a sentence by Proust.

It is possible that there is a much quicker route to understanding, but it involves the potentially dangerous activity of searching for lost time - which is only possible on certain dates and should under no circumstances be done in an anticlockwise direction - whereby the successful seeker will be rewarded with instant gratification, but the penalty for failure is to be consumed by a chronosynclastic infundibulum, in which spacetime is turned inside out, and only tomorrow's logs will show whether anyone succeeds.

Approaching GZ I hesitated between two approach routes, and eventually decided on Swann's way, but unlike the narrator of the eponymous work I encountered nobody of interest, indeed nobody at all, on my way to my target, where a short search revealed a container, and within it a most remarkably unProustian piece of paper, on which there was no writing whatsoever.

TFTC, and a favourite for the memories

Apr/1/2019 - OK here.
Nov/28/2018 - OK here.
Aug/20/2018 - OK here.

Apr/1/2019 - OK here.

Apr/1/2019 - OK here.
Nov/28/2018 - OK here.

Apr/1/2019 - OK here, although retrieval is difficult.

Apr/1/2019 - OK here.
Nov/28/2018 - OK here.

Apr/1/2019 - Dead pigeon camo removed and log replaced.
Jul/18/2018 - OK Here.

Apr/1/2019 - OK here.

Apr/1/2019 - OK here. No new spiders in residence

I really must read the cache page instructions more carefully. After about four different spread-sheets and only one good answer I returned to the page and realised that I needed any integer answers, not prime numbers! Doh....... Then it was a quick find of the numbers. A kind poke by the CO confirmed that I was on the right track.

Quick find today on a stroll out with canine friend Eddy.

Nice to be back solving Mr.Crow caches after trying some of Stratoman's and Foxy's.

TFTC

Preparing for a mini break with the Crow I set about solving some puzzle caches. One puzzle stood out and I had a lot of fun solving it. The Crow took a look at what I was doing and reckoned that he could short cut the solve. ten minutes later he declared it "clever" and left me to my analogue method of cracking it. I knew, however, that the word "clever" meant that it was only a short while before a RR version would appear! It was just a matter of time!

A lovely walk to GZ with lots of spring flowers to enjoy. Have a favourite.
TFTC Mr Crow

{FTF} FTF


I remember the old cache here
So this was a quick find
Nice to be find a blank log too

Sorry the log is a tad late lol

signed log

TFTC

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

For some reason (maybe the thought of some of its predecessors) I kept putting off looking properly at this puzzle, but once I had done so, a couple of hypotheses turned out to be correct and one ambiguity was resolved by the appearance of some plausible numbers. Unfortunately the checker refused to accept them, so it's possible I broke some unstated rule of the game. However, taking the history of this cache into account, the numbers still suggested a starting point for a conjectural search which proved to be fruitful.

GZ wasn't exactly where I had pictured, but a little to-and-fro-ing eventually led me to a suitably thematic cache.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

This was yet another puzzle where stage 1 was relatively straightforward but it took me far too long to spot what was needed for the next stage.

GZ was another straightforward find.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

My initial idea about this puzzle turned out to be correct, but for some reason the detail eluded me and I had two incompatible partial solutions. On combining them I discovered that their wavefunction collapsed, as we physicists say, and the result was a complete checker-satisfying answer, though I still don't know why.

GZ turned out to be a very familiar location and I extracted the cache from its lair without difficulty.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

Stage 1 of this puzzle posed no problems, but I was left with an unusually large amount of puzzling data with no apparent pattern, and it took far longer than it should have done for the penny to drop, after which it was the work of moments to extract coordinates.

GZ was equally straightforward once I parsed the hint correctly.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

Another one solved a long time ago, and subsequently DNF'd. I recall that it took a long time to work out the encoding, even given the basic idea. Anyway, eventually the numbers appeared.

Today at GZ the log was present, though well hidden.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

I don't remember the detail of solving this one as it was so long ago, but I think it lived up to the title. GZ was likewise; on an earlier visit I was defeated, but this time the well-hidden pot turned up.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

I had a maths teacher at school who had some interesting turns of phrase:
"Watch the blackboard while I go over it" - or -
"... through it"
"Smith, Jones, Robinson! Leave the room at once, both of you!"
That was entertaining. This was not. Time-limited tests are not my favourite occupation, particularly when the penalty for overrunning is to start again, so let's draw a veil over the solving process. Enough to say that eventually Sir was satisfied.

GZ was a straightforward find, though I found the hint slightly oblique.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

Another one solved some time ago, and only after considerable mental spring-cleaning, because once a wrong idea is embedded it tends to stick , but eventually a solution appeared.

GZ was nearly a DNF as there were many possible locations, but seconds after getting confirmation from the CO (thanks Ray) that the current hint still applied I spotted the little, er, nuisance.

TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

This was one I solved some time ago and if I recollect correctly, needed a large nudge to associate reference with referent, and even then my efforts were hampered by using a reference source which had been inadequately refereed and contained not O's but 0's. Once that omission was sorted the coordinates followed quickly.

Today this was probably the nearest I came to a DNF. Standing where the GPS indicated, I was surrounded by hint items, and it was only when I expanded the search to the other side that something interesting caught my eye...


TFTC.

For some reason, maybe the advent of Spring (or at least longer evenings), maybe because the trauma of learning lines is stimulating the growth of new brain cells, my mind experienced an unexpected spurt of creativity over the last few days and I was able to solve four particularly intractable puzzles in quick succession. That led to a concentrated effort to find both those and a number which had been on the solved pile rather longer.

It may be that Gillywig's cosmic-resonance theory played a part here, but if so it took its time. This had sat on the unsolved file for a long time, but this morning I looked at it again and had an idea. Testing the idea was easy, as I already had the correct tool in my box and on applying it a series of almost-recognisable numbers started to emerge. A small tweak later, and half the coordinates were there... a few moments with pencil and paper and another hypothesis turned out right, and with it the remaining coordinates appeared.

I had a drizzly walk to GZ, where I too met what was left (not much) of the squirrel, but not far away, guided by a discarded pen-top, I observed a more promising location where the promised cute avian was indeed hiding.

TFTC.

Quick find after we eventually squinted and counted the ears properly. Quick stroll to final coords tftc

Out with Zeus241 TFTC

This version of the cache will be archived soon due to a problem with access to the multi information. It will be republished as a traditional.

Will be replaced as a Traditional GC85Z2K.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.
Aug/06/2018 - OK here.
Apr/03/2018 - OK here. Clean log.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.
Nov/24/2018- OK here.
Jul/21/2018 - OK here.
Apr/05/2018 - OK here.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.
Nov/24/2018- OK here.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.
Jul/21/2018 - OK here.

Feb/14/2020- New log. Cache now inside rotten stump.
Apr/08/2019 - OK here.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.

Had started to solve but one incorrect 'answer' and no idea how to get the numbers I expected, I left it. Can't solve anymore.
Perseverance is obviously what I no longer have. Also hampered by excel accuracy issues. Finally convinced I should continue, the realisation of what I was missing ... ????????

Had a plan to visit which was thrown slightly but still managed to set out. Parked and decided to leave the bike and walk. Interesting footpath, one I recall walking previously.
Nice quick find of a good cache with trades which I left.

Thanks Ray for the C&P.

Apr/08/2019 - OK here.

With newly renewed perseverance I plodded on.
Data gathering mercifully reduced by gb's log re red, blue, cyan, brown, black, mauve, puce, etc herrings.
Another piece of intel and then it was just a question of time.

Talking of which, What do clocks measure?
Einstein famously said “Time is that which clocks measure".
The hands on a 'clock' essentially show us a simple example of steady rotation.
We assume the rotating hands on a simple clock tell us something about the passing of a thing called 'Time', so where a hand points relates to 'now', and as it rotates it heads into the future.
I'm sure that at one point I knew I would solve it in the future, as no doubt others will.


Struggled to find at first. I had a google Earth print out and pace notes (~200 and 25) so was confident I was in the correct location. After relocating a dead pheasant I re-searched and by chance spotted it. Very well concealed.
SL 3rd TF and returned as found.

TFTC&P and to paraphrase greysman's log on RR264: It's nice to be back solving Mr.Crow caches after trying Stratoman's, Deebooted's and infinson's.

ps I see you visited also today!

Published

We came prepared, with torch in hand, but alas were beaten to the elusive FTF. Great fun coming out to chase the FTF though. TFTC ????

#155

STF @ 20:09

So I was actually just about to get in a bath when Nathan messaged me to say there was a FTF opportunity just up the road from me. So I ditched my bath and took my eldest boy (7) with me for a drive up the road.

It was started to get dark when we arrived and our GPS had us in a silly location. We were about to walk away when I saw a more “cachey� and appealing tree. Soon had the cache in hand and my little one had his eye on the golf ball, unfortunately he didn’t bring anything to swap but I will try and pop something in next time I’m passing.

We weren’t the FTF but happily the second. TFTC

Gutted! Rushed out for a FTF but someone has already got there before me. Oh well. Tftc. Log signed

#1976,

We saw this one and the Rough and Rummage caches come out messages exchanged. SuperLizzy might come but would probably get bored so this one first.

As it was Aly's side of town it made sense for me to pick them up in Darcy rather than have her drive Merlin over to get me.

Drove over and SuperLizzy had opted out so picked up Aly and away we headed.

Parked outside the Church gates and tried to work out how to get inside. That puzzle solved we walked up the path to where the cache was hid. The phones were inconsistent with location so we looked in different places and it was Aly that said got it.

I knew it has been found as logs showed online (why do people do that? I know some think it helps let FTFers know it's been found, I prefer not to know as it means I still get the flutters finding out) but Aly didn't.

No FTF for us here, we were 4th!

TFTC with AlyNorth

Found on Tuesday 9th April 2019 at 9.10pm with Hafgood.

SuperLizzy was up for geocaching tonight but then let me down at the last minute! Lightweight! ????????

Hafgood had agreed to collect me to go for this one, then the Route and Rummage Series afterwards. We never seem to be able to get out when published, family life is always busy, so it was a little later that we managed to get out.

We parked up and at first couldn’t work out how to get in, the gate seemed to be locked, then we noticed the side bit ????.

Our tech initially struggled to pinpoint GZ but after a short search it was me who spotted the hide. Were we going to be first?......had it already been signed?.......unbeknown to me Haf knew it had already gone because someone had already logged it - he didn’t let on though ????, so I still had that exciting anticipation of wondering if it was a FTF......oh no.......fourth! Wow! Oh well, never mind.

Thanks for the cache Mr Crow. TBs visited for mileage. Sorry for the late logging.

???? Had these coords for a while now, solved by logic process. As we were passing now seemed a good time. We like it when the coords are spot on. Thankfully the find was easier than the puzzle.
Now to work out what on earth the field puzzle means to solve the next one.
TB taken on it's travels.
Tftc.

Pleased to see a new church micro here and decided to make it today's cache as I 'almost' past by here on my way to and from work. parked by the gates and was soon at GZ. I could see the container as I approached so covered with a bit more camouflage.

Thanks for adding this church to the CM series, Mr Crow.

???? Parked right next to the pair but had to stretch our legs to get all the info. Calculated and off for the short stroll to the gz. How hard could it be?
A quick look over. Nothing. And again. Still nothing. It must be here. Reading earlier logs realised we needed to up our game here. There it was in plain sight. How did we see it, but not see it before? Tftc.

???? A puzzle which we do most days, but with a twist.
At gz obvious what the host was. We just had to find it. Tftc.

???? This was one of the early RR's we solved and at that time made no notes and cannot recall how we did it.
Got to gz and looking for the hint item, but to no avail. Have faith. Mr Crows coords are always close.
The boss always says she sees things differently to me and this was no exception. She noticed the remnants of what we were searching for as a pointer to the location. Looking down and searching we found not only the cacahe but the missing item. Left that visible at ground level. Tftc.

???? Fairly quickly worked out the sequencing for this one.
At gz our gps did not put us on the hint item. Distracted by a decrepid host before backtracking to the real thing. Our gps said 15m, but could have been affected by the tree cover. Tftc.

???? No notes on this but seem to recall using a conversion tool to make life easier. And it poduced a likely looking plot. which checked out.
Quick find at gz thanks to the hint. The bag was not sealed, but it's ok. Tftc.

???? Managed to surf the info required - there was a lot of water about.
Quick find at the gz with coords spot on. The water had subsided enough to make this manageable. Tftc.

???? Triangulated this to narrow it down then used the Pro version of the hint to get the coords which passed muster. Very easy find at gz. Tftc.

???? The hint and title sent us in the right direction here. Just had to work out how to get to the numbers we wanted.
At gz one of the more difficult to get to but once there easy to recognise. Had faith in the coords and location and battled through the jungle to the prize. Made more difficult having left the pen in the motor and had to do this twice. Tftc.

???? We surfed how to do this, so that wasn't a problem. Should have done the same thing on how to find it at gz.
Did take a few minutes. Will blame the fact that the location had a number of bees exploring when we first saw it so we left that, but then had to come back again when we had no joy elsewhere. Maybe it was a honey trap? A bit of exploring, with cane rather than hand just in case, and we were there. Tftc.

???? Puzzle not quite as expected when we first saw it. A lot easier when we cottoned on.
At gz made this harder than it needed to be and went places we didn't need to. Should have kept it simple, like the puzzle. Tftc.

???? A recent puzzle solve for us. We do these most days in The Times so was not hard for us.
A quick find a gz, and off for a short stroll to the next. Tftc.

???? It's been a long time (at least 2 score years and ten) since we've had to do speed maths tests. So took 4 goes.
Thankfully the find was much easier. Tftc, and the mental workout.

???? A puzzle we are familiar with so did not take long to work the coords.
Very quick find at the gz. Tftc.

???? This looked a bit strange but when we got to site we could easily work out what info we needed. Then a short stroll to find the prize. Tftc.

???? Fairly quickly worked out what we needed to do here once started looking at individuals info and worked out how the hint was relevent.
At gz headed for what we thought might be the host. First thing to find was a cammo bag on ground, empty. So, assumed we were in the right area. Cache soon followed. Left it inside the cammo bag this time. Tftc.

Stingers!

Under your feet!

Out with Vanguard3 today with the objective of picking up a few new Church Micro's. This was the first and it was soon spotted by Bob. Tftc

Well Mr C, thanks for resurrecting this one. I was so surprised I didn't have to solve a puzzle first!!.TFTC. BaSHfuls CM GC & my CM 10th Anniversary GC visited. #10775.

After tea and scones with Kitty!! and Mr Crow, thank you Anne the scones were delicious, it was a quick trip out to find this cache. Can't believe how busy the road has become but once parked the cache was soon found.????. I dropped a TB. Thanks Mr Crow for keeping this CM alive.

Snoopyus dropped in for a chat just as the scones came out of the oven. As this cache was just down the road we head out, with the CO in tow to finish off the morning. As the Crow had reused the container from the previous incarnation of the cache and it was "somewhat manky" I donated a fresh pot with a few trades. Sometimes it pays to wait before finding! TFTC Mr Crow

???? Having solved the anagrams did not take long to work out what we had to do, and used GE Pro to confirm the calculation.
Quick and easy find at gz. Tftc.

Cache was a nice quick find this afternoon.
Took TB to move on.
Thanks Mr Crow for the CM cache and for adding to this series.

Puzzle solved after a struggle several months ago.
Cache was quick find this afternoon.
Thanks Mr Crow.

Accidentally stumbled on the cache while searching for rocks in the area. TFTC!

Quick find once we’d worked out the maths.
TFTC

Found it! Lovely benches!

DNF'ed last time due to pruning of the host.
No problem this time.
TFTC

Ar h ha it's back TFTC

A lovely sunny afternoon to herald the Easter weekend, so Mrs PB, PB Jnr and I headed off towards the Heybridge Basin for a late afternoon breath of air, picking up 5 caches in various locations.

5/5. Unable to retrieve this on my mammoth Rally Round day, just over a year ago. This year's spring had been much drier, so despite coming equipped with wellies, I was delighted to see that they would not be needed on arrival at GZ. PB Jnr went ahead of me and soon had this elusive cache in hand. Another RR ticked off! TFTC #3555

Apr/18/2019 - OK here.

Apr/18/2019 - OK here.

Apr/19/2019 - OK here.

Apr/19/2019 - OK here.

Apr/19/2019 - OK here.

Apr/19/2019 - OK here.

Apr/19/2019 - OK here.
May/07/2018 - OK here.

I loved this puzzle once it became apparent what was going on

Of course the aim became how to piece it together with as few pieces as possible and I think I managed pretty well - although I had to change one of the second digits which was odd as everything else worked perfectly

A definite favorite

Thank you

Apr/19/2019 - OK here.

Apr/19/2019 - OK here.

Apr/20/2019 - This bespoke cache is MISSING presumed stolen. I will not replace until the next potential finder lets me know they are about to retrieve. Message me.

???? Crossed over the road from others we were doing. A quick find here. Tftc.

???? Having found the lizard and dragonfly it was a quick calculation to get the revised coords. Good job there were 2 of us, checking and finding the error before we went in completely the wrong direction. Once at gz it was clear where it would be. Just had to get in there. Tftc.

???? Having done the calculations and seen we need to do a circular route around the heath for others, this would be on our way. Quick find here. Easily seen in the hint host. Tftc Ray.

???? Having found the lizard and dragonfly it was a quick calculation to get the revised coords. A stroll for this one. At the gz the host seemed obvious from the hint item. No sign of a cache though. Looked around, but still nothing, and then noticed a cammo bag on the ground a short distance away. No sign of the contents however. Cammo bag returned to where we thought it should be. CO advised. Tftc and thanks for letting us claim this Ray.

I've looked st this cache many times and not really got off the starting blocks. A few months back I I was looking at placing a cache in Tiptree to mark the success of the Jam Factory in the town. I knew where several of the caches in the area were and so had a good idea where there were gaps. However, I wasn't anticipating Nathan's side tracked cache and ended up putting my idea on the back burning.

I was reading through a few previous logs on hard to find caches and noticed Nathan was the last person to find this one by using a bit of logic and so decided to give it a try today. It's an area I've searched speculatively before and found nothing but today the cache was there just waiting to be found. Added my name to the log and waled away with a big smile on my face.

Thanks Mr Crow. I'm sorry I didn't work it out the way intended, but there are sometime more than one approach to a tricky puzzle!

Apr/24/2019 - Fresh log.

Feb/14/2020 - OK here.
Apr/24/2019 - OK here.
Apr/08/2019 - OK here.
Feb/19/2019 - OK here.
Nov/30/2018 - OK here.
Nov/12/2018 - I've never known a hydrant sign to go missing before, and the cache that was hiding behind it! Small black pot now resting 6 feet up in a tree as a replacement.
Oct/01/2018 - OK here.

Apr/24/2019 - Clearing undertaken so moved slightly. Location hint added.
Nov/30/2018 - OK here.
Oct/01/2018 - OK here.
Aug/06/2018 - OK here.

#4142:
I'm really starting to succeed at ticking off my blank calendar days. With only one empty day in April, I made sure to go out before work and grab this new cache. I was the last finder of the previous incarnation, so was pleased to get this new one.

I already knew where to find it, so no problems had today. TFTC.
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627th Church Micro cache found, and 272nd in Essex.

This is my 332nd Found Date filled in on my Calendar (Loop 1).

Arh the disappearing pub and it's companions. We used to meet friends here years ago and were sad that is it now gone. Spotted the host for the info and soon had the numbers. Off for the walk to GZ for a NQF here. Superb bluebells of the English type close by. TFTC and the reminiscing.

Goodness, we now have to chain telephone boxes to telegraph poles to stop them being stolen LOL
Found the info, calculated and off to the cache.
Beautiful English bluebells at GZ.
TFTC

Fun around the green collecting the info and then strolled down for a search at GZ. Took a little while as light was just wrong to see it quickly but got there in the end. TFTC

Soon spotted the figures needed to do the sums and off we set for the find at GZ. TFTC

I managed to park outside the church gates and after a brief wander around because my phone app was jumping about, I eventually spotted the tell-tale signs of a cache.
Many thanks for this cache, Mr Crow.

Apr/29/2019 - OK here.

Apr/29/2019 - OK here.

May/01/2019 - About to be archived as the location no longer qualifies as a Fine Pair.

After finding a Rally Round cache a week or so ago I decided to have a go at this one. It took a while to realise how to get 'into' the puzzle, but after returning to the page several times the penny dropped and I knew what to do.

The information gradually appeared and I had what I thought was a good set off coordinates. Put them into the checker but they weren't wrong. Drat! Returned to the puzzle and looked at my workings. Realised my error and once rectified I got the green light.

Off to find the cache this morning before work. once at gz it was a quick find and the log signed. Got a rather odd look on the way back from the farmer!

Thanks for the hide, Mr Crow. Have a favourite point.

As I was delivering in the area I thought that I would take a little detour and grab a couple of caches.

After dodging traffic and doing the usual explore, the cache was found and logbook signed.

Thank you Mr Crow for placing and maintaining the cache.

Tftc nettles an issue

No log in pot

Tftc

Found quickly once I worked out where to look. Thanks.

Published

Vaguely remebered finding the original. It was over nine years ago.
Paced too far but found after backtracking.
Nicely placed Thanks Ray.

FTF
A multi as a change from the usual RR fare, and so some fieldwork was required. I assumed that the cryptic part would all make sense once I had sight of the target, so there was nothing for it but a walk in the wet. However, just as I was thinking of setting off, a really heavy downpour arrived so I decided to wait a while for it to ease. When I finally left, I had a rather roundabout journey as Braxted Road was blocked by an accident. Eventually arrived at stage 1 I found the relevant inscription... which at first sight left me no closer to solving the conundrum on the cache page .

So... it's just as well that while waiting for better weather I had passed my time investigating an armchair solution method .

The route to Stage 2 was noticeably wetter, and the undergrowth unloaded much of its superfluous moisture over me, but at GZ there was a nice pot of goodies (TLNL) and a blank log.

TFTC.

Have intended to pick this one up for ages as I pass it on my run most days - but never have a pen with me. Finally remembered today. TFTC Mr Crow

Delighted with this custom cache. Bluebells still in bloom

TB visiting

Wonderful little cache! Great whoops of delight with this one!

Found after a search once GPS settled. Lots of hiding places but one of the mini cachers was delighted as he had already guessed what the hint had meant! Clever CO, clever mini cacher :)

Quack!! This was a better search for us than number 5 which we had to give up on :( found by mr Geocacher. Great hint ????

We've been trying to pick this one up for ages but could never get a quiet moment until today! We were out on a rock hunting walk and wandered past for a quick find. TFTC

Thanks for the cach, ima newbie to all this but I went along with some friends and we found it together

Nice day for clearing some blue '?' to yellow.

Quick find here.

TFTC

Second conversion of a blue '?' to yellow, nice day for it. Needed to dry the container of water, log slightly damp, being a nice day the paper dried a bit before replacing.

TFTC

Three out of three conversions today of blue'?' to yellow, and a nice day for it.

TFTC

May/13/2019 - Container replaced with clear Geocache labels to deter theft/disturbance by stone gatherers.
Apr/23/2019 - OK here.
Jul/04/2018 - OK here. The Heath is lovely at the moment. Dry paths in good condition, plenty of shade from the heat, six roaming Exmoor ponies, and an intoxicating smell of strawberries being harvested in adjacent fields.

May/13/2019 - Container replaced with clear Geocache labels to deter theft/disturbance by stone gatherers.
Apr/23/2019 - Possibly disturbed by recent rock gatherers. Now OK.

May/13/2019 - Container replaced with clear Geocache labels to deter theft/disturbance by stone gatherers.
Apr/23/2019 - Cache was missing. The Heath warden believes possibly stolen by recent rock gatherers. Replaced.

May/13/2019 - Container replaced with clear Geocache labels to deter theft/disturbance by stone gatherers.
Apr/23/2019 - OK here.

Nice evening for a quick run out to GZ, stile a bit rickety and the bottom step missing....then I realised that the gate was not locked! doh...

Quick find at GZ.

TFTC

Published

Published

What an excellent game! Well done to Graham! X

????

Quick find after Nathan's farewell do.

TFTC

Due to my love of The Beatles and the cache's seeming proximity to Maldon and the Dengie, it was a priority to find it.

I decided to head here after my event to finally pick it up. On the way round, I was stopped by a woman on a quad bike to ask what I was doing. I said I was just having a walk round, and quizzed that this was a permissive footpath. She said it was and it wasn't, and then let me on my way...

Nearing GZ, I saw the cache was unfortunately surrounded by fishing tents. Closer still, and the anglers were out of their tents and wondering about. I didn't want to compromise the cache, so decided to abandon the search. Maybe I'll be able to pick it up in a few years

Puzzle solved last month, but l hadn't been in the area with Pete to complete the paperwork.
This morning we were out collecting some solved puzzles so added it to the list.
A most enjoyable walk in a familiar area, and spot on coords led to quick find.
Thanks Mr Crow for an enjoyable puzzle, which was more like the old RRs.

Well, I absolutely loved this.

I played the original many times (and long after it's achiving) and never got beyond 31/52 ie round 31.

Back in the '70s I investigated optimising strategies pre-computing and wasted many an hour trying to understand the maths involved.

Higher/Lower had promted me to develop a spreadsheet to record the cards 'played' with the intent to quickly calculate the Higher/Lower probabilities. This was abandoned for a more pragmatic approach as even knowing the probabilities at each turn, I soon realised that the chance of succeeding was negligible.
( I would love to know the probability of success if choosing the most likely at each turn. A calculation beyond me and also beyond my ability to program a simulation to run many times.)

This has the BRILLIANT display of the remaining cards. After friviously wasting my first 10 attempts I realised that 5 million tokens was less than 2^26 and so this may be tricky.
I started to employ my distribution stratagey and seemed to improve but not get really close but encouraged enough to anticipate the next calendar day with some optimism.

The 'winning' attempt was more than a little tense. The occasional risk being taken and most paying off. With 10 rounds to go I suffered a major set back and was resigned to failure but with 3 rounds left and 3 tokens I just trusted in lady luck.

This is just so much fun. (I can say that now) It is I think, my favourite Rally Round to date and there have been some epic ones.

The find was without any problems. Parked further away than necessary and a pleasant walk with the sun out and a pair of buzzards above. Not at my plot but soon spotted. SL circa 12:30


Such a great challenge, awesome programming. TFTC&P

Found on second attempt!

Great hiding!!

Most difficult one yet... Pond has dried up!

This was a check point for the Scouts hike today from Prances to Tiptree, while waiting for them to turn up was a great opportunity to get the numbers and go and find the cache.

Once at GZ I thought i knew where it was and having not been found for a month meant the squatters has made it their own, thankfully with a pen prodding certain places the cache was soon located, signed and replaced

This was a check point for the Scouts hike today from Prances to Tiptree, while waiting for them to turn up was a great opportunity to get the numbers and go and find the cache.

This was an easy cache to get the numbers and upon getting to the GZ, looked around and there it was TFTC

Thank you. That’s was a easy found

Snappy snap

Got it

We could not find it

Found a dirty dvd

Yes we got one

Whoop Whoop

Finally settled on the right combination of Gin, intuition, logic and luck!!

x

Found this eponymous cache on a very enjoyable, hot, walk with the CO himself. Shortly afterwards we met the cache's namesakes and spent a lovely few hours with them before walking back to Estoi. Have a favourite for a great cache location and a memorable morning. TFTC Mr Crow

May/22/2019 - Container replaced and new spare log.

Tftc

Found

Found

Tftc crow

Took us way too long to find this

Tftc

Found this puzzle whilst browsing through the list of unsolved caches and tried it on my mobile 'phone. Had four attempts in all, two of them going the whole 20 attempts. All I managed was a max of two-in-a-row. Left it for a couple of days then tried it on my PC and..........three-in-a-row at the first attempt!

Nice walk out to GZ this morning with a lodging canine friend for a quick find.

TFTC

Got it

Nice quick cache and dash.tftc

More fun with the Gin!! :-P

WELL DONE Sylvie!! xx

Check

???? We had the previous in mind but never got around to doing it. Soon spotted a possible tel and a quick easy find. Tftc.

Once at gz it was a nice quick find. Tftc

???? We have had this solved for some time, and as we were passing today. Entrance to the footpath from the road was overgrown and difficult but we found an alternative easy route to the field. This has been ploughed and the footpath not maintained, but even that did not deter us. Issue reported on ECC website.
Once at the gz it was an easy find Tftc.

I have spent along time and a number of days looking at this puzzle. I got part way through the solving and then hit a brick wall. Picked it up several times and each time got a bit further. Returned to it the other day and decided I wasn’t going to give up until I’d got a ‘Correct’ from the checker.

Decided to look for the cache today after spending a large part of the afternoon gardening. Parked up safely, and just off the road, and them walked to GZ. The coordinates wanted me on one side of the path but there was nothing there. A much more promising area on the other side and so had a good look instead. The area was quite overgrown but I was spurred on by the fact that there were signs of a previous search. Despite a good look I just couldn’t find it.

I’ll return once it’s had a maintenance check or another cacher has found it. Thanks, Mr Crow.

This was such fun!!! Thought it would take ages but only took a few days in the end. Had a few problems with Higher / Lower dyslexia but 'the Gin' soon sorted those out!! :-P

Thanks for a lovely puzzle!

A favorite

???? Now has a bit more vegetation than the pic suggests. Stick definitely needed!! Braved and crouched to get this but then pleanty of room to do the business. New log left. Tftc

Found before it started to rain. No problem with the find. Signed @ 12:25.
TYVMFTC&P

Dear me.
I assumed correctly what this was about, but had no idea how to extract any sensible numbers. Everything I tried I got so far then failed. I asked myself if my musical ineptitude was my problem. If it was then I had about as much chance of solving as a sow has passing through the eye of a needle. With what I had, I wondered If I had a long, long way to go but the difficulty indicated not. I kept revisiting, hoping somehow to throw some light on the way forward, but no amount of coffee, latte or otherwise seemed to tease out a solution.

Enough of this nonsense, eventually I tried something and realised R2D2 was nothing to do with Star Wars. One minor hurdle didn't feel right but the rest was just so.

Doh! Ray. How did it take me far so long?

If I ever see you wearing a jacket with a top pocket(unlikely) I will do as Ken Dodd once did when thanking someone. He took a tea bag and placed it in their top pocket and said:
"Thank you, have a drink on me."

Published

???? This was one of the earl;ier puzzles we attempted. It seems so uncomplicated now compared with many.
Luckily we had noted the info from the checker in our Personal notes so at gz took the path. This certainly made the approach to the host simpler. Still took some looking around before the little thing was spotted. Thanks.

???? We thought we were in the right place. Limited places for magnetic and could not see it. Then we noticed something else which was nowhere near so obvious, and there it was. Pleased as this has not been found for some while. All is good here. Tftc.

FTF
The first thing to do when solving a puzzle is to read the title and follow its lead, and I was duly
led to a series of numbers. But how to use them? Stage 1 was fairly straightforward, and I had a reasonably good idea for stage 3, but something was missing in the middle.
My first guess led to an interesting coincidence, but that was a red herring, and that way madness lies.
The second thing to do when solving a puzzle is to read the title again, and duly alerted I looked more closely... surely it can't be that? But it was, and as it happens I had just what was needed in my toolbox so it was a matter of moments to extract the coordinates.

At GZ I could have done with a red riding hood, because there was no sign of red sky at night behind the low drizzly cloud, and if Nature wasn't actually red in tooth and claw she was at least very soggy underfoot. Thanks to these conditions there was nobody about, so I was not caught red-handed looking for the cache. At GZ I soon located the container, so my face was not red, and it contained a pristine log, so it was a red letter day. Having dealt with the red tape I set off home, taking care to stop at red lights. Moreover my credit is not in the red, so I can afford to roll out the red carpet and award a favourite.

TFTC.

???? Having solved this a while ago we decided to try whilst in the area. Sure we found the hint item but could not see the cache.

???? Can't remember now whether we did the maths or chose a tool to find the intersection. Suspect the latter was quicker.
At gz we looked for the hint item and we were struggling, before we realised that was some time ago and it has now grown a bit, so didn't look quite as we were initially expecting. Why is it always me that gets sent in to find at retrieve?
Having done all the hard work though, it didn't take long. All good here. Tftc.

My sort of puzzle ie all numbers & brackets LOL
Great title which took a while to unravel.
Straightforward after that.
Nice walk to GZ today in the sunshine.
TFTC

Opened my tools box and soon had some numbers.
The title is "Navigator" , so I did.
Soon saw what was required.

NQF at GZ
TFTC

Despite the fact that my wife's maiden name is "Graham" , it took an eternity to get the MO for this clever puzzle. Even then it still took quite a while to get the numbers.

Decided to get to GZ via another puzzle hide and thought initially I was on the wrong side of the ditch. So rather than a long walk decide to hop across. Not a good idea at 75 LOL
Worse still when I got to the other side I realised it was the wrong side !!
Now the search started and 45 minutes later I gave up as my cream tea addition was telly me to come back later.

So after cream tea and a few more finds I returned, this time from the north.
After another 30 minutes, several failed PAF's and my hat falling into the ditch I spotted the little bugger

Delighted, I headed home with a full set of 9 finds for the day.
TFTC

I know absolutely nothing about football.
Had to do some research as I had no idea what the points system was.
Knocked together an Excel spreadsheet and soon gave up.

That was 12 months ago. On resurrecting the spreadsheet I realised it was actually a maths puzzle and I could completely forget about football.
Soon had the for/against entries solved but not the order, using a bit of Python.
Then the Won/Draw/Lost/Pts using logic.
But then came the individual game scores which I finished up doing by trial and error using the spreadsheet to calculate the points table.
Took ages but got there in the end.

Got a bit of a shock to find there was yet another stage

Thankfully a quick find at GZ
I give this a fav but the subject matter put me off. LOL

TFTC

Love this one once I knew what to do.

First visit to GZ in the morning resulted in a DNF.
I decided to press on as I had 8 more to collect.
Returned later in the day and again searched the same area but alas no cache.
Then I spotted something 90% buried, which I think should have been much higher up.
Signed and returned to a better position.
Log was soggy but usable.
TFTC and fav for lovely idea.

My very first RR puzzle was Bonzo given to me by my now caching partner deebooted.
It set me in good stead for many solves, including this one.

With the tools accumulated over the years, stage one was straightforward.
Luckily I noticed very quickly the commonality, which help me see the "unusual".
From that the numbers came quickly.

Nice quick find at GZ thanks to the hint.
TFTC

Solved quickly with a few lines of Python.
Nice quick find at GZ
TFTC

Once I figured out what was going on here I multi tasked the solve with other puzzles.
Didn't take too long to get the numbers by using a bit of logic.
After DNF'ing the last two I was pleased to find this immediately.
TFTC

FTS but alas STF

Little chance of getting a FTF really as it's an 80 mile round trip but pleased to pick up today.

The puzzle was one of the CO's easier offerings, helped by the very generous hint.
First and second stages were straightforward, but needed a bit of head scratching on the last bit until the penny dropped. What a great way to get the numbers.

I can't say the same about the hide though.
My GPS took me to an obvious host, which I systematically searched for 20 minutes.
Widening my search made little difference. Thankfully help was at hand and the hint clarified that I was 50 ft from the intended search area !!! Whether it was the coords, tree cover or my GPS I don't know but suffice to say, the cache was soon in hand, log book signed and returned.

Excellent well structured puzzle.
TFTC and Fav.

???? We parked as suggested. Loaded quickly and worked well on our Huawei on Android. Only difficulty we had was near the business park where we struggled to find the item. Trusted the gps and working on the assumption it must be here somewhere; it was eventually found screened by the undergrowth. Once we got to the gz it was a quick find.

Once I started to solve this one it took three weeks of frustration - only doing the sums for about 25mins at a time - and many time-outs ( also a number of wrong inputs!).

Quick find at GZ.

TFTC

???? Sure we made the same mistake as many in our 1st calculation, then realised it can't be. The revised coords looked good so off we went. Easy find at gz thanks to the hint. Tftc.

The footpath to this was almost invisible under all the weeds. Managed to locate this after a good look around. 11 months since it was last found.! Log signed. Tftc

Looking for a couple of caches to do this evening before ringing practice at Inworth, can't remember seeing this one published. I know the drive to the church quite well and there are many good hidey holes.

Phone GPSr pointed me to the correct one first time.

TFTC

???? We've had this solved for some while now. Done by logic and iteration. Parked up by the old pub, that we've been in on a few occasions. Sad to see it go but good to see it getting some tlc. Start didn't look great with the footpath a bit overgrown but this soon opened out into a clear path. At gz trees didn't help find the precise spot but the hint certainly helped. Surprised to see it's been lonely with no visitors for nearly 2 years. All good here. Tftc.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/19/2019 - OK here. Both caches!

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/19/2019 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/19/2019 - OK here.
Jan/28/2019 - New log. OK here.
Jan/13/2019 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.
Apr/19/2019 - OK here.
Jan/28/2019 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.
Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.
May/12/2019 - Taken a risk and replaced.
Apr/19/2019 - Cache is missing - believed targeted and stolen! I will replace when the next solver lets me know a find is imminent. Message me.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.
Jan/12/2019 - OK here.
Nov/03/2018 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - This bespoke cache is MISSING presumed stolen. I will not replace until the next potential finder lets me know they are about to retrieve. Message me.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.

Jun/15/2019 - OK here.

Published

When the predecessor of this puzzle was published I calculated the odds of getting 52 correct answers was about 645452:1, which was of cause virtually impossible.

This new incarnation gives the solver a fighting change by allowing the odds of an outcome to be selected. Before plundering into task I wrote a few lines of Python to establish the best betting strategy. Eventually I found one which gave an average run length of 42 games to achieve 52 correct guesses.

So off I went sticking religiously to the plan despite the rather kamikaze approach.
One big advantage of the method was the daily quota of 10 games was over very quickly LOL

It took until game 68 to achieve 52 correct results a little over the average.

Straightforward find today at GZ, although parking was a little tight.

TFTC and favourite for all the fun.

Thanx for this nice Cache :-) !!
Bei unserer Heimreise besuchten
wir auch dieses feine Versteck. Gut
gefunden und erfolgreich das
Logbüchlein signiert...

Our Motto:
Sightseeing by Geocaching

Out with Zeus241 I remember finding the original all good here TFTC

Found whilst out with Limpyles tftc

Out with Zeus241 Stopped off and had a good look around nothing found will call again

Sadly couldn’t find today....

out with Zeus241 on this glorious day all good here TFTC

Found whilst out with Limpyles tftc

A fonte estava seca

Would have solved much quicker had my counting been up to scratch.
Pleased to finally solve sometime ago.
Thanks for another interesting puzzle Mr Crow.

X and Y always reminds me of school days, many many years ago.
Pleased to final solve and cache was soon located after Birding.
Thanks for the puzzle Mr Crow.

Solved sometime ago, but far too often guessing incorrectly.
Cache however was a nice quick find this afternoon with Andrew, after detouring on our way back from birding.
Thanks Mr Crow for the cache and work involved in setting this up. Favourite point added.

First attempt at this, l didn't think it could possibly be correct, so left it. It was sometime later when I picked it up again, that l realised my theory was correct and the checker was satisfied.
Thanks Mr Crow for the puzzle.

A fun puzzle and was almost sorry when I got through in only 9 goes - quite addictive. Needed a cache today for the calendar so when I was out and about stopped to pick it up. Found I hadn't got my GPSr with me but thought I could remember its position from the map. Place I looked was too overgrown so went home for some secateurs. Crow didn't believe it was overgrown so came back with me - no secateurs required when you look the correct side of the road! LOL! Have a favourite for a great cache. TFTC Mr Crow

Jul/09/2019 - OK here.

Jul/10/2019 - OK here.

Jul/10/2019 - OK here.
Jun/15/2019 - OK here.

Jul/10/2019 - OK here.
Apr/1/2019 - OK here.
Nov/28/2018 - OK here.

Jul/10/2019 - OK here.

Jul/10/2019 - OK here.

Nov/07/2020 - OK here.

Came for the footprint clue . If only I’d been wearing trousers and shoes. - too many nettles for my flip flops. Will return one day better prepared.
A nice spot .

Dragged junior out after school. We saw the route to take and followed and reached a dead end - as much mental as anything and then finally saw I was standing within touching distance . Thanks for the souvenir fingerprint clue. TFTC

Tolles Rätsel! Ist mir ja noch nie untergekommen. Natürlich schon zu Hause gelöst.
Während des Urlaubs mit Susi1962 hier her gefahren, gesucht, gefunden und geloggt.
TFTC????
Franky1960
FP in

Franky 1960 hat tolle Heimarbeit geleistet und so konnten wir hier das Döschen finden. DfdC

Grateful for a nudge to finalise this one.
Slight detour to complete the paperwork after watching the Cattle Egrets feeding their four young at Chigborough, excellent result for Essex.
Thanks Mr Crow for the puzzle cache.

Jul/17/2019- OK here.

Nice and swampy but couldn’t find it

It is two years almost to the day since we found 113 of the CO's excellent RR-series caches on an epic bike ride with our good friend Chris (one half of wendykmj). So, when we knew that we would be back in the area today it seemed appropriate to try for a couple more.

We were a little confused by the CO's most recent log here, but after spending a few minutes failing to find a film pot we went back to first principles (i.e. following the arrow rather than guessing) and soon found what appears to be the 'lost' cache - complete with log sheet recording the cache's most recent visitors (07/07/18). So, apparently another rescuss for us on this one.

This puzzle was one of 42 to remain on the solved pile after our previous visit to the area. This one was more on our wavelength and so after some methodical research we had some coords that passed muster. Thanks for another excellent puzzle and cache.

It is two years almost to the day since we found 113 of the CO's excellent RR-series caches on an epic bike ride with our good friend Chris (one half of wendykmj). So, when we knew that we would be back in the area today it seemed appropriate to try for a couple more.

Having read past logs we had a fair idea what to expect here - and we weren't disappointed. But, with care the cache was located and retrieved. After signing the log, we replaced everything as found and continued to our second target.

It seems that we got a rescuss on this one.

This puzzle was one of 42 to remain on the solved pile after our previous visit to the area. The top level theme was obvious enough, but the finer points of the decode eluded us for a while. We eventually tried something that appered to work and after a bit of fettling we had a happy checker.

Very happy to be able to turn another RR cache into a smilie. Thanks for a great puzzle and cache.

I have just been berating myself for my poor performance in solving this puzzle after spending many hours and hundreds of attempts to finally make it to 100, and then after having solved it realise that I would have had considerable assistance if I had read the last paragraph of the cache description. I am asking myself how I didn't notice that this was the case. At least I don't feel so bad about having taken ten times (or more) longer than most people. I hope I can find it when I visit the area as the frustration has been bad enough already. Try being on 99 and being timed out at 3am in the morning after more than 600 attempts.

Jul/25/2019 - Stolen and replaced.
May/16/2019 - May have gone. Need to check.
Jan/19/2019 - Happy at the base of huge tree.

Found on floor , no lid, the log a dry formerly sodden mess - replaced as hint - full log later 1205

Couldn’t find info source for 3 or 4????

Jul/25/2019 - OK here.

Jul/25/2019 - Stolen and replaced.
May/16/2019 - OK here.
Jan/19/2019 - Happy in the stump hole.

Jul/25/2019 - OK here.

Jul/25/2019 - OK here.
May/16/2019 - OK here.
Jan/19/2019 - Happy behind the sign.
Nov/12/2018 - OK here.

Jun/02/2021 - OK here.
Jul/25/2019 - OK here.

Jul/25/2019 - OK here.

Jul/25/2019 - OK here.

Jul/25/2019 - OK here.

Jul/25/2019 - OK here.

The information sign has gone. Need to visit to check alternatives.

Jul/28/2019- Cache and log replaced.

Jul/28/2019 - OK here. Clues revised according to new signage.

#231! Quick find but we needed the taller member of our group to fish this from the tree! TFTC! Off to the next!

Found it TFTC

A quick stop outside the gates to grab this one the last gem I needed for mystery at the museum. TFTC

Cute little cache!

Excellent cache, look at the picture in the description. It's tucked well away ????????

Great little cache thanks!

Great little series of caches, found them all! Just the right level of challenge for the kids and I!

Just as described TFTC

Cute cache thanks!

Guarded by trolls is was????????

Archived by request of the nearby property owner.

Published

FTF
'Tis the season to be jolly...
No. No. Nonono. Not for months yet, though I have already seen one invitation this year to Book Now for the Festive Season. Right now it's a quite different season - glorious English summer with intermittent thunderstorms and gales in the forecast, but absolutely no snowflakes.

Nevertheless you can't keep a good caching idea down, so when one is archived another pops up in its place (or somewhere nearby). Consequently, recollecting its predecessor I didn't have much difficulty in decoding the first stage but as we all know, no two caches are alike and this time the decode led to another enigma, but a little research led to a surprising solution.

GZ was another challenge, with no obvious host in sight and no fake Yule logs, no holly, not even iv-covered trees, just luxuriant and unpleasantly spiky summer foliage to discourage a systematic search. Fortunately I spotted something before too much blood was shed, and soon had a blank log in my hands.

TFTC, and a favourite for the inspired combination of codes.

Found cache but nothing in it :(

Fun with maps!
Encontrei o cache sem dica, muito bem.
Obrigada

Empty!

After picking up and putting down this cache many times, eventually tweaked the information we had to satisfy the checker.
Cache took us longer to find than it should have done.
Thanks Mr Crow for the puzzle cache, favourite point added.

Having found the previous incarnation, this one was a fairly straightforward solve.
In the area to find a Side/Tracked cache so took short detour to complete the paperwork.
Thanks Mr Crow for the puzzle cache.

parked inside the gates as a service was on ????quickly found and onwards.... tftc

A quick cache n dash on our way home. Thanx for placing. Tftc

Parked up and walked to this nicely placed cache. TFTC

haha. 1x Windywetmud + 1x Cachemutt x inquisitiveness + jamminess = another randomly found RR. Love it Mr C ????

How did I not see this sooner
Talk about CStWftT

Great hint too and nice themed cache container.
TFTC and favourite

Sorted out stage 1 many months ago but couldn't see how to get the numbers.
After recent EAF the method became clear and the numbers tumbled out with the aid of Excel , not because it's complex, but I'm hopeless at arithmetic.
TFTC and favourite

As it's predecessor but with a nice little twist at the end.
Had a scare at GZ when I saw the prickly hedgerow, but saw the cache immediately thank goodness.
TFTC

Found it TFTC

Found we were bounced around a bit with the sat Nov but found in the end. TFTC

Found it TFTC

After a bit of an in-depth search we retrieved the cache. Now the hint makes sense. Tftc

Found it TFTC

A quick find by Colabottle68. TFTC

Found it TFTC

Just a small one said Colabottle68 as she retrieved the cache. As her husband I am fully aware of her ability to underestimate the size of things. TFTC

Found it TFTC

Took longer than it should have due to the fact we were sitting on the fallen tree required. TFTC

Found it TFTC

Can't fault Colabottle68's cache finding ability today another one bagged. TFTC

Oh, if only I had realised one aspect then I would have unconventionally 'solved'

Now I know ... very clever.

Now I know ... maybe I should conjectured

Thanks

I can't put it better than StratOman did: 'As it's predecessor but with a nice little twist at the end.'

I had passed previously and had a quick look. (focusing on the wrong side)
Today it still took a while until I spotted this great hide.

SL TFTC&P ?

A very long route to solving. Such a intelligent puzzle. I stuck with a fundemental initial mistake which meant I was never going to make progress.
Two alternative approaches to cracking this nut would have worked this error aside.

In a passing email the CO enquired what I'd tried and a sit had been found put me straight.
I enjoyed the subsequent solve immensely.

Gz was without difficulty (detailed sketch not reqired as it happened) and a good well placed cache. Thanks Ray.

A favourite? Yes, clever mo and well it would be rude not too.

When this cache was first published I had an idea of how to start the puzzle having found the first incarnation of Flakey. Of course, this one wasn’t quite as straight forward. However, a bit of research and I knew what I needed to do. The numbers appeared and I knew they were correct. Still put them in the checker though just to make sure. It never pays to be too confident with a Rally Round!

Elizabeth had also been working on the puzzle and wasn’t far behind me in solving it.
We decided to go and look for it this morning. We both searched on the wrong side initially as there were hint items there that were likely candidates. I certainly got scratched trying to second guess where I thought it would be hidden. Once I’d extracted myself and rethought the final hide, as is so often the case, I saw what I was looking for.

Log signed and another solved RR under our belts. Thanks for the puzzle and the hide, Mr Crow. Have a FP.

I love this puzzle nearly as much as as the first one, and spent several happy minutes just playing before I remembered I was solving a puzzle. The first part was quickly done then came a pause while I considered what I had. Must to confess to making it harder than it actually was, but son got back on track and had some useful numbers. As usual my maths let me down and I had to find my mistake before the checker said yes.
Out with Karen to find the cache and we both got injured unnecessarily by looking in some very prickly bushes. Still once we changed sides the cache was quickly spotted and the log signed.
Thanks for placing the cache Mr Crow and a favourite point for the fun puzzle.

This was my find No.8460

TFTC Mr Crow

Find #1 of 1 for today

Soon had this in hand and signed if my memory is any good I think it was in the same place as the previous incarnation


infinson

#273 - 02/09/2019 13:54 -
Nice reflexion of the mountains in the lake. Found with 10anna10. Had to wait before putting back in place as there were people.
TFTC

An infuriating puzzle to solve!
Mr J tried all the decoding tools in his arsenal, some with extra twists to handle extra tricks that Mr Crow might have embellished them with.
Finally resorted to help from the CO, and was introduced to a coding scheme he had never come across before.
The tool we used for the decoding didn't give an accurate enough answer so we were hoping that the image would help locate the cache. Not much. There has been tree work at the GZ as reported Mar/19/2019, so the cache was located by looking for the damage.
Glad we had our pub lunch BEFORE our long search!
TFTC

The Dutch title gave me a hint about the elements of the puzzle hint.
But whichever way I folded or reversed the 43 digits of the long number I got nowhere.
Eventually I sought help from cache-amount and learnt something new about the world we live in.
At GZ the cache wasn't quite where expected, but I returned it as found.
Thanks for another RR challenge.

4th to solve 7/3/19
A relatively easy Rally Round solved by 135 lines of perl.
Thanks for yet another puzzle, Mr Crow.

I hadn’t looked at this one when it was first published as I’d assumed it would be too hard for me to solve. Opened the page almost by accident and realised it was in fact a game!

When I used to help at the Great Totham Church Fete we had a large set of cards (approximately 12 inches high) and we used to play this game on a stall to raise money. It is off course, much harder than it would first appear. I knew what I needed to do with this RR but not how to change the bidding. As a result, I aborted my first game halfway through! With more knowledge I started the second game and more by luck than anything else I got to the end. The coordinates appeared before my eyes and I was convinced that there had to be a catch. I put them into the checker and it said they were right!!!

What was even better was my name at the top of the Rally Round table on the cache page. That has never happened before and probably won’t occur again!

Decided to look for the ache on the way to work this morning. Saw the brambles and thought I can’t do that with my uniform on! However, there was a cachers path and I was soon in a position where I could retrieve the cache. Signed the log and replaced and continued my journey to work with a big smile on my face!

Thanks for the puzzle Mr Crow. Have a favourite point.

So pleased to have found this cache after persevering so long with the challenge. A really pleasant walk to the cache too on a late summers day. I am off to a wedding this afternoon, so a nice relaxing way to spend time beforehand. Not an easy one in my opinion, although a faster typing speed might have got me over the line sooner! FP for the feeling of finally getting over the line.

Another one ticked off this long list of unfounded completed puzzles, spent a few minutes quickly working out the bonus TFTC

Finally getting round to finding some of the ones we have solved moons ago, lovely views from here and cache soon in hand here ????TFTC

Quick find this morning whilst Evie trying out her new mountain bike TFTC

My GPS seemed a bit off, but found all the same! TFTC

Took a bit of digging around, but found eventually! TFTC

A lot of low branches so I had to duck! TFTC

Sep/21/2020- OK here.
Apr/29/2019 - OK here.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. Having done our homework before heading for Essex, we had a good idea where this cache would be - and we were not disappointed - although things look quite different now from when Google last passed this way ;-)

Our notes don't say how we solved this puzzle but we seem to remember that it was not too difficult. Thanks for the puzzle and cache.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. The was a quick spot, but a somewhat more tricky recovery. But eventually the deed was done. Four days later and this would have been a resus.

The puzzle was one of the CO's more straightforward offerings and once we had the correct references the numbers soon tumbled out. Thanks for the puzzle and cache.

GZ was heaving with muggles this morning so we reluctantly decided to drive on by.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. Not easy to stop on this busy road so after dropping FE-J off our driver made several passes while FE=J located and signed the well-hidden cache. As FE-J returned the cache the heavens opened and so he had no alternative but to wait in the rain for the car to return. We can only imagine how passing muggles may have interpreted the scene.

Apparently a resus here. Wow!

We love map-based puzzles and the coords duly appeared after some methodical work. Thanks for a challenging puzzle and cache.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. Only one (albeit prickly) place where this one could be.

We recall having to experiment with several on-line tools before finding the one that gave the answers required by the checker. Thanks for another great puzzle and cache.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. We made a meal of this one having mis-interpreted the hint. We search as long as we dared while our driver loitered nearby. In the end we admitted defeat, but then as we drove away, we thought of a possible alternative solution to the finding hint, and so we returned later in the morning for a quick and easy find. Phew!

Another relatively straightforward theme which soon produced some plausible coords. Thanks for the puzzle and cache.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. The final RR puzzle on our target list today and a quick (and prickly) find.

A second resus for us today, apparently.

Once we had stumbled on the correct method, the numbers began to appear slowly but surely. We recall one or two ambiguities here and there but these were soon resolved.

We were very happy to have found so many RRs (7/10) on our most enjoyable ride around the Essex lanes this morning. An FP here for the whole experience. Thanks for the puzzle and cache.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. We carefully searched the only obvious host at GZ but no sign of a cache today.

We solved this ingenious puzzle ourselves but only after a nudge in the right direction by a fellow cacher. Thanks for the puzzle on a theme we had not come across before.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. Our first actual DNF of the day. FE-J did his best to search the very overgrown host while our driver lurked nearby. But even knowing that the CO had visited recently sadly we were unable to lay hands on the cache today.

Honours for the solve go to our caching buddy wendykmj on this one. Thanks for the puzzle and cache.

Back in Mr Crow-land on a family visit. Our relatives were kind enough to drive us from point to point for a series of C&D attempts. The was our first RR cache of the day, A quick find thanks to the pin-point coords.

We remember enjoying working our way through this logical puzzle - a type that we particularly enjoy. Thanks for an excellent puzzle and cache.

Back in MrCrow-land for a family visit and so a chance to look for a few more of the CO's brilliant puzzles that we solved prior to our epic bike ride a couple of years ago. This multi was on our route for today so we obviously had to stop for a quick look.

The cache was quickly spotted in the second place we looked. A promising start to today's adventures. TFTC.

Grateful to the CO for clarifying a point about the puzzle sometime ago.
It did however, still take, until our son who was visiting from Cumbria for a long weekend, for the puzzle to be solved.
He soon adjusted our spread sheet, which quickly resulted in satisfying the checker.
Thanks Mr Crow for the work involved in placing this RR puzzle.
Favourite point added.

We tried to solve this on publication, however the information required to solve this, was found to be very dependent upon the source used.
Picked it up and put it down countless times, and finally got a good looking plot with which the checker agreed.
Thanks Mr Crow for an extremely well thought out puzzle. Favourite point added.

The information to solve this was collected soon after publication, while taking a short birding detour on the way home.
Having found well over 700 multi caches, this from memory, is the first one to completely stump us for a considerable time. Delighted to eventually get the green light from the checker.
Thanks Mr Crow for placing a most unusual multi cache for our enjoyment.

Oct/05/2019 - OK here.
Mar/19/2019 - OK here.
Jan/10/2019 - OK here.
Nov/24/2018- OK here.
Jun/11/2018 - OK here
Apr/05/2018 - OK here
Feb/20/2018 - OK here
Sep/24/2017 - OK here. 13 months unfound.
Aug/14/2017 - OK here. Getting close to its one year unfound anniversary!
May/23/2017 - OK here
Apr/07/2017 - OK here.
Feb/23/2017 - OK here.
Dec/25/2016 - OK here.

???? Found @15:35
Didn't bump in to the CO, I assume he visited earlier.
It's been a long wait ????
I've been watching the subject and reminded of this soooo many times. The hint was the key.
Enjoyed getting the numbers once I knew.

A subject which I know a local author knows something about
Thanks Ray for the cache & puzzle.

nice view, thanks. greetings from Czechia

Magic place! Deserves a Favorite.
TFTC. Greetings from Brazil!

High time I got my finger out and did some RR's, so Saturday evening was sorted.

Looked at this at publication but it quickly went on the "haven't got a clue" pile.
There it stayed , other than a cursory glance, until now.

Now when this CO give an extra hint it is at your peril to ignore it, which I initially did.
Cast a "Spell" he said Hmm , surely not !
It was at this point that Excel came to my rescue and a little bit of VB. Voilà
Then onto the next bit which again was another task for Excel.
But still the check sums would not work , what was I doing wrong.
It would help if I read the hint properly , 0-999 and not 1-999 LOL

And so onto the find ....
As with cachers before, GZ took me to a decaying squirrel in a tree and reading their logs I realised this was not the hide.
I scanned the area for a more trademark hide for this CO, and soon spotted a suitable host.
The poor little avian was still safe & sound so I signed the log and returned him.

Excellent puzzle which took far far too long to solve.
TFTC and an obvious favourite.

High time I got my finger out and did some RR's, so Saturday evening was sorted.

I had done 90% of this solve about 6 months ago, but just couldn't get over the finishing line.
I blew the dust of my old Excel spreadsheet and tried again to get the numbers but still got stuck at the same place. It's basically such a simple straightforward puzzle why was the last hurdle eluding me ? That blasted star wars robot had me puzzled. But then the penny dropped and it was time for me to Doh !

No problems at GZ , parked just up the road and walked back.
Cache had fallen onto the ground so replaced it properly.
TFTC and a favourite for R2D2

High time I got my finger out and did some RR's, so Saturday evening was sorted.

I had collected the relevant information for this months ago, but had no idea what to do with it.
How to get the numbers other than the two strange formulas which tell us to transform it twice then divide by a ridiculously accurate number, was a mystery.
Maybe there is a clue on the cache page ? Not that I could see :(
Eventually by a long process of trial and error the desired numbers appeared.

No problem at GZ other than the cache container being covered in some black slime !
All in all a strange multi from the CO. I am in awe of GB who actually did this as a field puzzle :-O
TFTC

Found some very interesting looking fungi but no cache unfortunately

Out with Zeus241 nice find for the day TFTC

Found whilst out with Limpyles today -!glad to turn this blue frown into a yellow smile haha

Oct/09/2019 - OK here, now that I've replaced the bison.

Solved ages ago but a bit out on a limb so not translated into a find. In the area today and targeted this to find.
Didn't manage to solve the hint for GZ until afterwards but co-ords were spot on and somewhere I would have hidden it. Great to notch up another Crow puzzle, many thanks, now off to Tiptree Heath for a radio direction finding competition.

When we started out on the Hooker Valley Track there were still some clouds hanging low and covering the mountains around us. But as we were sitting at the lake at the end of the Hooker Valley Track, the clouds lifted and we could see Aoraki in his full glory. We had such a beautiful time here. Thanks for the Caches along the way!

Found together with rramaT whilst traveling around New Zealand. TFTC!

Quick find by mini cacher tftc

Brilliant! Great cache

Lots of poking about but eventually found it! Great cache ????

Good clue. Tftc

Not done any caching in 6 weeks, so out today for a very short drive to pick up some local caches and clear a few green boxes from the map.

3/3. Have found this one before in a previous guise, so knew what to expect, and also how hard it can be to park, so didn't take any chances and left the car in a side road layby instead. Still quite risky walking down to the gate, as there is no verge to speak of. Nice, simple find, but covered with a bit more camo for good measure. TFTC #3753 CM #278

Quick easy find on a damp autumn morning ????????????TFTC