Adventures of a Bolas Heathen

The Crisis Point cache on the hill at Lilleshall that we adopted from MarcB has been suspected as muggled for most of December, but with all the Christmas festivities, we’ve only just had chance to go over and check on it. It used to be one of those big ammo boxes hidden in the undergrowth [...]

Read Full Post »

On Saturday our destination for caching was the Derby area. The day was planned in two halves – first we’d try the caches along the Trent and Mersey canal from Willington to Stenson and then we’d go off and try and find the “A is for”, “B is for” etc etc series from JustAlan. On [...]

Read Full Post »

The main target for the day was the Stag Ramblers new Kington Lane Loop series. The weather was forecast to be very wet, but clearing up later in the day. We drove down the M6 to the parking location in steady rain and donned our waterproofs, including our new waterproof trousers, which were on their [...]

Read Full Post »

Our new Earthcache has just been published. It’s at one of our favourite places in the Peak District – Windgather Rocks, in between Macclesfield and Buxton. We were a bit worried about the proximity issue as a Traditional cache is 488ft from the stated co-ords and had seen the following quote from Deceangi on the [...]

Read Full Post »

We still had the need to find some caches after yesterday’s half-day caching in Brum so planned a trip to try and find the new Lollybob caches around Bridgnorth. On the way, we stopped off to find the three new Rabbit Run caches on the road between Telford and Dudley. We’ve no idea what the [...]

Read Full Post »

On Saturday, we were due to meet up with Mrs Bolas Heathens cousins and children, to go on our annual jaunt to the Symphony Hall in Birmingham to see the Police Symphony Orchestra and the children’s concert they put on for Christmas. Myself and Isaac were dying to get some caches in, so set off [...]

Read Full Post »

We’ve just submitted our first Earthcache to earthcache.org. The form says to allow up to 10 days to get a response so we’ll be patiently waiting to see what they say. Hopefully all will be ok and it will be fine as it is. The only potential problem I can see is there is a [...]

Read Full Post »

We’re thinking of setting up an Earthcache and have the perfect location in mind. Our main gripe is it’s not exactly clear what the process involved is. We know you have to submit the details at www.earthcache.org and then a member of the Geological Society of America reviews it and if it’s ok: They create [...]

Read Full Post »