Adventures of a Bolas Heathen

Last Friday, in addition to the new caches along the old Market Drayton railway line coming out, there was a 16 stage multi around the lovely (small) town of Eccleshall, not far from home. On Sunday, after I’d finished logging Saturday’s caches, myself and Freya set off for Eccleshall to try the new cache. With [...]

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On Saturday we decided to head to Sambourne, which is between Redditch and Alcester. There was an event there last weekend (which we’d totally missed spotting – probably because I’ve never heard of Sambourne before!) and lots of new caches had been placed in the area. Isaac guided us off the M5 and to the [...]

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On Friday morning, I was just about to settle down to work for the day when I spotted 8 new caches very close to home, along the route of the old Wellington to Market Drayton railway line. I was soon at the first one, which was the most southerly in the set. I’d missed FTF [...]

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Isaac was away all weekend at scout camp so I settled on a plan of a nice long circular walk on the moors, with a few caches to find along the way. Just the kind of caching I really enjoy when going solo. On Saturday morning, the weather did not look too promising, but it [...]

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The weekend before last, we’d cached in the pouring rain all day in South Birmingham. When we’re out caching I use a Garmin Oregon 400T and Isaac has a Garmin Colorado 300. During the day in the rain, Isaac’s Colorado kept switching into Mass Storage Mode, as if it thought a USB cable was being [...]

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On Sunday, I’d finished logging Saturday’s caches and was at a loose end. The weather was still beautiful so I thought I’d pop out and find the new series which is set along the old Gnosall to Stafford railway line. This was converted into a really nice cycle-way / walking route as part of the [...]

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Our Plan B for last week became our Plan A for this week… The bad weather put paid to it last week as the plan involved parking up and then walking round 36 caches during the day, before ending up back at the Jeep. No fun in the rain, but fabulous fun in the lovely [...]

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I’ve been helping a new cacher who lives not too far from home out with advice on setting up a new cache series and how to make your cache page look nice, with images and different text. For the record, I had no idea where the caches were going to be set so did not [...]

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The rain continued on Sunday with it absolutely teeming down most of the day. Later in the day, we’d just had a lovely Sunday roast dinner when the rain started to clear up. I didn’t need an excuse to get out to walk my dinner off and more importantly, get some fresh air. The closest [...]

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