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Wow, all of that took some reading! I’m very much still a newbie at geocaching! I’ve got 204 now? I’m not too fussy about the caches, but I am slightly competitive! So I like getting as many as I can. However, the few trails/loops/circuits myself and Triarii have done are a good way of getting me off the Xbox…! It’s also handy for anyone without a sense of direction, as you know you’ll make your way back to the car (if you forgot to set a waypoint! :-/ ) Despite being in my late 20’s, I’m fairly unhealthy :-/ so these circuits break up the periods of walking for me 🙂 actually, as a result, I don’t get so out of breath anymore! The random individual ones are good too for (for example) you’re in the car and you’ve had to stop, I think it’s brilliant to see if there’s anything nearby. I’m not a great walker, but some caches have taken me to places I’d never have the care to go to if it wasn’t for a cache being there. I agree that varying the caches themselves are great, one of my favourites being Dartymoors old puzzle by the clay pits! The hiding location variety is just as important. We just did the Its a jungle/bush tucker trail and seeing something different is brilliant! I do think a series further into Dartmoor would be a good idea, but it’d take me longer to do it I think! The moor is cold and harsh! 😀 in the mean time, my village and most of the surrounding areas are covered in smiley faces (with the exception of that blooming puzzle in Chudleigh that I just don’t understand….) so we’re having to go further afield each time – not that I have any issue with it! 😀
Holy moly! You did a 15mile route in less than three hours AND found 100 caches?! That’s walking faster than 5mph! My average is 3.7 (according to Map My Walk anyway!) how on earth did you manage that?! Did you sprint between caches? 🙂
My first cache was with Triarii! It was my first visit to Devon (used to live in Bedfordshire and myself and Tri became friends through work) I was a bit apprehensive about driving all this way to stay in a house where I knew just one person -barely! Tri and his housemate Pete introduced me to geocaching by taking me to one of theirs in Ivybridge! That’s where I met two of ‘the three kings’ and ‘Poppy’. Didn’t think much of it as I wasn’t used to walking far or getting caked in mud, but I had to put on a brave face! Couldn’t go all girly!! I actually assumed that all caches had to be in irritating areas where you have no choice BUT to walk through a cow poop covered field! Just did not like that idea! Around 2 years later and after living in gorgeous Devon for over a year, I went ‘back home’ to visit my friends! Little did I know, my friend Jason, knew about geocaching! I though ‘small world, but there’s not many fields here!’ We took a visit to St Albans and Hitchin, and found some urban caches! People everywhere! Only then did I find it fun! Now I can’t really go anywhere without having a look and seeing if I can get any caches and brilliant views on the way! Love it and wish I knew about it years ago 😀
