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So, here's a little tale of joy... About 15 months ago, I made a second attempt on GCP91N. Let's be fair, it didn't go very well: for all my efforts, I got many newly acquired scratches, a DNF and lost my GPS 60 somewhere in a lot of extremely unpleasant gorse. I chose to write it off as lost, but left a hopeful note in case someone stumbled across it one day - and, if nothing else, it had my name and number on the startup screen. (as it happened, I was looking for an excuse to get a new GPSr, but that doesn't make it any better to lose an expensive bit of kit) Now, wind forward to yesterday and I get a call from mrplenty, who tells me that a group went to look for GCP91N and, astonishingly, Team Kuckuck had uncovered a rather battered GPS 60 which, with a set of new batteries, turned out to be mine. So, with a little help from Mrs Scothog, SummitPlummet and Original A1, it's now sat on my desk with only a bit of a battering to show for spending an extended period in the great outdoors. So, huge thanks to everyone who was involved - it's great to know that the spirit of geocaching is friendly, open and supportive. Cheers guys!

Now that Day 31 is drawing to a close, and all 31 souvenirs have been earned, I was amused to discover that there is an inevitable Downfall parody video: (note: contains strong language and poor English)

All events described in that log are completely true. Except for the stuff I added to make it more interesting.

For my first hide - the only one so far - I left a print of a modest e-voucher for one of the geocaching supplies shops; enough to get a cheap micro GC or a pack of travel bugs. I tried to deter the usual FTF suspects by suggesting in the cache description that it might be nice if someone new to the game found it. Alas, one of the more prolific cachers did go for the FTF, but was kind enough to leave the voucher for the next visitor...who did turn out to be on single digit finds.