The Planner

Putting aside the issues that surround pock suppetry and each to their own, there would not be a complaint from this quarter if these caches were spread over twice the distance so linking Banbury with Oxford along the canal. I would be in fact applauding them and actively planning to do them in one go. But what it all comes down to is sheer numbers in a very constrained linear line. It appears to me to have been set up by those and for those only interested in just number collecting and it could be argued that it therefore reflects a lazy mind and maybe a lazy body. These are indeed a ‘Power Trail’ but not on a par with SP’s Ridgeway Run. What poor old Jolly Jaxs thinks about the swamping of the series that he originated I don’t know, but to my mind at least they have spoilt what would have been a decent and well-conceived set of caches.

Can someone clearly explain what the point is of the Route Canal series of caches in Oxfordshire. 26 caches in under 10km (6.25 miles). I can see that they meet the guidlines but surely our moderators must have an opinion about the efficacy of this series. I know of two other canal series, the K&A and the Grand Union which are well spaced even when they are in built up enviroments, but this (by Oxfordshire standards) is in the middle of nowhere!. If this was a sport, these caches would face the accusation of bringing it into disrepute. Can anybody truly defend them?