+Team Spike Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Wow! Thanks for that URL (www.multimap.co.uk). I've always wanted Arial photos of where I used to live! Sorry for being off topic - if I was near Blackpool I would help look. Groover Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 OK folks you can relax - it does exist and I found it this afternoon. I am e-mailing the coordinates to Dan right away and it is up to him how soon he publishes it. So, why don't I include them in this reply? Well I thought others might like to have a comprehensive tour of the by-ways near Blackpool over the weekend, as I have this afternoon! I tried four possibles before I struck gold and if I tell you know which the failures were it might spoil it for those perverse enough to want to do it the hard way. I will tell of my adventures and misadventures when Dan has set up the cache site - meanwhile if anyone does want to e-mail me direct I will disclose the co-ordinates - that fair enough? Oh, and I am setting up a virtual cache nearby for those who think Blackpool is the end of the world and like to do more than one cache at a time. John jstead@bigfoot.com Quote Link to comment
the tapir Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Dan Wilson: When this cache is found there is going to be some serious drinking done (all over the country) OK ... well I'll start now ... or maybe a few hours ago. Quote Link to comment
Runemaster Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Well done John... you just couldnt resist the challenge could you? Quote Link to comment
Runemaster Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Well done John... you just couldnt resist the challenge could you? Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Now Dan has published "Blackpool's First Cache" I will add one or two comments I left out before. The first two I tries were those suggested by The Northumbrian and The Baron of Basingstoke near Wrea Green with appropriate research into the qualities of one of the pubs suggested (The Grapes)! Although I went to each of the coordinates and took photosof what I found (or didn't find) both of these were footpaths and not bridleways as Dan specified. But they were in pleasant countryside and the pub food was good. So on to Dan's own suggetion at SD333310 which turned out to be almost exactly under the end of the airport's main runway and the only bridge was really a culvert. Then I headed for the nearest other bridleways - naturally I picked the wrong one first and, after thoroughly picking over the fence bottoms at a right angled fence opposite a bridge (amazing what litter you turn up including a sheet of black polythene covered with enormous snails - left that out for the birds!) I headed back to the car with little time left but on the way saw a bridge over the same dyke as the one I had just been to and on the bridleway on the opposite side of the road I had parked on. After a bit of ferreting round there it was, precisely as Dan had described it in his firt two posts. I think some of us (myself included) had expected to find a kink in the path but Dan did not actually say that, just a right angle in the fence. It is not actually at the right angle but is at the base of the fence near the angle and just away from the path. There I'm not giving any more away except to say that I think good thorn proof gloves may be needed soon! While finding my way from St Anne's I spotted a blue "conservation" plaque and being curious stopped to look - so it has become a virtual cache "Memorial to a Memorial" Quote Link to comment
dawnrazor Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Round of applause and a few drinks in at the bar for John I think - top effort Quote Link to comment
dawnrazor Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Round of applause and a few drinks in at the bar for John I think - top effort Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Looks like you did the right thing with this challenge Dan - Just got my "repaired" Etrex summit back from Garmin (took 4 working days to repair). The Bad News: I lost all my Waypoints The Good News: Because they sent me a brand new one in the box & everything Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net/Index.html Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Looks like you did the right thing with this challenge Dan - Just got my "repaired" Etrex summit back from Garmin (took 4 working days to repair). The Bad News: I lost all my Waypoints The Good News: Because they sent me a brand new one in the box & everything Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net/Index.html Quote Link to comment
+Team Minim Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Congratulations, reading this thread it seemed impossible, but not so, I'm gobsmacked! Quote Link to comment
+GAZ Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Well done John, just as the story was getting good! Maybe I might plant one and "forget" the co-ords? Naahhh....maybe not!!!! GAZ Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 6, 2002 Author Share Posted April 6, 2002 Thanx again John. I hope everyone who was interested in this topic will go visit and see what you think! Im glad my origonal description wasnt that far off base either. (BLACKPOOLS FIRST CACHE) topic oficially closed Dan Wilson (Team Dan and Pid) Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 6, 2002 Author Share Posted April 6, 2002 Thanx again John. I hope everyone who was interested in this topic will go visit and see what you think! Im glad my origonal description wasnt that far off base either. (BLACKPOOLS FIRST CACHE) topic oficially closed Dan Wilson (Team Dan and Pid) Quote Link to comment
JasonW Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 Ever thought of a job as a forensic surveyor John ? Quote Link to comment
JasonW Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 Ever thought of a job as a forensic surveyor John ? Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 WELL DONE JOHN STEAD, MAY WE ALL STAND AND SALUTE YOU.... SORRY MASHER, HES MY NEW HERO PID WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 WELL DONE JOHN STEAD, MAY WE ALL STAND AND SALUTE YOU.... SORRY MASHER, HES MY NEW HERO PID WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
+Longfram Kev Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 (edited) Just found a link on the forum to this thread....................... Great reading although evey note is posted TWICE ??? WELL.................................. this is worse than wating for the next instalment of Coronation street HAS THE *&@+"!? CACHE BEEN FOUND???????????????????? Yours on the edge of his seet KEV Edited 2 mins later..... Oh how stupid of me ..............I only read the first page. Well done John a slightly embarssed Kev Edited November 25, 2004 by Longfram Kev Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 Bumping two year old posts is *so* not cool! Quote Link to comment
+M3ZPY Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 whty are all the messages being duplicated??? Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 It's some old glitch from when the message server got transfer/blew up a year or so back. MarcB Quote Link to comment
+M3ZPY Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 thank god for that- I thought my pc was b*****d! Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 (edited) I'm sort of tempted to try to find the cache just by Dan's original posts rather than the official page. I like a challenge... Have we discovered why holiday caches got banned? SP Edited November 25, 2004 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 I'm sort of tempted to try to find the cache just by Dan's original posts rather than the official page. I like a challenge... Believe you me - I had a real fun day finding it and you've brought back a lot of memories. BUT - did you know that a certain well known cacher who now has 1200+ finds actually found that cache accidentally while out walking near his home and doing a bit of CITO, except that he did not then know what Geocaching was about? He took the container home, read the contents, went on line to find what it was all about, replaced the container - and then found his first 100 in (I think) less than three weeks and 1000 in less than a year! Quote Link to comment
+G Force Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 BUT - did you know that a certain well known cacher who now has 1200+ finds actually found that cache accidentally while out walking near his home and doing a bit of CITO, except that he did not then know what Geocaching was about? He took the container home, read the contents, went on line to find what it was all about, replaced the container - and then found his first 100 in (I think) less than three weeks and 1000 in less than a year! I wonder who that could be??? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 (edited) I think the UK caching community have a lot to thank Dan and Pid for. Not only did the UKs leading finder start his 'journey with a single (D&P) cache' but one of theirs snared me too! I'd like to suggest a national Dan & Pid day, but that hardly seems appropriate. Perhaps a national Dan & Pid night?... SP Edit: Who the hell is Mike? Where was Pid? The bottom's fallen out of my world and the world's...etc. Edited November 25, 2004 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
+dysdera Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 I think we should all club together and buy dan a notebook and a pencil Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 (edited) I think we should all club together and buy dan a notebook and a pencil Hehehehe! I always make a note of co-ords in my Cache Book (week to a view) when setting one. I dare say UK caching history might be very different if Dan had too, on this occasion. What if John had never located it? What if Seasider hadn't been public-spirited and found the cache? What if there was any point to my meaningless speculation? Eh? makes you think, doesn't it? SP Edited November 25, 2004 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
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