+Seasider Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) Look very carefully at the photo in the link below :- UK's Most Wanted This pair have cached under the alias of "2C's" and were first spotted on Sat 12 July 2003 rummaging in hedgerows all over Berkshire, Surrey & Hampshire. A week later on Sat 19th July 2003 there were unconfirmed sightings at the very successful Winchester HCC Event :- Winchester HCC Event (& Evening BBQ for cachers) Were you there? Did you spot them? The pair are responsible for the UK record of most caches in a day - 36 - but have never been brought to justice for this act of lunacy!! They must be found! If you have any information relating to their identity then please post it here! Cheers! Seasider Edited January 2, 2004 by Seasider Quote Link to comment
+Eckington Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 OK, how about this for a starting point. Assuming they finished up in Hampshire, where did they start from? The vast majority of the others caches they found were in the Bracknell, Wokingham, NE Surrey and Guildford way.............. ...........Hmmmm!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Seasider Posted January 2, 2004 Author Share Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) Whoops! County boundary was indistinct on my map (first post amended for bad geography)!! I thought Bracknall was in Hampshire - I'm from Lancashire so once I'm over the Manchester Ship Canal then everything just merges together! Now consider this - when I go out on a cache trip which isn't a roughly circular tour then I tend to start at the cache furthest from home/hotel and finish at the cache closest to home/hotel. When I did my recent southern tour I stayed near Watford on the Mon,Tue,Wed nights. The Tue caching route was roughly circular so I started and finished near the hotel - the main consideration for the starting cache was ease of find in the dark. However, Weds caching took me to the Epping Forest area so I got up early to beat the traffic and started at the furthest cache and ended at a cache just a few miles from the hotel. The reason being that you are not faced with a long drive when tiredness or darkness hits. So I would assume the 2C's did the same - got up early from base on the south coast and drove to their furthest cache first - therefore, they live in Hampshire! Is one O'Mally's dad?! Seasider Edited January 2, 2004 by Seasider Quote Link to comment
+Omally Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Is one O'Mally's dad?! Certainly not! Cheeky swine! I'll have you know insanity doesn't run in my family... *ahem* Quote Link to comment
+TheCookieCrew Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Just my thoughts on their location...... If they ARE really experienced cachers that have teamed up then hit some caches together the chances are that they would have already done all their local ones on their own. Therefore it owuld make more sense that they have commuted to an area with a high density of caches available. In short they could live anywhere...... Maybe the clue is in the name 2C's, clive and colin ? Chris and Cliff...? who knows ???? Maybe the UK stats page can be off assistance...... Nice.... Quote Link to comment
+Mr & Mrs Hedgehog Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 If they ARE really experienced cachers that have teamed up then hit some caches together the chances are that they would have already done all their local ones on their own. but surely if they were doing caches that they haven't done before then they would use their own caching names. I know I would. So I've always assumed that at least one of them had done these caches before, knew that they could quickly bag them, and so teamed up to try to log as many caches as possible in a day and to try to get a record. So if they have done the caches before, then is their record really valid..... finding a cache you've already found is much easier then finding it for the first time.... Peter Quote Link to comment
+Eckington Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 ....further to my last post, for distribution check this out Quote Link to comment
+The Wombles Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) Interesting mystery, the pictures on their gallery are pretty clear (especially this one - beware, it's a spoiler [their first hit] and this one [their last hit]. Someone must recognise them from those pictures; I agree with the theory that they are experienced cachers who used this name simply for a record. Their final comment "16 hours, 265 miles by car, more than 10 by foot. 36 caches in the day." Edited January 2, 2004 by The Wombles Quote Link to comment
+TheCookieCrew Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Having reviewed the pictures in the HCC bash, does anyone think the one on the right looks a little like Derrek Reed, who I have seen post here from time to time..... If it is (probably not though) then I don't know where the 2C's comes from. Mike Quote Link to comment
+Eckington Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Interesting mystery, the pictures on their gallery are pretty clear (especially this one - beware, it's a spoiler [their first hit] and this one [their last hit]. Someone must recognise them from those pictures; I agree with the theory that they are experienced cachers who used this name simply for a record. Their final comment "16 hours, 265 miles by car, more than 10 by foot. 36 caches in the day." ....judging by the composition of all the piccies in the gallery, are they using a tripod and pre-timer, or, was there a "Third Man"? Quote Link to comment
+The Wombles Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 ....judging by the composition of all the piccies in the gallery, are they using a tripod and pre-timer, or, was there a "Third Man"? I asked the same question until I saw the photo at 3.20pm. Either the camera slipped, or the third man was drunk! Quote Link to comment
+Eckington Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Either the camera slipped, or the third man was drunk! ....by then, as the third man I could quite well have been Quote Link to comment
+Hi-Tek Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 The shorter non-bearded individual would appear to be left handed if that's any help (wears his watch on his right wrist - as I do BUT it aint me ). That must narrow it down a bit . Quote Link to comment
+Hi-Tek Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 I reckon I've sussed one half of the 2Cs team . How about a team that had done 34 of the 36 caches BEFORE the 2Cs tour 12th July (aren't databases just wonderfull ). There are no photographs of 'said' team and they have a fairly set 'caching' pattern - no finds between the 6th July and 26th July . Now who would like to know who I think one half of the team are? Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Hmm The Hurigan Hoopers...? MarcB Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Okay I may have the answer... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt= In this cache The Hurigan Hoopers meet The Coastway Cruisers (2C's maybe)- this is June 28th. Exactly two weeks later 2C's go on their cache blitz. Interestingly, neither team has posted on the forums so they're probably oblivious to all this! What do you think? MarcB Quote Link to comment
+Hi-Tek Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Hmm The Hurigan Hoopers...? MarcB Yep, that's them . Quote Link to comment
+Hi-Tek Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 (edited) I've just re-checked the stats in the cold light of day (don't you just hate 'spaces' & 'archived' ) and the Hurigan Hoopers had in fact logged all 36 caches prior to 12th July . Mystery solved methinks Edited January 3, 2004 by Motley Crew Quote Link to comment
+TheCookieCrew Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Nice piece of invetigation work, Quincy would have been proud of you all..... A little naughty though me thinks, fancy doing caches twice just to get a record.... Anyway, each to their own... Quote Link to comment
+Eckington Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Okay I may have the answer...http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt= In this cache The Hurigan Hoopers meet The Coastway Cruisers (2C's maybe)- this is June 28th. Exactly two weeks later 2C's go on their cache blitz. Interestingly, neither team has posted on the forums so they're probably oblivious to all this! What do you think? MarcB ...............perhaps someone ought to post a link to this thread to the teams concerned.....they may want a right to rebuttal Quote Link to comment
+paul_and_judith Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Yep! It's the Hurigan Hoopers alright - we walked with them to find the Chichester social cache last May. Paul thinks that one of them was called Chris (possibly the other one was called Colin which would account for the name 2Cs). Quote Link to comment
+Mr & Mrs Hedgehog Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 A little naughty though me thinks, fancy doing caches twice just to get a record.... my point exactly Quote Link to comment
+stu_and_sarah Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 A little naughty though me thinks, fancy doing caches twice just to get a record.... But why not, eh? Maybe someone can go for the record of not-already-found caches. I can imagine that being substantially harder. Anyone know where the record currently stands? Seasider, I guess? Cheers, Stu Quote Link to comment
+Hi-Tek Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 A little naughty though me thinks, fancy doing caches twice just to get a record.... my point exactly To be fair to them they did state in their logs: We are visiting as many caches as we can in a single day. Note the word visiting - they don't actually claim to have found the caches that day. Anyone could go for this 'record' if they wanted to, if that's the sort of thing you enjoy it just goes to show what can be done . Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 "And that's the end of that chapter" [swings scarf over shoulder] MarcB Quote Link to comment
+Hi-Tek Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 "And that's the end of that chapter" [swings scarf over shoulder] MarcB Touché Quote Link to comment
+Omally Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 (edited) Hey, what you doing still up Keith? (a) It's past your bedtime and ( the wee small hours are only populated by strange people wearing camo... Edited January 4, 2004 by Omally Quote Link to comment
+Seasider Posted January 4, 2004 Author Share Posted January 4, 2004 (edited) Mystery solved & case closed! Seasider Edited January 4, 2004 by Seasider Quote Link to comment
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