Category Archives: Hiding Geocaches

All about my experiences in placing geocaches for others to find.

Spring Maintenance

Posted on May 5, 2018 by washknight

After receiving some needs maintenance logs on a couple of our caches recently and seeing that the weather was starting to improve, we decided it was time to head over to Aldenham and do a maintenance run. It has been … Continue reading →

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Scouts Geocaching Activity Badge

Posted on May 24, 2017 by washknight

Way back at the end of August last year, I posted an article about starting to work on the Scouts geocaching badge with Sam and some friends. An update on the situation is well overdue and whilst I said I … Continue reading →

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Saying goodbye is hard to do.

Posted on August 27, 2016 by washknight

Just a few months after we started caching in 2013, we placed a small series of caches around the streets of Watford (See The Seeker becomes The Hider. Over the last few months I have been thinking a lot about … Continue reading →

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GeoDate – Relationship Counselling

Posted on May 16, 2016 by washknight

After our disastrous GeoDate recently (See When Geocaching Despair leads to Thoughts of Cannibalism), it was time to try and patch things up, if we wanted to rebuild our relationship with geocaching at all. After doing a couple of much … Continue reading →

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Catch-up 2 – Aldenham with Mum

Posted on November 17, 2015 by washknight

Previously on Washknight – Geocaching Blind… I was being crap at writing my blog entries and am therefore posting a few “speed” catch-ups to correct the anomaly in the space-time continuum. This is the second. A couple of days after … Continue reading →

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Our hides get a visit from a geocaching celebrity

Posted on May 3, 2015 by washknight

drsolly currently has the most finds logged of any UK geocacher at just under 41,000. He has held this position for quite some time only occasionally being knocked off the top for short periods of time. On Friday, he came … Continue reading →

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Wall Hall Maintenance

Posted on April 11, 2015 by washknight

After receiving a few DNFs on a couple of our Wall Hall caches we thought it was a good opportunity to go for a walk and do a maintenance run today. We have had cause to return and maintain the … Continue reading →

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50 Faves of Wall Hall

Posted on March 5, 2015 by washknight

I can’t help myself… I am trying to be modest but sometimes you just have to blow your own trumpet… right? I am so proud to report that one of our caches, Wall Hall 10 – We’re getting the hang … Continue reading →

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Sam’s First Hide Goes Live

Posted on February 10, 2015 by washknight

Yesterday Sam a.k.a. MiniKnight submitted his first cache and today it went live. Whilst I have helped him at points along the way, he has done all the work himself and I am very proud of him. Church Micro 7231… … Continue reading →

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Finishing Off The Moosey

Posted on January 25, 2015 by washknight

Last weekend, we had decided to do a little geocaching… there’s a surprise. 😉 On Saturday morning it snowed and so that idea went out the window. I think that snow remains the only weather condition that we have still … Continue reading →

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