A Wildcat Challenge
Those of you who have been keeping up with our Simple Life of Luxury will know that we have been enjoying a spot of geocaching lately. So, as we are of to visit family in Gloucestershire in the run up to Christmas we looked up some caches in that area and have been tempted by a pretty difficult cache. Geocaches are rated ona a scale from 1-5 for their difficulty and on a similar scale for the terrain. The cache we are going to attempt gets 5 stars for both, making it one of the most difficult in the UK. The Wildcat Geocache is listed as one of the hardest but also one of the best geocaches in the UK.
Stating here that we are going to attempt it probably means we are doomed to failure, but we are going to give it go, and WON”T be giving away any clues. The cache itself consists of three virtual caches where you can find numbers to give you the co-ordinates of a fourth cache. The fourth cache provides you with coordinates for the 5th and final cache, for which you need to hire some specialist equipment to get to.
Of course, to make things a little more difficult you need to solve various cryptic clues to find the first three virtual cahces, and just to add to the fun most of these cryptic clues are in French! We think we know where the first virtual cache is, and have the numbers required from it. We think we know where the 2nd and 3rd virutal caches are too, although we could be completely wrong.
We even have a hunch where the final cache may be and therefor have an idea what the specialist equipment could be… But that really is just a hunch. As soon as we get the chance we shall investigate these locations to see if we are on the right tracks… It should be an enjoyable challenge, and who knows we may even find the cache at the end of it.
A Simple Life of Luxury » The Wildcat Geocache Challenge said,
A Simple Life of Luxury » The Wildcat Geocache Challenge
December 5, 2006 @ 9:31 am
[...] Despite spending a fair bit of time looking for cars at the weekend we did manage an hour or so putting a few pieces of the wildcat geocache together. We managed to find all but one of the figures required for the coordinates of cahce 4. We didn’t actually have to visit all of the virtual caches to find these and had already made an educated guess of some of the figures. This educated guess had allowed me to make another educated guess at the actually location of cache four and as it turns out that guess was spot on, so we could have gone straight to cache four without visiting the virtual caches… But the whole point is to get us to places that we wouldn’t normally go. I can’t tell you where that was for this particular cache as I wouldn’t want to give too much away to anyone else trying to do it. But we had a pleasant hour or so verifying the figures for the coordinates followed by Sunday lunch in a nearby pub. [...]
A Simple Life of Luxury » Plans for the weekend said,
A Simple Life of Luxury » Plans for the weekend
December 15, 2006 @ 5:57 am
[...] The Wales contingent of the Cole family (Anna, Morgan and me) are also hoping to get some geocaching in on the Saturday. We are halfway through the Wildcat geocache and hope to get the next stage completed, along with a few easy ones near my parents house. It should be a busy weekend but I don’t think we’ll make it back in time for the Ynyslas Xmas gathering. [...]
A Simple Life of Luxury » Wildcat Geocache Success! said,
A Simple Life of Luxury » Wildcat Geocache Success!
December 18, 2006 @ 10:17 am
[...] Well, we have completed the Wildcat Geocache. I can’t say too much about it here or even post any photos as I don’t want to give too much away, but we actually found it a little easier than we were expecting which in the end was a bit of a disappointment as we were prepared for quite a challenge. [...]