1-3 April 2011

We've had a spate of DNFs this weekend - 4 out of the 16 we tried.

On Friday evening, we visited It's Treason in Kirkby Lonsdale after work. It has a difficulty of 2, so shouldn't have presented much of a problem - it's down a lane, which is overlooked by several houses, so we felt quite exposed searching for it. There are several nearby trees which hamper GPS reception and the clue is very vague. We decided to abandon the search after about 10 minutes when someone came into the lane. We'll go back and give it another go as it's near to work, but it's a very uninspiring cache for a caches sake, and I can't help but feel putting such a small container in ivy without much of hint warrants a higher difficulty rating.

On Saturday, we planned to take Sal's mum out for Mother's Day dinner near Kirkby Lonsdale, so we took a trip to Ingleton to grab some of the caches there. I've only been to Ingleton three times previously (I think), and never really properly round the village. It's a very nice village, lots of stunning views and there are around 10 caches within walkable distance. We had around 90 minutes before we needed to collect Sal's mum, so could only fit in five of these, and unfortunately two of them seem to have been muggled. Plaice to rest is a great place to set a cache (though it was not there when we visited, presumably muggled) as it's a bench right near the end of the Waterfalls walk, and several people puffed their way past as we tried to work out if the cache was still there or not. We even got to take in a little bit of caving (for feeble people) with Storey Grotto.

On Sunday, we headed down near Scorton to give some more of the LEGEND series a go, with a little leg of 9 between Scorton and Barnacre. Unfortunately the first one on the leg seems to have gone missing, but the rest were simple finds, across several muddy fields. On our way to the eighth, we were too literal in our following of the GPS, and crossed a stile into a field and ended up in a corner with nowhere to go, other than to retrace our steps. Still, by A Good Year we found a lamb escaped from a field, and in trying to get near to it to pick it up and put it back in it's field, managed to usher it to a corner with a gap in the wire for it to go back through. Our most community minded cache find so far!