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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #30 on: July 21, 2012, 03:59:11 pm »
Banbury.
Plenty of parking uphill and downhill of the Banbury Cross and 'Fine Lady' statue.
Not sure of times for parking (Parking meters) for any 'free' parking. eg free after 6.00pm

At the time we get there, there should be plenty close by ;D
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #31 on: July 21, 2012, 04:02:48 pm »
PS What about 14 icons in 11 hours: Challenge, Waymark & Opencaching (am I allowed to say that!?)
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2012, 04:18:29 pm »
Yes, but it won't be official in your stats - but you could still brag about it - I'm sticking to 11  :D

I should be bringing little cards like I did for the "Leap Frog" event to advertise CacheWalker and the forums? What do you think?
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #33 on: July 21, 2012, 05:08:53 pm »
I should be bringing little cards like I did for the "Leap Frog" event to advertise CacheWalker and the forums? What do you think?

Why not, good idea ;D
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2012, 05:41:40 pm »
We will be wearing our new t-shirts,they look nice with the trackable bug on the back so we can be discovered,but unfortunately the printer made the orange part of the logo red!,looks a nice colour but it's not quite right!  ;)
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #35 on: July 21, 2012, 05:58:08 pm »
I am still none the wiser about parking for the CITO  ???

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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #36 on: July 21, 2012, 05:59:32 pm »
At least it's not just me
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #37 on: July 21, 2012, 06:20:32 pm »
Just got back from doing the fifth ring of the marathon series, did the other 4 on Thursday.

I recorded the distance I walked as 30 miles in total over 14.5 hours. I returned to the car after each ring for refreshments so someone else may be able to cut a couple of miles and an hour off that total by going straight from one ring to the next. Parked in Turville for B/C/D (by the green), Fingest for E (by the church) and Hambledon for A (the free car park).

Quite a few steep hills to climb and quite a lot of muddy sections.
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #38 on: July 21, 2012, 06:24:44 pm »
Thank you very much for that JJ, we're tacking it on Monday  ;D
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #39 on: July 21, 2012, 09:01:11 pm »
Parking for the CITO:

I think the idea is that cachers walk :o from the Mega/town centre to the CITO over the railway and from there back to where their transport is.

I'm parking at the P&R (51°43.755'N, 1°14.929'W) £1.50/day and £1.70 for the bus into the town centre but I might not be using the bus.

If you want free, try 51°44.205'N, 1°14.454'W which is rough ground parking suggested for GC12CVG or street parking in New Hinskey but I know there is a lot of resident parking only.

South Hinskey is very poor for parking with narrow roads but there is a few spaces by the CITO co-ordinates but these may be taken by residents. It was parking for the now closed pub, I've used it for the cache on the footbridge GC3A76J which was placed from a boat :o :D
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #40 on: July 23, 2012, 01:49:30 pm »
Well what a great day, managed all that I wanted to do, with a walk along the canal in the evening sun to get that last cache size  ;D

Thank you tarmacjohn for the Puzzle cache, seems we both had a problem on this one.

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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #41 on: July 23, 2012, 09:11:03 pm »
Well done  ;D

I'll be logging all mine tomorrow  :)
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #42 on: July 24, 2012, 04:19:49 pm »
Right, haven't logged anything yet :o

Been busy writing my blog entry on both the Geolympix day, and yesterdays marathon cache-a-thon  :D

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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #43 on: July 29, 2012, 12:07:20 pm »
Well, here it is - my 11 in 11 challenge  ;D From this:



To this:  :o



Quite a difference  ;D Generating my stats, I can see that I need to become more well rounded - I've cached in hardly any counties  :o
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Re: Geolympix
« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2012, 04:32:02 pm »
Everyone has their own goals...

I have 806 finds in 46 out of the 72 UK Counties.
I've found at least 2 caches in each of the UK 'States' (reviewing regions).
And 190 miles between 2 caches in a day.  :o

I only have 3 cache types in a day.
Finds in 3 different counties in a day, and 3 regions in a day...

I've cached every month this year, so far, and have a 9 month 'streak' for caching in consecutive months.  :D
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