I started placing caches since 2003 and of course some of them are more exposed to muggles or forestry activities and weather than others. Some years ago I had caches up to 300 km from home for various reasons but now I think the farthest one from home is about 100 km away, but as that is the most visited (1259 finds at the last count) I am trying to keep it alive. It is also in the most muggle intensive place imaginable Upptaåget #13 – Uppsala so the maintenance needs are quite high. Recently a cacher reported that the plastic bag and log needed replacing. I know that a couple of years ago so ..read more

This is the second short posting. They are short as I didn’t take too many photos this time. WGW Another abbreviation. Saturday was spent geocaching with with my other brother and his wife. They are the active geocachers known as zelger. WGW stands for Westridge Green Wander as the trail is located close to Westridge Green which is just to the west of Reading. My brother arranges geocaching days out for a group of geocachers and they have done most of the trails in the area. This one had been put to one side as parking for several cars, which was their usual need, wasn’t available. We were jus ..read more

Geocaching is also about statistics! This is the first of two short posts about my trip to England in October. It was pretty much exactly four years after my previous visit and with no other flights anywhere in between. It was my seventeen hundred and ninety first flight and I have been flying an average of forty one flights a year since I first flew. So what happened in 2018? I retired, but expected to spend a lot of time visiting parts of the world I hadn’t been to. Plans and reality don’t always match. I was also going to do a lot of geocaching when retired. What happened? Well apart from t ..read more

Skyttorp station and Vattholma station, like all the other stations between Gävle and Knivsta are known to me from my Upptåg cache series. Only 2 of them are still active, one in Gävle and one in Uppsala. Furthermore Upptåget is now Mälartåg. How things change with time. Anyway, I have been planning to visit Skyttorp and Vattholma again. The previous visit to the area in July 2021 was to do the Zoo-PT-2 and a number of ESE caches. I noted that there was a new trail between the two places called Salstaleden and put that on my Todo list. It’s only taken me a year to get around to putting my plan ..read more

Geocaching in winter is always a little more challenging than during the rest of the year due to the presence of snow. Caches close to the ground are difficult to detect and often if the snow is deep it’s hard work wading through it. However, events are simpler to prepare or attend and what could be better than a Celebration event just a few hundred metres away from my home? Pulkaåkning och korvgrillning – Celebration Event. It was well visited with attendees from as far away as Gothenburg! As the name suggested downhill tobogganing was expected even if some of the toboggans were rather exotic ..read more

My geocaching targets for 2022 are a pretty close copy of those from last year as I suspect my travels will be limited again, partly by the aftermath of the pandemic and partly due to rising fuel costs. Time will tell. All pretty boring and I suspect I may not set any targets for 2023 as they don’t seem SMART anymore. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-based. They meet the criteria with some doubt in my mind as to Relevant. My targets from 2021 are here and are virtually unchanged for this year. – Update my blog at least once a month. – Complete round 2 of the D/T matrix. – Co ..read more

In my posting 2021-01-27 I listed my geocaching targets for 2021 and I thought that they were rather banal and easy to achieve. However, things don’t always turn out as planned, although seldom seems a more appropriate word. This is what I intended to do with the result at the end of 2021 in parentheses. – Update my blog at least once a month. (six postings) – Complete round 2 of the D/T matrix. (6 needed, 2 achieved) – Complete round 3 of the D/T matrix. (10 needed, 2 achieved) – Find caches in ten more Swedish counties, (five visited) – BadgeGen – upgrade Ruby Badges to Sappphire – “The Trad ..read more

A record amount of rain in the middle of August (18th – over 100 mm in less than 2 hrs and 162 mm in 24 hrs) resulted in a flooded cellar and frantic activity to remove things, demolish flooring and walls followed by weeks of drying things out. Added to that I discovered a rotten kitchen window frame that I had to repair and the time needed for geocaching just wasn’t there. However, on 8th September we finally had a day off and drove over to Hedemora for some geocaching. The goal was the trail on Nibbleberget as that combined walking and caching. There are over a thousand caches in the borough ..read more

It is seldom that I have the opportunity to visit Bollnäs but my partner was meeting up with a friend there so it was a great excuse for me to do some geocaching. It was another hot and sunny day and followed a hot and humid night so I was tired and not really bouncing with energy when I left the station and made my way to Bollnäs church. I had noted that there were a few Adventure Lab caches in Bollnäs and thought I would do one or perhaps more. I can’t really say I like them though. They are like multis with no cache at the end of the trail. I suppose that’s why people are starting to create ..read more

As foreign travel is fraught with too much hassle I have decided to change direction in my geocaching. For several years I have had the aim of adding a new country to the list of those in which I have found caches. It will now be parked at forty eight for the foreseeable future. On the other hand Sweden has 21 counties to explore. I have actually found caches in all 21 counties but only in 179 boroughs meaning that I still have another 111 to go and considering Swedens geographical area it could take some time. In 2012 I made a one day road trip to parts of Värmland and Örebro län that netted ..read more