Very happy to have completed our personal challenge of filling our first D/T grid before the end of 2023. 🎉 It's taken 4 years (omitting our eight-year hiatus from Geocaching), including 11 grid-fillers in the final year alone.
By the time this event rolls around, it'll have been a few weeks since completing the challenge, which may seem late to the party, but we couldn't be sure we'd complete on the day that we did. Nevertheless, a good excuse to host an event in celebration!
While this event is hosted in celebration, it'll be your usual meet and greet format in a relatively cheap, accessible and reliable establishment. Everyone is welcome at this event! Feel free to bring TBs, share geostories of your own, talk goals for 2024 or just say hi! Whatever you have to add, we'd all love to hear it. 😊
When and where?
17:30-19:00, The Pommelers Rest - JD Wetherspoon, 196-198 Tower Bridge Rd, London SE1 2UN
About our challenge
On 28th December 2023, the whole of the Team Heed successfully found our final two grid fillers - D4/T5 and D5/T4.5 starting with an Earthcache that was a "quick" 9.5km walk up Kinder Scout (the tallest peak in Derbsyhire at 630m altitude) in the Peak District. ⛰️ This was then immediately followed by crawling through a reservoir reserve tunnel, mere days after the recent East Midlands downpours. 🌊
The grid is filled with multiple cache types across multiple countires, including traditionals, multis, mysterys, earthcaches and even an event! Notable highlights prior to the final two include an Earthcache in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam and mine and Anytar's T5 event along the LImehouse Canal here in London. The former saw my partner and I visiting multiple islands along the world-famous river while the latter saw cachers, both local and international, board an inflatable dingy in search of local cache!
A huge thank you to all the friendly geocachers who helped along the way - supplying equipment where necessary, helping plan big caching missions and making it a fun goal to work towards slowly over the years. Here's to the next round of grid filling and other 2024 challenges! 🙌
