Travel Bug Dog Tag Pieman's NW Cachers' Race Bug

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Released:
Monday, January 21, 2008
Origin:
United Kingdom
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This trackable item is in a race! Please help it to win.

PLEASE MOVE ON PROMPTLY - PLEASE KEEP IN ENGLAND!

North West Caching Race

About This Item

1. TRAVEL BUG PREPARATION
a. TBs must have the "NW CACHING" official tag and description.

2. TRAVEL BUG MOVEMENT
a. The TB must be put dropped into a cache and retrieved by another cacher in order to receive points for the cache.
b. "Discovering" or "Grabbing" of the TB is not permitted.
c. Movements by the owner do not score points and can only be done if a TB does not move for a month.
e. A TB may be repeatedly moved by a cacher provided that at least two movements by other cachers have occurred in between.

3. SCORING
a. A TB only scores points on its FIRST visit to a cache.
b. The basic points scored = sum of difficulty + terrain ratings for caches located in mainland UK.
c. Double points for a photograph.

4. TB MISSIONS
Visiting a new COUNTY, COUNTY TOWN, COUNTY TOP, TRIG POINT gets 10 bonus points.
Visting the most N/S/E/W cache in England gets 25 bonus points (GC874B / GCD69B / GC14DCG / GCNRZJ).
Visit the highest multicache in England (GC462E). One hundred bonus points for the first visit.
Visit the lowest hill in England (GCGT38). Twenty five bonus points for the first visit.
Visit a www.secaching.co.uk Racer. Twenty five bonus points for the first meeting.

The points are scored in this order, eg.
Cache difficulty 2/2 = 4
Photo doubles to 8
Existing county, but a county top and trig point, adds 20 points.
Total = 28 points.

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    Tracking History (56.6mi) View Map

    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/7/2009 The Mighty Lee retrieved it from The Indian Cache Trick North West England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Amazing walk back home after picking this up. I found a video camera!!! Wierd video stuff on it to.
    Dropped Off 6/5/2009 Dr Y521 placed it in The Indian Cache Trick North West England, United Kingdom - 21.34 miles  Visit Log
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 1/3/2009 Dr Y521 grabbed it   Visit Log

    I found this one in a completely different cache from where it was supposed to be. This TB isn't so much racing as staggering.
    Dropped Off 2/6/2008 Sir PhilPamAndRob placed it in Alta Vista I - Liverpool highest United Kingdom - 19.01 miles  Visit Log

    There are very few caches in Liverpool, the county town of Merseyside, and virtually all are micros. However, this new cache appeared in January and is large enough to accommodate TBs and coins. So in order to score Country Town point, it really had to be this cache.
    Write note 2/2/2008 Sir PhilPamAndRob posted a note for it   Visit Log

    Out and about on a snowy morning and came across three more drive-by trig points. Normally I'd drive-by, but not when I've got racer TBs with me :

    Burtonwood, Cheshire – Location SJ 56591 91885. Plaque Number S3477 Type : Pillar

    Higher Whitley, Cheshire – Location SJ 63452 80065. Plaque Number S2731 Type : Pillar

    Hoylake, Wirral Cheshire – Location : SJ 24048 87844 Type : Rivet

    • Burtonwood Trig Pillar
    • Higher Whitly Trig Pillar
    • Hoylake Rivet
    Write note 1/29/2008 Sir PhilPamAndRob posted a note for it   Visit Log

    So theres points for trig POINTS. Most people just know Trig Pillars (the big white blocks of concrete), but there are several other types. This morning the TB visited the two other types at Daresbury

    Fundamental Bench Mark (FBM) Location : SJ 57737 82364, and the active station at the CLRC Daresbury Laboratory, location : SJ 57455 83290.

    The photo of the latter is poor as it was dark, but the active station in the aerial just left and up from the illuminated window (to the right of the drainpipe)

    Thats 20 more points in the bag for this racer!

    • Daresbury FBM
    • CLRC Daresbury Laboratory - Active Station
    Write note 1/29/2008 Sir PhilPamAndRob posted a note for it   Visit Log

    This NW racer has met a SE racer TB in my caching bag - thats 25 juicy points! The SE racer is "Flash Harry! SE Cachers 2008 Race Bug" code TB21JG6.
    Took a photo of them together, so does that double the points to 50? I'll let you decide!
    PhilPamandRob

    • This racer meets a SE racer TB (Flash Harry)
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/29/2008 Sir PhilPamAndRob retrieved it from Little Switzerland North West England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Early morning retrieval from Little Switzerland. Time to get some more points on the board...
    Dropped Off 1/27/2008 Kelsborrow Wayfinders placed it in Little Switzerland North West England, United Kingdom - 16.26 miles  Visit Log

    We took a photograph of this next to Chester Challenge, a nano in a county town, so think it should be awarded plenty of points. Here is a photo of it outside Chester Library (although to be fair it could be Foinavon's)

    • Race Bug in Chester
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/22/2008 Kelsborrow Wayfinders retrieved it from Quiz Night at the Swan United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Off for a photo in Chester to start with.
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