And we're off!

With Dr Cath wanting to do some cycling, we decided to travel to Cannock Chase. Therefore, a multi-cache seemed like a good way to start our box-hunting; this one, however, was a really tricky fella.

Give Us A Clue - GCXM16

This is a 9-stage multi, and we only got the first five found today:

[1]
The first was a tiny magnetic container, fixed to a bolt holding the leg of a bench to the backrest! This find was made harder because the picture clue provided by the hider showed the bench how it should have looked - unfortunately, the backrest was missing. Still, this was a pretty easy first find.

[2]
A 35mm film cannister hidden in one of the box sections of a weird "three triangles stuck to a triangle" bench thing. Lots of muggles around meant we had to bide our time initially. A search didn't reveal anything, so I decided to break out some technology: a mobile phone! Using the lamp and video function of my trusty Sony Ericsson, I chose one of the three box sections and filmed the inside of it - this very quickly revealed the micro. Handy!

[3]
A plastic stone-alike key keeper, hidden with some real stones beneath a tree, contained this micro.

[4]
This one took bloody ages to find. The location - a shelter for people eating lunch whilst enjoying Go Ape - was easy to find, but a tiny magnetic container wedged in the hole of a bolt that was holding one of the roof support struts in place, was not! Needed a pair of tweezers to extract the container.

[5]
Dr Cath struck gold with this one - again, not the quickest find, but a good one. It was in a plastic container, in a metal container, suspended by a thread from one of the drain exits from the pool that the waypoint lead us to.

[6]
We got to the location for this one, but with fading light and a car park that is ambiguously locked "at dusk", we called it a day.