Twenty Multis In A Day
I need to complete my D/T grid. I need a 5/4.5 somewhere. I qualify for the Know Your Reviewers Challenge but that is up on the Northants and Beds border. I might also need a ladder to get a leg up on to the tree. Unfortunately I don’t have room for a ladder in my Ka.π
I espy another in Kent, the Multi/Earth Challenge Cache - Gold that needs 20 multis in a day or 15 multis and an Earthcache. I see that some geocachers have totally misread the qualication criteria and having found four ECs in a day, used that as a qualification.π‘ How can the CO allow that? I have found five ECs in a day but as far as I’m concerned, that doesn’t qualify me for this cache.
So this challenge cache is the one for me but it will take careful planning.π Luckily there is a surfeit of multi CMs in Kent overlapping in Greater London which should give me the ideal opportunity to qualify. Normally I would avoid Kent and the Dartford Tunnel like the plague on a weekday but this school holiday week so the traffic on the roads should be a little lighter.π€
I worked out a route through Crayford, Slade Green, Erith, Belvedere, Northumberland Heath and Bexleyheath and now is the time to put the plan into action.ππ» As day breaks, I am just outside Crayford at Coal Post #213, a fine example of these Victorian coal tax bound markers. The info was quickly found and the first multi of the day was in the bag, we‘re off and running.
I parked up in the big Sainsbury’s in Crayford. I wasn’t planning on paying for parking so had done some research on this too. In about an hour I had added Captain Crayford and the CMs, Crayford, Crayford - St Mary’s and Crayford - St Paulinus to the tally.
Up the road in Slade Green I found the easy trad CM Slade Green - Christian and the blooming difficult 3.5/1.5 CM Slade Green multi. This took me a while until I worked out where I was stupidly going wrong. Then it was a swift find of a cleverly placed cache.π
On the way to Belvedere, I picked up the multi at CM North End and the trad at Slade Green - Baptist. I also had a look for the CM Erith but GZ had been “landscaped” so I just wrote a note on it.
Now Belvedere is rich in CMs and multis so I was expecting great things here. I found the Belvedere - Pentecostal and Unique Road Signs #1 multis and picked up a TB at the latter. I then had a decent run round Belvedere collecting up the Ichthus, St Augustine, Methodist, All Saints and Free Grace multi CMs. I had a DNF at Baptist but as someone else did the same the same day, I reckon that it’s more of a MIA. Later on when I logged the day’s finds, I spotted that Moore4us and myself were following each other around all day.π€«
Leaving Belvedere behind, I added the multi CMs Northumberland Heath and St Paul to the total as well as the trad CM - Our Lady. Then a quick find of the multi CM Barnehurst - St Martin’s and then I was on the way to Bexleyheath. Having a count up, I was on 17 multis and it was getting on for 2 o’clock. I really didn’t want to leave it late and I had hoped to get the D/T filler in New Ash Green today, so I’d better crack on.
I had a quick cache & dash at the Bexleyheath - Bethany trad and then drove around to the free car park at Asda. Just the three to get and I quickly work out CM Christ Church but the coords put it back the way I had come so I shelved that until later on. I got to but saw that it would take a lot of time so gave that a swerve.π€« I walked out to the CM St John Vianney, solved the multi and signed the log. The next multi was CM - Community and that was a quick find. I’m up at 19 so go back to CM Christ Church. This has be put in a place that’s passed by thousands of people a day. However no one batted an eye-lid as I sign the log sheet. So that was it, 20 multis on the day.ππ₯π₯ However, the grid filler would have to wait for the weekend. It was now 1500 and I needed to get through the tunnel before the traffic got bad. So time to finish a splendid day’s geocaching.π
20 Multi 4 Traditional
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