Keswick - UTR Series

This weekend we headed down to spend a long weekend in a luxury log cabin just outside Penrith. This is the farthest South we've been Geocaching and we had a great time.

On our first day out we were disappointed by the poor mobile phone reception in the area. When I say poor, I really mean none. As our GPS is in my mobile phone and the mapping relies on a having phone signal we were caching blind for most of the weekend. Time to get a proper GPS I think!

Our first cache was a total fluke. We'd been driving for a while trying to get a signal and eventually pulled up at a junction to get out the 'old fashioned' paper road map to find out where on Earth we were. I also happened to check my phone for caches and although there were no maps I was surprised to find we were right at a cache that I'd stored in my phone a few nights before. In fact the cache C2C Alternative Route was only four metres from the car.

After another stop to find Bolt at Wallthwaite which as it's name suggests was a bolt cache. We went in search of a series called UTR or Under The Rigs which is just South of Keswick. After a few wrong turns (no maps!) we eventually found the starting location, parked and set off. This is a series of 12 caches set out along a 3 mile low level walk. We had the kids (5 and 7) with us and they managed it no problem. It did help that it was cold as some of the muddy bits were frozen solid.

UTR 1 - Skiddaw View
UTR 2 - Five Bar Cache
UTR 3 - Little Rock
UTR 4 - Down the Lane
UTR 5 - Roadside Hide
UTR 6 - Multi Trunk
UTR 7 - Beware of the Dog
UTR 8 - Stick with it
UTR 9 - Horizontal Tree
UTR 10 - Shoulthwaite Gill
UTR 11 - Tubular Water Spout
UTR 12 - In The Forest

This is a great little series and highly recommended. Some are standard tupperware type caches but others are more "creative". I won't go into too much detail for fear of spoilers but this has a number of really great caches one of which is the best we've found to date. We had a really nice walk and bagged 12 caches in the process.

14 out of 14 (our most in a single day so far!)