The Winners!

  • 1. EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup, owned by niknrich, 26086.3 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 19 caches, 8 UK counties & 3 overseas countries
  • 2. SPANK, the Monkey, owned by ITCHYthirdEYE, 5260.9 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 23 caches, 9 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • 3. Piston head Pete (& co-pilot Dave), owned by UK89Camaro, 2673.6 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 18 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries

Sunday 28 February 2010

Update! Race leader retrieved by a collie

Cacher pineconecollie has picked up the leading Travel Bug in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race, ITCHYthirdEYE's Itchys' Crown Jewels.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Saturday 27 February 2010

Update! A big hop for Greedy Green Frog

German cachers Die4Sucher have placed greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog into this cache in Hamburg, adding almost 400 miles to it's total distance hopped.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Peachleaf's geocoin gets on it's bike

German cachers Die MaYas have placed peachleaf's EmCache Racer GeoCoin into this cache, adding 3.1 miles to it's total distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Friday 26 February 2010

Update! The Web Rat's geocoin back on the streets

After holding on to The Web Rat's EmCache Racer GeoCoin for more than 3 months, Dutch cacher Huntpostmus has placed it into this popular cache in the North-Western corner of The Netherlands, adding 9.9 miles to it's total distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Emo the Fast Fish back in the swim of things

My own EmCache TB Race entry, Emo the Fast Fish has been picked up by cachers grandy p and dog after spending 8 weeks in the same cache. Thank You!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Wednesday 24 February 2010

Update! Open mouth, insert foot (or frog!)

No sooner did I write that greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog adventure guide had been placed into a rarely-visited cache than the cache was visited and Greedy Green Frog collected by German cachers Die4Sucher!

In other news, Katie 2000's "Needles" Travel Bug has been reported missing from the cache that it should be in; hopefully this is only a case of a cacher neglecting to log a find and Needles will turn up shortly.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Peachleaf's Geocoin out of the cache again

After a brief stay in Brassert, Gestern und Heute, peachleaf's Definitive Geocoin EmCache TB Racer has been picked up by cachers Die MaYas.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Monday 22 February 2010

Update! Peachleaf's geocoin placed into a cache

Peachleaf's emCache Racer geocoin has been dropped into this German multi-cache, adding 17.2 miles to it's total distance travelled. The Germans love their multi-caches, don't they?

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Sunday 21 February 2010

Update! OceanBlue's Postman Pat makes a First Class move

oceanblue07970 has dropped her Pat's Special Delivery Travel Bug into this cache in Scotland's Highland Region, the first 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race entry to visit a cache North of the Border. Amusingly the next cacher to find this cache left Pat in place and took a different trackable from the cache (on a personally less amusing note, this means that my race entry, Emo the Fast Fish, is now last of the active entries in the race, d'oh!).

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Greedy Green Frog back in the wild

Former EmCache TB Race leader, greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog Adventure Guide has been placed into this rarely-visited multi-cache in southern Bavaria, adding 174 miles to it's total distance hopped.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Friday 19 February 2010

Update! Itchys' Crown Jewels' race lead extended

ITCHYthirdEYE's Itchys' Crown Jewels Travel Bug has extended it's lead in the EmCache TB Race by 2.7 miles after cacher YellowNinja placed it in this cache in South Wales.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! John's stegasaurus dropped at Truckstop

John's stegasaurus Travel Bug, owned by lgxkls, has been dropped into this cache near to the M1 in Hertfordshire, adding 34.8 miles to it's total distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Update! 3 more TB Racers collected

On Saturday cacher Dave_S picked-up Garland Gang's JACKO TB from Bel-Vue, exactly 2 months after it had been left there. On Sunday cacher Norfolkbirder lead niknrich's Nosey Pup TB away from an event cache (and is considering letting him off the lead in the U.S.A.!), and on Monday cacher YellowNinja retrieved current race leader Itchys' Crown Jewels TB from a cache in South-East Wales.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Sunday 14 February 2010

Update! Another racer collected

Peachleaf's EmCache Racer GeoCoin is the latest TB Race entry to be picked-up by a cacher, having been collected by legosteinteam.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Karon's Promise on the move

Cornish cacher Gorraine has collected lgxkls' Karon's Promise Travel Bug from We're Duned!. This is the second EmCache TB Race entry that Gorraine has moved on, having added 24.4 miles to The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben Geocoin's total distance last November.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Saturday 13 February 2010

Update! Nosey Pup off to celebrate the Year of the Tiger

Grantham-based EmCache member mundanedave has collected niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup Travel Bug and dropped it into this event cache being held in Lincoln tomorrow, adding sufficient milage to it's total distance travelled to move it up to 13th place overall in the TB race.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Friday 12 February 2010

Random stats no.28: How Far Away Now?

With niknrich's Nosey Pup TB moving even closer to where it began, I thought that it might be interesting to ask again the question; How Far Away Now?

Considering only Travel Bugs and GeoCoins that are at present resting in caches, the one furthest away from the starting point is Lucky Lottie's "Holiday Bug" Travel Bug at 492.5 miles away, while the closest is niknrich's EmCache Racer: Nosey Pup Travel Bug, which is only 6.6 miles away from Bradgate.

The other Travel Bugs and GeoCoins currently in caches are;
peachleaf's Definitive GC, 344.5 miles away
Karon's Promise emCache TB Racer, 232.3 miles away
Itchys' Crown Jewels TB, 99 miles away
Katie 2000's EmCache Racer "Needles", 85.9 miles away
Garland Gang's JACKO, 84.8 miles away
geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh TB, 83.1 miles away
Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!!, 80.3 miles away
GeoPirate4's Definitive GC, 61.2 miles away
Slightly Tall Paul's Emo the Fast Fish, 39.5 miles away
oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB, 18.4 miles away

All other entries are currently being held by cachers.

Thursday 11 February 2010

Update! Updating the blog after the Horsey has bolted

Yorkwombles have placed geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh EmCache Racer TB into this cache in London (in fact they placed it there a few days ago but I missed the drop!), the second time that Horsey Neigh Neigh has galloped down to The Smoke.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Update! Peachleaf's GeoCoin regains 8th place

Peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin has been dropped into this German multi-cache, adding sufficient milage to it's total distance travelled to enable it to regain 8th position in the EmCache TB Race.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Update! Nosey Pup let off the lead

Madmajor has already dropped off niknrich's Nosey Pup TB at this cache; not the first 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race entry to have visited this particular cache.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Nosey Pup lead by the nose

Niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup Travel Bug has been picked-up by trucking cacher madmajor.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Sunday 7 February 2010

Update! John's stegasaurus collected by a Jolly Green Giant

Haddenham-based cacher JGG24 has collected John's stegasaurus Travel Bug, owned by lgxkls.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Saturday 6 February 2010

Update! Pete picked up, Holiday Bug dropped off

uk89camaro's Piston head Pete EmCache TB Racer has been collected by cacher lechiberlin and Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB has been placed into this German multi-cache, adding 9.7 miles to it's total distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Friday 5 February 2010

Update! Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug picked-up

German cacher Justus_Jonas has collected Lucky Lottie's EmCache Racer "Holiday Bug" from the complicated looking multi-cache that it was resting in.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Thursday 4 February 2010

Update! You can't keep a good Piston down!

No sooner did I post a comment about uk89camaro's Piston head Pete TB going missing than geoernie (for it was he who nabbed Pete) placed him into this cache in Berlin, adding 4.7 miles to the total distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Where on Earth is Piston head Pete?

One of the most frustrating things about geocaching is when your trackables are removed from a cache but not logged out.

It appears that this has happened to uk89camaro's Piston head Pete & Dave which should be in this cache in Berlin, Germany but are not.

I've emailed the various finders and either Geo-Link or geoernie (neither of whom have responded to emails) or someone who hasn't logged visiting the cache online has taken it.

Could this be the end of the road for the Pete & Dave show?

Final Race Positions

  • 1. EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup (Travel Bug tag) owned by niknrich, 26086.3 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 19 caches, 8 UK counties & 3 overseas countries
  • 2. SPANK, the Monkey, owned by ITCHYthirdEYE, 5260.9 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 23 caches, 9 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • 3. Piston head Pete (& co-pilot Dave), owned by UK89Camaro, 2673.6 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 18 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • EMCACHE RACER JACKO (Travel Bug tag) owned by Garland Gang, 15538.2 miles travelled, held by 19 cachers, visited 22 caches, 8 UK counties & 4 overseas countries
  • Greedy Green Frog Emcache Racer (Adventure Guide tag) owned by greedygreenfrog, 11290.1 miles travelled, held by 17 cachers, visited 23 caches, 1 UK county & 4 overseas countries
  • Mrs Web Rat's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by Mrs Web Rat, 8170.2 miles travelled, held by 9 cachers, visited 11 caches, 3 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • JohnnyBGoode's emCache racer - You want fries with that? (Travel Bug tag) owned by JohnnyBGoode, 5523.8 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 13 caches, 2 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • Geohunter-X emcache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) (Travel Bug tag) owned by geohunter-x, 5198.8 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 18 caches, 7 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • Sukygoeswandering emcache racer From Leicestershire with love (Travel Bug tag) owned by Sukygoeswandering, 4120.3 miles travelled, held by 3 cachers, visited 5 caches, 2 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • The-Black-Angel's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by The-Black-Angel, 3525.5 miles travelled, held by 11 cachers, visited 14 caches, 4 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper (Travel Bug tag) owned by rascalgaskells, 2862.9 miles travelled, held by 15 cachers, visited 15 caches, 8 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • emCache racer - Emo the Fast Fish (Travel Bug tag) owned by Slightly Tall Paul, 2174.3 miles travelled, held by 8 cachers, visited 9 caches, 4 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Oceanblue's Emcache racer - Pat's Special Delivery (Travel Bug tag) owned by oceanblue07970, 1655.6 miles travelled, held by 6 cachers, visited 10 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Lucky Lottie emCache racer "Holiday Bug" (Travel Bug tag) owned by Lucky Lottie, 1647.7 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 15 caches, 1 UK county & 2 overseas countries
  • peachleaf's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by peachleaf, 1151.2 miles travelled, held by 16 cachers, visited 16 caches, 2 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Karon's Promise emCache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 1051.2 miles travelled, held by 15 cachers (including 1 unknown), visited 17 caches in 10 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • The Great Galaxy Seekers - emCache Racer - Big Ben Geocoin (GeoCoin), owned by The Great Galaxy Seekers, 597.2 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 9 caches in 4 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER John's stegasaurus emcache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 376.2 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 14 caches in 7 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • Katie 2000 emCache racer "Needles" (Travel Bug tag) owned by Katie 2000, 273.1 miles travelled, held by 2 cachers, visited 10 caches in 3 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! (Travel Bug tag) owned by Garland Gang, 228.2 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 15 caches in 6 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • geopirate4's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by geopirate4, 117.7 miles travelled, held by 1 cacher, visited 3 caches in 3 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • John's triceratops emcache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 2.7 miles travelled, held by no cachers (just 1 muggle!), visited 2 caches in 1 UK county