It was a cache 22 situation

Last week we decided to take a giant hike alson a large set of cache in witworth around knowl hill, we set of early after noon and we hoped to get a full 32 caches. We arrived at our starting position and put on our boots to the greesy but lovely smell of the burger van in the car park. Unfortunately we had no time for fast food as we had some serious fast caching to get on with. he first cache was easy an so we moved strait on to the second this involved moving over a wild meddow of tusoc grass,(I never knew you could really wade through grass) as we did so we got a fantastic view of the new wind farm being built. Hot and sweaty from the meddow crossing we started searching around for the second cache and again found it with very little difficulty. With the sun out we moved off to the next cache. As we did so we got a fantastic view of the vally below. From his we were rather alarmed to see a large pillar of smoke rising from the area of Bloton (we never found out what it was). Now at both the second and first caches there had been logs left from the same day from a person name Mick, from the log we had suspected that it was a person we know our old octopush coach (octorpush is alsoknown as under water hocky and is exactly what it wounds like, basically lots of snorkels flippers, and violence) anyway when we again saw his name in this third log we started to speculate wildly that we could actually be doing the same set of Caches s as our freind. We headed on to our fourth cache which was situated in some ruinins and search for nearly 20 minuets before actually finding it when we did we started to examine the the area of land where we expected the next cache to be and lo and behod we see two figures in the exact spot where it should be... now we had more than just wild ideas cold this actually be Mick and Helen(His wife). Well now we just had to see if it was them. We set of a t afurious pace sure tha wecould catch them and get all the caches on the way, so we thundered along untill be arrived where they had been. Of course they had moved on but we were catching up and at this cache we found definate evidence that it was indeed them we found mick's calling card with a picture of a snorkeler on it and a time showing that he was only 20minuets in front of us. We took off and found the next two caches with lightning efficiencey. Now we were onto the same cache as they were and we raced off confindent that we could catch them while they searched for the cache...we did!!! and it was mick which was a good job too otherwise we ould have looked totally insane! After excanging pleasentries and geocaching tales they set off on their way back and we had lunch. We at this point realised that unless we were planning to walk on in the dark (not somthing we planned on doing) we would have to rethink our 32 caches and settle for somthing a little more mundane like 25 . We set off at the same break neck speed and because of this we at first over shot the cache and had to head back but we gotit in the end. Realising that no matter the rush we still had o be vigilant we found the next two caches. The next again took us agaes as it was so masterfully hidden. At this point i feel the need to describe the weather which was fuctuating between hail and glorious sunshine, which is annoying weather for geocaching as you don't know wether or not to take off your cagool. we took the next several caches at a furious pace and admired the windfarm up close in a vicious bout of hail. It was when we looked down at the resavours that we were supposed to cross tghat things got interestion....however, it late and i will give you all parttwo soon