If You Go Down To The Woods Tonight |
The first above ground maximum 25 point TOP CACHE in the UK. This by itself says almost all that needs to be said. A truly awsome night cache, in a great location, meticulously planned for optimum layout. Immense investment of time and effort on each of the stages, ingenuity coupled with top quality preparation, everything is designed, made and maintained to the highest standard.
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cannonfodder32 |
Northhamptonshire |
25 points |
No. 557 |
With owner |
I Love Dr Beeching – Bridge Inspector: Re-Dangled |
Cleverly designed and immaculately prepared, as always for this c/o. And a really tough challenge :-).
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cannonfodder32 |
Northamptonshire |
24 points |
No. 515 |
With owner |
The Sky At Night |
Tree climbs by night :-). A lot of work for one cache, but what else would you expect from this c/o ;-) ? The other thing you expect from this c/o is immaculate presentation and minute attention to detail, and you get this too :-).
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cannonfodder32 |
Northamptonshire |
22 points |
No. 524 |
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Five Fall Into Adventure (Pt. 2) |
The best Famous Five cache we've done yet, and that's really saying something :-).
Swinging down after finding the cache :-). Click the image to expand it.
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bilkobaggins |
Derbyshire |
22 points |
No. 445 |
With owner |
Subterranean Homesick Blues |
A clever and original puzzle, with several layers, leading to a very pleasant final location.
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Happy Humphrey |
Nottinghamshire |
20 points |
No. 556 |
With owner |
C.O.D. Petrus (Derbyshire) |
A great location, lovely views.
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cats-eyes |
Derbyshire |
20 points |
No. 555 |
With owner |
Northampton By Boat |
A series of canoe or dinghy caches on the Nene, through Northampton. A lovely river to paddle on, with some challenging sections, and several outstanding hides.
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mcaddy |
Northamptonshire |
20 points |
No. 215 |
With owner |
Hippos Below |
One of the "classics", I don't know how I managed to cache for 11 years without doing it earlier. Saved it up for a great occasion I guess ;-). A dreadfully muddy approach, but a great paddle once inside :-)
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girloutdoors & Water_mad |
Gloucestershire |
20 points |
No. 586 |
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Five Go Down to the Sea |
Part of the fun of these caches is the way that what you have to do is matched to the story line :-). A series of 6 culvert caches. By no means the most difficult ones I've done, but WAY the longest :-).
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bilkobaggins |
Derbyshire |
19 points |
No. 446 |
With owner |
I Love Dr Beeching – Shafted 1 |
A highly unusual cache, not done anything quite like it before :-).
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cannonfodder32 |
Northamptonshire |
19 points |
No. 231 |
With owner |
Unloved cache challenge |
Best cache of the trip - a lovely walk to a great location, a long search for tricky hide, ultimately successful :-).
Approaching the cache - click the image to expand it.
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duncanhoyle |
Northumberland |
19 points |
No. 499 |
With owner |
Alfresco Gecko Lifeboat |
Very unusual field puzzle in an unusual location for a cache :-).
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01582 & 5791 |
Bedfordshire |
19 points |
No. 436 |
With owner |
Ooops! |
A most enjoyable puzzle and a fun cache placement :-).
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No response from c/o
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Harry the furry squid |
Warwickshire |
18 points |
No. 439 |
No response |
broom west junction signal box |
This was something a bit different, which is partly why it "scores" well :-)
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dylan burgess |
Warwickshire |
18 points |
No. 583 |
With owner |
Famous Five |
A series of extreme and semi-extreme caches around Glossop, exploring secret tunnels, wading through rivers, climbing trees - all the sort of things the Famous Five do :-)
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bilkobaggins |
Derbyshire |
18 points |
No. 371 |
With owner |
Climb of Adventure |
A challenging placement in a lovely setting, with great views .
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meltdiceburg |
Derbyshire |
18 points |
No. 448 |
With owner |
Aerial Adventure |
A tricky free climb to an extremely well made and presented cache container.
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Geena10 |
Nottinghamshire |
18 points |
No. 430 |
With owner |
Five on a Secret Trail |
A two stage problem getting to the cache. And another two stage problem getting back, of course ;-) A long, long crawl and a fitting end to the Famous Five caches on this trip :-).
George, Dick and Julian after their adventure :-) Photo and Timmy courtesy of the c/o :-). Click the image to expand it.
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bilkobaggins |
Derbyshire |
18 points |
No. 449 |
With owner |
12 days of Caching: 1 Weir today, gone tomorrow |
A rather different challenge, very tricky and took us quite a long time :-)
Wizbit100 and dizzygirl taking different approaches. Click the images to expand them.
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
18 points |
No. 283 |
With owner |
Roan65:814050 Fetch Special |
We didn't find a large number of caches on this trip, but many of those we did find required imaginative solutions that we hadn't had to employ before. This was no exception :-).
Wizbit100 making it look easy ;-). Click the image to expand it.
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
18 points |
No. 285 |
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I Love Dr Beeching – Tickets To Ride |
Great location for an abseil :-)
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cannonfodder32 |
Northamptonshire |
18 points |
No. 545 |
With owner |
Lockinge Kiln - where the skeletons lie |
An unusual and interesting location, something a bit different.
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smstext |
Oxfordshire |
18 points |
No. 247 |
With owner |
Tree |
A series of 9 tree climbs set in lovely rolling English countryside. During the whole day we saw only one other person, a horse-rider :-).
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
17 points |
No. 281 |
With owner |
Stert stream, going underground (1 of 3) |
A most unusual underground location for a cache, an underground river accessed via the Thames.
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Daniel Glover |
Oxfordshire |
17 points |
No. 203 |
With owner |
Caching for Girls - Pretty in Pink? |
Not extreme, but favourite of the Caching for Girls series. Find it with friends, don't do it by yourself :-) The photos give some idea :-)
3 pink pinups :-) Click the images to expand them.
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Splendidz |
Northamptonshire |
17 points |
No. 364 |
With owner |
12 days of Caching: 11 Mulled Wine! |
Award is for the series of 8 caches on a linear trail, but this free climb was the most challenging for me.
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
17 points |
No. 365 |
With owner |
Rendcomb Rat Run |
Another culvert cache, not very long but in a "nice" tunnel, with (lots and lots of) clean water :-). In a very pleasant location, and with a nice cache container at the end of it. Or, more precisely, in the middle of it :-).
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No response from c/o
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twise_1 |
Gloucestershire |
17 points |
No. 108 |
No response |
Alphabet Soup |
A mix of walking on and off road, but what made the series was the variety of excellent camouflaged and "trick" caches :-).
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smart451 |
Derbyshire |
17 points |
No. 95 |
With owner |
Series 3 (Walk 4) The Fairy Door |
A cache of great imagination, on a lovely walk in lovely woods, and one very especially for the toddlers.
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bailey rangers |
Worcestershire |
17 points |
No. 71 |
Released |
ALL TOOLED UP |
Something a bit different, and an enjoyable walk.
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EspritS3 |
Leicestershire |
17 points |
No. 578 |
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Climb & Twist. |
A field puzzle of a type I've seen several times before - but not usually in a tree ;-)
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Owd Miner |
Nottinghamshire |
17 points |
No. 429 |
With owner |
out of my tree |
Three quite different tree climbs on a linear trail.
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dylan burgess |
Warwickshire |
17 points |
No. 582 |
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Brick Kiln |
Made the most of an interesting location :-)
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fairyspan |
Derbyshire |
17 points |
No. 571 |
With owner |
Jaggers Clough |
A fabulous walk following the path of the stream onto the Kinder plateau, which had remained unfinished business for me as I was unable to complete it on my first attempt due to a dodgy knee. Returned 15 months later to find the remaining caches in the series, which were in even more outstanding locations than the lower ones, and the rating has been bumped up accordingly. Now archived as the owners are no longer able to maintain the caches - a loss to caching :-(.
Factotem at Jaggers Clough #8, looking down the clough towards #7. Click the image to expand it.
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geogeriatrics |
Derbyshire |
16 points |
No. 96 |
With owner |
The Roaches |
A lovely location. UrsusBear once again demonstrate the advantage of dual skinning caches that are in exposed locations.
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UrsusBear |
Staffordshire |
16 points |
No. 149 |
With owner |
Carding Mill |
Standing in these lovely hills I couldn't believe that I'd managed in my whole life not to visit the Long Mynd before!
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markandlynn |
Shropshire |
16 points |
No. 21 |
With owner |
Red Kite |
A great location, you feel on top of the world.
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sandvika |
Oxfordshire |
16 points |
No. 9 |
With owner |
Float your boat |
Lovely boat series on the Nene, but tricky - I was able to reach only two of the four caches. The best of them was one that I didn't even try to get to on my own, and from a narrow, wobbly, unstable canoe, so I've linked to one that I did manage :-).
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Splendidz |
Northamptonshire |
16 points |
No. 288 |
With owner |
The National Memorial Arboretum Virtual |
A fascinating location, even more so than we had expected it to be.
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billnwen |
Staffordshire |
16 points |
No. 581 |
With owner |
Zeke and Mya go climbing |
Straightforward climb in a nice location.
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Citrus-Lizard |
Staffordshire |
16 points |
No. 580 |
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Roan65:815050 Roan's Revenge - FT Caching Rat |
Another tough and imaginative cache from Roan65. Took us ages, doing it the slow way, and was very eventful, including a visit from the boys in blue!
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
16 points |
No. 284 |
With owner |
Sub Hedera |
A very tough puzzle followed by a nice climb :-). Also covers the nearby "Training Tree" cache.
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offbeam |
Staffordshire |
16 points |
No. 579 |
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Cetus |
An unusual combination of activities ;-)
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Cpt_Blackadder |
Northamptonshire |
16 points |
No. 544 |
With owner |
Float your boat |
A boat series on the Nene - Splendidz set the upstream caches, The_Buffs the downstream ones. The link is to a cache in a challenging location :-).
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The_Buffs |
Northamptonshire |
16 points |
No. 289 |
With owner |
Looking for Linda |
A beautiful walk with spectacular views, leading to a fun cache :-).
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SidAndBob |
Herefordshire |
16 points |
No. 482 |
With owner |
Boat Only |
A whole series of great boat caches on the River Nene, either side of the site of Fotheringhay Castle. Could have chosen several for the link, but used this one because a) it was a fun puzzle that was straightforward for me to do, and b) we were First to Find :-).
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thepanteras |
Northamptonshire |
16 points |
No. 287 |
With owner |
Trigonometry, Triangles and Treachery |
Some tricky workings out in the field, and a fun final location :-).
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Pharisee |
Bedfordshire |
16 points |
No. 435 |
With owner |
Sneaky Leaky |
An ingenious and original field puzzle ;-)
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PlasmaWave |
Nottinghamshire |
16 points |
No. 427 |
With owner |
Simples! |
Another humourous cache page, final was quite straightforward but a bit different :-)
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Splendidz |
Northamptonshire |
16 points |
No. 363 |
With owner |
Roan65:814050 Shocking Cache Experience |
Nice climb with an unusual container :-).
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
16 points |
No. 286 |
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Wayland's Smithy |
This one is for the walk, and the destination. The destination I found most interesting. The walk I did twice, after leaving my eTrex on the ground beside the cache :-).
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The Wombles |
Oxfordshire |
15 points |
No. 18 |
With owner |
WW2 Series - Minton Beware |
Fantastic views.
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Discovery Centre |
Shropshire |
15 points |
No. 391 |
No response |
Love Nature |
More superb views in an idyllic spot.
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Declined
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foxeylady |
Shropshire |
15 points |
No. 392 |
Declined |
peregrines above |
A long walk over Coppet Hill to the meadows below Symonds Yat Rock, with the Peregrine Falcon's nests directly above. It's somewhere I've looked down on before, but never visited.
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laurencemo |
Herefordshire |
15 points |
No. 109 |
With cache |
S'Up? |
A climb, but not one of the usual climbs ;-)
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Splendidz |
Leicestershire |
15 points |
No. 426 |
With owner |
Village of the damned |
An interesting location. But muddy. Very muddy :-).
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Gackt |
Oxfordshire |
15 points |
No. 107 |
With owner |
ZEKE'S no jOAK |
Nice tree climb in a great location.
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Citrus-Lizard |
West Midlands |
15 points |
No. 440 |
With owner |
Cache EM if you can #1 - 9 ladies of Stanton Moor |
A gorgeous spot, high on the moor. On an autumn morning I climbed up through heavy mist to a beautiful sunny day.
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No response from c/o
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Ve8 |
Derbyshire |
15 points |
No. 70 |
No response |
Caching for Girls - Pucker Up! |
This entry covers 3 quite simple but varied free climbs on the Brampton Valley Way - the other two being BVW High 'n' Mighty and BVW Branching Out. All the caches were nicely presented. There are a number of more difficult climbs in the vicinity that I didn't tackle because I hadn't solved the puzzles - maybe in due course they will get a TOP CACHE coin too :-).
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Splendidz |
Northamptonshire |
15 points |
No. 217 |
With owner |
Crowden Brook Waterfall |
A delightful spot for the cache, but also scores big for the section of Crowden Clough above the cache, leading to the top of Kinder Scout, which was a tough walk in gorgeous surroundings.
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No response from c/o
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Wicker |
Derbyshire |
15 points |
No. 147 |
No response |
Yo-Yo! |
Once again, an unusual location, something a bit different.
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Splendidz |
Northamptonshire |
15 points |
No. 366 |
With owner |
Caching for Girls - VPL? |
A fun puzzle, followed by fun stages :-)
SuperAmberel ;-) Click the image to expand it.
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Splendidz |
Northamptonshire |
15 points |
No. 362 |
With owner |
HarbSplash |
An extensive series of canoe or dinghy caches along the Grand Union Canal. Good parking, easy paddling and straightforward hides.
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Harbcache |
Leicestershire |
15 points |
No. 216 |
With owner |
S&WCGB |
A lovely paddle along a very scenic section of canal through Kinver, with a mixture of easy and challenging caches on the way.
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Fungimanforager |
Staffordshire |
15 points |
No. 311 |
With owner |
Ringing Roger |
A bit of a scramble at the end of a long climb.
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No response from c/o
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Flipperfeet |
Derbyshire |
15 points |
No. 146 |
No response |
WLH#9 - Cuckoo Cuckoo |
A straightforward tree free climb in a pleasant location.
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PlasmaWave |
Nottinghamshire |
14 points |
No. 428 |
With owner |
Crystal Ball |
An original puzzle and and an excellent hiding place :-)
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Chisipiti & Spire67 |
Nottinghamshire |
14 points |
No. 572 |
With owner |
Five Get Into Trouble |
Possibly the most straightforward of the Famous Five caches for us - it's what we are more used to ;-).
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bilkobaggins |
Derbyshire |
14 points |
No. 447 |
With owner |
ARBOREAL ADVENTURE |
Several modest tree climbs and an unusual final location.
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Fungimanforager |
Staffordshire |
14 points |
No. 313 |
With owner |
Giant Hosin (Reverse Cache) |
A very unusual series of tree climbs.
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Roan65 & the Muddy Labs |
Northamptonshire |
14 points |
No. 513 |
With owner |
12 days of Caching: 8 No Yellow Ribbon |
Nice climb with a twist at the end :-).
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
14 points |
No. 282 |
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Roan65:815050 C&A's little challenge |
Simple enough climb, but not so simple once you got up there ;-).
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Roan65 |
Northamptonshire |
14 points |
No. 562 |
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The Emperor's Quest |
This series took the highly unusual form of a fairy tale continued on each cache page, loosely related to the cache at that stage. I've taken the liberty of naming this from the most enjoyable part of the route as the series doesn't really have a name as such. Some great scenery, and a few out of the ordinary hides to make it more interesting :-).
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meltdiceburg |
Derbyshire |
14 points |
No. 227 |
With owner |
Series 3 (Walk 13) Sum It Up |
Not unique but very unusual. Top quality implementation, and in a great location.
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bailey rangers |
Worcestershire |
14 points |
No. 85 |
With owner |
Noe Head |
A delightful spot, in a steep sided valley, beside a waterfall.
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No response from c/o
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Barber Booth Alpine Club |
Derbyshire |
14 points |
No. 148 |
No response |
Biggin to see |
A lovely walk up Mill Dale with a stiff and steep climb at the end.
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Dicy Penn |
Staffordshire |
14 points |
No. 145 |
With owner |
Noon Hill |
A great walk, lovely views, an immaculate cache box and a really friendly bunch of cows :-).
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pharisee |
Bedfordshire |
14 points |
No. 22 |
With owner |
PARK & STRIDE 40 |
Freeclimb, lots of footholds though some of them a bit far apart for my old knees.
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Fungimanforager |
Shropshire |
13 points |
No. 312 |
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The large Holly Tree |
Just as it said on the tin - a large holly tree :-)
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Kev + Jackie |
Leicestershire |
13 points |
No. 573 |
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T5 Challenge cache |
A straightforward rope climb.
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sr510 |
Northamptonshire |
13 points |
No. 367 |
With owner |
Hergest Ridge |
A lovely walk and great views. Peter is the first recipient to choose the "brave" option of having his coin delivered by cache :-).
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The Hornet |
Herefordshire |
13 points |
No. 19 |
Released |
HMS Victorious |
A gentle and pleasant paddle along the Grand Union Canal.
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gladstone8 |
Leicestershire |
13 points |
No. 425 |
With owner |
The Only Way Is Up |
A series of free climbs, not unduly high but most of them quite tricky.
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Boer&Brit |
Bedfordshire |
13 points |
No. 343 |
With owner |