It always seems to be Jules who is driving lately and today was her turn again. I was picked up at 7am and after attempting and failing on a drive by we headed to a high muggle area to attempt a couple of caches.
Sugarbrook Rapids by SOAPY chickens....We had failed on North but it does turn out that it was not there at the time so we will have to go back for it, but we succeeded on South and had great fun in the process.... do go and check it out.
It was now time to go and hit some hills and where better locally than Malvern.
Colwall Circuit by Fane
http://coord.info/GC3GQNH
9 Caches on a walk of just over 3 miles with some quite steep sections but there is only a total ascent of around 600ft.
We actually parked up and started at number 9 and then did the route in normal order.
The first field did have cattle in and there was 1 bull but thankfully he only kept his beady eye on us and nothing more.
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| Weather was a tad miserable! |
We then headed down the hill to #1 across a pretty waterlogged field before taking the steepest section of the walk up towards #2. It was all fields until we entered some lovely woods where #4 was hiding.
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| Taking a peep down the hill. |
Most of the rest of the walk was along muddy paths with trees alongside. Although the weather wasn't the greatest due to constant drizzle, we thoroughly enjoyed the caches and the very nice walk.
We didn't have any problems finding the caches.
We were back at the car where we had a quick coffee and a chocolate biccie apiece before heading off to start second series of the day - which was a little lower down in altitude.
Castlemorton Common's Cunning Caches by Oly 'n' Kate
http://coord.info/GC32M0X
This is a series of 9 caches placed around Castlemorton Common of Malvern, the walk is approximately 4 miles long. There was a lot of water underfoot so wellies or walking boots are required in the wetter season. The walk is dog friendly as no stiles but keep them under control as there are cows & sheep on the common.
There was some great hides on this walk and they were a little more testing but we did manage to find them all without help.
Cache #2 was the one that probably took us 10-15 minutes until Jules had a huge grin across her face and cache was ours, it was a sneaky hide even though we had guessed what we were looking for.
We enjoyed this walk as it was pretty much follow the arrow at times which is always nice not to have to worry about boundaries, stiles etc.
Another nice stroll and really enjoying a more laid back day today.
Next up was a d4/t5 which we thought we would have a crack at as we were in the area. Skidmarks on my trousers by Dazzly, Andy, Kayleigh & Stephie We parked up at British camp and took short uphill stroll to this one, we then had to descend of the track around 100ft but it was a pretty steep bank but it all honesty today it was very easy. We then went back down towards carpark and picked up Curse of the F2F - Worcestershire #5 (L. Malvern) by Cagney37 which was down the road a little and in some lovely woods. It was then a hard slog back up the hill and down the footpath by the toilets to go and grab 2 other caches: More rooting around (Herefordshire) by Dobunnis which was the first one we came to, it was pretty easy to spot GZ and cache was soon found
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| I shrunk Jules here haha. |
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| Isn't geocaching great, look at that! |
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| Hello down there :) |
It was now back to the car again and Jules had one more cache up her sleeve to end our outing with.
EE14 - Variation XIV (Little Malvern) by Dobunnis I have to admit I am not usually a fan of multi's as if one stage goes missing then you cannot complete the cache...This one was brilliant!
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| Resting place of Composer Edward Elgar. |
Stage 1 took us to the resting place of Worcester born Edward Elgar the composer of "Land of Hope & Glory" , there were a few questions to answer and then stage 2 (final GZ) took us up the fantastic Black hill.
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| Looking down from Black hill. |
This was a stunning way to finish our day off and we even carried on up to the top of Black hill as it is simply a must. Thanks Jules for a brilliant day out, if only the weather could of been a little better.
Total caches found today = 27
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