Whilst on the way I received a notification of a new cache published in Ironbridge so I guess we could head there first after parking up.
At the car park we met up with Shan (the Griswalds ‘n’ Dogs) & geodog Tia, Shan was in her new pink motor.
We all got booted up and made our way to the newly published cache. We really struggled here and it probably took us 15 - 20 minutes until Ash managed to bag a joint FTF for us all....YAY!
We then moved on down by the river and bagged another one before going to the bridge to meet up with other cachers.
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| Team WMF for the day. |
Shan had volunteered herself and me to take some cachers on a trail and she had chose the most demanding one haha. We knew all the cachers except for annie&jack, with us there was Ash, Graydon, Tony (All-Weather-Cacher), Lou and twins(TheHorde), Sarah & family (Saza36) and Allun (shropshire seekers).
We handed out a sheet with coordinates for 9 caches of which were due to be published....so a bit of a headstart.
We bagged a multi cache on the way to our destination.
Lloyds Coppice by Severn Gorge C Trust
http://coord.info/GC38PDC
Lloyds Coppice is a key component of the landscape of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site and provides a sweeping, heavily wooded backdrop to the northern slopes of the Gorge.
The Coppice is a very lovely place which is pretty much in it's natural state, infact parts of it are very Jungle like haha. As long as you are sensible and watch where you are walking between caches 4 and 7 you will be fine. Due to the nature of the terrain no buggies will get to these parts.
There are 9 caches in the series plus 1 other in the Coppice.
We started off at number 8 as it was the easiest and nearest to start from, we had our first bit of a scramble up a slope to get to it but get there we did.
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| The first find of the Lloyds Coppice caches. |
The next few were pretty straightforward as they were close to paths. but after we did an extra cache on the route we had to take steps up to the top. It was really nice in this Coppice and we were all having a really great time, we carried on walking noticing a big drop to the left of us and that's where we needed to be. We kept walking and ll of a sudden all we could do between caches 4 and 7 was follow the needle as there were no paths.
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| Big smiles from Ash & Sarah |
I love this sort of caching as it is totally not the norm and every single one of us thoroughly enjoyed the experience. We had fun battling through the undergrowth, climbing up banks and sliding down them, thankfully no injuries.
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| Feel the lurve x |
Our experience in the woods had come to a quick end and some of us decided to carry on up the river and then cross by Tar Tunnel and walk back down.
We bagged 10 out of 10 caches and 9 out of the series of 9 were Pre-published FTF's!
Ash, Lou and the boys, Tony, Graydon and myself carried on and bagged all the caches on route, also taking in this earthcache which was interesting The Tar Tunnel of Coalport
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| Hmmm interesting! |
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| Bill and Ted getting tired. |
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| Posing for the Earthcache photo. |
It was a shame the Tar Tunnel museum was closed as it looked really fascinating, thankfully Tony was a bit wised up on the area so gave us a bit of history.
We then crossed the bridge and strolled back down river picking up all the caches on the way.
At the Ironbridge we crossed back over the river to attend the event.
Exploring The Severn Gorge by nozi parkerz
http://coord.info/GC38YYQ
So the highlight of the day was meeting up and chatting friends old and new. This was a fabulous event and great end to a lovely day in Ironbridge. Angie (nozi parkerz) did a fantastic job as always.
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| baggiewhite |
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| Sleepy Steve & Diane of the Washers |
Total smilies bagged today = 20
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