We bagged a couple of drive bys on our way and were soon at our first port of call - Snowshill.
Snowshill Scramble by Griff Grof
http://coord.info/GC3BRJV
Snowshill Scramble is a series consisting of 24 caches (with another 9 close by), set over a picturesque walk of just over 7 miles in the Cotswolds, taking you through villages of Snowshill, Stanway and Stanton.
There is only one stile, making the walk dog friendly, and there's only a couple of kissing gates.
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| Church in Snowshill |
We parked up on the National Trust car park and got booted up ready for some lovely hills.
On our way to the first cache of the series we passed another cache so decided to grab that one, which was nice and easy. It was pretty quiet in the village and it wasn't until cache 2 that we saw the first muggle of the day - a lady trying to control 2 horses in distress.
The start of the walk was mainly uphill through some nice country lanes, but nothing to bad. At around cache 3 it was pretty muddy making the uphill task a little trickier, but we were in no rush. Next came the lovely woodland with the loud hammering noise from a water pump.
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| Lovely |
We struggled a little on number 7 until Jules came up with the find and we carried on in the woodland.
We were out of the woods by number 10 and into the village of Stanway. I think cache number 11 should have posed some problems but fortunately it didn't.
The walk carried on then through some lovely parkland, along Cotswold Way and into Stanton. There was a cache here which wasn't part of the series. It was an old telephone box converted into an information kiosk, well the cache was inside herebut we needed a PAF from Ash [Monki] to find it.
The village has some lovely stone cottages.
The next cache as had a fair few DNF's on it and its not hard to see why, but fortunately I was on the ball with this one and found it on the floor. The walk then took us uphill again to a cache named after a local Architect, Sir Philip Stott. We took a bit of a breather here as it was a nice area to sit down.
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| Jules taking a breather! |
The walk up here is pretty hard going now as it started to throw it down with rain and as all Geocachers should we put our waterproofs on. We carried on along Cotwolds Way and across the top, where it was pretty exposed to the winds and driving rain and had all the info we had obtained to go for the bonus. Unfortunately there was supposed to be a padlock on bonus but it was no longer there.
Next we slowly descended back into Snowshill and back to the car for coffee.
All in all it was a superb walk with some nice varied caches.
We bagged 32 out of the 32 smilies attempted.
We moved on from Snowshill to another series but a lot shorter this time, we did 2 of the series as drive by's and then parked up.
Kildanes by Griff Grof
http://coord.info/GC2K1W4
On the walk you will walk through a stunning valley, lovely views from a part of the walk known as 'The Scrubs', and theres a nice woodland walk to finish. There were no cows/bulls on the walk but a few horses. Please note the walk has three unfriendly dog stiles.
The Kildanes series is a pleasant, short 2-3 mile walk with 9 caches in the series. There are also 2 other caches on the walk but one of them needs solving beforehand.
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| Jules just leaving home. |
Congrats to my caching partner on bagging her 800th cache today.....woohoo Go Jules!!!
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| Hunt riders |
Well that was fun and our caching day almost over, apart from 1 drive by on the way home.
Cache bagged today = 46
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