A walk from Macc

5.50am Sunday morning and off I go to pick up Jules and head off to meet up with James (Pfaffabouters). We pop into McD's on route so I can grab a coffee and then 5 mins up road we park up on side off road in Kidsgrove.
This is where James leaves his car and we all jump in mine for a 25 minute drive north to Macclesfield where we park up on side of the canal.
The task is simple....we walk from my car to James's car.

KT Power by KhoomThropp

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A walk of around 15 miles entirely along the Macclesfield canal. There are 110 caches in the series and another 7 that you walk past.
The first couple of hours of the walk had us all putting on and taking off waterproofs, the showers were only light but we didnt fancy getting soaked if it turned heavy.
After that all waterproofs were taken off and stayed off for the rest of the walk.

James at start of walk.

Sunny and no rain yay!

The walk was easy as there were no stiles to negotiate and it was dead flat, the company was fun as always.
If you are in the area or fancy an easy 100 smilies in a day, then this is the series. It took us just over 8.5 hours to reach second car and that was with a diversion to a shop near Congleton station.

Mow Cop castle in background.

While we walked along the canal Jules and I both reached milestones of 2,500 and 8,000, it was nice to share milestones together.

 

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So with the series over we did a few drive by's on the way to the cache of the day which Jules and I needed for our d/t grids...

Amateur Rock Climbing Cache by Khoomfay

This is a D3.5/T5 cache which was fun as it was a bit different to anything else we had done today.
We had to climb up a sheer rockface but fortunately there is already a rope in place which made getting up and down much easier haha.
Once on top the cache was hidden in a small area and after a little help we soon had it found.

Looking down from the top.

On my way back down.

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Our day had now come to a close unfortunately, we had hoped to go to Luds church but ran out of time again. Today James and Jules both got a personal best and Jules and I got milestones.

In total 122 smilies were bagged