Cranborne Chase Circular by KPFB
http://coord.info/GC3EEXH
The Cranborne Chase Circular is a walk of under 15 miles taking in 95 caches plus a few others enroute. The route is mostly on footpaths and bridleways but there are a couple of short sections on country lanes so take care. We didn't come across many stiles at all which was very welcome.
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| Nice blue skies. |
We started off by getting info for multi and then discovered the final GZ was between caches 1 & 2. So onwards with the series and no problems with any of the caches, I think we were probably lucky on how quickly we found a couple of them as it really could've been so different.
On our way to this series we did notice a couple of potential cachers and once reading a couple of the logbooks we realised that we were indeed following someone, but by #20 we had caught them up and said a quick hello.
At #22 there is a tree climb which certainly added a bit of spice to the walk, James and I went up but as James was higher up he soon spotted it...... we enjoyed that one.
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| James up the tree. |
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| Hang on, i'm coming up too! |
We were moving quickly and clocking up 2.4 mph, which by our standards is very good.
Half way round the walk in Sixpenny Handley we hit another multi but before we completed it we decided to make a slight diversion from series and visit the pub for a swift one.
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| What we saw ahead of us. |
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| Loved this walk. |
The second half of the walk began with the final GZ of the multi and then we had a bit of uphill walking which took us a bit by surprise, infact we struggled a little but think that was mainly due to it being the hottest time of the day.
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| I only wanted to do a few caches! |
By the time we got to the car, which was 6.5 hours later......we had 98 smilies in the bag.
We decided we should reward ourselves in the pub next to where we were parked with a drink or 2.
While we were here we decided we were going to do another series close by which should pull in another 9 smilies.
Walk in the Countryside by DizzyPair
http://coord.info/GC3B2XV
A linear walk of under 3 miles (there and back) down a bridlepath through some lovely woods.
We really enjoyed this walk in the shade as we were all pretty hot and a little tired from the pace we had walked at.
A rarity happened on this walk in the fact that Griff found most of the caches...this never normally happens....don't let on that we let him though hehehe.
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| Is that Griff really finding a cache? |
Once we were back at the car we stood on 107 smilies and decided that we would just grab a few drive bys on the way home. We also diverted slightly to grab a thickshake from McD's each.
I had a wonderful day in good company and loved the walking....we got back home with 116 smilies each
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