New Forest Caching

[+muzzys]

Hi

 

we are off camping near the New Forest at the end of May.

I have been looking for some suitable circular walks to do while there, but the caches seem to be dotted all over the place, meaning having to work out our own routes.

We will have the littleun with us in poushchair, so any walks we do need to be relatively pushchair friendly. We dont mind the odd rutted track and have done plenty of fields and hills with the buggy.

 

So... can anyone suggest some good start and finish points or any cache routes i may have missed

Anything from a couple of miles to about 8 miles max.

 

thanks

mr muzzys

[+keehotee]

Have a word with nobby nobbs - he'll be able to point you in the right direction (possibly literally!!)

[+The Slaughter Family]

we were caching in the New Forest last year, ok not with a buggy but with a walk 'allergic' toddler ...... There were a few caches in one area Summer Picnics..etc.......check our blog here if that is of help

[+muzzys]

we were caching in the New Forest last year, ok not with a buggy but with a walk 'allergic' toddler ...... There were a few caches in one area Summer Picnics..etc.......check our blog here if that is of help

hi, thanks for that, very useful blog. ill look closer at those cache details

 

cheers

[+The Slaughter Family]

we were caching in the New Forest last year, ok not with a buggy but with a walk 'allergic' toddler ...... There were a few caches in one area Summer Picnics..etc.......check our blog here if that is of help

hi, thanks for that, very useful blog. ill look closer at those cache details

 

cheers

 

Thank you, and happy to help .....good luck with the caching. I usually head for terrain 2.5 max when caching with DS2......and see if there are a collection in one spot....like the Summer Picnics etc...happy caching

[+Guanajuato]

We did a few round Godshill last year - all reasonably pushchairable.

Ogdens View & Abbots well were good. Start at Abbots well, go down to Ogden Farm then over Hyde Common to Hyde, then grab all the answers for Ogdens View between Hyde & Frogham before following the track (private Road) back to Abbots Well. The paths are generally well compacted gravel. It does go through a stream at one point, but its shallow. We had a pushchair that day as well, and not a sturdy all-terrain one either.

 

The car park at GC1J4PY is a good place to start for Godshill, Submarine pens (whatever version its up to now) & a couple of others) The paths are pretty much compacted gravel too, but it was quite tricky going through Pitts Wood Inclosure due to large rocks being exposed.

 

Also, the Brews & Views series are good, but there don't seem to be as many around now.

 

We'll be down again this year (based in Fordingbridge), and looking at the new caches, it looks like Whitsbury Down may well be a place we go. Not that its about the numbers.

[nobby.nobbs]

There are loads of caches that are nice walks in the Forest. the ones around this car park :

N50.48.245 W 1.40.283

are very good, some long multis some shorter ones with nice views. You could spend several days doing all the ones within a short drive of this central point.

 

If you get rain then be prepared. most longer multis have a couple of spots that tend to have mud... sometimes deep mud.

 

to be honest it's hard to think of any that i would say to avoid.

 

A tip. avoid driving through Lyndhurst. always has long delays and tail backs.... %%%%%% tourists

[+Bill D (wwh)]

nobby.nobbs wrote:

A tip. avoid driving through Lyndhurst. always has long delays and tail backs.... %%%%%% tourists

Aaaggh, Lyndhurst - the traffic jam with a town built round it...

[+Mad H@ter]

This ring is very popular, especially if you have young cachers with you.