questsmith Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I'm a keen mountain walker and I see the world of geocaching as complimenting this hobby very nicely. With a year of potential routes ahead of me I thought that having some geocaches to aim for might focus me on attempting a particular hill or area of the country that I haven't been to before. This is where I seek your help ! Could any of you suggest caches in remote or inaccessable places, but staying within the UK and not requiring too much specialist gear ?! Cheers ! Quote Link to comment
davester Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Well there's quite a few decent routes on my website (link in my signature). Quite a few long walks in good walking country there, nothing super remote though. Quote Link to comment
+mongoose39uk Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 KiplingTheres always this gentle ten mile walk Quote Link to comment
+rutson Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Oi! No cache advertising, Tony Come on Pyoung1s and Deego, when we doing it? Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Aww, it would be great to do the Kipling Cache (looks amazing) with you if you're going in a group. Let me know if this possible. MarcB Quote Link to comment
+ribel Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 They don't appear to come much harder than this I can't wait to have a go! LOL at the cache description: A fall would result in death ribel Quote Link to comment
+Team Ullium Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I take my hat off to NickH for that warning on his cache sheet A warning like that alerts any cacher to either give it a miss or come prepared I can think of many other caches which could could do with a similar warning but the placers have omitted such information Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I've been up there, years ago - quite steep ground. My companion dropped my camera from just below the cache site and it bounced once, before hitting the scree 200 feet below. We found the camera later, but it was a very odd shape (although a little bit more compact!). Jonna doesn't seem to have been put off by the terrain - he/she looked for it on 1st Jan at night time. Might I suggest a look at the IOM caches - several tough mountain ones exist, and one which has proved too difficult to get to (no FTF after 7 months!). Use N 54° 15.800 W 004° 27.600 as a central point for searches (I'm desparately trying to avoid cache advertising here!). With about 40 to go at there's enough for a few days! HH Quote Link to comment
+Team Ullium Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 If you turn your Avatar round through 90 degrees to the right you might find more cachers ready to take up the challenge Happy Humphrey!!! Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Oi! No cache advertising, Tony Come on Pyoung1s and Deego, when we doing it? soon as we can sort a date Quote Link to comment
+harrogate hunters Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 For serious walking country try the Yorkshire Dales of Course !!!! The three peaks spring to mind, I did them all in a day a few years ago (20+ !!!) with my soon to be wife and we completed them in just under 11 hours. Mind you there is a fell race once a year and the fastest is around 2 hours I believe !!! As a bonus there are Caches at the top of them all ! Quote Link to comment
questsmith Posted January 13, 2005 Author Share Posted January 13, 2005 The three peaks spring to mind, I did them all in a day a few years ago (20+ !!!) with my soon to be wife and we completed them in just under 11 hours. Mind you there is a fell race once a year and the fastest is around 2 hours I believe !!! That sounds the right sort of challenge - the 11 hours not the 2 hours !!! I didn't realise that cache advertising wasn't allowed , so could you discreetly provide coordinates for me to search on ? Anymore for anymore ... got to get my find count up from its current 4 to challenge in the World Rankings !! Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Questsmith - you might be interested in trigpointinguk.com. Quote Link to comment
questsmith Posted January 13, 2005 Author Share Posted January 13, 2005 Might I suggest a look at the IOM caches - several tough mountain ones exist, and one which has proved too difficult to get to (no FTF after 7 months!). These sound interesting, but at the risk of sounding ignorant, what do the acronyms IOM and FTF stand for ?! Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 (edited) Questsmith: A more ambitious challenge is to log the six caches on the highest British Isles "national" summits (leave politics out please!). That's on my ticklist...only one done so far though HH P.S. Rutson beat me to the explanation! Edited January 13, 2005 by Happy Humphrey Quote Link to comment
+rutson Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Isle of Man and First to Find Quote Link to comment
questsmith Posted January 13, 2005 Author Share Posted January 13, 2005 I've never been to the Isle of Man and it would be cool to have a 'first to find' to my name ! I was on the top of Scafell Pike last October, but unfortunately at that time I didn't know that geocaching even existed let alone that there would be tupperware boxes up there to find !! I'll have to go back as that is the sort of cache challenge that appeals ! Quote Link to comment
+The Hungry Caterpillars Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 The Three peaks in Yorkshire is a pretty tough run /walk , the record is ,I think about 2hrs 50m.Do be careful as there is a lot more uphill than you think because of the long undulating stretch between Penyghent and Whernside. As A walk it seems to take people usually about 7-10 hrs in fairly decent weather. I have done this as a run or walk 8 times and can thoroughly recommend it and there geocaches and t***p****s too, or is it three? Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I've been up there, years ago - quite steep ground. My companion dropped my camera from just below the cache site and it bounced once, before hitting the scree 200 feet below. We found the camera later, but it was a very odd shape (although a little bit more compact!). Jonna doesn't seem to have been put off by the terrain - he/she looked for it on 1st Jan at night time. Might I suggest a look at the IOM caches - several tough mountain ones exist, and one which has proved too difficult to get to (no FTF after 7 months!). Use N 54° 15.800 W 004° 27.600 as a central point for searches (I'm desparately trying to avoid cache advertising here!). With about 40 to go at there's enough for a few days! HH It's absolutely fine to reference relevent caches with names and links - just not come online and post a message about an irrelevent cache that you have just placed yourself MarcB Quote Link to comment
+Geoffnco Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Visit glorious Devon and try Hound Tor (GCG4CR) - best on a sunny day! Geoff Quote Link to comment
+harrogate hunters Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Co-ords for the three peaks sent by e-mail Quote Link to comment
+Billy Twigger Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 You could do far worse than The Devil's Staircase, then straight on to The Death of Power where you will find (possibly) the remotest graveyard in Scotland Quote Link to comment
+Inukshuk and Arwen Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 This one looks like a challenge too ! quest happy caching! Inuk Quote Link to comment
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