Amberel - UK

The Glomach Falls

harrypotter

Highland

23 points

No. 847

Declined

A 12 mile scenic hike to a spectacular waterfall.

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Declined

Britain's highest Geocache

Jurassic Parkinsons

Highland

22 points

No. 845

No response

The dreadful weather meant this was not a particularly enjoyable walk for us, but it is an iconic loaction and a bucket list item crossed off 😉.

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No response from c/o

Leaping Lemurs!

Preseli

Powys

21 points

No. 485

No response

A well filled ammo can in an amazing location!

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No response from c/o

Rhosydd Miners Trail

meltdiceburg

Gwynedd

21 points

No. 684

With owner

A great trail of caches that take you through magnificent scenery and teach all about the industrial and farming history of the location. The cache pages are among the best I've seen, well written, informative and interesting.

Swimming to the island - click the image to expand it.

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RhosyddMinersTrail

fladda mill

shetlandbainboy

Shetland

21 points

No. 791

No response

A large, clean cache in an interesting and scenic location.

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No response from c/o

Ogof Clogwyn

Funk to Funky

Gwent

21 points

No. 409

With owner

Wow, what a great location, done lots of underground caches but never one quite like this!

Wizbit100 in Ogof Clogwyn. Click the images to expand them.

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Nimbus master.

Mousekiller

Highland

21 points

No. 422

With owner

Multi-skills needed for this one, cross the loch and climb a tree. Very well presented.

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Cetacea Odontoceti

Mousekiller

Highland

20 points

No. 423

With owner

A tricky puzzle and an enjoyable small boat trip 🙂. We had a whale of a time 😉.

Amberel and Wizbit100 flushed with success 🙂. Click the image to expand it.

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A Lad and a Lassie

Mousekiller

Highland

20 points

No. 424

With owner

A great multi on the loch, maybe pick a less windy day than we did!

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Stratton hotel

Mousekiller

Highland

19 points

No. 420

With owner

A very original field puzzle followed by a roped tree climb.

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StrattonHotel

Ogof Huw John Fychan

UrsusBear

Gwynedd

19 points

No. 119

Released

A really great location, superb beach, great views, some surprises and possibly the best hiding place I've seen in 5,500 cache finds 🙂.

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OgofHuwJohnFychan

"POWER SHOWER"

Ellie&Rudi Mentry

Powys

19 points

No. 652

With owner

Wow! And wow again! Where does all that water come from!

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PowerShower

Little Bridges # 2500 - A Steall rope bridge

Ev1l 81tch

Highland

19 points

No. 846

With owner

I've never before visited a little bridge quite like this one 😉. Plus sensational views of An Steall.

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AnSteall

Wireless Ridge Re-org (Chirp)

Signum-GB

Fife

18 points

No. 661

With owner

A bit of a journey between stages but a great final location.

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WirelessRidge

Clambering with the Classics

Funk to Funky

Gwent

18 points

No. 483

With owner

A series of very varied tree free climbs. The trees were well chosen to be challenging (for me) but possible.

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ClamberingWithTheClassics

Hitchcock Series: The Mountain Eagle

thelotuseater

West Glamorgan

18 points

No. 653

With owner

A punishing climb to a great view 😉.

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MountainEagle

Porth Sion Dafydd

UrsusBear

Gwynedd

18 points

No. 118

No response

A lovely walk along a wide, deserted beach, at low tide, to a fun cache placement 🙂.

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No response from c/o

Start Jumping at the Bryn

martin&lindabryn

Gwynedd

18 points

No. 412

With owner

My goodness, stage 1 was tricky. Fun interaction with pub customers 🙂. Very original 🙂.

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Lost in Lanarkshire

AbrachHutchison

Strathclyde

18 points

No. 844

With owner

An ammo can in a fun location 😉.

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LostInLanarkshire

Dingestow Triathlon

SamBryo

Gwent

18 points

No. 848

With owner

DingestowTriathlon

Mountain Spring.

vincent1960

Mid Glamorgan

18 points

No. 317

With owner

This wasn't the main part of our route, but it turned out to be the nicest cache of the day, a beautiful location perched on the side of the mountain.

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CC37 Cannon Balls – a Likely Story

Write and Mane

Gwent

18 points

No. 488

With owner

A neat puzzle, leading to a wholly unexpected final location!

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Terror on the ridge of death !

leminem

Gwynedd

17 points

No. 387

Released

The cache that got us started on this crazy hike in a crazy place!


Wizbit100 on the final push up to the ridge
Looking back
That's the ridge part complete
and then it gets harder - dizzygirl already up there, I've still to climb it!
Another climb, never ends
Another top, with Cache U Nutter
mjcross, dizzygirl and Cache U Nutter - we went right along the top of that!
Dizzygirl looking back
Garnedd Ugain, the long ridge after Crib Goch
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Alva's Cliff Faces

Claxons

Central

17 points

No. 399

With owner

The award also covers "D'Ye Ken Wee Torry?". A lovely walk with some spectacular views.

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Sygyn Copper Trail

UrsusBear

Gwynedd

17 points

No. 114

With owner

A varied walk, taking in the town of Beddgelert, industrial and other history, myth, great views, past rushing river and over rocky mountain.

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Rhobell Fawr

DAEARYDDA

Gwynedd

17 points

No. 191

Released

A superb walk in the mid-Wales mountains. Regrettably the caches appear to be visited far less frequently than they deserve.

Sheepfold through the clouds - click the image to expand it.

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Trophy Challenge

Landsbanki

Central

17 points

No. 663

With owner

A super series of challenges in a great location, with some fun 'gadget caches' in the mix 🙂. 2 coins for the series as it has 2 main owners.

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Hanging Around Wharry Gorge

Nirikina

Central

17 points

No. 662

With owner

A short but lovely walk and a fun cache at the end of it 🙂.

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WharryGorge

Pickle House

mushroom mike

Pembroke

17 points

No. 122

With owner

Wow! We were most fortunate to arrive just after Pickle House had been redecorated 🙂.

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PickleHouse

Trophy Challenge

Trophy Team

Central

17 points

No. 664

With owner

A super series of challenges in a great location, with some fun 'gadget caches' in the mix 🙂. 2 coins for the series as it has 2 main owners.

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TrophyChallengeTDFThom

The "Extreme" Waterfall

thehorcrux

West Glamorgan

17 points

No. 486

With owner

A really silly place to put a cache 😉. And silly cachers for finding it 🙂.

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Six Kingdoms

Chermione

Isle of Man

17 points

No. 552

With owner

A great location, shame we were in cloud and high winds when we were there, we had to imagine the view 😉.

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Chip's Challenge

TeamBucki and HarpingMcCartan

Grampian

17 points

No. 419

With owner

Nicely presented cache, up a tree, in a beautiful location 🙂.

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ChipsChallenge

Troglodyte's Treasure

MagicCarpet

Highland

17 points

No. 421

With owner

A steep descent to the beach.

Wizbit100 prospecting a route. Click the image to expand it.

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Cilan Cliffs

UrsusBear

Gwynedd

16 points

No. 116

No response

A fairly straightforward puzzle followed by a lovely cliff-top walk, in a strong gale, through heather and gorse. A slightly "heart in mouth" hiding place!

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No response from c/o

Bardsey View

UrsusBear

Gwynedd

16 points

No. 117

No response

A spectacular cliff-top walk.

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No response from c/o

Pickle Tower

mushroom mike

Pembroke

16 points

No. 121

With owner

A really great location, and a fun hide 🙂.

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PickleTower PickleTower_Back

South Goes Northwest (Betws Ash Ascent)

alfieo

Gwynedd

16 points

No. 683

With owner

A splendid tall and upright specimen, with the cache prepared to the c/o's usual attention to detail 🙂.

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BetwsAshAscent

The First in Wales

The Gecko's

Gwent

16 points

No. 318

With owner

Classic cache in a great location 🙂.

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Rock In A Hole

Welshvlad

Gwent

16 points

No. 319

With owner

A lovely cross-country walk for us, as the sun was going down.

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Phones 4 U - Carn Aosda

IamAJMiller

Grampian

16 points

No. 398

No response

A gentler gradient to this one.

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Precipice picnic

Bedfordj and Woody

Gwynedd

16 points

No. 411

No response

A lovely walk and great views - and a tricky approach to the cache.

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No response from c/o

The "Extreme" Rock

thehorcrux

West Glamorgan

16 points

No. 410

With owner

A fun abseil - but we made the same mistake as everyone else 😉.

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Cateran Link

Dair Mor

Tayside

16 points

No. 395

No response

A pleasant walk, if little boggy in places, and some great views.

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No response from c/o

Llywn Hir

Canalcruisers

Mid Glamorgan

16 points

No. 849

With owner

A lovely walk round the forest for some "fishing" caches.

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LlywnHir

The Cairnwell

IamAJMiller

Tayside

16 points

No. 396

No response

A stiff climb under the chair lift cables. The ski lifts, so useful in winter, do blight the landscape somewhat in summer.

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Loch Vrotachan

perth pathfinders

Grampian

16 points

No. 397

With owner

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Grid Filler Challenge Cache

malbowsier

Mid Glamorgan

16 points

No. 484

With owner

A most unusual cache location, with a beautiful view to boot 🙂.

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The Old metal bridge

the day clan

West Glamorgan

15 points

No. 651

With owner

A fun cache. I made a hash of it, but heartstones1 got me out of trouble!

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TheOldMetalBridge

Canaston Wood

mushroom mike

Pembroke

15 points

No. 120

With owner

A series of amusing and beautifully engineered caches in some lovely woods.

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Royal Marine Commando Training #02 Problem Solving

sgtzara

County Down

15 points

No. 634

With owner

Awarded largely for originality, a commodity that is hard to come by now 🙂.

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RMCTProblemSolving

Brack as in Bread.

Pointerdogg

Armagh

15 points

No. 633

With owner

What tough going, relieved to have found my way down again in one piece 😉.

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BrackAsInBread

O'Hallorans Castle

W.S.P

Antrim

15 points

No. 632

No response

Just stopped for a random cache as we were driving up the Northern Ireland north-east coast road, and it turned out to be a really fun one 🙂.

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Lest We Forget #(??) Stobo

Caledonian CacheFest

Scottish Borders

15 points

No. 500

With owner

The first TOP CACHE coin for a virtual cache. What I found here was completely unexpected, and the more I looked, the more was to be seen. If you only ever do one virtual, make it this one 🙂.

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Elan Valley

Jaughan

Powys

15 points

No. 190

With owner

A lovely walk on the hills above the Caerwen Reservoir, though the going is difficult and energy sapping in many places.

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North Wales Mega Ascent

alfieo

Clwyd

15 points

No. 413

With owner

NorthWalesMegaAscent

Scotland's First

Jock Scott

Central

15 points

No. 384

No response

An iconic cache in a great location.

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...wombling free (Great Uncle Bulgaria)

monkeydestructor

Strathclyde

15 points

No. 385

With owner

TopCacheNew

Yr Wyddfa

Black Tulip

Gwynedd

15 points

No. 386

With owner

Done the hard way, along the top of Crib Goch.

Lots of photos on this page, see entry for "Terror on the ridge of death".

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South Goes Northwest (Betws Beech Ascent)

alfieo

Gwynedd

15 points

No. 389

With owner

All the way to North Wales to find a tree cache set by a cacher local to us 🙂.

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BetwsBeech

IT HAS IT ALL! #1

J@cobite

Strathclyde

15 points

No. 418

With owner

A hard slog over boggy ground and felled trees, a descent through the bracken and a wade in the river 🙂.

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Reviewer's 25 Challenge - GOLD

martin&lindabryn

Gwynedd

14 points

No. 390

With owner

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Coed y Gedrys #4 Rusting Hulk

Ffion's friends

Mid Glamorgan

14 points

No. 487

With owner

I'm not generally a fan of nanos, but this was an excellent hiding place.

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Vertigo - MACC29

malbowsier

Mid Glamorgan

14 points

No. 408

With owner

A fun cache placement, well hidden - though I did get saturated by the wet moss 😉.

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Cuckoo

mushroom mike

Pembroke

14 points

No. 123

With owner

There's not much that is new under the sun, but in 5,500 cache finds I'd never come across one like this before 🙂.

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woodwick

UBVikings

Shetland

14 points

No. 790

No response

A remote and windswept location.

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Summit or Submit

scottpa100

Gwynedd

14 points

No. 388

No response

A quiet walk along the top of Crib Goch to join the thousands thronging up the Pyg track and the path from Llanberis.

For photos, see the entry for "Terror on the ridge of death".

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No response from c/o

Cache on a Bare Mountain

wumsandi

Gwynedd

14 points

No. 115

No response

A good hiding place in a beautiful cliff-top location.

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No response from c/o