Amberel - North
The Bear Grylls Challenge
The Magna Defender
Lancashire
21 points
No. 796
No response
An unusual puzzle, a great location and a large, clean, well stocked cache box 🙂.
Dizzygirl at the cache. Click the image to expand it.
Cathedral Cavern Cache
Hattlebags
Cumbria
21 points
No. 843
No response
A massive cavern in a disused slate quarry - an awesome location for the cache 🙂.
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NineSquared
stonefielders
Cumbria
20 points
No. 547
Released
An awesome view over Blea Tarn. And a challenging spot to reach. Great cache 🙂.
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Yes.... It is a 5/5!!!
Thegeotwins
North Yorkshire
20 points
No. 838
No response
A clamber down the cliff and along the rocks that was every bit as challenging as the cache page said it would be 🙂.
Cacheandwalk heading down. Click the image to expand it.
Unloved cache challenge
duncanhoyle
Northumberland
19 points
No. 499
With owner
Best cache of the trip - a lovely walk to a great location, a long search for tricky hide, ultimately successful 🙂.
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Sick Clanger
Davieses
Cumbria
19 points
No. 783
No response
A cache that had been on my to do list for years, so pleased when I got to go for it and even more pleased when I found it, despite dreadful conditions on the day 🙂.
On the way. Click the image to expand it.
Down The Valley. Just For Fun)))).
Bxgeo
Lancashire
19 points
No. 785
With owner
A challenging descent into the valley, but a beautiful location.
Ring of Fire...Gorpley Loop #6
The Magna Defender
West Yorkshire
18 points
No. 762
No response
A beautiful waterfall on the moor above Gorpley Reservoir.
Ring of Fire (Rooley Moor)
meltdiceburg
Greater Manchester
18 points
No. 501
With owner
Rooley Moor is a great place for walking, and this series of caches, mostly in tricky to reach locations, makes the most of it.
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Ring of Fire...Summit #9 - Devil's Waterfall
Hillgorilla
West Yorkshire
18 points
No. 673
With owner
Picturesque and challenging, but not TOO challenging 🙂.
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Coronas Folly
coronasv
Greater Manchester
17 points
No. 797
With owner
A most unusual location 🙂.
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Citizen's Grand Cache.
Citizen Smith
Lancashire
17 points
No. 275
With owner
A steep, stiff climb up from the river - but what a view at the top 🙂.
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Alien Landing
bluewhitereg
West Yorkshire
17 points
No. 689
With owner
A lovely walk round the moor, and a final in a most beautiful setting.
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Packwoman's Grave
High Mountain Wanderer&duncscott
Cumbria
17 points
No. 667
With owner
A great location and a poignant story.
Ring of Fire...Dearden #14 - Devil's Hole
Hillgorilla
Lancashire
17 points
No. 672
No response
Beautiful and interesting location.
Blow your horn !
harrogate hunters
North Yorkshire
17 points
No. 614
With owner
I wasn't expecting much from this cache, but got a lot 🙂. An interesting history lesson, delivered pretty much first hand.
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The Big Walk...Bonus Ball Series No 4.
Hillgorilla
Lancashire
17 points
No. 645
No response
A short climb up a gully. Beautiful views from the cache location.
Ring of Fire...Portsmouth
Hillgorilla
Lancashire
17 points
No. 690
With owner
Not the longest walk, but a most enjoyable one 🙂.
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By The Brooks
KEG88
Lancashire
17 points
No. 670
With owner
A lovely location on the moor, but mostly impressed by the condition of the cache compared to all the others we found that day - regular maintenance despite very few finds.
6x666 - Just a Devilish Challenge
Just-Us-Two
Durham
16 points
No. 498
With owner
What an excellent place to hide a cache 🙂. Challenging 🙂.
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White Coppice Bucket Challenge
meltdiceburg
Lancashire
16 points
No. 671
With owner
An interesting location and a good hide.
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Darwen Moor
L E G E N D
Lancashire
16 points
No. 273
With owner
A number of caches on a great walk across the moor. A rather unusual one to award because it covered more than one cache owner, and I've had to select the c/o with the greater number of caches.
As far as the linked cache is concerned, that too is a rather arbitrary choice. It has a great view of a spectacular chimney that I had seen Fred Dibnah climb during a television program, and it was great to see the chimney "for real" 🙂.
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Whins Brow
Langden
Lancashire
16 points
No. 784
Released
A lovely location out on the moors 🙂.
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WWWRT - The Bowels
L E G E N D
Lancashire
16 points
No. 644
No response
A beautiful location between rolling green grassy slopes and the canal winding along below. And a fun placement for the cache 🙂.
Anglezarke Moor
PopUpPirate
Lancashire
16 points
No. 274
No response
A great walk across the moor. Most of the caches were set by this c/o, and the choice of the one linked to is based on a tricky but good hiding place that took us quite a long time to ferret out 🙂.
Sleeping with the fishes
micky n dave
North Yorkshire
16 points
No. 612
With owner
A varied puzzle, followed by a pleasant walk and a fun finish 🙂.
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Way Around Dearden
Hillgorilla
Lancashire
15 points
No. 225
With owner
Wonderful walking country on the Lancashire moors, especially beautiful on the section up the river valley. Several hides in challenging locations. If the cache containers had been better quality and the logs dry it would have scored very high marks.
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The Big Walk
Hillgorilla
Lancashire
15 points
No. 226
With owner
More great walking on the Lancashire moors. No set route, and few tracks means thinking hard about picking the best way round, both when planning and when walking. Many hides are offset into river valleys, waterfalls, steep scrambles etc. - interesting as well as scenic.
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Round Top Summit, Yealand
martlakes
Lancashire
15 points
No. 400
With owner
The award also covers "Cringlebarrow and Deepdale". An interesting location.
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Matts Cache.
Dynamic Duo 2012
Humberside
15 points
No. 496
With owner
An unusual cache placement! And trickier than first expected.
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The Tups Bottom...Hidden Waterfall.
Hillgorilla
Greater Manchester
15 points
No. 795
With owner
Not many earthcaches in this list - but this was a great location 🙂.
Dizzygirl at the location. Click the image to expand it.
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The source of the River Skell
harrogate hunters
North Yorkshire
15 points
No. 613
With owner
A very short walk on the moor, but a nice one 🙂.
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MagDef's Big One
The Magna Defender
Lancashire
14 points
No. 480
With owner
An enormous box in a lovely location on the moor.
Rivelin Walk
iancnp
South Yorkshire
14 points
No. 695
With owner
A walk in unexpectedly beautiful country, well maintained caches. The walk also included the "Troglodyte" cache, though this was set by a different c/o.
Beevers Bridge.
Dynamic Duo 2012
South Yorkshire
14 points
No. 497
With owner
Great placement, very tricky for a solo cacher.
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