Amberel - WestMidlands
Five Fall Into Adventure (Pt. 2)
bilkobaggins
Derbyshire
22 points
No. 445
With owner
The best Famous Five cache we've done yet, and that's really saying something 🙂.
Swinging down after finding the cache 🙂. Click the image to expand it.
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Joe Brown's Navigation Challenge
With owner
Derbyshire
22 points
No. 834
Released
A very long (we walked 24 miles) and many stage multi, in lovely countryside. A very special cache 🙂.
It was a long day - click the image to expand it.
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C.O.D. Petrus (Derbyshire)
cats-eyes
Derbyshire
20 points
No. 555
With owner
A great location, lovely views.
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Secret Seven on the trail.
coronasv
Derbyshire
20 points
No. 691
With owner
A crazy location and very clever hide.
Five Go Down to the Sea
bilkobaggins
Derbyshire
19 points
No. 446
With owner
Part of the fun of these caches is the way that what you have to do is matched to the story line 🙂.
A series of 6 culvert caches. By no means the most difficult ones I've done, but WAY the longest 🙂.
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Lloyd's Coppice
NevilleDog_n_Humans
Shropshire
19 points
No. 750
With owner
A number of caches distributed around some challenging terrain 🙂.
Climb of Adventure
meltdiceburg
Derbyshire
18 points
No. 448
With owner
A challenging placement in a lovely setting, with great views .
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Famous Five
bilkobaggins
Derbyshire
18 points
No. 371
With owner
A series of extreme and semi-extreme caches around Glossop, exploring secret tunnels, wading through rivers, climbing trees - all the sort of things the Famous Five do 🙂.
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Have you put the plug in?
SOS_Mega_Crew
Staffordshire
18 points
No. 800
With owner
A great little paddle along an unusual and little used waterway 🙂.
Five on a Secret Trail
bilkobaggins
Derbyshire
18 points
No. 449
With owner
A two stage problem getting to the cache. And another two stage problem getting back, of course 😉. A long, long crawl and a fitting end to the Famous Five caches on this trip 🙂.
George, Dick and Julian after their adventure 🙂. Photo and Timmy courtesy of the c/o 🙂. Click the image to expand it.
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QQMF
HuggableHamster
Derbyshire
18 points
No. 799
With owner
A pleasant and varied paddle on a gentle waterway, with outstanding launch provision 🙂.
Rock Hard Coffin
NevilleDog_n_Humans
Shropshire
18 points
No. 788
With owner
Very challenging ground to cover!
The Padlocked Letterbox (Revisited)
NevilleDog_n_Humans
Shropshire
18 points
No. 804
With owner
A tricky task made a lot more difficult by the location 😉.
Join the dots... Paws for thought!
NevilleDog_n_Humans
Shropshire
17 points
No. 751
With owner
A nice large, clean cache in an "interesting" spot 🙂.
Brick Kiln
fairyspan
Derbyshire
17 points
No. 571
With owner
Made the most of an interesting location 🙂.
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FYI 466 - Gnosall Millennium
tangoA&J
Staffordshire
17 points
No. 773
With owner
A multi part puzzle leading to a nice location and a final container that had a lot of work put into it 🙂.
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Alphabet Soup
smart451
Derbyshire
17 points
No. 95
With owner
A mix of walking on and off road, but what made the series was the variety of excellent camouflaged and "trick" caches 🙂.
Jaggers Clough
geogeriatrics
Derbyshire
16 points
No. 96
With owner
A fabulous walk following the path of the stream onto the Kinder plateau, which had remained unfinished business for me as I was unable to complete it on my first attempt due to a dodgy knee. Returned 15 months later to find the remaining caches in the series, which were in even more outstanding locations than the lower ones, and the rating has been bumped up accordingly.
Now archived as the owners are no longer able to maintain the caches - a loss to caching 🙁.
Factotem at Jaggers Clough #8, looking down the clough towards #7. Click the image to expand it.
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The Roaches
UrsusBear
Staffordshire
16 points
No. 149
With owner
A lovely location. UrsusBear once again demonstrate the advantage of dual skinning caches that are in exposed locations.
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Zeke and Mya go climbing
Citrus-Lizard
Staffordshire
16 points
No. 580
With owner
Straightforward climb in a nice location.
Lichfield Number Station
offbeam
Staffordshire
16 points
No. 710
With owner
The battle of the throw bags, for a long time the tree was winning but eventually everything was done and dusted 🙂.
The National Memorial Arboretum Virtual
billnwen
Staffordshire
16 points
No. 581
With owner
A fascinating location, even more so than we had expected it to be.
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Sub Hedera
offbeam
Staffordshire
16 points
No. 579
With owner
A very tough puzzle followed by a nice climb 🙂. Also covers the nearby "Training Tree" cache.
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Carding Mill
markandlynn
Shropshire
16 points
No. 21
With owner
Standing in these lovely hills I couldn't believe that I'd managed in my whole life not to visit the Long Mynd before!
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Cache EM if you can #1 - 9 ladies of Stanton Moor
Ve8
Derbyshire
15 points
No. 70
No response
A gorgeous spot, high on the moor. On an autumn morning I climbed up through heavy mist to a beautiful sunny day.
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ZEKE'S no jOAK
Citrus-Lizard
West Midlands
15 points
No. 440
With owner
Nice tree climb in a great location.
Ringing Roger
Flipperfeet
Derbyshire
15 points
No. 146
No response
A bit of a scramble at the end of a long climb.
Crowden Brook Waterfall
Wicker
Derbyshire
15 points
No. 147
No response
A delightful spot for the cache, but also scores big for the section of Crowden Clough above the cache, leading to the top of Kinder Scout, which was a tough walk in gorgeous surroundings.
S&WCGB
Fungimanforager
Staffordshire
15 points
No. 311
With owner
A lovely paddle along a very scenic section of canal through Kinver, with a mixture of easy and challenging caches on the way.
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Love Nature
foxeylady
Shropshire
15 points
No. 392
Declined
More superb views in an idyllic spot.
WW2 Series - Minton Beware
Discovery Centre
Shropshire
15 points
No. 391
No response
Fantastic views.
The Emperor's Quest
meltdiceburg
Derbyshire
14 points
No. 227
With owner
This series took the highly unusual form of a fairy tale continued on each cache page, loosely related to the cache at that stage. I've taken the liberty of naming this from the most enjoyable part of the route as the series doesn't really have a name as such.
Some great scenery, and a few out of the ordinary hides to make it more interesting 🙂.
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Noe Head
Barber Booth Alpine Club
Derbyshire
14 points
No. 148
No response
A delightful spot, in a steep sided valley, beside a waterfall.
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Biggin to see
Dicy Penn
Staffordshire
14 points
No. 145
With owner
A lovely walk up Mill Dale with a stiff and steep climb at the end.
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ARBOREAL ADVENTURE
Fungimanforager
Staffordshire
14 points
No. 313
With owner
Several modest tree climbs and an unusual final location.
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Five Get Into Trouble
bilkobaggins
Derbyshire
14 points
No. 447
With owner
Possibly the most straightforward of the Famous Five caches for us - it's what we are more used to 😉.
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PARK & STRIDE 40
Fungimanforager
Shropshire
13 points
No. 312
With owner
Freeclimb, lots of footholds though some of them a bit far apart for my old knees.
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