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Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: Wacky races Date: August 25, 2012, 6:36 am
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Sometime next week, I shall be setting out to try and find this
cache,
HTML http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4940fdd7-4e43-440e-a6e4-0247451ba1d4
It's a Difficulty 4 and Terrain 4.5, and it will be the highest
in both those fields if I find it. What's the most difficult
cache you've tried to/ have found?
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Re: Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: walktall Date: August 25, 2012, 11:04 am
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This is by far far far the most difficult cache I've tried and
found Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC2JPKZ :o :o :o ;D
I was with a group of people having a go at some of the Below
Above
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC2K97V caches and then we went onto this one,
hmmmm, a bit outside my comfort zone but I gave it a go and
managed to complete it. I even ended up helping some of the
other cachers ;D :o
These are all 5/5 caches 8)
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Re: Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: Wacky races Date: August 25, 2012, 11:12 am
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Wow! That does look hard! And good on you for helping them!
I've been abseiling before but not on that kind of scale, was it
a good cache?
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Re: Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: walktall Date: September 5, 2012, 4:43 am
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I would class this cache (Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC2JPKZ) as potholing, so great fun if you are
into that but not a place if you don't get on with confined
spaces and even though it was relatively short run to the cache
location, there was a lot of exertion getting there but also
getting back.
To start with, you enter through a low height (about 2ft)
passage and then down a chimney drop, using a rope. I remember a
very large rock you had to climb over and drop down the other
side; this was where some of the party called it a day and
waited there for the rest of us to complete the route. There was
one point that was very tight to get through and you had to
commit to it, as there was a small drop on the other side, which
meant you squeezed through and dropped about a foot or so. The
last obstacle, was a 10-12ft climb up into the cache 'cave'.
The cache itself was just a standard box but it certainly was an
adventure I will not forget in a hurry; this may be due to the
trepidation I felt when I saw what I was about to do or the
exhilaration of completing it and finding that I was helping
others through ;D
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Re: Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: flipflopnick Date: October 31, 2012, 7:04 am
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First went up to Kirkcudbright with a girlfriend with the
intention of caching. Warmed up with Auchencairn Amble
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GCQP7Q 4D/3T. The cliff side path freaked her,
and she took an inland route. The ultimate gaol of the trip was
to get onto Hestan Island
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GCQP7K 5D/5T, but the tide needed to be out.
We got up early and drove round to the given parking. Walked for
nearly two hours to see tide was still covering The Rack
causeway, our route on to the Island and the prize. Not a low
enough tide. To get to the water's edge we had to scramble down
through scrub across rocks on to coastal mud. Not that day.
Returned in June, on my own with a kayak and paddled out from
Balcary Bay at high water. Hopefully the currents would be slack
and the estimated 40 minute crossing would be unaffected by the
tide coming in. Cache found. Log signed. Photos taken for
Waymarking and logs
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GLJ1B22.
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Now for the return crossing before tide ebbed and sucked me out
to Isle of Man. Slight choppy sea decreased as I got nearer
launch point and under shelter of the land.
As I loaded kayak back on my car, families were playing at the
water's edge. Little did they know where I had just been and
done.
Further finders all had an adventure getting on to the island. I
returned
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GLP10V9 with itschopper when the tide was out
and walked across the Rack causeway, which is a mussel bed.
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Re: Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: SangueG Date: December 14, 2012, 6:16 pm
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As walk tall, Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC2JPKZ is physically the hardest cache I have
found. walk tall has described it well. I have never been so
exhausted by one cache. I felt more tired squeezing and climbing
my way through those.. how long was it, about 400m, maybe less?
than I was after a 30 mile hike. Got a lot of bruises too.
Recently attempted, and technically completed too Earnanęs, žęs
wyrmes denn
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC2VH8B. I haven't posted a 'find' though,
only a note, as although I signed the log I didn't manage to
complete one section. I can't say any more or it would give
spoilers. All I can say is it is similar to the other cache
mentioned above, but harder. There are quite a few other
fantastic 5/5s around that same area. I have completed a few,
but the two I mentioned I found the hardest.
I have found a couple of 5 star difficulty, but which have a low
star terrain rating. The virtual at Imber village
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GCKCJV was one fantastic day out! :) A 5 star
difficulty because it is only open to the public for a few days
a year.
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Re: Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: walktall Date: December 14, 2012, 6:26 pm
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Yes the virtual at Imber village is a great place to visit, well
worth it and glad I managed a visit before I left the Andover
area but it isn't that far from the Cotswolds ;D
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Re: Most difficult cache you've tried to/ have found?
By: gaz_zippy Date: January 3, 2013, 11:18 am
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I think the most difficult cache I have gone for and found is
this one:
The Cave Troll's Lair
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GCTDF6
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GCTDF6
My log and photos here:
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GL5WTMRG
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GL5WTMRG
I hope to have ago at the sequel next time I am down that way,
but just finding the path is a struggle by all accounts!
The Cave Troll's Other Lair
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC3BPGC
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC3BPGC
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