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New Sapperton 5/5s
By: SangueG Date: October 24, 2018, 3:39 am
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You may have noticed a few of these popping up the last couple
of days if you are local, a couple were published just last
night and so as I am writing the FTFs are still available. I am
not racing to claim them. A couple require rope work of great
height / depths, don't have enough equipment for those at the
moment, and my vertigo kicks in at shear drops of just a couple
of metres sometimes now any way. But just a few tips for
non-local people if they are looking to attempt a couple of
them:
Sapperton Canal, Danesway
HTML https://coord.inf
o/GC7ZC6V - This one shows the 'may require
wading' attribute. Having explored from this end a couple of
times, be aware that depending on the time of year, and weather,
a floating craft may need to be utilised to get to the fall. On
one visit I couldn't get very far by wading.
Also note that this end used to be gated up as per the tunnel
house end, the gates were flat down in the water just inside the
entrance on my last visit. I tried to get permission for a cache
here myself a while back, but failed. Hopefully the CO has
gotten proper permission, but if not then be aware of possible
civil trespass.
Shafted!
HTML https://coord.inf
o/GC7ZC84 - Don't know if you need to climb
down the shaft at the posted coords. If so, intrigued if it goes
right to the bottom as that would go down to the railway line
wouldn't it? Hopefully there's a clue somewhere at the posted
coords that direct you to another of the 'canal' air shafts.
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Re: New Sapperton 5/5s
By: SangueG Date: October 24, 2018, 1:15 pm
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Had a stab at the wading one this evening. Failed. Too tired.
Unless doing next summer after a good dry month, I would suggest
a floating craft, but not a deep bottomed one, unless you have a
proper pair of waders so your boots don't get filled with mud
like mine did.
Edit: Communication with the CO who said "pants and socks" did
it for him. If you go for it, it's your choice. But not sure I
would want to meet a few cachers I know emerging from the tunnel
in my pants. Though, there was this one time.... ;)
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Re: New Sapperton 5/5s
By: walktall Date: October 26, 2018, 5:28 am
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Sapperton Canal, Danesway
Fancy having a go at this one on the 30th Oct (if FTF still for
grabs) in my inflatable kayak (seats 2) ::)
If FTF gone, then at a time the suits anyone else who would like
to come 8)
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Re: New Sapperton 5/5s
By: walktall Date: October 29, 2018, 4:58 am
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I see both of the new canal caches have now been found :( so no
rush to find.
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Re: New Sapperton 5/5s
By: SangueG Date: October 29, 2018, 3:18 pm
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Yep, seen that too. As I thought, and mentioned the other day
when you found me :D tomorrow is not really going to work for me
anyway, not during the daytime at least. Will give it another
bash soon though :)
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Re: New Sapperton 5/5s
By: walktall Date: November 1, 2018, 4:49 am
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Good to see you at Geolympixs :)
I see a video has been posted of Sapperton Canal, Coates
HTML https://coord.inf
o/GC7ZH0G find with Sapperton Canal, Danesway
HTML https://coord.inf
o/GC7ZC6V find in the second half of the video.
To me, the Coates end looks like trespass :o The gate is still
there but has a hole on one side and there is still that boat
you mention Gackt there as well.
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Re: New Sapperton 5/5s
By: SangueG Date: November 1, 2018, 2:57 pm
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Yep. Coates end just as I remember it from a few years back,
except for the hole in the grill. Pretty sure it's trespass, but
at the same time I read somewhere not too long ago that the
rules on civil trespass had been relaxed somewhat.. I'll have to
look in to that. Might explain why reviewers have been
publishing caches of late of the sort I haven't been able to in
the past? ???
The Coates end, although there's a couple of falls to climb
over, seems a lot shallower than I remember. The Sapperton end..
at one point you can see the canal bed cloud out. That's about
ware I started to get wellie boot filled of slime. Notice that
(Mr Glover that [member=4]tarmacjohn[/member] and I) went under
with a while back, took the left hand wall. I tried the centre,
then moved to the right wall. So I guess anyone going for the
wading option to follow Mr Glover. I still will bring some
floating option next time. I have a couple of large beach blow
up rubber rings. I thought about laying back in doing a gentle
backstroke to the fall :)
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