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Re: The Cheltenham Hundred
DIR By: Griff Grof
Date: July 26, 2012, 2:46 pm
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Looks like Foraging 5 managed to complete more than half of the
series- any good from what you saw? ???
Well done for doing the amount you did, and under such heat ;D
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Re: The Cheltenham Hundred
DIR By: foraging 5
Date: July 26, 2012, 5:21 pm
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The heat beat us!! We made it to no 62 around 4pm, having
started just after 6 am at the racecourse. It took nearly 1 1/2
hours to make it back through town from the A40, back to the
race course car park. We were wobbling all over the place.
The walk itself has its surprises, and great views, we could
have done more but so many of the caches have co-ords that are
way out, and with obscure or no clues at all it is very
difficult in thick undergrowth, that has now grown, to enable a
good search.
In some areas the route does get a little confusing baring no
resemblance to the O.S map.
Difficult to know how to rate this, as can fully understand with
over 110 caches and 26.2 miles or pathways to meander, there's
bound to be a few problems.
8 out of 10 for the route so far. But only 6 out of 10 for the
cache, hides. Whether they were put out in a hurry or not, or
bad weather but some of the co-ords are way off the mark.
sometimes after a few attempts and a number of minutes, the gps
can get you a little closer, but when doing this sort of
distance, the minutes do count. we estimated at least another
7-8 hours for the remaining caches.
Oh well, we gave it a shot... but it was just so so so hot. We
did the sensible thing in not carrying on.
For those thinking of doing this.. plan over 2 days, and wait
until cache owners have sorted co-ords, undergrowth covered
caches, missing caches etc.. out first.
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Re: The Cheltenham Hundred
DIR By: Griff Grof
Date: July 26, 2012, 5:33 pm
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Thank you very much for confirming our concerns raised earlier
in the thread ;D At least it seems the walk isn't too bad, but
perhaps as you said, better to wait for everything to be sorted
:)
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