After climbing several trees in the area, SimonDaynaFrank, AB119 and myself finished the day here.

Access to the area was not the easiest or most elegant for a not very skinny 72 year old, but we were all soon ready. We chose the large tree as an anchor, and as SDF had done most of the hard work today, I went first on this one.

Unfortunately I had left my head torch in the car, and my hand held torch dangling from my harness pointed only downwards ;-)

I got down to the first level and searched, but saw nothing. Only then did I realise there was a second level, so I clipped back onto the rope and descended again. This time a search did reveal the cache, but merely highlighted that it might not be so easy to get to as I'd hoped ;-)

Having come this far, though, I was going to find a way, and I did - though my torch shining below me and not upwards proved to be a not inconsiderable handicap at this point.

SDF then went down, and somewhat alarmed me by free climbing back to the surface! He then went down a second time alongside AB119.

By this time I had acquired a Polish friend who was very interested in what we were doing, and impressed that a very young lady was tackling it instead of sitting at home watching TV. A couple of horse riders also stopped and said hello, but everyone was friendly and interested, and not at all alarmed as it was clear we were well equipped and competent.

Thanks for something a bit different,

Rgds, Andy

I came with my oldest daughter and her Polish boyfriend to give them some adventure and for me to check the cache.

All is well here.

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Whilst out climbing trees ???? with a lot of merry men and women we came across this dene hole of which the CO was keen to place a cache so once we managed to find access to the entrance we rigged up a couple of lines using the posts as anchor points and down we went. 

We found it was a little slippery on the way down and once we reached the bottom we came across an assortment of items that had been tossed down at one point or another. 

Anyway an excellent hide/find and fun had by all. 

Out with alfieo and others caching today and when this one got placed, I had to give it a go and so went down alongside the CO to help place the cache.  Great hidey hole which was lots of fun

Out with others caching, climbing trees and socialising when the CO asked if we wanted to investigate a rather interesting looking feature and of course I jumped at the chance.  I was first down to suss out what was below and it didn't take long before a cache was placed and everyone followed down to the beyond to sign the log.

Excellent fun had by all and a great way to end a day