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4882 2018-11-17 22:26 Amberel (user activity610) - Found it

It was long overdue for us to make a start on these caches, so mjcross, Smudge42, Wizbit100 and myself met at the parking at 08:20. Quite a hike to the cache, and once we got there it was obvious where we had to go next .

I suspect we rigged in a similar fashion to previous finders, and mjcross was the first to head to the cache. Wizbit had brought some walkie talkies, which proved a good idea, as rather surprisingly it wasn't possible to communicate from the bottom in either direction without them.

Took us quite a while as it was strictly one at a time. When it came to my turn I struggled a lot at the start because the rope had become wet and dirty, and the GriGri just wouldn't slip through it. The first 10 or 15 feet was a series of short but rapid jerks, very uncomfortable, but after which I got onto a clean section of rope and proceeded more smoothly to the bottom.

I picked up a geocoin proxy and dropped off a Welsh geocoin - I wouldn't normally leave a trackable in an extreme cache but as this is quite recent I suspect it will be revisited sooner rather than later . I also left an Amberel 70th Birthday PathTag.

Then just the long haul back up to the top, I was puffing a bit by the time I got there .

A favourite, and an Amberel TOP CACHE geocoin earned for the c/o, visit http://www.amberel.com/topcache.htm for more details.

Thanks for the cache,

Rgds, Andy

4862 2018-10-20 09:41 Dylan burgess (user activity21) - Found it

Insanely immense!!
I'd spotted some very interesting areas to explore on an Instagram account of urbexers within this area and instantly contacted the Co and sent pics, knowing the Co is nuts enough to get to, and place caches at these locations.
The Co was instantly keen and went for a recce.
A number of interesting locations were noted but this one looked by far the best.
Friday night I headed down in the camper with my boy and met the Co for an explore.
Saturday morning myself and the Co slightly hungover , Joshua over hyped from his night of cooking  and eating the whole pack of marsh mallows on the campfire, we set off  to the hole.
Arrived after a pleasant stroll through ladybird infested woodland, we both marvelled at this feature.
Rope was set up, depth test done, yep its deep.
Slightly hesitantly the Co headed down first.
The fact he for once wore a helmet shown the seriousness of the situation he was placing himself in.
Down he went, disappearring from view.
After some lengthy time he emerged out looking pretty chuffed with himself, so now my turn.
Over the edge, and down I went.
First section isn't bad, about 20 ft down is a loose band which I tried not to dislodge too much down onto the rope beneath,
After this section the rock is fairly good all the way to the bottom. Cache found, signed and hidden away again then the hard bit.
About 65feet of ascending, watching, again my footing at the loose band. Up and emerge out into the sunshine with the same grin the Co had.
This is just what extreme caching needs, more of this, a brilliant location and challenge.
Totally worthy of a fave point.
Nice one Swindon Leys, this sure was fun.
Future adventurers take note:
Be wary of only dropping required amount of rope down, there is the possibility of dislodging debris which could fall straight onto any excess rope on the ground.