We were trying to find the final of Playing Around in Kingsdown and ended up going too deep and coming across this one... sounds like many others have done this too! It was an unexpected bonus and definitely added to the day - we spent a lot of time crawling in and out of this cave looking for the various caches. This has now led to me finding out about this 'open cache' website and opened a load more abanazar caches that I didn't know existed! Even more puzzles to obsess over! TFTC

Didn't quite make it far enough for another find of this cache. Geoson #1 saw the spiders and decided to retreat. Thanks anyway

Me and Insertcure did a Piddypug here and found this before we'd located the initial cache. We found this much easier than the main cache, but both were very good fun. TFTC

A much easier find than it's guardian! TFTC 

  Hello abanazar !!!

    I'm pleased to inform you that your cache became: Cache of the month

CONGRATULATIONS !!!
OC Team

A return visit to this final hole.  I thought that the TopCache coin deserved to be discovered after a few months sitting in the dark. 

I had a most enjoyable trip because, in a fit of Christmas cheer, the car CD player decided to start working again all by itself after a long period of being out of action (the CD wedged inside was The Smiths greatest hits which isn't the most festive but I had a good singalong).  After some cache maintenance and some Christmas cider purchases I made my way to the hole, which is being watched over at the moment by a very poorly extra guardian. 

The approach to the tee was longer than I remembered and the hole itself was also more challenging than I expected.  I had my co FTFer for this cache, BradLad,as a safety phone contact and as I made my way down the narrow fairway I was pleased that I'd made that arrangement.  Either my memory is poor or I've put on a few kg in the last four years but I managed to reach the trophy reasonably easily.

This was my 10th TopCache coin discovery- most of them belonging to abanazar.

I signed the slightly damp log and then found the reverse hole a bit easier with gravity helping out.

Thanks for the festive fun; it's not the first Christmas eve that I've spent in a hole due to this owner.

 

Today I “followed through” from a maintenance trip to Playing Around in Kingsdown to check on Piddypug’s Hole (In One). I’d forgotten what a fun little cave this is. It was great to discover that the log has been signed three times since antpeng, presumably by cavers (actually I recognise the name of one of them). Piddypug’s plaque has come unstuck from its mount due to the high humidity I think, but it’s still just about legible. Thanks to all its visitors for leaving it safe and sound.

I was so close and yet so far to an FTF on this cache. I found its sister Groundspeak cache the day before this one was published and I too overshot the pin on that cache, but no way near enough to find this one. I had finished work early and was heading over to Box so thought I'd stop off en route and have a go at finding this. On my way to GZ I noted that the final two stages of Playing Around are safe and well. The Pro's advice on the best approach to the pin was spot on and I soon found myself putting for par. Any excuse for a bit of underground fun is most appreciated so thankyou very much for my first open cache.

Forgot about this cache to be honest. Our first open cache. Only remembered because I'm looking at more of these devilishly hard caches by the CO.

Can't take credit for doing the dirty bit, but little girl did help out a little and put our names on the log. Did have fun doing the first stage though after a great day down some other big holes!

TFTC

 

I am told a hole in one is something rare to achieve, something special that you will not forget. Indeed this one lived up to that. After our team completed the prior round, we took one more shot and got a goal.. oh, it's not called a goal is it 

 

This was a great experience! I am thankful for the rest of the team who all helped get ready for this final shot. And a special thank you to the little GeoCaddy of team "pig,dog,boyandgirls" who fearlessly came in and met me part way to save me some work.

 

Great fun, thank you for setting.

Having completed "Playing Around in Kingsdown" and Gackt was keen to find this cache (I wanted to log it as well) and was already in position, carried on the route to the cache. We assisted where we could and after what felt some time the cache appeared and I provided the pen to write the log.

TFTC

I had completed the round on a earlier date although I missed this hole so came back to play it today. I had actually heard there was a cache here from an attended event previous to completing the round and did have a quick look last time I was here but I must have got my gossip muggled up as I thought this was the start of a lamp related cache one I wanted to complete properly and with my magic wand I recently purchased on Ebay and ceased play before putting.

 

It turns out I was less than a foot away from the cache after i was kindly correctedI managed to get my hand on the cache today. Was a tough if short caving experience but I knew what to expect from last time. Great cache and great trophy and it's nice to see the spiders have grown and spawned since my last visit. Thanks for this bonus cache my second OC one.

 

Piece of advice, if you're wearing a BT boiler suit and you are questioned by a muggle don't lie and say you are checking the telephone wires in the area after the recent rain. You may be given a lecture on what's wrong with a certain middle aged ladies telephone service and whether you could look into it. Next time I'm just saying I'm crawling in mud to find tupperware boxes.

 

TFTC

Amberel awarded this superb cache a Top Cache award. I want to give it a recommendation as one of the best OpenCaches I have found but regrettably it means taking a recommentation away from another cache. Sadly, the obvious candidate was Amberel's "Off the Rails" which he had archived anyway because of copious fly tipping in the area spoiling the experience. I am certain he would approve of this switch!

Amberel's account of this adventure is perhaps a little critical of my first shot onto the fairway - after all, I had found the 19th hole and the Hider Cup. I think it was entirely appropriate to return to the club house with the cup before embarking on Piddtpug's hole.

However, I did consider it a little insane to progress beyond the 19th hole, since reaching it had already required serpentine efforts. Thus, when I saw that the aperture narrowed further, I was perfectly happy for Amberel to go first.  Whilst he had got stuck at In non Cherchio, I still had my experience at Lasciate 18 months earlier as a reminder of how things could quickly go from fine to terrifying.

Thus, I was not in a hurry to pursue Amberel, in case the tiny aperture required a reversal and one or both of us ended up stuck.  However, once I had been assured by Amberel that the bunker was generously proportioned, I started to make my move, but whilst I was negotiating the dog leg, going from head first to feet first entry into the bunker, Amberel's distress call came.

I made sure that the others who remained outside and were determined not to join us (!) were aware of what was happening, then brushed my fears aside and progressed with all haste to find out what was happening.

Amberel had feed himself from the clutches of the rocking rock that was obstructing the approach to the green from the bunker, but it was self evidently a liability and if it fell on top of a hapless cacher, being several times heavier than them they would be stuck in the narrowing V that is the approach to the green, with no way out. 

Altogether too dangerous, the blooming thing might have been solid enough when the cache was placed but now it was trouble.  Thus, I braced myself above it and heaved and pushed it until it toppled in the manner I feared it would topple onto a cacher. With gravity assist, it was no longer a threat to us or anyone coming after us, so I turned my attention  to the green and soon sunk my put.  With the dog leg, bunker, rocking rock and obstucted view of the green I'd say it's a par 4, so utterly remarkable that Piddypug gor a hole in one.

Amberel had retreated to the bunker but joined me at the green after the rock had been rendered harmless and the creative container was a fitting reward for our efforts.

Thanks for yet another fantastic caching experience! Sandvika #2020

Having already spent a long day underground in Monkton Farleigh and Box, this was to be the highlight of the day (or, by now, night) for me. A six-some completed the truly excellent qualifying round, and some of the group determined to finish this one, too.

I went in first, squeezed through the fairway and made my way without much difficulty into the bunker as Sandvika played a sligtly feeble tee shot onto the fairway. I then attempted to play my way onto the green, but ran into severe difficulties. There was a large, rocking rock partially blocking the route. With great difficulty I manage to wriggle and squeeze my bum past it, but then it jammed into my tummy. I couldn't get my chest past it (and those who follow these matters will know it was my chest that "undid" me at il nono Cerchio). Even worse, I couldn't get my backside over it to get out again - I was well and truly stuck.

I could hear Sandvika calling, in the distance, and gave him an update on my situation. He had been having his own difficulties - after the short tee shot, he had got the yips and was himself stuck on the narrow fairway. But on hearing of my plight the true heroism and gallantry of the man came to the fore - he overcame his own inhibitions and managed to drive as far as the bunker to rescue me.

By the time he got there, I had already managed to extricate myself from my very tricky lie but, of course, despite getting to within 3 feet of the pin, the ball was not yet in the hole.

So we called in the virtual referee for a ruling. Rule 24-1 states that moveable obstructions, such as rakes and bottles, located anywhere may be moved without penalty. There was some doubt if a rock that must have weighed more than the two of us together was really in the same class as a rake or bottle, but there was no doubt at all that it was moveable - this rock rocked. Sandvika braced himself and with a mighty effort shifted it 2 feet down and along, so it was no longer in the narrowest part of the constriction. He made a neat approach putt and waited for me to join him on the green before sinking his next shot.

Thanks for a memorable hole, one which in conjunction with the qualifying round gets abanazar yet another TOP CACHE coin (visit the TOP CACHE web site), the first to be awarded jointly to a Groundspeak cache and an OpenCache .

Rgds, Andy

I was lucky enough to be present when the intrepid Piddypug threw himself down this particular hole with reckless abandon while we searched for the geogolfing cup. It was a few weeks later that the very chuffed Piddypug told me he was going to be immortalised in the form of a geogolf hole named after him.

I wasnt too sure about entering piddypug's hole, knowing him as I do, incase our mutual colleagues at work got the wrong end of the stick, but eventually considered it to be worth the risk. I once again let piddypug lead the way while I followed closely behind, and we quickly found our way to the large chamber. After a search and some debate we eventually decided to push on a little further before spotting piddypug's prize and the cache. A quick photo opportunity was taken before signing the log and we then scrambled back to the surface to the early morning drizzle. I can confirm that we both left the chamber emptyhanded, inspite of the trophy having piddypugs name on it...lol!

Thanks for taking the time to place this particular cache, it is just a shame our work commitments prevented piddypug from having a ftf.

Puntastic! Well holed and thanks for playing. I would love to say that the cheque is in the post, but unfortunately this is a purely amateur tournament.

A FTF team matchplay with BradLad.  We had already played a round and a half of geogolf so, after a visit to the 18th, we moved on to the open championship.
This was a much more challenging hole with plenty of rough and narrow approaches.  Thankfully, we didn't choke or succumb to the yips on the green.
Soon we took turns in getting our hands on the trophy and claimed the claret jug and green jacket.  Fore! abanazar cache FTFs this year and each one a stroke of genius.