What a fabulous adventure. Tackled it this afternoon with Sharky and Penguin and Heffalump007 - getting 4 bicycles into the back of my car with only one seat down was difficult but achieved by removing the wheels.  Taking bicycles proved to be a good idea because the place was packed and parking was hard to come by - so we cycled in from further away. 

Unfortunately, at the first stage, Heffalump007's iPhone had no coverage, so we could not submit our answer and were stuck. A phone call to Mrs Muggle soon had us on our way again and thankfully this was the only location at which the technology failed.

After the first few stages we got to the Valley Gardens and were obliged to push our cycles....then we began to wonder if it was such a good idea to bring them after all, as waypoint after waypoint came within that area. Finally we thought we'd broken free, only to have to go back in again!

Once beyond the Valley Gardens, the route followed the predicted course and we made up for time lost earlier, but none the less we were racing against the clock with the daylight fading fast, and GZ at the final known to be gloomy at the best of times.  We tried to guess the penultimate waypoint but failed, and in the event it is en route to the final and our hope of a short cut to save some minutes did not work.

On approach to GZ, we took the route that seemed most promising by bicycle and were able to push our cycles to with 120 feet. Then into the thick dark undergrowth with just one torch between us - Heffalump007's headtorch, which he kindly lent to Sharky, through Sharky made a meal of the terrain and followed, rather than leading the way.  In fact, the torch mainly served to blind the rest of us and make it impossible to adjust our eyes to the low light. I got myself perhaps 20 feet ahead of Sharky and was then able to pick my way quite well, with the backlight on my GPSr turned right down, so that it did not dazzle me.  Amazingly, I got to within 16 feet of the cache with comparative ease and then found the cache very quickly, with the aid of Heffalump007's torch, whilst Heffalump007 and Penguin retraced their steps having overshot the hide.

Left a geocoin, took the Travel Turtle.

The twilight was fading very fast indeed and it was only just possible to retrace our steps to the bicycles, then we were literally cycling in the moonlight. It's amazing how bright a half moon partly obscured by cloud can seem when there's no other light!  Fortunately a pedestrian gate to the park was still unlocked when we got there and we shaved a couple of minutes off our return route to the car. A great adventure and we'll definitely be heading out to the others of this type soon.

A "whereamberelgoes" cache, definitely recommended.

Many thanks, Sandvika #1351