Log entries Bartlow Hills (Historic site)
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2009-08-13 00:00
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- Found it
Logged on 25/08/2009 after visiting the cache earlier this month.
As I arrived, a family group was coming back to their car, so I visited
the Hills first. An amazing sight, words can't really convey the scale
of these things. Regrettably the steps are broken, and while it would
have been easy for a geocacher to negotiate them, or to climb the
barrow by other means, I felt this would have been unsympathetic to the
site. While I was therefore unable to see them from the top, they were
pretty impressive from the bottom.
I then made my way back to the cache location, where the cache was
lying in pretty much full view. Now that I knew where it was, something
that happened earlier then made sense - some of the children in the
family group I saw at the start had shouted "let's go and look at it",
and they had gone to where I now knew to be the location of the cache.
Despite being in the open, the cache had not been vandalised. I
tried to repair the broken catch, but suspect my repair won't last
long. I also hid it rather better than before, but it's still only
rather delicate stick-o-flage and leaves.
Thanks for bringing me to a very interesting place,
I really enjoyed this one.
Rgds, Andy
