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2013-05-18 13:00
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- Didn't find it
Clearly none of us have evolved fully and we returned home empty handed. A failure with BradLad, Rollergirl and assorted minors.
We had a great time on the early stages and, having returned, we think we know what the problem was. Staticman1 made a good job of not giving away the number of stages and we were kept unsure about whether we were looking for
the largish final or a micro stage. Coordinates pointed to a likely candidate but we couldn't see anything from the ground. BradLad proved strong enough to help me up and I had an unsuccessful look in the obvious spot.
The problem now was that we hadn't checked other less likely candidates. I hung about for a while but then descended to help out.
After failing to find anything elsewhere we eventually gave up.
In hindsight, it seems obvious that I should have had a go at ascending a little higher up the obvious candidate. (I think we were slightly misled by both abanazar and staticman1 downplaying their climbing abilities!) The problem was that I'm sporting a mostly but not totally healed sprained ankle.
It didn't hamper me too much but I think it had an added psychological effect and I just wasn't confident enough to take the extra risk. I think that I probably made the right decision today but we will be back.
Thanks to abanazar for some trackable posts advertising this cache but we were already well on the case after solving the good looking puzzle during the week.
In keeping with one theme of the cache, I will share my favourite (and only) evolutionary theory-based joke which is also educational.
Two backpackers out on safari are being stalked by an angry and hungry looking lion.
One reaches into his rucksack, pulls out a pair of trainers and starts putting them on.
The second says, "what's the point of that? You'll never outrun a lion".
With his trainers now on, the first replies, "I don't have to outrun the lion, I just have to outrun you".
