Logging this on 25/08/2009 after having found it on 05/04/2009, soon after it was published on Groundspeak.

Our team of 3 (agrajag, Mr. Dewdrop and myself) set off at 21:15 on a cold but clear and dry night. The forest was bathed in moonlight, but even so it was very dark indeed among the trees. We found the first waypoint and started on our quest.

As much as practical we tried to use the map to minimise the bush-whacking required. To a considerable extent we were successful, though it didn't prevent some very intimate acquaintance with the undergrowth on one extremely difficult section .

And then we had a "eureka" moment that enabled us to find a short cut. However, though we had more or less correctly worked out what to expect, and it was a necessary precursor to solving the puzzle, it was incomplete and we fell short of the full and final solution.

We sat down with our backs to a tree and tried to work it out. We had only one idea, but we were far from sure about it, and if it was wrong it would have involved more walking and left us as baffled as before.

So we sent a text message to the cache owner. Notwithstanding that it was now 02:00, the response came back as quick as a flash. Our one idea was wrong, but Roderick nudged us in the right direction and we already had the necessary numbers to back this up. One more trek across the forest brought us to what we believed to be ground zero, and we started searching. And after 4 or 5 minutes, with much relief, we had the cache in our hands - it would have been a long trek for a DNF.

While we were reasonably pleased with what we had managed to work out for ourselves, I think it is safe to say that without the "nudge" from Roderick we would not have made that final leap of imagination.

Since we found the cache it has been slightly reworked, and the clues have been "beefed up" - hopefully the balance between difficulty and impossibility is now just right .

So many thanks for a very ingeniously worked out cache, and for being on hand at that unsociable hour .

Rgds, Andy