What an adventure with cjfoundit (see his log in Uno dei Trenta geocoin logs).

Spanning almost a year from these caches initially sparking our interest and instigating puzzle solving, collecting the necessary equipment, planning and preparing for each of our three (and a half!) amazing adventures which tackled Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate and Earnanæs, þæs wyrmes den and, ultimately, il Nono Cerchio.

We had decided on Good Friday '17 to make our second attempt and once back in the familiar chamber of Lasciate we descended into the abyss, hoping that this time we could reach the cache site and geocoin location.

Fast forward a good few hours during which we ascended, descended, twisted, turned, stretched, squeezed, pushed, pulled and…we made it!

After admiring the nearby flowstone and surroundings we approached the cache location and soon spotted the tell-tale sign of GZ.  We had missed the owner maintenance log which had originally gone missing during the webhost transfer so thought the cache would probably still be laying a metre or so down through boulders, as per 'smaughunter's log back in September '16. We had a good look around – both in the obvious ‘nook’ and in the vicinity, finding some out of place line caught up between the rocks but not the cache container. In the end we settled on leaving our names tucked behind the familiar tell-tale sign of GZ before heading off to discover the treasured resident geocoin Uno dei Trenta.

With our mission complete we exited the ninth circle, retracing our steps until we found ourselves back out in the fresh night air…muddy, tired and delighted with our achievements! It was most definitely a long and challenging journey like no other, but teamwork, courage and determination in an amazing location made this a thoroughly enjoyable and truly memorable experience. Huge thanks to Abanazar for these three excellent caches – for the ultimate challenge of il Nono and for the journey, experience and adventure along the way!

Being a new member of opencache I don't have any 'recommendations' yet, but if I did then this cache would, without a doubt, get one!

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il Nono adventure! :-)