Log entries 2016 Seven Tors Challenge - Rippon Tor
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2018-01-26 14:58
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- Found it
A DNF after a long search on my last visit over a year ago, when I had found a pink letter box set by a youngster from out of the area in the location I thought the cache most likely would be, but never found the cache itself.
And for a long time today I feared it would be another DNF. First I showed dizzygirl where I had looked last time. The letterbox wasn't there any more, but there was a car aerial there! And the cache still wasn't there, of course, but that wasn't a surprise.
On both occasions my GPSr was pointing me very much to the base of the outcrop, but we followed the hint and climbed up to the top, where a brief search revealed the same letterbox I had found before, but in a different location, one that matched the opencache hint exactly!
So we carried on looking, and were not far from admitting defeat again when dizzygirl shouted that she had got at just the right angle to have spotted what we were looking for. It was only a foot away from the pink letterbox, but whereas the letterbox was approached from on top, the cache had to be approached from the side!
We opened it up, expecting to find a sparsely populated log book since it had not been found for so long, only to find it crammed with 30 or so letterbox stamps! But it was very clearly marked up as the opencache 
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Letterbox confusion has pretty much been the order of the day for us, I've found quite a few before, but today I think we have found more letterboxes by accident than geocaches on purpose!
Very glad to have nailed this one at last .
Thanks for the cache,
Rgds, Andy
