Author Topic: The Cheltenham Hundred  (Read 818 times)

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Re: The Cheltenham Hundred
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2012, 11:21:31 pm »
The heat beat us!! We made it to no 62 around 4pm, having started just after 6 am at the racecourse. It took nearly 1 1/2 hours to make it back through town from the A40, back to the race course car park. We were wobbling all over the place.

The walk itself has its surprises, and great views, we could have done more but so many of the caches have co-ords that are way out, and with obscure or no clues at all it is very difficult in thick undergrowth, that has now grown, to enable a good search.
In some areas the route does get a little confusing baring no resemblance to the O.S map.

Difficult to know how to rate this, as can fully understand with over 110 caches and 26.2 miles or pathways to meander, there's bound to be a few problems.
8 out of 10 for the route so far. But only 6 out of 10 for the cache, hides. Whether they were put out in a hurry or not, or bad weather but some of the co-ords are way off the mark. sometimes after a few attempts and a number of minutes, the gps can get you a little closer, but when doing this sort of distance, the minutes do count. we estimated at least another 7-8 hours for the remaining caches.

Oh well, we gave it a shot... but it was just so so so hot. We did the sensible thing in not carrying on.

For those thinking of doing this.. plan over 2 days, and wait until cache owners have sorted co-ords, undergrowth covered caches, missing caches etc.. out first.

 


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