After managing to complete 42 finds on Saturday with the Bignall Boppers I was up to 999 finds and I wanted to find a really good cache to mark my milestone. We had planned to attend the Piratemania cache event on the Sunday but on waking the Great British weather had struck again. It was pouring with rain so a rethink was in order. After checking the met office weather forecast it was decided that Monday was probably the best day this week to go cache hunting so up came the thought of a cache that I have been wanting to complete for ages and had been sat on my to-do bookmark list - GCJA3V Jonah's Journey on Froggatt Edge in the Peak District.
Monday morning arrived and as usual it was pouring with rain but by lunchtime it had eased off and the sun was beginning to shine through. We packed the waterproofs in the rucksack, got the geokids, the geodog and the Bignall Boppers in the car (Bit of a squeeze for a Ford Focus) and off we set. By the time we reached the parking area for the cache, the sun was glorious and it was warm enough for t-shirts.
We set off with about 2 miles of walking before we reached Ground Zero, the dogs were having a whale of a time jumping up and down on the rocks and even the girls were happy with the scenery and the not to difficult walk. They were excited as we had told them about the cache beforehand and they wanted to be fully involved.
At the GZ - The co-ords on the GPS took us straight to this one no messing, but theres always a bit of apprehension....is this the right spot....especially for a cache that is rated 5/5 - the most difficult there is. But here it was, a not so big hole between the rocks that we were going to have to go down. First of all John of the Boppers went down the hole first, closely followed by myself. Maybe it would have been a better idea to have bought some climbing type shoes along with me as walking boots maybe aren't the best things to go rock climbing in. But in for a penny in for a pound..it just had to be done.
Actually the find was relatively easy, John got to the cache first and passed it up to me and I climbed back out of the hole to show the kids the cache. The cache was a good one, a nice sturdy old ammunition box holding quite a lot of trinkets for swaps. This is the bit the kids always like, having a good rummage through and seeing if there is anything they want to swap and take home with them.
The girls were really excited now so it was time to rope them up and teach them some new skills (always comes in handy later in life). They had a great time and both enjoyed the experience, just as we all did. All in all it was a fantastic cache in a really beautiful location and the other bonus for us was that there were other caches for us to complete on the way back to the car.8 caches were completed in total that day as the Garmin Nuvi located a few drive by's as we were going past.
Fab day,
Claire
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