This could have been a standard cache, but I wanted to make
visitors have a look at the scenery and appreciate why the
Telegraph station and the old nuclear (!!!!) bunker were built
here.
Parking is available on the road near N 53° 17.035 W 003° 40.216
and also near those co-ordinates is a gravel track going between
the houses. This is how you gain access to the mountain
What about these lookouts? - Lookout number 1 - The Semaphore
/ Telegraph Station
When you reach the second waypoint, you will see the Telegraph
Station to your left. This was built by the Liverpool Harbour
company and was active from 1828 through to 1861. It was one of a
number of Telegraph stations. On a clearish day you can see the
next ones in the chain. On top of the Great Orme, Llandudno to the
West (look for the big summit complex) and to the East, the hill
behind Prestatyn (look for the big mast prickled with aerials). By
using semaphore, they could get a message from Holyhead to
Liverpool in under 30 seconds. As seen on
BBC's Coast documentary program!
What about these lookouts? - Lookout number 2 - The Old
Nuclear Bunker
The old nuclear bunker was also situated here. Sadly now
demolished though faint remains can be seen on the north side of
the compound which you'll walk around retrieving one of the clues.
See the links for more details. The bunker was built by the Royal
Observer Corps and was part of a network consisting of a total of
1563 nuclear bunkers. The bunker at Llysfaen was active for a very
short period of time, June 1962 to October 1968. They were built to
monitor for radiation fallout. After all, this was during the cold
war and the threat of nuclear attack from the big nasty Red Soviets
was ever present! More information on be found about the
Royal
Observer Corp here.
When the cache was first sited, inside was a log book with pen,
a glowing dinosaur egg, neon cats cradle strings, some funky
marbles, some classy and highly sophisticated bright neon pencil
rubbers and a little metal compass.
So, on with the cache details!
WAYPOINT 1 - STARTING CO-ORDINATES
How many boulders can you see in a line?
This will become answer A
WAYPOINT 2 - N53*16.885 W3*40.102
How many species of orchid have drawings on the info board?
Be careful, I'm asking for species!!
This will become answer B
You'll no doubt have noticed by now that the trig point isn't
actually accessible. It is in a compound. Find out how many
gateways provide entry to the compound. Your answer will either be
2, 3 or 4. That number will become answer C
We need one more number. Get this number by doing the following
equation. (A-C) Whatever number you have come up with that
is now D.
Here comes the fun bit!
Your final co-ordinates are:
N53 (A+B+C).D(B-C)(CxC)
W3 (CxC)(Dx0).(B-C)(D÷B)(D-B-C)
Please hide the cache as best you can. I know from when I used to
live up here YEARS ago, that kids like playing up on the
'Marian'.
Sorry about the algebra. I've done a cache
recently in Reading and the equation there just made me laugh,
so I had to do something similar up here.
I've now included spoilers for peeps.
