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/ Yara Scholtis

Cathedral Cavern Cache — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC2CQB7
by Hattlebags
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
3
Location:
North West England, United Kingdom
N 54° 25.006 W 003° 03.519′

Finding a geocache after a long search can feel like there’s a “light at the end of the tunnel.” This saying becomes quite literal when it comes to this week’s Geocache of the Week — Cathedral Cavern Cache, GC2CQB7.

In the Lake District of North West England lies the valley of Little Langdale which, for the past several hundred years, was mined and quarried extensively for copper and slate. One of the disused inter-linked tunnel systems, Cathedral Quarries, is now open to the public and makes for a magical cache outing.

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/ Sarah

Wombling free – Chalking the Horse — Geocache of the Week

Cache In Trash Out Event
GC87M05
by The Wombles
Difficulty:
1
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Southern England, United Kingdom
N 51° 34.630′ W 001° 34.005′

Cache In Trash Out® (CITO) is an environmental initiative supported by the geocaching community. Since 2002, CITO Events help preserve the natural beauty of cache-friendly spaces. In that time, more than 363,000 people have volunteered at 18,000 events.

Lots of cachers think of CITO as a chance to pick up trash—which it definitely is. But it’s also a chance to preserve the integrity of cache-friendly places in other ways!

Hosted by cache owner The Wombles, Wombling free – Chalking the Horse brings cachers together to restore a prehistoric chalked horse figure in Uffington. While it isn’t unusual for CITOs to be limited to one occurrence, this particular CITO recurs twice annually. This means that, if you’re in the UK, you have multiple opportunities to participate—making it a perfect candidate for our Geocache of the Week! 

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Walking to the cache at low tide
/ Janelle

Geocache swims across the English Channel

Seymour Tower at low tide
Seymour Tower at low tide

Finding the Traditional Cache L’Avarizon (GCWNGX) on the island of Jersey is no small feat. You must walk over a mile from the shore along a rugged coastline during low tide, making sure not to get stranded when high tide rolls in. Through an unusual series of events, a child stumbled upon the cache—when it washed ashore, over 100 miles (160 km) away on the other side of the English Channel in West Sussex, UK!

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Walking to the cache at low tide
/ Janelle

Geocache cruza a nado el Canal de la Mancha

Seymour Tower at low tide
Seymour Tower at low tide

Encontrar el caché tradicional L’Avarizon (GCWNGX) en la isla de Jersey no es tarea fácil. Tienes que caminar más de una milla desde la orilla a lo largo de una costa escarpada durante la marea baja. Asegúrate de no entretenerte demasiado o te quedarás varado cuando llegue la marea alta. En una extraña secuencia de acontecimientos, un niño tropezó con el cache de una manera diferente: cuando llegó a la costa, a más de 120 millas de distancia, al otro lado del Canal de la Mancha en West Sussex, Reino Unido.

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