Mad Moles at the North Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/7/2008
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Just a few feet north of here you will find the official view point above and overlooking the North Portal Works, February 2008 marked the start of tunnelling work heading south February 2007 this was just clear hillside! For the best view of the portal’s themselves you have to scramble down the hillside to the left (west) side, take care it’s not for the faint hearted and when wet it’s worse!

If you like a longer walk there is a south portal viewing area at about N51° 06.540 W000° 44.280. from hear you look straight into the portal area from the other side of the valley. The wood chip track you walk down is Miss James walk which will pass over the A3 in a high bridge

Parking could be in the Devil’s Punchbowl National Trust car park N51 06.865 W 000 43.747. There may be a small charge £2. 50. Cross the A3 at this point for safety sake and follow your G.P.S, the last part of the route is NOT for push chairs it’s a steep tree routed rutted muddy when wet path.

You are looking for a green and blue lunchbox filled with goodies including a golf game that works if you put a couple of AAA batteries in it

There is a couple of photos of the hill side last April before the moles got working on it! Please leave the photos for others.

Today 7.3.08 (left camera at home!) The moles are about 8 M in southbound and 3 M in Northbound (Exit)

For further interest there is a very good visitors centre open centre times at N51°08.277' W000°42.529'W

Some interesting sites
(visit link) seams to have stopped working but interesting history
(visit link) very active at the moment

Some very good slide shows
(visit link)
(visit link)
(visit link)

and the next one should be hindhead4/index etc!

Its well worth looking for the temple of the four winds whilst your in the area.

The A3 trunk road is a major highway between London and Portsmouth on England’s south coast. To tackle congestion and improve safety on this busy route – which carries an average of 28,400 vehicles per day – the Highways Agency is implementing a 6.5km dual two-lane highway scheme at Hindhead in Surrey. The scheme includes a 1.8km twin-bore tunnel which removes the trunk road from Hindhead village and from the Devil’s Punchbowl, a famous natural landmark designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and part of a Special Protection Area.
Mott MacDonald is designer to Balfour Beatty, contractor for the £371 million project which is being delivered using the Highways Agency’s innovative Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) approach to design and build – devised to speed delivery and enhance value for money by involving the contractor from the project outset. As part of an integrated single team with the Highways Agency and their consultant for the Hindhead project, we are responsible for all design aspects of the twin-bore tunnel and the highway, including civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, electrical, fire and safety systems engineering. Specialist assistance is being provided by Wessex Archaeology, landscape and ecology consultant RPS, and statutory procedures advisor Persona Associates.

The Hindhead tunnel will be the longest non-estuarial tunnel in the UK. It will feature cross-passages every 100m and state-of–the-art safety and communications systems, including high quality lighting and ventilation, CCTV surveillance and radio-interrupt systems to convey quick appropriate information to tunnel users. The ground conditions are predominantly sandstone and the tunnel bores will be constructed using sprayed concrete lining. The target completion date is 2011.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ng gur hfhny snyyra gerr, fvyire ovepu ba srapr cbfg, ebbg ubyr evtug unaq fvqr pbirerq jvgu yrnirf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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