The Beech Traditional Cache
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A couple of miles from the car park, along a rough path, scrambly in places, boggy in others. The alternative / return route is on a better path but rather longer.
I was amazed to discover that my favourite part of Great Hill has no cache: this sets that right. Up Black Brook gorge from White Coppice, which is a bit of a scramble to start with, past a couple of other caches, the stream eventually comes to a small wood, mostly beech with a scattering of oak. That is where I’ve hidden this cache. The trees are just turning now: I think there is no better sight than a beech tree in autumn with the sun on it, the leaves shining like gold.
As Dr. Edwin Lees has eloquently put it, "The autumnal splendor of every other tree fades before that of the Beech, which continues the longest of all, and under particular circumstances is of the most brilliant description. This arises from its lucid leaves, which vary in hue from auburn to gold color and umber, reflecting back the level rays of the descending sun, and thus burning with pre-eminent luster, like a sudden illumination. Blazing characters irradiate the grove wherever the Beech presents, in spectral pomp, its vivid outline; and if a passing rain-cloud, shrouding for a moment the tree-tops, bear upon its purple breast the glowing Iris, with one limb intermingled with the golden foliage, the splendid effect will long rest upon the memory of the spectator."
From this cache you can continue up the stream to “Guess the Grid Reference” and then the path (not marked on the OS map) cuts across the moor to “Great Hill Farm”. From there the obvious path takes you back to White Coppice.
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