High Tove Traditional Geocache
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High Tove
I’ve always been amazed how many Lakeland hills have no cache on the summit and thought I’d try to go a small way in rectifying this.
I can’t pretend that High Tove and High Seat are major fells although the latter has a very nice summit well worth a visit. The surrounding area (and particularly the flat area between the two) is normally very boggy. A reading of the estimable Mr Wainwright (Central Fells) will tell you all – conditions haven’t changed since he wrote them.
Best done after a dry spell – or long frosty period but then you might get very cold getting the cache boxes out – the walk is for serious fell walkers (or runners because one passed us in the middle of bogland). I placed the caches in March after only a few dry days without getting my feet wet despite not wearing gaiters but when replacing I twice went in over knees between High Tove and High Seat!
How to get there? Well High Tove - 515 m (1,690 ft) - (the most undistinguished Wainwright peak?) is merely a pile of stones at the highest point of the bridleway between Watendlath and Armboth and is an “easy” walk from either place and you can then follow the fence up to High Seat - 608 m (1,995 ft). There are caches at both ends – and parking.
I laid them on a linear walk (using buses) from Borrowdale to Thirlmere passing several caches on the way returning from High Seat down the unpathed hillside to a gate leading to my Castle Crag Fort cache (GC193FN). See that cache for routes to it. There are numerous alternatives to my route which you can plan according to which caches you have not yet picked up so I haven’t included it here.
The cache is 25m from the “summit” in the split of a split rock. If you need a clue heaven help you! You won’t even need a gps. The ease of finding will compensate for the difficulty of the walk?
The new cache is a lock-top - more waterproof than the previous one? To stop the log getting as wet as quickly as the last one PLEASE
Replace on top of its rock plinth not on the ground.
Recover carefully and gently so that the lid doesnt get cracked.
PLACE NO SWAPS that are not solid - anything absorbable drags water in like mad
Don't help by placing the log in a bag - it keeps damp in not out.
INEVITABLY the log will get wet and eventually become unwriteble and the area is too remote for me to visit as soon as it does. So please note position in your log. Feel free to remove it if it becomes that bad
- and if you see its in a bad way perhaps you could take up a new small log with you. THANKS - and look forward to your visit.
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