Man in the Mist Traditional Cache
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A tupperware cache located at the foot of Clougha Pike.
The cache is easily accessed from the car park and would mark the start or end of a walk to the summit.
Clougha Pike is a hill located in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England. From the west it looms over the Conder Valley, the city of Lancaster and Lancaster University. It is visible from as far away as Barrow-in-Furness, South Lakeland mountains such as the Old Man of Coniston, and Blackpool Tower. From the west it appears to be a large dome shape with a cliff like section at the very top. From the south-west a series of notches or cloughs are visible in its flanks giving this hill its distinctive name. The notches vary in size and run across the side of the hillside, not down it. The largest notch has had part of its floor filled in by a small lake and swamp and is a dramatic gritstone boulder-strewn feature. These notches are thought to have been cut by meltwater flowing south west from the area of Littledale, along the side of a glacier which occupied the Quernmore valley. They are known as marginal notch channels are among the best examples of these features in Britain. Clougha can be accessed from the west by a nice path that travels up its slopes and then diagonally up the final steep broken rock section. It can also be accessed from the east from Grit Fell along a muddy path over bog land that is difficult to distinguish sometimes. A small car park is also available close to Clougha Pike just off Rigg Lane. Another starting point to ascend Clougha is from the Victorian folly of Jubilee Tower where there is also a car park.
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Ybpngrq haqre n ynetr fgbar.