Before you set out for this cache please make sure you have a spare
set of GPS batteries, make sure you waypoint the car, let someone
know where you are going and when you will be back. If possible
take a mobile phone that will work here.
The weather here can be very changeable and you need to be
prepared if it changes. It is not a nice place to be in foul
weather.
Despite the above warning it is a glorious location on a good
day with excellent panoramic views and well worth the walk.
This cache is the first ever placed in Wales.
The site is not that difficult to get to, either by walking up
from Llanfoist in the Usk Valley (which takes about an hour, and is
a nice walk) or by walking across the top from the car-park at N
51°47.432 W 003°04.287 which is a lot flatter. Either way, the
views are great.
The cache is hidden among the jumble of rocks just NE of the
cairn which is at N 51°48.248 W 003°03.305 It won’t be that
easy to find – it’s jammed into the vee between two
rocks with another rock laid across the top, you will need to move
a couple of small stones to expose it.
A hint is that if you have come down to the site from the cairn,
aim towards a large boulder visible on the edge of the far slope
towards Abergavenny. Once you are in amongst the jumbled rocks
(watch your ankles…) the site is just to the left of a
little hollow (assuming that you’re looking towards
Abergavenny) in the rocks where it looks almost as if someone has
tried to hollow out a bothy of some kind.
The cache container is a brown ammo box with an official green
Geocaching.com logo on the side.
Please sign the log book and do log your visit here.
Make sure you take the cheat photos as you will almost certainly
need them!