To access this cache, you can park at the Larch Gate as if you're heading for the Haste Ye Back cache. Walk up the unpaved road. A little past the turn off to Haste Ye Back, you’ll come to a trail to the right that goes up a wide swath known as Hanson’s Folly due to its creation as a quarry egress that was never used. Go up the Folly to the top not missing a left turn through the fledgling birch and larch forest. Follow this trail down the south rim of the quarry.
After you’ve found the cache the trail continues southwest to the Wallstale Dun and its cache, or you can backtrack north along the quarry rim to the Wellingtonia cache, or just return the way you came!
The red fox, Vulpes vulpes, is native to North America and Eurasia. It is highly adaptable living in many types of habitats as well as urban areas occupied by humans, in fact the first and only red fox I’ve ever seen was happily trotting along the path by the Armadillo in Glasgow! The area around this cache frequently shows signs of fox from tracks to scats.
According to Wildlife Scotland the fox “sometimes regarded as vermin -distinguished by its pointed ears and long bushy tail - was recently given a reprieve when the Scottish parliament outlawed the long-established practice of hunting with hounds. “