Clapgun is 40 #2 – Do ‘Eye’ & ‘Symmetry' Rhyme? Traditional Cache
La Lunatica: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Suzanne
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Clapgun is 40 #2 – Do ‘Eye’ & ‘Symmetry' Rhyme?
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The second cache in the (appropriately) short ‘Clapgun is 40’ series – the only series of caches in the world planned around accessibility for a 40 year old off-road unicyclist, ever (probably). Most of the route is ride-able by unicyclists of moderate ability, with a single steep hill at the start (up which a small amount of walking may be called for and for which a brake is very useful on the return leg). The cache has room for the odd TB.
The ‘Clapgun is 40’ series of 6 caches has been created to celebrate Clapgun reaching the grand old age of 40. The series is not a multi-cache (in fact, some of the series are very much cache and dash-able, if you select appropriate parking options), but it would be nice if you complete the lot in the order that they were meant to be completed, just as we did (on unicycles, in the snow) on the day that they went live.
The route starts in Rowsley (with ‘Little Dangler’) and continues for 5 miles or so (but the route is not circular). There is a free car park in Rowsley (at N53° 11.359’, W1° 36.897’), as well several other parking locations in the village and I would recommend that you park in a designated car park rather than drive directly to Little Dangler.
As the whole series is on roads or bridleways, it could also be completed on foot or by mountain bike, but this is obviously a ridiculous idea when compared to the purity of the off road unicycle (and I apologise for even making such a suggestion).
This cache is named for three reasons: 1) in homage to the incredibly tortuous semi-rhymes and grammatical gymnastics that Clapgun has put us all though in pursuit of a bad joke, 2) as a thinly veiled attempt to make me look intellectual by referring to a classic poem (that actually does make use of the, frankly rather rubbish, rhyme mentioned in the cache name) and 3) as the animal referred to in the aforementioned poem really was the first thing I thought of as I approached GZ for the very first time [September 2015 update - item 3 is no longer strictly true, but I quite like the obscure reference in the name, so am not going to change it. I have updated the hint though!].
The cache is a small clip lock sandwich box containing a few small swaps, a log book and a pencil. There is room for the odd TB or geocoin.
Additional Hints
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Gur pnpur vf haqre fbzrguvat gung (hfrq gb) erfrzoyr gur navzny sbhaq “va gur sberfgf bs gur avtug”, ohg juvpu abj ybbxf yvxr vg unf orra hfrq gb funecra vg'f pynjf.