Doing the Dodds - Watson's Traditional Geocache
Doing the Dodds - Watson's
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This is one of three caches placed at the northern end of the Helvellyn range on the ‘Dodds’. They are all situated at over 2,500ft.
Watson’s is the lowest of the Dodds at 2,584ft. In 'A Dictionary of Lake District Place Names' Diana Whaley offers this "The Watson commemorated is unidentified, but if the same as in Watson's Park, also in St John's, and recorded from 1734, he must have lived in the earliest 18th Century at latest."
Nearly everyone will approach this cache from one of the other two - unlike me when I placed it – coming directly up from the cache at Castle Rock.(GCVHA2) The cache is a small tupperware box containing only a log book and pencil. There is room for TB’s and Coins. The cache is a tat free zone.
The cache is located under a small boulder about 12metres to the west of the summit cairn. Please see the spoiler. The summit cairn is visible from the cache site.
The cache is placed with the permission of United Utilities Thirlmere Office.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Read description and see spoiler photo]