GORSE COVERED - REVISITED 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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GORSE COVERED - REVISITED
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Hidden in the edge of the woodland at Gorse Covert adjacent to open grassy parkland that is accessible to the general public. Popular play area for children and dogwalkers. Easily accessible from local roads and footpaths (
This is a traditional cache, consisting of a small waterproof plastic screw-top container, containing a logbook and pencil, and with room for several small items of treasure to be swapped.
An easy walk and readily accessible from the adjacent grass parkland. Parking is easy in nearby residential streets off Maxwell Drive and along Francis Drive. For a little longer walk you can park at the nearby Gorse Covert complex off Maxwell Drive (N 52 46.723, W 001 14.340). From here you walk west along the footpath at the back of the car park following the Blackbrook. About 50 m past the white footbridge you should follow the way-marked footpath/cycle path that leads to the right and up towards Maxwell Drive. You cross Maxwell Drive to reach the Gorse Covert park.
Gorse Covert but not "gorse-covered" - in fact not a gorse bush in sight. Gorse Covert is a local beauty spot with fine views over Loughborough, the Soar Valley to the north, and to the Charnwood Hills and Beacon Hill to the south. This is a lovely place for a family picnic and a nice play area for children, with a large open grassy space, swings nearby and a football pitch too. It is also a great place for kite flying on a windy day. The woodland contains some fine tall oaks and ashes and is a haven for wildlife. In spring and summer the green woodpeckers make their presence heard with there "hammering" and "laughing calls". You can often see and hear thrushes, blackbirds, blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, coal tits, wrens, robins, chaffinches, greenfinches and treecreepers as well. Kestrals and sparrowhawks can sometimes be seen hunting in the area and a buzzard also sometimes visits the wood or soars above the hill on a warm day. If you are lucky you might even spot a badger or fox in the evening or early morning.
The GPS signal can sometimes be weak immediately over the cache site in summer due to the cover of the tree canopy. The best way to access the site is from the path entering the wood at the northeast corner of the park, and walk along the inside edge of the wood. This way you can avoid most of the nettles that grow along the outside edge of the wood, and that can sometimes be a problem (long trousers might be advisable in the height of summer to avoid being stung by nettles ).
This geocache is a replacement for the original "Gorse Covered" geocache, which was destroyed by vandals in October 2010. Please ensure that the container is placed well within the hiding place and hidden from view when replacing the cache. Thank you.
CONGRATULATIONS to PlasmaWave for First-to-Find
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