Euro Crisis! Traditional Cache
BalooCrew: We have checked up several times on this cache after a few DNFs were recorded. Unfortunately, following the councils recent clearing and cutting of the undergrowth around the trees in this park, it would appear that the cache has gone with the tree cuttings as well, which were piled up around this particular tree. Try as we might to find the cache, it looks like the container has now gone missing or has been pushed into the ground and lost. We will therefore archive the cache and hopefully we will replace it with a new cache in the area soon.
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Hidden in the edge of the grassy parkland area of the Gorse Covert - a large open publically-accessible "green space" . It is a popular play area for children and dogwalkers, and easily accessed from local roads and footpaths. The cache siote is not overlooked, and is screened by thick hedges from any houses, You are looking for a disguised nanocache, containing only a logging sheet.
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 parkland area.
Gorse Covert is a local beauty spot with fine views from the hilltop 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. 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. Just a short walk up the the hill and into the adjacent new parkland area for the new Pear Tree housing development, and you will find a brand new swing park .
CONGRATULATIONS TO KaosCL, BigLynx, Drackvor & Plasmawave on First-to-Find.
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