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Cooling Tower View Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/18/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This should be a quick cache n dash with views of fields & Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, which has been providing power to upto 2 million homes since 1968.  

Four units create 500 Megawatts each, the original of which in 2009 was the first 500MW coal fired unit to run for 250,000 hours.

This is part of a route we enjoy taking as an alternative to driving along the ring road to Long Eaton.
Depending on which way you come from you may go over a bridge that gives views of the A453 and the current work being undertaken to widen it. This single track lane is a bumpy little road so racing along it is not recommended. As it is a single track lane, please be aware of oncoming traffic and the ditches that drop away from the slim grass verges. There are passing places but they are not frequent. Take care also in times of flooding - parts of this lane quickly become impassable by anything except a tractor! Very occasionally the gates are shut, however, you cannot get locked in, just return the way you came.

A small hidden cache, with log only.  Please BYOP

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybj

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)