Evergreen trees are fantastic fun. As a child, up North, I used to shimmy up hundreds of these. The branches on these types of tree droop downwards meaning quite slippery underfoot, The branches dry out and become a lottery as to whether they will come away or not and as a Brucey Bonus you will get absolutely plastered in tree sap.
The cache is placed within the tree to the right of the uphill side of the grassy path. Not exceptionally high as this is a free climb, but there is a wee crux to the final reach an rest position,
Should you "drop" any components, scoot down collect and return em 
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