Yellow Traditional Cache
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This is part of a series of caches relating to primary and secondary colours. In this case I have taken the three primary colours to be red, blue and yellow. Then the three secondary colours, made up from pairs of primary colours are orange, green and purple. A mixture of all three of the primary (or all three of the secondary) colours leads to white and an absence of any colour is black.
The three primary colour caches are straightforward caches for which I have given you the actual coordinates of the cache (or simple local clues). For each of the secondary colour caches you need to have visited both of the primary colour caches that you would need to mix together to get that colour to gain the requisite clues for that colour cache. i.e. to find the orange cache you need to have found both the red and yellow caches etc.
The bonus caches, the white and black ones require you to have found all the primary colour caches and then all the secondary colour caches because the sum of all these colours leads to white………….and the Black one was just an after-thought and I like it’s location!
Please try and bring requisite colour swaps.
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Parking N55° 57.271’ W4° 15.915’.
I got lucky and found a good spot for this cache more by accident than anything else. I had planned to place it alongside the river Kelvin out North of Bearsden and I actually completed a three mile circular walk but the state of the countryside was awful and I didn’t think people would appreciate being brought there. So I went for a drive up a few country roads till I found this spot. The parking place seems to be popular with plane spotters so lots of excuses for carrying funny hand-held devices! From the parking spot go down the road a bit to N55° 57.285’ W4° 15.804’ where there’s a gate into the field. Check out the bunker here. No idea what it was for…I was too scared to go inside as it was dark when I returned there.
The walk is across a field of sheep, well compacted to begin with but the next field is extremely boggy and during summer will be covered in ferns adding to the fun. The cache is approached from the South but before or after finding it you have to go to the top of the craggy ground. There’s an old trig point at N55° 57.643’ W4° 15.912’. From here the views are wicked. Facing South you can see the whole of Glasgow. I was there during twilight and the whole city gradually lit up. You can watch the planes stacking up, coming in from the East (depending on the wind of course), circling over the top of you and landing at the airport. To the North you can see the Campsies and to the NW past Dumgoyne you get a view of Ben Lomond which looked splendid covered in snow when I visited. At about 120° magnetic you can see the mast on top of Black Hill (I think), that’s miles away.
On returning to the fold I looked at the map to find where I’d been and noticed that I’d missed ‘Auld Wive’s Lifts’. Plug it in to a search engine on the web and you’ll get a fascinating story of some folk lore that describes how these stones got here. Extra brownie points for anyone who logs photos for this landmark. I think it’s about 700 m West of the cache. I love old names and features like this, there’s a ‘Mother Dunch’s Buttocks’ where I come from down South (check out the cache there)!
So don’t be a yellow belly, get out there and find this cache.
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