The Meeting Place Traditional Cache
allieballie: Gradually going to be archiving all my caches. I have endured the rudeness of some cacher's logs, and more significantly have coped with social exclusion by some members of the caching community for quite some time now, thinking that my love of this pastime was strong enough to cope with it. Unfortunately I have now reached a point where it has become unbearable. It feels like bullying by some quarters and to be quite honest I am too old to be made to feel like that and I have enough other worries going on in my personal life to add this to the list. My feelings and emotions are clearly regarded as being insignificant by other cachers therefore why should I continue to contribute to geocaching by providing caches for people to visit? Yes, play the game as you want but remember that there are other people playing it who are flesh and blood and whose feelings can be hurt. I would be ashamed of myself if I had made another person feel the way that some cachers have made me feel recently.
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Isn’t it really tedious driving on the A9 sometimes? Have you ever wished that there was a cache or two that could be bagged on the way - just to break the journey up a bit?
Now here’s the bad news... this cache is just off the roadside, but...it’s at the side of the largest stretch of dual carriageway between Aviemore and Perth, so all of those buses, lorries, caravans etc. that you might have overtaken earlier may pass you by again unless you’re quick! Oh, and by the way - you will only be able to bag this cache if you are heading in a southbound direction!
Over 250 years before the French and British tunnel drillers met under the English Channel, another meeting took place in the middle of Glen Garry - that of two road-building parties, one from Inverness and one from Dunkeld. These two groups had been constructing a military road under the supervision of General Wade - “If you knew these roads before they were made, you would bless the name of General Wade”.
This particular road ran for more than a hundred miles between the hometowns of the two parties, and the place of their meeting is commemorated by the Wade Stone which still stands just metres from todays road.
Should we comment on the difference in work ethic between Highland men and Perthshire men? Well let’s just say that the two groups did not meet anything like halfway between Dunkeld and Inverness as the stone is situated about thirty five miles from Dunkeld and about seventy five miles from Inverness.
Park in the layby at N56 49.078 W004 08.447 - the Wade Stone can be found just to the north-west of this spot.
There is a small ditch to jump before you reach the stone. Have a look at the top of the stone before you look for the cache because here you will find possible evidence to corroborate another tale connected with General Wade.
It is said that General Wade, a tall man by all accounts, placed a coin on the flat top of this stone and when he returned a year later it was still there. So let’s put aside any doubts about Perthshire mens enthusiasm for hard graft - at least they were honest (either that or they were short!).
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Guerr ebpxf va n yvar - rnfg fvqr bs fbhgureazbfg bar.
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