11/12/10 - Fairfield Round - Hunter's Walk Part 2

Number of caches - 15
Starting Cache - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=26a2b27f-7f8f-4f94-a676-a98ef5176996
Distance - Around 5 miles

I completed the first wave of Royal Hunters Walk in September (http://mappiman.blogspot.com/2010/09/11th-september-royal-hunters-walk.html) and have been looking forward to this new, sister route since it was published a couple of weeks ago.

Parked up at the suggested place and saw a couple of walkers getting out of their 4x4.  I wondered if they were cachers.  Decided to leave a bit of a gap and see if they were on the same trail and sure enough, as we descend to Cache Number one, the gentlemen throws himself to the floor to receive Cache Number 1.  I decide to change the order of the route, starting at cache 5 and leaving a "Hello" note in cache 15 to the Stag Ramblers.

So, caches 5 and 6 are out in country fields..... leading to Pepper Wood which is the highlight of this walk.



Home of many caches.

 Most of the caches on the trail are in the woods and part of the fun is finging the paths to get to them, as they are not marked on the O/S Map.  Fortunately, I didnt take any wrong turns and completed them all in order.

Cache 8 (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=2acecd57-699c-47cd-b517-25a682ea51fe) is the highlight of the round.   I was expecting the container, having seen a couple on the first round, but this is the first time I have had to turn safe cracker to get in and sign the book.

Padlocked Cache

Continue through the woods before skirting back around farmland to the start of the trail.

Caches 1-4 are in fields, where the footpath has been diverted for some huge excavation that is going on - never got to the bottom of what that was.  Some surprsing cache containers which really do summarise the amount of work that has been put into this round.

Leave cache 15 till last - this is another first for me - one at a football stadium!  No game on by the time I got back, but I believe there was one later in the day.

Looking at the logs, there have been 5 other cachers out on the same day.  I think the relatively balmy weather and great series would mean that they all enjoyed it as much as me.

Almost as many logs as I had to complete after the walk

Thanks to the Bailey Rangers for setting this trail up.... A highly recommended series.