13/09/14 - Dead Composers' Society

Distance - 5.13 Miles
Walk from - AA Walks through History
Caches - 2.  And the Co-ords for a Multi

So, how to treat you wife on her Birthday?  Only one thing to do, take her to see a dead Composer's Grave.

She wanted to do a walk with height but not too much effort.  The Malverns sound just the ticket.  Find a walk, which on execution, may well be the finest day walk in an area blessed with many superb walks.

With further proof that you cannot do anything in our one horse town without someone seeing you, we get texted by someone spotting us doing breakfast at a roadside van on the way to Malvern.  I am spoiling my woman today.

Head down and we can see that the hills are covered in mist. Will we get the views today?

Having blown cash on sausage sarnies, we make our savings by parking at a side road by the Malvern Hills hotel.  Head north.

Misty Start

After a slight pull uphill, we are downhill all the way.  Sonia knows what is coming.  We are soon at Elgar's Grave.  A nice bit of Symmetry, as my walking has also taken me to his birthplace at Broadheath.

Composer's Grave

There is a reason I am here.  I am not totally ghoulish.  The grave next to this one holds the clues to a two stage multi.  Work out the clues and realise it's back the way we have just come.  One to be saved for another day.

Exit the churchyard, with a couple of photos and the offer from the Vicar for a look inside.  We decline, having walking to do.

The walking is OK, as we head south past Tinker's Hill and have a chat with a farmer about dead sheep.  The highlights of this walk are to come, as first we reach Gullet Quarry.

The Quarry

We used to bring Molly here for a swim.  Health and safety have been to town and fenced it off with instructions for no human, and presumably canine, swimming.

Head up to pick up the Worcestershire on fine walking.  First cache of the day found in a tree.

Cache GZ

Steadily head uphill, with complaints from behind that this has not quite met the low exertion parameters.  But we are rewarded with perhaps the best views in Malvern.  Truly breathtaking.

Messing around in Clutter's Cave

Best View f the Malverns?

British Camp Reservoir 

Simply superb walking.  I could fill the blog with photos.

Just one more cache to get - one that I have had my eye on for a while as it has a Difficulty 4/ Terrain 5 rating.  I disappear over the edge, down a steep hill and make a quick find.  Just got to work a way back up to the top.

Back at the car and no birthday is complete without a pint and a snack.  Take the opportunity to go back to the Nag's Head.

Possibly the best pub in the land.

Public Service Announcements

This is the best pint of Bathams ever experienced.

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