Walk
Start/Finish : 54°25.187′N, 1°11.487′W (Lord Stones Cafe)
Total length : 6.91 miles
Time taken : 3 Hours
Min Elevation : 375ft
Max Elevation : 1337ft
Total Ascent : 1528ft
This was supposed to be a quick blast out to blow away some cobwebs after both having bad colds. The walk took in a couple of caches im on top of the world mar – LWW 2 and Riser which we found a couple of Travel Bugs as well. The walk took us along the Cleveland Way over Carlton Moor and then through the woods on our way into Faceby. Once in Faceby we took the “short cut” back up to the Cleveland Way heading towards Little Bonny Cliff and Faceby Bank. After strudgling up a path that was basically a stream and mud we then came to the worst bit. An almost vertical scramble through the woods until we hit the main walk again. Once out of the woods it was a fairly easy walk back to Lord Stones for Mugs of coffee and chip butties.
Walk GPX file
Photos from the walk
Well we are back from a fantastic holiday in South Africa. We did 2 days in Cape Town, then 3 in Gansbaai (shark diving) and then back to Cape Town for 6 more. Ended up only doing 2 days shark diving as the 1st day was cancelled due to bad weather, but all in all the weather was superb. We saw some amazing wildlife and has some great days and nights. Wildlife seen:
- Whales (in Hermanus and De Kelder) Even saw one leaping from the water and then the wonderful tail shot.
- White Sharks off Dyer Island
- Seals on Dyer Island
- Baboons wandering all over the road in Cape of Good Hope, one even got into someones car – brilliant
- Ostriches and several of the young in Cape of Good Hope
- 2 nesting herons in Cape of Good Hope
- Penguins at several locations but best of all just near Bettys Bay
- Huge bee hive on a tree in Cape of Good Hope
- Rocks Hyrax also know as the Dassie – loads of them everywhere
Plus of course we managed to get 14 Geocaches while we were there. we could have gotten so many more but didn’t want to spend all of our time hunting the plastic box 
This is going to be very photo heavy and 1st we have some Panaormas
Cape Town Panorama
View from table mountain Panorama
False Bay Panorama
Cape Town Panorama2
Sharks from the Boat
Sharks from under the water
Photos from the holiday including Geocache finds
Walk
Start/Finish : 54°18.701′N, 1°16.889′W
Total length : 8 miles
Time taken : too long!!!
Min Elevation : 519ft
Max Elevation : 1227ft
Total Ascent : 1115ft
Well this was an interesting day walking/caching. Was supposed to be a quick 2 hours 5-6 mile blast while taking in 6 or 7 caches. It all started off nicely after a steep climb of 700ft in the 1st 1.3 miles to cache number 1 Jurassic Limestone which had stunning views. Shame I went to the bottom of the quarry 1st and the cache was at the top. Then it was a nice yomp over the heather to get back on track to find Rich Life again wonderful views. Then had a jog over to 4Candles which was supposed to be the start of a 3 cache series. 45 mins later I couldn’t find the bugger (I have since found out from the owner that it has vanished!!!!!!). During the hunt I stumbled into a very wet marshy area almost up to my knees, so feet, boots and socks were soaking wet and I mean soaking wet!!! Disheartened I wandered over to Close to Sneck another DNF!!! The owner confirms it is there and it can be seen from 30 yards… great I must be blind!
So off I pop to Yorkshire’s Finest didn’t make it as my damn phone ran out of battery life, so not a DNF. So here I was in the middle of nowhere and lost lost lost…. Lucky for me I managed to stumble across a path which lead back up to the Cleveland Way and I could back track the way I came. this added on several miles and meant I had to go back up hill before I could jog back down to Kepwick.
Jumped in the car did 10 mins of recharging the phone and then decided to go get my last cache of the day Monumental and boy it was monumental. A monument at the top of a hill which marks the death of John Henry Boyer Warner, who died aged 42 in 1891. Amazing place shame it is so overgrown.
TB taken from Rich Life – “Gunnaur, India” Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug
Funny old day caching…… but worth it.
Panorama from Jurassic Limestone
Panorama from Rich Life
Walk
Start/Finish : 54°22.037′N, 1°17.888′W
Total length : 6.3 miles
Time taken : 2 Hrs 30 mins
Min Elevation : 516ft
Max Elevation : 963ft
Total Ascent : 1957.7ft
Walk GPX file
Osmotherley Circular Walk
Short Circular walk round a short section of the “Cleveland Way” passed the BT microwave radio station. Then on the way back head passed “Cod Beck Reservoir” and onto Osmotherley.
During the walk we found 4 Geocaches
Ossie Back Lane – a Nano but fairly easy find
An Aerial View
lyke wake one in this one we found Mummy Ellie
Happy Birthday ‘Fishy’ !! ( North Yorkshire) in this one we found 12 Days of Caching 2007 Geocoin
Today we decided to do a few driveby caches as we weren’t up for any long walks.
1st up was LQ:North Yorkshire – How Now Birk Brow nice little walk and took some hunting to find. Left Engineer at altitude.
Then we drove over to The Toy Man which was a nice easy Multi-cache, So it was over to moors to Danby Beacon. We didn’t know this place existed and has a superb viewpoint dating back to the time of the Stone Age. Saw a wonderful thunderstorm over the hills and was moving towards us rather quickly, so quickly worked out the multi location and nabbed the cache – dropped off #062 Racetrack Zac’s Dodge Viper
Headed over to Danby to grab what ended up being the last 2 of the day Hitting the high note and The Moors Centre – children only!
1 DNF was Gateway to God’s Country – Great Fryupdale, I think we walked all over where it was but no joy
Well we decided to say sod it to money, work and head to Paris for a wonderful 5 day/night jaunt. During this time we decided to do our 1st Geocaching in a new country. Well 1 became 2 and 2 became 11. They took us to some brilliant places in Paris we wouldn’t normally visit i.e. Parc des buttes Chaumont and Saint-Pierre de Montmartre church.
Day 1 was a cache free zone, well we did arrive at 3pm so day 2 we found 2 caches. I Love You ! which was in a lovely little park in Montmartre. Then we found Calvaire / Calvary which was in the grounds of church in Montmartre near Basilique du sacré coeur. We headed to the Basilique for a wander as it poured down last time we were there. Some great views from up there.
sacre coeur panorama
Day 3
Today was the day we walked up the Eiffel Tower which was fun for me since I hate heights but the views were fantastic. Before that we found Champ de Mars by night: Wall of Peace which was in the form of a rock and well hidden. Then we climed the Eiffel tower, then time to drop off the da Vinci Geocoin #1 which started off in Canada on 20th July 2007 and wanted to arrive in Paris – perfect. It was placed in Trocadero (Paris) and we took Laphro’s Single Malt Whisky Collection -Laphroaig-. As we were heading off to an outdoor market we stumbled across Liberty’s Flame . End of caching for the day and we then took a picnic with wine to have that night sat under Notre Dame and at the edge of the Seine.
Eiffel Tower panorama
Eiffel Tower panorama2
Day 4
We went to Sainte-Chapelle and on the way we bagged Pom, pom, pidou which was a DNF 2 days before. After Saint-Chapelle we had a wander over the the Louvre and found the following caches Dhû-n-Nûn at the pyramid and Who is She? (Paris)
Day 5
Today was a visit to Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Last time was on a rather wet New Years day, so was nice to wander about in the sun and to see the graves of Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, etc. Then we we found A la mémoire des communards which was a toughie to find and had to come back to it as people were sitting on a bench right near the cache location. A rather spooky wall where the cache was, had what looked like someone holding back the spirits…. Next up was over to Parc de Belleville which was a good find without being spotted by the many people right near the cache location. Took Racetrack Zac’s Dodge Viper and left the recently found Laphro’s Single Malt Whisky Collection -Laphroaig- Then for out last cache of the holiday we went to Le parc des buttes-chaumont, which was a fantastic park in Paris and would never have come here if it wasn’t for the Earth Cache here – Le gypse de Paris – Gypsum of Paris. This had a cave with a waterfall into it.
Parc de Belleville panorama
Walk
Start/Finish : 54°32.030′N, 0°45.165′W
Total length : 16.5 miles
Time taken : 6 Hrs
Min Elevation : 0ft
Max Elevation : 358ft
Total Ascent : 2938ft
Walk GPX file
Did this walk a few years ago and it is a toughie. Fantastic views along the coast from Runswick Bay to Whitby and back again. The walk is from the top car park in Runswick Bay to the “Whale Bone” in Whitby, which you must touch before having lunch and heading back to Runswick. It takes you along part of the Cleveland Way through Kettleness, along the coast to Sandsend and up by the Whitby Golf club to Whitby.
Took in 3 caches during the walk, there were 2 in Runswick, but we were knackered after the walk and will do those another day. Also several more in Whitby, but today was about the walk and not hunting for caches.
First cache of the day was about 5 miles in just before Sandsend. THE SANDSEND TRAIL (NTH YORKS) was a nice find, shame I took the had route by going over the top of a hill instead of using the path round which I discovered after the cache find. Took a Travel Bug – Engineer at altitude which needs to be placed in a high cache next time.
Then it was over to Whitby for the Whale Bone, lunch and then Captain Cook. We went over put our bags down and pretended to look for something in the bag. Took from under the nose of a dog, its owner and 2 people chatting in the bench near it. Brilliant cache location.
Next up was Bram Stokers Whitby Cache this was a virtual cache where we had to take a photo of the bench. Bram Stoker’s memorial seat – placed there to commemorate the spot from which he used to let Whitby’s views inspire him to write the classic Dracula!
Then the a “not found” Whitby Pavilion Was only placed a couple of days ago, but we just couldn’t find it. Time to go back the way we came.
Started off at the car park under Roseberry Topping. The walk went through Hutton Moor, Newton Moor, Great Ayton Moor and Kildale Moor. Geocaching
Walk
Start : 54°30.446′N, 1°07.223′W
Total length : 11.2 miles
Time taken : 4 Hrs 23 Mins
Min Elevation : 326ft
Max Elevation : 1103ft
Total Ascent : 1800ft
Along the walk 8 Geocaches were found and it was a 100% successful find rate.
ODIN’S HILL
Hanging Stone
The Troll’s Lunchbox
HIghcliffe Nab
Rose’s Micro
Rose’s View
The Iron Age Village
318 – 3 Moors, 1 Cache, 8 Views
panorama
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