TALKET #31 : Bollington View Northwest England, United Kingdom
By P R E D A T O R S on 01-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4VPDM

Out for our 6th trip around the series having not been able to get across for a couple of weeks. Picked up LostnWet along the way as it was our turn to drive. As always the walking was great with the usual assortment of ups and downs along the way. The weather wasn't doing us any favours today unfortunately and we only saw 2 other walkers the whole day. Remembered to grab the necessary info as we went.

Very cute seeing so many lambs frolicking along the way with some being very newly born.

We managed to grab a few other caches along the way and some drive-bys before our other custom of going to find a pub for some tea.

Signed logs off as T2 for our 2 teams. Looking forward to our next trip out to complete the last series and hopefully locate the black box. TFTC.

Found while out walking the series today. First time we have done an alien round in one go, woohoo! Great weather, great hides and great fun. Loved it. Full log posted for primary cache. Found with Grandad TFTC.

Phew! That was a tough bit. We double checked that Grandad was still breathing whn we got to the top (results affirmative, very loudly )

My fifth outing today of this fantastic Alien series, this time taking in TALKET. It was an early start and the weather didn't look promising, with low dark clouds. What a relief after a couple of hours when the clouds lifted and the sun started to shine through, and I had blue skies for the rest of the day.

The walk itself was fairly easy taking in varying terrain with two hard bits, the walk up to the section cache and the hill up to #31 which is a lung buster. My stats ended at 10.86mls and a time of 6.27hrs. for the day.

All the caches like the other routes I have done in the series are all easy to find with the exception of a couple. most of the time you don't need to refer to the hints.

I would like to thank the CO for all the hard work and effort in putting this series together and the walks you have took me on so far have all been excellent.

Thanks for the cache and the series.

Out with SpottyZzebra alien hunting, all logs signed 3D & SZ or SZ &3D.
Wow what a hill and view..

SL. TFTC.

What a climb and nice views once at GZ, tftc

Had identified the TAL caches around Pott Shrigley as a decent length walk, so parked up at TALBOL #16 and headed on over to the start point.

As we had left this one when we started on the TALKET caches, headed down the hill. Took longer to spot than it should have done

TFTC TNLN SL

8153 + 981 = 9134. Found during a wonderful wander around the countryside…

Spending a few days in Manchester for a wedding I had a day to myself to go caching. These series looked very interesting and being Letterbox Hybrids I couldn’t resist doing some of them. Parked as near as could in these narrow roads and started the big walk (25kms today for 35 caches !). A quick find at GZ.

Thanks again P R E D A T O R S !! A Favourite Point from Me !

TNLN – TFTC !!

Cheers from Australia….

Please forgive the generic logs for the series.

Nice easy find - lovely walk - TFTC

Out today with Jim (Supertrampz) with the full intention of completing this leg. Logs Signed DNF, STZ or just DS.

A lesson learnt here!! Print out the walking guide - it would have saved us heading up the wrong side of the valley.

SL TFTC

Out today with D’Énnephe to walk our second Alien series.

We made a right old hash getting to this one, but we got here in the end.

TFTC

Out for the day doing the first of these series for us. Raining already hope it stops soon.

The hill up to this one was a killer but the view was worth it.

Signed log and replaced as found.

TFTC

Jackie and Kris

[green]Wow! This one had us huffing and puffing and how lucky we were that it was nice and dry underfoot otherwise it would have been walk two steps up and slid one step down. Nice to have an excuse to rest while dealing with the log. SL
TFTC

Here we are again. Another Friday and another in this series that will be walked in the company of The Haywood Hornet today. Weather forecast not too bad although a tad windy in places and we had a bit of a shower towards the end of the walk. All caches in the series were found without too much trouble is what it should be on a long walk. No pub on route today so a sit down and a sandwich break part way around. Took about seven hours from car to car which is about average for the walks so far. Sorry but cutting and pasting is the order of the day so apologies. A thoroughly enjoyable day out today and so looking forward to get another series found soon. TFTC the series and a great walk.

We set off down the footpath from #30 and crossed over the stream before setting off up the very steep path to the cache. There were a couple trying to feed their horses at the bottom of this field but not a horse in sight. When I got up to the cache Browni had already found it and signed the log.

Nice pull up the hill to a quick find .tftc

I was slipping all over the place as I made my way to this. Many thanks

Found it. TFTC!

A fascinating stile here. This cache took a little while to locate but the hint made it pretty clear where it would be found and, sure enough, it was. TFTC

I'm sure there is an easy way to go from #30 to #31 and I took the hard way

Joined forces with B of BandMandAandA today to take on our first complete Alien Landings series after I did a few of TALTEG a couple of weeks ago. A leisurely day taking c9 hours.....5.5 walking time and 3.5 stoppage time....mainly due to stamping, photography and searching for a previously logged DNF by others that remained a DNF for us!! A fabulous walk and cache series. No doubt B will record detail of each cache find in his indubitable style but I will pass comment on particularly memorable caches. We signed logs as TAB....Team Alien Bashing....(or Team Angie and Barry).

Wasn't expecting that steep climb and it certainly hotted things up. Cache a straightforward find. Thanks for the cache.