TALKET #35 : Ladder Hill Tower View Northwest England, United Kingdom
By P R E D A T O R S on 01-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4VPEF

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.

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.

It had been over 2 weeks since my last visit onto the predator series and so I managed to squeeze in another 11 in the afternoon. I ended up doing quite a long walk to make it as circular as possible. It was really clear and I had excellent views to many distant hills. I could also see onto every other series from the KET loop I did. This was my first thanks.

Out with SpottyZzebra alien hunting, all logs signed 3D & SZ or SZ &3D.
Soon found..

SL. TFTC.

Soon found, 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.

Doubled back from #27 back up the Gritstone Trail route up to this one. Drink stop just past the sheep field, with great views. Carried on over the road and up to this one. First quick look yielded nothing, then had to wait for a walker. Continued the search and the container was soon found

TFTC TNLN SL

8155 + 981 = 9136. 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 !). Parked near the gate and walked in for two finds. 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.

Took a little while as clue item appears to have slipped over I realigned it after cache replaced TFTC

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

Wow, wall to wall vistas

SL TFTC

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

Fabulous views all round.

TFTC

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

Another one that looked like it was going to be dofficult but thankfully not.

Signed log and replaced as found.

TFTC

Jackie and Kris

[green]On down to the road and after dodging cars and cyclists it was nice to turn off onto the track up to GZ. Took a few turns to get this one. 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.

Along the road, which had a surprising amount of traffic on it, and then on to a further track to the cache. This one we found quickly - a similar hide a little later took us much longer to find.

Found without any problems.tftc

A nicely hidden cache. We had no problem spotting the hint items here and the container was a quick find. TFTC

This will remain easy whilst upright stone exists

Finally, the weekend came to make a first outing on this excellent new series of The Alien Landings caches. Jamange and I doing the TALKET walk, logging the caches as Team Alien Bashers (or TAB as we marked it in most log books).

We took it easy to really enjoy the walk, so my GPS stats ended up as 5:07 walking, 3:44 stopped, 20km walked with 998m ascent, so a bit more than the calculated values on the listings as you'd expect. The conditions started grey but at least not foggy, and the sun tried to break through all day and finally succeeded for a spell mid afternoon, before the wind picked up again and we were blown back around the last part of the loop.

The caches were all nice straightforward finds - bar one - and we enjoyed the variety of terrain and the amazing views along the way. I'm sure this series is inspired in part by the LEGENDS walks, but that's no bad thing and the innovations like the walking guides, stamp books and track files really added to the enjoyment of the walk. Thank you for the all the amazing effort that must have gone into setting up these walks - we'll definitely be back to enjoy the rest of them over the coming months.

14:46 This was our 35th of 51 finds today. More amazing views along this stretch of the walk, they just keep getting better. Not the clearest of days, but we could still easily make out the Ladder Hill tower and at various points the "Little Britain" tower further away on Croker Hill too. I think there are going to be several landmarks that help us keep our bearings and relate all these walks to each other as we work our way around them. Thanks for the cache.

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).

Brought back memories to see the Little Britain Comms Tower. Took us a while to spot the right hint item so we tried to leave it a little more obvious. Thanks for the cache.