Rain Traditional Geocache
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Tut Tut, Looks like rain. This cache can be found near a FANTASTIC carved poem along the Pennine Way between Blackstone Edge White Holme Reservoir.
Tut Tut looks like horizontal rain!!
This cache is on the Pennine Way between Blackstone Edge Reservoir and White Holme Reservoir. It can easily be found walking from the White House pub towards Stoodley Pike Monument and is across a water drain adjacent to the path.
The weather can be extreme up here even when it is mild and sunny elsewhere, this trail can be cold and windy. When it rains it usually comes down horizontally. Please take care and wear good gear, especially in the winter.
The cache can be found in the vicinity of a newly carved poem cut into the sandstone.
In the summer this is popular climbing spot. All year round hikers and dog walkers make good use of this trail.
To get to the cache you will need to cross the water drain. The easiest place to cross is a small stone footbridge to the south of the cache. There are a few big rocks to negotiate. The path is not wheelchair safe and to get the cache you will need to scramble over a few rocks.
The cache is a small sandwich box style clip-top container. At the time of placing contains some swaps a track-able, a logbook and 2 (yes 2) pencils. The cache is wrapped in a plastic bag and then placed in a camouflage nylon bag. Please wrap it up well when you replace the cache to keep out the elements.
Enjoy this beautiful part of the country and unusual landscape.
I placed this, my first cache on my birthday November 15th.
Cache placed with the kind permission of the Lord of the Manor of Rochdale who owns this land.
Transcript of the poem which looks fantastic carved into the rock face approx 10ft wide and 6ft high. If anyone knows the author / sculptor please pass feel free to add information:
RAIN
Be glad of these freshwater tears, each pearled droplet some salty old sea-bullet air lifted out of the waves, then laundered and sieved, recast as a soft bead and returned.
And no matter how much it strafes or sheets, it is no mean feat to catch one raindrop clean in the mouth, to take one drop on the tongue, tasting cloud pollen, grain of the heavens, raw sky.
Let it teem, up here where the front of the mind distils the brunt of the world.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
gb gur evtug bs gur cbrz haqre / va svffher va gur ebpx snpr