Radley Brook, going underground (2 of 3) Traditional Cache
Radley Brook, going underground (2 of 3)
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Nice little walk up the Radley brook (as it is called on a map I have). OK first bit is you have to get in the stream at marked waypoint by Radley road and crawl up maybe 20m of 3ft concrete pipe. Not much water in it when stream levels are not up, I did in November and only a few inches and a bit of hand and leg spreading can miss the worst of it. I dont care and did the natural crawling position on bottom of pipe with tracksuit bottoms and wellies on. knees and hands (wear gloves of some sort). ok got trousers a bit wet but not cold and top of legs and torso ok. This is shown on the only photo I took. was taken on the way back. Most of this is a good height corrugated metal surface tunnel. High enough to get along bent over. Wellies or old trainers, headband torch, walkie talkie, friend on path above and old clothing is all that is really needed, does not take to long once in and moving. You come to places you can have a rest and stand up in as there are manhole covers in the road above you and they are more than head height. Take advantage and have a rest!. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So where is the cache. Get to about 45m before the end and the railings (grate) over the exit (or enterance to the water). The last manhole I think it is has some metal ladder down into the tunnel. Middle mounting holes not used. Get this far the too far. It is before that ladder man hole and the one before last you will go by first. 2 bends before the end and daylight (tunnel end) comes in to view just. The head height suddendly drops about 20cm or so and the gaps between the different pieces of the tunnel lining is there the small oblong cache about 35mm film case width but longer. Is on a chain ran though one of the predrilled bolt holes, not used so dropped the chain through the hole. look for chain when head height drops between last 2 man holes. up at top in roof metalwork. Lots of info but really not much down there to use and all looks the same. Screw top container with pencil and sharpener. Final coords are a best guess. stream runs along road so wont be far off. No gps signal down there anyway. My harder tunnel based cache is this one. http://coord.info/GC4T7NM A bit easier than the one above as no floatation device needed. Not much headroom though. http://coord.info/GC4V5DA Another wet one. http://coord.info/GC59JD0 Last Abingdon based wet one of mine. http://coord.info/GC5Y9PD My Oxford underground stream one. http://coord.info/GC5X7TW Last water based cache I set up, this is in Wantage. https://coord.info/GC6QVX0 My friend Jason's underground stream one at Marston I help set up. https://coord.info/GC7893J
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