Bexhill's Trees: Phoenix from the Storm Multi-Cache
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Bexhill's Trees: Phoenix from the Storm
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A 2 - staged cache, visiting one location to find the clues that will lead to the final cache.The final location was changed on 7.11.09 when it crumbled away!
We first visited this wood with a newborn daughter and found it utterly magical. Full of ancient, gnarled trees, you got a real sense of a patch of woodland here as long as the land, timeless as the world around it changed. We were lucky to have made that trip, for 2 days later the woods were gone, crushed to firewood by the famous Great Storm that swept through the south of England. 70% of the trees were lost that night and the town mourned this wood more than any other, because the devastation was so absolute.
As our children grew, so did the wood. They can remember playing hide and seek in the long grass that covered the ground for several years, before the saplings took root and Collington had its woods once more.
But if you look closely, you can see how 'young' the trees are. Their trunks are slender and there are very few old broad-trunked trees. It will take many more decades before the wood returns to the timeless world of which we caught a glimpse.
These woods are in a residential area and used by many dog walkers. There is a delightful, well-maintained children's playground suitable for a wide age range and a small playing field for ball games. A central tarmacked path runs the length of these small, rectangular woods so they are accessible to cyclists, prams, wheelchairs etc. Woodland paths are very clearly marked by frequent use, to either side of the central path. All of the woods are at one level so reasonably accessible to all. There are no nettles near either the initial coordinates or the final cache, but there are some thin bramble tendrils across the paths around the cache - so wear trousers and avoid sandals!
THE FIRST CLUE is general knowledge - but can be found written on some of the signs & plaques around the wood, so keep your eyes peeled.
The coordinates lead you to the location for THE SECOND AND THIRD CLUES needed to find the final cache, which is an ammo box hidden inside the woods.
The clues are as follows:
CLUE 1: The Great Storm happened in October, 19(AB).
CLUE 2: The council office that manages the woods is located at (CD) Beeching Road.
CLUE 3: The number of trees inside the fenced playpark (E)
When you have identified A,B,C,D and E, put them in the following equation to identify the location of the cache, which is at:
N 50' 50.(B x E) x A - E and E 000' (A + C) x (D-C) . 0 (A x A)
Good luck and enjoy the woods.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
N zhygv-gehaxrq gerr jvgu 2 vil-pbirerq uhzcf ng vgf srrg.