CHECK OUT THE BONUS CACHE Bonus For Jacks Watching You (Night Cache)
YOU DO THIS CACHE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
YOU WILL NEED A STRONG TORCH AND SENSE OF ADVENTURE. ALSO BEST TO HAVE TOLD SOMEONE WHERE YOU ARE GOING BEFORE HAND OR TAKE SOMEBODY ALONG WITH YOU, AS THIS AREA IS FAIRLY ISOLATED AND COMPLETELY UNLIT. IF YOU NEED US TO WARN YOU ABOUT THE DANGERS OF WALKING IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT SUCH AS; LOW HANGING BRANCHES, BRAMBLES, NETTLES, HOLES OR LOGS THEN THESE MAY NOT BE THE CACHES FOR YOU. WE ADVISE THAT YOU TAKE MORE THAN 1 TORCH. LONGER RANGE LED TORCHES WORK BEST FOR THIS BUT CAN BE DONE WITH OTHERS BUT MAY BE HARDER TO SPOT THE NEXT TACK. YOU ARE LOOKING FOR STRATEGICALLY PLACED FIRE-TACKS THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO THE CACHE. MOST OF THE TIME YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE NEXT TACK FROM WHERE YOU ARE STANDING, BUT BEARING IN MIND THIS IS A LIVING GROWING FOREST SOMETIMES A BIT OF MOVING AND SEARCHING WILL BE NEEDED. NONE OF THE TACKS ARE MORE THAN 300FT APART SO IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN 1 BEFORE THAT THEN YOU’VE MISSED SOME OR GONE THE WRONG WAY. THEY VARY IN HEIGHT FROM 6-10 FOOT UP.
IF YOU ARE COMING OFF THE A1075 FROM THE GREAT HOCKHAM SIDE BE CAREFUL AS THERE ARE A COUPLE OF BAD CORNERS. WHEN PLACING THE CACHE IT WAS REALLY QUITE MUDDY OUT THERE, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
THERE IS A BONUS CACHE THAT YOU CAN DO AFTER FINDING THIS CACHE BUT IT WILL REQUIRE YOUR GPS AND THE INFO FROM THE LID OF THIS CACHE.
SO WITH ALL THAT SAID
YEARS AND YEARS AGO THERE WERE TWO CACHES PLACED IN THESE WOODS DESIGNED TO BE A CHALLENGE TO THE MOST SKILLED GEOCACHERS. JACK, A YOUNG CACHER FROM SUFFOLK WHO THOUGHT THAT HE COULD FIND ANYTHING THAT’S PLACED, SO HE JUMPED AT THE CHALLENGE. ALONG WITH HIS DOG NEBOS HE SET OFF IN TO THE WOODS WITH HIGH HOPES. AFTER HALF AN HOUR OF FOLLOWING HIS GPS AROUND HE WAS COMPLETELY LOST AND CONFUSED AS NO MATTER WHICH WAY HE WALKED THERE WAS JUST NO GETTING ANY CLOSER. BEING VERY STUBBORN AND DETERMINED HE CARRIED ON WALKING FOR ANOTHER 3 HOURS JUST GETTING MORE AND MORE FRUSTRATED. IT WAS THEN THAT JACK REALIZED HOW DARK IT WAS GETTING AND DECIDED TO GIVE UP FOR THE DAY. LOOKING DOWN AT HIS GPS AGAIN HE SAW A MESS OF BREADCRUMBS CRISSCROSSING ALL OVER THE SCREEN AND HIS PARKING WAYPOINT HAD VANISHED! CONFUSED BY THIS HE DECIDED WHICH WAY HIS CAR MUST BE AND WITH NEBOS AT HIS SIDE BEGAN WALKING STRAIGHT IN THAT DIRECTION. AFTER WALKING FOR ANOTHER 30 MINS JACK LOOKED BACK AT THE MAP AND FOUND THAT THE TRAIL OF CRUMBS LED BACK TO WHERE HE HAD BEEN. AGAIN WONDERING HOW THIS HAD HAPPENED AND STARTING TO GET A BIT WORRIED AS THE LIGHT WAS FADING FAST, HE SET OFF AGAIN JOGGING ALONG THE PATH HOPING THAT HIS CAR WAS NEARBY. 10 MINUTES LATER HE STOPPED AGAIN OUT OF BREATH AND ACCORDING TO HIS GPS BACK AGAIN WHERE HE HAD JUST LEFT. PANIC NOW SETTING IN AS HE DIDN’T HAVE A TORCH OR ANYTHING TO EAT, JACK DECIDED TO MARK THE TREES AS HE PASSED. AFTER ANOTHER 20 MINS OF STUMBLING ALONG HE WENT TO MARK THE NEXT TREE AND FOUND THAT IT WAS ALREADY MARKED. WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN HIS FACE JACK REALIZED THAT IN HIS HASTE TO GET OUT FOR FIRST TO FIND HE HADN’T TOLD ANYONE WHERE HE WAS GOING OR PICKED UP HIS PHONE. OUT OF FEAR AND ANGER JACK STARTED YELLING EVEN THOUGH HE KNEW THAT THERE WAS NOBODY AROUND TO HELP HIM. AS HE SCREAMED FOR HELP NEBOS YELPED AND RAN AWAY FROM HIM LEAVING JACK COMPLETELY ALONE. CRYING AND STRUGGLING TO BREATHE JACK SLUMPED AGAINST A NEARBY TREE AND AS HE SLID DOWN THE TRUNK TO THE GROUND HE FELT SOMETHING UNDERNEATH HIM. A SAD BUT TRUE TALE OF HOW JACK WAS THE FIRST TO FIND THIS CACHE BUT WAS NEVER SEEN OR HEARD FROM AGAIN. NOBODY EVER FOUND THAT CACHE AGAIN, OR IF THE SECOND CACHE WAS EVER FOUND. SHOULD YOU BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO ENTER THESE WOODS KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR JACK’S MARKED TREES AND GOOD LUCK.
Cache placed in accordance with the Forestry Commission East England agreement