Rednal Hill - GCRDMN
What happens when your GPSr plays silly beggers? You get to walk up a steep hill, walk straight past ground zero, walk down a steep hill, then turn 'round and walk back up it again - and then you find the cache and have to walk back down the hill to get to your car!
That's what happened here. No knowing where to park, we drove into Eachway Lane and spotted a layby on the left with a path leading up the hill away from it. The path seemed to be leading towards where the GPSr was indicating, so off we went.
After climbing the hill, we were walking along a path when we spotted a man and a young girl ahead of us. Suddenly, we heard a rustling in the undergrowth to our left, and a dog emerged! It then decided that it wanted to walk back the way we'd just come, which would have been fine if it hadn't belonged to the bloke who was up the path ahead of us! He turned around, and I noticed that he had a blue GPSr hanging 'round his neck. Was he a fellow box hunter?
We carried on for about a third of a mile, and our GPSr couldn't make up its mind where to send us. Evenutally, we went down a very steep hill, until we could see the Old Birmingham Road to our left and Lickey Hills Golf Club to our right. A quick look at the map and we could see were were in completely the wrong place! Dr Cath reprogrammed the GPSr, and it changed its mind again and pointed back in the direction of the car along another path - a path that steadily climbed the same hill we'd just walked down.
At the top of this part of the hill, we realised that we were at the point at which the bloke and girl had been when they realised that their dog was going the wrong way. Following the GPSr, we ended up retracing our own steps, until it pointed us away from the main track... straight towards the holly bush that we'd earlier seen the dog emerge from. And there, underneath the bush, was the cache - and yes, it had been found by someone else that day.
We were right, we'd kind-of met our second fellow hunter - Novalew. Hello there!
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