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Hillswick Ness, geocaching maintenance

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Laziness has stopped me responding to the plaintive communiques from Geocachers (it’s treasure hunting/orienteering with GPS satnav, folks; outdoorsy nerdy gadget freakdom. ) that the Another Fine Ness (sorry!) cache had disappeared again.  But today, having finally worked out how the Garmin Etrex functions, I headed out to the Ness of Hillswick to  replace it.

Very, very midgy morning, utterly still. That’s three days in a row – very odd for Shetland. Took the direct route right through the centre of the Ness – the coastal walk is one of the UK’s great cliff routes, but no time today – 40 minutes to The Stone Table. Oddly, though the midges swarmed, they didn’t bite. Either my ingestion of heavy duty multivitamins or my sweaty kangaroo skin hat…

Great walk, straight back in 35 minutes, a record.

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Written by Tom Morton

August 16, 2010 at 11:13

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