Avon - Climb
The history of climbing in the Avon Gorge might be considered to reflect the history of climbing in the UK as a whole. As gear technology has advanced it has allowed different styles to be taken forward, at the same time enabling standards to rise. Initially the available protection was rudimentary,involving only a rope and a few slings to place over spikes of rock. From the 1960’s to the early 70s pegs were commonly used for protection as runners while climbing on-sight. ‘Aid’ climbing also evolved – involving the use of both pegs and hand-drilled bolts to progress up a face climbed on-sight. From the mid 1970’s to date the remaining blanker faces were often inspected on abseil before an ascent, mostly to pre-fix protection pegs (or less often bolts) that couldn’t be placed on lead. On occasion – on the hardest and most serious climbs – complex and difficult sequences were worked out and rehearsed in preparation for the lead, a practice later to become known as head -pointing.
The Geocache
While doing this geocache there is a high chance you will see people out scaling the rock walls of the Avon Gorge.
The cache owner is a keen rock climber. He has climbed many routes in the Avon Gorge including routes named Padansac on 26/Mar/14, Limbo on 04/Jul/13 and Malbogies on 19/Feb/13.
There is nothing at the posted coordinates.
The bonus info from Avon - Rocks = ABCD
The bonus info from Avon - Boats = EFGH
After some research you should be able to calculate the cache location
N 51 (T-D)(A+H).(G-P)(L-Q)(S+K) W 002 (R-M)(I+B+E).(F-C)(O-N-K)(J+D)
Enjoy and please remember to grab the bonus info if you want to do the final in the Avon series
This geocache was placed with the kind permission of Bristol City Council and Natural England