Valentine's Free Search 2008

[adamwest]

what did your BF say?

Congrat!!!!!!!!

Adam

[Mystique]

Well done Kitkit

[KJ74]

Congratulations to you I bet you were so excited when you found it? Hope that your bf was pleased too?! I've managed to get mine involved and slightly obsessed with the Isis too so that's great!

[ChadH]

I AM STRONG
I AM WOMAN
I GOT ME AN ISIS
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

Big fat hairy congratulations - I'm really pleased for you.
And, Haggis - comiserations. Hopefully next time (after Lodgecrest, that is )

[Happyhannah]

Oh, this is fantastic!!!

Congratulations! You really deserve this - you've put a lot of effort into your search!

Hope youou enjoy the rest of your adventure... the obsession doesn't stop there heheheh See you in the 5% club

[haggis]

And, Haggis - comiserations. Hopefully next time (after Lodgecrest, that is )

Thanks Chad. Im pleased KitKit found it because she's only just joined the adventure and doesnt have an isis (till now). I also think her last trip deserves to find the coin, I'm delighted for her.

I did enjoy the hunt though, so if any more are hidden a bit more closer to home, then I have to admit being tempted to search again. So if anybody knows the general location of the Feb isis - and its not too far from me - give me a clue please...

Haggis

[Lodgecrest]

Kitkit

Well done Great News. You have shown us all that you can only find an free Isis if you go and look for them, and sometimes (seems like all the time for me) you have to go back.


Well done Girl

[kitkit]

Thank you everyone!!! but a special thank you and well done should go to whoever thought of Barton Fell, as they were right!!!

Rang Sonicwarp this morning, they then had to ring back as Erica wasn't in today, and then was told to email them with my details and how i found it, so am still waiting on confirmation.
But to answer one of your questions... Will was alright with it, he's not come across too happy and pleased but he has been saying well done to me. I think it's cuz I ignored his advice of leaving it til two weeks time and went up there by myself, he's been in a bit of a moody since but whenever i ask him about it, he just says it's cuz he's tired still from monday.
So am just getting on with other things, like tidying the bedroom and study, as well as sorting out the garden and cleaning the rest of the house (although it's making me feel very housewife ) and i also rang the agency this morning, asking them if they'd found any work yet for me and they haven't but they've put me on the available straight away list. So basically doing everything that i know will get me into his good books again! Plus he's organising a BBQ for this weekend, so i know he's wanting the garden and house to be sorted out.
I'm also wondering if it was him wanting to be there when i found it

He'll get to hold and possibly try to do the Isis puzzle, but i'm keeping it well away from him when he's pee'd off or if he gets annoyed with it, as he'll try to force or throw it at the wall or something along those lines... he really doesn't have much patience.

[ChadH]

throw it at the wall or something along those lines....

You never know - that might just help

[kitkit]

today's been a nice day... learning where not to press/put pressure on as it's bruised, where not to scratch as it's sunburnt so will hurt afterwards! lol

Have now got confirmation that I'm getting my free isis!!! yay!!! lol so can tell you guys where it was as well!
You guys know that Will and I went up there on monday... well we'd parked in Park Foot camp site and when we got back there, I decided to ask the staff there on reception if they'd heard anything about the Isis puzzle. The one woman said she'd heard of it and that they had a leaflet about it somewhere but had more than likely lost it, so I showed her the picture and she said it looked like the High Street part of the Roman Road that kind of goes over Barton Fell and it was the one area I hadn't got to search on Monday!
I'd got a feeling that I needed to check it out and it finally got to me on Tuesday night (damn you ChadH!!!! ), and so darted back up there on the train on Wednesday (by myself as Will was at work), and cycled from Penrith train station to Helton - opposite side of Barton Fell to Pooley Bridge, and never will I ever cycle that again!!! it was horrible up hill most of the way, but coming back was brilliant lol and abandoned my bike in Helton.
I walked along the bridlepath where it started near to the Cop stone towards Pooley Bridge for about an hour and half, until I came to the Roman Road at which there was like a pile of stones next to the path and a load of the bushes that look like the ones in the photo, then noticed the roman road going up Heughscar looked a lot like that on the photo, and so looked towards Barton Fell and noticed the stone with two bushes just slightly further away and on both sides of the stone. So went down to check it out, and I couldn't believe it!!
I kept checking the photo as the background didn't quite fit - but that was because the redish vegetation in the photo had actually died off and was a white-ish colour now. But the position of the bushes in comparison to the rock was correct as well as the stone in the background and the white-ish thing that turned out to be the pile of stones next to the bridleway!!
Didn't quite know where to start looking, so chose to search the stone in the picture first, and after moving a few small loose bits of it, started to think it wasn't there, until i noticed there was a big bit that could be moved, and so did and there was the silver coin slightly trapped by another bit of stone! That was it, grabbed my camera to take pictures and bounced around for a bit after smiling and giggling, and relief at finding it! It was like being a 5 year old on christmas day! lol
So yeah headed back to my bike, got back to Penrith and headed back to Manchester, trying to avoid sitting and standing next to people as I'd realised I was very smelly and a bit muddy from the hot weather and tripping slightly on the rocky path while trying to study the picture and the surrounding landscape!

And of course some pictures:





Anyone recognise this:




Found it!!


The coin! (after giving it a bit of a clean)






The Cop Stone


Cairn Circle


Very fluffy sheep!!! that actually scared me at first as they all just stop and stare at you and they've actually got horns as well...


My abandoned bike!

[RobNGem]

well done on finding it thats great! Congratulations

[Happyhannah]

Great photos! I would never have known where to look in that vast landscape!

[Gary's Mum]

Many congratulations kitkit, you were so brave going it alone, god knows how you found it.
Have a brill BQ I'm sure Will will come round (it's a man thing ha ha)
Very very well done, you certainly deserve your isis, enjoy

Avril

[haggis]

Phew, what a relief...

I never got that far towards the Pooley Bridge side of the fell. I assumed (incorrectly) that Andrew (I assume it was he that hid the coin) would have walked from the other side of the fell near the M6. So I dont think I ever got that close to the rock, I had turned toward White Knot a bit before then.

Well done again for finding it KitKit, look forward to seeing you in the 5% club soon.

Cheers
Haggis

[kitkit]

Thanks again!
Haggis: I must admit it was very close...on monday we walked from Pooley Bridge past White Knott to almost Arthur's Pike and back. But yesterday I started walking along an unmarked route coming off the Bridleway towards Arthur's Pike, but decided to go back and carry on walking along the Bridleway until Roman Road and then up Roman Road until Arthur's Pike and then come back the way I almost went up, like in a big circle, to try and maximise the area I've covered... thankfully I chose the right way and didn't end up trekking for another hour or two!!!