If you think yesterday’s most remarkable sporting feat occurred in France and involved Jessica Fox, Léon Marchand, or Adriana Ruano, you clearly haven’t heard about what Froggster achieved in a leafy corner of Wiltshire. Less than twenty four hours ago, with a little help from friends, this gifted, self-taught defoxer found the hiding place of the fabulous Fox d’Or.
The weighty trophy was concealed under a layer of beech nut husks in the crotch of a venerable multi-stem Fagus sylvatica. In order to find the spot, Froggster had solved five fiendish ‘Where am I?’-style puzzles, then used four of the IDed locations to draw a gigantic X on a map of Great Britain.
The strokes of the X intersected beside a bridle path, a short walk from the world’s oldest working beam engine.
Tally-Ho Corner salutes Froggster’s defoxing prowess, and consoles unsuccessful treasure hunters with the following promise: there’s bound to be similar contests in future.
Solutions:
Hearty congratulations, Froggster! Well deserved. Fd02 was my undoing: I hit so many dead ends on that one.
Oh, well done! I was looking at a hill fort further to the West and finding no ‘quickly’ sign. Sterling work!
Congratulations to Froggster and salutations to all the defoxers. It was entertaining to follow from across the water.
Congratulation to Froggster for finding the Fox d’Or!
Well done, Froggster!
Thanks all. I do love the solo Foxers.
Here I was lucky in that having found the final location I realised it was only about five miles away from a friend who gamely agreed to go along and root about in the bushes.
Thanks to Roman and Tim for organising a fun contest.
Congrats Froggster!
I too got stuck on fd02. If only I’d thought to look at museums slightly further inland!