Sherman WAB WAB 6 Baw Baw Village, Victoria, Australia
By BaLuke and Ahomberg on 04-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3Q9XG

But if a bush bash in muddy post snow melt. Count it. Dont sign as no pen. TFTC

Gave it to the 5yo to stave off the tears

Cool cache tftc

Quick find after wandering between trees and snowdrifts

The last weekend of daylight savings - Time to head away for the weekend to the Latrobe Valley for some exploring, camping and caching with RoamingHowie.

Arrived at gz, and heard a Polaris approaching so we crouched in the bushes until it went past.
I think this may have been where I lost my glasses.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, ahomburg
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A bit of tooing and frowing and the geosenses were correct.
An easy find. Replaced as found.
TFTC

11.30am went with instinct re GZ then fought it why ???? Do I do that so often. Explored and searched to the right then went Back to first thoughts a bit of digging and cache was found.

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After a weekend of camping and then a caching event on the great alpine trail, it was time to start heading home. Perhaps via Baw Baw or some other diversion to make a long journey home even longer .

A nice little bush bash into this one. Spotted the likely GZ on approach and soon had the cache in hand.

Thanks ahomburg for placing this gamepiece in the wild for us to find.

Thank goodness for Summer!

This is not the hunt I would have like to do with snow or in the wet!

The wandered enjoying the surrounding vegetation and taking a few pics of the gums.

The geo kids were right on the hunt and quickly made a find.


TFTC

CJJAHC

Clever hiding spot, took some effort to get there! Suggest coming from the west next time, a bit easier!!

Ha ha - only 9 m out but jingo bingo luckily a tad sheltered from snow here and I just went on a visual hunch looking for a good spot. The color of the trees up here is spectacular too. Chilly chilli day with snow on the ground even though I was hoping post regional lockdown to beat the forecast change. Such is life but today’s mission which is focussed on the resident geodetic cairn is on - plus that little question mark so finding clues on the agenda is on too. Anyway, it’s great to be here and I had a blast of a day out. Remembered at one point Baw Baw was my first time in the snow learning to ski way back when the ‘nut cracker’ got u up the hill. A fave for the fun’. !Thanks for the cache Ba Luke, and Homburg

Tftc BaLuke & ahomberg. Bandyoda's big baw baw day out commenced with some drive bys on the way up and then as many on foot as time permitted. Finished up with a reasonable haul over 9.6 km on simply a brilliant Easter day.

Sidled across from the Painted Rocks and a relatively quick find. Cache and log in good condition.

One of my plans for the 2020-2021 summer was heading back up to Mt Baw Baw to finish off the WAB WAB Mystery cache. With Easter almost here and daylight saving about to end, I knew I had failed in my plan. But looking at the great weather for the week and start of Easter, had I failed?

For a change, I tried finding the correct way in, instead of doing the straight line approach. It kind of worked, but if I hadn't been climbing on the rock I would have found it quicker. Signed the log at 11.30 am

Thanks for the cache Ba Luke and A Homberg
Hunter

Nearly 2 years back, I started on a cache that would take me to many places and this was to be the final area. I had been dropping hints fortnightly to Spiffy- that we could come up here, but either the weather or another plan, plus the tough drive, kept putting it off. Today though, even with some rain about it was still warm and before another snow season set in we decided to go.

Wab wab caches looked like a great series and if better weather we would have done more. But we focused on a small section with the idea to find the mystery.

Another one that the hint made for a quick find.

Thanks to BaLuke and Ahomberg for the placement and fun.

Found at 12:59 pm.
A long term multi location project brought us to this location today. We had been meaning to do it for a while so chose this weekend. It was lovely on arrival, 11 degrees, thick fog, light rain and very strong winds that instantly inverted the umbrella so that didn't get a lot of use. Oh well, at least it wasn't snowing. The drive up here was ok with the awesome road holding and handling of the ute, however I had to pull over a couple of times to let the Porsche, Lamborghini and BMW M3 car club groups fly past.
I had only been up here once on a freezing cold day to do the LGA challenge and grab one cache and go so it was nice to walk up to the summit and check out all the ski runs.

No snow today so this one was super-easy.

Thanks for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Lovely sunny day to wander through the scrub, watch the spider webs! Sl TFTC

I spent the day picking up a few Wab Wab caches at Mt Baw Baw.

This was getting towards the end of the trip.

I walked round from one side because it just seemed so difficult to cross.

Lucky I did as it was a little easier on this side!

The cache was a fairly quick find.

TFTC

A fear of wriggly sticks and no gaiters left me navigating from the track whilst Cracka1 signed the log for both of us.

Decide to have a day out at Mt Baw Baw look at he caching app saw there were several caches there. Nice easy quick find.

Easy one

All good.

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Sherman WAB WAB 6 was transferred from baluke to user ahomburg

17:53
An event at Toorongo Falls got me closer to the mountain than I expected to be any time soon, so I took the opportunity.

The drive in is a nice workout... almost 40km of twists, turns, switchbacks, steep grades, and oh, so much fun. I have to admit I enjoyed the challenge and the views.

Even in midsummer, the weather can be interesting, and visibility was about 40 metres in the day carpark when I arrived. Perfect for a walk around to the summit and back.

In all, a little over ten klicks of walking while I collected clues to a mystery cache, logged a trig point and took photos for another challenge.

Thanks, BaLuke and ahomburg. Getting to this cache from above was easier than the other direction.

#5009

Bit of a bash to get here but easy find once we were there.

Found by Ex Kurll's Own Rovers 13/7/19. Nice hide no issues even with snow

All good here. Dry inside.

As I approached this, I was clapping my hands while saying "Sherman! Sherman! Sherman!" (it's from The Nutty Professor) - good thing there was nobody around to see me...
I had great coords here which led me to a quick find. All in good condition too.
Thanks BaLuke and ahomburg

Found with FUF009.
Today we left Walhalla and headed to Mt Baw Baw.
We had to adjust our route because the GPS kept trying to take us down a dirt road that looked like it would end up needing a 4wd.
We found lots of caches along the way and heaps up Mt Baw Baw.
We were lucky with the weather and to have avoided the bushfires.
Thanks to all the COs for their caches. Tftc

Find # 7946

A road trip with good friend sharkiefan. Plan was to go Walhalla for a couple of events and then up to the top of Mt Baw Baw before getting back to the City.

Well we made it up the road now to make it to the summit.
We only had one cache on the plan for this area as we were here for Virtual Reasons.
Tackling the slopes UP, it ended up being a zig zag as the direct way was just a little too steep. So the caches guided our way.

Up at the Cairn it was lizard central, they were all coming out of the cracks in the rocks to get as much sun as they could.

Once the summit cache was found it was time to come down.
Following the tracks marked on the GPSr I realized that I had downloaded the Mountain bike tracks and not the hiking ones. But we were the winners as these were a more direct route down and took us past all the caches on the Western side of the slopes.

Walking down the Mountain bike tracks made me wish i had my bike with me.... oh well next time as we left a number of caches for another day.

All caches were found in good order.

TFTC BaLuke

We tried to escape the heat and tick another D/T combination off. We needed the clue from this cache to help with the final.

Made our way down the ski run and Lach slid onto his bottom - the silky grass is very slick.

This cache was a little further off-track than the others and so we were a little unsure of ourselves, but with a little hunting we made the discovery, just as the March flies discovered us. Plenty of casualties ensued as we signed the log and slapped the flies.

Forgot to note the clue so we had to bash back into the bush to take another look.

Thanks for a great day out

A big day out East of the city with ahomburg and leafotwind.
Following on from an early morning drive out to Dargo.
We arrived on the mountain at 4:30 and began our assault.
After working our way up the mountain to the cairn it's all downhill from here.
We dropped in to say "G'day" to Sherman.
A bit of cover from the wind and the end is almost in sight.
Thank you for bringing us here and for the series BaLuke.
A magical location indeed!

The second last cache for the day and in fading light! Ahomburg, n0w0rries and myself had taken the direct route down until we had to deviate off the run and into the bush. That was an interesting experience given the wetness of the vegetation as well as the uneveness underfoot. However we managed to make a find in the end and it was onto the last cache for the day.

I remember the approach to this one--it was quite possibly not from the direction intended. I passed though more shrubs than my not altogether long legs would have preferred. Thanks once more BaLuke!

Ah what a day, another planned trip with Bendsinister up towards Mt Baw Baw, but also this time we aim to collect some unlove (even replacing an old nutcache cache) and also to pick up some of the Rockwiz series and the odd traditional along the way. So off we went meeting at Cranbourne for our journey for the day.
And after grabbing most of the caches we aimed to find for the day, only having one or two dnf's on the day as a whole we headed back home after dark decideding to taking the way home via moe to grab a couple puzzles that we both had been working on.
Anyways sorry for the generic log. But thanks for the cache and the lovely day out today.

Sorry for the belated log once again.

A quick find as the rain rolled in. Dad discovered this one as soon as we arrived. With no one around the wind whistled through the trees and all was fairly peaceful. Crazy to think it snows up here, definitely none in sight while we were up!

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache!

Reperio at 1110.

After arriving at Mount Baw Baw yesterday amidst rain and thunderstorms, this morning was spent walking out to Gwinear and visiting a few caches in the WAB WAB series. As I continued around the trails, I needed this one for the final, although it seemed. Managed to find a clue number here, but this cache is no longer listed on the final cache page as being one of the 6 to have to find. Nonetheless, it still gave me the answer I was after.

Gratias BaLuke.

Last day of the snow season. Thought we'd also see if we can find caches... and what do you know... found it!!! Geoboys very excited to find these in the snow....

Good cache, found in the snow.

Another nice spot on the mountainside
Cheers

This one was easy once the gps settled down. Tftc

Another tricky one for the kids but daddy again saves the day.

TFTC

13/12/2016 11:58:00 AM
Found during a ten day caching trip to the other side of the state, Mt Baw Baw is the last Local Government area I need to complete the LGA Challenge cache so a visit to this alpine area was a must on the to-do list for the trip, after sleeping in [OVT](https://coord.info/TB70Q77) in one the nearby empty carparks we drove into the village to make ourselves breakfast after finding nothing open and then unloaded the bikes for a trip to the summit and back.
I had to return to this one as I'd managed to leave my sunnies next to the cache.
Cache was found in good order

Enjoy the snow

Found a way in to this one. Not necessarily the best way, but a way nontheless.

Out again early this morning to do a loop of 12 caches that hopefully took in the final in the series so that my D/T series is complete. I had some clues already from yesterday so I plotted a route to take me to the summit. The weather was perfect again and a tad cool first thing and a bit dewy from overnight. I saw no one in my travels and found all the caches I set out to do.
Lovely area for caching.
Yeah a pretty easy find compared to some of the rest
Thanks baluke!

Despite it being wet windy and misty we thought we could still grab a few good caches up on the mountain. We headed up the slopes first before and wind got stronger as it already had a chill to it despite being well rugged up. In the end with the conditions we dropped the multi and a few in he more open parts as the wet was causing a chill in the exposed windy parts. A few animals were spotted along the way including 6 Lyre Birds, various wallabies and numerous rabbits. We got off to a slow start with WAB WAB 1 as it took as a while to find. At 2 we had to explore a few valleys before spotting the camo. From there it was across to the Magic Carpet and then the south east track or summit trail to the top picking up Frost Hollow, Off Piste, It's a Picnic Booboo without too much difficultly once the GPSr settled. Carry the Cairn took a bit to locate and it's one of the few times we can say we had picked up the cache to then realise later it was the cache. When we got to the multi the wind really picked up and with the co ord projection decided it was better to complete more of the WAB WAB series. It was now onto the down hill run as we covered a couple of runs as we did a zig zag picking up Summit, Painted Playground and Sherman where we had a bit of trouble making the find in the wet undergrowth until spotting it 7m to the north of were the GPSr wanted it. From here it was onto Big Hill West and Speed Bump before a return to the car to dry out and do the maths for the final. We got a likely set of numbers and headed over. We thought we might have been out a touch given the hint but then ,moved some camo to make the find. A fav pt for the series. TFTC.

"Errrgghh...Yuk!"....

Which was said AFTER I said to the teenager....."watch out for that muddy bit, step OVER it..."

Turns out she has lost all sense of hearing due to the extreme hunger she has had to endure for the last 20 minutes or so......."THERES A BIG SWAMP HERE!, HOW DO WE GET AROUND THAT!"
She said after watching me carefully step over it without getting wet......

The hardest part for Dad was when he stopped, sighed, and turned around to give directions, to see the Queen mimicking the distraught starving and at wits end teenager, from behind her....

I think she saw me smirk......

Dead man walking........

Anyway, somehow we managed to make our way over to this one despite the world about to end, and everyone wandered into the bush, then backed up, then went forward and found the cache.

And then it turned out that we hadn't in fact reached the end of the world, cause we are now STILL WALKING!......

She wants to see the manager.......

Found this one after a quick traverse across from Painted Playground.

thanks baluke!

Nice easy one to find.

Found with Sixy2Sue ... we came up here to FTF "Orites- all right" (and succeeded!!)
While up here we couldn't pass up the chance to find a few caches on the return walk from
Mt St Gwinear.
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an easy one
tftc

A bit hard!

Long weekend. A bit cloudy. Had trouble finding gz due to bad GPS readings. Tftc

I met the Geelong boys along the South Face Road for an awesome day of caching doing the WAB WAB series of caches on Mt. Baw Baw. Along with Jacko83, one half of The Tritonz and Jag2612 we biked, hiked and bush bashed (a little) our way around the absolutely fabulous terrain and scenery that is Mt. Baw Baw. I had never been there before and the views all around were spectacular. We couldn't have asked for better weather and it was in fact so warm that the asphalt in the car park was melting to our shoes.

We started at the bottom of the mountain and worked our way up the road to the carpark where we donned our bike helmets and mounted our bikes. From there we rode, and pushed our bikes up some steep inclines, over grassy 'fields' and even at one point carried them through some thick scrub land. During the whole day we only saw three other people so we pretty well had the mountain to ourselves.

Onto the caches, and the hides varied from quick finds to spending some time searching high and low but in the end we found all the caches that were available for us to find. What can I say, other than this is what caching is all about; awesome location, perfect weather, great company and fun, along with a fantastic series of caches to find. What better way to finish of the day with a nice cold beer in the bar with the boys with fantastic views out of the windows.

A bit of bush bashing required here but we found it in the end. A big thanks to Baluke for the caches we found today.

Will log properly later

One half of the tritonz had to work so the other half along with Jacko83, Jag2612 and Quasar3671 set out on a mission to do the Baw Baw series. We took our bikes along to help on the journey even though half the time we were pushing them up the steep hills or carrying them through bushes to take short cuts. We all had an awesome time with beautiful weather and great company. Its hard to imagine this place under snow, we will have to come back in winter just to check it out. Thanks baluke for placing this series in this amazing area.

Headed up here from Geelong at 5am with Jag2612 and Tritonz, and met Quasar3671 on the way. Bikes packed, eski's and sunscreen.

Hd a ball up here today on Mt Baw Baw doing this caches - what a great place to visit. No snow this time of year, and bitchumen in carpark so hot it melted out shoes! Fantastic day with no dnfs. All caches were in good nick, some tricker than others.

Thanks baluke for taking me caching in a great part of Victoria - memorable! And thanks lads for a great day!

Found took a while

It took a while since the gps took us along summit trail not summit ski run, but we got there and had fun

5/01/15 1:09 PM
Find #1833

Today I headed to Mount Baw Baw with Stemicmitsar with the intention of finding caches that would help me qualify for the "Lonely Cache" challenge and both of us qualify for the "Significant Hike" challenge.
This was our first visit to this cache today. The reason for the second visit I won't share with you. I do note however, that the previous finder also suffered from momentary amnesia so it seems that we are in good company. SL TFTC

Found @ 1:09pm, find # 3978.

Today I headed up to Mt. Baw Baw with biggles1024 to find a few caches that will help us complete some challengers that we have been working on.

We intended to find this one later on but as we had to go this way to get back on track, we had a look while we were there. At GZ it was a quick search and the cache was found.

Thanks to baluke for placing this cache.

[green] Was man net im Kopp hat, hat man in de Beine. [/green]

German saying - if you're too dumb to remember, you gotta walk.

Yeah I left my hiking poles at GZ so I had to go back and take an extra couple of 100m. That said all the geocaching and water-fetching side-trips I took added to the total of 42km hiking in three days. The rest of the crew took total credit for it as well but I'm a nice guy and let them believe that - knowing they did a couple of km less.

Thanks and cheers
Philipp

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Today was the last chance for TornadoTeddy and I to find a few caches before the snow comes and the finds get harder. TFTC

Find # 86. This was our last opportunity to find a few caches before it gets too cold and the snow starts to fall. A very beautiful day on Mt Baw Baw today so our time spent looking was magnificent. Another hike up yet another hill but still smiling. Thanks baluke for this cache and for this awesome series.

Found after lots of fun and laughter along the way while BUNDA BASHING through the shrubs, trees and vegetation!!! This gives a new meaning to the word "dedication"! Nice little hiding spot hidden well away from prying eyes. Another good hide Baluke ) tftc

Found in good shape after just a little bush bashing TFTC

Baw Baw has many attractions this weekend. JosieY did a crazy marathon. Tomorrow there's an orienteering event. Today for me it's geocaching.
This was a brisk find after a good walk. Good to see the ahomberg hand in this.

More bush bashing to cross the mountain, but found without too much trouble. Enjoying the view from GZ. Thanks for the cache baluke.

Travelled down to Mount Baw Baw to do some walking as training for Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne in May and to grab a couple of geocaches on the way. Training today with ahomburg, day1976 and a non caching mate, we met at "Show Me Da Money WAB WAB 22" and drove up and parked at "Old Lift WAB WAB 17". From here we headed off on foot up the mountain bike track, wondered around the village for a couple of hours and returned back down the road to the car for the return trip home.

Another quick find.

Thanks for the cache baluke

Grabbed this one on the way up to the summit. Thanks BaLuke and Ahomberg FTC.

Found this one on the way to the Summit. Did cause us a bit of confusion as it was No.6 in the series.TFTC

Found in the company of Biggles Bear while out on our monthly caching trip, this time to Mount Baw Baw. It was a fantastic day for caching and wandering about the mountain. Thanks for the cache.

Found 2:15:00 PM, in the company of Muzza during our monthly caching day out.

TNLN, thanks baluke

Found while on a fine showshoeing tour of WAB WAB. No tanks today, just sun and fine company. TFTC.

Fourth one of baluke's for the day.
Thanks for the hide.

Found it. Easy. No pen in it. Next person please take a pen or pencil to leave.
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Found with 1st/3rd Cheltenham Scouts. Rather quick find. TFTC

Found @1058 #2943
Today was a massive epic run which accumulated in a round trip distance of 400km with a number of rare D/T combo completed in some extreme range of weather conditions. Started out in Gembrook, then heading to Mt Baw Baw then south to Moe, picking up a number of caches including 4 types (3 type rule achieved) and a FTF. Team up with Ahomburg and Day1976 for today's mission as some caches required a team effort at times. The highlight of the day was witnessing Ahomburg complete his first loop of the 81 matrix, awesome effort, well done mate. In total 24 caches found and 1 DNF.

Been super keen to attempt the Wab Wab series ever since it was publish and finally today was it. There had been a dump of snow over the previous 48 hours, as on Friday the images from the web cams showed no snow. The amount of snow did increase the challenge and it was fun and quite peaceful walking thru the snow around the mountain today.

This was the 6th completed in the series. In fact the cache was replaced by Ahomburg who had been given a replacement cache by the CO. TFTC BaLuke

Date: 16 June 2013
Time: 11:07am
Find # 2937

So, I had been working on my project 81, targeting specific areas with my caching partner in crime SedgwickDave. We had put into action a plan for me to complete it today during the week. I needed just two more combinations which were covered with "Andrew Daniel Coy - Family Photos" and "Carry the Cairn WAB WAB 5". Having managed to solve the puzzle during the week with Dave, the plan was to head out very early Sunday morning to pick it up. We would then pick up Day1976 who was also joining us for the day and head towards Baw Baw Village for caches in the area, hopefully a FTF as well as some unloved finds.

We had cheated a bit on this one, as I had the replacement cache in my bag the whole time.I had offered a few weeks back to replace the cache for the CO, so he dropped the new container off to me to place in a new location. We signed the log and placed the cache a bit further out of the way.

Thanks to BaLuke for the cache. TNLN.

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 50.357 E 146° 16.256

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 50.364 E 146° 16.284

Distance from original: 141.2 feet or 43 meters.
Thanks to the kind offer by AHomberg to replace this on his highland adventure (low fire risk this time) a new GZ has been scouted and recorded to go with it.
Thanks AH

Back on line, will update the clue

What an awesome adventure! I was invited to tag along with the legendary duo of ahomburg and sedgwickDave on one of their adventures. Today's main aim was to get to Mt Baw Baw to pick up the wab wab series, in the snow! On the way we found ourselves a bit of unlove, a FTF, 4 different types of caches and ahombug knocked off the first round of his D/T looper.

This cache was replaced by ahomburg and was signed by Dave and I before finding a new hiding spot.

I was up there o n the long weekend doing a maintenance check, coordinate confirm and inspection and i couldnt find it either, but ran out of time to replace it: and didnt disable it before Malikaal attempted it. My bad sorry.

looked for this one for a long time, very sure I was at GZ with the appropriate spot according to description. I wonder if it has gone awol.

2nd to find with atraveriasmo tftc 1 to go ...

Clever hide. BELLAKELEA and I went straight to it.

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