Slam Dunk 5 Ways WAB WAB 13 Baw Baw Village, Victoria, Australia
By BaLuke on 03-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4HTPH

Great one - weve got 10 kids so its a great walk

Another great find in the snow. Snow helped with vantage point, but still head height for the average bear

Nice hide! Had to take a moment to chat to some elderly muggles before securing the GZ - first we've seen today, the perks of caching on a Monday!
(as a side note, the cache itself is now a qualified flyswat...)

Had some fun getting this one out had to get a better vantage point to retrieve - said hello to muggle....first walker seen today, we later had another chat, mostly about the baby snake we had both seen. I did tell her that I was Geo caching incase she saw me acting a bit weirder than usual. A big thankyou for this series and for bringing me to a lovely place I would never have thought to walk. FAV point for location and the Adventure.

Well hidden!

A bit of an effort to extract, but got there in the end. Sadly, no pen, took photo of log. Thank you!

F

Good hide in neat little hole.

Cute little hidey hole in a beautiful spot. The wildflowers are out, stunning day to be out hiking! tftc

Spur of the moment weekend away with friends and a chance to doddle around some beautiful alpine tracks... and of course sneak in a couple of caches when no-one was looking though I did need some minor assistance to retrieve this one

Nearly had me in knots! Had to be here so just a matter of time. Great solo wander to this spot - the only sign of human activity away from the village is another set of footprints - not on this trail though Chilly chilli 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 nice ‘knot’. Thanks for the cache Ba Luke, and Homburg

Tftc BaLuke. 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.

Again, with not many others about I had a real hard look but sadly, not hard enough. In fact a party of rolled up as I sat contemplating and reading logs. I sat still as I don't think they saw me in the scrub and in fact I quietly extracted my lunch since they weren't in a particular hurry. Still, no find, although this thankfully was the last of my 6 dnfs for today.

Lovely day out for a walk SL TFTC

Well finally after a bleak streak another find.

No need for a hint too.

This is where I started to run into a few runners in the area.

Lucky they were few and far between.

TFTC

Need to be a bit taller to get this, so it was one for me.
Really well done cache

A day walk with my geo friends from Gwinnear to baw baw. great day interesting cache

Found the location quick find but took a while to get cache from it hiding spot.

Took a little effort to remove it from its hide hole

Slam Dunk 5 Ways WAB WAB 13 was transferred from baluke to user ahomburg

After an extremely long enforced break that many cachers had to take during this year. Either way I was keen to get out and sign my name in some tupperware.

So tagging along with ahomburg today on a nice stroll and maintenance trip up on Baw Baw. Once again I have been here in summer more times then I have in winter. And every time I think to myself how weird it is to see how empty they are.

Anyways thanks for the cache and taking me to the beautiful part of Victoria.

Tftc bumped into some fellow geocachers had some fun searching

Weather was sunny, cache was found. A lovely day all round. Tftc

Great weather for caching today after the last two days of extreme heat and cold. Cache found quickly.

OK. The end of a disappointing day. Don't want to destroy the bush looking for a little container.

Even at such a big intersection I didn't spot anyone around. That was probably because I only saw three groups of people through the whole hike... took a little while to spot the hiding place here. Thanks for the cache.

This was a pain, the cache was jammed inside a small tree knot that you couldn't fit 2 fingers and the container out. It took us probably 20 minutes to get it out, and when we finally did we jammed some stuff underneath so the next person doesn't struggle like we did. Found with day1976 (he already had it)

Today I had planned a FTF Hounding trip and 16 kilometer hike starting from Mt Baw Baw.
Took the wrong path to this cache to start with but soon found which one I was supposed to be on. I then found the well hidden cache, however really struggled to get it out. After 10 minutes trying was wondering if it would be a DNF, but was able to slowly work it into a position to grab.
Thanks for the cache Ba Luke
Hunter

Finally got the cache out after trying to get to it for a good 10 minutes. But eventually got there and signed the log.

This cache was found a week or so ago, sorry for the belated log.

After just finding a cache we quickly meandered up the hill to come across this little fellow. This took us far longer than it should’ve, and extracting it was a nightmare! Eventually with four pairs of hands we had it out.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache!

Up at Baw Baw for the weekend, we had left the snowboards at home as the lifts are not yet turning. We woke up this morning to a nice fresh dusting of snow, and so decided to go for a walk on the cross country trails around the back of the resort.

I made the find of this cache quite quickly, somehow. Extracting the cache from its hiding place was a different story. We tried using my big fat fingers, my partner's small fingers, sticks, my pen - EVERYTHING, but it was just too hard to keep a hold if it. Eventually, a TOTT and some concentrating so hard that my tounge pointed in exactly the correct direction, and the cache was free.

Ths was no Bourke street here today, we are back to enjoying untouched, fresh snow everywhere we go. What we had seen on the way to this cache however, was the snow monster in the photo attached. I hope we don't encounter a life sized version of whatever that is today!

TFTC Baluke!

Fingers very sore after a tough extraction!!! GPS struggling a bit up here but still 3/3 for the day so far.

Swish
Nothing but net

Well, not quite

Spending far longer trying to extract than we did searching
Fingers, pens, pliers, sticks
All methods were tried
As was the patience

But, at last, it emerged
Huzzah

Yes this was a dnf. Checked out most of the accessible knots but no luck

Found this one on the floor! Hid in the nearest and most likely hiding place that matches the clue!

Facing wrong way

And the Jedi says, "this is not the knot U R looking for!"

Found it with 12 Cubs and Scouts from Wirringga Scout Troop.

Not much snow on our skiing holiday so caching instead. Looked at the wrong knots but found it. TFTC

TFTC. Had me climbing for knots that had nothing in them. Haha

Great day for a cache geo wife on form with her second find

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.
Time to go on a wander and I was very lucky here as the cache had fallen out of its perch and just by chance I spotted its green lid in the undergrowth. Replaced up high where I think it once lay.
Thanks baluke!

Didn't log last time. As usual.

AAWT find Number 4 fresh snow last night. Stake for dinner and real bed. Had to dig in snow to find

A nice quick find at this intersection.

My 200th find

Thanks baluke!

Nice easy cache.

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.
tftc

Found on ride around resort. Nice hide. Tftc

Came back with the team to grab this one yesterday. Nice and easy on from maltesers walk. Will definitely be back for a further trek beyond the village surrounds.

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 big thanks to Baluke for the caches we found today.

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!

5/01/15 1:19 PM
Find #1834

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 the first of three occasions that we passed through this intersection today. This was deliberate I hasten to add as there was no other way to get to the caches in this area when one was on foot. SL TFTC

Found @ 1:19am, find # 3979.

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 walked right passed this one to search somewhere else first but when I returned back along the track The cache was spotted in its hide.

Thanks to baluke for placing this cache.

[green] A Sunday walk and some unlove [/green]

Hmm ... is this cache really unloved? It is! How weird! There were plenty of biking muggles around and a rather bogan family with their not so impressed kid but hey - we liked stretching our legs in the sunshine.

Thanks and cheers
Philipp

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Looking, looking, looking, aha, there! GPS was little help to us here but sharp eyes got the job done. 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.
From my last find I stomped across a rough patch of spiky stuff to a track. At ground zero a spot matching the hint would have had the cache disappearing into the bowels of a tree. A loop around and back to where I started soon revealed the correct hiding spot. Great day, thanks Baluke and associates.

Zig zagged the mountain and found a great track back up to the top to this cache. After seeing so many mountain bikes down the mountain, we are surprised there are no mountain bike riders up this high today. Well hidden cache and in good condition. Thanks for the challenge baluke.

A training day for Oxfam with Bernie, Adriaan and a muggle mate. A nice day out, whilst Melbourne swealtered in 30+ degrees, I don't think it topped 20 up here on the mountain.

At GZ I crashed into the bush, thinking I had spotted the hide, but I hadn't. After three or four more unsuccessful attempts (whilst getting cheers of support from those not sticking their fingers into places that spiders like to hide) I finally had the cache in hand.

Thanks Baluke, nice one!

This entry was edited by day1976 on Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 12:05:37 UTC.

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.

Looked in many pockets and finally had the correct one.

Thanks for the cache baluke

Having been walking around this hill for a day and a half the hardest part of this cache was the walk too it.TFTC

Needs a man like Stan to get this one. Thanks BaLuke for a great series of caches.

On a family camp with some scouting geocache veterans. My first proper experience at geocaching with my very own GPS. Clever name for this cache! 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. Found after a bit of a search and with the help of the clue.

Thanks to baluke for the cache.

Found 2:25:00 PM, in the company of Muzza during our monthly caching day out.

TNLN, thanks baluke

*joint 2TF* with Atraversiamo and joined by scout friends and families. clambered into and out of many sneaky hideout possibilities until one of our newbies spotted this one . TFTC Baluke

FTF Trackable DIP

Found @11:31 #3068
As part of Team Snowshoe the mountain was conquered with all caches found by all. Great weather today for a trek around the slopes, bright blue skies with some cloud, perfect conditions and great company too. Total distance of 7.23km covered.

3rd cache found and a milestone cache too as this one completes the project 81 for me at long last. YAY!! Wow what a journey its been to complete this challenge and a great location and final cache to top it off. Awesome hiking thru the snow in search of plastic.
This was Team Oaky's 1000th find. cache Well done! Also impressive signature in the snow marking the occasion, Red cordial so many uses....

TFTC BaLuke and for taking the time to establish this series, a favorite[^]
Joint *FTF*

*FTF* on the WAB WAB snowshoe tour with the highlight of this cache being that it was Team Oaky's 1000th. We were greeted by a giant 1000 written in the snow (with red cordial) and for a brief time I wondered what was going on. A pretty good way to mark the milestone I reckon. TFTC.

Date: 10 August 2013
Time: 11:25am
Find # 3074
Streak: 10 Days
{FTF}

A plan of sorts was put into action for a group of us, Team Oaky, JosieY, SedgwickDave & fiancee Amanda and myself forming Team Snowshoe to Head to Baw Baw for a day of Snow Shoeing as well as hopefully finding some caches . The weather was absolutely beautiful, the sun was shining, there was no better place to be. We started from the top car park and headed into the whitish yonder.

This cache was a milestone cache for two of the group. Team Oaky's was #1000 find and SedgwickDave was the completion of Project 81, (all the Difficulty and Terrain Combinations). A nice memory with the sun out and Shining. Cache was found without trouble.

Thanks to BaLuke for the cache. TNLN

[white]{*FTF*}......[/white] @11:27 AM Cache # 1000

[green] Got it! Yeh 1000[/green]

Well four years ago a humble 20lt drum was found by the whole team buried behind a tree only 500m from home. Who would of thought that would be the start of some of the most extraordinary adventures?
This weekend saw me looking for a cache to finally mark number 1000. The first plan was to head towards Mount Bogong but as the snow started to fall this week finding any caches up there would be almost impossible. So I made my intentions known on the BWWC Facebook page (A small Group of likeminded cachers) that I was heading up here for some snowshoe geocaching this weekend. Certainly didn’t take much convincing to get a small posse together to tackle these new caches.
For no other particular reason apart from the name (and maybe the location) I thought this one made a good as any candidate for my milestone. As it turned out SedwigeDave had this one ear marked for completion of his P81 so it truly was a slam-dunk for the both of us

Baluke for placing caches in such an awesome location, a lot of fun was had collecting these caches today

[green]Merci beaucoup

Cheers

TeamOaky [/green]

This entry was edited by TeamOaky on Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 09:09:09 UTC.

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