Kowen Roo #89 - Rooey (Bomberman) Kowen Pine Forest, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By sacada on 09-May-15. Waypoint GC5V6JX

Really could do with a visit, a lot has happened here.

After dropping the missus and MIL at the shopping centre, Id given myself a few hours to take a bit of a look at this area for future reference. Conditions were abysmal, and made for a very unpleasant few hours in the bush and trails. Such a steep start to the walk, with the mud and loose stones, wasnt much fun at the start, but was glad when I finally reached the top.With so much vegetation and fallen trees and branches, I gave up after trying to pull some vegetation away without luck

Found with Jondub in great condition TFTC

Found with Curloo

Cache is still ok and getting found.

Great to be back out in Kowen Forest, its been well over a year since we were out here last. The goal today was the roo’s tail and back leg, and a couple of the waterside caches. I wasn’t always sure we would get through them all but despite the dense blackberries and landfall in some parts we did it! Most caches were in good condition but we provided a little maintenance when needed to say thanks for the cool geoart. All in all a great day of adventuring with isopeda and GLISS!

Teamed up with GLISS! and Nibblericecake to get some of the Roo and whatever crosses our path.
Sorry about the generic logs. Have added little things here and there.

TFTC

A day out in Kowen Forest with Nibletricecakes and Isopeda chiping away at The Roo. Today it was the tail and back leg. Caches were found in a mix of conditions and maintenance was done where needed - this is a great geoart and we want to keep it going. TFTC.

Gzhn

Log was wet so couldn't really sign properly. Tfth

This was a cool spot for sure! Quick find but the log was soaked.

A cool autumn weekday morning was the perfect chance to start my assault on the roo. I parked at the main carpark off Sutton Rd, waited for a logging truck to go through the gate then completed a 17km round trip in a roughly clockwise direction targeting the tail section.

A fantastic walk through the forest; most caches were found in surprisingly good condition. I'll be back for the next bunch of caches soon!

This cache was a straightforward find at GZ. The log is damp and mouldy, however was able to be signed.

Thanks, sacada!

TFTC Today’s the day for my first attempt at the roo series, out on the MTB, partly walk partly ride. And oh these hills, short and sharp again and again

Grateful thanks to sacada for placing and maintaining the caches to entertain me on my journey.

Wow, what a day! I set out to see how much of the roo that I could find in a day. It was interesting to visit areas in different phases of growth. The head was a hilly challenge. Based upon previous logs, I decided to do the head first so that I would be fresh and I am really glad that I did. The clearcut areas were frustrating because everything looked like a hiding spot. Lots of rocks and lots of stumps. Unfortunately, I was unable to get the legs done. I shall return.

Thanks to sacada for the geoart and thanks to Joolay for setting up access to the forest.

TFTH

Film container seems to all be wet.
Another organized approach on the Roo in Kowen forest (thanks Joolay!) I started at sunrise to have a few hour before the event in the late morning. I roomed around for about 4 hours and manged to complete most of the trail which felt like a nice achievement. A few more TE caches in the mix made for a great morning. Came a bit late to the event (plus left soon after for some FTFs but still made it. Big caching day for me.

Thank you sacada for putting the cache out and maintaining it.

I joined Smitten Granny for the day, starting with the event at Kambah, then a multi to meet my daily challenge and the rest of the afternoon caching around Kowen forest.

Thanks for the cache sacada

29850.30 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Alexandra Event 2017 A#367

**Albida**

On an absolutely gorgeous sunny winter's day, I was fortunate enough to be out caching in Kowen Forest with Albida. We had these challenge caches in our sights and any of the nearby Kowen Roo caches that we may pass. We found and signed all that we went for and all were in good condition. Thanks to all the COs for the incredible amount of work that goes into placing and maintaining the caches. TNLN SL

Tftc

Perfect picnic spot! TFTC!

After not doing much caching lately, plans were made with FFLL to seek a permit into the Kowen Forest for the October long weekend. We were granted day access for the Saturday and Sunday, but due to another group seeking exclusive use, camping was not permitted. Thats all good, we were not intending on camping anyways

Today I came out solo with the intentions of scoping out the roads situation and grabbing as many caches that FFLL has already found on her previous trip out here quite sometime ago. I was very happy to have found all of them by the end of the day. I contacted the CO prior to coming out and brought along some spare caches to see if the regrowth was underway at the logged sites. And yes, there is new trees growing in all the logged sites that I visited. So I placed new caches at 84,85&86 (all located within stumps at the GZ coordinates based on a Garmin GPSr), the CO has since enabled these caches. Number 80 was also replaced as the original "pulley" was gone, however there was part of the "pulley" still in the dirt. A new sistema has been placed beside the item.

Thanks for the fun out here today sacada and apologies for the generic logs will be back out tomorrow for some more with FFLL

As much as I love geoart, I didn't think we would have the time to get to do this great picture. Fortunately, Earthbound Chief, papi4506 and OzHockeyChick were up for the challenge to see how many we could find today. Although we didn't get the chance to look for them all, we found most of what we looked for. Mrs Earthbound Chief made a spectacular find of one particular cache that had been well and truly "logged". A couple of dnf's doesn't seem too bad when you see the extent of logging. Thank you for placing and maintaining this series. We do hope to get back and finish sometime in the not too distant future.

We were given the opportunity to try and find some of this stunning geoart so couldn't pass it up. Earthbound Chief, Geoturtle37, OzHockeyChick and I set off to find as many as we could. Unfortunately, we didn't manage to find them all, although we found most of what we looked for. We did have a couple of dnf's and the logging certainly made a couple extremely hard to locate but Mrs Chief certainly found a needle in a haystack at one location. We will not have the time to get back and finish the series this trip but hope to do so sometime in the future. We had a great day with wonderful company and many laughs. Thanks for placing and maintaining this series.

Attempted the Kowan Roo geoart in the company of OzHockeyChick, Papi4506 and Geoturtle37. A crazy day out with fun people that we enjoy spending time with. A variety of landscapes to enjoy on a perfect weather day. Thanks for providing the reason for the adventure, sacada.

#7186
A fun day out with Papi4506, Geoturtle37 and Earthbound Chief, making a start on this interesting geoart. A couple of dnfs, a couple of needles in haystacks found, and one particularly fun extraction. Thanks for an adventurous day.
Cheers sacada

For some time, as with many around these parts, I’ve wanted to tackle the Kowen Roo. With the Summer heat over and the Winter chill yet to arrive I thought it most opportune to start this most monumental of tasks. Having researched the job ahead, taken into consideration the lay of the land, most advantageous entry and exit points, I thought bugger it, I want to start at #1. No delusions of grandeur today, the goal for the day was to complete the tail, as well as a few others caches located close by.

It was a relatively early start to the adventure, I only had half a day before family commitments kicked in. Parked at the gate on Kowen Road and headed steadily up the sealed road. As it turned and continued climbing Westwards I kept my line and headed straight into the trees. Deciding it best I skirted along the ridge at level around, and around, rather than heading down, up, down up. The growth not too thick or heavy under foot so it was a constant pace all the way to the dry creek bed directly below the first target of the day (#01). Turned and headed straight up to the track above, eventually on clear ground it was a quick find, the coordinates (to all roo mystery caches) calculated over 18 months ago.

From the there it was either along the trail, through the bush, up or down for the rest of the morning. Never found any gold, or encountered the dreaded blackberry growth. Black Cockatoos in full song as the sun started to rise above the tree line. As the temperature warmed to a comfortable level I continued along the back of the tail before cutting Westwards for the inner side. Here I came across a large recently harvested pine tree area. What a mess, but I guess you gotta be hard on these trees, they were trees and this was a forest after all. End result caches #84, #85 and #86 gone forever. Didn’t venture into the campground, but I understand a bit of work had also been undertaken close to that as well. Hopefully the CO can attend to these soon, if that is actually possible.

Slowly back along the inner side of tail, eventually ending up ay #94. From there as directly back to the geomobile as possible, then home to a hot shower and lunch, and a beer, and another beer.

Apologies for the generic logs, all caches were found in good to reasonable condition. Some a little damp inside or had a crack or two in the container. Any specific, important or remotely interesting details added at the end of the log.

Thanks to the COs, specifically sacada, for placing AND maintaining the caches, not an easy task in this neck of the woods. TNLNSL TFTC

I decided to have a go at the series and grabbed the dog and set off today about 830am and by the time we had got to the first one I thought this is going to be a long walk for both of us. Cheers

Found with cullum68 on a few days away caching thanks for the cache

Found with nissan 65 on our second trip up to complete this series. Much enjoyed the bike ride and bush bash to some of these caches. Thankyou for the cache

From November 5th to November 30th I studied English at ILSC. After these month I rent a car for traveling and driving to Melbourne because my return flight is from Melbourne. Today I came from Sydney to Canberra and began the Kangaroo Caches in the Kowen Roo Park. I had only time from 4pm to the evenning/night. Now I found 27 boxes. The start was heavy with strong ups and downs. But after the first boxes it goes easier. For some boxes I had search a Long time. The most boxes I found quickly. Some boxes were wet. The landscape is great and I saw a lot of Kangaroos.
Here I found the box quickly.
Thanks for the cache from Bonn, Germany
Milka71

First day of our roo hunting. We are so excited about this amazing GeoArt. It was a quite long day through the Kowen forest.
We found 41 caches (0 DNF), and walked about 21km. We made the tail and back leg of the roo.
We found most of them very quickly, though for some of them our GPS was jumping. But with the hint (stump, stump …!) it was somewhat easy to find it. Some of the caches need also a bit a maintenance (logbook wet, container broken).
We really liked walking through all these pine trees. The landscape between #65/#70 changed. The forest has been cleaned.
All along the weekend we saw roos (plenty plenty), spider webs, different type of birds, one black snake and a fox family with 2 babies! So cuuuute!
The next day will be the head and the front leg. We plan to finish it soon
Thanks Sacada for this series and this GeoArt.

TFTC - found with Darkmadviking and KingPin4 on our day of hiking today - beautiful day to do some of the Roo

Came out this way for a walk with Darkmadviking and Lighthouse princess and took out a chunk of the kangaroo's tail.

Signed the logs as KP4, DMV and LHP.

Thanks for the fun day Sacada!

Fifteenth cache of the day.

A lovely spring day and a total of 7 hours hiking around Kowen picking up the Kangaroo series geocaches. As well as testing our fitness, we were doing more testing on our kit that we're taking to Everest Base Camp in 5 weeks time!

Thanks sacada

Found with crunchers

Found with crunches

Found with the Crunchers team (see note on #02). More cockatoo watching here - such a noisy bird and so many of them. Some were carrying the pine cones in their beaks.

Found with Kittykatch, DarkSideDan,ALL7, Lindachris31, Sebass14 and Lola1983 (the crunchers team) ready to have a go at the Roo. Knew it was going to be tough but gees the start from Sutton Rd was a killer. Nearly finished me off before I got the first cache and lots was hurting by the end of the day. Some caches were in good condition and some were in great need of maintenance. Some were in areas that had been logged and we replaced what we could. We did the tail and the back leg today and will try and come back soon to do some more. Thanks for getting us out and about.

Group Name of Crunchers...Found with Kittykatch, DarkSideDan, Joolay, Lindachris31, Sebass14 and Lola1983 ready to have a go at the Roo. Beautiful warm weather today... Thanks

Found with Kittykatch, DarkSideDan, ALL7, Lindachris31, Sebass14, Joolay and Lola1983. We signed all caches with a team name "Krunchers" to save room in the logbooks

I Knew it was going to be tough and we did about 21kms today. Some caches were in good condition and some were in urgent need of maintenance. Some were in areas that had been logged so we replaced what was destroyed. We did the tail and the back leg today and will try and come back soon to do some more. Thanks for getting us out and about.

Only managed the tail section of the ‘roo’ today. Started at the end and went backwards. Lots of roo’s around! Only just made it back to the car before my phone ran out of batteries .
Thanks sacada

Left a replacement container with a new log.

Cache was full of water and so the log book was destroyed

Aquilus1 applied for a permit to drive in to the camping area both days of this weekend, to start on the roo, and she invited me to come with her if it was approved - which happened at the last minute ... I decided that Geocaching ... with someone crazy enough to invite ME to go with them - was a better plan for the weekend than my art quilt meeting Saturday or the Landcare working bee on Sunday ... so I was collected on Saturday morning (11/11/17 and off we went ... we parked at the campground and the 2 of us walked up the back, and around the head and front legs, and collected a couple of the last finds for the day as we drove out ... found 43 caches, in the 13 hours we were out there. Then on Sunday I was collected even earlier in the morning, then Aquilis1 drove down the other end of town and we collected CBRGrahams, who had not been able to join us on Saturday but was free Sunday, and we spent almost 9 hours out there finding more than 50 caches ... the plan was to do quite a few, and just have to come back for the tail or something later ... but the end result? - CBRGrahams has a nice long days walk to come out and do some other time, and Aquilus1 and I have done the whole roo! (Well - apart from the one missing cache, but we did also find about 3 extras that were in/around the 'roo
This was one of the Sunday finds ... with one more set of eyes than the day before
TFTC - Spotted the spot from half way down in

Day two of 'the roo' with CBR-Grahams along today and with Aykayem we set off much earlier than the previous day on a perfect caching day, mostly cloudy and only getting a bit hot through the middle of the day. A long but enjoyable day with good company and loved the varied scenery and lots of wildlife in a really nice area. Some challenging terrain at times but 54 caches found along the way today and pleased to have the whole series found in the two days. Thanks for the cache sacada, a great series and well worth the work to complete.

Nice easy walk down through the clearings where the cache was found ok but was soaked. Still managed to write though.

45yh

Nice sunny day with runner5ive.

Too wet to sign.

Log book too wet to sign

Apologies for a generic log (except where something odd was encountered!)
Again, stunning series, most appreciated.

Tftc!

Snug as a bug in a rug. Log is soaked. With dty73 hunting caches in the forest. Not sure if the water in the cache is from condensation but we have found several caches where the log is soaked. Love the series. Kutgw

Out with Youban on a mild day to see how far we could come on the Roo (not far). It was a long way in from the parking to this cache, but it got a little easier once we started.

Another wet log which made it a little hard to write on, but we still did. Tftc!!!

Time to come back and pick up a few more of these caches. Parked below the entrance gate on Kowan Rd and headed out on the pushbike. There were some critical decisions to make along the way, such as which fork in the path to take on the bike to minimize the amount of bush bashing. Failed on several choices and ended up pushing the bike through the trees a few times. At least the exercise was worth it. Had to give up around midday due to the national car rally having blocked off most of the eastern trails. Several wet logs, all in non-sistema containers. TFTC

Found. A little damp.

Another fantastic weekend away with The Rats and Steeba.

We had been trying for some time to get the timing right to head back to the ACT to knock over the Kowen 'Roo series. On our previous attempt, the Forest was closed. We thought the same would happen this weekend, when we realised that we were clashing with the Mont 24, so we came up with Plan B.

However, Steeba came through with the goods, access was granted, and even a Permit to drive and camp in the Forest was obtained... Excellent! So our plans changed at the very last minute, and we were back on for The 'Roo.

We found about 150 caches over the weekend, the three of us, along with Juno my geo-puppy. We walked, cached, talked and generally had an excellent time, as we always do on our caching trips away. We especially walked through some beautiful scrub in Goulburn and Kowen.

Thank you to all of the cache owners that placed caches that we found over the course of our trip. Sorry about the generic logging, I promise it does not reflect my enjoyment of your cache!

Cheers

When a weekend caching with the boys comes along you grab it by the horns, with kids weekend sport washed out steeba, Hoojar and myself headed south with a goal of completing the Kangaroo power trail in Kowen Forest.

Over 2 days we found 150+ caches, walked through 679 spiderwebs, saw 310 kangaroos, were surprised by 8 deer, patted 1 echidna and stepped over countless fallen, all in the name of fun.

Thanks to all the cache owners who contributed to our weekend and apologises for the generic log, but certainly doesn't detract from the hide or the fun we had.

Another great weekend away with Hoojar and The Rats. This time it was down to tackle the kangaroo- last time we had attempted it the forest was closed.

We had an enjoyable time walking around the forest over the weekend with the varied landscapes. Thanks for setting this series up.

Below the water table! Soaked moves 30cm to a higher position, will need maintenance.

Part 3 of the Kowen Roo adventure. Started off with a team of 4, almost a year ago, and today it was just mtrax, his geodog Casey, and I left to tackle the last third on our own. Cold start, but with that evil, beginning hill, we had warmed up pretty quickly. Found all the caches easily. It seemed they were easier to find this time or maybe we just knew where to head at each GZ. Those magnificent, yellow tailed, black cockatoos gave us quite a show throughout our long walk (approx 27kms). We stopped for a hot lunch a little more than half way through finding the 37 caches, which gave us the needed energy to keep going through this rough terrain. We actively sought out fire trails to walk on as much as possible, before the compass arrow told us to head into the bush. Accidentally took a couple wrong turns as we headed back to the cars as those trails are very deceiving and not all of them are mapped. Toward the end, the pace slowed considerably due to the distance and terrain and we eventually arrived back at the cars 8 hours after we began. Another awesome day out there and it feels SO good to finally have finished this challenge. Massive thanks to sacada for this series!

9:18:00 AM: (4 of 37) Find#10431

Third and final run at the roo series , another cool start to the day around -1C but it did warm up enough to peel off my coat, so wasn't a bad day to walk around .
Along with MCKTCJ and geodog.
Walked about 36,000 steps which apparently was about 27kms today, found all caches no problems had a couple of issues with blackberry's , but the highlight of the day was the Black cockatoos roosting and feeding in the trees above.



thanks sacada

Easier to find then I thought it'd be, tftc

Rooey

At the suggestion of Seemyshell, the group of 4 keen geocachers (Seemyshell, Aries44, Brewmaker and Pipes_down_under) headed down from Sydney for a geo-camping weekend to attack The Kowen Roo Series. Planning was undertaken for the routes to take was to allow us the maximum time to complete the series.
Initially were intended to do the complete series on Mountain Bikes for the Tail on day 1, Body on day 2 and Legs on day 3.
Not really knowing the terrain, day 1 was a good day of caching and slowly worked through the route but by day 2, the riding, walking, riding was taking its toll and it became evident at this rate, we would not finish the trail in the 3 days we had organised. Back to the campsite on Day 2 for lunch and reassess our commitment. The commitment was still there by us all but the means of attacking them was the trouble. Looking at the routes again we thought it may be achievable to complete with the assistance of a 4WD. Boy! was that ever needed as we found out the tracks on the way were indeed very difficult on bikes and was blessed by the capability of the vehicle.
Even with the 4WD it was doubtful we would complete it in our allotted time due to some of the caches taking longer to find. However, by upping our speed we managed to complete the series an hour earlier than our 'up-stumps' time.
Thanks Geo-buddies for a great 3 days.

But! KUDOS (praise and honour) must go to sacada for such an awesome geocaching trail. Unbelievable the time and effort in laying the caches and the informative and fun detail into each of the cache descriptions. It is a fantastic trail to do.

### TFTC ###

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Four Geobuddies (Aries 44, Pipes_Down_Under, Seemyshell & Brewmaker) headed to Kowen State Forest from Sydney to attempt the Kowen Roo series. Over three days we found all but two in the series, plus a few others for a total of 96 smileys.

We started off on pushbikes, but quickly discovered we wouldn't get through them all that way as the terrain is pretty tough at times, so we used the 4WD to get around the forest.

Thanks sacada for the effort and time that went into planning and placing the caches. Despite sore limbs, some sunburn and multiple blackberry scratches, it was worth the trip south to the ACT. We had a great time in this wonderful place and working through a great series. And we saw plenty of roos and black cockatoos over the 3 days. TFTC. #534.

Down from Sydney to attempt the Kowan Roo caches with geobuddies (Seemyshell, Pipes_Down_Under and Brewmaker) over a three day camp-out at the homestead. Managed to locate all except two elusive caches in the series, plus a couple of extras.

By midday, day 2 we realised it would be impossible to complete the series in the time available and some of the roads were very steep and required walking the mountain bikes. So we took to one of the 4WD's and just managed to complete the series on the afternoon of day 3. One of our number (Pipes_Down_Under) spent sometime prior to the trip, planning out the most efficient way around the series. I certainly recommend doing this prior to taking on the series.

A hard series but fun with some great views along the way and we all appreciate the work the CO has put into this series. I am going to give a favourite here for the whole Kowan Roo Series. TFTC(s) sacada.

PS Sorry about the "cut_and_paste" for my logs. I type slowly

TFTC Kellie out with MGROCKS for the day.

Today was the day to start on the roo, with Kel Mar and the best temprature to suit this terrain TFTC sacada

- 10108. Today was my second visit to the Kowen Roo series. Grabbed another 30 during a long, hot walk through the region.

Parked at the locked gate and walked up a few roads and trails to get to my starting point of #94. Having already done the top of the tail and back (#1 to #17), I wanted to complete the bottom of the tail and complete the hind leg today.

Pleasant enough walk up the hill and along the various trails, and some bush bashing when appropriate. It got a bit warm later in the day but I managed 30 out of 30 walking 24Kms in under 8 hours - happy with that ! This one was another nice quick find. Signed, returned, and I was off to the next one.

Thanks again sacada ! A few more trips required yet to finish off this great series !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Tftc another soggy log
Love the silence out here

No problems TFTC

Found it, a bit water logged. Thanks for the cache

# 1930 Detailed log to follow

SL TNLN TFTC

Christmas = a free day and with the great weather, we decided to finally tackle Kowen Roo. We tried by bike - big mistake!! Although we do a fair bit of riding, we are definitely not mountain bikers and this was far too much for us to handle. There's a reason they are called pushbikes. Given the undulating terrain that never seemed to let up and the many caches that were off the path (that you warned us about in the description!) we got pretty tired quite quickly. I'm not sure how much time the bikes actually saved us in the end. Decided to just do a small section today and will be back some time on foot. Thanks sacada

Great cache exploring kowen forest

Really enjoying this series. Thanks Sacada!

Didn't think there were so many types of kangaroo but glad sacada has been able to put them all together in this awesome series. TFTC!

#944 Sacada, you have created a fine piece of geocaching engineering here, it is truly an unbelievable series of caches outlining that of a kanagroo. I don’t know how you worked it all out… But today I found roughly 61 of the 94 caches, with the green-martian. We bypassed 5 caches near the front leg of the kangaroo and the entire back leg, due to time restrictions. Total time was 11 hours 15 minutes covering 32.5kms on foot. I have never personally walked this far in any one given day ever before… not to mention the really steep uphills. Elevation ranged from 600 metres to 910 metres. We found cache numbers 1 to 47 and 81 to 94. (we could not find 25 and 26 due to logging at GZ). We missed 48 to 51, 53, 55 to 80. I saw the following during the day: pair of rubber gloves, pair of ladies shoes, a number plate, a chrome bumper, mudflap, dead fox, box cutter, some heavy logging machinery, 4 kangaroos, 6 tubs of blue paint and lots of black cockatoos. Kowen Forrest really does have millions of trees including a lot of fallen ones. We will be back to find the remaining caches…

Sacada, this series you created is a work of art. Normally when caches are placed in forests they are close to dirt rds thus easier to find, however as this series follows a massive kangaroo, it doesn't always follow set paths and this meant there was alot of bush bashing in between caches. The landscape in such a massive forest changed dramatically, with many steep inclines, ditches and obstacles like fallen trees. I wanted to complete the whole kangaroo in one day, but TheSkype was wiser and I realized that he was correct. By the time we got around to the kangaroos paws sunset was only 3 hrs away so we missed the paw and legs and just barely got back to car before the sun disappeared. That was 32.5km so with the legs and paw it would have been closer to 40km. That's tough in one day. We will complete the series in due time☺ anyway awesome series, Sacada you have surprised me how much effort you put into this. TFTC.

Happy to find this one with Dark Passion Play on our way back to the car. TFTC

TFTC

Another full day out on the bikes with 0sheath98 today! Infant we started at 7:30am and got back to the car at 4:30pm. Thats a huge 9 hours out in the sun on a beautiful 32 degree day! We were wrecked by the end of it. Three litres of water each, plus some ice cold coffee drinks pulled us through.

ALL caches were found today, most taking between 0 - 2 mins with a couple taking slightly longer. Lots of uphill and downhill, about 25km on bike and another 6-10km on foot.

Thanks again sacada for such an amazing series, we still have the leg to do but thats it! So we are nearing the finish, hopefully we will complete it soon

(Sorry for the generic logs, such a full day I can't remember the caches. Hope you understand)

Name sake

Only a few to go to the end. With upanddownbrown

Another find for TaurusSix and myself.

I discovered the Roo while prepare my visit to my dauhter and son in law and knew straight away I have to do it. We have contacted the owner prior doing the cache and have prepared ourselves well.
I already had some expectations as I have done many day hikes in Austria through the Alpes.
Soon we found a date together with my son in law which was as follows

Day 1
We reached the main parking area at around 8:30am and packed our bags for the day.
There was already a challenge to begin with when we had to cross great rocks and little gorges up and down. But then, we finally got the first cache.

We then followed the trail to the valley and later in and out of the forest straight through there. It sometimes took a bit of time to find each cache. We were able to find all caches except number 30 where we hiked back to our car.
We spotted many roos and were happy to see them in nature.
After the exhausting hike but many many breathtaking views and beautiful weather we returned back to the car at 6pm just in time before it got dark. Our goal for the day was accomplished.
it was the longest hike for my son in law to date.

Day 2

6:30am breakfast at mcDonalds.
After, we followed the Binglay Way and passed the north gate heading to cache 31.
here we started out todays hike.
We already had to walk up and down the pine forest. We had beautiful weather ll day long. We reached the roo's leg at the end of the day.
We saw many roo's and were happy about the great caches.
We reached the north gate at around 6pm and headed back to our car.

DAY 3

Today we started again at the main gate at number 94 backwards along the roo's tail.
And again we hiked in and out of the forest and have seen many kangaroos.
Soon we arrived at the leg where it was steeply going down hill.
We of course also planned to change the star into smileys so we left the roo at its leg and walked to the star.
Here there was quite a challenge waiting for us thinking we could easily cross the Molonglo river here..
There was no crossing or bridge a like so we started collecting big logs and branches to build our own bridge. Soon we got across and started the star.

On the way back we had to cross the river again and had to climb up the hill to get back to the last roo caches.
We saw many beautiful roos and were happy to see such beautiful landscape.
We were very happy to sign the last cache of the roo and to have that many smileys on the map.

Thank you Sacada for the nice geo art and the hard work it must have cost you placing those caches. They are all well looked after also.

Team sissifalke



We walked 81.8km in 3 days. Uhh that was quite a challenge.

Day 2 on the roo trail. This time the back end covering tail and back leg.

Again I saw no one all day but I guess most of it was off track so thats not all that surprising.

I came back through the gorge. This is definitely a highlight of the area and worth including in your roo wanderings.

tftc.

TFTC. Attempting one part of this series today.

Today was my third visit to this roo! This time with Strangetrousers and Boing737! We started at the western car park at about 8.30am. I was freezing cold -3°) – but ST came up with some handwarmers! Brilliant! (mcktcj provided some last time). Mind you, the day turned out much nicer than last time! This time the maximum on completion was 12° - last time it managed to get to 2°!

We tried to follow trails as much as possible, but sometimes crosspines was the best option! This time we only hit an impenetrable wall of blackberries once! A grand walk all up, and was surprised that we managed to find 36 of them today! – Bonus for me – I’m DONE – FINISHED the ROO! !!! No more climbing up (or down) that evil hill at the west gate!

Thanks for the company Strangetrousers and Boing737! Finished at about 4.30pm. I was a great day. Total of 23km walked and 36 caches found (for me). Thanks for the series sacada – fantastic! And thanks for the nice kangaroo art on my caches found map!

#1109 4 of 36 today.

Out with Tankengine & Boeing737 to take out the back leg of the Kowen roo and the rest of its tail. We spotted a fox darting down the road.

Thanks for the cache sacada

Knocked off a small portion of the Kowen Roo with StrangeTrousers and Tankengine. I know foxes are destructive but I confess to a fascination with them, so in that sense I was happy to see one!

TFTC Sacada

It was -3.5C this morning however the day promised to be a beauty with clear skies. My aim was to finish the roo series in Kowen and I achieved my goal except for No 92. A 26.3k hike around the forest. Finished at 4.30 pm. Lots of forestry work being done to-day. Sacada has obviously put a lot of work into this series and thanks for all that effort.

9013 and 34th of 37 found today.
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Thanks for the cache [Blue]sacada[/Blue] and the clash. [font=Verdana]

Today was the day to make a start on the big Roo. Space was booked in the hectic McPhan social calendar, and Mr Winglen had plotted a route to take in the western half of the caches. Sadly the forecast for this morning was fairly dismal - rain expected by 9.00am and 30km winds but we decided to head out anyway, and see how we went. As it turned out we saw only the lightest of sprinkling rain and we avoided much of the wind by sometimes cutting through the forest for some shelter. There was even a bit of sunshine at times, but temperatures remained low. Once we got into a routine, we found it easy to deviate from the fire trails and take some strategic shortcuts through the forest, finding it mostly pretty easy going. Lunchtime arrived and still the promised rain held off as we parked on a log and enjoyed some hot coffee. So a great day in good company (thanks McPhan), some interesting locations and all caches found in good order. Thanks Sacada for the effort in laying this series.

"Found with Jase90 on our epic weekend adventure in our Nation’s Capital. This expedition was partly inspired by the Geocaching Road Trip ’15 promotion and also because my goal was to reach 1,999 finds so my 2,000th milestone could be the final ever Geocaching Block Party in Seattle in September 2015. Jase90 and I left late on Friday night and, driving down, we made a few stops on the way down so he could find a few of my favourites along the way.

On Saturday morning, we targeted the HMAS power trail and managed to knock off all 90 from the series in less than 7 hours by foot, including Coppins Creek, Bernie's Boulders and Aerial Bold. Afterwards we headed back towards Canberra and we continued caching late into the night (in between breaks in the storms and bad weather). We managed to find the following before calling it quits around 11:00 PM: Gallifrey 2, Geocacher's Lost Lipstick!, Down and Dirty 3, Tourist Tips, Dominion of 2183, Foxy Place, Southwell Surprise, The Thirteenth Man, Sharkiefan's Challenge #3, Gungahleen Schoolhouse, One-Oh-Fore!, Hawkey's 2nd, Grate Expectations, Deep Extra Cover, Wally's Walk, Wally's Way, Harrison and Horsepark, Oblivion, Busy Bees, Heritage Site: ThereFore! A Cache., Liquidambar, Bug on, The Glassworks, and Can you hear the drums… err Bells Fernando.

On Sunday we decided to tackle the Roo geo-art power trail by foot and were able to complete 25 starting from the tail, as well as Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, Kowen Kamp and Reid's Ridge along the way. The terrain was much harder than we expected and the weather was freezing – we could see snow on top of the mountains in the near distance. We had to pick the coldest weekend in recent years to come down to Canberra didn’t we! In the evening we continued our hunt and found the following: The Edward Locomotive, Loch Be a Lady Tonight, carpark of shame, Close To Home, Heart & Soul of Parliament, Fore!midable Contribution, Granite Sphere & Questacon, Peace, Levitation? and Oz Rock - Cold Chisel: 'Cheap Wine'.

On an unplanned, extra day in the Australian Capital Territory, we felt our legs needed a rest and that they had done enough walking over the weekend, so we went for more park and grab type caches. We completed 20 of the JackaKid’s series, Little Miss Hayley, Big Sis Angela, Little Man Tristan, Guard Sei, Guard Quattro, Ingress to Forde, DNF #3, Tiptoe through the Tulips and OldFed 4. On the way home back to Sydney, we stopped found Collecta Cache, Cache-abet….Z and GWM 1914-1918.

Thanks to all of the Cache Owners for the hides and helping Jase90 and I have an amazing visit to Canberra."

Found at 2:38pm with JordsAU.

The Dynamic Duo (JordsAU and Jase90) were on an epic adventure to the Nation's Capital for the weekend. A massive road trip indeed. We had left for Canberra on Friday evening a little later than we anticipated and desired, but escaping the Big Smoke proved to be no problem as we worked our way to our destination.

Once we were on the M5 freeway it was all engines go, myself driving and JordsAU being my handy navigating co-pilot, not to mention the very skilful DJ and great company.

'Kowen Roo #89' was our 130th cache of the weekend and our 22nd for the day.

It's fair to say that we bit off more than we could chew with attempting this trail. For one, we didn't realise how mountainous the terrain was until we arrived and figured it out the hard way. We were a little sore from the 35km we had travelled by foot yesterday when we managed to achieve 100+ finds which we laboured all day for.

We woke up later than we would've liked this morning but it meant we could prepare properly by having a decent breakfast and to also pack our bags full of snacks for the journey which were much needed. The drive out to Kowen took about 20 minutes from point to point which wasn't too bad considering the distance between the forest and where we were staying.

The weather threatened to make our trek a lot more difficult, especially if the forecast during the week was anything to go off. We bit the bullet anyway and luckily for us we managed to avoid any major interruptions from the rain. There were a few showers throughout the day but fortunately they were very brief and also very light.

We only managed to get through 28 caches in the Roo-series including a handful of extra's along the way. We decided that at #13 in the series we would shoot across and finish the other side of the Roo's tail rather than continuing up the head and running out of daylight as a result. This turned out to be the perfect plan given that we were back at the car at about 4:30pm.

We struggled to have many long stints of running between caches today given the unpredictable terrain and the soreness from a full day of caching yesterday. We jogged and ran for a lot of the intervals in the HMAS series yesterday but today proved to be much harder.

Thanks for the cache sacada and for the well-constructed Kowen Roo series. We'll hopefully be back in the near future to obtain a whole kangaroo worth of smiley's

Today was our 5th and final visit to the Kowen Roo series. What an impressive piece of geo-art to have been put together by Sacada. One can only imagine the work that has gone into creating this, and we are happy to be able to put a smiley onto every one of the 'kangaroo dots'. Mission complete!
Today we were dropped off on Bingley Way in Wamboin, and it was just over a 3km run until we picked up our first cache for the day (#31).
Our mission today was to complete the head and underbelly (and top part of the legs) and finish at Sutton Road (alternate car park) where our car was waiting.
The first few caches of the day were our slowest-such extreme uphill and downhill. We left at 11.30am and finished around 5pm, just before the sun disappeared, and we were very happy to be back into the car by this time.
Throughout the day we did have a number of HTFs (Hard to Finds), but happy to report no DNFs.
It was Monday and so the route was quiet and we passed no-one.
Today's adventure showed about 25.5 kms on the run app (see attached photo)....a mammoth effort for us, and we were pushing the last few to get to the end before dark. We ran whenever we could, although the early part of the day was largely walking due to cross country up and downs.
An epic adventure, and a great sense of satisfaction to have completed this wonderful adventure.
Thanks Sacada,

Domsky

That's number 8 for us. TFTC

Found at 2:29:00 PM

I'm having trouble remembering all of these, so read my remarks for the series on cache #1.

#4943 @1255
ZQX & I parked at the alternate parking at 12.10 and spent 4 and a half hours wandering through the forest on a perfect, sunny and windless afternoon collecting Kowen Roo caches and a couple of others. We visited 25 altogether, of which four I'd found before. The focus was on collecting the puzzle caches in this series so that determined our route. As daylight was running out and the legs were getting tired we skipped #1 on our return. This was our second Roo find for the afternoon. TFTC.

Found with TikvaNZ. Once again, TikvaNZ beat me to the actual find. But I like to think that I eliminated a lot of the possibilities! Among the trees today, we both noticed how hard it was to get the GPSr to settle, and therefore how important the hint was. There were a few times when we radiated out from where our GPSrs appeared to settle, and ended up 30 metres from each other before one of us would yell out 'found it!'

Tks sacada.

TN LN SL.