Tinjella Trail Ace of Spades Kuitpo, South Australia, Australia
By weredunn4 on 02-Jun-20. Waypoint GC8T73V

Nice spot and perfect weather. Thanks for the cache

TFTC! Beautiful spot Another Tinjella Trail cache ticked off the list!Found @ 11:39amDay 19 of caching streak Find #445FP given

Got it

Another day, another walk in the forest with sir_spectre. Only a shortish stroll today, as he doesn't need big numbers Thanks

Found with Mogni. I have walked this trail from start to finish about 15 years ago. This time the trail was walked in sections because i was working on getting my finds up to 15 on calendar days. Depending on the day there is a large different in the amount of people/walkers/horse people on the trail. Alot more people than 15 years ago. Most of the co ords were good but a few were 9 meters out. The hints were spot on every time and were helpful. A nice stroll ( if steep in parts ) around the forest.

Alicia and Toby x TFTC

Tftc nice easy find with the kids.

What a great location. Will definitely be back for the rest of the series. TFTC.

Adventured a bit further south than I normally do. Doing this series as heard alot of good reports about this one. Just had to experience it for myself.Thanks Weredunn4 for placing and maintaining this series.TFTC SL

A nice, cool morning had us back walking in Kuitpo Forest to grab a few more caches while exercising.We have been enjoying this nice big series over a few days.Many thanks weredunn4

Four days ago we found about half the caches on the Tinjella Trail.We returned today hoping to find the remainder. In the time we had available, we found all 26 of the remaining caches from the series. As before, we found the coordinates to be of variable accuracy - in a number of instances we had to widen the search area, sometimes up to 10m. However the hints were very useful when attempting to locate the cache. Most of the logs were in reasonable condition, although a number were damp. Any significant variations from the above general comments are detailed below.

Specific comments relating to this cache only: nil

Thanks weredunn4 for the series of caches.

Quick find on this wet day. Lucky I'm wearing my hiking boots. I'm crossing rivers lol TFTC

The adventures of Sparkie and Goldy are continuing this morning. We are targeting tree caches while I have a pole.

I spent a while looking around the wrong area and then Sparkie found it.

All is well here. Cool series.

Thanks weredunn4 for this cache, which brings Goldy's total find count to 3130 on the 15th of May 2023.


CITO's are a brilliant way to help keep our community area's clean. The Earth is our playing field and we need to protect it!

Always be sure to cache the "leave no trace" way!


**South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!**

Thanks for the cache, with Goldy!

Found at 12:39 pm. Just Uni and Luna grabbing a few caches.

Quick find on a drizzly day tftc

Last day of holidays second fine.TFTC

My last find in this section of the forest before I moved on. I wandered up the track and soon reached the posted GZ. I tentatively walked around a few of the logs here before spotting something that was hiding the cache. TFTC weredunn4

No luck here. GPS had us going in circles. Focused around the biggest log.
TFTChallenge! With Clive Spaples

Found on a bash around Kuitpo forest on the MTB. Completed all of the Tinjella Trail bar 5 due to a short section of trail being closed due to active logging. An enjoyable ride around the forest in some great cool weather. Thanks for putting this trail together and for ongoing maintenance, cheers.

Find #4801 on 28 Dec 2022.
TFTC weredunn4!

Another nice find in a beautiful location. ACE-d this one…
The paper was a bit wet. We tried to dry it out a little before moving on.
TFTC.

TFTC

Parked up and made the nice walk into to find this one, a short search and the cache was easily found

Today I headed down to McLaren Vale to Strathalbyn via Kuitpo Forest finding the caches in the area consisting of walks and drive bys, total of 45 finds for the days

Thanks for the cache

Cheers!

Today is Sunday, weather is fine. I and J plus the little one visited Kuitpo Forest. We tried some caches on the way, and found 8 of them, including 7 traditional caches and 1 mystery cache.
This cache was our second find for today. We tried three caches of this "Tinjella Trail" series, and found all three.
With the help of the hint, we located the cache, and signed the log sheet.
Thanks for the "Tinjella Trail" cache series, weredunn4. We will try more caches in this series, when we visit this area next time.

This was the start of my hike on a quite cool day. Little tricky to find thd spot when in the trees. TFTC Weredunn4.

Find but no pencil. Tftc

Nice easy one! Tftc!

Checked a few logs and found it in the end. TFTC

TFTC

Lots of fallen logs to look under and the hint is subjective to which way u are facing as you enter the trail. Plus we had gps bounce sending us all over the place. Sadly this one is a dnf today.

Looked on both sides of the trail, gps was everywhere and nowhere. Looked at a few fallen logs, looked in the only spots they could be but no luck.

TFTC

I came down to Kuitpo today for a drive and to find a few of those caches that I just haven't gotten around to finding. [^]

I have found a few of this series on a previous visit down here and was always going to do them in stages and today I planned on doing a few more. The weather wasn't too good and there was light drizzly rain, but that didn't stop me, just meant I didn't get as many as I had planned. I came to this one after the King of Spades before turning around and starting the hearts.

Even though it was wet it was beautiful in the forest and I enjoyed my walk and ended up finding another 5 of the series. All were found reasonably quickly thanks to the hints.

Thanks for the cache weredunn4.

Looking for a long walk on this cooler summer day and decided this series is just the ticket to get my heart pumping a bit. TFTC weredunn4

GPS was all over the place. We'll be back

Today KTPops and I targeted this series on the Tinjella Trail. I have been wanting to do this for a long while and having the opportunity to do this with KTPops was ideal. We started on the trail at around 11.30am and managed to complete them all on foot by about 5.15pm. There were more ups and downs than I expected, especially when comparing it to the forest across Brookman Road.

We had a sensational day, barely seeing anyone during our travels. The caches were generally in good condition. All caches were signed by both of us, and returned and covered to shelter them from the sun. Thank you Weredunn4 for all the work on this series, and the ongoing maintenance.

Found under the big log of course. Log sheet moist.

OZGrumpy and I had a lovely day walking through Kuitpo today collecting these caches. Tired legs, sore feet, but a sense of accomplishment. Thanks weredunn4

Nice hiding again, one more to go today

I’ve had a short break from geocaching so this morning I planned a nice long bush walk to break the drought. The sun was shining and the temperature was cool so perfect geocaching weather.

I set off on foot at about 11am and returned back to the car 4.25 hours later. It was a thoroughly enjoyable walk along the trails despite some pretty deep mud around the 4 of Diamonds due to tree logging activity.

All caches found except one. All caches were in good condition except one or two which I have raised seperate logs.

A great geocaching trail so I’ve dropped a few random favourite points along the trail.

Thanks for the cache weredunn4.
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TFTC

Today was cool and sunny, perfect for a walk in Kuitpo with the pines, mushrooms, kangaroos and black cockatoos. I’m enjoying this series, so rationing them out over a number of visits. Last one for today! Thanks for this great series Weredunn4.

Maintenance run with the puppies today along the Tinjella Trail.
This cache was ok and hidden as per the hint.

Despite or perhaps because of a quick look, dud not find.

Left it barely visible

On my very irregular (which I am trying to make regular!) jog in the forest.
Found after a bit of searching (How did I miss that!) Found interesting piece of 'nature' (see photo). TFTC. Great to see this series well maintained.

This afternoon I went out for a walk in the forest with jafaz62 & her doggo, Chewie...
This one was missing on our last trip here but found the Ace today...
We also came across a growth of interesting fungi...
TFTC weredunn4

Found during a tour around the Tinjella Trail in Kuitpo on a warm but pleasant day for walking, completing the circuit in 4 1/2 hours. A Favourite Point placed on each of the Aces. Thanks for the cache and series weredunn4!

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Were Dunn 4 [^]

Did almost all of them except the ones where it said no entry

Easy one thanks

TFTC weredunn4

Thanks for this Traditional Cache

Cache on!

Found on January 18, 2021 at 1:29 PM
Find 1238

TallbikeStan and I road our mountain Bikes around this series in a clockwise direction. The first find was the 10 of Hearts and the last was the Jack of Hearts. All up the series took us 4.5 hours. I had to get of my bike a few times and walk up some of the hills. All the caches were found but some of the logs were a bit damp and mouldy. A good adventure Thanks for the series weredunn4

Out mountain bike riding

Perfect day for a bike ride at kuitpo with Wal & Ol. Took us about 7 hrs with much chatting and snacking as we went around clockwise. Fave for series,TFTC

Riding the trail with Pony1966.

Last one for the day, great series, fave on behalf of the series.

TFTC

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The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find including two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Spent the day walking back and forth along the Tinjella trail looking for geocaches. Ended up walking 17 km or 23000 steps. So far found about half the caches along the track. Thanks weredunn4.

Waiting for our Scouts to make it to the lunch point whilst cycling the Kidman Trail I had the chance to make a few finds. This was the third of the day. TFTC Cache located easily

I had a day off so I grabbed the geomutt and headed off to see how many we could find in this series. I found most of them thanks to some great hints. I had a great walk and the weather was perfect for my 5 hour hike. Thanks so much for making the effort to put out such a great series of caches.

Visited GZ today and confirmed that the cache was missing.
(Was it a muggle, or some sleight of hand???
Anyway, the cache has been replaced with some natural camo in front of it to hide it.

Noted the recent DNF's on this one - I will be visiting it in the next week and will do a replacement if it is missing

Its magic! The card has disappeared

Out and about on the end of this trail today with Trigger_Fish...
No luck finding the cache...though there is evidence of where it might have been...

Out with NormanvilleSA & Geosparkie0 to visit the Kuitpo Forest on a beautiful day. Didn't turn up the Ace of Spades. Noticed Freddo had a DNF and if he couldn't find it it must be MIA!!!!

No luck today

Epic fail you pwned us n00bs... You are only as good as your next find.

Looks like the Ace of Spades is still on the loose.

Today, the objective was to group assault the new *Tinjella Trail* deck of cards power trail with Brad&Janet, Freddo, and gridge98 via mountain bikes. Well, two of our group were fortunate to have e-bikes. The Tinjella Trail took us just over three hours to complete, and then we re-fuelled ourselves at Meadow Bakery. I continued to geocache around the area targeting some oldie caches, a few prior DNFs, and mountain biking the *Are you kidding me?* series. I soon became tired and the sun was setting, so called it a day. A really nice winter day to be riding around.

We ended up parking near the Tinjella Trail's Ace of Spades, and made our way around anti-clockwise. I didn't realise Brad&Janet would be joining us, since he had already found this trail and ridden this loop twice before, and so we enjoyed his background narrative at how he had manipulated the CO's Strava file to review possible hide locations prior to official publication. We got off to a slow start, and soon learned that the coordinates were a guide, and the hints were the key to locate the cache quickly. Most of the coordinates were probably pretty accurate, but the various tree cover had them bouncing around the place, and if our search was taking too long, it was easy to go back to the GPS only to be taken in all sorts of directions. It was handy having a previous finder with us who could point to us where the cache was, and interesting to see how cache creep and other Geocachers had added to their hide locations (more rocks to SPORs, etc.). I also learned about a new acronym/definition: SPOBs, or suspicious piles of bark. There was some high up/down terrain, and gridge98 and I were disadvantaged at not having a motor to help climb those hills. There was one river crossing where the rains had collected the water, but otherwise from the heavens above, it was reasonably dry. It was a nice forest to ride, and the best-enjoyed power trails are via bike, in my opinion. Unfortunately, we left with one DNF, so we are hoping the CO has a few spare decks of card to manage future replacements.

Our bad luck began when we visited this location first. I walked over to the object as per the hint, but no cache found. It looks like someone previously had already done some previous digging (yet no prior DNFs logged?). Brad&Janet then called me an amateur, and walked over to where he had found it. Except, he couldn't find it either. Is that fate/karma? We then decided to return back to the Ace of Spades at the end of the loop, but again, we couldn't find this cache. We searched all around thinking there may have been some cache creep, and it seems strange that one of these could just go missing. After making a thorough search at GZ, and even making a PAF to the CO, we declared that this cache must be missing. Thanks anyway weredunn4 for the cache placement. Will watch and see to see if it turns up.

No luck here today

Stopped by to do a few of this trail.
All found easily, a nice place for a walk.
TNLNSL
Thanks

I came back to finish off the series. It was freezing in the morning.

All are in good condition. The hints were helpful.

Thanks for the walk.

P.S. I don’t have to walk back to my car.

Thanks weredunn4 for the cache

A great walk with the CO's and wander around, backward and forward through the trees and paths over the course of a day. We managed to dodge the showers (well mostly!) Such a lovely place.

Thanks to weredunn4 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! beta log. [^]

Last one of the series found.

Ttom 3 visits but this was the only time i wasn't soaked when i finished.

Tftc

I came back today to finish off the series. Today was the only time I haven't been soaked when I finished.

TFTC

Tftc

In the area for a few days with Csaba!, SupaOrange and GeoMum. Went for a bike ride on the trail with many ups and downs. My Batman bike just made it. Turtle Out

SupaOrange likes the forest. Such a cool place to ride. Great caching. Tra La Laaa

Have been sitting on this series for a while. I knew I would be in the area so for the next few days I will hit the trail with SupaOrange and SupaTurtle. Great place to bring the family. Thanks

Took a while to find but got it

Today Rex and I had nothing on so we decided to head back to Kuitpo to finish off the playing cards series.
It was a glorious day and we had a lovely walk. Rex was a bit puffed and asked to be carried a few times and we had a nice rest at the end of our trail, lying in the sunshine.
The trail was a bit busier day compared to last week as it was such a lovely afternoon.
This side of the trail was much quicker with the caches closer together and we were done and back to the car in good time. 12.5kms walked.
Again accurate coords and hints made for quick finds.
TFTC weredunn4

Out ticking off a few more of these today. Loving this series. great little spot. Cache and contents are all good. TFTC.

Out with Debandy on the coldest morning in 17 years to have a crack at the latest Kypo power trail. A fantastic hike through the forest, the tree cover made the GPS a bit sketchy but the clues got us there in the end.
Thanks weredunn4 for all your work!

Headed south today to Kuitpo Forest after the new Tinjella Trail. Saw -1 on the car thermometer in the hills but it was up to a brisk 4 when I started walking just after 9:30.
Saw quite a bit of wildlife, mainly birds, but only 4 muggles and 2 dogs on the loop. Found all 52 with most being quick finds thanks to the hints, but 2 or 3 needed a bit of circle work.
An enjoyable walk but was glad to be back at the car just before 2:45.
Thanks weredunn4 for this cache and a great series, will be scattering some favourite points.

Tftc

TFTC

Found while on a good hike with cows with guns

I'd invited myself to share a day caching with clare007 and CPwanderer around the Tinjella Track in Kuitpo Forest to get the new cards series there
Rex came too, of course, and so did the cheap ebike that I had bought last night
So cheap, that while my muggle son[:X] and I had tea at my muggle daughter's[:X] place and I played with my grandkids, my son-in-law[:X] took the tube from my grandson's BMX and placed it onto my ebike's rear wheel so that I could ride the ebike[:X][^]
We were joined by Pikapene and Spence-_-Man and those two men[:X] made my hard day a whole lot easier by pushing my heavy ebike up the steepest of the hills when my dodgy knees just could not pedal fast enough to keep the power on[xx(]
They also shared Rex' lead[:X] so that I could concentrate on pedalling and steering[^] as well as stopping[^] with not quite right brakes[xx(]
Lots of laughter, lots of tales told of caching adventures and all 52 cards were found as we traversed the trail from go to whoa[^][|)][xx(][|)][xx(] A rough Google Earth mapping of the GPSr track log said about 14km[|)][xx(]... give or take 1 or 2km for the off track detours etc
Best part was: I only fell off once and a very nice, fit young man helped pick the bike and I up[^]

After leaving the others at Kuitpo, Rex and I found another 3 caches for the day's total of 55 finds as we made our way to muggle partner's mother's house for tea, tired but exhilarated![^] There was 1 DNF in Kuitpo which everyone else had found apart from me and although Pikapene helped me look[^], we had to rush to catch up to the others so it was only a short look

TNLN. SL. TFTC weredunn4

Wow!!! What a day!!! Completed all 52 caches with clare007, Pikapene, Spence-Man and locus cache!!! .............................. with Bindi and Rex the geo pooches in the lead!! Took us just over 7 hours ....................... in most cases we relied heavily on the hints as the tree cover wasnt helping gps accuracy and thankfully we got them all. A couple took way longer than they should have. Being a long weekend the forest was very busy!! Thanks weredunn4 for a memorable series!!

Out with CPwanderer, Locus cache & Pikapene starting at the nearby car park.
By the time we reached the last two caches, we had been walking for almost 7 hours!
Not wanting to leave these two out by themselves, we pressed on.
This track was relatively quiet and two quick finds later we were back at the car.
Thanks for the series weredunn4, a lovely spot to walk

And this marked the end of an enjoyable day out caching the trail with CPWanderer, locus cache, Claire007 and Spence Man. Thanks weredun4!

Had a phone call from Brad&Janet earlier in the week to see if I was up for a challenge to find 52 unpublished caches in the Kuitpo Forest. Sounded like a fun challenge and it was decided that an early start Saturday morning was in order.

Well our challenge was somewhat thwarted with the 52 caches being published at 0400 Saturday morning so it now had become a FTF run to see how many we could get before the forest was besieged by FTF Hounds.

So with me and my $100 bike and Bill with his somewhat more expensive eBike arriving at 0730, we set off on our anti-clockwise journey.

Even though we were not going to do our original challenge, we had some other challenges to contend with.

One - it was bloody cold and even though there was no wind the temperature remained mostly in single figures.

Two - my chain on the $100 bike decided it was not up to the challenge and promptly broke at 3km, 4km and 5km. We repaired it two times (handy to have a doctor with the right tools), but in the end it became a 5km ride and 11km walk for me.

The outcome in the end was 52 *FTF* with coffee at the end at Tinjella Hut where my brother and sister were camped for the weekend (was unaware they were there when we started off).

Oh and there will be a T5 cache coming out soon somewhere in the area too

Thanks for placing the caches

Published

There is something to be said for waking up at 4:30am with your electric Mountain Bike already on the back of the car

A week or so ago the CO went for a walk along the Tinjella Trail. He mentioned on social media that he had done so. And hinted that he had hidden some geocaches while on his walk.

Brad likes a challenge so last Tuesday afternoon he drove to the trail with his bike. The plan was to ride a circuit of the track and to see if he could find any geocaches. FB4P = Find BeFore Publication.

A bit challenging as the caches had not been published so he had no hints and no coordinates. Just a circuit and some educated guesswork.

And it was raining.

Brad did find some. The first he found was the 5 Hearts and then the 9 Hearts was next. After a few more it became clear there were likely to be 52 in total (or up to 54 with jokers.)

6 hours later it was dark, Brad was cold and tired, he had ridden 16km, walked 10,000 steps and he had found 28 caches. Time to go home.

Once he had recovered he looked at the patterns of the caches he had found and tried to work out where the other 24 might be.

He came up with 24 sets of possible coordinates. Brad felt two sets of eyes would be good. He contacted firesafe who has recently purchased a bike and it was agreed an attempt would be made this morning to find as many of the rest as possible meeting at 7am.

And then at 4am the caches were published!
So the attempts at FB4P turned into attempts at FTFs.

As it turns out Brad’s guessimates were pretty good.

No rain today but it was very cold. Very.

This was the first “found before” cache. It was the last one found on the first trip but the second on this one. Although it was getting cold and dark the first trip and less time had been spent searching, it was the end and it was found in the first place checked. This was refound, the log stamped and it was on to the 2H.

Along the way today all 52 caches were found and stamped/signed including the 28 Brad had previously located, although for a few of those firesafe was still quicker at locating the prize.
No other names in any logbooks except the beta tester. So that is a new record for B&J of 52 *FTF*s in one day. Woohoo.

This is a brilliant trail with amazing mushrooms, wide tracks and great ambience. Loved it.

Thanks very much WereDunn4. FP for the first cache in the series and another for each of the Aces which were the only 4 of the same value that were located on the first “before publishing” attempt.

FP

In summary
Early start with firesafe.
3 broken bike chains.
16 km walked/ridden. (twice)
336 metres of up. (twice)
10,000 steps then 5,000 steps.
5,000,000 mushrooms.
28 FB4P which morphed into
52 *FTF*s

Start of the deck