5. High Road to Canberra Collector, New South Wales, Australia
By
Sol de Lune on 18-May-17. Waypoint GA10244
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Large |
| Coordinates: | S34° 56.833' E149° 22.570' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 716989E 6130232N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 836 m |
| Local Government Area: | Yass Valley |
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Description
The High Road to Canberra.
This road runs from Collector to Gundaroo...high above the usual route of the Federal Highway that runs from Collector to Canberra, and offers some great views over Lake George. Total distance is just 24 klms, with 18 of that being a good, well maintained dirt road.
This series of 20 caches are spread over the 18 klms of the dirt road and are made up of 5 of the usual Sistema type containers, but also a variety of containers sourced from a local Canberra recycle depot...with some very interesting and different types of containers. You won't have any issues finding any of them, however, there maybe a photo in the gallery of the more interesting ones. The size of the caches range from a single 'micro' to about 5 'large' size containers...so there is a bit of variety in that as well.
All GZ's will have an area that is safe it park in, or at least a wider part of the road that will have visibility in both directions.
The number sequence for the caches runs from Collector to Gundaroo, however you can do the series in the reverse direction if you need to. The caches are on both sides of the road.......and the road does have some light traffic, but you could also drive the entire length and not see another car. Time of day/week will dictated that.
Allow a couple of hours to make all the finds, and to check out the views along the way. Remember, it's not a race, so take your time and enjoy the area. Once you finish and after you head through Gundaroo towards Canberra, the Sutton Bakery would be a good spot for a bit of lunch/morning or afternoon smoko.
Hope you enjoy a different route to get to Canberra.....
Hints
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Decode |
Logs
Quickly located with good coordinates, but container full of water and the log was a soggy mess. Thanks for the cache Sol de lune
Rated: for Overall Experience
This was a weekend of events and epic cache days. It started with a Friday afternoon back road trip to Goulburn to visit 11 Australian Animals series caches and the two events. Saturday started with a fun event celebrating a special day of the year followed by caches targeting DT grid caches. Sunday was another trip to Goulburn where I finally managed to visit the Ridge Road caches above Lake George. In Goulburn along with the two events I did the Graveyard Adventure Labs and the caches associated with that. My weekend finished on Monday with another walk along the Molonglo to get a Where-i-go and an unexpected challenge cache.
On the way to Goulburn I also manages to locate 19 out of 20 in the High road series. A great way to fill in the afternoon.
Thanks.
TNLN
**Albida**
On the way to Goulburn I also manages to locate 19 out of 20 in the High road series. A great way to fill in the afternoon.
Thanks.
TNLN
**Albida**
As my daughter had a party at home to which I wasn't invited I decided to stay the night elsewhere and hoping to find my house in one piece tomorrow. Drove all the way to Collector and then Gundaroo to start this part of the trail to Yass. As I started late I only just made it to Yass before it was pitch dark. Good fun on much more busy road then expected. Had to use stealth a lot of times. All caches found well and thanks for placing them!
TFTC Wilbert67
TFTC Wilbert67
Day 16 Mainland trip
Having left Canberra behind we are now in Goulburn and headed out to find a few GCA caches and this was one. Thanks for placing along this high road as we wouldn't have even gone this way except for geocaching. TFTC
Having left Canberra behind we are now in Goulburn and headed out to find a few GCA caches and this was one. Thanks for placing along this high road as we wouldn't have even gone this way except for geocaching. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
We found your cache today while we are staying in Yass on our way to the Mega TFTC
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Today we tackled this High Road series with Gullivers Travels54 and enjoyed the scenery along the way.
Many thanks Sol de lune for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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I was out caching by myself today and decided to have an early start to be home again before the forecast storms arrived. I succeeded in that, but I didn't finish all the caches I was hoping to. I have never travelled that road before and I didn't realise how pretty the country is up there - and I was incredibly delighted when on approaching GZ #1, I could appreciate the views from the top - how wonderful they are. All the coordinates were great which meant easy finds. Caches mostly were in good condition and notes will be sent to the CO re the individual caches that require it. TFT series of caches SDL All logs signed. 
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I had a reasonable day with the usual DNFs. Waymarked Collector, moved a bunch of moveables & enjoyed the dirt road. Didn't get to the very end as a long way back so bailed at 4 pm. Plenty of roos about but no snakes, despite it being warm. Approached this one with trepidation as if I was a snake this is where I'd rest ready to strike. Thanks for the variety of hides & containers.
Found 7:29pm with girlfriend. We had travelled here via Bugendore picking up a few GC and GA caches along the way then stopping at Collector for a drink at the hotel and the round trip entailed finding these caches along the high road but we had left for the trip a little late in the day. I didn’t quite expect the road to be dirt either so the drive in my road vehicle was going to be a little more sedate than usual. A quick look around and I soon had the cache in hand. The views are now starting to appear and really cool from some locations along the way. Signed the log and then returned cache to hiding spot. I forgot to mention but the earlier cache and a couple of others are quite difficult to open.
Thanks for the cache.
*Overall Experience: 3*
Thanks for the cache.
*Overall Experience: 3*
Rated: for Overall Experience
Went out with KittyKatch and Joolay to hide some caches for the State of the Nation game and we decoded to grab this series as well. It was the perfect day for it and we had a lot of fun and laughs, quite easy to find. tftc Sol De Lune
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A beaut series of caches with lots to keep a cacher interested. I loved the different combinations of size, type and hide. Thanks again Sol
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Found out with Kittykatch and Darzee Di getting some SoN caches and some that are not. Lovely day to be out and about.
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Came down with alnic39 for a day trip into ACT we had teamMerlin & Splitty Miller JJCC catch up with us before we entered ACT. Had a few caches targeted we got to some but missed others that we didn't get too. The main ones we got were Geocache, Canberra Nature Park, I Dunno and started to collect some of the UGC caches. It got quite warm into the early 30°& most of the caches were in Mulligans Flat area so the rock base warmed up a bit as well.
After finding 4. High Road to Canberra we moved on to #5. We decided to target a few of these caches as we were running a bit late. The coordinates were accurate so it made it a quick find
Signed the log and replaced as found. The cache was full of water again but the log dry. We emptied the water but we hadn't picked up one of the hand towels. (Another thing to add to my caching survival bag. Thanks for the cache Sol de lune
After finding 4. High Road to Canberra we moved on to #5. We decided to target a few of these caches as we were running a bit late. The coordinates were accurate so it made it a quick find
Signed the log and replaced as found. The cache was full of water again but the log dry. We emptied the water but we hadn't picked up one of the hand towels. (Another thing to add to my caching survival bag. Thanks for the cache Sol de lune
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After refueling we decided that we had enough time to return to the High Road and finish the series. After all how could we leave the area without knowing what other exciting recycled containers lay hidden in the bush.
Locals must have been returning from Saturday activities as the road was relatively busy and we were glad there was enough room near this hide to park several trucks. Safely off the road we headed to GZ where we spotted a large container. When the shorter team member, the one that fits easily under bushes, picked up the container she was surprised to find it was quite heavy. As she opened it the reason became obvious - the container was full of water.
Water drained we found the log book safe and dry in its ziplock bag. We decided that the best way to dry it was to use the disposable hand towel thoughtfully proved at an earlier cache. This worked a treat.
The container is not water proof but we are not sure how all that water entered the container as it was closed firmly when we found it and the area was damp but didnt appear to have been under water.
Thanks for this cache Sol de Lune and an interesting piece of recycling.
Locals must have been returning from Saturday activities as the road was relatively busy and we were glad there was enough room near this hide to park several trucks. Safely off the road we headed to GZ where we spotted a large container. When the shorter team member, the one that fits easily under bushes, picked up the container she was surprised to find it was quite heavy. As she opened it the reason became obvious - the container was full of water.
Water drained we found the log book safe and dry in its ziplock bag. We decided that the best way to dry it was to use the disposable hand towel thoughtfully proved at an earlier cache. This worked a treat.
The container is not water proof but we are not sure how all that water entered the container as it was closed firmly when we found it and the area was damp but didnt appear to have been under water.
Thanks for this cache Sol de Lune and an interesting piece of recycling.
After a caching run to Goulburn took the scenic route back home via Collector, Gundaroo and Gungahlin. An easy find, thanks.
No kids to wrangle this morning so was able to head off for work without having to wait for someone.....cue fitzy_1965 who took longer to get ready and then needed petrol. Still managed to get on the road and arrive at GZ with ease. Only had to slow for a few birds on the road and a rabbit. Plenty of space for a couple of cars to park off the road. Thank goodness because a large truck passed by as we were signing the log. Great cache, that is for sure. Love the variety we are finding along the way. Headed off for Gundaroo for a bit more caching then onto work.
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Geocaching Australia Cache (GCA cache) find Number 1540 (plus 14079 Geocaching [GC] Caches for a Grand Total of 15619 Cache Finds !
In the continuing quest to a streak of 90 days with a GCA Cache find (soon to extend to be a quest for 180 day streak - I'm not even thinking about the 365 challenge yet ! Lol)I headed out along this now familiar road to grab the next in this neat series of GCA Traditional caches. The views alone are worth the trip up here. Sol de Lune has done a great job with the various containers and hides so far - I'm looking forward to seeing where the series goes from here ! This early in the morning (about 7.15 am) there is very little traffic to worry about, although near the start is a school bus stop so you do see kids waiting there to be picked up. I have found that there are safe places to pull over in near all the cache locations.
Number 5 in the series - a nice big spot to park - big enough for two cars as things turn out - and so out I hopped in the cool for the search. The bushes were a bit wet and as I was dressed for work I carefully looked around until GZ and the cache was spotted. I did a bit of a limbo movement to make the grab, then walked back to the car for the signing ceremony. That completed, I returned the cache to its hiding spot, still avoiding the wet trees, jumped back in the car and headed towards Gundaroo for minniek to make a GC find for today as well.
Thanks to Sol de Lune for the hide and the series. Its proving very useful, but I will soon be asking you to extend it - by about 90 more if you can manage it ! Lol.
TNLN - TFTC !!
Cheers....
PS - I'm thinking of changing my caching name (again) - how does GeeGeeEff sound ??
In the continuing quest to a streak of 90 days with a GCA Cache find (soon to extend to be a quest for 180 day streak - I'm not even thinking about the 365 challenge yet ! Lol)I headed out along this now familiar road to grab the next in this neat series of GCA Traditional caches. The views alone are worth the trip up here. Sol de Lune has done a great job with the various containers and hides so far - I'm looking forward to seeing where the series goes from here ! This early in the morning (about 7.15 am) there is very little traffic to worry about, although near the start is a school bus stop so you do see kids waiting there to be picked up. I have found that there are safe places to pull over in near all the cache locations.
Number 5 in the series - a nice big spot to park - big enough for two cars as things turn out - and so out I hopped in the cool for the search. The bushes were a bit wet and as I was dressed for work I carefully looked around until GZ and the cache was spotted. I did a bit of a limbo movement to make the grab, then walked back to the car for the signing ceremony. That completed, I returned the cache to its hiding spot, still avoiding the wet trees, jumped back in the car and headed towards Gundaroo for minniek to make a GC find for today as well.
Thanks to Sol de Lune for the hide and the series. Its proving very useful, but I will soon be asking you to extend it - by about 90 more if you can manage it ! Lol.
TNLN - TFTC !!
Cheers....
PS - I'm thinking of changing my caching name (again) - how does GeeGeeEff sound ??
Rated: for Overall Experience
After doing the chocolate factory series last week, decided to do this trail today. Trail completed in reverse order - all caches found OK. It was quite cold and windy along the trail today, especially at the higher caches. Occasional drizzle, but the rain held off. Good to see a variety of cache containers and hides.
Thanks,
Thanks,
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A small diversion on my way to work. I managed to dodge the rain and really enjoyed the variety of containers. All were found without any dramas and all had blank log books. So I was very happy with the *FTF*, the views and the nice little drive in the country.
Thanks Sdl for the cache and the fun.
Thanks Sdl for the cache and the fun.
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#GA1736 - 12:36; I saw this series published last night and decided to get out along the gravel road today before the forecast rain descended on the district. It took just over an hour from finding the first one, to emerging back onto sealed road just as the showers arrived. Managed to locate all of the caches in reverse order and no ladder was required. A couple took a bit longer than the others, but that was mainly because I left the GPSr in the car for all but two or three where I needed extra help. Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC Sol de lune
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Out this morning finding GAs with Just a cacher in the rain. What could be more fun??!!
Thanks for the caches, Sol!
Thanks for the caches, Sol!
We noticed that these had been published overnight, so we took off for a short road trip before work.
The air was cool and crisp, with a nice fress breeze, and those tiny rain drops that come at you sideways like slivers of ice - I was in my element. Clapping
We managed to find all but one, and that one was a bit out of reach for old, tired bodies today. I could definitely see where I think it is, but didn't have a handy ladder. For once, the Bunny was unable to climb or stretch - out of practice, I keep telling him!
Thanks for hiding these, Sol. I managed to put swaps in some of them.
The air was cool and crisp, with a nice fress breeze, and those tiny rain drops that come at you sideways like slivers of ice - I was in my element. Clapping
We managed to find all but one, and that one was a bit out of reach for old, tired bodies today. I could definitely see where I think it is, but didn't have a handy ladder. For once, the Bunny was unable to climb or stretch - out of practice, I keep telling him!
Thanks for hiding these, Sol. I managed to put swaps in some of them.
