Mountain bike Hill Blackstone Heights, Tasmania, Australia
By Tassie Trekkers on 08-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11445

This morning we were in Launceston to collect our tiles for our house, as we were early we grabbed a few select caches that would help with the Geosportz challenges.
Had this one solved for a while now, walked to the cache where a quick find was made. this was the last cache before going to get the tiles. TFTC

Wasn’t too sure whether I would be able to find it as the rain was fast approaching and I had just dried out from my earlier adventure. Charged the phone up in the car so I didn’t run out of charge like last time. One chance before the rain and dead phone so up the hill I ran. Accurate coordinates lead to a quick find and just enough time to grab another couple up this way. Thanks for the puzzle and great hides. All okay at GZ and cache in good condition .

I am getting to really know my way around this area, I may have to think about getting my own mountain bike if more caches turn up around here! TFTC.

Sixth find of a GCA puzzle cache today. Quick find TFTC

Hi Trekkers,
Heading down hill again to grab this one..as the journey continues...a quick find...much appreciated...cheers ST.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found on a Journey to Launceston with a caching Mate

TFTC

Hi Trekkers
A great caching day today. Another day out with Budge and a total of 37 caches found.

Travel:
Left Huonville for Lenah Valley at 0515 hours, met the Blue Flier and then on to Launceston and return to Huonville at 2240 hours.
Another 14.53 kilometres were covered on foot requiring 19217 steps burning 2322 calories.

Weather:
Overcast and drizzly morning. A fine afternoon and a bit warmer.

Thanks to Budge for a great day, great company, laughs and above all else his friendship

The majority of caches found today were hidden by Tassie Trekkers and my thanks to them for their dedication to our SPORT and giving me as much fun as I had today (as well as the sore legs and aching body - cheers) The balance of finds was made up of many caches put out by DaFiChNi for which I thank them for the fun I had finding them

GA11445 "Mountain Bike Hill"
By now, Puzzle caches are becoming a "chore" (South, North and North West; how many??) and all I want to do is get out there and find caches
This one was done quickly
Both Budge and I looked at this hill, each other and our legs started moving simultaneously. All four legs are protesting, they'd had enough just as I had when solving this/yet another puzzle.
A quick find in a muggleless zone
Sainted the cache at 1426 hours as the eighteenth find for the day.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

Rated: for Overall Experience

I walked past this cache without even realizing but luckily SSR pulled me up and sent me back to it. It is a well hidden cache but I found it with no trouble, just a bit of charcoal mixed on with my sweat for my troubles. I looked at the puzzle again just now and starting reeling off the answer again. Thanks Tassie Trekkers.

A comment to stainless steel rat on Thursday night turned into a plan rather quickly over the following 24 hours. After a later than expected Friday night I dragged myself out of bed while the clock still started with a 5, Urgh!
My first stop was the Rats Nest to pick up stainless steel rat and after loading his things in the car we departed at 6.05am. Our first stop was Mood Food for coffee and to find some lunch to throw in the esky for later, followed by a much needed stop at the train park in Perth (to offload the coffee), then it was on to the house of TazScout for another round of coffee.
We spent the whole day caching in various parts of Trevallyn Reserve and then picked up a few other caches as we left there late in the day. We found traditional caches, puzzle caches, a trig point, some moveable caches, a pod cache, a reverse cache, a beacon cache, a gadget cache, a night cache and a multi-cache. We also found a cache of EVERY terrain type from an easy T1 right through to a ‘fun’ T5.
After a late dinner in town, we returned back south with a couple of fresh air stops on the way. After dropping stainless steel rat back at his nest, I arrived home at 11.45pm absolutely exhausted.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Second last day of the SOTN summer game so we decided we needed to target some caches for scavenges that are still gaps on our list. A quick detour on our way for a FTF then it was on with our trek to the wilds of Trevallyn to see how successful we could be with those gaps. A fairly good day, only missed two, but as one is a moveable maybe we'll find it somewhere else in our travels. As for the other one, well, maybe another visit with a bit more time up our sleeve will meet with more success. This cache was a quick find when we got to GZ although we chose a fairly warm afternoon to go wandering about in the bush! TFTC and the puzzles

while away for work this week I have chance to get a few of these large puzzles caches
thanks for the cache

We had limited time between family commitments and bowls to gather caches that we could use for scavenge points in the States of the Nation games. With the northerners and northwesters publishing puzzle caches profusely (and all with large containers) we set about solving them as profusely as they were being published.

We decided to take a couple of days to make our assault and this was one we found on our trip. The weather varied from warm to hot, to dry to wet to torrential rain, to a change of clothes in the empty car park in Trevallyn Reserve (nearly considered "Nude up for a smiley" but luckily we changed our mind - not enough points on offer for that one!)

We thoroughly enjoyed solving the puzzles and the tour through the Geocaching Australia and Geocaching.com toolboxes.

Thanks to the cache owners for their hardwork in creating and hiding the large caches.

Sorry about the lengthy logs. We are currently aiming for a dragon zone virtual verbosity trophy. We have just received the 100 word trophy, so now aiming for the 150 word trophy. For all new GCA cachers, a warning, write a decent log to start with in case you want to get these virtual trophies down the track. Having now passed 2000 GCA finds with a lot of one word logs (on many moveables) makes for a lot of typing now!

We are participating in the States of the Nation games which are currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018 and we will use this find against one of the scavenges.

States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.

There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.

Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.

Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie

The States of the Nation games have helped boost our dragon zone points and we have achieved a few milestone trophies as well.

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whitewebbs are now a geocache themselves as we have published a 'Geocacher cache' GA10805 - Where's whitewebbs? - so if you spot us out and about in the field sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a smiley.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Out again early morning for another hunt in a familiar area. A couple of campers nearby, however, they none too interested in what I was up to. A nice easy find of a well presented cache.. thanks..!!

Rated: for Overall Experience

After finding Lookout For A Series Of Unfortunate Events We made our was to this section of the reserve to locate a few recently published caches. We had quickly solved this puzzle when we first saw it after publication and put it on our list for when we were next in the Trevallyn area. Today was the day.

When we pulled up we spotted a bright yellow tent that appeared to be very close to GZ. To our horror we spotted two young men sitting a little way from the tent playing chess. Were we going to be able to look for these caches? As our time was limited we thought we'd head towards GZ and see what happened.

Fortunately the young men were engrossed in their game and hardly noticed us as we passed by. Fortunately also the windy track took us out of their line of sight and we were able to locate the cache untroubled by any muggle attention.

We found the well covered large container and soon had the log signed noting Dankpig had been here before us today. We wondered whether we would catch him further up the track or whether his visit had been very early, possibly before work.

The cache and contents were in excellent condition.

Thanks for the puzzle and the cache Tassie Trekkers. The points will hopefully prove useful for the SOTN game.

Did the brainstrain last night and headed off to pick up the newly published caches this morning. We wandered up past some illegal camping muggles en-route to this one. Thankfully they all seemed more interested in their phones as we quickly made the find and found a blank logbook. Another rare FTF for us and some more Tassie SONT points. Thanks Tassie Trekkers. Go Tassie!

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