GCAX05: Views North Lenah Valley, Tasmania, Australia
By
Snuva on 18-May-10. Waypoint GA2062
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S42° 52.820' E147° 17.488' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 523803E 5252432N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 303 m |
| Local Government Area: | Hobart |
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Description
This is one of 10 geocaches placed in this area in honour of the 10th anniversary of the first geocache to be placed in Australia.
The GCAX series was published 18 May 2010 in honour of the first geocache to be placed in Australia, Lane Cove. The series is made up of 9 traditional caches and one puzzle. The puzzle is neither clever nor difficult; it's main purpose in life is to get you out and walking around the area - which is one of the things we all love about geocaching anyway. Each traditional cache has a letter and corresponding number inside the lid. As the cache descriptions do no t say which letter can be found in which cache, you won't know if you need to visit all or just some of the caches in the series to find the puzzle cache. But hey - you wanted to do all of them anyway, didn't you? ;-) The caches are all easily accessible and within Knocklofty Reserve.
GCAX05: Views North is placed near a break in the trees which gives you great views to the north.
Hints
Angvir pureel pyhfgre |
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Decode |
Logs
One of several caches found this afternoon on an enjoyable walk in the area. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan
out and about with the Rafas this cache was the second find on a cool GF day, easy find with clues, nice views looking over Glenorchy area. TFTC TNBPLN log dry but series need saving. dog loved the walk.
Rated: for Overall Experience
After an early'ish start this morning, the GeoGSP and I headed up for a walk around one of our favourite reserves - great trails, great views. Another easy find, thanks for putting this series of caches up here Snuva.
Rated: for Overall Experience
11/02/2017 19:09 tftc
it also looks like Henry and may have found this cache a few times recently
it also looks like Henry and may have found this cache a few times recently
This was one of our last caches of the day and we were glad to be on the last leg or should that be our last legs? Once we were at GZ it was a quick spot of the hide since the last finder had not re-covered the cache, we soon added our names to the log and hide it with a bit more cover.
Story of our day:-
I had been talking about doing Jurassic Park for a long time now and its come up a couple of times in as many weeks, while we were all out doing the Pipeline on bikes and then again when i was walking back from the event with Goose and Bear. Last weekend Goose started talking about a nice walk in the area of the mountain, first idea was to finish of the pipeline doing the lower ones walking back to Fern Tree. Somehow our plan of an easy walk turned into a monster starting out at Big bend heading for Jurassic Park and exiting the park at Mount Stuart.
After parking the car at Mount Stuart Smiley was good enough to drop us off at Big Bend and we started our walk into the lost world at 10:22, following the Lost World 'Track' to GZ we didn't make bad time getting the first cache of the day at 11:30, We enjoyed some great views that we would have never come across if not for this cache. Next came the fun bit getting out of the Lost World, all was going well until we incorrectly followed cairns that lead North and until one of us looked at the map we considered ourselves on the correct path, a bit of clambering later we were following the path we needed marked by yellow and red paint marks. At 13:00 we got to the parks sign that said 'Lost World 45 minutes one way' while we agreed with the 'very steep difficult track' we disagreed with the timings!
From here we followed the Old Hobartians and Hunter tracks this was a bit of a rest till we started down the Breakneck Track which almost lived up to its name, we were pleased when we crossed the main fire trail and we were back on a less painful path, after this we made good time finding caches at a more respectful rate and before you know it we were into the Knocklofty area for a last few finds before limping down all those nasty steps to where we had parked the car 10 hours earlier its now 20:22 and we are all knackered.
Story of our day:-
I had been talking about doing Jurassic Park for a long time now and its come up a couple of times in as many weeks, while we were all out doing the Pipeline on bikes and then again when i was walking back from the event with Goose and Bear. Last weekend Goose started talking about a nice walk in the area of the mountain, first idea was to finish of the pipeline doing the lower ones walking back to Fern Tree. Somehow our plan of an easy walk turned into a monster starting out at Big bend heading for Jurassic Park and exiting the park at Mount Stuart.
After parking the car at Mount Stuart Smiley was good enough to drop us off at Big Bend and we started our walk into the lost world at 10:22, following the Lost World 'Track' to GZ we didn't make bad time getting the first cache of the day at 11:30, We enjoyed some great views that we would have never come across if not for this cache. Next came the fun bit getting out of the Lost World, all was going well until we incorrectly followed cairns that lead North and until one of us looked at the map we considered ourselves on the correct path, a bit of clambering later we were following the path we needed marked by yellow and red paint marks. At 13:00 we got to the parks sign that said 'Lost World 45 minutes one way' while we agreed with the 'very steep difficult track' we disagreed with the timings!
From here we followed the Old Hobartians and Hunter tracks this was a bit of a rest till we started down the Breakneck Track which almost lived up to its name, we were pleased when we crossed the main fire trail and we were back on a less painful path, after this we made good time finding caches at a more respectful rate and before you know it we were into the Knocklofty area for a last few finds before limping down all those nasty steps to where we had parked the car 10 hours earlier its now 20:22 and we are all knackered.
Rated: for Overall Experience
After 'A discussion from the Lectern' event on Australia Day, Stainless Steel Rat, the Bear and I had been discussing the Jurassic Park cache as one we wanted to tackle this summer. This idea grew into a few more caches until we created a walk all the way down to Mt Stuart. Smiley kindly dropped us off at big bend and we started our walk at 10.20am and finished up at around 8.20pm. It was an 18.5km journey, some of it was the toughest terrain I have walked in. Our decent took us via the Lost Word Track, Old Hobartian Track, Hunters Track, Breakneck Track, crossing over Noahs Saddle to Knocklofty Park and onto the Mt Stuart Circuit to Mr Stuart Road.
We found 2 caches from this series today after running out of daylight to do the circuit. This one was exposed and covered only by 1 stick. Still after over 3.5 years without a find it has lasted remarkably well. We signed the log and recorded the necessary details and rehid it under a bit more camo. TFTC
We found 2 caches from this series today after running out of daylight to do the circuit. This one was exposed and covered only by 1 stick. Still after over 3.5 years without a find it has lasted remarkably well. We signed the log and recorded the necessary details and rehid it under a bit more camo. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
I finally found myself in a position to tackle these caches. Only did the northern ones but still enjoyed every cache. The hint was a welcome giveaway 
. Thank you Snuva
. Thank you SnuvaWe had a great day exploring this reserve, not being locals we were impressed with the well maintained tracks and the views were spectacular. Met lots of very friendly dogs and their owners enjoying the beautiful spring day. We underestimated how long the series would take us and ended up walking out in the dark. Thanks Snuva for another great cache. 
2nd in the series, a great way to spend an afternoon, Took Hookline Philosophy of Caching left chuppa chup toy.TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Walked across the power line track to the site not realising that the walking track was so close, until a muggle walked past, Cache was out of site though. Took duck rubber and left robin photo
Rated: for Overall Experience
With the tiger snake warning given to us by another walker as we started on this trek watched the ground well. 7th find in this series today and will be back soon for the last 3.
Nice view to the north, although it didn't beat the one at GCAX01... 
Also the exposed nature of the track meant the sun was giving us quite a brutal beating, and the track was quite steep and very slippery on the bone dry gravel. Was relieved to finally reach the patch of shade at the junction. And then... we SHOULD have gone to search for GCAX05, but instead... did something stupid. We started searching for a cache that didn't exist. 
Okay, rewind. Before the trip to Hobart, we had loaded up all our caches into the Nuvi. We were sitting in the car in the carpark, putting all the waypoints for Knocklofty manually into the Gecko (for better accuracy), when the damnable Nuvi died for no apparent reason whatsoever. That left us with only the waypoints we'd put in till then (about 13) and no descriptions or hints or info, nothing but the coords. Nothing to do about it except set off and hope for the best.
So we made our way around to the junction near GCAX05, saw there was another waypoint there and wasted a ridiculous amount of time hunting around in the blazing hot sun, getting sunburnt and weary and frustrated, until I eventually concluded that it was probably a multi and since we had no info for it, we should give it up as useless. So we did, and instead went and looked for your cache, which to our relief was found easily.
(Later when we got home, I discovered that the cache we'd been searching for in vain was the false coords of a puzzle cache, which was even worse.
)
The abovementioned failure of the Nuvi was also the reason why we could not complete any more caches in this series.
Still, we collected the numbers out of each of the ones we did in the hope that we may someday return to finish what we started.
It was a great series of well placed caches, very enjoyable and we'd have loved to do them all (stupid Nuvi). Thanks also for the lovely boost in GCA finds. (We love GCA caches, and it was one of the main reasons for picking this reserve above all the other bazillions of caches in Hobart). Cheers!!
Also the exposed nature of the track meant the sun was giving us quite a brutal beating, and the track was quite steep and very slippery on the bone dry gravel. Was relieved to finally reach the patch of shade at the junction. And then... we SHOULD have gone to search for GCAX05, but instead... did something stupid. We started searching for a cache that didn't exist. Okay, rewind. Before the trip to Hobart, we had loaded up all our caches into the Nuvi. We were sitting in the car in the carpark, putting all the waypoints for Knocklofty manually into the Gecko (for better accuracy), when the damnable Nuvi died for no apparent reason whatsoever. That left us with only the waypoints we'd put in till then (about 13) and no descriptions or hints or info, nothing but the coords. Nothing to do about it except set off and hope for the best.
So we made our way around to the junction near GCAX05, saw there was another waypoint there and wasted a ridiculous amount of time hunting around in the blazing hot sun, getting sunburnt and weary and frustrated, until I eventually concluded that it was probably a multi and since we had no info for it, we should give it up as useless. So we did, and instead went and looked for your cache, which to our relief was found easily.
(Later when we got home, I discovered that the cache we'd been searching for in vain was the false coords of a puzzle cache, which was even worse.
)The abovementioned failure of the Nuvi was also the reason why we could not complete any more caches in this series.
Still, we collected the numbers out of each of the ones we did in the hope that we may someday return to finish what we started. It was a great series of well placed caches, very enjoyable and we'd have loved to do them all (stupid Nuvi). Thanks also for the lovely boost in GCA finds. (We love GCA caches, and it was one of the main reasons for picking this reserve above all the other bazillions of caches in Hobart). Cheers!!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found just before attempting PCC03.
All caches in this series found today have been without use of the hint a my Geosphere only has the location in it - no descriptions or hints...
Found quickly from 12m away. TNLN, thanks Snuva
All caches in this series found today have been without use of the hint a my Geosphere only has the location in it - no descriptions or hints...
Found quickly from 12m away. TNLN, thanks Snuva
30/10/10
With the clouds looming and the threat of rain becoming greater we found this cache. Took frog ring ring and left bouncy balls.
With the clouds looming and the threat of rain becoming greater we found this cache. Took frog ring ring and left bouncy balls.
Great Views. Thanks for the hint, otherwise would not have found it, due to dodgy GPS.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found the cache in a group of Casurinas trees (?). No sign of cherries. Anyway took another bouncy ball and left dinosaur. Geo Kid E likes the bouncy balls but doesn't seem to play with them, one of those things I suppose....
The last in the series bar Finis - found on a cycling run from town with a friend. Almost came a cropper riding down the hill with the eTrex in one hand!
Thanks
Thanks
Of course, the red tag way is always to go down (or is that up) when at all possible, so of course I obliged ! 
The bonus was a great view almost all the way to the cache !
Once again, a nice straightforward hide, always appreciated when doing a series like this.
So ends a late afternoon geocaching diversion - my it gets dark so early in winter !
Thanks for the cache, Snuva !
The bonus was a great view almost all the way to the cache !
Once again, a nice straightforward hide, always appreciated when doing a series like this.
So ends a late afternoon geocaching diversion - my it gets dark so early in winter !
Thanks for the cache, Snuva !
I've walked and jogged on quite a few of the Knocklofty tracks, so had a fair idea where this one was and how to get there. A quick find and on I went. Thanks for making such great use of the reserve and placing such good caches, Snuva.
Not to be beaten by little things like locked gates (which meant we didn't have time for this one last weekend), we returned for a second weekend in the Knocklofty area. Again, we managed to take a convoluted route, but came up trumps with the cache!! Now on to the last in the series - if only we had had a good map of the tracks in this area before we started! TN L frog ring. Thanks.
Arrived and logged this one at 1131hrs. A mountain biker flew past after I had returned the box back to its hide. He slowed down when he hit next rise though. You could hear him crunching through the gears in his effort to get to its crest. Realised that I was not far from another cache not far up the hill. OldSaint.
I followed the fence and animal trails around until I found a small track leading straight to the location where the views could be enjoyed. Despite excellent coords, I managed to miss the cache initially, then wander around GZ in increasing, and eventually decreasing circles, until I ended up virtually where I'd started - this time staring at a cache! TFTC.
