Mt Mambup Multi Upper Swan, Western Australia, Australia
By Outenabout on 25-Sep-10. Waypoint GA2553

Vale Mt Mambup Multi. I would love to have been able to complete this one.

No founds logs or maintenance on this one for way too long, so we'll archive it for now. If the cache is maintained the listing can be reinstated....

Long overdue no response

Any chance of this being maintained?

Waypoint 4 has been muggled. As per my DNF log, I would be very happy to assist with getting this up and running again.

Had a go at this one today, but unfortunately, Waypoint4 has been muggled. I found an empty bag and the lidless container ... had a good hunt around, but found no finder cards or coordinates for the next waypoint. Looks like the muggles took all the cards with them.

Found the first three waypoints with no issues. Enjoyed the viewpoints and the terrain ... disturbed a large number of roos and a couple of goats that had gathered near waypoint 3.

Giving it an 'Outstanding' rating even though I couldn't complete it, because it is a great multi, very well put together.

Thanks for the hide and the effort you've put into making this a special caching experience Outenabout ... hopefully you can get this one up and running again and that I'll be able to finish it off soon.

*** Let me know if I can help - I'm happy to place a replacement container up to waypoint 4 if you can get finder cards and WP5 coordinates card to me ***

Rated: for Overall Experience

Came to try for this cache after getting "Best of the Brook" , all was going well until No3 when I knocked my GPSr down a gap in the rocks, after 20 minutes of moving rocks and nudging the GPSr towards a gap with a grasstree spear I finally retreived it and was again on my way. A tip for the next cachers to try for this cache whatever you do don't take a step back at the final GZ

Tackled the following caches this morning:
GA2535 City Views
GA2100 Granite views
GA2533 Olive Bells
GA2532 Bells and beyond
GA2553 Mt Mambup multi wpts 1 & 2
GC2C8P8 Roo’s stop
GA2553 Mt Mambup multi wpts 3 to final
Got back to the car 2hrs and 40min after I set out. An enjoyable mornings walk.
This was my favourite cache of morning, lots of great views in great country. TFTC and the effort it must have taken to set up the series. 5 thumbs up from me

Rated: for Overall Experience

My daughter was competing in the State Dressage Championships at the State Equestrian Centre so I hitched a ride and took the opportunity to collect some of Outenabout’s caches in the area between dressage events.

Thanks outenabout for a nice walk in the hills.

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Wow, what a great multi! Loved this one, it was fantastic, thanks!!

I wasn't sure whether I should start this one, given it was going to be a 3hr journey, but I thought, 'I'll just find a couple of the waypoints and make a start on it'.

I came to WP1 after finding City Views, Bells and Beyond and Olive Bells, and arrived at WP1 around 4:30pm. Getting to WP1 and WP2 were the hardest parts, after that it was quick and easy to get around all of the waypoints, and I found the cache at 5:10pm!

Unfortunately while I was reaching for the cache I managed to drop my perscription sunnies down a huge cliff, and had to then clamber down to search for them... Luckily I found them quickly thanks to my geocacher trained eyes

I loved all the waypoints, and the photo idea for the final coords was excellent! Took a finders card. Thanks for the great cache Outenabout!

Rated: for Overall Experience

great little workout,great views and plenty of wildlife to be seen.
tftc.

Rated: for Overall Experience

great little workout,great views and plenty of wildlife to be seen.
tftc.

Rated: for Overall Experience

What a fabulous idea for a cache. We located all the waypoints without any trouble, WP 4 taking the longest time to locate but that was only five minutes or so. When we got to the penultimate waypoint, we sat and put our photo together in this lovely area and plugged the resulting co-ordinates into our GPSr. Off we went again to collect the final WP (cache) and claim a smiley and another 3rd to find certificate.

Thanks Outenabout for another great cache.
PS - We had managed to do some maintenance on one of our caches on the way round so that was an added bonus.

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Found around 1pm - quite an expedition for the whole family.

We arrived at the suggested parking area on Copley Rd around 9am to the somewhat unsurprising sight of a car parked just as though there might be a cacher at work in the Mt Mambup area. Ah well, good luck to whoever it may be! After the requisite application of sunscreen and donning of hats, checking we had all the relevant caching details and miscellaneous caching gear, the group headed off through the gate.

Immediately we were struck with choices. Along the rough rocky track (easier down hill or harder up hill) or straight through the sparse scrub in the direction of WP1? Presuming the track would turn at some point, the down hill approach won the initial votes until after a few hundred metres we realised this could be three sides of a square and the direct approach - whilst slightly more difficult terrain - would very likely be quicker. Up the embankment and into the scrub! Saw several roos lazily hopping along a few dozen metres from us (keeping watch?) and the odd rabbit scurrying off.

Made it to WP1 with very few scratches - had to keep a tight rein on the kids though, the terrain here is fairly steep in patches but the roo tracks are quite followable. A few sighs of relief were heard when we realised WP2 was only a few hundred metres away - that didn't sound like much at all after the > 1km we had done already.

WP2 was reached in short order and we had a quick break for post breakfast snacks while doing the required calculations for WP3 (must be time for a GPSr that can do DD MM.MMM soon! ) then headed off on a bit of a long cut - "I'd say 80m puts it somewhere around that tree, let's go there and get a better reading"; "Hmm, 50m that way now ..."; "Oh, we have to go all the way back down that bit we just climbed, yes ..."; etc. Got to WP3 GZ at last and spent a few minutes fossicking around before locating the container.

WP4 gave some oddly flaky readings, we were all over the place looking for somewhere to start looking. Eventually made a bit of a guess that turned out to be warranted by the hint (helps to have enough crew to get someone to write the encoded hint down at the prior WP and work on decoding it while everyone else is jumping around like a headless chicken, I guess) and had the container straight away. Off to WP5!

Both WP5 and WP6 were in "that looks like a good spot for a cache" locations. We were somewhat startled by the sudden appearance of a shadow whilst avoiding a hive but the suspected night (or day) raptor turned out to be a solitary cockatoo disturbed by our cache finding alert word...

Right, time to take a break, have some lunch and assemble the final location panorama and coords. Oh. The lunch cooler bag is sitting safely in the car. Gnashing of teeth ensues - and wailing. We do have some snacks scattered about our caching persons so they get shared around and we work out where we need to go for the final GZ. Lets get it!

That might be easier said than done - I'm looking either down a drop-off (or up it from below) and we haven't found a container in any of the places that would be both large enough to fit one and small enough to conceal it. Shall we look from below where it is much safer (apart from the snake risk, although we weren't being especially quiet come to think of it) but we don't get a good view of the constellations, or look from above - get a slightly better fix but have a much higher risk of the ground letting go for a second. Make sure the kids are safe first (give 'em food and water) then sit the GPSr somewhere to get a nice steady reading and extrapolate.

That did the trick and soon enough we had the box we desired. Of course the kids went through the swaps and made a few exchanges, we very gratefully took the 2ndTF prize and signed the log at about 1pm. Four hours (probably an hour of food, water and "other" in there) and we still had to get back to the car! The car? Which way was that?

Off we stumble, wondering if we will ever see civilisation again.

Oh, look! That must be Perth on the horizon, you can see the tall buildings sticking up over the bush. We knew where Perth was relative to the car as we had seen it on the way in. 500m that way, should be easy! Excellent, a road - sort of - thing. Harder to walk on than the grassy bush, as it is very washed out, but at least it leads in the right direction. Food!

Thanks for the cache Outenabout! We had an - amazing - time!

Note - later that afternoon we found several 4-6mm ticks on two adults (none on kids though!! )

Rated: for Overall Experience

Got up earlier than usual for a Sunday and had a pleasant couple of hours walk through the bush. Only had trouble at WP4 as the GPS wasn't accurate enough to tell me where I should be so went back to WP3 to read the hint and soon found the waypoint even though the GPS was wandering all over the place when I arrived back there.

Cache was found soon after and an empty log book so FTF at 8.10am.

Thanks for the cache and prize.

(I think that you should consider bumping up the terrain by another 1/2 just for the location of the cache itself.)

Rated: for Overall Experience

Who's up for a walk in the bush.