Striving Towards Blue Mts Power Trail 13 Bell, New South Wales, Australia
By
Acko on 06-Nov-12. Waypoint GA4795
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S33° 33.293' E150° 22.612' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 256469E 6284113N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 906 m |
| Local Government Area: | Blue Mountains City |
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Description
A regular stop off for canyoners.
Their is plenty of parking on the left side on the way down towards Sydney but if you want to turn right up the hill from parking take care turning out cars come round the bend fast.
SO ATTEMPTING THIS ONE ON THE WAY TO SYDNEY WOULD BE SAFER.
GZ is above a convict built wall so this part of the drive is the original one built in the early 1800's
Logs
We stopped and found the trigs, then went for this little trad. Nice wall - I almost missed the cache looking at the wall.... the container is wrecked, photologging....
Cache container is badly cracked but log is very dry – many thanks for the history of the area - TFTC / TFTH / SL 
Rated: for Overall Experience
A great day of caching from Richmond to Mt Victoria. Weather was perfect (a little hot later on) and mosty caches were in good condition. Great to see this many GCA caches around here, thanks for putting them all out!
TFTC Wilbert67
TFTC Wilbert67
Rated: for Overall Experience
Another in the long line of caches reluctantly snaffled on the "Grumpy Old Men's" Scavenger Hunt tour of the Blue Mountains.
SL TFTC
SL TFTC
The Grumpy Old Men™ made a dash and grab for this one. the container is a bit sad but we did our best to give some protection. Thanks again ack son of hack.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found this cache after stopping for the 2 trigs. Signed the log & replaced as found. Thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I thought I had this one, but phlphotos told me from across the traffic that my name was not in the log. Hmm!
Rated: for Overall Experience
PT number 13. Slowly getting up there towards the end of the trail
No problems here and all was good.
No problems here and all was good.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Easy park, and find ... a lovely contrast with the convict chipped rock wall and the green ferns below. TFTC 
Rated: for Overall Experience
There were people hovering about as we pulled up but luckily there was a nearby hill to climb and 2 trigs to log while we waited!
All good here. Couldn't pass up the 2 for 1 with the trig so stopped Sydney bound one last time...maybe hehe.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out for the day with pjmpjm mainly to do the "Striving Towards Blue Mts Power Trail". It turned out to be a very good day for us with plenty of finds.
This was an easy find once we got on the right side of the road and located GZ, The cache was in good condition and quite dry after all the recent rains.
Thanks for the cache.
This was an easy find once we got on the right side of the road and located GZ, The cache was in good condition and quite dry after all the recent rains.
Thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
This was one of more than twenty logs that rogerw3 and I made while travelling down Bell's Line of Road this afternoon, from Bell to North Richmond. We found mainly GCAs but also two GC traditionals.
Our main effort was to complete the 'Striving Towards Blue Mts Power Trail' in one afternoon . . . and we nearly succeeded. We found 13 of 14 and DNFed one that now seems almost certainly to have been muggled. (At the end of the day we talked to a previous finder who thinks we checked the correct place, in vain.)
No. 13 was, in the end, an easy find. Not using our GPSrs, we made the mistake of starting our search on the wrong side of the road! But then we realised the location of the old convict wall, a very interesting relict, if somewhat difficult to appreciate from the top.
The container was in good order. TNLNSL.
Many thanks to the CO for the cache and for the entire power trail.
Our main effort was to complete the 'Striving Towards Blue Mts Power Trail' in one afternoon . . . and we nearly succeeded. We found 13 of 14 and DNFed one that now seems almost certainly to have been muggled. (At the end of the day we talked to a previous finder who thinks we checked the correct place, in vain.)
No. 13 was, in the end, an easy find. Not using our GPSrs, we made the mistake of starting our search on the wrong side of the road! But then we realised the location of the old convict wall, a very interesting relict, if somewhat difficult to appreciate from the top.
The container was in good order. TNLNSL.
Many thanks to the CO for the cache and for the entire power trail.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A quick drive by grab and a chance to see some of the early roadwork and the history of the area.
Thanks for the cache Acko and the chance to explore the area a bit more.
Thanks for the cache Acko and the chance to explore the area a bit more.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found cache, and some lovely flannel flowers here.
Rated: for Overall Experience
FTF!
On a work day shortened by a sick son, I made another quick find here, once I crossed the road.
The views from on top of the old convict wall were the best of the afternoon!
TNLNSL. TFTC.
On a work day shortened by a sick son, I made another quick find here, once I crossed the road.
The views from on top of the old convict wall were the best of the afternoon!
TNLNSL. TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
