Between trees and a hard place Underwood, Tasmania, Australia
By Hammer_Oz on 17-Apr-16. Waypoint GA8182

After climbing both St Patricks Head and South Sister over the past 10 days it was off to tackle Mt Arthur for the 3rd time.

The weather forecast was for a fairly hot day, just hope its a bit cooler on top.

My last visit here was to find a gc cache...King of Camelot which was so hard to find it took two visits up the Mt and around 90 min in total to find it.

Unfortunately trig points weren't listed as gca caches back, hence anorher trip up was required to both the fire cabin and the Trig cairn.

Back then I had my trusty canine companion with me...aka sirius....but sadly his age now precludes him from doing any more bushwalks and mountain climbs, but as soon as I had put my hat and boots on, Murder(the younger of the two canine family....4 yo) started to get pretty excited as he just loves both bush walking and travelling around in the geo fourby. 

My eldest canine...Sirius...is now too old(16.9 y.o.) to leave the comfort of his bed in front of the wood heater...which has an electric blanket of course(which he just loves and is great for his arthritis). Having walked 100's of km's with me geocaching over the years up numerous mountains, bush walking along many trails plus along vast stretches of beaches etc while geocaching, he has certainly earned his rest..an amazing companion who never gave up no matter how hard it got for him...a truly remarkeable and treasured companion.

So now Murder has the opportunity to retrace the footsteps of his elder canine mate...sirius.

After 2 hrs or so of driving we finally arrived at the parking area next to the shed at the end of a well gravelled spur road. The last time here a locked gate was encountered about half way up, so this time a considerable amount of walking time was saved.

From here it's a steady climb up through beautiful but stunted myrtle forest and climbing up and over many boulder sections.

Murder with his long legs bounded up with ease, though one climb up a boulder took a couple of attempts.

After 31min from the shed we both arrived at the old fire cabin which has seen better days.The views from up here  today are absolutely awesome though a little hazy on the horizon.

After Murder stood in for his photo opp, it was then off across the plateau to visit the Mt Arthur Trig cairn.

The trip across the plateau to the cairn only took a further 20min, where along the way Murder was able to get a good drink from running water, but exoect that will soon dry up over the summer.

A good rock scramble soon had Murder at the base of the cairn, right under the visitors log book container. There was a lovely cooling breeze here as Murder obligingly stood in for his 2nd photo op for the day.Extensive views out to Bass Strait and far inland. An excellent walk and highly reccommended to all....cheers ST.Its now back down to find some more GA caches before heading home.

The next cache....Between trees and a hard place...in the Hollybank Reserve was soon found in a good hide. The cache is in top nick..many thanks for the cache...Hammer-Oz....cheers ST.