The Ridgeway Ebenezer, New South Wales, Australia
By
teamMerlin on 05-Aug-16. Waypoint GA8312
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S33° 30.532' E150° 53.662' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 304420E 6290313N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 56 m |
| Local Government Area: | Hawkesbury City |
/150.894367,-33.508867,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
Originally an old firetrail, the top end in recent years has become a new sealed road called "The Ridgeway" and leads down to some new rural subdivisions...and caches.
A nice easy cache to celebrate the 2016 Rio Olympics and published as part of Geocaching Australia GeosportZ 2016 games.
Hints
Qba'g trg fghzcrq ba guvf bar |
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Decode |
Logs
We found this one but unfortunately it has come out of its hiding spot and the cache container has got quite damaged in the process. We managed to just sign the log and replaced as best we could but this one will need some love.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A nice cache hunt with thomo31, no problem finding this one and no I was not stumped by this one!
Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
In the area today. Parked close buy and nice quick one so I didnt have to spend too much time in the heat. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
After coming this way yesterday & completed some homework at home for a couple of multi and a Unknown or Mystery caches and today it was very hot again and unable to do yard jobs so came this way to complete some drive buys caches. this was the fifth of them.
Also, today I wanted to find this cache for the Journey or Destination - Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
1.Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
2.Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
3.Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
4.Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
5.Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills, Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache), Traditional, TrigPoint, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia, The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced, The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period, The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more), The geocache is one of the following types:, Moveable, Traditional, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
So, A BIG thanks for the cache, I must say a very interesting one and the location of it. TFTC / TFTH / SL
Also, today I wanted to find this cache for the Journey or Destination - Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
1.Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
2.Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
3.Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
4.Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
5.Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills, Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache), Traditional, TrigPoint, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia, The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced, The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period, The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more), The geocache is one of the following types:, Moveable, Traditional, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
So, A BIG thanks for the cache, I must say a very interesting one and the location of it. TFTC / TFTH / SL
Rated: for Overall Experience
#GA2322 - 09:40; Day two of the Macquarie mayhem cache hunt with Sol de lune and andrewbt. After a big day one with 56 out 59 finds, we were optimistic about another successful day two. A few cold ones, a few logs and a few more claims for the States of the Nation game set the scene for a good night's sleep and a spring in our step as we packed up and hit the trail again today. Hope the CO's are enjoying all the Karma points rolling in as we get through our logs 
. Nice to grab another trad among heaps of puzzles here. A nice quick find as advertised once we reached GZ. TFTC teamMerlin 
. Nice to grab another trad among heaps of puzzles here. A nice quick find as advertised once we reached GZ. TFTC teamMerlin Rated: for Overall Experience
No problems making the find and the cache was soon in hand. Great to get these quick finds.
Thanks TeamMerlin...
Thanks TeamMerlin...
Rated: for Overall Experience
#77
A big day around Sackville collecting 6xGC and 18xGCA caches.
Another one that was unplanned. I'd just SL and replaced when a motorbike rode past very slowly, then did a u-turn and asked what I was doing. Turns out it was the owner of the property on the other side of the fence. He was happy enough when I told him I was on a treasure hunt.
TFTC teamMerlin
A big day around Sackville collecting 6xGC and 18xGCA caches.
Another one that was unplanned. I'd just SL and replaced when a motorbike rode past very slowly, then did a u-turn and asked what I was doing. Turns out it was the owner of the property on the other side of the fence. He was happy enough when I told him I was on a treasure hunt.
TFTC teamMerlin
Rated: for Overall Experience
After an FTF 80m from GZ at 'Albatross' this was a much faster find while I explored the new GCA cashes in the area. Light is fading so I won't get them all... might have to come back tomorrow! Cheers!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Parked near Charles Kemp Reserve, after not having the correct info with me for the mystery decided to leave the car where it is and took a walk up the Ridgeway for my 2 unfound caches in this area, to get my steps up. It was a quick find at the coordinates. Signed the log and replaced as found. The cache is in good order. Thanks for the cache teamMerlin. Continued to walk up to the GC cache up on the bend. So ended up with 2 out of 3 will need to check what I brought for the mystery
Rated: for Overall Experience
travelling this way for a newly published mystery cache nearby. It seems my down loaded coordinates were incorrect. But just as I was about to give up the CO stopped. He advised I wasn't in the right place. I decided to use by back up gps unit (mobile phone)and a check with GA cacher on my phone soon had me at the right location. tftc
Rated: for Overall Experience
Checking the Geocaching Australia site and noticed a very close cache released which I had not made a find on.
So I quickly ducked out to make a find.
Being very dark it made an easy find a little more complicated.
Finding the cache with a pristine log. With log in hand signing duties completed.
Cache log and container in excellent condition.
Wow I got FTF at 20:03
Now to get a FTF on a Traditional (first GA Traditional find) (and a hole in one for GeosportZ).
TFTC Team Merlin
So I quickly ducked out to make a find.
Being very dark it made an easy find a little more complicated.
Finding the cache with a pristine log. With log in hand signing duties completed.
Cache log and container in excellent condition.
Wow I got FTF at 20:03
Now to get a FTF on a Traditional (first GA Traditional find) (and a hole in one for GeosportZ).
TFTC Team Merlin
Rated: for Overall Experience
