Gregor's Hideaway Forest Range, South Australia, Australia
By J_&_J on 31-Dec-16. Waypoint GA9076

Found It!
A nice little multi and a nice little walk to GZ. Well expect the last 50m, that bit was a bit challenging! I don't think I've ever been to this park before - I didn't even know it existed!
TFTC

Staying in Adelaide for a week we have been focusing on finding some GCA caches and this was one of them. Have driven around the outskirts of Adelaide on previous visits to SA so nice to stop this time and let geocaching be our guide. Easy find once at GZ, cache and contents are in good condition. Thanks J_&_J for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment - we enjoyed the journey to this cache, finding the information required to complete this straightforward multi cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Planning for this trip began in June - we knew we would be heading to Adelaide but which way would we go? This depended on our targets. We looked at our list of unclaimed Dragon Zone trophies and picked out several that we could feasibly collect the required number of finds to qualify for the trophy. We then had to identify caches that would meet our targets and from here it was time to plan a route that would take us past the caches we had identified. Any caches too far off our route were discarded and replaced by suitable alternatives.

All was running smoothly until the Christmas in July game was announced. We would be travelling in the latter part of the game. It was difficult to include this in our target caches as we did not know what was required. Once the game began and we understood what we needed to do we could then add other caches to the target list.

We were just getting our heads, yes all four of them, around this when more Dragon Zone trophies were added. Which ones could we meet and which should we ignore? Do we need to add more GA caches and/or do we need to change our route and our targets? We decided on our target list and then our route and timeline. We had just drawn a line under everything and were about to begin printing our caching booklets, route maps and target lists when caught@work published 23 new caches on the Western Ring Path. Earlier we had decided on the caches in the Edgewater Walk series. If we added the new ones on the Western Ring Path and as many of the CCC series as possible, we could probably reach the required number of caches to qualify for the Dragon Zone trophies “Restraining Order Stalker” (Find 100 DZ caches hidden by the same cacher) and “Obsession!=Insanity” (find 50 DZ caches in a day). As the latter would give us our first Blaze Trophy, it was decided to alter everything to include the CCC series.Four Fun, in South Australia published five puzzle caches that would bring good points in the Christmas in July game. Can we solve the puzzles? A few more adjustments to the route and the caches to find list and we would be off.

Having successfully completed our Melbourne challenges and gained our first Blaize Dragon Zone trophy it was time to focus on the Christmas in July game and start on the Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park puzzle caches recently published by Four-Fun. With Four-Fun's puzzles found it was time to concentrate on several other GCA caches nearby. We needed to find one cache today to fill one of the three remaining days of our Frigid Solstice. We had been passed the general area yesterday so when we got a short break from grand parent duties today we popped out to look for this cache and the nearby trig point.

We parked the car above the reserve entrance and walked down, We soon had the required information and set out on Gregor's Walk. We enjoyed seeing the range of plants beside the track but were surprised to see some very vigorous blackberry clumps. When we were about 60m from GZ we made our way from the path and picked our way carefully up through the bush to GZ. As we approached we could see the cache container in the open. it appeared that one of the local animals had kicked the bark covering off.

On opening the cache container and extracting the log book we were surprised to find that we were only the third team to sign the log. Cache container and contents were in very good condition. We replaced the container and covered it with bark that we anchored in place with a few stout sticks. Hopefully this will keep the cover in place. Then it was time to continue up the hill to the trig point.

Thanks for a nice little multi in an area that is deserving of a cache J_&_J. We really enjoyed our walk and will put this area on our to revisit in Spring when wild flowers may be out list. It would be interesting to know who or what Gregor was.

While in the area, went for a wander along Gregors pleasant little track
Cheers & for TFTH J&J

thanks for the cache J & J FTF@ 1130. over from perth and decided to grab some caches in the area. n8ce drive out from gawler. just finished light rain, grabbed the coordinates and enjoyed the stroll along the track with a very strong smell of eucalyptus in the which made very pleasant. at a strategic point i decided to do an orienteering trick and walked diagonlly up the hill paralell with the track avoiding a steep climb and no blackberries. the cache was gound very easily as it was uncovered and signed the log. thanks for bringing me to an beautiful piece of bush whilst listening to kookaburras which i have not been to before when i lived here.
ps i rang the bell in victory and claimed it as a prize

Rated: for Overall Experience

Kushicilelwe