Asquith Adventure Asquith, New South Wales, Australia
By The 2 Dogs on 01-May-07. Waypoint GC12JMC

Found It!Ended up here while working through a nearby multicache so figured I should find this one to. Started searching at the wrong elevation at first but soon moved on to the right level and found the cache!TFTC

Long journey but nice end spot, enjoyed this.Found with ozbuckeyeTFTC

Quite a bloody journey to this one, but was actually pretty fun to get to. Not sure if we took the wrong way but it required a bit of climbing and adventure. Pretty nicely hidden too. The tunnel was really cool to see, some interesting artworks in there, nice to see an oldie out here.

This was a cache close to home that we had kept for a rainy day or other occasion. Today we decided to go for an adventure as we have managed to complete a 28 day streak. Thanks 2Dogs for the adventure.

Asquith Adventure was transferred from The 2 Dogs to user Geocaching NSW

Took a little bit of searching, but we got there on the end! Tftc!!!!

Today I decided to go for a bush walk up past here once I had completed maintenance on my cache "What's under the M1".

I just looked up when the last time I came to this cache. It was 29/01/2012. That's almost 10 years ago. This cache is one of the closest ones to me. It is also one of the oldest caches near me.

I stopped in to take a look at the cache. For a cache this old, it is still in good condition. I signed the log again.

I then walked from her all the way up to Kur-Ring-Gai Chase road along the fire trail which I have not done before. It is a moderate walk.

Thanks for placing this cache here, The 2 Dogs.

Nice, moderately difficult trek. Liked the tunnel, enjoyed the noise . Tftc

After walking through the tunnel, we continued to the spot to find the cache. I found the way up and then spotted the cache quickly.
TFTC

Out for a local adventure with the family and this cache wasn’t too far away. Hmmm how do we get up there? Luckily Lucassmurf and Riley smurf were on the case and found us a path.
Lucassmurf had this cache spotted even before I arrived at GZ.
TNLNSL
TFTC

I enjoyed the walk to this one, even if it was a little steep and a bit scary for my little legs.
TFTC

This one was fun
Had us looking a while and the GPS was jumping around a lot from 20m-5

Tftc

I made a failed attempt at this one earlier last year but didn't dare to ascend the wall. This time I came back and trusted my gps and managed the climb and made the find. Hopefully I can make it back down.

Lots of trails around here, will have to come back and explore.

We were on our way from a multi so did not come through the tunnel of doom (we explored this afterwards). It seemed like there was only one way up so the bravest person of the group was sent up. After a good 10 mins of searching he had the cache in hand.

Great fun.

Thanks for the cache.

I came through the tunnel of doom, then encountered the wall of death, then I found the stairway to oblivion, until I arrived at the cache of roaring mechanical monsters. Now to return.

Huff Huff puff puff
That was a bit of a climb after several red herring trails. Log dry and signed and pleasing to see the last poster brought their kids with them. Love to see children out and about in the bush! Thank you so much for placing this cache and listening to the traffic passing at breakneck speed, missing out on this secret life we enjoy so much.

That was a great spot. Was our first ever geocache!

Dad and I went for a local bushwalk to get some exercise and came past here. It was great to be able to find this cache, which Dad found over a year ago. We climbed down the side of the cliff and explored the area below. This is a really cool place, TFTC.

Out today doing my bit for social distancing #covid-19. Only discovered the existence of this cache a few nights ago and promptly added it to the itin. SO glad I did. Ridiculously good cache in fact cache of the day and gets a FP. The 2 Dogs does it again with yet another classic cache! TFTC!!
#1130

Here was one of those old-school caches that I had earmarked a long time ago. It's not often that I get up into that neck of the woods, so the cache has been on the to-do list for a long time. Finally, I made up my mind to do a caching run (a cycle, actually), to pick up several caches in the area, and get some training in for a cycling trip in New Zealand in January.

A really cool adventure, what with finding a way to get near this spot. Then I found the tunnel under the M1, and had an Indiana Jones moment of walking through the dark towards the light.

The next challenge was a short scramble which didn't phase me. Going up is always easier -- I was a bit worried about getting down again, but that I would deal with when the time came. First off I had to locate a container.

Fortunately, it didn't take long to spot the hiding place, even as my GPSr was bouncing around a bit and wouldn't quite settle. I extracted the box and opened it to access the log book. How wonderful that such caches have survived all these years. I added my mark, then closed up the container again and returned it to its hiding spot. The descent was not too tricky and soon I was again heading through the tunnel.

As with all The 2 Dogs caches, it was a thoroughly enjoyable adventure and a real treat to find this cache. All their hides I have found to date have been in lovely places I probably never would have known about had it not been for caching. I started caching in 2002, and this is what I remember caching was like: and adventure with a bit of a hike in a beautiful spot; long before the advent of micros in urban areas and the dreaded mint tins on lampposts, bridges and in ARMCO barriers.

Number 3 of today’s targets.even with the water there was enough room to walk through. Picked up a few small leeches here but quickly flicked them of. Had to find a path to a higher level but once done cache was soon found.

Found with bedlem2

“Up and up and up I go in search of the Precious...”
What an amazing spot! Shame about the rubbish.
TftC

Mrsmith00 and I targeted this and “What’s under the M1” this morning.
A pleasant walk though the bush as we looked for the track.
We tried a couple of different ways to no avail, before we found the “track” at the end of the track.
Made it to “What’s under the M1” and fairly quickly made the find.
We then ventured through the tunnel, and scrambled up the other side.
We found the other “track” and moved towards the GZ.
We made it to the foot of the cliff face and eventually realised we needed to ascend.
We found a way up, and eventually made our way to the GZ.
Found what we thought was the guardian, but eventually found the actual one and discovered the cache.
Signed as GOGGGG. (The Group of Glorious Geocaching Gaming Geeks).
Tftc.

Tftc, after we found the cache at the entrance to the nearby tunnel we headed through and then made the climb up towards this one. A scrabble up to the right level and quick search for a smiley. A careful scrabble down and back through the tunnel on the return.

The cache lived up to its name. After success on the western side I decided to tackle this one. Luckily the creek was manageable and after the darkened walk through the tunnel I made my way to GZ. Scaling a small cliff face in the process and several web Encounters, I searched for quite a while as the gps wasn’t playing nicely. I turn around and what’s this! Rested in a rock and signed the log. Now to find an easier way down. TFTC.

Another one checked off my to-do list.
This cache had interested me for a while as it filled a spot on my JASMER grid and seemed like it would be a nice walk out to it.
Having no plans for the morning i headed up and parked at the end of Grosvenor St.
The weather wasn’t the best for caching given it was overcast, breezy and raining on and off. This however meant that the temperature was perfect for a bushwalk.
Apart from being a bit slippery and having had a couple of trees fallen across it the track was well used and (mostly) easy to follow. I ended up walking through a light shower or three on the way there and back but these just cooled me down and so were much appreciated.
At the GZ i found the general area easily enough thanks to the clue but it took me about 20 mins of searching before i turned to the comments which mentioned a cache guardian. This focused my search and i soon had the CIH after that.
The cache is dry and in good condition.
Thanks.
#430

At last found it after finding a cute one on the other side and well enough hidden but the hard part is getting to it! Thanks for a great cashe!

Just had time for one quick outing today, so I thought I'd tackle this one. Previously I had thought about coming in from Wahroonga and following the survey trail from Ophidiophobia, or via the tunnel from What's under the M1. Instead I came in from the North along a promising looking trail that suddenly disappeared at a grasshopper infested grassy area. After a brief bash through the bush the trail resumed and led me to a point where I could cut across the top of the cliff.

I seemed to recognise this area from when I was much younger and I wondered if I had walked here from the trail at Chelmsford Rd in the days before the M1(then F3) was built. It certainly looks very familiar, and I had often tried to find a location like this over on the other side of the freeway. Finally I found the container after a fair amount of looking. It turns out I had earlier mistaken the guardian for a rotting (albeit interesting looking) piece of timber. TFTC, and thanks for bringing me (back?) here.

OMG! I don’t remember being scared like I was today for a long time, and not just once! I was about to give up for being alone and being late. But I calmed myself and put my brain to work. Finally found a kind of safe way to reach the cache. Very rewarding feeling when I was just a few meters of it. Even better when spotted it! Well deserved FP!
Thanks The 2 Dogs
#827

OCW PelDroedGwin

On the run after multi WP's we were too close to ignore this one.

After a challenging scramble we were on the right level and PDG soon had CIH

A fun one

TFTC

OCW the Bebes and we swung past this one as we were working our way through a local multi. We managed to scramble up the rock face to the right level and after a quick search had CIH. Tftc

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. Find#: 1465

Found on: 15 July 2018 14:14

Buddies: HUNbat

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: good



Difficult climb up to GZ but we managed it. TFTC TNLNSL

Find#: 1465
Found on: 15 July 2018 14:14
Buddies: HUNbat
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

Difficult climb up to GZ but we managed it. TFTC TNLNSL

TFTC!

That was good fun. Very cool location and clever clue. TFTC!

We were running around the bushes for the multi nearby. Anominous Sign decided to make a detour for this advanture. We ended up at the wrong terrain level and had to make our way up. We got there eventually. Thanks for the cache!

We arrived at the cache from the south east while tracking down one of the Monty Python multicaches. Woo! Thanks! After reading a few logs about a tunnel, I was tempted to track it down, but we had other fish to fry. Nice location. TFTC!

31 Dec 2017

Found with morry9.

With 2017 fast drawing to a close, I wanted to squeeze in a few more caches and also to pick up the ‘Last Cache of 2017’ digital souvenir. Having found another Digby23 cache the other day, I was keen to go for another and morry9 was keen to join me. We headed to Turramurra for the ‘THE BATTLE FOR BANNOCKBURN’ Multi Cache. Working through the field puzzle, I suspected a likely hiding spot before we had finished crunching the numbers. I was on the money but the co-ordinates helped us hone in on the physical cache. Another nicely constructed cache! Thanks For The Multi Cache Digby23.

I have been eyeing off the ‘How About A Crunchy Frog?’ Multi Cache over in North Wahroonga for some time and thought it would be a good day for it, despite it being a rather hot summer’s day. The first couple of Waypoints were easy enough, until we reached Mr. Milton's getaway car. Turns out the car is a little worse for wear but a quick Phone A Friend to the Cache Owner helped us get back on the scent. We bumped into a local muggle who was doing his own Cache In Trash Out, but without the caching. He had filled three large bags full of rubbish, which had being washed down stream. We had a chat and I helped pick up some rubbish too. What a champ! Anyway, turns out we needed to allow more time to finish off the Multi, so will have to return another day to catch Mr. Milton.

Being somewhat in the area, I wanted to detour to find The 2 Dogs’ ‘Asquith Adventure’ in Wahroonga. I do not think we came in the most common route, but a fairly easy scramble up the cliff lead us to the hide. Thanks For The Cache The 2 Dogs.

There was another The 2 Dog’s cache fairly close by in Wahroonga, ‘Ophidiophobia’, so definitely worth the quick stop. After some more scrambling and rock hopping, I soon had the Cache In Hand. Thanks For The Cache The 2 Dogs.

Having run out of time by this point, and needing to get to a New Year’s Eve party, we headed home. I wanted to get one more cache in, so on the way to the party, I swung by a cache I had previously logged as a Did Not Find, 'Along the Path' in Ryde. I had worked out where it was and definitely should have found it the first time (and would have been the First To Find) but that is the way it goes sometimes. A quick find here and I was on my way to ring in 2018! Thanks For The Cache League13.

"JordsAU

That was one long walk. Looking for a different cache 1/2 way through a multi and decided to find this one as well. Walked up a bit then found it with JordsAU. Cheers for the cache and Happy New Year!

Log to follow

Today we headed up to North Wahroonga to go in search of some older bush hides, including a "findable" Archived cache GC158A #15 Lover's Jump Stash, and to do a few waypoints of a Monty Python Multi-cache (Crunchy Frog). This was the 4th of 4 finds, and 4 waypoints, for the day.

After finding "Ophidiophobia" we continued following the track down to the creek, then crossed the creek and followed the track all the way to the cache location. Needed to do a bit of scrambling to actually reach GZ, but once there it was a reasonably quick find. TNLNSL, then replaced as found.

The cache guardian was looking a bit worse for wear, but still performing his duties admirably. TFTC The 2 Dogs.

Find #1958

Started from Mills Park and followed a drainage channel alongside the f3 until we got to the tunnel. On the other side we found a decent cave. There's not much left of the guardian anymore. TFTC

While doing a nearby Multi I detoured up the hill for a find that made no sense compared to the hint. But the guardian was a better give away!

TFTC.

Revisiting an old favourite to drop off a TB. Was considering coming via the F3 tunnel this time but opted for the closer track via the NP entrance again. Picked up Antarctica or Bust TB to move on. Love this bit of bush!

Wooo found it second time around from a different direction

Tried to find this one but couldn't get there so I'm going to try again but from a different side

Found on a trip to Sydney with BillHill531 to find a few caches on my short list. We started out strong, then lost sight of things when we spent way too long on a multi we did not even finish. Ending with six finds and that one incomplete.
This one was our fifth stop. I could not remember which cache I needed for a new placed month, so from the last one,, we just kept on coming. eventually ending up here. Great spot. I found a great cave/shaft where some rocks have split and wanted to go down, but decided not to get myself trapped down there. BillHill had some trouble getting to the top. We basically stuck to paths all the way here, but decided to take a more direct route back to the car. Lots of fun. Possibly slightly faster.
Thanks for keeping so many of your golden oldies going!

Found with TOMBI! doing some harder caches in Hornsby area. We started the "How About A Crunchy Frog?". Bit of a climb to get over the Rim. TFTC

This certainly was an adventure. I went the slightly long way through the bush and avoided the tunnel many have mentioned entirely. I feel I may have gone the hard way to get the final GZ but it was fun all the same. Thanks

Find #: 1,303
Companions: None
Muggles: None
Weather: Pleasant autumn morning
Cache condition: Good

I decided to attempt the nearby KRS multi, and knew that it passed fairly close to this cache. At the appropriate waypoint I decided to make an attempt, although was a bit unsure when I saw the angle and height of the cliff in front of me (a friend of ours has just successfully scaled Mt Everest, so I was hoping I didn't need to borrow any equipment), particularly in jogging gear. I worked my way around the edge until I found an easier way to ascend, and once on the plateau made my way to GZ, where I soon saw the guardian. I signed the log and replaced the container before taking a moment to appreciate the juxtaposition of the serene landscape and the nearby freeway traffic. Thanks for the cache.

#103
Really enjoyed the bush and adventure in this area. Rode mountain bike down fire trail near Mt Colah entrance of national park. Then walked the rest of the way following pink ribbons until another track headed off in direction of GZ. Saw that GZ was up high and followed an easy path straight to the cache. Thanks for bringing me to this part of the world so close to home. TFTC

I set out today to do Kid Ron Satan's nearby multi and I was heading past this one so I grabbed it. My instincts took me to the right spot pretty quickly. I must have missed a bushfire over the last few days because there were a few smouldering tree trunks nearby. TFTC!

Wow what a trek! Found the easy way up - avoided the milk crates as the passage was a bit narrow and then started wondering around until I spotted it from behind. Only noticed the guardian when leaving!

Lost the main trail several times before re-emerging at North Wahroonga

TFTC The 2 Dogs

Where is it

Been eyeing this off for a while

Either I took the dangerous route ( up the face) or it is more difficult than a T3!

Loved it and will give a fave when able



This entry was edited by Lavinian on Friday, 03 July 2015 at 08:53:37 UTC.

Awesome head of ages

While on the case on a multi, walked up the trail and at one stage had myself in a spot of bother, white knuckling the sandstone.
Climbed down and soon had a cacher trail to follow.
Sad state of affairs to the last goat climber who marks the hide location. Thanks The 2dogs

#1458 (2 of 3 today)

Decided to come up north a bit in search of good confectionery... Was hoping to grab four other caches here as well, but by crunch time I'd had enough and left two unfound.
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After a few wrong turns chasing Mr Milton, I finally got to GZ of this cache.

Hmmm, looked around for a way to GZ. Took a while until I spotted a trail... that'd be right.
Near GZ I checked a likely spot (empty) as I walked to a rocky spot to drop my backpack and start the search.
Started looking near this second spot, as I had 2 metres there, but soon a shift in coordinates pushed me near the spot I'd checked, and there was another possible hide... And it was, indeed the hide.
CIH!

Completed signing duties as the cars whizzed past.
Such a great spot here, and so close to transport.

Now back to Mr Milton!

SLTNLN
TFTC

A mission to do the entire Crunchy Frog multi with SSSonya today, this was a pleasant intermission to a well hidden cache. Now where's GZ [?] ..... ahhh, good hint (always appreciated, thanks). We managed to get to GZ and back, but presumably not so lucky for the last mountain goat . Another excellent cache, T2D's, thanks for going to the effort. TFTC

Came to hunt for this cache along our journey for KRS's Crunchy Frog multi. Followed our gps to the edge of the lower area before realising we had to be higher up. After a brief scramble up the slope, we made it to the top Once up here, we quickly had CIH after spotting the cache guardian. TFTC!

Still chasing the Crunchy Frog multi with Baktrak who remarks that there should be a cache near here! Sure enough the GPSr agrees and so after getting our clues for the multi we headed up here. It wasn't what I expected at all, but I really liked the guardian and the cache was at least as well preserved! Thanks The 2 Dogs for another fine, enduring cache.

Attempting a nearby multi and having some serious troubles navigating there, we found ourselves very near the GZ for this cache. Luckily we were already at the correct level. The cars were roaring by at the nearby freeway as we searched for the cache. After searching high and low we found the cache and its hilarious 'cache guardian' in a nice hiding place.

Another great 2 Dogs cache - we appreciate your work.

Thanks so much.

I was needing to get some clues for a KRS Multi, so I decided to make an adventure for the day. Having parked at the tennis courts I headed straight down towards the freeway following a wallaby trail until I reached a barbed wire fence.
I followed it north until I spotted a drainage ditch which I figured must lead to the tunnel - which it did. On my way back out I met a family coming the other way along the ditch which indicated that the trail I saw to the west of the ditch must go to and from suburbia. So, n the way out I took this fire trail which although it wound about a bit it did lead me straight back to the entry gates to the tennis courts. The upshot is that apart from coming in from the east or North through the Kuring-gai bush, there are a number of easier (legal and sensible) ways of getting to the cache.
The tunnel was a highlight. There is something 'cool' about being under the freeway and heading into the bush with all those vehicles passing by oblivious to your presence and probably the tunnel as well. If you are musically inclined, take a flute or any instrument and check out the acoustics. They really are quite spectacular. I only had my voice with me so a few Gregorian chants worked a treat as the echo is so long it allows your voice to get a four part harmony going! Once out the other side I climbed up to the left and closed in on GZ. made my way past up and around to get to the guardian where the signing duties were completed.
I really enjoyed this adventure 2 Dogs! I also got the clues I required and completed a few more sections of the KRS Multi.

Geo-Haiku:
Echoes of the past
From the tunnel of The Dogs...
Asquith Adventure!

13/10/14. 11:07 AM. Cache #1933. Streak day #113. A few months ago, I started to attempt this one, but didn't go via the Mills Park tennis courts. Instead, I parked on Kuring-Gai Chase Rd quite a ways NE of the cache and walked west along that road until just a little before the M1. From here, a trail heading south showed up on the satellite maps, but it didn't go the whole way towards GZ; at a later stage I had a heavy bush bash, the rain had started and I was running out of time, so I abandoned the search that day.

Fast forwards to today and I still didn't read enough of past logs to pick up on the tennis courts entry. I quickly scanned that others had paired this with Ophidiophobia so I tried that, without having seen that they had done it in a different order. I parked at the northern end of Grosvenor St in North Wahroonga and followed the Gibberagong Walking Track, where Yelyac & I had picked up the Ophidiophobia / Cygnet3 double almost 2 years ago. Took the narrow side path and found myself near Ophidiophobia before too long. From there, the same narrow path continued downhill, with lots of low branches requiring ducking, bobbing and climbing - it was quite physical. I noticed that my way was signposted by someone before me with the occasional rock pile.

I got down to a creek crossing and then had a new path back up, this time signposted with pink ribbons. Following these, I wondered why I was being led away from the cache, but they turned a few corners, and by the time the ribbons ran out I had a straight line to GZ. By the time I got to the culverts, I was only 40m away but I realised from past logs that I now had to negotiate the cliff climb. My shoes weren't the grippiest of sneakers, but I took it slowly and carefully, got to the top and had a short walk to the cache guardian. An easy find; I opened and read the old logs. Another old 2 Dogs cache down and now there are only 8 traditionals unfound in my home 10km.

Back to my car in the reverse of the above, with no dramas locating all the same tracks and junctions. Although I had also added some waypoints on the phone just in case, it was able to stay in my pocket on the way back. Now why didn't I use the hell portal that asbestiform had noted? Would have saved me heaps of time. Thanks for a great workout 2Dogs, that was lots of fun and worthy of a fave point. }:)

Cross posted at Ophidiophobia.
A bright sunny morning and a choice, start annual accounts or go for an adventure? The later, thanks very much! So the plan was to pick up both the 2 dogs caches east of the F3/M1, this one and Ophidiophobia. Parked at the tennis courts and wandered down the fire trail. The direct path was blocked by some cliffs so continued till an easier way was found. This happened to also link to a lower fire trail and narrower track that lead down to the culvert entrance. The sign at the entrance suggests Kid Ron Satan will be welcome here! Passed through unhindered and set out up the steep slope to GZ past the hanging gardens. The area seems to have been cleared out recently and a well formed path lead me to a likely spot. Turned on the vintage etrex and found myself only 30m from GZ so skipped further along the cliff tops. Saw the cache before the guardian. Signed the log. Set the controls for Ophidiophobia, straight line distance 580m. Wandered back down and crossed over the culvert then down the creek a little way, over the small ridge then down to Cockle Creek. Was sure I was going to get wet here but found a dry spot to cross. Snaked my way through moderately dense bush to the snakey GZ. Spotted the small green snake first, then the cache. All in good order! Signed and returned. Then backtracked for a while till I crossed a distinct track I missed on the way up. Followed this down to Cockle creek-nice boulders but very cloudy water. Back up the hill then and managed to miss the culvert creek so almost was back to Asquith Adventure. Back to the culvert where a leap over the drainage line tossed my phone in the bush. This is where the choice of gum leaf brown as a cover was a bit of a mistake, but fortunately phone was quickly recovered. (memo to self-place in pocket with working button next time). Thence forth back through the culvert and home. It's not even lunch yet, now to those accounts. Thanks for the Adventure 2 Dogs!

Received a bit of intel on the best access point which made it quite easy and very pleasant to locate the tunnel under the F3. Emerged on the other side and made my way north until the cliff beckoned. The route up was easy but did need a bit of thought. Arrived at GZ to be confronted by the cache guardian. I made my introduction and said the secret words and the guardian moved aside and permitted me to make the find. Great to tick off another 2Dogs adventure cache (the 2nd in 2 days!!)
The return journey was uneventful once I figured out the way back to the tunnel. No snakes, no leeches, no ticks...... Great cache and fantastic tunnel!
Worth a hundred of the lazy, uninspiring urban nanos and micros. Gets a favourite!
SL TFTC

Well I definately had an almost surreal adventure. Had done no route preparation, as I ended up unexpectedly in the area with ~1.5 hours to spare.

Left on what was marked as a trail from North Wahroonga, at 7:45pm, and as it was (obviously) getting dark, put my headlamp on. The trail started promisingly, as it wound its way to a creek. Then, illuminated by the occasional flash of lightning, I tried to continue along. However, the trail became very faint and I lost it a few times.

Got to near GZ and some gentle rain started to fall. Took a direct line to where my phone was taking me, and realised the scale of the drop. Reversed, found a different approach and soon had the cache in hand.

The way back was tougher. On the way to the creek I seemed to be always parallel, but never quite on the track. I see how people get lost in the bush - I had an iPhone an a GPS, but I still struggled to navigate. At the creek, I was very glad to see my footprints from where I had crossed before. I still lost the track once more on the way!

Once back in the car and driving home, went to scratch my ankle. Hmmm, squishy. Stopped the car, lept out, and had to disengage two leeches!

Nice adventure for dark night and ironman !!

After finding a cache on the same side of the freeway I sat on a rock and saw that this one looked in reach. I had always planned to find this one but from the Asquith side. I set off and found a path going in the right direction, so far so good. I then hit a creek and rather than doing the obvious thing and look for the path on the other side, I walked down the creek, crossed and was confronted with a steep hill. I tried to bush bash up but gave up and decided to head back to the car. However, I couldn't let it go and picked up a path again. Eventually it twisted around and made a beeline for the GZ! After a walk, I was then confronted with another steep obstacle - a steep cliff. I walked around for a bit, attempted a rock climb, then backed down and made my way up another path. I was relieved to see the guardian! After signing I didn't fancy climbing the same way down so bush bashed down an easier way and thankfully found the path back with the aid of GPS backtracking - what did I do without it?! Enjoyed the walk along a less well trodden path and it did turn out as a mini adventure. TFTC.

Ever since I moved up this way this one has been nearby and teasing me. So after wasting my time voting (I am in the 2nd safest Liberal seat in the country so I don't think how I number things is going to make any difference) I figured I might as well put the remainder of the afternoon to some use.

Read the previous logs for some inspiration and headed to the tennis courts. Hmmm, what's the best way in? Just how dangerous can a fire trail be anyway. Headed down and it gradually took me lower, then I found a track to the drain. Which way I wonder? Headed one direction but it soon became apparent that wasn't going to work, so reversed my direction and eventually stumbled upon the access router under the F3. Certainly some amazing acoustics in here, tried various things like whistling, hand clapping and so on with some interesting results. Once out the other side it was apparent from previous logs where I needed to be, but how to get there. By heading right I found a way up that wasn't too strenuous then made me way back to the cache where the guarding was immediately spotted. Once signing duties were complete traced my route back, to come back under the F3 onto the fire trail to find myself in the middle of a war with lots of young kids in military camo shooting each other with electronic guns while someone took photos of them.

Certainly an adventure this one and well recommended. Thanks 2 Dogs.

This one has been on my to-do list for a long time but I have avoided doing it due to the time factor. This morning I had to drop YGAT at Hornsby to catch a train to the Central Coast and, as this cache was the nearest unfound, I decided to give it a go.

I went in from the Mills Park Tennis Centre knowing, from previous logs, that I needed to find the tunnel under the freeway. This took longer than it should have as I made a couple of wrong choices. Eventually, I just let logic guide me and followed a water course which led me to the underpass.

Once under the F3 the way involved a couple of fairly steep climbs before I was at GZ, thankfully for a quick find. I was fortunate that the route I followed took me directly through a breach in the barbed wire fence.

All in all, a great adventure, true to the cache’s name. Thanks The 2 Dogs, it gets a favourite from me.

Another great find while touring around from cache to cache.

Quite a bit more challenging than I expected.
SL TFTC

We had seen this a while ago but had never really done much planning as we thought it would be a big adventure and a bit messy. Today we had to wait 1.5hrs to pick something up in hornsby so this was our nearest un found cache so after checking a few past log times we headed off. A great little mini adventure but fortunately no leeches or snakes. We neared GZ and then saw the guardian who was looking in the direction of the hide to help us make a quick find. We signed the log and re hid. TFTC.

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Thursday, 27 December 2012 at 21:41:47 UTC.

Started out at mills tennis court an found a track at the entrance. Was able to follow the track straight to the f3 underpass. From there I found my way to GZ smoothly and made a find. An awesome little adventure I'd recommend! Thanks

Fantastic cache! On a fine afternoon I set off from the northern side near the top of the freeway. In the way in a faced a choice of jumping the barbed wire and having an easy run down, or take on the bush. I chose the latter, came across a few goannas and a large brown snake in the long grass - something to be aware of if taking this adventure on -but made GZ in about 20 mins. The guardian is starting to age, but is still in pretty good condition. Pretty easy find in the end. On the way out I found a gap to get under the barbed wire and took the easy track back to the car. TNLN.

#1395 - Another Alfyboy Adventure

Well... After reading and re reading logs and emailing other cachers over the last many months, I had planned a method of attack for this long overdue cache. There were 2 entries points, and I had decided the under the freeway option was the best plan for now.

Today, Fathers Day, we arrived home, and I told the fam, that I was heading out on a well deserved cache run. It was 3.30pm as I quickly decided on this cache and drove over following my GPSr. It wanted to take me up the F3 for a bit, before exiting on Ku Ring Gai Chase road. Here I had a thought and decided to change my plan and go from North. It was just on 5pm and the light was disappearing fast, so I needed to get moving. I parked, grabbed my backpack and found a nice little track in from the road, heading to GZ.

This only last for 100m or so and then I realised I would be bush bashing the rest of the 800m. Luckily the bush isn't that thick, and navigating was easier to do than expected. I made the distance in good time with still plenty of daylight left. Got to GZ, found the huge cliff and shortly thereafter found the guardian. From here it was easy to find the cache. Taa Daa

I made the find, SL, TNLN and replaced everything back properly again. Then I just enabled the backtrack feature on the GPSr and it guided me back the way I came. Veered a little, but again the bush on the way back was not as thick as Google Maps would have you think. Got back to the track and back to the car in around 35m having walked 1.9kms Great to finally complete this cache, great spot, well done 2 Dogs, and a mighty fine (Asquith) Adventure, FAV from me. TFTC.

Found by Nanny and Bo on an overcast Tuesday afternoon.
To attempt this cache , one has to be either a totally fanatical geocacher or insane.
As we fit both catagories, we started from Mills Park, but Nanny stopped after the type of terrain became clear.
There was a struggle to get down to the barbed wire fence. Slid under.
Walked down and down the waterway, on and on. Then at last the tunnel under the freeway was reached.
On the other side, the terrain got steeper and more difficult. Bo gradually climbed up.
The GPS was not too accurate until on higher ground.
Eventually got to GZ and the cache was not too hard to spot.
Signed log.
Took nothing and left nothing.
Thanks for the cache.

Glad we've had some pretty good weather, glad it wasn't overly hot, glad I've got a new pair of caching boots!! 100% an adventure, leeches, small rock climbing, bush walking. TFTC and the adventure. I've got no idea how people find places like this!! Lol

Anyone watching this cache that hasn't found it yet ? Thinking of doing the adventure soon but maybe would like to team up with someone.

I did start after work on my way home with a limited amount of time before it started to get dark.
I didn't cheat,
I didn't follow the herd,after all the recent rains I thought it would be too wet down there. From what I did see of it, it looked dark, stagnant and smelly.
I did cross to the other side of he the barbwire as it was a little easier walking on that side for a while, then crossed back.
I did find the better track on the way back to the car, than I used on the way.
I did get to the top of a decent size cliff and look at the GPS and see that I still had 230m to walk.
I did get suspicions of GPS app and reset it, where it hence told me I was only 9m away from the cache and no need to go down the aforementioned cliff.
I did spot the cache before the cache guardian.
At that point in time I did not need a bicycle tire patch, pink pen. a plastic ring or air freshener so I did not make a swap. I did sign the log with the pink pen, however it is nearing the end of its life.
I did not have a new pen on me to place in the cache, can the next visitor drop one in.
I did make it back to the car with just enough light to see where I was going.
I did have an adventure.


(Edit)I did get 148 bites, which I later realised turned out to be tiny grass ticks.

This entry was edited by SuperMoosie on Monday, 02 April 2012 at 23:43:22 UTC.

This entry was edited by SuperMoosie on Monday, 02 April 2012 at 23:44:05 UTC.

This was my first find for 2012. It is a very short walk from my home.

I started at the entrance to the fire trail and walk down until I found the path, water course to the left. This took me to the tunnel under the freeway. Once on the other side I took my bearings again and found I needed to go to the left.

Getting closer to GZ I found myself presented with a large cliff. I took a breather and read some of the other logs. I got a clue from Yurt on the best way up. It was RIGHT in front of me.....

After getting up to the top, I found the Cache very quickly. I looked though the log book and Cache. I logged my find and placed it back. It is in very good condition. I placed it back in its location, repositioned the guardian and headed back down to the tunnel.

Thank you The 2 Dogs for this Cache as I would never have ventured down that way from my home.

Love the leeches on this one.

Yes, this was quite the adventure without a gps that's for sure. I found the trailhead pjmpjm refers to and following my nose (& the noise) quickly found the tunnel under the freeway. Emerging unscathed out the other side, I thought "how easy is this?, cache will be just up the hill here and I'll be back at the car inside 20mins!"

30 mins later after searching crevices, drains, rock piles all the way up to a huge rock face, I had found nothing - no cache, no guardian, nothing.
Fortunately I had the foresight to print & bring a few of the more descriptive logs from other cachers and I sat down and read them. Yurt's was especially helpful - and I soon realised that I somehow had to scale that huge rock face.

For some reason I headed toward the freeway and found myself climbing the rock wall adjacent to the road, in full view of the traffic. It was actually a pretty easy climb but it wouldn't have looked like it to the passing cars. Anyway, I was soon up and making my way along the top of the rock face. Spotted the guardian & cache pretty quickly. Signed log and found a less conspicuous way down.

A great Asquith Adventure indeed. Leech count: 2 sucking and 3 milling around in my shoes looking for a meal. Other wildlife: a big wallaby and a circling bird of prey. Thanks 2 Dogs for a great cache.

I've wanted to try this one for a while now but bush bashes in 40 degree heat are foolish. Well today we only hit 39 degrees so set off on the north route. Plenty of webs across the path so a stick is reommended kit for this one. The trail and the old road come and go so it's a good idea to stop and look around for a while to avoid venturing too far into the thick stuff. Didn't fancy the long walk back to the car so baktrakked rather than taking the drain route. TN, left a puzzle watch. Thanx dogs.

It looked like it was time for someone else to take on the adventure!
With my recent bush bashing experience (GCYZEK) I decided to try via the route that lizzyn hinted at. Google earth showed me that I track I had noticed that brached off right at the start of the walking track to Kalkari (starting a little before the pay booth on Ku-ring-gai Chase Road) appeared to head in the right direction.
I found that it was much more clearly defined that I expected and although there was some bush bashing at times there was also some quite open and easy going areas that where probably used during the F3 construction. There was also what looked like the remains of an older 'road' that made the approach easier than I was hoping. There were also some very steep slopes (mounds left from the F3 construction?).
I found the guardian had fallen down and appeared to not be in as good a condition as in pjmpjm's photo.
Having plenty of time I decided to make a round trip of it an try exiting via the tunnel under the F3. It was not easy to find a way down, and I had to do some exploring to find the tunnel. I see that the art work has been updated since pjmpjm's visit. There was a table and the eastern end of the tunnel and a couple of chairs a little further in. I wonder how long they will last? I finally followed the fire trail back to civilisation and headed off down Dudley St for the long loop back to my starting point.
Took a speed boat. Left a whistle.
Only wildlife spotted was two goannas (no leeches).

#4825 Found this cache as part of the Rats, Steeba & FarmerFrentzen blitz on the Port Stephens area. Our last find for the weekend and one that we made a total meal of. as they say, "you live and learn"
Thanks 2 Dogs

Found with FarmerFrentzen and The Rats.

The last one for the weekend. As you might guess from the other's logs we tried the "don't attempt this way" route which ended up in a debacle (we found the cache though ).

Thanks for an adventure that's for sure.

Found during a weekend run with The Rats and steeba.

We decided to approach this one from a completely different perspective and really made a meal of it. We got out in the end but I would put it down as one that we really shouldn't have attempted the way we did.

TNLN and thanks The 2 Dogs for the cache.

This was a very, very satisfying find!

I've had the 'Asquith Adventure' geocache on my short list for a long time, and was encouraged by Yurt to try it. However, it always seemed like a fairly daunting expedition, so I delayed my trek for several weeks and poured over the relevant maps night by night. I also carefully studied the electronic logs written by those geocachers who attempted the F3 wilderness crossing -- and who lived to tell the tale!

A little trail of unknown origin, found by Yurt quite near the motorway drain, gave me an important clue and, sure enough, I eventually discovered a better way of getting to the F3, without any real bush bashing. The subterranean graffiti motorway adventure -- a long black tunnel with a stream running down the centre, traversed with no torch -- would be a story in itself. But in the end I emerged unscathed and with a new appreciation for vivid street art. And the final trail-less navigation from the far eastern side of the F3 'up' to precipitous GZ was as challenging as I expected from Yurt's descriptions.

However, the recent rain held off, I wore my best hiking boots, and I was actually able to reach the remote cache and be back at the waiting GeoBuru within the hour! Most of my time in-between was spent 'rock climbing' and bush bashing east of the F3, finding a reasonably safe route to where I knew the cache must be . . .

Saw 'The Guardian' first and then the cache, which was in good condition. TNLNSL.

This is probably not the cache for the younger geokids and it does demand a level of physical fitness and a certain sense of adventure. Some moderate rock climbing skills would help too, although I can now see that there would be roundabout ways of completely by-passing the initial cliffs.

Reaching a point I often thought would be completely inaccessible was one of this year's geocaching highlights for me.

So many thanks again to the Dogs! This was a memorable adventure indeed . . .

tftc tnln sl easy find cheated by parking on f3 found gz and back on my way in under 15mins i like the guardian of the cachce

To us, the previous finders antics are the reason why we are not Geocaching much anyome. Not only are their actions illegal but they displayed a complete lack of sportsmanship and respect for the game. It seems that many of the players today are here for no other reason than to get numbers up while putting minimal, if any, effort into the quest at all. What a pity they have gone about it this way and how much adventure have they missed out on?. If it was allowed under the rules I would delete their find.

Well it was about time this cache was found again. I am trying to set an example in my jihad against lazy caching by doing every cache in our 10km radius and then moving outwards. This one has sat on the top of our closest to home list for way too long. We made a half-hearted attempt about 9 months ago where we tried to find a trail from the tennis courts but realised it was not going to be easy and a bit late in the day so we retired before we had got very far. This time we were determined to do this as an after-school cache.

Got to the tennis courts at around 330pm. In my scanning of Google Earth I thought I'd seen a track running parallel to the freeway so we bashed our way straight down the hill as we'd not been able to find any track emanating from the car park. Got to the bottom and hit a barb wire fence. Discovered what I thought was a trail was actually an open drain running along the top of the cutting. We followed the fence through some rough bush until we hit a gap in the fence where the drain passed through then logically thought we'd follow the drain until we found the tunnel. Not so easy, there's trees across the drain and vegetation overgrowing it here and there making us detour around.

Finally we saw a trail come in from the left - so that's the easy way? Then found the tunnel under the freeway and walked through, not much water and no obstructions now - have all washed through. Plenty of recent graffiti at each end, at least it's out of sight. Turned left out of the tunnel and made our way up the hill, got back into another open drain and followed that to where an enormous rock lay. Looked like it had fallen from space. Also had a tunnel under it which the geoson tried exploring but wondered if he could get out again. Found ourselves at the bottom of a cliff about 20m from the GZ so went to the right and found a rough way up which we gave up and went a bit further to the right, finally getting to the top. Made our way to GZ and found a typical 2Dogs cache. Signed the log but didn't take anything but a .22 shell casing that someone has dropped a collection of into the cache. We replaced the "cache guardian" which had fallen into the crack. Beware! He's watching you!

Made our way back out trying to follow the same route, enjoyed the echoes in the tunnel - you can hear sound reverberate for up to five seconds, I kid you not. Tried following the trail out but reached a point where it went left and right so went left as that was the direction of the car. Wrong! Found ourselves following a quarry and then had the same bushbash back up the hill. Quite degraded bush here with lots of dead scrub and rubbish along with weeds.
Thanks for a great adventure. Don't believe anyone who says it's easy, they must have a helicopter! Still it's worth it.

Found it, good one, first visitors in 2010, fun trek. TNLN. Posting this from the spot!

We definately did this one the wrong way around.
First, we parked in the breakdown bay on the freeway.
Second, we did it in the dead of night with fading light from expiring torch batteries.
Thirdly, tried to exit via barbed wire fences and scaled along the top of the cutting on the east side of the freeway, until we could jump down the 12 or 15 feet to the road.
Fourth, played daredevil with semi-trailers roaring along the F3 while walking back to the car.
At least we got the prize ..... and lived to tell the tale.
TFTC
Cache # 403.

138 - Thoroughly enjoyed the adventure! Took me a while to work out how to get to the right level! Top Cache. TFTC

What an adventure! TFTC SL

no probs, even with bub. nice location.