Scooter on the Oaks Woodford, New South Wales, Australia
By Mr and Mrs Packo on 02-Sep-07. Waypoint GC15KJ7

Time to move on with other things.

Still waiting on a mountain bike so did the 14km return walk from Woodford for my daily isolation exercise. Fantastic to go out for a long walk and actually have the incentive of finding a geocache. Beautiful area. TFTC

TFTC - Cool Spring day (first) and decided to walk down to this one from Woodford. The plan was to cut across to Lost world and back to Springwood via Martins Lookout. On the way to the cache I spent way too long exploring the surrounding area, bushbashing down gullies and climbing up lonely peaks. Recent back burning made some of this easy however the gullies were rather hard work. The cache was an easy find and in good order. Started walking back towards Woodford only to realise that i had taken the cache pen with me. Back i went adding an extra 45 min onto the trip. A nice walk on the first day of spring with no a soul in sight.

A great day for a walk down the fire trail from Woodford. Once at GZ it was a quick find, and the cache is in good condition.

MrT and friends did the Woodford to Glenbrook Bike trail today. He looked up the cache info and put it in his GPS before heading off. No trouble locating the cache. Cache is in good condition. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Well this was one big adventure! Missed the first train because it was packed and couldn't get the bikes in - how were we to know Ironfest was on today, and apparently it is a very popular event. Got the next one, changed at Blacktown then half way to Penrith I realised I left my backpack at the station we got on so we got off at Penrith, told the guard and he phoned the previous station and relief as the backpack was found by staff and was waiting for me to pick up, so back we go. Eventually we got to Woodford, and looked forward to a nice easy downhill ride to Glenbrook. Wrong! This was our first mountain bike adventure, and on the first half of the ride, it seemed there was more up than down, more walking bikes up and down steep hills than riding, and even a fall for one of us as well as a snake sighting.

So we took it easy, and had a few snack and water breaks along the way as we appreciated the nice sunny day in the mountains. The cache was easily found, log signed and cache replaced as found. From about here, the ride got flatter, easier and more enjoyable. At The Oaks Picnic Area we decided to take the single track to avoid cars on the dirt road, and here one of our group had a flat tyre. We eventually got back on the sealed road near the helipad as it was getting late in the day. The steep hill up from Glenbrook Weir was a killer, and I barely made made it walking up with bad cramps. Salvation finally as we made it to Glenbrook station just after sunset for a pleasant trip back home. We found the ride a bit challenging for us first timers but at the end of the day it was an enjoyable experience and a great day out. Thank you for placing the cache and bringing us to this nice area. TFTC TNLNSL.

A great adventure for our group that had it all - no room for bikes in full trains, backpacks left behind at train stations, snake sightings, falls, flat tyres and cramps. Not bad for a first time mountain biking trip. The cache was easily found in obvious spot and is in good condition, contents are nice and dry. The first half of the ride was a bit challenging but we took it nice and easy and enjoyed the whole experience. TFTC TNLNSL.

On a rainy Sunday morning

Keen to do the Oaks Fire Trail by mountain bike and the trail didn’t disappoint - cracker! Finding the cache was an added extra so thanks for placing.
Regards, Yeeejit from Ireland.

A very apt name for this trip. Dan started the day cycling from Woodford. He detoured to the Lost World cache but managed to wreck the rear derallier. He returned to The Oaks firetrail by walking uphills and scootering downhills. Unfortunately, there were more uphills than downhills. Although eventually, he managed a 30 minute continuous downhill ride before finally getting to Glenbrook. Took the two TBs. TFTC

Found it, nice cache

Not a quick park and grab. Haven't been here for about 12 years, before kids. Had eldest son TLCacher1 for his trip on the oaks. What a great day. Hope many more to come
Thanks for the cache

#3316 - After a suggestion from a colleague at my contract workplace, I decided to give this trail a go on the trusty Apollo Kosciusko mtb. Great ride and nabbed this cache after the Garmin 62s was causing a few problems taking me into the bush uphill some 40 metres away - eek. Nice overlooking spot of the track but no riders have come past. (Only one come past the whole route - I was expecting many more) Many thanks to the CO **Mr and Mrs Packo** for establishing and maintaining this site.

Workmates organised us to go on the Woodford to Glenbrook Oaks Track. Well this is the first mountain bike ride I have done in many years. So a little more strenuous than others find it. However all done and no injuries. Stopped to get the cache. Log signed and it was back on the bike to finish. Thanks Mr & Mrs Packo. Fantastic. A favorite point from me.

Just passing again (walking this time) and checked on the cache. Found 2 geocoins in it so took them with us. As always TFTC.

Big walk but worth it in the end.

#712 got to the start of the trial at Woodford and the GPSr said 4.94K as the crow flies well this crow had his wings clipped so had to walk the distance in the end it was almost 7km each way. On the way I was passed by a bike rider. Well it was a good walk to the cache but got to the last turning and though I don't think my legs will get me to where I thought the cache would be seeing the landscape. Well I've got this far and thought that I couldn't log the cache without signing the log book so I climbed up to GZ and saw the cache then had to make my way to it. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the great cache Mr and Mrs Packo. It was a tougher trip on the way back up to Woodford, was passed by a group of 3 mountain bikrs, then a road bike going the other way and with less than a km to go a walker heading off to Glenbrook. Maybe I shouldn't have done the walk without taking water but I started early in the morning just after sunrise so it was cool & didn't see the need.

Today we rode the trail down from Woodford to Glenbrook. The weather was nice, the trail wonderful, in particular the last part (said Fogg). So we had a lot of fun and were to able to search for one cache along the trail. Indeed, one cache only. But this was fortunately a big box, which was easily found. And we finally found a secure place for our two geocoins we brought over from New Zealand.

TFTC - Fogg & Consortin

Spotted it from the photo without checking the GPS. Kids Single speed ride down the oaks, havent done this for about 8 years now. Still nice. Must go and do St helenas again, that is much more fun.

It's funny, I remember when this was published and thought, yup, will get around to this one eventually. Today was eventually day.

BUT, I was not interested in making this a park n grab! It had to have somewhat of a challenge, so, I asked the intrepid Rikki if he wanted to accompany me, sure he said, as it turns out, he thought we were going to the andersons cache, not this one because it turned out he had already done this one. No matter, we were only a few K's away before he realised.

So, how do you make this more challenging? Easy, do it in the rain from Murphys Lookout at Springwood. By doing this you will enjoy a 22k round trip if you finish at the start of the Oaks fire trail, will be drenched and walk the entire time in water-logged shoes and underwear, be attacked by leaches at every turn. Sounds like fun eh? Well, it was actually. But, I digress, we should go back to the beginning....

It's 7:30am, I am parked at the Woodford end of the Oaks, waiting for Rikki to arrive to get the car shuffle sorted, it's raining of course, that did not stop a group of 6 MTB people heading off into the rain heading for Glenbrook though. Rikki arrives, we transfer some gear and start to head to Springwood, I needed to stop and get some cheese and bacon rolls for lunch, a guy has to eat you know.

Food sorted, we headed to the Murphys Lookout carpark where we enjoyed basically zero visibility into the creek, we could hear it, but hardly see it. Oh, and it is raining, screw this, lets just do this, can't be too hard....

Once again, we descended down into the depths of this valley, made the crossing after making a raft from old pet bottles and then started our ascent up to Bunyan lookout, a most pleasing jaunt to be doing in the rain and fog. We had already taken off the wet weather gear when we reached the creek, it was just too hot and we were getting wet from sweat anyways.

Up, up, up we go, we were almost near the final ascent section when I started hearing voices, not the usual ones that say smash mint tins either, There was a wet couple on their way back down, they had got to the lookout, could see nothing, had started towards Lost World lookout and bailed. Showing evidence of killer leach attacks, we parted ways, great, now I gotta look for leaches as well as try not to slip AoverT in the wet.

We made it to Bunyan lookout, a cheese and bacon roll was sacrificed to the "damn I hate that walk up to here" gods while we evicted the first of MANY leaches, I sat on the rock watching him flail around searching for a warm body, none here today pal.

Continued...

Heavy packs shouldered again, we set off along the Kings Link Track, pushing through very cold and wet scrub that overhangs the track. After a short period, we came to the Lost World lookout track, we continued, next was the turn off to the Bull Ants track that goes to Pippas pass, meh, we did that last time we were here, I wanted virgin ground to explore.

Splodge, splodge, splodge and eventually we came to the clearing that marks the start of the firetrail section and the descent into the crater here. We followed the track into the crater, have wanted to visit here for a long time, hmmm, non-event, so much blackberry, weeds, lawyer vine, climbing vines, there is only so far you can make it into the floor of the crater before you are stopped. Oh look, it's raining again! We splodged our way back out, stopping many times to evict more leaches from footwear.

Back up the top, we continued along a wide track for the rest of the distance across to the Oaks firetrail, stopping to have some lunch after tackling Hell Hill. The bush is pretty stunning out here, even when wet. The final zig-zagging ascent to the Oaks is not too bad, then it was around 1.5k's across to the cache itself which was an easy find and it was great to finally put my name in this logbook.

Time to start to head back, we ducked and wove as MTBs whizzed past, hmmm, you have it easy! Back to the junction and we had around 5k's to still splodge our way through, have never been so happy to see a big metal barrier, though, it was a challenge to get the tired legs up and over it to the awaiting vehicle of sublime seating.

Sadly, the camera on my phone refused to focus for the entire trip so I got not a single image to mark the trek. Added to my favs.

This was going to be my first big bush-mountain bike ride, last year. But I was unwilling to go alone. I finally had a small group to come along (non cachers) but they were willing to let me satisfy my caching addiction.
Trained up to Woodford, and a long ride down, and a big push up the mountain at Glenbrook.
Oww! Is all I can say about my sore muscles, but a satisfaction from finding that cache made it worth while.
I took the trackable with me.
Thanks for the cache.

This entry was edited by Noodles22 on Sunday, 09 August 2015 at 10:02:21 UTC.

TB drop- bikerbuddy dropped Wormy the TB here while on his ride.

#3,563

Over thee years ago, at Easter 2012, I set off to find this cache and to ride the Oaks for the first time. About a kilometre in, I crashed my bike and got some pretty nasty injuries. I also picked up a phobia about riding this track!

Bikerbuddy used to ride it frequently, but hasn't been able to do the ride to much in recent years. He did it a few weeks back, and reported back that it had been regraded recently, and that now would be the perfect time for me to get back in the saddle & conquer my fears. So this morning when we were lying in bed, discussing plans for the day, and he suggested this ride, I agreed, albeit with some trepidation.

It was a perfect day for riding - clear sky, cool but not too cold. We parked at Woodford, and set off. I was a bit nervous as I approached the corner where I'd crashed before, but once I made it safely past there, I felt much more confident. This time bikerbuddy gave me pointers about the track ahead, so that I didn't try to take sharp corners too quickly! A few hours later (yes, it was a slow ride!), we were in Glenbrook, and I'd done it, I'd ridden the Oaks .

Of course I stopped for this cache on the way past. Bikerbuddy stopped close by, and handed me his GPS (I couldn't find mine in my rush to get ready). I followed the arrow to a certain spot, but couldn't find the cache. Looked at the GPS again, and found that it had changed its mind. So I followed the new arrow direction, to a spot right in line with where bikerbuddy had stopped! His memory of the cache location was spot on! So I agree with Alnic - let your GPS settle and the coordinates will be spot on!

The container was a little exposed, so I took care when I replaced it to make sure all the camo was in place. Left a trackable in the log book on behalf of wayward woman.

Thanks Mr and Mrs Packo, a great location for a cache

We went for a ride down the newly graded Oaks Track today. It was great most of the ruts were gone so the track was easier to ride. We stopped on the way past at the cache and checked on it. No one has signed it for almost a year so we left our mark and continued. The cache is all ok. TNLN TFTC

Have done this trail on the MTB a few times before but I only just recently realised that there is a geocache on the trail. So I decided to do it again today with some friends who hadn't done it before. Apart from the heat, it was a great trip.

I initially looked in the wrong area for the cache but then spied a more likely hidey hole and soon had CIH. A good solid container considering how far it is from the nearest car access. TFTC!

I found this by accident. The GPS was on the bike for the ride from Glenbrook-Wentworth Falls-Glenbrook and this cache popped up on the screen as I was riding along. Luckily there was a pen.
Picked up the TB.

Fantastic riding up here and some long rides to fill in your days

Incidentally, there is great coffee at cafe 2773 in Glenbrook.

A nice chilly night to go for a ride. We left woodford at 5:00 and headed off. We quickly arrived at the GZ and soon had the CIH at 5:30. It was then off down the hill to Glenbrook. Fantastic night ride.
TFTC.
Dropped trackable.

Give your co-ords a minute to settle, because this geocacher went straight towards the edge of a decent drop, when it was the OTHER way after a few seconds of reorientation of the compass. I think this was my 10th Oaks ride...first as a Geocacher. Thanks Mr and Mrs Packo. It is a good one. Scooter on Andersons is next.

I had ridden this trail many times before I discovered caching... Just goes to show that you don't know what you don't know! Back on the bike after a while off it and I was out on a super early ride this morning that saw me approach GZ just on dawn. Fortunately I had a torch with me and it soon illuminated a likely spot. Sure enough, there was the cache! Signed and continued my ride towards glenbrook! TFTC.

Easy find on a bike ride. Lucky there was a pen. Found with phillxor and ultimarb. TFTC.

Found with Rossnoob, Morebierplease and UltimaRB. Good day for a ride.

Great cycle run on a mtb. Really good hiding place, easy to find for those who know to look for it, but unlikely to be muggled.Tftc.

Parked at the gate and rode in. Enjoyed the ride down on a track that I haven't got around to ever ride in the past. I hope one day, I'll ride all the way to Glenbrook. Really good ride and GZ approached a little sooner than I was expecting. I got to GZ and didn't take long to find the cache. An easy find for a good ride, Nice one to make my 900th find for. Now for the ride back out to Woodford. TFTC.

I have been thinking about 'the Oaks' trip for at least 10 months now. Never wanted to attempt on my own last year so I encouraged white mushroom to come along for the 19,300 step walk today. You can work out how many kilometres that is. I had ridden along this trail to Glenbrook in 2002. The condition of the trail was much improved from the way I remember it.

The weather was perfect and we had a little side trip via a water hole to a lookout on the way back. Very much enjoyed finding this one. Now when will I do the next scooter cache. Thanks Mr and Mrs Packo.

This entry was edited by bisygisy on Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 05:51:09 UTC.

A bisygisy suggestion for our 'weekly' constitutional ... and a perfect, overcast, but warm winter's day to strike out afoot on the Oaks fire trail. Previous loggers had the cache at 13 kms return, SportsTracker measured at 9.5 km out/9.1km back, with bisygisy keeping a one two ... nine ten count of the steps. Whatever the measure, le 'mushroom's toes knew that that was a walk to remember. Fire trails are not the most scenic of tracks, but there were stopping points along the way to ponder. This Cache, once at the GZ, is soon in hand ... though numb walked feet do an ungainly dance. Scooter may be the way to go, certainly I would not really care to ride, though the track is in good nick, but the walk was peaceful, and much enjoyed. Thanks Mr and Mrs Packo for a reason to Cache. TFTC

good spot for a rest too!

Damp foggy day perfect for a bike ride.
Enjoyed the outdoors after a stint of painting.
Cache full of goodies.
Thank you the Packos.

pjmpjm and I have had this cache on our radar for some time, today was the day. It turned out to be a gorgeous Spring day not too warm and with a cool breeze to cool things off.
No wheeled transport for us, walking is difficult enough for these old codgers. The 13km round trip was a very pleasant walk. The cache was indeed a very easy find we had the spot located well before we got to GZ.
All is well with the cache and while it is a very simple find it is very unlikely to be muggled.
Thank you for a reason to take this trip in a very nice part of the mountains.
In fact so nice that now I am planing to do the walk all the way from Woodford Station to Glenbrook Station very soon!

rogerw3 and I have been planning to walk down 'the Oaks' to this one for some time now -- at least since our memorable marathon 29 km jaunt to 'Lost World,' which took us to within a kilometre of GZ.

Friends had suggested that we take some kind of wheeled transport with us, but after hearing the details of the spectacular crash of one of our Blue Mountains friends, we decided against it. We have enough trouble staying on our feet after 126 years of combined experience . . .

Anyhow, it proved to be a great day for the 13 km round-trip walk. The sun was shining and the sky was an especially deep shade of blue. By the middle of the trip, we began to feel a bit warm, but a nice breeze sprang up and helped cool us off. It being a weekend, some 20 bike riders passed us, some taking care but a couple going at an alarming clip. It's a very nice fire trail, but does have some sections that are a bit rough.

We knew that we were going to be looking for a difficulty 1 'regular' hide, so wondered how hard the find would be! It proved to be pretty easy, in fact, and we spotted the hiding place long before we arrived at the trail-side GZ.

All was in excellent order, with lots of swaps. I took a special coin and left one in return. SL.

Many thanks to Mr and Mrs Packo.

This entry was edited by pjmpjm on Saturday, 27 October 2012 at 09:11:02 UTC.

Tftc

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Found while on a ride down the Oaks. Picked up TB
TFTC

I came back today to try the route I had pulled the pin on a month ago. The road in to Murphy's Glen was a bit rough (especially the section before it becomes national park) but my 2WD made it through intact, and we parked the car at about 7:00am. The walk down the old footpad along the creek to Bedford Creek was beautiful. We had a relaxed morning tea on a sandy beach, before starting the major bush bash. The route I planned from here was to head north up a spur, and hit the firetrail near the turnoff to St Helena ridge. The terrain was very hard work - steep and thick. Lower down was all ferns and rotten logs, then higher up it turned into thick scrub with lots of vines. There were a few open sections once we broke through the cliff line, and we found the odd marker of human presence (a pen and a gel wrapper). We were pretty happy to see the fire trail, about 2 hrs after starting our ascent. We walked the fire trail for about 1KM, till we reached GZ and had no issues finding the cache. After signing the log, and dropping off a hippo TB I had brought back from Israel, we pulled out the ipad and checked the topo to assess our options. We did consider following the Oaks back to Woodford, then walking back down to Bedford road to Murpy's Glen but that looked just too long and boring. So we opted to try to descend via an unnamed creek that starts about 200M north of the cache. The upper sections were great - lots of gentle sandstone slopes interspersed with cliff lines that were occasionally hairy but always descendable. But once the creek flattened out, the terrain turned into even heavier stuff than we had encountered on the way up. We reached the beach for lunch about 1:00PM, and were back to the car by 2:00.

I don't think I would recommend this route for anyone else, although the track from Murphy's Glen to Bedford Creek is worth checking out for sure.

Thanks for the cache, Mr and Mrs Packo.

My mission for the day was to do a firetrail/bush bash loop from the Ingar campground, that would take me to both the "Scooters" caches. I am logging this as a note rather than a DNF as I didn't get close enough to GZ to start looking - we gave up about 1KM from the cache when we decided we wouldn't have enough daylight to complete the journey.

The original plan once we'd found "Scooter on the Andersons" was to bush bash down Notts Ridge, and descend to Bedford Creek from Scorpion Hill. However once we had a look at the vegetation on Notts Ridge, we realized that way would be much too nasty and scratchy, so we stuck to the firetrails all the way to Murphy's Glen, then followed the faint footpad (shown on the topo) that meanders along the unnamed creek to Bedford Creek, just near were Coolana Brook joins Bedford Creek. This is essentially the same spot where we would have come out if we'd descended Scorpion Hill. The walk from Murphy's Glen was really beautiful, as was the little beach on Bedford Creek where the faint path finally sputtered out. The plan then was to bush bash up the spur to reach the Oaks firetrail pretty much at the cache GZ, however the terrain there was pretty thick and slow going. It was 12:30 by the time we had reached Bedford Creek, and I think it would have taken at least an hour to ascend the spur, plus another hour to descend again, plus we still had to get back to Murphy's Glen then Ingar, I decided to pull the plug.

However I reckon if you parked at Murphy's Glen, and allowed say 6 hrs from there, then the route to the cache via Bedford Creek would be a really great hike. Hopefully I will get to try that one day soon. I am very confident the spur in question is climbable, it's just we'd overextended ourselves by walking the firetrails from Ingar to Murphy's.

Anyway thanks for the hide, Mr & Mrs Packo

Found on a mtb ride with Geodad and a friend . Great riding and nice to get a reward half way along.
SL TFTC

Yes! An ammo can with great contents. I came in from Wentworth Falls along Andersons Firetrail before coming down here.
I passed a lady a few k's back struggling up a hill in too high a gear and expected that she would pass me as I did the caching thing. She didn't arrive so I can only surmise that she turned around and headed back to Woodford as she mentioned when we met earlier.

I rescued the TB because it may see a lot of visitors.

The 60k ride was completed in just under 4 hours... and now, I need to lie down! Getting too old for this caper, but this has got to be one of the great rides around Sydney.
Thanks Mr and Mrs Packo.

Excellent morning out riding. Cache was found straight away by geoson.
Left tb. SL TFTC

This entry was edited by Purplepeopleater on Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 03:03:33 UTC.

This entry was edited by Purplepeopleater on Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 03:35:28 UTC.

Very Very cool. What a great ride on the mountain bike. Found it with Muggle Ed and Tom. TFTC

Nice ride, nice day, easy find. Great container. TNLN SL TFTC Kiama Krew

Too bad I didn't know about that one. I did the exact ride on a hired MTB. Pretty awesome. Going for a cache in between would have been even better.
SanMiggel

TFTC nice to have a reason to stop along the way. TN left a small first aid kit

As it was a nice cool day, we decided to ride down the Oaks. I found the cache easily and was surprised to find someone else had already signed it today! I thought we were all alone out here.... Took Mini Mouse and the GPS travel bug, left a "G'Day Mate" soap.

The fire trail is in very good condition at the moment as it was graded earlier this year (I didn't have any of the normal "Oh SH*T!!" moments). The single track at the end is developing a couple of rocky patches, but is also still in quite good condition.

Thanks for the cache!
Jakkles

PS - regarding the terrain rating - most people doing this cache would probably have ridden the Oaks before and know what to expect so they would find it a fairly comfortable ride. However, I feel the 3 1/2 should be kept as city cachers seem to over-rate their caches and may get caught out if you rate it too lightly. I reckon that if you follow the Geocache Rating System, you don't need to feel responsible if someone overstretches themselves and has to camp out overnight...!

PPS - if you did it on a SCOOTER, it should probably be a 5!

Out for a ride on a great winters day. What better way to spend a day off from work.

Took Nothing, but left a torch to lighten my load.

TFTC.

Dropped off Travel Bug (Besem's Trixie - GPS) while on a ride. Lovel day to be out.
TN TFTC

Found while out training for the Dirtworks MTB race. Great spot, easy find on a beautiful sunny autumn day.

Nice quick easy find while riding the oaks.

Nice find while riding the great Oaks Fire Trail on a very hot Saturday. TFTC!

I often ride this track, somtimes twice a week, so I thought it was about time I knocked this one over. A nice easy find after a steep little scramble. It was very hot and I had some muggles on foot, not far behind, so I just signed the log book and got going again, off to meet the missus and kids for the next geo-adventure of the day.

I took a ride on my bike up to Woodford and back along the Oaks fire trail. Picked up this cache, Bennets Ridge and Creeky Cache on the way home. It turned out to be a pretty big day on the bike or maybe I'm getting old. It would have been easier if I hadn't been enjoying the scenery and I shot straight past, then had to backtrack to the cache. It was pretty straight foward find. Hot muggy day but fortunately the thunder strom went around me.
Took carabiner, left golf ball. Some nice swaps in the cache, pity the shirt wouldn't fit me.
TFTC

It's been a couple of years since I have ridden on the Oaks trail. And even more since I have completed it end to end. Starting from the Woodford end is by far the most enjoyable way to tackle the ride giving you a great long, fast run.

Cache was easily found as it is quite close to the road. Watch out for muggles riding past. It gets quite busy on weekends.

Found this one again from memory as we didn't have the co-ordinates with us.
The cache was all in good order. Last time we were here it was night so we hadn't noticed someone has scratched a word on the rock face near the cache. "DUNGRY" or something like that. It is always disappointing when we see this type of graffiti. It looks like it was scratched on with another rock. Not sure if there is much that can be done as rubbing it more will highlight the rock face more.
Took the geocoin. Left nothing
TFTC

This is one of those memorable caches. A great family day out on the bikes but quite demanding for the kids (they let us know for sure!). But they did really well and little miss H can't weigh much more than her bike, bless! Anyway, it wasn't much further after finding the cache that it became a downhill ride all the way to Glenbrook causeway and the tears, moans and groans soon stopped.
This is a great bike ride & one we'll definitely do again when it's a bit warmer.
Finding the cache was no problem and it's always nice to see an ammo can.
No swaps but left an apt geocoin.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

We decided to do a night ride down the Oaks since it was a full moon due to Easter. Unfortunately the clouds came so it was darker than desired. It was a very pleasant ride anyway. The night was warm and no wind. Found the cache easily. Swapped a DVD for a small radio. We went on a bit further and had dinner. Just as I was enjoying a nice cup of tea, we had a shower of rain.Oh well afterwards, we enjoyed the lovely fresh bush smells. What a bonus for a lovely ride. Just got towards the end of the ride when the moon came out. What a difference the moonlight makes. It is like daylight. Shall have to try this ride again when there are no clouds.
Thanks Mr & Mrs Packo

I think I have recovered enough to type! If only I wasn't the size I am! (For me Terrain at least 5!) Oh well, the ride is the continuation of a journey to where I need to be. (As is all the geocaching walks!)

T: Necklace (My nine year old, who rode like a legend, wanted to take it home for mum.)
L: Mariner Car Scarf

TFTC and the fitness.

Found with Mitchell four om our morning ride, More Fitness deffinatley required..

Found with Outafocus while riding the Oaks Fire Trail. Outafocus made the short scramble to the cache which was the least he could do after sleeping through his alarm, 3 phone calls and the door bell. The trail is in much better condition that it was 18 months ago. A very quick ride this time. TFTC

Found it but had to be real quick as the friends I was riding with did not wait. Had a heck of a time catching up. Left trackable, took USB drive.

The NPWS graded the fire trail so that the fire trucks could get through. There are roads in Sydney with more potholes than this. TFTC. Took TB (PC591R). Left geocache printout and a red pen. Sorry, I had no non food items that I could swap in!!

a quick find, though I think its terrain rating is a bit harsh !!

dropped of a geocoin and headed along the well graded train to Glenbrook.It too under 2hrs by MTB today, and I reckon I coul;d have driven my commodore along the entire track in its current condition.
TFTC

On a bright sunny but cool day - good for riding - we hopped on our bikes and headed in along the fire trail. It's a fairly easy ride, even for such as us who are not particularly into the mountain bike thing, and quite a nice one for that matter with occasional views of the surrounding tree clad ridges. We clatterd along and before long we clattered to a stop at GZ. Very soon after the cache duties were being conducted and then it was time for the return trip. We quite liked this ride in our backyard - about time we did this cache. Picked up a nice brooch and left a USB drive & cable plus a girl's necklace. Nice one.

My feet hurt.

Nice ride and a quick find in between.
However why should that be 4 star terrain?
Anyway TFTC Alpini
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As I was setting off I was given strict instructions not to go to fast so the other half could get there first. Well she did not have to worry the track was in a terrible state which kept the speed down. With the caching formalities over it was back on the bike and off. Approaching one of the corners on the fast section I noticed some red and white tape strung between two trees to act as a warning. If I can see a bloody corner wearing fogged up non prescription glasses I can’t see how anyone else could miss it. It was great to get some speed up at last and finally be able to jump the speed humps. The gate was soon reached and then the fun really begins as you switch to single track. All the new growth makes the track seem even narrower so it feels like you are flying as you weave your way along the track. This section is really fast and soon the technical section is reached which is not really hard and after numerous drop offs and jumps the car is reached. I must have done something right as the other half was waiting with an icy glass of ginger beer.

12:25 Hrs FTF.
I began by leaving the car near the Glenbrook National Park entrance, and riding to the railway station, where I caught a train to Woodford. Just a short ride later I was at the beginning of the Oaks Fire Trail. The early part of this ride has a few hills to be negotiated, and in my present state of fitness I was continuously reminding myself that “hills are your friend!†After stopping at the “Circles†to have a look around and grab a quick snack, it was back on the bike for the short stretch to the cache. The cache was easily found, and although there was no muggle problem today, you will probably need to keep a lookout on weekends as GZ is in plain view of the fire trail.
It was an enjoyable ride so far, and I was looking forward to the remainder of the trail to Glenbrook. I had travelled only a couple of kilometres when I rounded a bend to discover a fellow cyclist who was carrying his MTB over his shoulder. As I tried to demonstrate the correct usage of the bike, he explained that he had a puncture and that his spare tube had perished. I offered him one of my spares and after the tyre was changed I was on my way again with a new companion. About half way along the downhill section from the “helipad†to the locked gate at The Oaks my companion suffered a pinch flat and I offered him my last spare tube. The remainder of the ride went well, with no more flats or mechanical problems, and we decided to take the single track all the way to the car park just before crossing the weir at Glenbrook. I did have a minor spill on a short technical section just before reaching the bitumen, but no harm done. The last climb back up to park entrance nearly killed me, and I was glad when I reached the top.

This was a most enjoyable ride, and a great location to place a cache.

Took a carabiner,
Left a T-shirt and DVD.
Collected the Travel Bug.

Thanks Mr & Mrs Packo.

It was only last week that I was riding on the track , and now there is a new cache to do on the way .
Finished work early ,and there was enough time to do the track before daylight ran out.
I was enjoying the ride so much rode 600metres passed the gz ..opps???
Easy find and a heap of fun.

Cheers Mr and Mrs Packo

Launched Nan.P. with this Cache. I hope she travels far and wide...would also like her to drop back to the mountains now and again.

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