Rock Bolter Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
By CoomaClan on 08-Nov-08. Waypoint GC1HYR4

While tidying up the muggled remains found geocaon Naughty and Nice. Will move it on.

Have archived this one following recent muggling as well as availability of nearby Earth Cache at same site. Thanks to those who made the effort to find this one. CoomaClan

TFTC. Found with Sandy Feet. See log below.

Found with Roadie1212. Unfortunately it has been trashed, found both parts of the container but nothing else, placed it where we thought it most likely came from.
Thanks

Last find found cache disturbed. Temporarily disbled till visited by CoomaClan

Went there and found a place I didn't know about even though I'd been in Comma for nearly 20 years. I could see where I suspect the cache could be but due to health problems I couldn't climb up to it. Regardless I'll be back when I feel better as this is an amazing place hidden just around the corner from my home.

Took a little bit for us to find but got there in the end. Kids enjoyed looking at the nearby bolts and climbing all over the rocks.

A quick check on condition - all OK. Site has recently had some additional info boards placed in the vicinity. Cooma Clan

During my visit to cooma. TFTC

Left after doing the earth cache only to realise I had this little one to do whilst I was here, Thanks for the cache nice spot.

Well, this was a bonus! Having just completed the Earthcache and selecting nearest geocache, it told me I had arrived ! Whooooot ! Ohhhhhh, it meant rock clambering, oh well, at this altitude I'm not too bad though a bee kept on wanting to taste my nectar. Reasonably quick find, admired the view and was on my way !

On a caching trip out of Bendigo to take in Earthcache I, this is one of many found on my trip. I found this a very interesting cache and site. TFTC

Finding the way into this gorge could be the hardest part of the cache
Fortunately I had found a map that pointed the way near a plane wreck [:o]
So I wandered off along the path....

Crikey!! This place is well hidden
If you can find it, then it is well worth all the effort
I found the bolts in question and tried to pull a couple out.
An act that can be performed by only the true king [:o)]
The bolts held tight.

A bit of a scramble later and I did manage to pull a cache out of the stone
I continued my stroll up to the lookout.
The trail is not well used and kept disappearing into the scrub.
A fun stroll in the rain [^]

TFTC.

With two caches in the one spot and not having visited the area before it was time to just do it.
Thanks for the cache enjoyed the history lesson.

Find # 1704 @ 19:05
Nice easy find and a great cache. Took Geocoin. Thanks to CoomaClan for the cache.

On my last trip through Cooma I could figure out the right approach to this one. This time I found the track. TFTC.

A days worth of Flying Cooma Cache runs with BatGirl&Co. This one was interesting in that we came from the wrong side. We weren't killed by savage wombats pushing rocks on us, or by the nasty flock of ducks that looked rather viscious. The Frogs were calling the amphibious army out, but we made it up and down without too much trouble. I dropped off Darky, the lamb. He's sure to get somewhere from here.

Loved it, loved it, loved it. A great walk in, a fun scramble down, up, over and around. Thoroughly enjoyable. TFTC.

Great little history lesson, and not a bad little walk, although it had been raining and kept looking like it might start again any minute. I went to see the gorge as well. Very interesting! Thanks for bringing us here.

ut on a maintenance run down south so thought we might try and bolt some rocks. A quick find to SL and we took some time out to enjoy the sights. Thanks for bringing us here.

TNLN

What an adventurous and historical .location and have been coming to Cooma for years and didn't know Lambie George existed.

13th of 13 of our Merimbula trip. Pretty easy. Nice walk and area. Cool container and hiding spot. Took TB in exchange for a green turtle. TFTC.

What an informative site. Well worth the history lesson displayed.

Rock hopped, good spot, never heard about it before. But we will read directions more closely in future to avoid rock hopping and bushes.

Great way to start a Sunday morning. Nice walk out here this morning to drop off Coogie TB to help him on his way to Melbourne. Very interesting little place. It's always good to learn something before breakfast!

Found with SecretSquirrel-BJC.

A beautiful warm sunny day, excellent company, and a stack of caches to collect. Couldn't ask for more. We picked up over 30 GC and GCA caches on our comfortable run from Canberra to Cooma. Thanks to all.

This GZ was the highlight of our day. What a fantastic rocky area and some real history to showcase. Really enjoyed the visit thanks.

2035+126=2161 with Captain Tomato

A beautiful sunny warm Spring day - a good day for a numbers run to Cooma for lunch.

What a magnificent place - I absolutely love BIG GRANITE ROCKS and gorges! This place has cultural significance for me as a rock squirrel. The highlight of the day and thanks for showcasing it.

Perhaps you could put another cache in further....

My favourite of the day

Lo\ved the engineering bent on this one as I occasionally work in coal mines where these are used every square meter. Thanks

Reperio at 1120. Parked about 200m from GZ and came in from the top to scramble down and across the many rocks scattered about to locate the cache. I bet many a kid would love climbing about this area, because I enjoyed it.

Gratias.

TFTC SL TN Left crazy bones

a facinating place for a cache! Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC!

Wow beauty area and interesting about history. Thanks for show me. SL. CoomaClan

Having cached yesterday, I then spent the night in Cooma. The plan was to find this cache then go up Mt Kosciusko. Decided instead to take a good tumble,make a couple of spiral fractures in my foot, then have to drive back to Tumut. Still, managed to limp to this one before I left. This is being logged four weeks late and I am due to have the plaster off next week. Yippee!! Great cache and met a very nice local who walked with me to the cache site. TFTH

I LOVED this cache! It's really fascinating to see this history and we were so luck to meet a few of the locals. Michael the local "bubble man" was busy flying his kite today rather than blowing huge bubbles and his friend gave us a copy of the Rock Bolting booklet written for the 60th anniversary of the start of the Snowy scheme. What an amazing story!

found with blossom TFTC

Very interesting, well worth the visit, Thanks.

Love this type....History, Rocks, climbing and caches!!

Had fun scrambling around in the rocks. The difficult part was finding the access point. Thanks!

Rocks are so cool!!!

Found with tofka,ADV,Redinguana and Moneydork.TFTC.

Found with the team of Moneydork, Rediguana, Tofska, and Pohutukawa as we made our way to Wagga Wagga for the Mega event.
Really interesting, enjoyed the visit to this one.
TFTC

Took a bit to find this one in the gully with so many hiding spots, but ADV came up with the goods. Cheers Gav [5222]

An awesome bit of engineering history. TFTC

Certainly a rock climber's playground. T4TC, M@

TFTC TNLNSL

Nice easy find, Thanks Cooma Clan

TNLNSL TFTC

The second cache for the day that we took the scnic rout to only to find the right way the second try ! to easy in the end ! really like spots such as ! thanx for the cache and a bit of history, well done

Bit of an incident on the way over to this one, there was a lot of newly laid tar and road 'metal' on the streets and I must have picked up a bit. By the time I got to the 'club' my front passenger wheel was screaming like a grinding wheel on sheet metal. I spent 15 -20 minutes poking and proding around the wheel trying to find the obviously stuck rock that was causing all the noise with no joy. Took a break to clear my head by finding the cache that turned out to be an easy find but was heavily guarded by large biting ants that got all over me while I leaned on the tree, that made for an interesting! couple of minutes wacking the little buggers off me and still scored a few bites to my arms and hands. Walked around the other side and carefully finished logging and returning the cache. Walked back to the car really pissed off and booted the tire very hard a couple of times, no noise or any problems after that. See you just have to use plan B (BOOT THE BUGGER)
TFTC I hope future finders have an easier time of it.
P.S. mind the ants near the cache.

First sought from Princess St then moved to the bowling club for much easier access. This has become my favorite Cooma cache, as I love engineering feats and the science behind them. Good stuff. Thanks.

found it with O319

Interesting spot. Found after a brief search after reading the clue. TNLN & TFTC

Suspect we attacked this from the wrong side. Parked south of the cache and walked down the hill to an easy find. TNLNSL.

I did a rock bolter to this.
With Mrs GUIO and miss 2.5yrs very hungry in the car and a light drizzel, I went for a jog.
Interesting container I had not seen this type before.
Lucky for me the GPS actually worked and led me straight to it otherwise it might have been a nightmare.
TFTC

Tftc. nice little spot. never new it was there. to get there park behind the bowling club and you can walk or if you went to find the southern cloud cache take a short cut through the showground past the horse stables. dropped off geocoin

Skullruska dropped off my GC.

Neither my Nuvi nor my handheld could workout how to get me to GZ. At one stage I entered a huge undercover carpark via a rough track - the burgular's way of entering a motel. Moved on after then driving into a nursing home. The Nuvi had a terrible time in Cooma - it sent me into Chapman St no matter what cache I was looking for. Just used common sense & guess work based on the handheld's directional arrow.

Had fun and games getting close to the starting point
but then a quick and easy find using good hints.
On the bike so, TNLNSL, Pelusa

Really interesting spot ttftc

Like Jusojara, I am also familiar with rock bolts, having placed a few while working underground in Broken Hill in a past life. I had no idea of the history behind the technique until now, it was just something I took for granted at the time. We managed to find the closest approach, driving up to within 50m of GZ, and it was a relatively simple find once at GZ. Thanks for the cache and the history lesson CoomClan

Left: Unactivated Geocoin
Took: Coloured Pencils

Rated: for Overall Experience

I Found it I came here with my school in 2008 Never even knowing about geo caching I showed Dad he thought it was a cool place
TNLNSL TFTC

I have lived in cooma for ages and never been here. TFTC
Took a simpsons doll and left a pack of pencils.

An awesome cache

1245 Took a couple of attempts to find the way into this cache. By that time we had dried from our skiing over the last week. Not quite the type of bolts I'm used to putting into cliff faces for rockclimbing, but interesting to see their work.
Left a black pen (one there was a dud), and stretchy snake.
Took: the dud pen - somebodies plumbing service.
Brought through for mileage: Baa, Oink, B2B, GBOT, Mushoo TB and MMoccasin TB.
TFTC

Ra had a last minute job in Cooma tonight and as she doesn't like driving at night asked me to drive her and this was my fourth find for the night. I initially was going to leave this one for a daylight trip when I parked some distance from GZ.

After completing a nearby I decided to try to get closer and managed to park 40m from GZ. Once there I made an easy find. This was a very interesting area that I will return to in the daylight. The last time I saw rock bolting like this was underground in Broken Hill.

Visited Ra's Gecko
T TB

SL TFTC

Nice walk to a gorge. I can really recommend to visit this place. I put in a TB from good old Germany.

TFTC
Berghutze MK

Found with Shell_seeker and sw2092. I think there were better places to park the car then where we did but it was a good walk anyway.

TFTC!!!

Found with sw2092 and matt_stomper on our way home from a caching day in Jindabyne. TFTC

Found at 17:20 - the tenth, and final, of my day out with matt_stomper and shell_seeker.

I'm not too sure that we parked the Stealth GeoBeast at the best location - it was a bit of a trek to the rock wall at dusk. Still, it was a nice stroll cross-country.

The torch came in handy when finding the cache - Matt found it. However, it was really a bit too late to explore the area.

Thanks CoomaClan - I may come for a better look sometime as it looks an interesting place

363 What a nice excuse visit an interesting spot. We made multiple attempts to approach the site but narrowed it down in the end.

No TBs or GCs spotted in the cache today? TFTC and the history lesson.

Walked and drove around in circles for a while before we got the approach right. Interesting spot TFTC

What an interesting spot! All those holes and poles! And finished before I was born! Great Cache! Thanks.

what a great site had to visit the hydro info center to find out more tftc

After an unsuccessful attempt to find this late yesterday afternoon (mainly because we couldn't work out where the gorge walk started from) we came back with more determination this morning. Cheated a bit and drove around the back of the bowling club (not too busy on a Sunday morning) which meant minimal walking and a fairly easy find. TNLN.

Found with Ultra Violet Z, SuperJaz & Bewilderbeest. We had a bit of an adventure finding new places on our way to Tumut. It was lots of fun and good caching.

Sorry, I'm a bit behind on logging my finds.

Thanks for the cache

Found with the Team Bananaphone crew of Little Buds, SuperJaz & Bewilderbeest. We did this on our weekend trip to Tumut, we had great fun.

Sorry, I'm way behind on logging my finds.

Thanks for the cache

We definitely came at this one from the wrong side. It was much harder work than it should have been. Then we had trouble locating the cache. It was starting to look like a DNF when to our relief the cache was spotted.

Another "Team Bananaphone" find with SuperJaz, Ultra Violet Z and Little Buds

Cheers

Rated: for Overall Experience

I suspect we approached this one from the most difficult direction possible (at least it seemed that way) but found the area quite fascinating. We had a bit of trouble finding the cache and were about to declare it a DNF when Bewilderbeest spotted it. Yay! TFTC

First of the day with Albida and was a quick find in a interesting area TFTC

First for a long day. Interesting tests that had to be done. Thanks.

1977.6 Tk Civil War GC
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Equator A#19

Albida

What strange rocks, we decided it was to hot to go to the look out today, so just settled for the well hidden cache - took a while to find. Thank you for the cache.

We decided it was time to finish off the Cooma caches that were popping up. I remember going to the show grounds and visiting the nursing home in Primary school and well... doing everything around this area, but it was a first time for me seeing the area the cache is hidden. Thanks for showing me something new in my home town!

L: Geocoin
T: Dinosaur (held tightly by Geobubs)

845 - A run up through Jindabyne and Cooma regions for 29 caches - 19/29.

I really enjoy caches like this one - great location with some interesting history!

A quick find at GZ and then had a look at the local features - thanks again !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Parked as close as we thought we could and walked over from the nearby home/hostel. Cache was quickly found, log signed and we were off again.

TNLN & TFTC.

Cheers,

After a bit of searching the Dinobots managed to find this one, all the while being watched intently by a black rock wallaby!

Nice to go back to an area where I spent a lot of time as a kid, shame to see there was no water in the creek.

Took bracelet, left dinosaur.

TFTC

Arrrgh!
We be certian we covered every inch of tha area and looked many a time in tha hinted locale, of which there be areas of freshly dug dirt, but to no avail.
Only one in 5 today unfound.

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Like Mick and Jeanette we did start on the other side however did not walk far before realizing our error and jumped back into the car for a quick dash to the otherside and found the cache after about 5 mins searching.

TFTC
MC KENNA

Found after trying to come down the wrong side of the gorge - again shows that navigating by the car navigator to the 'closest' point isn't always the right way
No TB's in the cache when we were there - I think the previous logger took them out.

P-P-P-Pingu! Pingu!

Found at 1725hrs (25mins after beer o'clock, and we were dry) We walked in from the wrong side then explored the area before finally making our way back to a watering location (bottle shop) This is a very interesting place that seems to be in need of a bit of TLC. TNLNSL

Be it in a gorge, a canyon or an alley
A crevace, a gully or a valley
If there's a cache to be found
We'll be down on the ground
To add another onto our tally

Beautiful little spot here. As others have done, initially came in from the wrong side. We were a bit too sore from a previous days hike to try and get across, so went in for lunch and came back from the bowling club side. Bit of a poke around, and then had the cache in had. Found a broken TB that we put back together and took with us. TFTC

Approached this one from the wrong side at first, but eventually made it to the right spot. Very interesting here and if we werent so sore we would have walked further, TFTC!

Good spot.

Took a while to locate this one but after reading the clue properly it was an easy find. Interesting location.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

This is certainly an interesting area with plenty of history that I'll look into further. Thanks for the lesson.
Thank you to those who have provided a little more help in how to access the area, our first attempt left us too high. Eventually we were onto it and then the cache was in hand.
TNLN Thanks

1751.

Found this one with the Rat on the way home from the KNP. I really enjoyed the history of the area. I also liked the fact of such an important thing being developed in Australia.

Thanks CoomaClan for the cache.

TNLNSL

what a suprising bit of history. thanks

An interesting find, exploring the back roads of Cooma, startling a group of people all dressed in white as we zoomed into their (sort of) back yard.

I really appreciated visiting this site for its historic value and the work that had gone into developing good drilling techniques. Thanks CoomaClan for the cache and thanks to Mrs Winglen and McPhan for their great company.

Dropping coin.

1609. Mrs Winglen had told RexTrex and me about this cache and said that it was a must do, and so it was. Ignoring the multitude of GPSs telling her she was going the wrong way, Mrs WInglen lead us to the proper starting spot and then we were off. A very interesting place and history. It appears our GPSs agreed as they were spinning around not being a great deal of help. All in all a fitting (caching) end to a great weekend with great company - thank you Mrs Winglen and RexTrex.

And of course TFTC CoomaClan and the very interesting site.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Took the wrong way in to this one but finally got there. Interesting piece of history attached to this. Found cache easily. Left TB Took nil, Thanks