road or rail Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
By the emongs on 08-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1YCZD

Setting off from Melbourne for Kings birthday long weekend 24, the plan was to head north to escape Melbournes cold. Day 2 after finding a nice spot to camp on the Murumbidgee river, it was time to tick off some caches in the areaNice easy find tftc

TFTC smile 18455 out and about on a lovely day having a great time finding a few caches heading on our way to Canberra today signing as 5 for Qld Hatzofff Snickersallan ? RoddyC Imbunda ,? what a great team we made and lots of laughter and fun Thank you the emongs for placing this cache for our enjoyment

As our convey of three vehicles headed across from SA through VIC & NSW, we are focusing on collecting some LGAs before heading to the ACT Mega. To save space on all log sheets, we signed as 5 for QLD.All caches we found were in good condition, and with the odd wet logbook being replaced with write in the rain paper.Thank you to all cache owners for placing these hides for the benefit of the geocaching community

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On our way in to Canberra, and this is the last batch of logs to be processed.We had not been to the Snowy Valley/ Tumut LGA area before so this was a must-do.Logs signed and caches replaced as found on 17th March 2024. TFTC, The Emongs.

Heading now to Canberra, cross crossing across the states picking up LGAs as we travel.Not much to show anything to do with rail sadly.Caching with and signing as 5 for QLD. RoddyC hatzofff imbunda snickersallan grannysmith1947 TFTCache the emongs

Found at 3:22 PM GAFF3 - however I didn't understand it and it wasn't any help to me, but I think I now get it after finding the cache .So another one of those do you go up or down. Went the easier way and looked at the obvious structure but nothing. Then when just doing a sweep of the area a slightly different arrangement was noticed and there it was - now that was a tricky spot!Thanks to The Emongs

Out with Liymus on our way home. Tftc!

Nice spot, tftc

Tftc, glad there was a pen in it !!

TFTC nice quick find, no trains today but plenty of trucks overhead

Container replaced and cache is good to go Cheers

Found it

#16740 @1205
Down this way from Canberra to attend last night's event and this morning's event at Oura. Cached my way home via Adelong (somewhere I hadn't been before), Tumut and Wee Jasper. Cache soon found. TFTC.

#5913.
This was a fun cache to do. I took the longer, but easier option and parked almost under the bridge. A quick walk over to gz and the cache was easily spotted. I can hardly believe that there was that there was a railroad here once, considering how nature is taking over. TFTC!

Stumbled down to the cache. I don't think the napisan container will last much longer.

Followed the hint and found almost instantly!
TFTC

Second time lucky! Followed the coords more closely this time, & the hint certainly helped. Vegetation is very thick & ominous at the moment. A word of warning to future hunters - watch out for snakes!

Found it nice little spot. No trackables inside.

A good little search but then found. Kids excited to find our first trackable in a while. Will be moving it along. Tftc

No trains today, the lawn hasn't been mown. Nice cycling weather, caching whilst exercising.

#6020 14th for today

I was starting to get a bit stir crazy at home so I decided to head out and grab a few caches around the Adelong & Tumut area. It was a beautiful sunny day, not too hot and mostly muggle free, for obvious reasons. I was a bit late getting away due to ScoMo's broadcast this morning. But I still managed to make a good impact on the unfound caches in the region. I particularly enjoyed the wander around the old gold-mining works around Adelong. A bit of water flowing through here today and with the green, it was good to see. Also enjoyed the walk around the wetlands in Tumut. Some lovely views along the Tumut Plains road later in the day too.

Apologies for the smell of hand sanitizer on the log. I went through a lot today.

Thanks The Emongs

Lovely little hide, noice.

Found during a caching run to Tumut with the Geofamily. Thanks for the cache.

There was a small group of "us" heading off to meet more of "us" in Tumut for the weekend. Our merry band of misfits was made up of MTrax, Tankengine, Joolay, Aquilus1 and myself. In the car we all thought of a name that we could call our gang, but in the end we decided it was a Canberra Invasion Trip that we were on so just went with CBR5. We signed logs either indiviually or with the group name.

It was an awesome weekend all up, with lots of fun with friends. We cached all day then met up with the rest of the Invasion Team for dinner Saturday night, then cached some more on Sunday until it was time to head home.

**The Cache** We parked in the large space up off the other road then walked down to the cache. Pretty nice looking spot really. Saw two TBs in the cache, but left there for someone else. Tftc The Emongs!!!

Day 2 of our invasion of Tumut saw us packing up camp before heading out for a full day of caching.

Teamed up with Albida33 for the most part of the day before we headed home.

Quick find here today

Found with dty73, Aquilus1, Joolay and Mtrax on our Canberra invasion of Tumut and surrounds! (Log signed as CBR5). Of course, we also had a lot of other Canberra cachers in town this weekend, and we all had a dinner on Saturday night at the pub! It was a great weekend, and I think a lot of us "cleaned out Tumut" Thanks for the cache TE.

Found with CBR5-DTY73, Tankengine, MTrax and Aquilus1 on a caching trip to Tumut. Having a great day, lots of fun. Unless otherwise stated cache found in good condition.

Pa and I are down here early for Canberra's Invasion of Tumut this coming weekend. We took advantage of being old and grey, ok I'm being ageist, to explore the area.
Pa was really clever and pulled up beside the cache so it was found easily enough and I left a couple of Tbs.
All caches have been signed some as SG which is what I do to save space in small logs. TFTC

A quick find and this time I choose the right path into the GZ for once I decided to take a side road into the GZ and against my nor luck I was able to drive up to with in 16m's of the cache. TFTC.

3244 1 October 2018
Mrs Aries and I are staying in Tumut and hoping to grab some caches in the area's . Some great scenic locations and fond memories.

TNLNSL
TFTC the emongs

762 1 October 2018
Staying in Tumut for a few days and grabbing some caches in the area.
Signed log and replaced.
TFTC the emongs

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Road or Rail, both were hear, I was a little worried here, watched carefully for the trains that they did not come and get me while looking for the cache. We did find it, sign it and on our way.

Camped in Tumut for a couple of days. Hot day today, off to tackle some caches in the area.TFTC

It was an early start to the day when I set out with Aquilus1 at 0600 on Sunday morning (04/01/2018) to cache Tumut with a side trip to Gundagai. In all we travelled 520kms and it took almost 16 hours to visit 70 plus caches with 65 finds. A long but very enjoyable day. Some of the highlights of the day included visiting Junction Bridge (a Truss Bridge built in the 1800s), Googarragandra River Suspension Bridge (Built in 2006 and Spanning 51..8 meters), Tumut River Grey-headed Flying Fox Colony, Tumut Rail Station and the Tumut River. We had a little time to also visit the Old Gundagai Jail built in 1859 and the Old Flower Mill built in the 1848. Aquilus1 took a photo of me at the Brungle Centenary Park using my poker to poke the cache out of its hiding spot. We had lunch at Gundagai McDonalds and snacks at Subway. This is a generic log due to the volume of all the caches that we found on the day. Thanks to Aquilus1 for a fantastic day of caching and thanks to all the cache owners for placing the caches.

I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. As of 31st January 2018 my average was only 20 words per log, which seems close to the 100 target. However given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After 2350 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including today), the average log length is just over 50. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my gaol before this year ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.

It was an early start to the day that saw Darksidedan and myself heading to Tumut for the day with a side trip of some Gundagai caches as well as we travelled through. I had been keen to head off for a caching trip and Tumut looked ideal and definitely didn't disappoint. The scenery as we traveled through the area was everything I had hoped it would be and the clear fast flowing rivers beautiful as they flowed through the middle of it all.

A long but very enjoyable day, so many highlights and although we covered a large area and many caches I'm pleased to know there are many more so a return trip sometime is definitely going to happen.

Great shady spot here with the old train track running through. Very over grown but can just see the old tracks still - guess that's the thing when these are no longer in use. Thanks for the cache the emongs.

Quick find. Thanks for bringing us down here. Watch for blackberries and trains.

Tftc. No trolls found here!

Geofriend, Whitepaws9 and I drive around to NSW country and Vic country for 1-2 weeks.. Beautiful good weather....Thanks

Sorry for the late log. Found with Boeing737 and JetFuselage. TFTC

Found on a weekend in Adelong.
Thank goodness there was a pencil inside! That's the first time in ages I've forgotten a pen!
TFTC

Cool spot, took a while to get there but it was fun

Found after dropping my Brother-In-Law in Batlow. He was riding to Tumut, I was geocaching to Tumut!

Cheers

Read the description prior to leaving the cache at the sawmill, which was very helpful as we were about to pull back on the highway! But instead we read there was an easier entrance from the road we were already on, perfect

Very glad we approached from below. There was lots of long grass, and trying to navigate down that steep rocky/grassy hill would of been a pain.

Instead I took a semi-leisurely stroll to the cache, being weary of going through the grass.

Thanks, a really good spot for a cache!

Spending the day out and about with muggle starlight and fellow cacher ynnbub exploring the Tumut area, day 2 of our journey took us to Adelong.
A scramble down so be careful

On a two day caching trip with Ryan Girls and muggle starlight. We took the highway instead of the recommended road, which resulted in a steep scramble down the rocks to GZ for some whilst the others looked on from above!

Easy find once I realized why the coordinates kept swapping sides

And the railway once was

Love this spot.

Took a little to get down to this one but cache was quickly found. TFTC

Today was the first full day of our caching adventure with Rapidlywild in Tumut. I have never really been to Tumut before and was quite surprised by the size and the beauty of the place. Lovely water ways that were crystal clear. Just a lovely place to drive around and explore.

This one took us a little bit of time but eventually located its hiding place. Signed and back on our way.

TFTC Emongs

After arriving into Tumut last night, we got up this morning with intentions to get as many finds as possible. We seen some wonderful scenery today, and loved the running waters around Tumut.

This one took a little while but eventually located. Signed replaced and we were on our way again.

Thanks The Emongs for the placement of this cache[^]

Had no problems in finding this cache. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks The Emongs for placing this cache.

TFTC!
Found with Shellumbus and RedLeader&Fox2.

Geo road trip with indianagleeson, red leader & fox 2
Looked longer than needed here!!

On a trip to Tumut for a day of geocaching with Indianagleeson. Scrambled down the hill and made the discovery after expanding the search a little. Tftc.

Cool spot. Part of the "best day ever" as described by my daughter!

Day eight of our High Country holiday. Another sunny day at Tumut with Bettyboo3747
Got out the deadly treadlies for a relative early morning ride along the river and wetlands.
We then travelled to Adelong for some caches and a walk around the mining area.

We were fortunately on the lower road already. Interesting to see that most of the tracks are still in place. It would make a great Rail Trail with little work.
Spotted the good sized cache quickly and left our marks.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 9967. I got up early today and headed out on the bike to the river path and then into the wetlands. What a great start to the day. Then we got ready and drove to Adelong, collecting a few caches on the way before visiting the old Gold Mining area.

As we are bike riders and enjoy riding renovated trails we would love that to happen here. What a scenic ride it would be through the old cuttings and lovely countryside. Anyhow it ain't and we can't so we will have to enjoy finding a cache instead. Found it easily although my GPS said it wanted to go 10 metres further down the line. I left one of my black mask pathtags here today.

Thanks The Emongs

Didn't see any trains once down the hill it was easy

Paul M

Looking for some serpentinite under the bridge but found some metamophosed sedimentary rock instead including a quite spectacular series of deformed conglomerate beds. The cache found in good nick, left a th for the next finder to move on. Thanks for placing.

TFTC

Found it on our journey north. What an interesting location? Tftc

Found it!

Pelusa found it
TNLNSL TNX for cache

Steep track down on one side, but nice quick find TFTC

A good find, lots of fun climbing down TFTC

Find 137 + 2 DNF's on an overnight trip to Wagga Wagga. Found on our way back home via Tumut. A quick find, thanks Emongs.

We decided on a trip to Tumut, as there were a lot of roadside caches to pick up along the way.
A nice sunny day, with very little cloud which made the views spectacular.
Cache was found quickly, and in good condition.
Many thanks for placing this cache, The Emongs, for us and others to find.

Pulled over and went cross country to grab this one on our way back to Tumut from Adelong. SL TFTC The Emongs

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Found by Mary & David at 1145. Batlow means apples to us. Some rails are still there, but who would have imagined that form of transport around here would have had such a relatively short life. An interesting cutting through the rocks, too. A nice easy find. Our thanks to The Emongs.

Nice hide

I drove past this cache earlier this month, because the area looked snaky, but decided today to give it a go. The cache was soon in hand, and no snakes seen. Interesting to find the old rail line under the road bridge. TFTC The Emongs.

Perfect weather today to be caching , cloud cover and cool, collecting many caches along the way. Bit of a slide down and the rest is logged. TFTC

What a great day of exploring and we so enjoy visiting areas we have not been to before. Nice cache and beautiful countryside. Thanks to The Emongs for placing this cache.

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Slid my way down and found the obvious markings of a hide and walla, CIH SL. TFTC!

Pulled up at the turnoff to Tumbarumba as as I like old railways stopped here for a search. Made our way down from above and once at the bottom the spot was quickly found. A nice spot for a cache though the log trucks above make a bit of noise. Nice view up the old cutting as well (Photo included). Thanks The Emongs.

Found on our Tumut trip. After some confusion on where to park, we managed to find a spot on the patch of tar. Then, the difficult scramble down to the cache started. Once down there, it was in the shade, meaning that we were cooled down, allowing for a quick find. A nice little spot that is not usually seen by people driving by. After climbing back up to the top, we were buggered - a steep walk on a hot day is not a good idea. TNLNSL. TFTC The Emongs!

Part mountain goat to get this one.. tftc

[:(!] Went for a weekend caching run, left Wagga about 5.30am and did a circuit through Adelong, Tumut and Gundagai arriving back at Wagga about 6.30pm the following day and breaking the journey by spending the night in Tumut, parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter of minutes.

"I like it"

LNTNSL TFTC/TFTH The Emongs [^]

Found this one during our month long tour of SE Australia. It is our intention to find as many caches as possible during our stay and as a result logistics dictate that this generic log will have to suffice .Hope the cache owners, to whom we extend our gratitude for their efforts, will all understand the reasons for this.All good wishes from us both.
Valliant Knight and Damsel (UK)

Another great cache. Thanks The Emongs

All good here a quick find... Thank you

Quick find, as per hint TFTC

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

Nice quick and easy

No problems with trains today and the cache cammo made it easy to spot. TFTC

Another Tumut cache logged. Took a circuitous route to get to this one, but then found it quite quickly.
This is a lovely town we are enjoying revisiting.
TNLN. TFTC

Bit of a scramble up and down for us oldies but an interesting spot that all those rumbling overhead won't see, which is the added value in geocaching we all appreciate. TFTC.

Slipped our way down the bank to location. Cool spot to take us to, thanks.

Our last afternoon of caching in Tumut. The weather is so hot at the moment, always good to jump back into the air conditioned car.
Nicely hid. Passed this as we arrived into town decided we would come back without the van
TFTC The Emongs

The approach that I used this morning to find this cache was along the old highway, you mean that narrow piece of bitumen used to be the highway??? The train tracks have long been abandoned and I remember catching the second last passenger train/tram to Tumut for holidays from uni in Sydney, many many years ago. The train to Batlow used to run through my parents farm and they like many landowners were happy to see the service cease. There were talks of converting the trainline into a bike track but this obviously hasn't happened yet. A nice explore so thanks Emongs for the cache.

Nice quick find on our trip home. Makes you think on days gone by and how things come and go. Tftc

Found at 9:33:00 AM with Roostaman, BoyRacer and lgoody on a day trip to Tumut and beyond.

Thanks The Emongs

Found with lgoody, roostaman and fred6603 thanks!