Mitch's Long Walk Chute, Victoria, Australia
By tigersden on 21-Feb-10. Waypoint GC24F6X

AS Tigersden (Cach owner) remarked, the GZ has been inaccessible for some time due to road works. That being the Beaufort- Buangor Western Highway dual carriageway road works. The location was off limits to everyone including locals. The eastbound lanes are now reconstructed, and the original highway is now a service lane and is accessible from the eastbound lanes at multiple points. The cairn is still there, and likely so is the cache. If travelling west, head at least two median strip cross overs (Side road accesses.) past the cache location before crossing over/u-turning to give yourself plenty of room to safely get to the GZ. I could give further, more precise details but I only travel past during the night on a long haul newspaper run. (And do most of my caching on those runs. Middle of the night caching is sooo much harder.) Friday morning 27/05/16 will be my next trip that way and I will attempt to stop and see if the cache is still there, and post an update afterwards.

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future, just contact a reviewer (by email), and assuming it still meets the current

guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

Should you replace the cache after 28 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

this is inaccessible for the moment due to road works.

This cache should be disabled as due to roadworks the area is completely inaccessible . The area is roped off as well.

Been informed this is inaccessible for the moment due to road works.

The monument used to be on a single lane highway.

Now the highway is being redesigned into a split 2-lane freeway, which means the monument will probably only accessible from the Eastbound part of the freeway.

For now, the monument is on a road section which isn't being driven on, which made it easy to come here and look for the cache in peace.

Cache was a bit wet when we found it. Probably needs a new set of log notes.

A quick find on our Melbourne trip with Bek-theraccoon, Traut+Wombat and Dr Owl. TFTC

Rushed over the mushy ground to get to this one and ended up tripping over a rock in the dark so it was certainly a relief to get the find on route to Melbourne! TFTC

Who knew there were three parallel roads here? Not this navigator! A quick find on our way to Melbourne, TFTC

Found on the way to Melbourne with Bek-theRacoon, Alex-theSquirrel and Traut + Wombat. An interesting retrieval, as it was now pitch black, the road was being redesigned and the monument was apparently nowhere in sight. Some judicious wandering around (with Owl slowly bringing up the rear), then Bek and Traut pounced. Phew! What a long walk!

12/07/2015 11:00 14 of 19. A caching weekend to the "Party With Baz" event in Cathcart with Carl (iamapom). We stoped here in search of my drive-by's and I was a little surprised it wasn't hidden in the obvious structures. Another quick traditional here to add to our numbers. TFTC tigersden TNLN SL

Found it with Landau351 on our short weekend visit to Ballarat and Ararat. We spent most of the weekend very cold and very wet, with numb fingers. Thanks for the cache.

Visiting Ararat for the weekend especially to visit J ward tour tonight
It's possibly the coldest of weekends that we have chosen for this adventure
Always time to gather up some caches

Thanks

Beautiful day in the land of cache great day for a cache road trip tftc

What a beautiful day for caching

This turned out to be one of our first finds for the day while heading to South Australia. Easily found and a great start to the day with 30+ finds between here and Keith.

TFTC tigersden.

Quick get although bit damp inside the container. Log pages still ok.

Nice and Easy

Easy find.tftc

A welcome break on a trip to Adelaide. Tftc.

17.04.2015

Found with welena on our Australia & Fiji Holidays.

Thanks

#1195 17.04.2015 12:35

Reissdorf and I spend almost a month in Australia. Our long awaited holiday.
After visiting Sydney, Ayers Rock & Kings Canyon, Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road and the Grampians , now we are on the way back to Melbourne.

Quick found.

Tftc
welena

Back on the road today after a couple of days camped in the nearby park. "This road can be busy" - Ha ha! - understatement of the year! With all the road works going on around here, it is incredibly busy. Had trouble turning right to get onto the highway and then it was with great care Pa pulled into this parking area so that I could grab the cache and keep my streak going- many thanks Pa, especially as we had only just hit the road. A quick find and did not have to worry about the muggles as they were all too involved in their own business. SL TFTC tigersden

TFTC!

Driven past a million times and never stopped before we started GC'n. First time find for geograndma. Lol! TFTC

Busy busy road. Good find. Bit damp.

Hey s7rzss

Hey s7rzss

Found it:)

Caching with Shamus1 today in Ararat and Beaufort. Nice easy pick up. Thanks for the cache

After caching in Ararat for a few hours Gemmasiemensma and I found a few he in Beaufort.
This was 1 of the caches we did today I thought I had done but may have forgot to log it
THTC thanks for the cache

Waited for a break in traffic to snaffle this one. Geokid 1 annoyed that i found it after she walked past it. This cache brings back memories of a school project on major mitchell. ( gee! Thats many moons ago. Lol)

Learning alot about Major Mitch on this trip. TFTC tigersden.
Chiefton

Quick find on the way through. Tftc

On our todays tour we visited this site.
We took the opportunity to search for the cache nearby. We found it and signed the logbook.
Thanks for this nice cache !

On holiday in Australia.
17:10

Found on the trip home from a long weekend in Encounter Bay with Geobuddy BJ today. TNLN. TFTC tigersden

Find # 1919 @ 1434 H

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

Taking Tyred n Cranky's Magna for a run today. After grabbing some of the newer caches we missed around Beaufort, on the day of the evening event. We decided to go up the Highway to Ararat.

I have never seen a "Historic Marker" that size before.

TFTC tigersden

Find No. 815. Found at 2.34pm with FUF009

A day touring around the countryside caching - Lexton / Beaufort / Ararat areas. FUF009 came with us.

Reminded us of the monument back home of Major Mitchell. He sure did cover some country.

TFTC

This entry was edited by Tyred n Cranky on Thursday, 01 January 2015 at 05:02:54 UTC.

Road trippin with my three favourite allies , family holiday 2014/15

It is really quite amazing to see the places and distance that our early explorer's travelled to discover our beautiful country for us. SL TFTC

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today along the road between Horsham and Beaufort. Greetings from Belgium.

Found it

Thanks for this cache.

On way home, we needed a drink & toilet brake for the dog.

This one had us going for a bit. Didn't help that a bus full of muggles turned up. Eventually my partner found it after they all packed up and took off. TFTC

Muggles, muggles and muggles. A crappy pull-over spot and we had to wait for 2 cars to meet-up and take off, then a mini-bus of 15-20 people pulled up to stretch their legs. We took our time, working through the clues, just as my good lady was giving up I made one last pass and found it. Too close to the highway for my liking, but well grounded.

Found it! 5:55 am while taking a required break near the end of a 500km long haul newspaper run. GPS did NOT like it here! It's over there. Walk over and now it's over there. Walk again and now it's in the middle of the highway! Eventually common sense told me where it should be, and sure enough, there it was. TFTC. SL. Left a new piece of note paper for logs.

A quick iPhone photo after a successful cache find.

Found on a fantastic weekend away with Moneydork (Hero Husband), Locus Cache and Sushilord. It was not a quiet trip but oh so worth it! Lots of caching, lots of laughter and finally some sleep thrown in when we just couldn't carry on!
Thanks for your cache and helping make our weekend so great.

It sure was a loooong walk. TFTC

After being offered a weekend caching to and from Ballarat with Tounga and Moneydork, how could I refuse[?]
Sushilord joined us too and for 3 days we laughed and cached and laughed and cached until we could cache no more. [|)]
As for the topics of conversation, apparently mirth, maniacal murder and mayhem were the common themes for the weekend along with a few other topics
My total for a great weekend was 1 event attended in Ballarat , 113 cache finds 7 DNFs and a FTF as I wound my way home, alone, in the early morning

Mitch was here and Mitch passed by and Mitch went for a long walk when he did so.
I still stand in awe of how hard it must have been travelling in those days and the vast areas that Mitch traversed.

TNLN. SL. TFTC tigersden

The GPS was not cooperating on this one this afternoon, so it was a process of elimination. We searched a few places before this one was uncovered. Thanks for the hide tigersden.

This one took us a few minute to find as the gps was all over the place.

TFTC

Had our breakfast at this pull in not very scenic TFTC though made the stop worthwhile!

Sneaky

Sneaky

Found today on s beautiful day and met another lovely family doing the same

EASY FIND ON OUR WAY TO ADELAIDE.TFTC[")]

Definately stealth required today. Lots of traffic and some roadworks going on down the road. Needed to stretch the legs so wandering around did me good. Easy little find, nice spot to relax and read the board. Been through here a lot but first time to actually stop here. TFTC.

tftc . easy find and on our way

Nice break. TFTC

Walked straight up to it this time, last visit I was here for ages.
TFTC.

Great done for the day

Found

Found yesterday while heading up to Horsham on a work trip. I left the other half of Kalianda09 at home finding some caches so I figured I could grab a couple of quick finds on the way past.
I've been past here a few times now and even stopped here but never though to see if there was a cache here. A quick and easy find for me today with the log signed and I was back on the way. Apparently there was work to be done! Thanks tigersden for hiding the cache.

Found today whilst away on a caching weekend with Misschief18 and staying at a ego friends place nearby.
A quick easy find. A great bit of history.
SL TFTC

Found with The 2 Wanderers during a weekend at Raglan with chooknchunk. I couldn't count the number of times I have gone past here to visit family in Ararat and Adelaide. Finally got to find the cache today! It 's a very busy road. Mitch certainly walked a long way. TFTC

Another fast find, pity the weather isn't letting us look at much view. Information about Mitchell very interesting though. Tftc

Found with some quality time to gather a few smilies

SL tigersden TFTC

no long walk here
throwdown
tftc

Started on return trip back to canberra Via Melbourne - Trying to beat Knightech JNR to the caches

Thanks For The Cache

TFTC!! Found With Knightech

Started on return trip back to canberra Via Melbourne - Trying to beat Knightech JNR to the caches

Thanks For The Cache

Found on our way home from the S.A. Mega.
Coruze, Kiara001 and myself were pulling over
and grabbing some caches along the way which
were giving us the opportunity to stretch our legs.
Enjoyed the caches as we needed breaks after that event.
SL.....TNLN.....T4TC
troobloo
Apologise for the late log

Found with Coruze and troobloo on our way home from the oz mega Murray bridge. Was great to get out and stretch our legs and ofcourse grab some smileys! TFTC

Found with diddysmum

We do like the caches where you learn something new. DM now knows Mj Mitchell as an explorer, not a cockatoo.

Good last cache to round off a great Oz Mega weekend.
TFTC

After a great time in Murray Bridge for the Oz Mega, it was time for us to leave and start the road trip home. We randomly chose caches along our route home and this was one of them. The road got busy at times but we generally had a good run so it was great to nab ourselves a few more smilies Thanks for the fun and giving us a reason to stop, revive and survive - Cheers!

On our way home from Oz Mega, found with the sock man. A nice straight forward hide to tick the date off the stats list! TFTC

First find of the long weekend, on the way to OZ Mega 2014 with ThePacgirl.
TFTC, tigersden.

Found this one a bit tricky. Tftc

Found this one a bit tricky. Tftc

17/04/2014 11:58 Find #2504 . 9th of 23 today with Facitman en route to Oz Mega 2014

Straightforward find before another tourist photo

TNLN

Cheers tigersden

Found by Facitman with Rhinogeo on our way to the SA Mega Event at Murray Bridge at 12:00
We love a monument! Rhinogeo has a fantastic multi focussed on them so today we stopped at quite a few caches located near/on monuments. We pulled off the highway and play our own version of frogger before making a quick find at GZ. Rhinogeo had his camera and tripod so we setup for a stylish photo of ourselves with the arrow!
Thanks tigersden

I enjoy roadside stops that are educational, I liked the memorial too! Thanks for bringing me here.

Thanks. On the way to the Mega

The Booo's are on day 4 of our road trip to Oz Mega in SA a nice quick find thanks

Find Number 2394

The Booo's found this cache,

A very quick find in the dark as we make our way from Ballarat to Murray Bridge

Thanks tigersden for placing this cache


This log was generated using a combination of GSAK and iGeoKnife iPhone app

TFTC .

On our way to the OzMega in Murray Bridge picking up a few caches on the way. We thank the many cache owners for putting out and maintaing these caches for our pleasure. There have been challenges as well as simple drive byes to break the journey, there have been a few DNF's also.

Apologies for the generic log but we plan to do quite a few logs in the next few days.

Pea soup fog this morning.

cheers
Greynomads - Bill and Diana TFTC TNLN SL

Out on an adventure with Wozzle68 in the Langi Ghiran area today.
Watch for the bull ants.
TFTC

Found with The Tritonz. TFTC

Heading to Melbs to see John Farnham and Lionel Ritchie. Made GeoHubby finis work that bit earlier so we could fit in a cpl of GCs along the way!! Pity GeoKiddies weren't with us for our 100th find, but we did have their blessing to do so. Loved John and Lionel, would recommend them to everyone!! Yayy for our 100th find, TFTC!!

A final trip to Melbourne on mother business and made sure there was some time for caching on the drive over and back.
On the road again today and this was a nice easy one to start with.
Thanks for the cache tigersden

Thanks for the quick grab on the highway. Gave a good spot to stop for a few minutes. Thankfully no one else parked there like the place where I had tried earlier on my trip.

Tftc. Nice find on the way home from Ararat to visit grandpa

Another stop on the way to Stawell, and we were out of the vehicle ... this evened things out as it was Jinky who spotted it. Three caches, three spotters -- a good day today. TNLN, SL, TFTC!

Quick find with the family on route to the Grampians. TFTC !

Beautiful weather, 4WD packed, geodog for company on this caching geocaching trip. Nice quick cache, here I thought we were going for a walk. Thanks