Lone Pine Nerang, Queensland, Australia
By [email protected] on 26-Jun-10. Waypoint GC2AVMZ

This junction seems like a popular spot for mtb'ers to hang out and talk crap. Thanks for the cache [email protected]

I made plans to spend the day in the Nerang area and attend the nearby event. With the kids packed off to school I hit the motorways and had a nice smooth run all the way to Nerang. I headed straight for the State Forest as I thought it would be cooler here in the morning. I parked in Yamanie Court and walked up the hill from there. I saw a likely spot and went to investigate but I couldn't see a cache anywhere there. I walked around for another 10min checking various places before coming back to the original spot and looking again. I dug a little deeper and finally found it. The container was much smaller than I was expecting which is why I hadn't seen it before. Thanks for the cache peteorth!

GG1 & I have come South to climb some hills, cross some creeks & find some caches. Nice walk into the bush, there were a lot of cyclists ranging the tracks, so be aware in this area. We replaced this very sad wet cache (a buff & polish and its been renewed).

Replaced this one as it was in a very sad state. Thank you for the fun

Great spot. But sadly unable to sign the log as it was full of water. TFTC

Perfect weather for a hike with camm1e. A quick find but couldnt sign as the container is full of water . Tftc

I told the kids this was a quick 5min walk before breakfast… In my defense it looked like a much shorter walk on the map TFTC dried log as much as possible.

Container full of water and log is just a soggy ruin. Drained the water out but not much I could do with the log. Thanks for putting this one out there

This afternoon, I took a drive to Nerang, with my plan of hiking in Nerang National Park. I hadn't realised that there was rain in the area, and so I had a few downpours whilst walking the trails during my two hour duration. An area that I am keen in returning to with my mountain bike! I did manage to remember to make a stop at the local cemetery as per the *Our Early Settlers* Adventure Lab.

I wasn't sure how to best approach some of these geocaches in Nerang National Park, and so I ended up parking at Yamanie Court, and walking from there, detouring past a small cluster of geocaches, such as *The Going Down of the Sun* first. From there, I walked along the Centre Road Fire Road for a fair distance, and then turned along Nerang Break Fire Road to walk to [The Drumley Walk - Heartbreak Hill](https://coord.info/GC1XEHM). On my return back to the car, I followed a few of the MTB trails, which turned out to be an interesting choice. My routes included *Terminator Blue*, *Terminator Black*, *Vertigo*, and then I followed the Billabirra Break Fire Road back down the hill, before following a few link tracks back.

I took the fire trail up to this cache, just as the rain started to drizzle. It was only a few minutes of looking around before finding the cache in a logical hiding place (despite no hint). The cache container was in good shape, but unfortunately there was water inside the container, and the log was quite saturated, slimy and gross. I left a mark on the logbook, but it could certainly use a new logbook in a protective plastic bag. Thanks [email protected] for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found it, unable too sign due to total submerge of water, put in extra bit of paper with our signature, but won’t last I would guess. Great hike to the cache though.
TFTC

Thanks creator! Great little find. Couldn’t sign as the book was all wet. Will upgrade the container and pad next time we’re here.

Found, completely wet, could not sign. Fun hike.

Only found twice in three years... I can kind of understand why... that was quite the hike to get up here... last thing I expected at the very peak was to run into a jogger... but I did... in fact three joggers... crazy...

I think this cache ticks the “geocaching to get fit” box for the day...

As others have stated the log is saturated... I didn’t bring any paper and I don’t think I’ll go back to the car for it now... so I’ve put the log into a snap lock bag and packed it with silica (not that I think it will do much good)...

Tftc... collected the Tb that’s sat here long enough in the wet...

Lots in it but wet from recent rain.

Still in very good condition inside. Even found a $100 note. What a walk. Well worth it.

Visiting Queensland and didn't have the GeoGrandChild this afternoon so went for a bit of a walk. Will try again on my next visit north.

The name appealed as both my father and father-in-law served in WW II.
Lest we Forget.

I am Grumpy!
In memory of THEOLDREV

I had found the Nerang Forest Reserve caches a few years ago (but never logged them). So I decided to revisit these cache sites, and this time log them.

This cache is still present, and in good condition.
Nothing taken, nothing left.

Easy find this is a great location spent the day riding my MTB on the trails
Tftc cheers
Camhelen

Found after dodging a half a dozen mtbers.
Not exactly at the supplied coordinates.

Good spot.

Thanks for the cache, some great views up here and fresh air.
Coords were a bit out for me (go 20m east from posted coords).

Cindy's 1st cache yay...brandon left some stuff

Today was a nice cool morning to tackle this side of the hill as this has been on the to do list for quite some time now. The climb up the steep slopes weren't too bad but knowing it would be downhill on the return trip made it easier, mind over matter! The cache was found quickly and in good condition for its age. Thanks peteorth for the adventure and TFTC

TFTC

Quite the trek up the hill. Thanks for the cache. Took nothing but left some lego.

Ahh,now this is what I've been saving the favourite points for,this is my sort of caching a good walk to get the heart rate up great views through the trees and peace and quiet,TFTC peteorth.

Nice walk! Good find. Thanks

I would like to do this. Please send me a message if you are doing this walk/trek too. I just don't want to cache alone (scared of snakes but fit to hike/climb) and my usual caching buddies have either already done it or interstate.

Headed on down the track.
We had a pleasant breeze following us and soon we were taking a quick walk into the cache.
It was soon found and we added our names to the list.
Rehid and then we had a very steep down hill trek back to the geomobile.
We watched a biker go tearing down the track. He did not have to pedal.
We watched a runner heading up the other way. That is a hard way to train.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks [email protected] All good with this cache

No soldiers on duty today at Lone Pine. Guess it's not ANZAC Day yet.

Nice hiding spot. Lucky I had my army boots on because it's in an area where dog traps have been placed, and there is 24hr live firing (according to very unofficial looking paper sign).

I saw no evidence of either.

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 58.290 E 153° 18.470

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 58.483 E 153° 18.783

Distance from original: 2050 feet or 624.9 meters.
Updating coordinates as I doubt CO will at this stage.

See log from 7/6/2014...

Swellerfungus and I had come up with a plan during the week to go for a lovely walk along Back Creek Gorge to grab some puzzle caches on our way to the event at Canungra. Unfortunately with the weather looking unwelcoming I came up with some altenatives nearby, just in case. In the end we wussed out with the rain, and I promised Sweller a trip to Lone Pine instead. He was quite excited but when I told him we wouldn't be meeting any koalas today his bottom lip began to quiver. Cheer up I said, there's some nice D/T ratings to make up for it. Making sure we had the corrected coordinates on board , we headed of along the trails which were still surprisingly firm after the recent rain. The trail wound is way around, steadily rising all the way until we reached GZ. A short search and we had this one in the bag. TFTC.

Out for a day of hight difficulty/terrain rating with Seffnjarah. Heading down to an event in Canungra gave us the chance to attack a heap of caches from the Dark Side of Brisbane down to the Gold Coast.
Given our plans to walk down Back Creek Gorge were thwarted by the weather (though we found out later that others at the event had done just that) we looked further afield, and SNJ came up with these four.

NOTE THE NEED TO ADJUST THE COORDINATES - THEY ARE WRONG - SEE EARLIER LOGS

So we parked in Brookfield St and headed in. A nice little climb had as seating and sweltering in the muggy weather following the rain an hour or so ago. Nothing we couldn't handle, and soon reached the clearing at the top of the hill. Cache in hand soon after that.
Thanks

I decided to see how easy it is to increase one's difficulty and Terrain ratings by tackling these three up here.
I corrected all of the co-ords before leaving home at 10 am. I didn't see anybody but could hear the birds in full chorus. The climb up the loose rocky road was not so hard given that the temperature was reasonable at 23. I wouldn't attempt this in the height of summer though. I think that knowing it will be a stretch makes it easier. At one point I came a cross a rickety bridge which I decided to avoid and climb up and down the little gully instead. I wasn't on the main trail to begin with but it was dear enough where I needed to be. Once at GZ was an easy find. Thanks peteorth.

3 x Trad caches, all offset 4-600m. To fit the guidelines, coordinates should be corrected, or the listing changed to a multi, with indications in the description that one is looking for an offset.

Nice forest. Enjoyed the walk along the mountain bike trails, but the geocaching was a waste of time.

I had been eying off this cache and the two near by for a little while as they fit the needs for a square on my D/T matrix. A good thing I did the reading up first though to actually find that the coords needed adjusting was a useful piece of information.

I was a little intrigued by the signage near to the GZ for this cache mentioning that the track I was now on was an easy one (this is after the steep walk to get to this track).

The find was quite easy and did not take long, quite an interesting ants nest near by which they were still working on building a new addition today.

TFTC

Continuing our journey around this little area, Nyssaflutterby and I were onto this geocache next. We had parked on Brookfield Road and followed all manner of random bike trails to get to the right general spot. Having doubled back for the other two close caches that have horrendous co-ordinates we headed off for the final of this one too.

It was less back in the direction we had come which was good, but the walk was still long and hot. Hats off to those who sussed out the proper co-ords here as like many others, the directions given using road names makes no sense to me.

We eventually got to the final spot and for the third time today Nyssa found the Lone Pine first. Inside was in good condition and we signed the logbook on the next blank spot. TFTC peteorth

S 27° 58.481 E 153° 18.792

With corrected coords, Captain Terror and myself rerouted our direction back to the car to include this cache. Once at GZ it wasn't long until the cache was in hand.

Thanks for the cache peteorth

Grabbed four caches with Couchmen including one FTF, and three caches up in the Nerang Forest. The weather was very mild, in the mid 20's, lots of Sun and lowish humidity, it was a comfortable few hours caching walking in the bush. Thanks to cache owners for the caches.

Had been meaning to grab these three caches for some time now. Finally today teamed up with Couchmen to do the walk. Some steep tracks, but that didn't stop us.

This one was the first and after making it to the top, with relative ease, we took a drinks break then made a quick find. Nice spot. TFTC.

Out with Blacklegend again today, he had set me this mountain climbing challenge the other day and I thought with him along I was up for it so here we are.

I knew it was a terrain 4 so what we encountered didn't surprise me but the mind being ready doesn't make the body strong.

He was very patient with me as I stopped every 10 paces or so on the steep sections.

Finally we topped the rise and had the leasurely walk to GZ.

The cache site was easily spotted and the cache was found safe and sound.

We rested and refueled before heading off again.

Thanks Peterorth TFTC SL TNLN

Conquered the mountain! Yeah! Found it, signed it and onto the next cache thanks to the different coordinates in the previous logs. Thanks for the cache [email protected].

S 27° 58.481 E 153° 18.792

Another day out caching.
Another day with a cache found for the August challenge.
Another souvenir.
Another log book signed eventually.
Another smile on my face.
Another 'thanks for the cache'.

This entry was edited by Brother Colin on Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 08:24:45 UTC.

Nice early start this morning. I parked at the end of Rokeby Ct then headed up the trail. Iv been up this way before for some other caches. It's just after 6 and i'm 3/4 of the way up when I hear something behind me, i turn to see an old bloke almost jogging up the hill. Geez some of us are fit, thankfully I made it to the top without being past. I reached the fork in the track and then a couple of runners went by, "Morning". Boom, one of the guys trips on a rock and he's down. Bark off but he's ok and off they go. I realise I'm pretty close to GZ so I wait for the other guy coming up the hill. Ahh Hello, here comes a border collie up the track. What the! Old mate reaches the top then turns around and back down he goes. I'm giving the dog some water when two ladies come running up the track and call out to him.
No one around so I headed in and soon found the cache. Log book is damp but still signable. Replaced cache then went back to the track. Just got to the edge of the track and another couple of guys came running by and you wouldn't believe it, one of them trips on a rock and down he goes. Geez I better watch my step to the others.
TFTC peteorth

Wow this cache has been a fun one. I think I have been on every mtb track in a 1 km rad (no chance) had to use paperbark as notepaper to correct co-ords in GPSr. The temp is getting up around 30 and its not even 11 am. TFTC... Please CO fix the co-ords.. Even though, i can tell im going to spend more time in this park..

The cache was full of water. I dried it out. The log was mostly Ok, just a little damp. I put it in a new baggie to help keep it dry. This was my last one for the day. 13 caches, 5 1/2 hours, 38km, 800m of climbing and an absolute blast on the mtb (with a few extra mtb trails just for fun )

What a trek up that hill. If it wasn't for the dog pulling me up I don't know if I would have made it. When we did make it to the top we came across a couple of trail bike riders stopped for a rest and decided to do the same. When the coast was clear we made our way to GZ as set by radnoski with no luck. Also had a crack at the co-ordinates posted by Herbz but still no joy. We did find the other 2 so we didn't do that hill for nothing.

S 27° 58.481 E 153° 18.792

Heart busting walk up the hill was interrupted by a breather to have a chat with a kiwi taking photos of the "Feral" deer in the forest, oddly enough he reckons there aren't nearly as many as the locals say there are. Chat over I struggle the rest of the way up the hill only to find 3 bikers resting not too far from the GZ. Good excuse for a breather to wait until they left, and then go and collect the cache. Log quite damp.

Info for those doing these 3 caches up the hill, Lone Pine, Quinns Post and The Nek. Would have taken me (moderate fitness) about 1.5 hours for the circuit, add another hour or so to get to Heartbreak Hill cache and back.

Thanks to Radnoski for the deciphered co-ords and Herbz for the update, spot on.


TNLN TFTC

Nice find while riding with fellow hunter, very nice thanks

Found during a nice 20km mountain bike ride in the Nerang
State Forest. Log book wet & almost unsignable. TFTC

Enjoyed an early morning walk up to the cache. Beautiful cool morning and lots of birds singing. TFTC

Does pay to read the description! Parked in a street that involved a walk up a bike track, although easy was certainly longer than the way out. Rain virtually the whole way, reducing at times.
Found gz and tracked down the cache quickly.
Thanks Peteorth.

Now the mystery of these caches was solved - thanks to good old Radnoski, I decided to make these the first attempt for the day.

I surveyed the suggested entrances to the bushland and picked what I thought was a decent one (why do they make the entrances so "awkward feeling" near the houses?). I trudged on and followed the path up and follwed the GPSr. Now I am not the slimmest of lads, but appreantly I am fit enough to overtake two fellows pushing their bikes.

Old Mate Cyclist 1: Gee we must be going pretty slow if you are overtaking us
*crickets chirping*
Old Mate Cyclist 2 (realizing how Old Mate 1's statement sounded) : We should be riding these bikes up the hill past you

Not that I really cared - I knew they didn't mean offence - but it was amusing. I got to the top first and decided to have a "breather" while the other fellows mounted up and moved along. Using Herbz's co-ords I stepped right up to the cache. It was in good condition. I have attached Herb'z co-rods in my log so future cachers can find the beast. TFTC peteorth

Nice quick find TFTC Peteorth

Now that this and Peteorth's other 2 caches have been cracked by cachemaster Radnoski we were back up into the forest again today to finally nail these elusive hides. So we knew what to expect on the way up, although this didn't make the ascent any easier!

Thank goodness for the stiff breeze which kept us from boiling on the way up. Once at the top things got easier and armed with the corrected coords we found it very quickly - much faster than our last attempt. We recorded GZ at S27 58.481, E153 18.792. TFTC Finally!

Thanks to Radnoski these caches are on the hit list again and we were keen to find them with our new GPSrs headed off and saw the climb....ahh not to bad, then looked up oh dear we had certainly oicked the wrong time of day in summer to tackle these would have been better in the cool of the morning....any how, onwards & upwards Mr Gap & I disscussed the history portrayed by this series of caches.

After arriving at GZ we circled around a bit then spotted the goods TFTC Pete a great walk

Having seen that Radnoski had unlocked these 3 caches, Ms Wig and I got our boots on, spray with bushmans and suncsreen and off we went...

After the first 500m, we were thinking...yikes, this is quite nasty!! however it did improve at the end.

We circled GZ and Ms Wig says "found it"

Very enjoyable challenge, was glad to finally get up here to find this series. Thanks Peterorth.

Dropped in GC.

Once Radnoski sorted out the co-ordinates for us we no longer had any excuse for not doing these three caches. I'm glad I didn't read the terrain listing before we started or I would have stayed home. When I saw the steep hill I had second thoughts, but plodded on and made it to top of the hill. Met some bike riders putting on their pads. Hmmm. Fortunately it was not very hot, plenty of cloud cover, and a lovely breeze blowing so it didn't get nearly as hot as it had been lately. I found the first container and log was damp but we still signed with pen and covered it up again. The name was misleading until I realised we were dealing with WW1 history. Future cachers should be able to find it in its very ordinary hiding place.

This entry was edited by bristracker on Sunday, 23 January 2011 at 15:31:45.

[These caches have been a real mystery. Co-ords didn't match up with caches as quite a few geocachers discovered, until Radnoski had a brain wave. GREAT WORK RADNOSKI!!! And thanks for sharing your knowledge in your log so others, like ourselves, could conquer these caches. And - the walk to and from did take a bit of conquering! We did feel we'd really accomplished something though by the time we made it back to the car. Thanks for these caches peteorth. This first one was the most difficult for us. We were looking for a LONE pine. With the cloud cover and tree cover our gps changed it's mind a couple of times too.] Head straight ahead from the uphill track (you've most likely walked up from Nerang West) and look for half a stump. [
Took: 0
Left: happy duckling

This was my third attempt to find these caches. The first attempt was with the published co-ordinates and the second time I tried converting them to another Aussie Datum. (I was nowhere near)

There was a cache published in Robina a couple of days ago but no one could find it. I started to think of the different reasons that the co-ordinates would be wrong and saw a pattern. (the zero's as the third decimal place)

The co-ordinates were recorded as S 27° 58' 29'' E 153° 18' 47'' but published as S 27° 58.290 E 153° 18.470. (which can make hundreds of meters difference in this case)

By dividing the minutes by 60 you get the real co-ordinates in the format we are familiar with......

S 27° 58.483 E 153° 18.783

I calculated the new co-ordinates yesterday and headed up the hill this morning. The new co-ordinates were nice and close to the path along the ridge and the first one was found quickly.

TFTC Peter. I am glad to finally claim a smiley on these caches.

I grabbed one of the fake bullets and dropped in a cache dwelling frog.

Thought I would give this series a go. Being a military junkie I thought I may have a chance but failed. The co-ords have been trampled and a flock of chickens (or wild pig) could not have turned more bush over. If the co-ords are good and the regular sized container is there it would have been found by now. A number of fail to finds have missed being logged by the looks of it. Will post some photos to confirm is the Co-ords are good or not

After a long walk from Pac Pines, found a little mountain bike track that took us a to within 160m of cache. Bush bashed our way to GZ to find ourselves in a part of the forrest that looks exactly the same as every other part of the forrest with no landmarks what so ever to help in our search. Thought we were going to end up at some nice shady spot by a creek or something but no, just more bush. After searching for what seemed like forever, we left disappointed with nothing but scratches all over our legs. Didn't bother with the other two caches nearby after reading logs that sounded all too similar to our experience with this one. Maybe a handier hint would help out a bit.

We claim joint FDNF (first to not find) with Radnoski on this one! Thought this would be a nice gentle stroll in the woods with a chance of an FTF or two, or three, on a lovely Saturday morning.....WRONG!

As we approached GZ after a heart pumping climb up to the ridge, we spotted some fresh footprints where you wouldn't normally expect to see them. OK, we thought, we'd been beaten to it. But no, Radnoski emerged from the bush with GPS in one hand and machete in the other (well, not really a machete more of a hiking pole). After introductions we set about the task in hand. We fairly soon realised that we were probably not in the right area as it just didn't tie up with anything in the description. So we decided to leave this one and try for the other two new caches nearby. After much bashing and crashing we also came up empty handed with these too. We think maybe the coords are off.
So all in all a bit of a frustrating morning. But it was good to meet Radnoski and we enjoyed the walk. Will wait to see how others get on with these caches before coming back to grab them.

After leaving the track and 250 meters of bush bashing later, I got to the GZ and thought "clear plastic container..... how hard could that be to find". After searching around the GZ, I widened my search area and check all the usual spots (stumps, logs, bark around the base of trees).

After about 20 minutes of searching I heard some people approaching. Maybe they could explain my apparent "cache blindness".

Through the trees approaches Mr & Mrs Herbz. It was great to meet them for the first time.

With a few extra pairs of eyes we searched for a bit more time. After a while we decided to move on to the next cache in the series and possible return later to track this one down.

DNF number one for the day. (But not the last)

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