Halfway Hero Gordonvale, Queensland, Australia
By Charlton's Pride on 27-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2JRR9

1421 for the tribeThe lure of a caching powertrail up this formidable structure was too much to resist so we set out to tackle Walsh's pyramid. Left just after sunrise at 6:15 and returned exhausted but satisfied at 1pm, after finding 13 of the 14 caches searcher for and replacing the missing 14th cache. Some awesome DT combos were found.There has been a fire through here since a Geocacher last visited, thankfully most of the hides are intact although some have been attacked by other critters. Mercifully the weather was good. Got passed by a lunatic who did the pyramid twice in a row before I even summitted once! I found a few on the way up when I needed a rest, and most of them on the way down including the bottom 5 or so. That seemed to work well. This was a great spot to stop on the ascent.This cache was in great condition. The log and pic from GC_Diver were helpful. Thanks Charltons Pride for placing and to everyone for maintaining.

What a lovely trail! Thanks for my first cache in this part of Australia!

TFTC! Mooo...

With the mystery caches already solves we set off early in the morning to hike up the pyramid on 21/8. We decided to summit first and then get all the caches on the way back. After making it to the top in approximately 1 hour 20 minutes, we started the much slower process of finding caches.

We made it down to Burial Chamber final coordinates, however was unable to locate the cache. Some of the trads had taken longer to locate than expected and the lack of breakfast was starting to lower geosense so we decided to call it and head down.

Today I returned and ran back up to the Burial Chamber cache and quickly located it, from there I quickly located and signed the final 5 lower caches.

A great hike and a great series of caches.

Bucket List ... TICK
Our number 8 on the top 10 Australian mountains to climb according to Australian Geographic !!!
Bloody tough climb, but so worth it, and the BONUS of 14 of 16 geocaches found on our arduous journey to the summit, only 1 DNF and 1 Did Not Attempt...
Loved the Egyptian theme for all the caches, some clever puzzles and tough hides, we had an awesome day and thanks for your contribution walterhellmut to make it even more special with geocaches to break the climb, love your work

Next one done. TFTC

We stopped at this point on the way up for a break and had a look at the map. It was a good place to pause, open the Mandarin and sit for a few minutes. We noticed there was a geocache nearby, and so had a very cursory look, however with some walkers heading towards us we decided to wait for the return journey.
On our way back down, always quiet and we were glad to finally arrive at this location to stop and sit on the rocks once again.
Just off the Trail,Mrs Domsky spied something suspicious, and there was the lovely Hide.
Thanks walterhellmut for placing all of these.
This mountain was a target for us before we had arrived in Cairns, and we were so happy to do the walk and have beautiful weather at the top.
Domsky

The second cache found today as I attempted the climb of Mt Walsh. My plan was to leave most of the caches for the return journey, and concentrate on getting to the top of the mountain before it got too hot. As it happens I took a rest break here, (#17 of 278) and noted that there was a cache not far. To be honest I was taken aback that this was only the halfway mark. Surely that is just practical joke graffiti?
A quick search uncovered the cache container tucked away. All good here with the log book. My name was entered and the cache container returned. Thanks for the cache hide Charlton’s Pride. I was glad for the rest. Cheers

Very hot walk on a breezy morning (thank goodness). Good find for the motivation! With JustNickingOff
TFTC ️

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. #Find#: 3904#

Found on: 30 November 2021 14:18

Distance from GZ: 3m

Buddies: none

Muggles: none

Weather: cloudy

Cache condition: good



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Found it with the help of the shoulder photo. Saw a cache guardian shake as I was rinsing through the bush

**TFTC for the Small Traditional Cache Charlton's Pride TNLNSL**

Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

#Find#: 3904#
Found on: 30 October 2021 14:18
Distance from GZ: 3m
Buddies: none
Muggles: none
Weather: cloudy
Cache condition: good

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Found it with the help of the shoulder photo. Saw a cache guardian shake as I was rinsing through the bush
**TFTC for the Small Traditional Cache Charlton's Pride TNLNSL**
Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

Why does it say half way after 2km? What did we miss? Definitely not the cache, which is okay and safe. We're not feeling okay anymore, must be the age, it's bloody exhausting climbing up that hill.
TFTC

Like Fox in Jox I followed GC_Diver’s advice and looked a bit higher and at his photo. Made it an easier find. Coords were 2-3m according to cachly Thanks Charlton's Pride

In Cairns for a few days to catch some sun (less so today). Spied this series and got excited about a great walk.

This one was placed earlier than the the series and is a great rest spot. I had the cache 5m higher. See GC_Diver's spoiler. TFTC CP

Was about 5m higher than the coordinates suggested. Found after looking at Walters spoiler images with many trees from 2019

Today we climbed the pyramid and found this cache.
TFTC

This morning we decided to climb this mountain. Starting at 6:15am at the car park it took us a few hours up and stopped for a few caches and a drinking break on the way up. Collected about half of the caches so there is a reason to come back.

Thanks for the great hike and nice caches!

Georode

Had a bit of a look on the way up but couldnt reconcile the offsets, missed it on the way back down, didnt go back, neither half was easy up or back.

The container is still in its hidey hole safe and sound! I added some spoiler photos.

Not today

Elevating meself to Halfway Hero status today took two goes
Half way up I couldn't find this cache
And with muggles passing by,
I left it for half way down

Half way down some time later,
It was a bit quieter
And much mucking about,
finally revealed that this cache is still here to be found

TFTC [^]

Fave dance time !!

So I took a seat to watch the next group of late starters,
climbing the pyramid stumble past.
I don't think they appreciated the "You're Half Way" sign
The groans sounded like distant thunder

We are half-way heroes today! What a great climb this was. We deferred looking for this one on our way up since many climbers were resting here. So we went to the summit first then got it on our descent. Thanks for the photos with arrows to help us find this one - they helped a lot.
Cache is nice and dry. We were the first to sign the new log book.
Thanks for all concerned in placing and maintaining this cache.

Cache has been replaced with a new container.

Today I made it, becoming a Half Way Hero. I replaced the cache in a slightly different rainwater and muggle protected spot.
You can find the new site looking at the spoiler photos.
Happy hunting!

Good Day,

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

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Unfortunately Not found ;(

DNF today, thanks anyway

Unfortunately there is no container at all where it was and should be. It has to be replaced.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Sorry about having to put a needs maintenance but this one has definitely seen better days.
Lost to the fire.

Woohoo! Half way I thought this a good opportunity to sit for a bit and catch my breath. After a photo was taken of the somewhat smokey view I hunted about for the container.

It didn't take long to discover what was left of the geocache Unfortunately the recent fires took the life of this one and all that is left is a melted blob at GZ. I'm sorry to say that I didn't have a spare container with me at the time so couldn't help replace it. I have added a photo for proof of find. This one needs a little TLC.

Thanks for bringing me to this lovely location thanks for the smiley Charlton's Pride

After making the iconic trip up to the very tip of Cape York we were sure to make time to find some caches and do some exploring while we were in far north Queensland We have been having a terrific time and have now found ourselves in Gordonvale for a few nights,

Mr Just a Trifle decided to tackle Mt Walsh while we were here and set off early in the morning to see how he went We had managed to solve a few of the puzzles, but no doubt there are probably some unsolved puzzle caches that he walked past along the track It was quite a bit of a slog, but eventually most of the caches were found and Mr Just a Trifle was very relieved to return to our camp site for a rest

The container was easily found and with our name added to the log book, we continued on our way.

Thank you Charlton's Pride for having placed the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

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Cache in good condition

With burgo78.
Apologies for the late log.

Solved all the puzzles in advance and set off to conquer the pyramid with Team BlackPearl 26 - Admiral Alex, First Mate Blackbeard (Danny) and the Samoan Picaroon (George).

We hiked Frederick's Peak (In Townsville) yesterday and have done some other long walks before but we (all except George) we were suffering for most of the difficult climb (and the downwards decent).

We left the car at 10:30am and made it back 5 hours later at 3:30pm after collecting all the prizes and pausing for photos and fatigue at regular intervals.

HALFWAY!!! You must be kidding me. 2KM! to go. Argh!
George says "Surely they must be a cache here at halfway? How about this one" as he hands it to me Happy to sit and rest while signing the log and trudging on.

Thanks for the challenge and the beautiful views. If it wasn't for caching I would never have come here. The legs aren't so thankful but they will recover and the memories will remain.

On the way down I tried to find all of those caches that I missed on the way up. The view is even impressive from this point!!

[^]A brief check revealed that everything is still alright and ready to be found[^]!
Walter

Tftc. Log to follow.

Nice easy one, lovely climb. SES Pyramid Race drinks stop team.

Another one done. Woo Hoo! I love the challenge of the geocache hunt - read the notes, decipher the cache requirements, and go searching for the hide. This is an amazing world-wide game of hide and seek. I love it! I also enjoy caching with my family, and meeting fellow cachers. It really is a small world when I read over cache logs. **Thanks go to Charlton's Pride** for placing this cache and maintaining it. It's a great contribution to the Geocaching community and much appreciated.

I did my trip planning the night before, got up at 5am and checked out of the hotel, went for a drive then went for a serious walk starting at 630am. I enjoyed finding this one at 8:08:21 AM.
TFTC! Cheers. *Jump Pilot*

Something to celebrate at the half way mark TFTC

What? Only halfway? Curse words may have been uttered....

TFTC

On previous visits we have eyed off the walk and the caches up the pyramid. Knowing we would have this trip out of the wet we got busy solving the last of the puzzles. We has hoped for an early start but did get away as planed to find 6 other cars already in the car park. We generally tried to make the finds on the way up which helped with much needed breaks although we had to wait out some resting muggles near a couple. It was good having the photos from the cache page as it help narrow down the hides. Chicken Itzer was probably the hardest find. Just before half way we came across some muggles coming down who recommended going no further as they though the views from the nearby slabs were great and did not think the top would be any better. Little did they know we had several other motives to get to the top with still a number of good caches to find. We lost a pen some where near the top probably on one of the scrambles but picked up a spare once back at the car. Great views along the way and our later planed start saw us suffer in the heat more than we

The Pyramid is a must do. Always a challenge but with a rewarding view and lots of Geocaches. Will come back soon to find the rest. TFTC

In walking by I had a brief look and found everything alright.
Walter

TFTC

Today I went up the Pyramide. Thanks to Walterhellmut to accompany me.
What a hard way up in the rain.
Half way ... I was so happy.

CADS11

Several years ago ( make that many) I could see this little hill in the distance every morning when we sat on the front veranda of our house in Cairns. I no longer live in the area but was back for a visit as part of the CAFNEC Far North Wilderness Tour (bike ride).

Strangely in those days even though much younger (late 1980's) I never would have considered climbing this little hill or thought I had the capacity to do so. Wind forward 20 years and after almost 10 years of geocaching and presto- here I am.

I was lucky enough to have a friend from Innisfail volunteer to accompany me but the trade off when being with a non geocacher is (a) don't stretch the friendship where clearly they are impatient while we caches poke around under rocks (b) set a time limit for your journey with rewards at the end (read -pub meal)

Hence I did not get to complete all the caches on this little hill and had a few DNF's (limited time search).

The good news is now I still have to come back another time [^] A must do experience when in the north.

For several months we have been talking in the Townsville group about a joint attemt on the Pyramid. For my part it has been a lot about getting company to make sure that I really get to do it.
Had booked a long weekend at a campsite at lake Tinaroo when dazzpete sent out an invitation to join them, I was quick to take on the challenge on part of myself and the rest of my small team.
The big day arrived and we left our tent at 05:30 to meet up for a 06:30 start.
A short rest to let some muggles going down pass before quickly finding the cache
Even if it was hard to get here, my certainty over making it to the top grew as we passed this point.
Thanks CO for giving me a reason to take on the Pyramid and dazzpete for actually making me do it!
R

Are we there yet? Not quite but we are getting closer to the peak! There were passing muggles so this one was grabbed in the intervening breaks.

TNLN SL TFTC

Found it. Getting a few scratches from scrambling and making way through the low brush - the spiky grasses are a must to watch out for. Half way and 8.40am, little cloud and 2 more rock climbs. Vegetation now more open and less shade - so happy to see 1/2 way marker and found cache. thanks Charlton's Pride.

#678

Climbing up Walsh's pyramid skippy and I felt like heros when we hit the halfway mark.

T4tc
Centrocampisto

Centocampisto had eyed off this adventurous tour back in Germany and sat down to solve the puzzles.

Today was our last day in Cairns and we took to opportunity by leaving the kids in the resort to climb this very challenging pyramid. And a challenging pyramid it was certainly was!! It was hard yakka for both of us. But the beautiful scenery and nature around was a great treat for all the sweat that we lost.

Some of the caches we found easily and others we had to widen our search because of the GPS signal. In hindsight, I was glad to see that snake crossing my path on the way down the pyramid otherwise I would have left one or the other cache on its path.

Thanks for this adventure!

Skippy+co

Since arriving in the area a few weeks ago we have been admiring this amazing pyramid as we drive past it regularly. We decided we would like to tackle it before we left even though every time we drove past it seemed to get higher and steeper

Finally we could find no more excuses to leave it for another day and arrived at the base at 6.30 am to try to stay as cool as possible on the hike.

Looking for caches gave us an excuse to have a few more rests on the way up

Today as we log this we are delighted that we managed to complete the journey however our grey nomad knees are not quite so delighted

Thanks for the hide Charlton's Pride[^]

Many thanks, enjoyed the cache.

Muff1 had given me a taste of the mountain a couple of days ago. Today Muff1 and I are off for the pyramid adventure and now it is crunch time.... Up, up, up we go cache by cache, find by find..... WOW was that a human running or was he a mountain goat. Wish I could move like that. SL TNLN TFTC

Halfway, wow that was not so hard now was it? Is the rest of the way going to get harder or easier? So many questions. We do not know how the competitors who race up and back from Gordanvale each year manage to do this in one and half hours. We will not say how long it has taken us to get this far. SL TFTC

Not a bad view

Together with Silli1310 we went on holiday for a year. If you have so much time, of course you have to visit Australia. After spending just under a month in Tasmania, we drove north along the east coast for another 2 months. Today we took a day trip from Cairns to climb the Walsh Pyramid. It was extremely hot and the sweat flowed accordingly. Besides the hike, there were of course a few geocaches with interesting D/T scores on the agenda. Fortunately, there were plenty of them, so you had small targets to get to the top. Thanks to four eyes, it didn't take us too long to search and we were able to sign the logbook. Many thanks for the cache.

On our [trip around the world](http://www.hoppundweg.piekar.de/) we came to Australia as well. We started in Tasmania, rented a campervan in Melbourne and went up the Eastcoast to Cairns. Then we drove all the way to the Red Centre. We finished in Darwin. We searched many caches and found almost every cache we searched for . Thanks to all the owners of these caches. Now, 2 years later, we recognized, we will never be able to log every cache seperately... So: Sorry for this standard logtext and thanks for one of the caches, which accompanied us on our journey.

Spent 10 min looking for it, reading previous comments of easy find. No such luck, could not locate.

FOUND IT! Took us a while (apologies for the previous post, we're on our way down and found it at the last second). TFTC!!

Yay half way!! That means im nearly there right? TFTC

Easy cache to find. Saw it straight away. YAY HALF WAY!!

Easy find... A little too easy.

Found By CraigSam and Troy and Jess

Found by Rory 40yrs old. Keira traded bracelet for maze game. Colin traded 20c for spider

1/2 way - woo hoo

Took me less time to get here going down then when I went up!!! Nobody was resting here on my decent so I had the place to myself to find this cache...TFTC

took a while to find ttfc

Sorry, coming a bit late with my log entry.
Completed this challenge as part of the Pyramid Trek Event.
Was great to see such teamwork all day long.
Thanks go to Walter for 'guiding' us through the tricky puzzles and hides, by ensuring that proper cache maintenance was done by all.
Good challenges and good finds.
+/-0. T4TC.

Brahms 6 found this one. How are you legs? We are half way up.

Passing the line of exploitation....No turning back from here...


Found whilst attending the great Pyramid Trek Event organised by Wazza&Karra whilst under the direct guidance of Walterhellmut. The GeoKids (aka Sniffer Dogs) and I had an absolute ball and we are really grateful that we attended.

Thanks for organising and leading us to the summit with an absolutely awesome view of white. Thanks to everyone that attended for great laughs and company.

Cheers
Rummaging_Remins

Great spot for a rest & a smiley as the hike gets hard from here! Thanks for the cache Charlton's Pride!

Quick and easy find at halfway, keep going to get the rest of caches. TFTC.

TFTC Charlton,s Pride

Bad weather - pleasant party!
Walter

So. Much. Sweat. Can. Hardly. Type. Log. Brilliant day and a perfect reward for maki got halfway. TNLN TFTC!

Nice one thanks. Fantastic cool day to do this great walk.

Great spot for a break! TFTC Cairns Bushwalking club

Great walk so far

Woohoo, easy found after a short search

Passing by today I found the cache in good condition.
Walter
walterhellmut

Agree with the last visitor saying that the GPS was all over the place! Anyway, we found the cache after a short search. For us, we did this one half way back down.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

My GPS was sending me all over the place - must be something in the rocks. Boy, did I feel foolish when I finally found the hiding place. TNLN TFTC

Great view TFTC

On my way up the pyramid today I decided to join in on this geocaching thing and try and locate the ones dotting the slope.

On our way back from Innisfail to Cairns and as the weather looked OK decided to tackle the pyramid this afternoon. Wasn't sure if we were half way up or down but feeling tired and weather changing quickly.
TFTC

Gosh! turning into a really hot day up here today (getting towards 32c at time of cache discovery). Made the most of a rare shady spot to log the cache and have a drink. Left dinosaur and took Geocoin to travel South with Walter's next week

Today I left a new container.
The hunt can go on[^].
Walter
walterhellmut

There was a big fire in that area recently. Unfortunately nothing of the treasure is left apart from a tiny heap of ash.
Walter
walterhellmut

There was a big fire in that area recently. Unfortunately nothing of the treasure is left apart from a tiny heap of ash.
Walter
walterhellmut

Going to claim this as i did discover what was left of the cache but did not have anything to replace it with.

TNLN

TFTC

Dipped TB's

Only half way??? Alright, lets go further...
Actually I just wanted to do a few caches up, but they were all just a few hundred meters appart, so I did one step after another, until I reached to top! Thank you very much for this motivating waypoint caches!
Wiesel Flink,
#1188

Halfway and half dead! Really unfit, but glad MattCNS is dragging me along on this climb up Walsh's Pyramid. Quick find and nice spot. Great to rest here for a few minutes before continuing on to the top. TFTC TNLN SL {#96}.

This entry was edited by RobS72 on Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 10:18:11 UTC.

Finally I can tick this cache off the list. Picture perfect morning and a great way to start the school holidays. Quick find on the way down. TFTC TNLN SL

Helping out during the pyramid race and checked on this geocache again. Have just noticed that I didn't log it the first time I found it - Pyramid Race last year. So here is my log. TNLN. I think I signed the log. Will check next time I'm at 1/2 way. Thanks for the diversion on an otherwise long day waiting for the amazing runners to come up this way.

Just tracking finds

TFTC