Another Forgotten Road? Canberra Regional Districts, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Sol de lune on 13-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2NQAQ

Had a good time bashing my way around Isaacs Ridge in the dark this evening. I was planning to tackle the new Tealby AL, but for some reason my phone wouldn't let me log into the AL app - so I focused on the real world options in the area.Nice quick fidn on my way back to the car.TFTC!

Found by Mary and David at 10:40 with the second "A Puzzling Tour of Isaacs Ridge" group. Signing as TT2 (Tealby Tour #2). A well planned Tour with a great mix of cache types and terrains. Some lovely views along the way too. Our thanks to Sol de lune.

Our last tour during Capital Geobash in Canberra and it was wonderful! Special thanks to Tealby for hosting us on this tour of Isaac's Ridge!This road surely does look forgotten, except to geocachers! Thanks for the fun!

We are in Canberra for the Geobash mega and this is the last official tour being the Isaac Ridge puzzle tour.Its a cooler day and out with a group of about nine people, having a lovely walk in the bush. Signed as TT2Thank you to Tealby for leading an excellent tour

Great HideThanks Sol de lune for the cacheJames0116Tuesday, 2 Apr 202410:40:12am AEDT4360

The rain cleared up for another awesome day as a group of geo cachers lead by Tealby took on lssaacs Ridge Nature Reserve as part of the Canberra Mega side events. An awesome 5 hours of meandering through this bush as a group. Many thanks to Tealby for your time. Logs signed TT2.

time has long gone for the memories of forgotten roads. Hip hip hooray for Tealby - here we are on the ISAACS Ridge tour she has kindly put together. Here for the NNF (National Folk Festival) plus the MEGA so its full on in the supersaturated cache CAPITAL all the way from NE Vic AGAIN! Love the ambience and serenity.and the wandering wanders with buddies. Signed I have. TFTC, the lure to visit, the challenge and the FUN

Cache # 11177 on 30 Mar 2024Fox in Jox and I had finally coordinated our time to walk the early part of the CCT 7B multi this morning, the last CCT multi for me! We decided to walk WP1 to WP13, which was a loooong walk which went past several other caches happily, and drive the restOnly diverted a metre or two to grab this one! Cache in good condition! Thank you Sol de lune for the cache and the fun!

Found with the Isaacs Ridge Tour group. A great day out. Log signed for The group as TT1Another great day for caching. ?? TFTC Sol de lune

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Mr Felix joined the Puzzling tour of Isaacs Ridge today. Enjoyable day on a tough trek. Good to be able to tackle this with a group. Thanks for allowing a group assault.Warm day, lots of laughs and chatting.The logs were signed as TT1 and the group consisted of McLookers, Phetlern, FelixII, Dis Sister,The Morris, pprass, MeAndDe, Wollaston, Ironford , EP79, HansandLinda and Tealby.Thanks to Tealby for organising the tour and keeping us stragglers in tow. TFTC Sol de lune

Found at 10:40 AM with the group doing the Tealby Isaac Tour which were - Dis Sister, EP79, FelixII, HansandLinda, Ironford, McLookers, MeAndDe, Phetlern, The Morris & Wollaston. The logs were signed as TT1.An enjoyable day on a sometimes tough walk. There was a bit of fun with some laughs and chatting.Thanks to Sol de lune

10:10What an adventure - Together with like minded geocachers we gathered at Sheperdson Place, before tackling the steep climbs and the prickles of the 16,600 steps over some 10.2 kms. Along the trail there was a great variety of caches to be found, including this one, some puzzles, multis, traditionals and a wherigo. (Yes we did make it to the Wildbark Experience Event).We signed the logs TT1 and our touring party consisted of Phetlern, FelixII, DisSister, The Morris, pprass, MeAndDe, HansAndLinda, Wollaston, Tealby, Ironford and EP79.Diana ( Tealby) was a wonderful chaperone - patient & understanding. Also a BIG thank you to the CO's who contributed caches.36732

Found with the group doing the Tealby Isaac Tour, all logs were signed as TT1.At time it was a hot tough walk but there was a bit of fun as well.Thanks for the tour and the cache Sol De Lune

TFTC Sol de lune your cache Another Forgotten Road? that we found today. We are in Canberra for the fun and games of the Mega.Today was the first organised Tours. We opted for the Isaac Ridge Tour. A 10km walk over 5 hours. Hard work but satisfying. To save space on logs we signed as TT1. Members of the group were McLookers,Phetlern,Felix II, Dis Sister,The Morris, pprass,MeAndDe, Wollaston, Ironford , EP79 and ourselves. It was disappointing that 2 caches had gone walkabout inspite of being recently checked. Find Count: 19290

A nice surprise!Really enjoyed the tour of Isaacs Ridge today. We signed the logs TT1 and our touring party consisted of Phetlern, FelixII, DisSister, The Morris, pprass, MeAndDe, HansAndLinda, Wollaston, Tealby, Ironford and EP79.Thanks for placing the cache Sol de lune.

Found today on a great walk around Issac's Ridge on one of the many tours put on for the [Capital GeoBash](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9PNFB_capital-geobash). Thanks for showing us this part of the country.Thanks for find #5881TNLN

The Adelaide Leap Day Mega and Canberra Geobash gave us a great excuse for a road trip. This trip has shown us so many new and interesting places as weve chased LGAs, oldies, challenges, interesting D/T combinations, rarer cache types and favourites.Meeting up with friends old and new along the way, we sometimes cached together and sometimes alone but always had a great time. Today we took a hike up, down and around Isaacs Ridge with the puzzling tour, hosted by the lovely Tealby. An enjoyable time in good company, we chatted away as we walked along both on and off trail. The weather was kind to us and the 5 hours seemed to pass quickly. We had some lovely views from several stops along the way as well. Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining this cache and adding to our enjoyment.

Found late on a cool afternoon with Nibletricecakes. Ticks off a regular date in my calendar. TFTC SDL.

Out for a walk with GLISS! on the hunt for a regular. Lovely cool meander to some sweet bird sounds. Great to have this cache in the bag!

We arrived back in Canberra yesterday after quite a few years away. It is great to be back to the cool morning air and the beautiful walks that we can find easily along the way.
After heading out to the Green Shed at Mugga Lane, to recycle some of our unpacked boxes, we took a detour and short walk to get out of the house and avoid unpacking more boxes. This was a lovely, all be it wet walk (muddy) to GZ.
A quick find, log signed and then back to the car to continue our journey and the tedious job of unpacking again.
Thanks Sol de Lune!
Domsky

Tftc

Thanks to Joolay for replacing the log and keeping the cache up to date.

All good, cache on....

Out with Joolay and Albida33 on Isaacs Ridge. Replaced log. Tftc

Replaced log with rite in the rain paper and new bag. Looking up the hill looks pretty hectic. Quick find.
Time to get the rest of the ones on Isaac Ridge.
Thanks For getting me out and about Sol de lune

Out today for a big bike ride. My goal was to complete the Canberra Centennial Trail - Section 7B multi cache. Big ride and actually left at 2 o'clock because we had cousins over so I could only leave when they leave. Well that was a bit of a mistake as this section of the track wasn't exactly easy and ended up taking me about 7 hours. In the end I had to get picked up because it was too dark for me to continue. Got some good caches today while heading down the CCT trail, as well as one that filled a hole in my D/T matrix which is always nice. Great day and thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining their caches so others can find them. TFTC!

Some stats:
Distance: 49.5km (so close to 50!)
Elevation gain: 832m (probably why it felt so hard lol)
Max elevation: 734m
Moving time: 5:21:57
Elapsed time: 7:34:55
Average speed: 9.2km/h
Max speed: 39.8km/h
Calories burnt: 1249
Water consumed: 3L
Battery consumed: 67%
Times I fell off: 0
Times I almost fell off: 10
Times I almost, ALMOST fell off (like I was extremely surprised the I didn't, this track ain't easy!): 5
Times I questioned why I was doing this: idk I forget

TOTAL HAUL FOR TODAY: 14 CACHES SPREAD OVER 4 TYPES

A fun fact (maybe relating to this cache): The first road made was called 'The Cumberland Road'!

(just to make the log reading more interesting and as they say, knowledge is power)

THIS CACHE:

Quick find here and signed the logbook (it does need a replacement though). Cache found in the open, covered it up a bit more. TFTC Sol de lune!

Cache was empty.
Only paper I had on me was an old parking ticket.

Beware of the Hawthorne.

TFTC

There is no log in the cache

Cache found. Looks like it should have been hidden by rocks but fairly exposed. No log book to be seen. Tftc

Found with Geogeneve. Sadly no log. Have requested maintenance. TFTC

No log book in cache unfortunately

No log book.

Easier one to find

Found it, log signed. TFTC

Before heading to the top of the ridge to complete a stage of Canberra FM AL, I did a quick spot check for a daily traditional and this lucky cache was the nearest.
It also had the bonus of being unfound for over 6 months.
Headed down the road and found the cache sitting comfortably in its place.
Thanks Sol de lune for placing this cache. Cheers.

12 Found out of 12 on the way to (and from the CITO atop Issacs Ridge)

Began around midday heading North, collecting trads and mystery caches alike (predominiately mysteries!) - with the goal to arrive at the CITO at 14:15

Didn't quite happen that way, but that was OK. CO's were later than I was!

Given I had wanted to come back when the ridge was predominately light blues, rather than dark blues, it's been a while since I solved a fair few of the mysteries on my walk

Towards the top, I met up with Toy Hunters, who joined me on the last few along the ridgeline (and a few after)

Arrived at the CITO, had a quick chat, then was on my way again. Making our way down, we spotted a few more cachers, who yelled out how to find one of the caches. Thanks for that!

A solid effort out. I also discovered discovered that my new Garmin watch likes to beep after I'd done enough steps/spent enough time out exercising. It's also interesting that I clocked about 160min of walking in a 4.5hr adventure. That suggests that my time finding caches is far more than I thought

TFTC Sol de lune!

fitzy_1965 and I decided to tackle Isaacs Ridge with weekend. After speading the news, we ended up being joined by FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild & Flintstones.

Although the weather had potential for a lot of rain, it was only drizzling lightly as we started and thankfully didn't get too much heavier for the whole walk.

All of us had different caches to find but signed all logs as MRF^3. We collected all the caches on our list with the exception of one which was a known DNF before we started.

Quick find at GZ. Yay! Exhausted but made it to the end!!!!

There have been a large number of puzzles released on Isaacs Ridge over time and as they came out, they were promptly solved and added to the "Solved/Unfound" pile. FFLL reached out and advised there was a group planning a walk along the ridge and asked if I wanted to come along. Yes please

It had been organised that one car would be left at the southern end and we would begin our walk at the northern end, this saved any backtracking and worked out really well. Todays walking group consisted of both FFLL ladies, MinnieK, fitzy_1965, Flintstones and myself. As such, we decided to sign the logs as MRF^3 (some logs signed as MRFFF). The forecast was for rain today but luckily for us, it was more of a haze drizzle throughout our walk.

Many solved puzzles to collect up and down the ridge, making a big hiking day for us all. A few of the caches require log replacements as the books are very damp, however we managed to get our scribbles on them. Signed and replaced, thanks for the hide TE Time to head to the car woot woot big day all done

A straightforward find - thank you!

I had a 90 minute window today to find some caches,so I thought I'd collect a few puzzles I'd solved at this end of the ridge. I picked this one up first on my way up. There are literally fences everywhere around here. TFTC Sol de lune.

Found.

TFTC

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache. Made a quick find while out walking in the area.

Interesting spot
Thanks

I was in the area and had some extra time so I stopped for this short walk.

Be advised that the area is closed at certain times due to the kangaroo cull.

TFTH

Today was the first day of caching in Canberra on my own, with my travelling buddies Dez (JezNDez) and Lennondayz29 having flown back to Brisbane yesterday. With plenty of caches on my to-do list for today and a couple of seminars at the Mega on my agenda for later in the day, an early start was required to fit it all in.

After spending the morning walking around Callum Brae Nature Reserve and a quick early-afternoon stroll around Isaac's Ridge Nature Reserve I had to cut things short and ducked back to the Mega event to attend a couple of seminars.

After the completion of the meetings, I headed back out here to complete my unfinished business. No idea why this one has not had a visitor in so long. TFTC

Quite enjoyed this location, parked at the suggested waypoint and after finding another traditional over the fence first, I made my way to this cache. Noticed the centenary trail marker, ahh nice that they have included this forgotten section and given it a proper use again! Quite cool to see it repurposed and nice to see that the cache survived it all given it was hidden prior to the trail's opening!

Thanks for the cache Sol de lune, still in great condition after all these years!

TFTC

Easy find. Good sized container.
TFTC Sol de lune

Ok ... I had a middle of the day appointment to donate blood (school holidays so not at work and had figured while I was down this way I might see if I could find a heap of caches so I was closer to getting that last hidden creatures souvenir, so ... after donating blood, and staying for my milkshake and coffee, I headed south, stopping at a few caches along the way.
Then I stopped at the end of Mugga Lane for a few more, then decided to park and find a few just a bit further down the road ... by which time it had somehow got dark. Then I decided to grab the others down that road and head down that way, along the highway, to do what I could of some of the trails around Richardson or somewhere that I had originally planned to do, but I saw a spot to park just around the corner as I turned on to the highway, and decided to do a couple of the Tralee trail caches first ... and ended up looking for them all - wandering around in the frost and enjoying myself - lol
Then I decided it was probably time I went home and had some (rather late) dinner, but as I was driving North I decided to make a detour to grab a couple caches I wanted to get up in Watson, and ended up looking for a few there ... ending the evening with not finding one (3rd strike for the day - I guess I am out?) at about Midnight ... then I went home and had a couple of pies for (very late!) dinner
TFTC - Found as it was getting dark...
Phone told me to go through the convenient gaping hole in the fence, so i did. Then it decided I didn't need to.. once I arrived at the actual GZ I spotted the likely spot as i approached, and there was the cache... much quicker than the previous find - lol

The once forgotten road is now a bustling Centenary Trail. There were a few others out and about today but made a quick find no problems. Thanks for the cache.

There have been sooo many new puzzles posted recently, all of them in and around Isaacs Ridge, I have made some good progress solving a chunk of them, though of course not all. There were also a bunch of puzzles I have had solved for a very long time in the area as well. So it was that last week I was determined to get through as many of them as possible and mount a caching expedition. Aquilus1 and I headed out before we had all of them solved, but we felt we had enough to make a decent run of it.

This was the twelfth hide we discovered today and not a puzzle, but since we are walking past we may as well. Wow, now that is one hell of a prickly bush that you have hidden this one under, though I found the signing much easier than I had imagined.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache

#8629 @1340
The fifth find for the afternoon. It was a hot day for a walk. Easily found. TFTC.

I was so busy texting with a friend, I walked 75mtrs past it!! Luckily it’s a straightforward find and cache all good. Tftc!!!

Not such a warm day but warmer than I'm used to so was a nice cool place to be while retrieving the cache! Just had to mind the thorns on the bush, Canberra sure does have a lot of plants with spikes. Thanks for the cache Sol de Lune.

Second day of our adventure and already sore legs. Lots of interesting caches while doing the centenary trail. Canberra is really best done on bike!
TFTC Wilbert67

Got it

Another day of successful caching. TNLNSL TFTC

Was in Phillip on a cold Sunday. Stopped by this cache, parked off the road and walked the rest of the way for a quick find. Not quite the road it used to be!! TFTC SDL

Found before.
Late log sorry. Found it on my phone not saved in History.

Got spiked again, Sol, but thank you

We headed out with The Woofer today for a quick cache run. The grass was long, the spiders plenty, and it took us longer to get the bindies and grass seeds out of Jazz's fur than the entire walk took!!! One DNF which was frustrating, but left something behind, where possible, in the ones we did find.

Heading back to the car, we were happy to find this one with no problems. Left some goodies. TFTC Sol!

TFTC, nice walk and easy find

Found this wonderful cache at 2300. Kind of spooky but worth the 9x TBs inside it. woohoo

A peaceful spot near a hectic road. TFTC

TFTC

Heard a noise next to me while I was walking, had a look over and saw it was an echidna!! Will upload a pic. Tftc

found while out and about with the Polliwogs on a sunny Sunday TFTC SL TNLN Cheers 4 Now

2/2 for a days caching with emongs

Wow so many TB's in this one. Took one but left one behind too. TFTC

This entry was edited by jasonlipscombe on Saturday, 05 September 2015 at 06:35:10 UTC.

One of the things I am really enjoying about geocaching is the way it gets me to spots that I have driven past, or been near, many times (pretty much every work day for this one) but I didn't know existed. Thanks Sol de lune for this little bit of Canberra interestingness! I left a blue beetle and took Dora. TFTC

TB drop....

F(H)ound it! 4:40pm
More of a forgotten river today. But you did give me the heads-up, thank you. So I wore my trusty long red docs and I managed to navigate through alright. I parked at recommended spot and then a lovely stroll through the river and up the road to find a good cache. Saw an enormous wombat hole on the other side of the fence and a few roos. There are too many memorials along this forgotten road (not forgotten by some, I suspect). TFTC Sol de lune

Ridgeo-pup pic attached:

Tftf

Well some people haven't forgotten this road, as I met a cyclist going past as I approached GZ. I suspect that I'm going to be back here again some time, for that tankengine puzzle that's just been published nearby...

TNLN - Thanks Sol de lune!

Nice hike up the forgotten road while finding a few other caches in the general area. TFTC Sdl.

Tftc

Love this cache great treasures in it best one we ever found treasures awsom even a knitted duck wow tftc the ewoks ? ? ? ?

Photo

Found on the way to the tip. TFTC.

Nabbed this cache on a short stroll after some fun time at the dentist. TFTC

Nice short walk to one of the larger caches we have not found yet to drop off a TB. Will have to come back with a bicycle, as this is right on the Canberra Centenary Trail. Thanks for the hide.

I had just finished work for the day and I was in the mood for a hike, so I decided I'd make the find on this one along the way to another I was going after.

Nice easy find at GZ after the short stroll in from the car

Thanks for the hide, SDL

Found it! Good spot. Needed the shade after my ride.

Really morning exercise gets us to cache the best. TFTC. We'll move the geocoin on.

Out for some early morning caching before the family pulls themselves out of bed. A quick and easy find after a short walk. Dropped a TB and grabbed one. Thanks Sol de lune

#384. 55 days in a row.

Was home sick when the emails came in about some new caches. The Sting in the Tail was close enough to a road for me to be comfortable doing it (and I needed to keep my streak going anyway) so I headed to it. Parked at the specified location and saw icheatatgolf coming out after having found it. Sol de lune then showed up just before I went in. Met up with several other cachers after SDL and I had already signed and we decided to hit up SDL's cache that's a couple of hundred metres away while we were there.

After missing out on the FTF for The Sting in the Tail I found this one on the way back to the car. Looks like a pretty interesting area beyond the fence. Discovered one TB and took another. Thanks Sol de lune.

After a FTF dash to a nearby cache where we met up with Sol de lune we felt it would be rude to pass this one. As a bonus SdL accompanied us along with sumbloke so a few more caching stories were swapped en route plus a few TB's discovered about our various persons & a couple dropped. Great to meet you Sol de lune.

After trying a FTF nearby with Tardis and running into Sol De Lune i checked my phone for other nearby caches and noted that the one across the road was owned by SDL

After parking in the correct spot we got chatting with SDL and Sumbloke again and SDL was nice enough to come for the walk to the cache with us while we all swapped stories along the way.

While logging we also ran into Dwarf Exploder so had our own mini event before heading off to complete more caches.

TFTC Sol de lune

Was keen on grabbing a cache today to keep the streak going, and this one was past my route so it was a perfect fit.. Always good to see some different places in Canberra, where I wouldn't usually get to. Cheers!

I enjoyed drive and find cache. Signed the log. Thank you Sol de lune

We enjoyed a beaut stroll to GZ from the high path end and soon found GZ and a well hidden stash.
Plenty of birds in the nearby scrub and a very nice sized container too.
Many thanks to Sol de lune . Found at 9.20 am.

Interesting area. I'm always surprised where I find myself some days. TFTC

Nice walk along to the GZ - signed the log. Thanks SDL.

I like these, a place unknown to myself:-) Cheers.

Rainy Sunday walk

This is one of those caches that you drive by numerous times. Each time saying "I really need to stop and find that cache". Well, today was the day for me. Green waste to the tip. Buying top soil for the landscaping project, and the recommended parking spot big enough to stop with a trailer in tow.

I found the cache easily. Noted that the cache is now right next to the Centenary Trail, and was lucky enough to spot an echidna snuffling along just a short distance from the cache. [^] SL TNLN TFTC

....now, on to that landscaping project.

We parked at a wrong place, so we had to jump a fence to get to this cache. An easy find. I continued my way down the 'road' and arrived at the tunnel. Very interesting place! I'm sure this road was busy when it was operating. Thanks!

Thanks

You need clippers for this cache - the thorny bushes are taking over!!
The cache was in the open, so I put it where I thought it was supposed to be, but not so far into the thorns!! TFTC. This is nine of the ten I want to do!!

I believe this road is the old alignment of Long Gully Road. I remember driving on it, one lane each way, while they were building the current wider road beside it. Senility has struck - I can't remember when this was!!