Cal's Cool Cache Glendaruel, Victoria, Australia
By luttrellfive on 16-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2T8WC

Thank you for your cache. Hope you have a wonderful day. Feom david, dylan, ash, roberto, simone and riley

I came out here seeking old caches with ones placed in 2001 as my goal (Boulders Beckoning nearby).My car may have made it a lot closer to GZ but since the road was a little mushy and washed out in some places I decided to park it and walk, which did me good even if my asthma is playing up a bit.Only when I got to the top did I realize I had walked past a whole bunch of caches on the way up so I made an effort to get those on the way back, including this one.Thanks For the Cache (TFTC).

Found 21/3/24

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. For a few days we have based ourselves in Avoca to explore the goldfields area, attend some events, climb some hills, visit out of the way places and learn some history.Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining this cache and adding to our enjoyment.

I was in the area finding the challenge caches, most of which I am yet to qualify for, so it was great to finally log a 'found' cache. TNLN. TFTC.

Day 2 of our adventure to Ballarat with Peppa and Beardman75 chasing the geotour. We have travelled well out of town and are now sidetracked and chasing challenges.We couldnt walk pass Cals cool cache and not find it. We climbed up the rocks and found the cache tucked away.Tftc luttrellfiveFind #5250

Day 2 of our Ballarat Boys BreakAn early start sees Breadman75, Davinells and I cruising the mean streets of Ballarat and surrounds in our hire car, the Peugeot Party Prowler We still havent worked out how to unlock the doors from the inside thoughWe decided to abandon the PPP and proceed on foot if only wed gotten the Landcruiser at the airportIts still early and I really havent started to complainThanks luttrellfive

Definitely a cool location. Found with Peppa and Davinells. Thanks for the cache luttrellfive

Nice little find, bit off the track so you have to be careful of snakes and the track isn't very suitable for low cars. I parked down the bottom and walked 400m. Tftc

A great pit stop on the way back down the mountain, thanks for the little rest. Cal's Cool Cache is find number 3,101 for me. A great small traditional cache I enjoyed finding as part of my caching fun in Western Victoria. Unless otherwise mentioned above, I found the coordinates to be accurate, the cache in good condition and the log dry and with plenty of room to sign. I am logging this one on Sunday 26 Nov 2023 at 6:04 pm and the weather is Overcast Clouds 15C 61% 6 m/s . Thanks for placing this cache for the rest of us to enjoy luttrellfive.*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

**07/11/2023, 07:29:00****Find #5626****Traditional Find #3362**Day number four of my road trip. I got off to an early start and still the weather is fine, but that's not going to last. I took a short detour as I made my way down the mountain and found this cache quickly.**Thank-you to luttrellfive for placing this geocache**

Not too far off the track. Took a minute or two to find. TFTC

Yes that is a cool cache. We liked it anyway. We had a lovely day hiking up and down and around this mountain today. At one point we were very near your cache so we dropped by to sign the log.

Thank you.

We spent the day walking around this beautiful mountain, beginning, our journey, quite early and walking many kilometres as we explored a variety of trails. Lots of uphill and downhill and lots of fun. We found this one on our return journey as we are walking down the hill.
That is definitely a cool tree at GZ.
Thanks luttrellfive
Domsky

Those sandy paths are slippery went for a sixer on the way to this cache doh.no injuries . But yes a very COOL location...had an awesome 4 hours caching and exploring.

Melbourne to Adelaide Road Trip
Day One: Melbourne to Horsham
Weather: perfect, surprisingly cool.

This was the only non-challenge cache/traditional that I found in the Mt Beckworth Scenic Reserve. An easy find here. Thanks for this hide luttrellfive.

TFTC

2nd last cache on todays hot walk and thankfully the cache was a quick find. Log was signed and it was back on the road to continuing down to the car.

Thanks luttrellfive....cache all good.

I set out from Coutts Road on foot as the track was closed to vehicles so I hiked up, over, down, up, around and down signing all the logs for various challenges and finding this traditional.
I got to see some of the locals while I was hiking which was a bonus.

TFTC luttrellfive
Keep smiling

Stopped at Mount Beckworth for a walk and some challenge caches.
Rain at times and much colder than I expected.
Parked at the start of the track and walked, the track was like a creek in parts.
And then there was this trad, was not going to walk past

Find number 28195 for me.

Thank you luttrellfive for hiding this geocache

#18688 @1300
I spent the bulk of today wandering around Mt Beckworth, getting some exercise ahead of this weekend's Australasian Rogaine Champs near Avoca. Apart from being in cloud, there was very little rain, however it was very wet underfoot. Cache easily found. TFTC.

It's cool for cat's too, Cal . Found and signed with the other cool cat, dalerious . Cal, you sure picked an awesome spot to place a cache.
Thank you luttrellfive for this cache which was found in good condition.

Cool cache cal.
Catnap777 and I found it on our way up to visit the lollipop tree on the top of the hill. [^]

TFTC luttrellfive.

Sneaky little find

Hi

Yay found one by myself

Great spot TFTC

GPS was a wee off but extrapolated possible spots and found.

Out for a bit of a walk on this side of Mount Beckworth today picking up a couple of cache along the way. Thanks for placing lutterelfive.

A short walk in ti find this cache while out with Glanville Girls today.

Found day 3 of a somewhat impromptu solo caching and camping trip to Victoria from Adelaide.

I had planned to spend a week travelling, caching and camping along the Great Ocean Road, but my travelling companion had to postpone it due to other commitments. I was still keen to go away somewhere this week as well, so decided to head to the western part of the state on my own.

I created a bit of a 'menu' of specific caches of interest in the broad area that I might be in before I left home and just pottered along fairly casually, taking in the sights and grabbing what I could along the way.

I wasn't actually planning to visit this area, but I somehow managed to end up here and it was a good place to camp with what looked like some interesting walks and caches to find.

After walking up to the summit and back from Manna Gums this morning, I took a bit of a drive around the park, including back up to the summit from the southern side, and finding this and other caches nearby.

Thanks luttrellfive for the cache.

We were sent on a dodgy but geokid found it anyway. TFTC

Yes

We had a little detour to Mt Beckworth on our way home to grab an older cache hide and nabbed a few of these nifty trads along the way. Going on foot was a bit slower but gave us time to appreciate the scenery. Lots of options for a hide here but being methodical we soon turned up the goods which was larger than we expected. TFTC

We're camped at Manna Gums for just one night so decided to come out for a 4WD adventure to see how many of the caches nearby bu we can reach. It was a bit of fun coming up the steep side of the track from Manna Gums but eventually we reached the more well maintained section. Oh and this cache too!

Thanks for find #2665
TNLN

TFTC smile 13329 out and about with miss millie geo dog And geo friends Snickersallan Hatzofff RoddyC great caches, great day ,good weather, signed as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, DARKSIDEDAN, placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 13 of our southern trip caching around Mt Beckworth. Targeting challenges and fulfilling some of those challenges.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as 44Qld.

TFTCache luttrellfive

Day 13 of our southern trip. To the Mount Beckworth area today, with Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Took a bit of a search - so many potential hiding spots.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 4:48 PM on January 22, 2022. TFTC, luttrellfive

Todays road trip is from Ballarat to Mount Beckworth to do some challenges and others in the local district with geo friends hatzofff, grannysmith1947, RoddyC and all logs are signed as Team 44 QLD.
Another good hide here, well done CO.

TFTC luttrellfive

14/01/2022 2:05:00 PM
Found while in the area as I made my way north for the Wangaratta Mega event

Thanks luttrellfive

Find recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

We are camping at Mount Beckwith for a couple of days, and with plenty of caches to find, we set off with the geodogs to see how many we could find. We found several challenge caches which were have signed and will log as soon as we qualify. We had hoped to find many more, but the small geodogs struggled with the warmish day and the very steep climbs we had made to a couple of caches. We were about to join the path back to the campsite when we spied this cache nearby on the map, so we made a short detour and found this cache. A very cool cache Cal, thank you for bringing us to this spot. The cache is in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache, luttrellfive.

Quick find TFTC PS mozzie zone!! Haha

Found Cal's Cool cache while walking around the hills on a lovely day.

Levon and Teresa helped

Yeet

Chook and Micaparamedic donned their backpacks and enjoyed a lovely afternoon hiking up, down and around the southern slopes of Mount Beckworth today.

This cool cache was found in good condition. TFTC luttrellfive.

What a great day for a walk/hike around mount Beckworth, Not too hot and not too cold. I was especially grateful for not too much sun because I stupidly left my hat at home today. We originally were going to do this Thursday last week but 35 degrees walking around mount Beckworth didn't have that much appeal.
This was a quick find as we worked our way up the mountain.
Thank you luttrellfive for the smiley

It was a Goldilocks day to hike up and around the picturesque Mount Beckworth with SimsFamily to work through the challenge caches.
I’d been so close to this cache some years back, but as it was so late in the day we left if for later. Some years late I was able to make a find.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the Traditional Cache Luttrellfive
#6,234

In the area collecting challenge caches so we couldn't leave this one behind. This was once a massive example of nature. Thanks for the cache.

A camping road trip with Papi4506, Geoturtle37 and RoamingHowie, exploring Ballarat and surrounds, with focus on the new Geotour, the Goldfields Track and various solved puzzles.
Day Four...
A quick find while doing some challenges.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, luttrellfive

Day four of the Geo Tour adventure with OHC, GT37, Papi4506. Off to explore Mt Beckworth and surrounds.

Out collecting some challenges and nabbed this one along the way.

Thanks luttrellfive for the cache.

I have been attempting to qualify for a challenge interstate and I need 2/2's to do so so this was a must. Thanks for the cache.

Found it on a walk through this wonderful park.
TFTC

Snaffles with AstroCat
TFTC

TFTC last day of 2020

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Nice find be careful of the branches and children’s heads

TFTC

could not find!

Found by hall of fame, TNLN

We are currently heading east after curtailing our visit to family in South Australia and took the opportunity to look for a few challenge caches in the area. This cache was nearby. After an uphill walk, we got to GZ. Despite accurate coordinates, it took a few minutes of hunting before the cache was located. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks luttrellfive for the cache.

After an off track stroll from the park entrance,
I ended up here in another cool spot

TFTC and views Cal !!

Out and about with sir_spectre on a big day of fun and geocaching.
Thanks to luttrellfive from mogni

Day 7 St Arnaud Campground to Mount Beckworth Reserve - Cork Oaks Camp ground

nice views from gz. Found after doiing the puzzle trail and lunch.

We left St Arnaud and heading in the general direction of Mount Beckworth Reserve to the puzzle trail. We stopped along the way to get multi's,puzzles and any local coucil areas. This was one of a small number of caches found on route to the reserve. We had to fix a staked tyre before we left, so it was a late start. quick find.
Came over to the 2019 mega in St Arnaud with Mogni. We where joined by jj52, Aussie M and M plus others at different times over the mega weekend. Many caches where found over the course of the 8 day trip. Targeting multi's on the way there and back plus the challenge trail in Mount Beckworth reserve. The creative trails around St Arnaud where the highlight of the trip.

Found it

A visit to Mt Beckworth has been on the cards since I was last here back in 2016. I still had the series to finish, plus there are some tempting new challenging challenges to be found. Today the planets finally lined up and together with Jacko, A and Anikano we made a day of it enjoying this great bushland.

After visiting the Lollipop tree we made our way back down to this GZ. At least the tracks were in better condition on this side, after a rather bumpy ride up from the north.
Thanks for the Cool Cache, Cal (and luttrellfive).

Running out of energy now! Haven’t found as many caches as planned but day has been full of adventure. Caving, 4WD tracks, hiking. That plus a 5am start for me to squeeze boxing session in before caching has left me sooo tired! But always worth it for caches haha. TFTC

The easy way out today. A nice quick find as the day got late. Thanks for this placement!

On the way up the hill the view was beautiful. Found quite easily. Cool container and cool cache.
Thanks for the cache

We had specifically arrived at this lovely Reserve to seek our Challenge caches, but of course we came to search for this one too, which we soon found once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache in this beautiful area and greetings from Zimbabwe

TFTC. WE had come to this section of Mount Beckworth to collect as many caches as we could for the 400 with a twist challenge. 4th being our best caching day. Parked the vehicle close by and walked up to the top caching as I went.
This was the first on this section.

Well hidden. Great fine.

Found at 11:16 AM GAFF5 in the company of maccamob, riddell and xambo4u.
Came up to the wrong side, so it gave us the opportunity to check out the whole structure as we made a circuit
Thanks luttrellfive.

Out and about with pprass (just like old times) maccamob, riddell for the day while camping at Mt Beckworth.
While enjoying the bush/rock/hlll ascending in the area we made this easy find. First time being to this area and really enjoying the challenges here. Thanks for bringing us here lutterlfive

Day 2 of our epic 12 day / 10 night trek to the Parkville Mega in Melbourne.
The constant was my travel companions for the entire trip, - Anymules and S.A. Sewer Rats but we were joined by almost local cacher Bushfire for a lot of the escapades So to save space in the logs we usually just wrote our initials BABS to save space. As we met and cached with other teams along the way more and more initials were added.
Today we had the pleasure of the company of Muff1, Goodlook, Wozzle68 and later Bushfire and Suscoe. So today we became GWAMBS. [:o)]

After a morning paddle it was time to say goodbye to bushfire and Suscoe and head up into the forest and grab the Christmas down under series, and head for the challenge cache series. [:X] Well we couldn't just walk by it..could we? Anymules found this one whilst I was looking in the wrong spot!

**Thanks luttrellfive for this cache. **

Found whilst in the area with several other teams. Tftc

Five teams plus one other headed out to Mt Beckworth to sign the challenge caches here, most of which were a challenge in themselves. SL TFTC

While in the area picking up a few challenge caches, we stopped for this one. Log signed as GAMBS.

Thanks for the cache luttrellfive.
Found on 14 Nov 2018 at 6:02 pm.
Find #7416

Another adventure day was planned with DAB to enjoy some time out in Ballarat and Mt. Beckworth. We were planning a day full of activities so the geo wheels was packed full of things, drinks and food. It was a great day out even with threatening rain which thankfully all came in the early morning before we left.

We were being very wary of snakes today as I saw one yesterday and thinking there could be a few around today. With so many hiding spots this one took us a few minutes to locate. So many trees down, it must be very dry in here.

**Thanks to luttrellfive for hiding this cache for us to find and enjoy**

Another RDO and another day of caching planned for today. Na'wal and myself had discussed plans and we decided to target Mount Beckworth, plus a few extra on the way. Leaving home in the rain, we hoped it wasn't going to hang around all day. Luckily it had cleared by the time we were approaching the outskirts of Ballarat. We had an awesome day, which included some tree climbing, kayaking. hiking and even some spelunking !! An exhausting , but very rewarding day.

A lovely walk to gz today. A bit of a scrounge and we soon found the goods. TFTC luttrellfive

Having just arrived home yesterday evening after an 8 day trip away[|)], today it was time to head to Ballarat as Cybergran V had wanted to a ride to attend wozzle68's 50th birthday celebration.
Harry managed to find a tree branch while reversing and gave himself an injury: the rear window on the canopy shattered [xx(] at the 2nd cache find for the weekend and yet by the time this was discovered at Castlemaine, many kilometres later, nothing had fallen out of the gaping hole! Whew!! [^]
Cardboard and duct tape saved the day/weekend!

After attending the birthday celebration tea leafotwind, Rex and I headed out doing some caches until late in the night then after a good rest thanks to an extra room at leafotwind's accommodation (which was hugely appreciated [:X]), the next day we attended the breakfast event and then (after Cybergran V rejoined us) we headed out to claim some challenge caches accompanied for a short time by both Mrs and Mr Riddell

With the last cache of the 29 cache finds found at 6pm on the 5th, it was time for the drive back to Shepparton, having attended 2 events and only having 1 DNF and 1 Write note on a challenge cache that I do not yet meet.

As I am about 8 months behind in logging, I'm resorting to template logs to catch up.
My heartfelt thanks to the COs who have placed some tricky, funny, exercise required, scary, interesting and devious caches in some amazing spots! [^]
Rex and I have had some amazing adventures and enjoyed some incredible moments thanks to this fantastic hobby

TNLN. SL. TFTC luttrellfive

After having attended the second of the birthday events in Ballarat I had planned to tackle some Mt. Beckworth caches. I was joined by locus cache and CybergranV which proved fortuitous both from an energy/motivation standpoint after yesterday's 20km+ of walking as well as a couple of puzzle solves. A great day out. Thanks to either Wozzle68 (or in this case lutterllfive) or McLookers for putting out the caches and drawing me to the area.

Found and signed today with a small group of leafotwind, locus cache, and Geodog Rex, after attending the Sunday brekky with Geocachers Event, in Ballarat, this morning.
My grateful thanks to locus cache for bringing me to Ballarat and to leafotwind for the comfort of his vehicle to tackle the lovely scenery that Mt Beckworth has to offer.
I could not believe how beautiful the weather was being so close to Ballarat, and in winter - we were so blessed to have been able to enjoy the day in such perfect conditions.
Thanks for placing the cache here for our enjoyment.

A cool find.
Having a lovely bushwalk having parked the low clearance vehicle below at the start of the Parks Vic 4x4.... collecting caches as we go.
TFTC

The two events lured us up here today and with the weather looking good we decided to get an early start and try our luck in finding some of the challenge caches that we qualified for and of course we weren't going to go passed this one.
We stopped for this one on our way back from the 500 multi challenge and headed off track for a little while and the GPSr led us directly to the cache for a nice quick find and are name has now been added to the log.
Thanks luttrellfive for the cache.

*14 Jul 2018, Found @ 6:57 am, Find # 8038.*

While in the area on another mission, I though that I should stop at this one seeing that I was passing right by it and have a look.
I wandered over to the GZ area and started to look around after not finding it in a few spots, I finally looked in the right spot and the cache was found.

**Thanks to luttrellfive for placing this cache.**

Excellent co ords made for a quick find. A perfect day to be out and about in the bush. Thanks luttrellfive for the cache and the enjoyable walk.

One of my goals today was to grab some of these elusive DT's up on the mountain and this one in particular had a sought after combination.
I didn't know that today was also the 100th anniversary of the Lollipop tree so the whole area was blocked off to traffic and I had to park in a field. I also had to register with them as I set off alone with 9 caches in mind.
This one was found on my way down and the cache is in great condition in its lovely hiding spot
Thanks luttrellfive

TFTC

A pleasant stroll along the eroded track on a lovely day with good company to find this cache Thanks lutttefive

A great cache find whilst in the area seeking out 2 more recent challenge caches in the area.

This is such a lovely location and it was even nicer being here with friends. We walked up to the cache, so it was a bit of a hike. It was nice to find this cache though, as last time I was in the area we somehow passed it.

Thanks so much for the cache luttrellfive!

Very cool cache Cal. We found it in good order prior to the hair raising part of the drive! TFTC luttrellfive

Whilst out walking this end of the park finding challenge cache, I ran into this one...
A nice spot to come to.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found @11:58 #6289
Out on a run with ahomburg today, with the plan to do Pykes but with windy conditions too high we decided to tackle the Ballarat region instead.

What a nice area for some caches. It was quite refreshing to meander to each of the nearby challenge caches to reach this one. Nice spotted and after a scan finally cache uncovered by ahomburg. Nice size and swaps too.

TFTC luttrellfive

Date: 24 September 2017 Time: 12:00
Find #8924

I headed out today with SedgwickDave with great plans to hit Pykes Creek Reservoir and all the caches on it. Unfortunately mother nature had other things to say and with 35 - 40km/h winds, we decided it was an adventure for another day. Another area we both had not yet visited had us heading north of Ballarat to begin the day.

Loving this area, another terrific spot. Cache found after a few false starts.

Many thanks to luttrellfive for the cache. TNLN.

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Today I was returning from Halls Gap with some caches in Ararat, and some challenge caches near Mount Beckworth. This one took some time to find. When I did find it, it was just sitting there and easy to see. I may have removed the covering while poking around with a stick. After signing the log, I returned it with some covering.

Thanks for the cache, luttrelfive.

Find 2527 at 1:40:00 PM on the 13-05-17

As we were making out way to the Nash Bash we decided to make a day of collecting a few caches in the area.

Loved the drive and walk up to the GZ. Was a good excuse to get the 4x4 in low range and slowly roll up the hill.

TFTC luttrellfive [^][^][^]

We had hoped to make a bit of time and grab a few caches around Mt Beckworth to grab some older caches plus fill in a find in another region so headed up. The big tree is still down but looks possible to get around. At GZ we looked at the wrong item until turning around and sporting the hide. We completed the signing for duties and re hid. TFTC.

Found with the geowife and geodaughter after we had to turn back from a search for a FTF on a new cache further up the track as unfortunately the terrain was to difficult to walk for them.

Lucky for us it was still cool so the slithery and crawly wildlife were still asleep. Tftc

After attending the Surf Coast Mega Event in Anglesea over the weekend, we found ourselves unexpectedly in Ballarat waiting for our car to be repaired. We made the best of it and found a few more caches while in the area.

Thank you luttrellfive for having placed the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy.