BP Lodge Cradle Mountain Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, Australia
By Cached & Wackys on 20-Sep-11. Waypoint GC34GVM

As the cache owner has not acknowledged, or responded to my request for action, this cache is being archived.

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Found place but cache missing

Hi
This cache appears to have some problems. It is the cache owner's responsibility to read the logs and check the cache to sort out any problems with it and give an indication of when it may be up and running again for people to find.
**The cache is being Disabled to give the Cache Owner an opportunity to investigate and fix the apparent issues.**
Once the cache is operational again, the CO should write an *Owner Maintenance* log advising that the promlems have been fixed, and to remove the *Needs maintenance* attribute (red cross) if that is showing on the cache page. The CO can then write an Enable log to return the cache to play.
If the cache cannot be fixed it should be archived.
**If there is no response to this log after 30 days the cache will be Archived.**

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Staying at the Lodge for the evening, I can confirm that the cache is not where it was when I found it. If I'd know I would have carried up a replacement container.

Alas...like other cachers, I headed up to the hut to see if the cache was here...and it’s not. Not only that, but there is a sign at the track junction that strictly says ‘Private Access’...so this cache is now off limits unless permission has been granted.

It should be noted that the last 3 found logs have certainly not actually found the cache, which means that the last authentic Fi͏n͏d was probably back in 2015.

See DNF log.

Found the chicken wire cradle but no cache in it. Great walk to get there.

Too easy

Français

Je n’avais jamais mis les pieds en Australie, c’est bête mais ça me semble vraiment très loin ,Jusqu’à Noël 2016 ou ma fille nous apprend qu’elle va vivre deux ans à Melbourne, Et voila des vacances programmés pour février 2018 (la bonne saison pour le sud/est de l’Australie)
Pendant trois jour nous visitons la capitale culturelle de l’Australie, avec ses grandes tours de verre,ses plages ses street art et le nouvel an chinois en prime Puis on visite
Puis nous partons vers Phillip Island ou nous rencontrons nos premiers kangourous les petits pingouins et des paysages à vous coupé le souffle La marche à pied est la meilleure manière d’explorer la réserve naturelle du Wilsons Promontory. Surnommé ‘The Prom’ par les gens du coin
Un petit vol en avion et nous voila dans la capital financière de l’Australie Sydney pour trois jours avec son fameux opéra sa Sydney Tower de 309 m
pour la suite se sera la fameuse « Great Océan Road «  avec les douze apôtre , Apolo bay et les peroquets qui nous mange dans la main à Kafe Koala
Direction les Grampians avec ses cascades ses pentures aborigènes et ses falaises abrupts ou l’on aperçois nos premiers émeus
Encore un tour en avion pour atterrir à Hobat avec les 25° sur le marché et les 6° au sommet du mont Wellinton et 90km de vent Nous quittons Hobart pour le National Park Freycinet  et sa belle plage de Winglass Bay et ses 1250 marches pour y arriver A Cradel Montagne nous avons marcher plus de quatre heures pour voire un woombat ,Le clou de notre voyage se sera les 3 heures de bateau sur Brunny Island avec ses falaises ses phoques ses albatros et surprise au retour un petit valabi blanc nous attend
Le bilan de ses 5 semaines en Australie après trois mois de préparation
- 37000 km en avion (9 avion)
-4000 km en voiture (4 voitures)
-350 km à pied (4 chaussures)
- 120 caches (un GPS)
-18 logements
-un très beau pays
Je remercie tous les poseurs pour m’avoir permis de faire mon loisir et de découvrir des lieux qui ne son pas dans les livres de voyages gordon74 de France



English
I had never set foot in Australia, it's stupid but it seems really far, Until Christmas 2016 where my daughter tells us that she will live two years in Melbourne, And here is a holiday scheduled for February 2018 (the good season for South East Australia)
For three days we visit the cultural capital of Australia, with its large glass towers, beaches, street art and the Chinese New Year bonus Then we visit
Then we head to Phillip Island where we meet our first kangaroos, little penguins and breathtaking landscapes. Walking is the best way to explore the Wilsons Promontory Nature Reserve. Nicknamed 'The Prom' by locals
A small flight by plane and here we are in the financial capital of Australia Sydney for three days with his famous opera his Sydney Tower of 309 m
for the sequel will be the famous "Great Ocean Road" with the twelve apostle, Apolo bay and the peroquets that eat us in hand at Kafe Koala
Head to the Grampians with its waterfalls, aboriginal hinges and steep cliffs where we can see our first emus
Another plane ride to land in Hobat with 25 ° on the market and 6 ° at the top of Wellinton Mountain and 90km of wind We leave Hobart for the National Park Freycinet and its beautiful beach Winglass Bay and its 1250 steps to arrive at Cradel Mountain we have to walk more than four hours to get a woombat, The highlight of our trip will be the 3 hour boat ride on Brunny Island with its cliffs, seals and albatrosses, and a little white valabi on the way back
The results of his 5 weeks in Australia after three months of preparation
- 37000 km by plane (9 aircraft)
-4000 km by car (4 cars)
-350 km walk (4 shoes)
- 120 caches (a GPS)
-18 homes
-a very beautiful country
I thank all the installers for allowing me to do my hobby and discover places that are not his in the travel books gordon74 de France

Location found but cache missing.

Found basket but no cache. New chicken wire starts before basket so description needs updating. Coordinates are spot on for GZ.

Well I didn't find it but have previously (failed to log though) so knew where to look - basket is there but no cache.
Tftc

Good search by a lot of enthusiastic searchers. No luck. Maybe needs checking given two prior DNF's

So yep, wish I had read the activity log before I came here... An empty basket. Oh well

We found the first wooden (old) step about 20m out from the lodge (as per the clue), we found a wire basket spot on where our GPS put GZ but we didn't find the cache. We spread out from GZ but still no cache. We headed off on our trek to the Cradle summit and on the way back checked again in case the cache had miraculously appeared; it hadn't. Never mind, a beautiful day in a wonderful place.

Found with puck013!! Getting the hang of this game!!!

Nice Cache...

Great hide!! Love the multi layer ziplocking! Left bullwibkle tb. Happy trails!

Found this one whilst on a Scout camp

How many plastic bags.
We stayed here with the venturers and walked to the summit and Marions lookout.
This cache was hunted, tagged and released by activehunters tftc.

Found whilst staying at the lodge for a week with friends

We had great weather so plenty of exploring and playing in the snow occurred. Great spot for a cache, thanks!

left a travelbug

Good find by 4th Launceston & St Helens Scouts

First find since joining. It's a great location up here. With the St Helens & 4th Launceston Scout Groups.

Found it (:

My grandad and I found this cache whilst hiking up to Cradle Mountain's Summit. We started our adventure at Waldheim car park and made the slow & steady walk towards BP Lodge. We arrived at the hut and had a small rest before searching for this cache. It was a great walk so far and the views were already awesome! We were very excited to reach Cradle Mountain.

The search for the cache took some time, but we eventually found the clever hide and signed the logbook.

Our thanks to Cached for the rest-stop and greetings from Canberra!

found it.
TFTC

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.

Found the cache during our round trip through Tasmania. What a lovely island. The TFTC

Auf unserer dreiwöchigen Tour durch Tasmanien gemeinsam mit smellfooth, silli1310 und kapi84 bei unserer Wanderung zum Cradle Mountain hier vorbeigekommen und uns ins Logbuch eingeschrieben. TFTC.

Did a lovely circuit from the Waldheim huts.
Took us a while to find this one. More steps and chicken wire has been added since this description was written!

Oh wow... what a climb for an unfit pair. Had to have a few rests along the way. Almost turned back until we saw the lodge. Very pleased to locate the cache after the effort. Beautiful day, minimal cloud and a lityle bit of humidity. TFTC from a former rover scout.

This entry was edited by Shadbolt on Sunday, 30 November 2014 at 10:20:27 UTC.

Mea culpa to the co "cached"

I gladly change my previous log (needs maintenance which is deleted) to a good blue DNF

Apparently the hunt for this cache was not thorough enough and just missed
It's still there.... Maybe next time if I can come back to cradle mountain, likewise on a glorious sunny day as today has been
Thanks anyhow

A lovely but cold walk up here during snow showers. Clue needs updating as they have extended the steps. TFTC.

Cached checked during a visit - dry and available. Wasn't missing.

stayed with a group of scouts looked and looked but did not find it
great weather made it to the summit of Cradle great fun though

Walked the overland track in jan 2014 with scouts Victoria good hike found the cache while walking
Been looking for the cache for a long time on geocaching.com
Since walking didn't have a pen/cil

Chris found it on our Smithton scouts hike to Bp lodge. Heaps of snow had a great time. Can recommend the lodge great place to stay.

Easy find on our first day at the lodge. St. Helens Scout group having a great time, plenty of snow! TFTC.

Chip, Gronk, Stealth and I spent our first night of a 12 day walk here in BP Lodge. I always love this location, it is absolutely brilliant. First thing in the morning I ducked out here to grab the cache. It was not in a location as described, but I returned it to a spot that better matched the clue.

Cheers!

Found with Hoojar, Stealth and Gronk during our 12 day walk in the Tasmania Wilderness.

Thanks.

Had a very interesting tour of the building. Found cache no problem.

Hard climb, definitely worth the effort for the view! Start of the overland track for us. Took tb TFTC

Here is the start for our TB
Nice cache to start the travel to Normandy (France)

TFTC

This would have been easier if we had approached from correct direction. Did the long walk and came within 300m twice then the track turned away again. Finally found the correct approach and a short climb compared to the last 2 hours. Cache bag full of water but log ok. Coins visited. TFTC Cached.

Pity we couldn't stay the night.

Visited this weekend. Cache was in place and in reasonable condition. Replaced container and logbook. Old logbook inside lodge (in draw) to dry out properly. If this log gets wet and you are staying over, please dry out and either put old log back out or new.

If you are staying, can you check on arrival and dry out over your stay.

Even with the clue and seven excited scouts looking we didn't find it....still, the views are amazing

Today we took a walk in the snow up to Marions Lookout and on to Kitchen Hut. We returned via Crater Falls and then took the side trip to the Scout Hut. There was a lot of snow about and even with the clue we couldn't locate the cache.

Found it, great spot. The weather was not great, there had been a lot of rain. The cache was full of water, even the zip lock bag was not immune and had a lot of water in it too. Emptied out as much water as we could, tidied it up. Pencil works on wet paper! Never tried that.

Found it, great spot. The weather was not great, there had been a lot of rain. The cache was full of water, even the zip lock bag was not immune and had a lot of water in it too. Emptied out as much water as we could, tidied it up. Pencil works on wet paper! Never tried that.

Thanks for the find

This was our 1st cache find in the caching run & we found it at 13:22
So this now makes our total find count 6001.
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The weather whilst not really unkind, was a bit ominous today. Our trip was raincoats on; raincoats off more than once. Not to protect us from rain, just the fine mountain mist that seems to lurk around these parts.

We enjoyed the stroll along the boardwalk, and even some of the up-hill going, but once we turned on to HorseTrack we (well Penny) discovered that we weren't quite as fit as we thought.

Had we read the previous logs, we would have brought up another container.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Under 2 metres)
Cache Condition: Container seems to leak a little, but the log book is in good shape, and dry inside it's bag..
Took: Nothing. (We did rescue the TB though)
Left: Duck
Thanks Cached for the hunt today.

# 557

Awesome spot for a cache, and one that we have decided deserves a favourite point! The weather wasn't too good the day we did this hike, but we decided that since it might rain every day we were at Cradle that we may as well attempt this cache. Loved the hike up ( even though we were probably a bit unfit - we still made it despite some huffing and puffing. There was lots of fog and low clouds, so we couldn't see too far, but the next day at Marions Lookout we could see the view that would have been at BP Lodge. We have left a TB in the cache that we picked up in Taipei at Christmas.

TFTC!

Found on our nice holiday roundtrip across Tasmania. I went the Dove Lake Circuit and befor the end I turn to Marions Lookout. Then down to Crater Lake, where I did not find the shortcut direct to cache. Therefore went down to crossing and heading up again for the hide. Good exercise. The weather was sunny and cold wind. Thanks for the nice view. TFTC.

Please replace the container as it would be such a shame to lose the log book and the geocache.

This looks like a brilliant place to stay and so rewarding to find a cache close to the trail rather than along the road. A favourite point for its stunning location. TFTC. But guess what? We too emptied the water out of the cache container. At least the log book is ok so far.

Very nice views from this cache location. Easy to find after climbing up some steps .
Did some maintenance, because the cache-container was half filled up with water.
Now it's dry again. TFTC!!!!

On the way down from cradle mountain summit, I decided to detour to this instead of going straight back to the car park. It was a nice easy walk down to the hut and a quick find, having read the cache page! The container was full of water again. I dabed the logbook dryas best I could, but I did not have a fire like the previous finder. Carried on down to the broadwalk and followed it back to dove lake, waving at wombats along the way. TFTC x

Found while on scout camp up at the lodge. Container needs replacing as was full of water again due to the hole in the lid so dried it all out near the heater for a few days and replaced inside a ziplock bag.

On a side note the hut is available for Non-Scout members as well as members, the details are listed on the website for BP lodge.

Mrsbiggles58 and I were celebrating or wedding anniversary at the Cradle Mountain Lodge so we decided to further explore the area as we had done on previous occassions. This time instead of the Dove Lake and Cradle Valley walk through to Ronny Creek we decided to attempt this cache. Well......up we went and mrsbiggles58 had a description for every upward step......and there are a lot of upward steps so I was deaf by halfway! I said the she could stay put and wait but no, more deafness was to come. We forged on as the weather closed in with rain and wind keeping us company for the rest of the day. We arrived at the hut rather short of breath.....(and me now profoundly deaf).......to find the cache in it's home. Unfortunately the cache was half full of water so we emptied it out and dried everthing as best we could before signing the log. We took nothing and left nothing. Loved the climb to the GZ but now have to see the doctor about hearing aide's.TFTC

This entry was edited by biggles58 on Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 05:32:55 UTC.

TFTC
Found it on the way up to Crater Lake & Marian's Lookout.
This is a lovely cabin in the woods with spectacular views

Easy to find cache. The hut shows a lot of thought in its design. Impressed.
I was in 2nd Pinetown Sea Scouts in South Africa.

BG (Before Geocaching) we came to Cradle Mountain three or four times a year - at least once in summer, once in winter and around Anzac Day when the fagus was at the peak of its colour change prior to dropping its leaves for the winter. It was always been a magical place for us and each time we see the area in a different "suit of fine clothes". We were surprised at the number of day walkers (including parents with young children) on the various tracks today and there were also about 6 people setting off on the Overland Track. The walk to the Baden Powell Scout Lodge was really enjoyable on this wonderful day. There were clear blue skies, an occasional cloud and the magical combination of greens, red and browns in the flora - the cold south westerly wind didn't dampen our experience at all. Our four children have very fond memories of times spent at the "Scout Hut". Two were scouts (one obtaining his Queens Scout Award) and two were guides (one obtaining her Queens Guide Award). The personal and interpersonal skills that each developed through the long and active involvement with scouting and guiding contributed significantly to their development through the pre-teen and teenage years and we are forever grateful to the scouting and guiding movement in general, and the leaders in Ulverstone in particular, for their guidance of our children. So it was with this background that we set off for the "Scout Hut" today. Although the last 300m was quite steep we managed to get there in about 45 minutes (from the Waldheim Car Park). The cache was a quick find given the detailed hint. It was only in the last couple of days that we realised that we were nearing a caching milestone. Hence our GC finds over the last few days have been ordered so that after 2 years, three months and 12 days the "Scout Hut" would be the most appropriate way to celebrate our 3000th GC find. TFTC Cached - it is a memorable one for us.

With thick cloud enveloping the mountains around Cradle Mountain Bruce headed off to this one while Sis and I (well rugged up) headed for the more sedate walk around Dove Lake. It took us 2 hours to do the walk by which time Bruce had done this cache plus another and we managed to meet on the shuttle bus prior to returning to the car to get our lunch and find shelter in the nearby picnic area. He said the view from gz was awesome and extremely cold. We thoroughly enjoyed our day at this NP and thanks for placing the cache Cached and Wacky

This is a really nice hut inside, think we'll come and stay our next visit.

Dropped the soda bottle opener may come in useful for the scouts

We spent a lovely two nights at the BP Lodge after Wild Dayz Venture - an awesome place to relax. TFTC TNLN

Found it with the Millfinders.Thanks Mrs Johnston for let us looking at the hut, sorry I forgot your first name.We'll return with Scouts.

the Adventurersone plus Husband

Beautiful hike up to the hut! Easy find. TFTC.

Visited lodge with Wynyard and Somerset Scout Group and found cache. It was a bit damp as the lid was not closed properly so dried out while we stayed and replaced back into position. Thanks.

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