The Bad Man and his Uncle Albutt Mt Riverview, New South Wales, Australia
By The Bad Man on 17-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3F66R

We spent a considerable time on this one and think that it may now be missing. Suggest a check by CO to see if it's still okay.

Sounds like the Uncle has flown the coop.

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Tftc - Even though I knew what to expect it still scared the #%###^ out of me. Favourite point from me.

I still had some life on me after adventuring around so I made my way out to this cache,on arrived I noticed Uncle sitting out in the open about 10m from GZ,I retured the cache back to it hidey hole but had me wondering how it could come out as I need to some stuff around to get it back it??
Any hoo cache now sits safe again
Was a really nice walk out to GZ today
TFTC

Gotcha

Walking with geodog to get caches out this way. Quickly spotted. Nicely hidden. Signed and replaced. Tftc

Another local cache for MrT to find! Out early and headed to GZ. When he looked behind the outer camo cover he got a fright!... very clever. A fav from us. TFTC

Awesome find... Loved it!

Find #5 of 11 on a perfect day of geocaching. No DNFs, cooler weather, excellent caches, and some tough scrambles and bushwhacking trying to string these caches together and get back to the train. Thanks to all COs for placing and maintaining their caches and creating this adventure.

Well well well. Did I ever make this one a 4.5 terrain. After finding Come See For Yourself, I headed down to the vale bottom to retrieve stage 1 of the multi, then up I came to this one. Don't ask how I did it, and more importantly, don't ask why. It was an ugly bushwhack/scramble and I shouldn't have done it, but watching that compass slowly bear down, even whilst sweat dripped from my face and my breathing quickened, pushed me on. I knew once I got to this cache, I could continue using a trail like a normal person.

Once at GZ the find was fast due to the extra 'camo' in place. Snapped a photo of old Uncle Owl Butt with my TB and mover along. Great cache Team Webguy! Greetings from Canada

GR8. A hoot. TFTC

Great walk with the family. Took me a bit to figure it out and after a minor fright found the cache. Dropped track able and gave a favourite for this.

TFTC

A nice quick find for my first cache, thank you!

I was getting a bit tired after finding other caches in the area. This one was next on the GPS and wasn't paying too much attention to the description or logs. So when I revealed this cache, I nearly fell off the cliff with fright!!! After I collected myself, I introduced myself to the guardian, signed the log and left. What a hoot!!

I managed to find the track from the previous cache and the way to this was nice and quick. Once at the right vantage point, I found a pair of eyes staring at me... I stared back... The eyes didn't blink. My eyes were watering by this point. I had to blink, and made a grab for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.

Prior to The Rats heading off around Australia for some time, the Gangsters (myself, The Rats, Big Matt and Shell and Farmer Frentzen) got together for a day's caching around Warragamba and the Lower Blue Mountains.

A nice walk along the ridge to this one. Some nice formations and rock around GZ. Before too long something was spotted and soon thereafter (after a shock!) the cache was in hand. TFTC!

There was time for one more Gangsters gathering before we headed off on holidays. Today big numbers wasn't on our minds, we were more interested in a fun days caching and thats what we had.

Very clever in all aspects. We approached from below and the firts to find did get a bit of a shock. Well done.
Thanks

Found during a run around the area today with The Rats, steeba and Big Matt (also loosely known as The Gangsters).

This was a bit of a last hoorah for the group before The Rats and family head off on a lap around the continent and another terrific day of caching.

After deviating off the trail perhaps a little earlier than we should have we made out way to GZ to find a nicely prepared cache container.

Thanks Team Webguy for the cache.

[Blue]Our 8519th overall find.

Found on a Lower Mountains / Western Sydney caching run with FarmerFrentzen, steeba and The Rats. Uncle Albutt scared the poo out of me as I was sitting on the ledge and looked into his home. Cool location though mate!

Thanks Team Webguy for the cache. [/Blue]

Awesome cache, super fun, loved the location, camo, container! TFTC. Found with morebierplease

Probably the coolest cache container yet. Found with Phillxor. TFTC

Found it! The Tajiks.

Hahahahahahahaha!
Definitely favouriting this.
Found a live bush rat in the spot where Albutt is hidden.
Love this cache.

Nice hide very amusing, did find a bush rat in hiding spot. Tftc

Very punny... cheeky as well. Had a nice laugh over this one! Found a little bush rat cache guardian!
TFTC!

Holy rectinol batman. The Uncle survied pe4fectly in tact.

A late afternoon invite to join Webguy and Riblit for a welfare check on Uncle Albutt. A park on Spurwood and a wander down to the fire trails crossroad, then a walk along the burnt trail towards GZ. At the critical point there were two options ... Riblit went the correct way, leaving the 'mushroom to question the 'small'. Survived, indeed, did Uncle Albutt ... and in magnificent condition!!!
Thanks for a wonderful cache Team Webguy!

Found at 5:17:00 PM:

It was getting close to the time Uncle Albutt stirs when we arrived here but fortunately he hadn't flown the coop. I took one way, the mushroom took the other and I got to Albutt before him.

Albutt was lucky in that both he and his home survived the recent fires without any signs of distress.

I nice surprise from the Bad Man.

Due to the fires and the unknown nature of the area at this time, this cache is offline.

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

Relatively easy cache for the bad man.... Hardest part was getting the cache out of the container.
TftC

The covering material over the cache is fading somewhat. By the way is the cache Owl or Al, Butt? Not your usual belly scraping cache hide Thanks.

Out for the day with Dragonhaunt and SuperSuz.

Full points for such a great/terrible pun. Dragonhaunt almost toppled back off his precarious perch in surprise. We had a good laugh after making sure he was okay.

When we saw the location I joked that something else might be hiding there, still I was surprised when I caught a glimpse but perhaps that forethought prevented me from toppling over. Definitely make sure you have stable footing. A great hide, and I am now sure that Team Webguy must be quite the character(s).

Dastardly climb up the single track with a mountain bike, but it was worth it. Was soon at a spot where I could wander off into the bush and came to, wait for it, another Bad Man-style cliffline.

However, some 25 metres distant, something caught my eye. Hmmm, I'd heard this wasn't your ordinary cache. I was hoping for a cabaret show from Uncle Albutt, and given what I'd already been put through by the Bad Man today I fully deserved it. It wasn't to be but nor was I disappointed.

Thanks Webguy, a gem.

Found @ 1255hrs with our muggle friend, Joolz.
What a hilarious cache. We spotted the camo from a good distance away, but were quite surprised when we actually retrieved the container. Uncle Albutt seems a little less dastardly than the Bad Man, this one wasn't as tricky as we were expecting.
Another creative Webguy cache! TNLNSL. Thanks Webbie.

After a big adventure today , with Hoogies, This one was a Hoot, in comparison! Saw something then something then Something!
TFTC! an Epic end to an Epic day!

I got a bit over excited and left the trail rather too early as I thought it was turning away (as I discovered on the way out, it was actually meandering in the correct direction), so had somewhat more than a few feet of bush to traverse. At GZ I scrambled about bait, teetering in odd positions a couple of times, before I turned around and said, 'oh! What's that?' to nobody in particular. Ingenious and made me smile. TFTC x

Continuing on along the good track from the nearby impish cache we soon reached the point where it was necessary to wander off through the light scrub in search of another baddish cache. It was such easy going though that it couldn't be too bad - could it? Although the baddish cache we'd done a short time previous did necessitate a bit of fun didn't it. We arrived at GZ and gazed about wondering - after a perusal of the cache notes - what on earth we could be looking for. Lady Altaire then espied something and it started to make sense. Shortly thereafter it made total sense, even the detailed retrieval instructions (heretofore nowt but gibberish) - very droll. Always good to come across a cache where a bit of effort has been made to make it a bit "different". Lovely bushy, rocky spot too. Dropped off a TB (The Roo that ran away from the spoon). Great cache.

Awesome cache! Well worth the bush bash! Certainly one of our favourites. I went straight past Albutt but geowife managed to spot his hiding spot! TFTC.

TFTC what a great location. Thanks for taking us to such a beautiful place. The name of your uncle seems to be misspelt! This is one of the best hides ever. Great preparation.
Thank you for making caching more interesting by placing this cache. TNLN

I went along with my geo-wife and her two geo-friends. They all came along for a walk and a picnic up at the rock platform at the beginning of Rikki's Ridge. Once we were bush bashing the friends didn't seem to mind. Once at ground zero I ventured down and started looking under. My geo-wife and one of her friends pointed out the obvious spot. I wish I had longer legs. I had to do a leap of faith with an audience. Then to place the cache back I had to straddle the rock. With one of wife geo-friends helping hand I managed to find my way back up. The geo-wife thinks this is the best cache she had ever been to. I am just wondering how bad the other badman caches are if this is considered easy. Thanks Team Web Guy. These caches are getting better and better.

This is probably the most original idea for a cache I have seen so far. Nice location and a very clever hide. Many TFTC!

While waiting for Team canary to arrive, pjmpjm and I went for this cache, hard to believe a second bad Man cache attempt, not so Long ago this would have been unheard of!
We got close to GZ easy enough and the GPSr pointed us to a very likely looking spot for a Bad Man cache. I went looking one way and pjmpjm the other, we both came to the conclusion that we were close but not looking exactly in the right place, just as I was to suggest to pjmpjm to go to a particular feature he beat me to it and was already there, you do have to love the camo job so simple but so effective. The cache container (Familiar to many) was soon in hand and after some hilarity was returned to its home.
By the way the uncle's name will make sense after you find the cache!
Thanks for a very entertaining cache.

Still planning to meet up with Team Canary to tackle the new 'Imp's Cache' -- rogerw3 and I had a little more extra time on our hands before the yellow birds arrived from back east. What to do? A phone call to TC led to the suggestion that we trek a bit further still and attempt a second 'Bad Man' cache . . . Two BM's in one day? Hitherto unthinkable, but we were nearly there, so . . .

Arriving at TBMAHUA GZ, we found a scene such as we expected. Not the steepest and most difficult cliff we'd ever tackled, but . . .

Anyhow, making our way as close as possible to the wanted coordinates, we both agreed that a certain feature looked like something a Bad Man might work with. So rogerw3 went around one way and I went around another.

The exterior camo worked really well and is almost indistinguishable from a distance. I won't say more. What a surprise! And a very, very familiar looking cache container . . .

All was in good order. TNLNSL.

Many thanks to Team Webguy! This is a favourite, for sure. And we eventually worked out the other meaning of BM's Uncle.

This entry was edited by pjmpjm on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 11:13:09 UTC.

Another lovely sunny day so I decided to go and look for a few Badman caches. Hopefully I was up for the challenge. Other logs indicated this on was not exceptionally hard so thought I would try for this one first. I found it in good order and was impressed with the hide. Thanks for the cache Badman.
Took TBs and left pathtag.

was good cache

Having completed the nearby Badman cache it was on to this one. As I was making my way to GZ, I wonder if the words of Doc. Emmett Brown "Where we're going, we don't need roads" is the usual mantra for the Badman.

After an initial search failed to locate the cache, I stopped, got good reception, had a snack and laughed out loud when I realised where it was.

Great method for the cache. I loved it. Certainly made my day. Thanks for the hide out in one of my favourite areas.

Left a bunch of trackables: Astrolabe Geocoin, Horsing Around TB, TrackMe Geocoin.

Catching up on all the caches I haven't logged.

Mum wanted to find this one, so all of us walked out here in the afternoon. Mum got us lost, so we had to climb up the cliff to get to the cache.

Once we got to the right spot, CFig & I saw the hiding spot, but left it to Mum to check it out.


This was a really fun cache & we all enjoyed it. TFTC .

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My children & I took a stroll out to this one in the afternoon. We completely missed the turnoff to the track & continued too far down the fire trail. We then found a track that seemed to be going in the right direction & happily set off along it. With about 400m still remaining to GZ, our track faded away & we had a bush bash to GZ, and a cliff to climb up. Definitely the interesting way to reach the cache.

Once near GZ my eldest 2 scampered off ahead of me & pointed out a good potential hiding spot, but left it for me to investigate. As I was crawling in to look, my son suddenly called out "mum, do you usually see ............. in the bush?". I slowly backed out of where I was & looked to where he was pointing. Hmm, no, can't see I've ever seen that natually occuring in the bush before .

I went over to look & soon had the cache in hand, within a minute of arriving at GZ. My youngest got very excited about the container, her favourite GCA moveable cache uses exactly the same container & she thought we'd found that one again. Had to disappoint her that we couldn't take it with us this time. Maybe I should buy her one of her own, she loves that container so much .

After we'd replaced the cache & started heading back we came across a track. Followed it & had a very easy walk back to the fire trail. And at that point the Imp told me she'd seen that track as we went past!

Thanks webguy, all 4 of us had a great time out at this one .

I continued on from the nearby badman cache to this one. I took a more adventurous way to GZ but found some interesting views and landforms along the way. Finally getting to GZ to find the cache quickly. I was lucky to spot it so soon. A new and interesting cache hide again from the bad man and quite a good hide it was. Nice views and some pretty wild rock formations surround the area of GZ made all for an enjoyable cache find. Well done once again! TNLN SL TFTC.

Found with the family and Team Canary. A beaut one, thanks Webby!

What can I say. GREAT cache, its people like the badman and Webguy that stablise my sanity of the modern caching trend: micros. Loved the location, and, as usual, a fun challenge along the way to the cache. Thanks Badman.

After work today, our clan met up with the yellow bird's to try our luck at this one. Having passed the other Badman by, ( not being able to work out how to get it), we headed on with all the boys, big and little, and myself. Trekking off to my first ever, (yes I can hear you saying, how can you admit it? )BADMAN cache.

Bikerbuddy accompanied us but remained tight lipped about everything determined not to give anything away. Despite working in Blaxland, and having not done a great deal of high terrain ones, I had never been down this track or even walked in this area before. The boys were lagginng the chain a little and lightning and thunder started, so we hurried them a bit in order to make it back before the rain.

On arrival at GZ, there were many spots I thought possible for a Webby cache. But they were all turning out to be fruitless. I turned to see NickoHeap with a big smile on his face- he obviously had ideas and after us all looking, his spot was the right one. One by one, we searched and came up with the goods. The youngest members were the finders this time. Loved the spot and the hide, and also the cache container. Thanks Webby, My first Badman was great-I must now seek out some more which my good knee can cope with!

As we left it started to team with rain- don't think I've seen raindrops that big for some time. We hot footed it back as quickly as we could. The five boys were all in high spirits for their trek and retieval. Soaked to the skin, we headed back for a fast food fix and some drying off. A great afternoon's caching for this huge smilie after work and school. Thanks to Team Canary for a great chat and fun time along the trip. A definite favourite!

Cheers!

We all enjoyed the trek out to this one and the youngest two enjoyed the retrieval/replacement after we spotted the hide.

A great afternoon spent together as two families, walking and talking and enjoying each other's company.

Thanks for the testing cache.

The Bad Man has reinvented himself.

I came to this one after Badman - BSR, encouraged by the lower terrain and difficulty rating. But while this one was ultimately easier to retrieve, I spent much longer looking for it. Like Jonnosan, I found myself looking here and there, finding what looked like a few decoys, but not the cache. Eventually I began to narrow down what I believed to be possible areas when I suddenly noticed my GPS had me at zero metres from the cache. I looked about and then saw what Jonnosan had obviously seen. A moment later I had the cache in hand. A brilliant placement - funny even. And I think the coordinates are pretty accurate. Another favourite from me. Thanks Webby - I mean Bad Man.

Published

FTF at 3:30. Awesome my GPS had me 10m from GZ but after running around for quite a while I saw something a bit out of the ordinary, then found something a lot out of the ordinary.makes me want to go find 10 mint tins so I can give this a favorite point.

Thanks team webguy