TdF - 1938 - Gino Bartali Bower, South Australia, Australia
By equipe de cinq on 31-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3FJYE

A whole day with no plans and kid free, so here I am playing the numbers game. I found 108 on this trail with 1 DNF, a few requiring maintenance which I have logged. A new personal best most finds in a day! Light traffic on this road, 3 cars and the same motorbike twice for the day. Thanks for the series.

Quick easy find .. awesome series TFTC

Not early morning anymore but still motivated for this serie! Coming from France, I think it's amazing to learn about this topic ! Thanks <3

Found it! Made an early start today, with the aim of making a dent in the TdF trail and maybe branching off to do the TdU trail. Quick find here. TFTC!

Another 3 Stooges road trip with Cheezel and WayneAPN, tackling the TDF series and a few more close by. A great day out with lots of laughs, carbs consumed and general tomfoolery. Cache found and log stamped.

Its been a while since weve teamed up, but the 3 Stooges (weredunn4, WayneAPN, Cheezel1961) are back at it again Today we are targeting the Tour de France (TdF) series plus any other interesting caches we might cross paths with.Cache quickly found and stampedTFTC

It's been a while since our last get together to spend a day caching with Weredunn4 and Cheezel1961. With all the stuff occurring in each of our daily lives and work etc, the stars seem to align today for an outing out together, targeting the TDF series. Plus a few in easy range, hey were are out this way, may as well do them. Plus the usual target of interesting, unique D/T grids as well as high T caches.Thanks for this one, an easy find.TFTC SL

Left early in the rain, with the intention to do TdF series on the stock route road. It drizzle all the way and most of the morning periodically, until the sunshine came in the afternoon. Caches were generally in good condition with a percentage having a broken lid, which I didn’t have any replacement ones. TFTC
Replaced damaged cache

Quick find today to top up the monthly statistics.
Bit windy out here, but at least the sun is shining.
Lid FUBAR, logbook saturated.
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TTFN
Beaker
DGS

Refer TdF - 1903 - Maurice Garin Traditional Geocache
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Found today with Woems1 ️

Found today with Woems1 ️

Out to find a few more of the Tour de France after completing the TDU series. TFTC equipe de cinq, series holding well but a few need new containers including this one. Thank you for maintaining the series.

Found it

Found it

Found it

TFTc. Condition frail

Eudunda trip with the geo-pup, day 3, East of Eudunda - numbers Sunday!

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Found it !!!! With Northstar76 and superman_22

Out and about our beautiful country side. Found with superman_22 and Giselle _12

Nice easy find with Northstar76 and Giselle_12

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

The group grew from two to six quickly after having a chat to GoodLook about our plans.
Our team “The Mob” now consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers and ourselves and feathertop joined us on day 4. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book.
All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.

Day 6 After finishing the On Your Bike and Around the World in 81, Ode to JLWE and Riddlers Roonka Rampage and TdU we decided to see if we could tick TdF as well.
All caches were found on the trail in fairly good condition.

Thanks for the hide and trail equipe de cinq and thanks for the fun "The Mob"

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Onto day 6 and back out onto the On Your Bike series we go to finish it off. Once we had finished that, we made our way to some Around the World multis, Riddlers Roonka/Ode to JLWE Series, the TdU series and even managed to do the TdF series! It was a big day. We picked up a few caches along the way, travelling along the way was GoodLook, The Drovers, LiB, FurfacesLL, FeatherTop and myself.

With the TdU completed much quicker than we expected, we discussed as a team that multiple groups had not done the TdF and we were soooo close to it. It was agreed that we would give it a crack and see how we went, if we finished it, brilliant, if we didnt, it didnt matter. We were on a roll today and we managed to get them all done !!! [^]

Thanks for the hides equipe de cinq And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

The series that we tackled during this trip included The Paddle Steamer, The Turtle, On Your Bike, The TdU, The TdF and some Roonka puzzles put out for a June Long Weekend some time ago. Plus many random caches that we passed.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to equipe de cinq for placing this cache.

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet

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A quick drive by as Geo hubby Animal62 and I casually make our way home after a full day of Geocaching

Found after a day out in Morgan, finding a few more of the TDF series on the way home. Caches found after a short search and in decent condition for their age. TFTC.

Find #1027

Found

A quick find while caching around Barmera and Morgan.TFTC

Thanks

Day 316 ( Friday 10th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Eudunda today. A total of 41 for the day and 6102 for the trip. TFTC

found

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Easy one

Found

Eleventh find today. TFTC!
Crossroads cache!

Quick find whilst avoiding traffic on the main roads.

TFTC staying at Morgan and wanted to finish the stock route caches. Great day.

Thanks for the cache

Main aim for today was to knock off the rest of this TdF series. Most winners are not well known names but some we do know. Found nearly all the containers but about 6 were damaged. Good series which was fun to find. Logs were signed. TFTC.

Having started this series yesterday with ilook4geo, we were keen to finish it off today, so headed off with a long list to achieve. Not many of the winners' names were familiar to us, as we are not really into cycling. Each cache was located, its log was signed and then was returned to its hiding place. Many thanks go to equip de cinq for placing this series of caches, but some really do need attention as several containers are broken.

Quick drive past and grab on our way home

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Out for a cache with gridge98. My first power trail on my 3rd day living in the area. Thanks for the interesting history and caches

Today I planned with Nettieknows to complete the Tour de France series, we signed all the log books as NG9886 (nettie knows, gridge98, 8/6/19). Majority of the cache are all in good Nic, a few are broken here and there though. Great to think about the winners of the tour, can’t wait till the giro comes out
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With the rain abating we decided to head out from Eudunda to this power trail to find what we could. Not sure the surface out here would be condusive to a cycling race but perfect for a power trail. All caches were located without a problem due to precise co-ords and the only muggles we came across in the 30 klms we covered today, were feral goats, a few kangaroos and a flock of sheep roaming along the side of the road. Thanks equipe de cinq

Hi there equipe de cinq.

We found your cache **"TdF - 1938 - Gino Bartali"** at 11:03:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 22269).

Our primary aim for the day was to finish off the "TDF" series. Exactly 7 years ago we were celebrating Skippy's birthday at Roonka, and started our first "power trail" from the other end. We abandoned our quest about half way as we thought it was a boring thing to do, but we have since attempted many other "power trails". It seems like we have just been attempting "birthday" caches lately because we have done 40, 50 60 and 70 since we have been camped at Kapunda.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around the area & ended up finding quite a variety of container types, and sizes hidden along our route. We found 43 caches today & DNF'd 1. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic travels around Australia.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The containers and log books are mostly in good shape, we did perform some minor maintenance tasks on our journey though..
**Took:** Cache Trash.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

PS: Following on from recent comments received; our log or stamp is not necessarily placed in the last spot in the book or sheet. If we find a blank spot when we open the log - that is where it goes.

New container see pic..

On the way to Canberra, detours - found,
Signed the log by stamp. Thanks for the cache and hide

Day two of our Morgan visit and the conquer the TDF Series. Started earlier this morning to get it done before it heted up. Well we managed to get them done but it heated up earlier than we would of liked. Not helped by stoppingon the road and still having 40mtrs to walk into the cache.
Find No.5525
most caches in good condition, however had to replace containers until I ran out: TFTC equipe de cinq

Planned a big day out with JJ52 to collect the TDF series. We’d been worrying about hot weather but then cold wet weather came so delighted that Saturday arrived and was perfect caching weather.
A delayed departure due to forgetting the battery pack meant we didn’t start caching until well after 10am.
All caches found in the series (thus far) which was a bonus.
Lots of water on the road in some places, Ute is now filthy!!
Saw lots of wildlife, lizards kangaroos wallaby emu sheep goats but thankfully no slithering snakes .
Arrived back home after 7pm having found 126 caches, it is still beyond my comprehension how or why 860 odd caches can be done in a day.
TFTC and series. A few require new containers as several have perished. Good to find some larger containers on a PT.

A plan was hatched with Michells&hound to come and get the Tour de France series and today was the day. [^]
We were very lucky with the weather which turned out to be perfect for a power trail, warm but not hot, especially after the very unpredictable hot and wet weather we had in the previous week, which was evidenced by quite a lot of water lying around as we drove along.
All caches were found, some with brittle containers, broken lids and wet logs, but we were able to stamp each log and replaced containers to try and prevent more water damage.
We ventured off the trail a few times to get some other caches which gave us a different focus for a while. [^]
We saw lots of wildlife, kangaroos, wallabies, an emu, sheep on the roadside and dodged a number of lizards crossing the roads. Later in the day we spotted lots of rabbits who didn't like us coming to disturb them.
Thanks for the cache and series equipe de cinq.

As last night was the firzt night of the tour de France. I thought it was only right to do this power trail. Started early and after about 4.5 hrs i crossed the line. But no yellow jersey for me.
Thanks for the caches, alot of work has gome into making and maintaining these. Great trail

What an amazing sight after leaving the lush green areas around Morgan and drive down this road to the stark desert with no grass in any direction, just the scrub that dominates the area. We spoke with a farmer further down the track who told us they were shooting their sheep as the cost was too great to grain feed them. We stopped at a deserted house on the road and the pit at the front with the carcasses showed hard times along the road.
The cache series along here is quite good, with caches on each side of the road, often a bit further than expected. There were lots of Kangaroos and one Emu spotted before we go to the multi road intersection where we needed to look at the map to see the caches on these roads.

Thanks equipe de cinq for this great series of caches here, they were great.

TFTC

Catching up on logs. Thanks for s winning series.

Went out again with Purrfect Di for a cache!!!
Love it out this way after dark, several roos and three wombats to keep us company.
A sky full of stars, and an interesting cache hide.
Someone has replaced this container at some stage, seems temporary, but holding up well
Thanks for the cache equipe de cinq

Staying at Kapunda for the weekend. Thought we would drive some country roads even though the weather is HOT. TFTC.

found it with troyyugal on our weekend away

We're camping nearby and I saw this run of geocaches! I just had to see how many I could get. I dug out my trusty bike & after blowing up the tyres, I set off. How many can I find?
4th day out and I'm sticking with the car - it's way too hot for this city girl to be out in the sun riding. That's my excuse anyway Thanks.

Yey !!!

In need of repairs!

Our day 6 started nice and early after some late night planning trying to identify the power trails which would support our cache finding mission [^]. We headed north(ish) of the City and were ripping around the countryside collecting smiley faces .

I had been eyeing off an interstate trip for some time now and made plans to head to SA to power through the geoart trails over here . I roped in my geo buddy Krabiboy to join me and we set about solving [?] caches and highlighting Jasmer caches that aren't available over in WA. Our adventure took us from the CBD over to the Yorke Peninsula and then back across to the Murray Bridge area . We were relentless in chasing down the finds and picked up as many as we could in the week that we had available. Due to the park and grab nature of our visit, the log books which weren't able to accommodate the ink stamp we had made were signed with the initials 'jk'! Fave points will be awarded for those caches which are considered awesome

A massive thanks here to equipe de cinq for placing this cache here and for tempting us to venture over to this area. Cheers!

jinta29 found your cache TdF - 1938 - Gino Bartali today. This is my find #7773 and find #33 today. I was able to get my name in the log book here and we replaced the cache as we found it. Thanks once again equipe de cinq for placing this and bringing us to this part of the world!

jinta29 and I are in town this week after many months of planning for a week to remember. We are heading to the Yorke Peninsula, Murray Bridge and as many places in between as we can get to. This was one we found along the way.

TFTC equipe de cinq.

equipe de cinq, I found your cache TdF - 1938 - Gino Bartali on 29/4/17.
This is my find #4621 and find #33 today.

Found with Hearse068 while in the area. We are heading to Alice Springs and doing as many caches along the way, this is one we stopped at. Thank you for placing this cache for us to find.

5 April 2017 10:47 PM Found with Gonefishen07 on our little adventure . We are making our way to Alice Springs for the Mega event. We are doing some caches along the way this is one of them . Thank you for taking the time to place the cache

On the for the TdF series, we drive along on the dirt road and found the cache here! TFTC

10th day, found with sevabo & skyejam TFTC

10th day, found with sevabo & skyejam TFTC

Smile we're back to the series to finish it all today found it all good. thanks for leading us here.

Travelled in to Morgan yesterday so that we could have one and a half days on the TdF trail as we were pretty sure that we couldn't do it all in one day. So glad we did. We are both tired of jumping in and out of the car but achieved excellent results for us. 85 finds out of 86 attempts. I think this may also be my best day ever.

Many thanks to equipe de cinq for placing and maintaining this incredible trail for us to find. A great effort and thanks to this trail I will certainly be able to reach my next milestone in time to achieve the great looking souvenir at the Event over Easter in Alice Springs. I just have to be careful not to overshoot it now!

Apologies to equipe de cinq for the generic log. I am going to send a message about some of the individual caches.

Thanks again. All found caches were stamped.

Staying a few days in Morgan and decided to tackle the TdF series today with CAD... Thanks equipe de cing for placing these caches for us to find # 5135

Planning a good day of caching along this route TFTC find for the day number 32

Family drive today to get this series.
We had a wonderful time, with a picnic lunch on the side of the road, finishing with a picnic dinner by the river.
We saw a fox, kangaroos, kookaburras, a wombat, sheep, lizards, rabbits and a bull which was right near a cache eeekkkk.
Ran into a wee issue with a tree that had fallen across the road blocking it completely, so please be cautious anyone driving this road, especially at night.
Something fantastic about watching a 10 year old, a 16 year old and a 40 year old jump from the car and race for the cache, putting child lock on, pushing, shoving and being total idiots, but only 2 sore ankles by the younger ones.
It was a great day out Thankyou

Set off this morning to do this TDF trail and get a few others along the way on a mission to find 100 caches in one day ended up finding 122 for the day was a brilliant but long day really enjoyed driving along this dirt track we had a ball Found cache no worries TFTC much appreciated for making the effort to put this out and my apologies for the generic logs

Had a nice and long sleep this morning and got up in time for lunch, thought I might have a calm day but decided after lunch to go Geocaching. Not far from my place in Dutton is the old Stock Route, So I gave it a try and it resulted in 64 caches. Thanks for placing this series and I'll be back for the rest.

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Staying at Pelican Point we decided to tackle this series. We enjoyed travelling the Old Stock Route and caching freely with no one in sight. We managed to find all caches and accurate co-ordinates led to quick finds. We spent nearly 5 hours on the hunt. many thanks equipe de cinq for creating this series, we appreciate the time and effort that has gone into placing and maintaining this series.

Found and signed. TFTC

A generic log for these as there are so many. A great day out around Eudunda with Mrs S A Sewer Rats then onward to start this trail challenge, one of many awaiting our assault. Many were easy finds and all in good condition. Thanks for the information about each of these riders although we are not overly interested in this sport, the drive along a road that we would never have otherwise traveled made for a fun day out with many a Bunny and Lizard crossing our path. Roast potato's and gravy seemed like a good idea with a few of the other creatures we saw. TFTC

Out and about the Eudunda area with Mr Blackadders caching and taking in the sights.
We set about to find as many as we could.
Thanks for the info on the riders.
Sorry this will be a generic log as there are so many in this series. tftc

Date: 15 August 2015
Time: 2:57 pm
Find #6315

Today was day eight of the ahomburg and sharkiefan 2015 road trip to South Australia. This was a massive driving day and we would be on the road for around 12 hours and a bonus at the ens is we did NOT want to kill each other. We were headed towards Mildura, the final night of our holiday. Our aim was to pick up whatever caches we came across along the way as well as trying to complete the Tour De France Series. It turns out stopping for so many caches really eats up your day.

Thanks to equipe de cinq for the cache. TNLN

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14th / 15th November 2015 - GC5HCJ8 - Casey Fields - Melbourne Victoria

Found with Ahomburg. We have just spent 5 days on the Yorke Peninsula and are now heading to Mildura then back to Melbourne. Tftc

Tftc .. not where we first thought

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Out for a days Geocaching from Mildura. Took me 2.5 hours to get here but it was all worth while. What a great run of caches, thank you equipe de cinq for setting them out and maintaining them TFTC

An early start had us driving through light fog and light traffic, towards Eudunda to attempt the Stock Route in one day.
Oops what's this? A log soaked to a pulp so replaced it and put in a zip lock bag Hopefully will keep dry.
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found it.
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Suscoe headed out for a day on this Tdf trail in the company of Phetlern.
It was a warm day, just perfect for caching.
We enjoyed our time searching in a variety of bush locations.
We even found some other caches on the way back to Morgan.
With 4 pairs of eyes we found most of the caches quickly and then kept moving along the trail.
Thanks to equipe de cinq for creating this cache and this trail.

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Le Tour de France avec les Suscoes.
Our aim was to complete the tour today. It was nice to be on much quieter roads than those in Europe. Of course the scenery here would not attract quite the same viewing audience, that suited us perfectly and we managed to complete the course, in reverse, in 4hrs 45 mns, being 3hrs 25 mns on the move and 1hr 20mins stationary.

Seeker would appreciate a bit of TLC on the log of this cache please.

Thanks to equipe de cinq for the hunt.
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From memory this cache needs a new log.

Oh no, we forgot our lycra! Oh well we do have our shorts. Hmn, not the best outfits for the seeds, burrs, spikes and prickles we met on the way. AND we spent from 8:30 am until about 4 pm catching lunch and snacks etc. on the run. We did note that the circuit has been recently graded and the peloton should find the surface almost as good as the cobbled sections often encountered in the TDF. It was also noted that a motorcycle track has been installed beside the main track, probably for the press and television cyclists although we had very few spectators etc. on the circuit today.
We have not really tackled any “power” series however decided to complete this one in memory of our brother-in-law, Trevor, who was an avid fan of the TDF. He would sit up every night and watch everything – how he managed to complete his work the next day is amazing. Avid is not the complete description, as he was also a keen cyclist himself. He owned a very expensive Cervelo cycle, signed by none other than Stuart O’Grady. The bike was polished and serviced after every outing and lived on a stand in his bedroom! Sadly he passed away in an accident early in 2014 doing what he loved best.
There were many cache guardians – an assortment of lizards, several huntsman, black “house” spiders, a spider with a black body and red legs, a redback and the nastiest of all was a shingleback that bit the end of any stick that came its way. We were very careful where we put our fingers!
We left an assortment of trademark “ladybugs” to record out trail. Hope they remain safe.
“And the winning team is K.I. bug”. (Probably for the longest time taken to complete all stages!).
This series must have taken a lot of time to set up so a big thankyou goes to equipe de cinq for the effort and thanks also for the enjoyment and exercise we gained.

TNLN

Log book falling apart and a touch soggy. Tftc

2 grey nomads from Vic caching around S A. wet weather stopped us from doing this trail last year, we were a bit doubtful of taking the campervan and trailer on such a distance of un made road but were pleasantly surprised at the condition of the road although a couple of spots might have been a bit tricky after rain, thanks for placing this interesting trail.

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Out caching our way around Morgan and on the way back to the Barossa, and grabbing some of this series along the way.. please excuse the generic logs...TFTC

Completed the marathon in reverse order while in the mallee region for the weekend. Thanks for the cache and series equipe de cinq!

Doing the tour de France series as I'm a big fan of both the race and power trails :p

Bartali is surely one of the legends of le Tour
Even I have heard of him !!
But thanks to this series of caches I have learnt a lot more [^]
Not just about Bertali, but all the riders who win, or play supporting roles in that win

TFTC

PS: The mint tin is getting squashed !!