09 Tennent trail - Burnt stump Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Tankengine on 04-May-13. Waypoint GC4BAGF

#3889 An outing with DeadThief and injuryman to pick up as many caches as we could physically manage along Mt Tennant, Bushfolds Flat and Blue Gum Creek Fire Trails. Parked the vehicle of the day (injuryman-mobile) and hit the trail at 7.15am. It was a fair hike all on foot and returned to the car at 3.45pm. No idea how many kilometres in total but my body is starting to contest my ownership.
Skipped a few but found ourselves here having an incline rest stop. I was on the wrong side when DT spotted the hide from a different angle. Still early in the day. Many more to come.

Accompanying All7 ride a bike on track other side and hike walked to other side, took us long way wow really long long stroll for series caches, make my legs kill sometimes ache... but awesome enjoyed..
signed it with good dry, TFTC

63ROOS talked me to planning to MTT Tennent Trail... I say whynot walking long way for hours... I rided Bike to on the track and 63ROOs prapared to get enough drinks, food and walked hike other way... WOW very hard long way.... tks

Long day hiking, more then 25 KMs done under great weather conditions. Had more planned, but my hike was unfortunate interrupted by 2.5 hrs, only made it back to the car just before sunset. Most caches we're in excellent condition.
TFTC Wilbert67

**This Cache**

Quick find! Even if I was blind or deaf I would have found it! Wait, I didn't even find it, sebass was too fast again and beat me too it...... maybe that's why I found it so quickly as it was in his hands! He was giving me a work out up this hill that's for sure!

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**Today:**

Decided to make use of the cool, dry weather after a couple days of rain to come on a hike down in Namadgi! I can't even remember the last time I found myself hiking in Namadgi, I struggle to find the time for it amongst other geocaching adventures but I hope to do more soon!

Sent an invite out to sebass as well, after discovering he was keen to go caching with some company! Always good to have another friendly face to enjoy the experience with and looking forward to caching together in the future, we already have future plans to tackle the second half of the Tennant Trail! This trip we started on the Tennant Fire Trail, grabbing the first 10 caches in the series that follows it, before diverting along Bushfold Flats Fire Trail for some more unique caching in a new area! Couldn't keep up half the time, despite walking 30,000+ steps and 24km, Sebass was still powering at god speeds by the end of it!

Thanks Tankengine for the adventure

find #1669
Nice hiding place
found with loci612
thank for the cache

I had meant to come up here a month ago with the CO and friends on a maintenance run; alas, I was feeling bleh after my Covid vaccine so gave it a miss. Fast forward a month and today found the GeoKids and I getting a bit of the school holiday boredom, so we packed up and parked in the usual spot off Apollo Rd (spying the cars of our caching buddies StarsAlign + Contesta there too!).

We set off along the fire trail on what turned out to be a superb winter's day. As always a spectacular, although steep in parts, walk. It's great to see the regrowth after the destruction of the fires, but also sad to see the damage caused which is very apparent when looking across to Deadman's Hill and Booroomba Rocks.

All the 25 caches we found today were in (unsurprisingly) excellent condition and were quickly located at GZ with the assistance of bespoke coordinates and generous hints. All up we walked 17.68km return with an 820m elevation gain. The trip took us 6:20hrs which included generous breaks for snacks and fo me to get my great back (the GeoKids charged up and down the mountain!) as well as a short diversion into Bushfold Flats hut.

This is a superb caching trail, Tankengine - thank you! We all enjoyed it immensely.

After a freezing start to the day, was lucky enough to be part of the ‘official maintenance crew’ assisting the CO to check on the Tennant Trail series.

Decided on taking the MTB as it’s not had nearly as much used as I would have liked in recent weeks so any excuse is a good excuse right. Up up and away! Great adventure to finally find this series after the fires.

Grateful thanks Tankengine, for placing and maintaining so many great caches that continue to bring joy and entertain me on my journey.

Cache 7603 on 5 Jun 2021.

Out with a bunch of geocachers to climb Mount Tennant on a Sunny but cold winters day. The bunch of cachers being Joolay, Isopedia, Contesta and the CO. The CO needed to do maintenance, so we decided to join him on a walk/bike up the hill. All caches found (as originally placed or as replaced today) in accordance with the hints unless otherwise indicated.

Bit of huff and puff to get to this one!

Thanks Tankengine for the caches, the exercise and the fun!

Not sure I can make it.

Found with Tankengine, Isopeda, Contesta and AngelG27, venturing up Mt Tennant. Not sure if I am crazy or not. Fabulous day to be out and about.
TFTC Tankengine

Out on the trail with Tankengine, AngelG27, Joolay, and Contesta to find caches with owner maintenance. First time back in this part of Namagi after the fires.

TFTC

Found with SA. TFTC

I am planning on a maintenance run on this whole trail soon! So today I came out to try and phantom what I might be up against! Hmmm - the fires were really bad! So I fixed this one. Good to go.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 33.811 E 149° 1.547

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 33.818 E 149° 1.548

Distance from original: 42.7 feet or 13.0 meters.

Previous location incinerated.

30,000+ steps, 27 caches and a leisurely (though hard work at times) 6 hour trip to Tennent's Tip and back with dty73 and Tankengine.
Luckily the weather remained kind to us throughout the day and the rain stayed away (and it's always easy to find a cache with the CO in tow!)
Thanks for placing this series along the trail and inspiring me to ascend the mountain today. I definitely appreciated all the stops to search for caches, though it was difficult at times to convince the legs to start moving again!

Thanks again dty73 and Tankengine for a fun day out.

BoujeeBunny and Tankengine had made plans to come and pick up the caches all the way up to the top. As I hadn't done these yet I asked if I could join in the "fun".

So BoujeeBunny picked Tankengine and I up at about 8am and we were parked at No. 1 just before 9am. 6hrs later we had climbed up and back (approx. 15kms), collected 25 caches (for me as I had done No. 1 & 2 previously), had lunch, seen a hut and met a lot of crazy people who seemed to just climb the mountain for fun of it without getting one cache!! Muggle Madness!! We were even passed by one crazy person who was running down the road - we bet that he had run up it too.

It was a good day for it though. The weather was cool and clear, but I still had to take my jacket off half way up. The rain from the previous night had softened the ground, but even though there were a couple of times one of us would sink up to the laces of our shoe in a spot or two, the road was mainly just soft which I think was better than hard dry ground. The wind at the top was chilly though and once we had stopped and sat down for a little to eat lunch I had to put my jumper back on.

As Tankengine was there each cache of his was checked and maintenance performed if necessary. The couple that weren't his were all fine too.

Thanks for a great day guys and of course TFTC Tankengine!!!

Yep feeling it now!! Can hear my heart in my ears.

Thanks. Was a tough day out but exhilarating all the same!

Another one done. Woo Hoo! I enjoyed finding this one at 11:44:27 AM with OzGeoBerries.

I love the challenge of the geocache hunt - read the notes, decipher the cache requirements, and go searching for the hide. This is an amazing world-wide game of hide and seek. I love it! I also enjoy caching with my 2 boys, and meeting fellow cachers. It really is a small world when I read over cache logs and see names of my friends who have found caches around the country. Thanks go to **** for making the effort to place this cache and maintain it. It's a great contribution to the Geocaching community and it is very much appreciated.

TFTC! Cheers. *Jump Pilot*

What an incredible hike! An amazing trail with breathtaking views. The weather turned at the summit and we got some lightning and thunder, so our time at the tip was cut short. A great (but slightly wet) walk back down the front. TFTC

It was getting about time I explored this side of Mount Tennant - for years I've been ascending the northern face from the Namadgi Visitor Centre, and I'd found all the Tennant Trail caches in the upper stretch. While I knew all along that a trail led up the other side (and have driven past the trailhead plenty of times!), I'd never actually thought to try it.

Given the density of caches, however, I decided not to do the whole thing in one afternoon, and instead followed the track until the turnoff to Bushfold's Flat, to make that the objective of the day's journey.

Altogether it was a very pleasant walk, not too warm, and completely deserted on the trail! I had a couple of close encounters with snakes, and once with a wayward calf, but came to no harm. Definitely a walk I reccomend!

Thanks for the caches!

It had been a while since I'd walked up a good hill (six weeks in the complete flatness of central-northern Victoria followed by a dodgy back will do that) and if you're after a good hill, Mt Tennent is as good as any. I had walked this trail once before without doing any caches - one of those days I just felt like walking without stopping to cache - but today the caches beckoned.

Quite a long, tough walk and a few days of aching legs followed, but it was definitely worth it to summit Tennent on this glorious day. All caches found without trouble. Lyrebirds spotted. Emu tracks spotted. All rather excellent.

Apologies for the generic caches, but you'll understand. TFTC x 20 something

Out on a beautiful day with Mulga scouts

A more strenuous than expected ramble up Mt a Tennant on a rather warm Canberra Day. Three muggles along for the ride. I think this trail is more difficult than the other trail....
Thanks Tankengine

With the warmer day it was a respectably early start collecting CBR_Grahams along the way that had us starting to walk about 7am. With the cool of the morning the almost continual climb wasn't noticed any where near as much as I had thought it would as we walked upwards stopping as needed and taking a few breaks. The casual approach made for a very scenic and enjoyable walk, taking in the area and its views as they appeared. Good company and plenty of conversation passed the time and although that one last climb at the end towards the summit was felt, arriving at the top and taking in the 360 degree views made the walk completely worth it.

The highlight of the top would have to be invited up into the fire viewing platform with the most amazing views and the very high powered binoculars we were offered to take it all in. Spectacular!

The walk down was a lot slower with the heat of the day and was surprised at how steep it was at times, but overall was a much easier and achievable walk than I could have imagined. The last hill up to the car was by far the hardest of the day but the esky of ice cold drinks waiting for us was very welcomed. Thanks for the cache Tankengine.

Easy find... Once we checked the right spot! An hour and a half of walking and cache blindness creeping in!?

So Aquilus1 messages me, "do you want to do the Tennant Trail", for sure... when? "tomorrow morning", hmmm OK, The geowife gave the all clear and I set the alarm to stupid-o-clock so we could get it all done and dusted well before the heat really settled in. So we park the car at 7am and Aquilus1 very patiently waits for me to make the first two finds which she has done before.... right, the real action starts now!

It was a surprisingly pleasant walk up the mountain, though we decided not to kill ourselves and we took our time. We walked past a few caches without realising.... we were way to chatty but these offered things to do on the descent. At the top we were invited up onto the fire viewing platform which offered amazing views, especially with the binoculars that they use.

All in all a long, but very rewarding day. The car never looked so good and there were even ice cold drinks inside...Yay!

This burnt stump caused us way more problems than it should have, but after a few laps we finally homed in on it. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache and the whole series.

I sought out some geocaches in the vicinity of Mt Tennant while undertaking the Wednesday bushwalk and found six. All were all reasonably straightforward finds, being within a few metres of the coordinates. Thank you Tankengine for installing and maintaining these caches.

Many thanks T.

Wonderful walk/climb with b&s today ... thanks for the cache and the series Tankengine

Found on a hike up mt tennant with Lpud. TFTC

Geokids and I found this on the way down to keep some for our home trip, but also in the way up the two boys needed to just put their head down and push on very proud they mad it to the hut with their short legs. This was a quick easy find for the boys. Tftc

Found with Goldenwattle. TFTC Tankengine.

Another find with no difficulties. TFTC Tankengine.

TikvaNZ and I decided Christmas Eve was a perfect opportunity to undertake a 6hr assault of Mt Tennent, by completing the Tennent Trail series up to the top and plenty of bush-bashing down the other side. 28 caches, 1 small brown snake, 1 blue tongue and 3 goannas!

No problems finding this one. The telltale signs of a container was evident. TFTC TE

Attacking the Tennent Trail today. Car park to summit return, including breaks was 6:02 hrs. Great day to be outside. TNLNSL TFTC

11916. Today I decided to complete the Tennent trail which I started back on 27 July 2014 !

Public Holiday with perfect weather? Just the right conditions to tackle the far side of Mt Tennent. I did the (original) first 6 with GSC2000 and AwesomeL over 2 years ago, and with the extra 2 added plus the hut it was time to go for the walk up and up to the top.

Parked in the usual spot and walked down and along the first part of the trail. I said to myself "thats going to hurt on the way back" - and it did ! Got to this next one and had a nice quick find. Signed the log, returned the cache, and continued upwards.

Thanks again Tankengine !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

TFTC

The cache was again found easily, because of the accurate coords and the hint. However, after logging the cache, Fogg noticed the missing backpack (containing iPhone, car key, credit cards, PLB, extra clothing, snacks, ...). So, an extra detour was called for. Fortunately, the backpack was still there.

Enjoying the rest every couple of hundred metres to find a cache. Quick find amongst a constant stream of burnt stumps. TFTC TNLN.

Great, sunny autumn day to hike up to Mt Tennent. Many thanks for placing so many caches along the way, making an enjoyable hike even more enjoyable.

And climbing . . .

4744. Well Relish64 and myself decided it was time to hit the trail, so with backpacks loaded we made a casual start and headed off.
A great trail with some welcome breaks at each cache. No troubles locating each one and eventually we found ourselves at the top with some very rewarding views.
We totally agree that everyone should at least come up here once and we will definitely be back up here again. Maybe a different route.
Many thanks TE for the extra motivation with this trail and apologies for the generic log.... but you get that !!!

Quick find on the way up. SL TFTC

Another straightforward find in the heat, while heading up to the summit. TFTC Tankengine.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 33.809 E 149° 01.546

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 33.811 E 149° 01.547

Distance from original: 13.3 feet or 4 meters.
minor fix

replaced o-ring, and logsheet

Found today with some bush walking friends. We walked to the summit of Mount Tennent from the Namadgi visitor's centre, and then walked down the other side of the hill to collect these caches. I think Tennent is actually probably easier form the cache direction, but less scenic. Overall, 1,000 meters vertical ascent and about a 16km walk.

Thanks for all these caches, much appreciated.

Not being winter, I waited for a cool day to attempt this series. Although considered a "walk in the park" by many cachers, I found this tough going with its relentless uphill climbs. Overall a great day out, just a pity about the roadwork crews that were grading the road and making lots of noise. 3.75 hours up (lots of stops!), 1.5 down.

Found OK.

Thanks

#1227 8 of 24 today.

I have a 'spare' week of leave to use up. Hmmm what should I do ? Sit around at home ? Not likely !

I've had the Tennent Trail in my sights for some time. I've been up here once before on a bush walk about 5 years ago. The view was one of the best I've seen. Time to revisit & claim a few more Tankengine caches. I must be getting close to 100.

I was a bit worried about doing the Tennent Trail today after waking to wind & rain, but the forecast was for clearing conditions, so I thought I'd delay the start & head out anyway. I'm glad I did. As I climbed higher & higher the conditions progressively improved. By the time I reached the summit, clear blue sky, a few gusts of wind but otherwise lovely, uninterrupted, breathtaking views - with no muggles.

Thanks for the cache Tankengine.

Last when in the area for the earth cache at the old tracking station we saw this bush power trail and thought that looks like a good leg stretcher so we had it in mind for today but things got away from us a little bit on checking the forecast we figured we could still get up and back prior to night fall. We parked and headed over to the gate for the first of the finds we had targeted (we are on a bit of a diet to avoid 1.5/1.5 caches. The creek looked to have a bit of water flowing in it but as we got close we could see it was very shallow and our shoes would be water proof enough for a quick dash. We started to get a feel for the hides but skipped two on the way up as the school had a camp setup happening but we got them on the way back down. We also could not find two others on the way up and rather than use up all our time searching instead of reaching the top but found them quickly on the way down. A walk with plenty of Roos around for a round trip of just over 3.5 hrs. A couple of damp logs but all signable and we drained what we could from a few containers. TFTC.

A quick find for my 22nd time up Mt Tennent.

#4976 @0915
ZQX & I were on a mission to find a remote puzzle cache. To get to it we had to start along the Mt Tennent trail. We left the car at about 0830. We needed another breather from pushing our bikes up the road, so I took the opportunity to to find the cache. TFTC.

Nice and easy

Cool spot! Found with Danryn (- ryn). TFTC!

Time to finally get round to doing Tennent Trail. I have been looking forward to this one for a long time.

Started a bit warn out after doing "Gudgenby George" which I didn't expect to be difficult. I haven't been up this track for quite some time. Last time was for a night cache (now archived) on push-bikes.


It's a continuous "up" power series, so it was just a matter of keeping going. Finished the lot and did a couple of extras that were along/near the trail.


TFTC Series Tankengine.

We also followed a geo-trail to the wrong stump. So many stumps around here.
Geo-dad found this one! Very chuffed with himself. TFTC Tankengine

There was quite an obvious GeoTrail leading right to .... the wrong stump Still, didn't take long to correct!

Bei den Alternativen hätten wir fast das richtige Versteck übersehen.

Please have a look at my log for the first one of this trail. Tftc #3798

More up, and our legs were feeling it by now. Concentrating on the ascent we missed #7 - not wanting to have to go down and back up, we thought we'd grab it on the way down. #8 had us searching for a short while before it appeared at 10:33:00 AM. GPSr seems a bit unhappy today but settled down once we had the cache in hand of course.
Thanks Tankengine

8/15, on the way back down i nabbed this one but not before passing it twice Xv tftc

Tnfc

Tftc!

Awesome cache series great day for it.

Haven't been up Tennant for nearly four years. Since the time of the one smiley on top there is now a great collection. Started late, so hiked up the Southern face as quick as possible with Fit02, lunch at the top (great hot chocolate thanks to Fit02). Rapid decent with caches along the way.

#90 The eighth cache of the day whilst climbing Mt Tennent with my dad. It was another nice walk to this one with my dad, he seems to be enjoying this trip! Got near to GZ and I jumped off the trail to what I thought was GZ but the stump was a bit smaller. Once I got that figured out, it was a quick find! Log signed and cache replaced. TFTC Tankengine!

Had to get on the way back down as we overshot it the first time.

Great series! Didn't quite make them all today but we got snowed on, which was exiting.
TFTC!

Down in the ACT to visit family, who are all working today, so I've decided to climb a mountain!!

I left a bit later than I was intending on and made a stop at the visitors information centre to learn a bit more about this beautiful area of countryside.

After the difficulty I had finding the last two caches, I was in two minds with this one. I initially went to the wrong place and thought I was going to have more problems! I stood and looked around and spotted something that looked like a potential location but not so obvious, and what would you know! I found a cache!!

TFTC

Went out with "Tennent Tragic" team - SiteHounder, joeylovestreasure, C-chord, ACTchil, TripperOutThere, KittyKatch and AmethystPig and of course "Nutto". and now to move forward, puffung a little. tftc Tankengine

Went out with JLT and a group of cachers (collectively called ourselves 'Tennant Tragics') for the morning. A pleasant walk and terrific views. TFTC.

Dropped a GC and Pathtag - last on a day out with the Tennant tragics.

Out geocaching with Primary Evidence & Zangetsu. Tftc TE.

#782
After arranging to tackle this series and a few extras today, the team consisting of Zangetsu, TheSkype and myself headed off on the Mount Tennent trek. After meeting up with the "Tennent Tragics" at the carpark, we split shortly after and made our own way onwards and upwards.
Nearing the top, we met up with Green-martian, who guided us down the rocky escarpment from the peak, down past "Tennent Trauma" and back to the vehicle(s) via the rock/mud slide and following the creek bed nearing the bottom. What an experience it was!
Apologies for the generic log(s), don't normally resort to this but with multiple logs it was to be.

TFTC and the series Tankengine!
Well worth it and thoroughly enjoyed.

A nice easy find at 0945 - a combination of the right angle of approach and an absence of camo had the container quickly in hand and the log signed with the team name. We were beginning to get an inkling of what we'd gotten ourselves in for by now, as the terrain steadily steepened and the group started to disperse into clusters spread between each stage of the climb.

Found with the Tennent Tragic Team on a great day's climb. Thanks for a great series TE - had a great day.

My last for the day after recognising my fitness limits. Carry on Tennant Tragics and thanks to C-chord for bringing me home injury free. Thanks for the series Tankengine. Set a geocoin from Canada free and left a Pathtag and Fav Pt.

After checking all the possible anagrams for burnt stump, I realised it wasn't a puzzle cache. Found by the indomitable Tennent Tragics. So many caching stories shared on the way. Favourite caches, for example. TFTC TE!

I had a great day walking to the top of Mt Tennent and finding this series of caches with Darzee Di, KittyKatch, Sitehounder, Tripperoutthere, Amethyst pig, Knutto, joeylovestreasures and c-chord. It was a tough climb but well worth the effort. we were the Tennent tragic group, tftc Tankengine

Good day treasure hunting with TheSkype and Primary Evidence. tftc!

An easy and quick find by AmethystPig. My legs were still going strong at this cache. Good thing, with the amount of up hill to go! TFTC

found with mankycat and AMNLL on a wet and windy day
TFTC

Hit the track with AMNLL and Lukris for a great, but cold and wet day

Not too stumped on this one. If your unfit at the time like me, keep going. The trail does get easier. tftcs

As I said in the first of this trail GC4B97M these have all blurred so not much more to add.
TFTC Tankengine

A nice wander up Mt Tennent Fire Trail to the tip, collecting caches on the way. TFTCs.

Exciting find for little cacher as dad and other looking into the other stump!

A great series! So well put together and it encourages a great walk. A huge investment by the CO for our enjoyment. See 'GC4BAJT 21 Tennent trail - Burnt tree' for some individual details. TFTC and TFTS, Tankengine.

Found with jase from jessnjase 26/01

A beautiful Australia Day morning, what better way to spend time than doing some geo's.
Started at Apollo rd around 8.15am doing the Tennent Trail and got back to car around
1pm, including doing bushfold view, walking directly down Mt Tennant.
Was searching awhile before I read the clue again.....small Stump:-)

This entry was edited by Green-Martian on Monday, 27 January 2014 at 10:33:43 UTC.

Found with Napalm237 on this epic Hike
Thanks TE

Thanks Tankengine. Great series! A very tough, challenging and rewarding hike. I'll write my full log on Number #21.

Very stumpy stump! TFTC

TFTC!

Enjoying this great trail with fun company as we push each other upward. Another find on the way. SLTN..TFTC

10.30am. stump found, log signed now for the next one. TFTC Tankengine

Found that burnt stump.
Signed log then off again.
Thanks Tankengine,

Domsky

Found at 11:16:00 AM.

After a four km early morning walk BatGirl and I decided we needed more exercise so we headed over to do these caches and perhaps 1 more "on the way".

You call that a stump? GPS was making us walk all over the place and eventually it was the suspicious cover that made me spot it. Not much left of that stump. In the end it took 10 minutes to find.

Thanks TE

It has actually been ages since I have been up Tennant. There had been plenty of plans but no real action for years so this weekend the opportunity finally presented itself for a very full on adventure taking on a wander around Corin and Mt Tennant all in one fell swoop with Noikmeister. This one actually took some searching wondering which stump in particular. Found some good spots but none with caches in them. In the end Noikmester made the find some 15m (+-6m) from where I was looking.

Don't you just hate it when you go bush bashing for no good reason, should have known there was a better way. Tftc

Got distracted by burnt tree