Time for some Tree Climbing Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia
By Riddler 0000 on 04-May-13. Waypoint GC4BB23

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Over a month of no CO action or comment. I think this one needs to go.

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Please either repair/replace this cache, or archive it (using the archive listing link in the upper right) so that someone else can place a cache in the area, and geocachers can once again enjoy visiting this location.

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I really think that the reviewer needs to come into this disable listing or archive please Inspisio.

Definitely needs archiving.

As the reviewer noted, someone needs to log needs maintenance and I have.

No no no no no no no no no no no no
You need archiving young and badly treated cache.
We saw Brisal5's photo and we thought we would know where it was. We were well aware of the previous logs and definitely agree with them.

I went, I climbed, I found nothing!

Had a good look and climb. Hasn't been found in six months

The DNFs no finds in six months

Two of us searched the tree and came up empty handed.
It appears the cache is missing.....

TFTH - electro_man from QLD.

We were visiting friends and can see this tree from their yard. We made a quick climb of the tree, but did not find. I noticed that no-one has logged since July last year, and muggle friend said that many children climb that tree, including her grandchildren, so perhaps it's gone (or we didn't look hard enough!).

This was a great one!! Lucky for agile climbing GeoDad who had it in hand quickly! Tftc

great find with help of geo Son in law TFTC

All in a day's work - Froghoppin (Mrs), Emergency Matt, Monkeyplus1, and Mattycat land in Mt Barker.
Eager for a tree climb I circled the tree, but before could pounce EM had zipped up the trunk and there was no stopping him. (Almost a muggle enthusiasm )
So we directed him and took photos from below as he claimed the find for us all !
tftc

Mrs Frog out for a caching run !! , Emergency Matt, Monkee +1, and Mattycat. Two cachers with tree climbing visions in their mind but the Emergency Matt was 1st up the tree because the cat would have been rescued if he tried or at least that was EM excuse. He did actually climb one later in the day.TFTC

This entry was edited by froghoppin on Monday, 26 May 2014 at 15:20:24 UTC.

Not sure about the clue, but it was obvious to the trained eye where it should be .
This is two weeks in a row now that Mr DISK has had to climb a tree .
As I said last time, hope I can still do this in 20 years time .
TNLNSL.
Thanks for showing us this great tree Riddler 0000.

Thanks for the Cache. Found while visiting Hahndorf over Easter having a geocache competition with some friends!

It was a life or death situation when I climbed the tree. Luckily it was life. I was tricked by the bird's nest so unaware of how suspicious she looked mum climbed the tree and found it! [logged by Geoson J]

Thanks for showing us this wonderful climbing tree. Shedding my shoes and climbing up into the huge branches brought back the freedom of childhood. TFTC

The bird nest stumped us to start with. Great tree. Great swing. TFTC

This entry was edited by LoftyReasons on Friday, 27 December 2013 at 02:45:57 UTC.

First geocache by Millie and nick great view

Thankfully I'm still very young so didn't need to bring in a ladder and have all the neighbours wondering what was in the tree that people wanted so badly that they need a ladder for! haha! I climbed and managed to guess the right branch to walk out on the first time! Came here at the start of the day but two people were sitting underneath. Returning before sunset did the trick! TFTC!

Winkigals strike again!

Mrs M has been trying to fill in the calendar and needed a cache for today, but the problem is that she had promised to spend the day helping a family friend. You guessed it, Mr M was instructed to go and get a cache, and if you have to drive to get one, you might as well get some more.

I had brought the extendable ladder specifically for this one. Round and around the tree I went looking for a possible hide. Coming up blank I read some previous logs. Ahhhh!! It just might be in there. I tried to get a better vantage point to see the cache, but no luck. Up went the ladder and sure enough I could see the cache, but now to get it. Obviously it had been replaced by lady fingers, because my fat fingers had a lot of trouble. Eventually using my pen I managed to prod it around where I could get two fat fingers around it. TFTC Riddler.

I was out for the day with Clare007 and Doctor Owl .... so what was there to do but to locus cache a few times
By the end of the day, the total count was 19 , 1 DNF and 5 FTFs

Having been here before, this time I knew we had to think outside of the square!
Apparently my fear of heights takes over once I am up the ladder and then happen to look down.... head spinning, body shaking and fear so back down I crawled and then Doctor Owl gave it a shot.
Still no cache so after PAF we tried again and sent Clare007 up.
With her extra height, she had the blighter in hand in moments!

Oh and those tyre tracks were the only way we could think of to make my too short extendable magic geotool into a taller version

TNLN. SL. TFTC Riddler 0000

What an adventure! After deciding for some strange reason that an ‘agile Owl’ would help, some tree climbing was mentioned. (Owls don’t climb trees and are not at all agile!) The ladder against the tree didn’t get the intrepid trio far, so Locuscache backed Harry up, put the ladder on the tailgate and owl headed up for some feeling around and searching with a mirror. Then it was PaF time... then SMSed pictures. Finally Clare007 shimmied up and her extra height made the find. Phew!

Locus cache & I met Dr Owl at Mt Barker and headed towards Nairne.
After surveying the area from Harry, the three of us decided to take Harry a bit closer.
After a few phone attemps & ladder installations Locus Cache backed up Harry and fitted the ladder to,the back of the tray.
Feeling that we needed the extra foot, I was ask to assist in searching a particular broken crevice.
After much relief I required the cache from it's hidey hole (Yah)
Glad to have this one off my list, cheers Riddler 0000

After a previous failed attempt we returned with a extendable ladder and made short work of this one, it took longer to extend the ladder than getting and signing the log, at last i can cross this one of my list : ) TFTC



This entry was edited by 3LG on Thursday, 17 October 2013 at 04:27:03 UTC.

A quick find with 3LG on a days caching .
A tricky spot if you don't have a ladder with you.
Took trackables to visit.
A beautiful old and large tree.
TFTC

Found It!
Even in the dry that tree is still very slippery! I just managed to climb up there and sign the log!
TFTC

Mr Tardis and Mini Tardis were off to grab a cache in Mt Barker while Mrs Tardis was shopping. Mr Tardis did the climb up the tree while Mini Tardis held the GPS at the bottom.

A fun climb, up a lovely old tree. Thank goodness the tree wasn't wet as it would have been too dangerous.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Riddle 0000.

Out with 3LG and Clare007 for some locus caching
Afternoon stretched into night and there were some hours spent searching for a few caches which just did not get found!
All up between 3.30pm and 12.45am we had 16 finds and 7 DNFs
Some of these cache hides, if they are still in place, are pure EVIL!

We spent quite considerable time here and the bravehearted Mrs 3LG did the climb but no cache was found
Many thanks to Mrs 3LG for pushing her boundaries as far as she did!
I think Mr3LG was more scared than her, though

TFTC Riddler 0000

TB visit

Out with Locus cache & 3LG caching around Mt Barker.
I was hoping between the four of us we could nut out where the cache was hidden.
Linda was the brave one that ventured up the tree to the hollow we saw from the ground.
By the time we figured out there was a clue & what the clue entailed, Linda was halfway down.
We had also figured out we chose the wrong branch.
Doh! Seems the Riddler has struck again, sneaky.
Thanks for the cache Riddler 0000

Circled the tree looking for a suitable hiding spot then proceeded to carefully climb the tree. Luckily I'd picked the right branch and found the cache. Proceeded to remove the log and promptly dropped the pencil. Being on my own there was no way I was going to climb down, back up and down again. After SL and returning to ground level I retrieved the pencil and left it in the fork of the tree so hopefully the next cacher can return it. TFTC Riddler 0000

Time for some Ladder Climbing... The rain stayed away and the cache was found in the first place we looked.

Hmmmmm. That was easy.

Thanks to Riddler 0000 and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Too high for little kids

Epic fail you pwned us noobs. We will return with a ladder. You do the maths. Terminal velocity of 100kg of frog heading for the ground at 9,81m/s/s?

On a rope

Felt very vulnerable attempting this with all those facing windows, even though distant. I don't think anyone was actually peering out of them as I made my way to the limits of the limb. Thanks for the cache Riddler 0000!

Going past Mt Barker today, so we stopped to get the only two unfounds in town. This was the first one.
Glad the rain held off long enough, so the climb wasnt more slippery!
Left a pencil.
Thanks

A quick find before the weather set in late this afternoon, SL Thanks from PG

No way... I am not a monkey... I will need a very long ladder!!!

Beautiful tree...

Couldn't resist this one, particularly given its proximity to our house. However, it wasn't until I started toward GZ that I realised I may have bitten off more than I chewed.

The Geobaby was enjoying the space below and miss eight was occupied by the gifts the tree had to bring. So up I went. Inching slowly, carefully, hoping I didn't fall on the baby.

Not too long before I had the prize in my hands. But, oh no, the writing implement I had in my pocket was put in a cache we found today without one. So, we found it, we enjoyed coming, but our name was not scribed.

So too all that follow.....take a writing implement.

Thanks for the heart pounding find.

On my birthday. TFTC worked out a likely limb & mr k found it no trouble.

This entry was edited by 12drawer on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 at 08:04:57 UTC.

Good spot.Had to climb to be to get to it then reachout but was able to get to it and quickly sign my name Thanks for my first cache riddler!!

Back again with Roguewatermelon. GPS still had me wanting to use the noose and scale THAT branch. Ain't gonna happen so walked round and round looking for possible hide locations from the found. Found a couple of like spots, checked GPS and going to be 10 metres out. [:(!] At least that branch looked sturdy enough for an old heavy fart like me.
So up again I went. Geoshoes slipping on the branch. Stopped, took of shoes and socks and branch was even more slippery! Shoes and socks back on again. Up to next stop. Been here before and discounted because of GPS readings. Left the damn GPS on the ground this time. The Rogue having seen me slip had already dialled the first two zeros just in case. Out along the branch to where there could be a hide. Sat down and reached around. Felt something cache like. Bingo.
Log signed and cache replaced. Next problem. Get back down.
Didn't win and style awards but got down safely without ripping dacks and a little bit of blood from the reach around. Thanks for two caching adventures Riddler 0000. Oh yeah...and silver.

Seems I need some extra equipment before I attempt this one.
Watch out for the ants, they are crawling through the middle of the trunk.
Be back, when I'm over this cold

Tried this one this morning. I came, I saw. I got a zero on the ground and looked up trying to spy the prize. No not THAT branch. The is a rope with a noose at the end. Is that for kids or cachers [?] Anyway it was close enough to be a shortcut so I tried it. The rope stretched and the limb groaned. Neither were going to take my weight. So, no - not that branch. So up the trunk I went. First stop for a better view. No not THAT branch. It looks a bit hoolow and ants seem to be nesting in there. Too steep and no hand holds - and gets far too flimsy for my weight. Stupid GPS keeps pointing that way though. Ah a triangle pointing up the other bigger branch. Up I go for a better look. Nada. GPS says I am now 12 meters away and should be on THAT branch. Even from this angle I can't see a cleverly camoed mint tin. Serach around me just in case I missed something. Look everywhere in the hope I can at least see how to get to a GZ. Nope. Made the mistake of looking down. One final glance around but the prize is too cleverly hidden.

Will return with a bloody big ladder for THAT branch. I know it could possibly be cheating but I have down some 4 1/2 stars that were easier than this.

Maybe I could log a FTDNF

Title says it all: Great hide, great spot, great cache. Fantastic cache with an appropriate rating. No equipment required but a bit of height to get there! FIRST TO FIND. thanks Riddler for the cache. Will resist posing the spoiler pic

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