The Great Escape 2 Valentine, New South Wales, Australia
By jonignite on 23-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4QVPT

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A couple of DNFs, Unfound for over a year and unresponsive owner.

Hopefully this will get this checked, maintained or Archived.

As asked by private message, with no response, can this please be checked after the recent DNFs?

After getting the green light on the checker I was confident of finding the cache. No luck though. I checked everywhere the hint said ( or maybe not). Will try again another time.

Couldn’t search for long as there was a picnic nearby.

Thanks for the cache. Had a lovely day in the area.

nice to finally come and do this cache after solving the coords a few months back and extra nice to see a really well constructed cache sitting muggle free in such a gorgeous place many thanks for all your efforts fav from me

Thanks for the puzzle , having it solved for a few months after getting a hint before it finally clicked what was needed. great o see a well constructed cache in plain sight. A favorite point from me.

Found on a nice spring day, a little on the warm side with temperatures in the high 20ish. It took a long time to work out the code for the GZ. Very neat how this was done. At the GZ I found a few trees cut down and tought that the cache might be missing, but I found the unique container some seven meters from GZ. Log signed and caches replaced as found. Thanks For The Cache jonignite
# 2198 at 9:25:00 AM on 20Nov2019

found with Banj Ward. TFTC!

Found with Beary_Unicorns on a very cold Sunday afternoon, tftc, fave point from me

Great puzzle - easy and fun to solve after reading the hint. We have solved a few mystery caches, but this was our first one to find. Very convenient - a few hundred metres from where we live! Cache proved a bit elusive at first - found it on the second visit. Although we had touched it on our first visit, we hadn’t looked at it closely enough! SL Thanks for the time and effort with the puzzle and the cache!

#2683
I only recently solved this puzzle and its always great to learn something new.

Came for a day trip to Belmont area to collect a few specific puzzles I had solved - including this one. Nice walk on this very windy and overcast day. On my way, I saw a very brave soul getting ready to hit the water on his windsurfer.

Walked in circles at GZ for quite some time as I hadn't considered that particular hide type. But once I spotted it, I knew I had found the prize. Signed log and returned as found. Everything is in good condition and there was no problem closing the container.

Really impressed by the quality of the caches I have found so far today.

TFTC jonignite

Riding past today and thought I’d have a quick look. Found fairly quickly. A bit sad to see one of my old containers made by a family member that passed away recently. Nice to sit on the shore and remember them.

We've looked at this puzzle on and off over the years and could not see a way to solve it. Even after a hint from the CO. Today Mr C had another look and the penny finally dropped - with a clang. After a little while it was worked out and the result was fed into the correctornotameter and got a figurative thumbs up.
(A hint to make it easier to work on is to print out the description.)
We had nothing better to do so we headed over to the appropriate suburb and commenced our hunt.
We were not having much luck and were beginning to think that this may have been muggled as there seems to be a lot of worn down ground around. We expanded our search and spotted a likely object. There it was, some distance further north than what our GPSrs were indicating. THLNSL. Thanks jonignite

I was so proud of myself on Mondy night when I solved this puzzle without any help, Well except for the hint on the page thanks to the CO for that BUT there was a time not so long ago were I would have looked at the puzzle and gone too hard and not even got as far as reading the page or hint let alone attempting to solve the puzzle and going by the unlove on this cache others feel the same. Well I would encourage others to attempt this well thought out puzzle which the more I solved the more I enjoyed solving it. I appreciate the work that went into creating this puzzle. I was so happy to solve it and wanted to race out the next afternoon but unfortunately I didn't have enough time so it had to wait until non traditional cache day today. I arrived at GZ and it was really windy so I was having trouble getting a good gps reading, I saw something and even touched it but thought that's not it, so i kept searching and ended up coming back to the something for a second look and it was the cache log signed. I am really sorry but I could not get one of the systema locks to clip fully. I tried the_garbageman's advice and cleaned all the dirt away but it didn't work , one side made the noise but the other didn't. i closed it and checked nothing could fall out but i couldn't get it to make the noise sorry. Thanks for the cache jonignite tnln sl Fav point for the great puzzle and fun cache

Out with the lads this morning to do a few caches around the lake, always a pleasure driving/exploring this area....

We got to GZ, and the kids had a ball throwing stones, while I searched for the cache, noted something out of place and the very cool container was located. Thanks for bringing us here jonignite, and thanks for a good puzzle.....

Nice hide, nice container

This has been one of two lingering caches on my map for some time - the other being the D5T5 Enigmatic. No longer! I sat down last night and came to a fairly quick resolution. Checked out GZ this morning. I did spend a few minutes in and around the bushes but got there in the end. Clips of sistema are both ok - they were just a bit clogged up with dirt so I cleaned them up a bit and it closes again now. Log slightly damp but ok. Lovely area down here. TNLN TFTC

Yippee! 2nd time lucky as I found the GPS was out. What a great puzzle and excellent cache. Thanks for all the work and effort joignite we really enjoyed it.

What a fantastic puzzle. It is so very clever. I love the cache too. The co-ordinates were spot on. I am not sure if one of the clips on the systema was missing or it was night-time and I couldn't find it, however, I put it back together again as best as I could.

There should be more puzzles like this one. I am a fan.

That was really weird!!!
I came out today to find this cache which I couldn't last month. Found the cache easily and then discovered my log from 18th March this year!!!
Must have had a seniors moment that day and forgot to log the find.
Any way all good now. Perfect afternoon for a quick stroll and to find the nearby trig point.
SL TFTC

Checked all is still fine
This is not in it's former life location
so if you go there without reworking out the puzzle you will be wasting your time

No luck here today. I found the original incarnation of this cache but could not find even after an extensive search:) I hope it is still there as it is an excellent puzzle.

The final cache of the day on a (mostly) puzzle caching expedition with Baktrak. I was a bit apprehensive about this as it seems that the last cache of the day on some of our previous expeditions had turned out to be more difficult than thought and had us wandering around in bushland after the sun had gone home. However this cache delivered what was promised and it was a straightforward and satisfying find to finish the day on.

Thanks jonignite for putting together a good puzzle and cache combination.

Our friend PPE said this was a good puzzle to have a go at, having found its earlier incarnation. Sjamp and I both had it cracked before coming up for a day's caching in the area and this was lucky last, lit by sunset. Nice spot and great work on the camo too. Thanks, jonignite.

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I solved this one a long time ago after a helpful hint from the CO. Cheers!!

Today was the day, riding from Lambton>Blacksmiths, I dropped by. My Ride through Greenpoint was awesome! Haven't shredded the trails in there for ages. The descent was awesome, coming through to the cache.

The GPS pointed 7m away and I hid away from some BBQ'n muggles to retrieve it. On the downside, some boating muggles were inquisitive as to what I was doing. When can you win??

The awesomely crafted hide was found. Nice effort.

Really loved this one and its final GZ

TFTC

FAv

#3883

Yesterday afternoon a Challenge cache was published by MV that requires you to find 25 unique D/T combinations in one calander day. As no one local has this record and as it was a work/school night and that the cache was owned by MV and and and as Mr C doesn't start work until 7pm tonight we decided to make a list of 25 local caches with uniquie D/T ratings. We decided that we'd require more than 7 hours to do this so we started at midnight and cached until dawn.

We'd worked out the coordinates on this one a while back as we had also completed the original and still remembered what to do. It must have taken a lot of work to create this one! Love the upcycle of the old cache container. As it was the middle of the night we had the area to ourselves for a quickish find.

TFTC jonignite

After a short stroll along the waters edge we arrived at GZ. A bit of a hunt soon revealed a familiar looking hide and the cache was indeed inside. Great to see this one revived it got a Fav point from us last time and will again. Great concept for a cache and an interesting piece of history. Thaks to all involved past and present and thanks for the do over Jonignite.

Checked it today and all was in place

DNF at 2:24 PM. Very disappointed that I couldn't find this cache - although I'm pretty sure it isn't there anymore. I worked on the puzzle when it was a The Cashman cache and re-did it again just to make sure nothing had changed.

No Luck Today

I really enjoyed this code puzzle the first time around and it was just as good this time, once I could remember what to do. At GZ there were so many options but one likely place stood out. We took the TB and replaced it with another. Thanks for an excellent hide, and a very well constructed cache.

I'm glad I remembered how to work out the puzzle! I had a devil of a time when it was first published years ago, and nearly went mad until I read the clue and spoke to the then CO!
Anyway, this one done a lot easier and cache was soon in hand. The cache was in a holder that previous finders have said to be familiar, but I can't remember it. And it wasn't near a tree.
Perhaps it has "migrated" a little?
Left toy and coin, and took TB funnel. TNSL TFTC

We headed down the lake for some caching while placing one ourselves.

It was about time this great puzzle cache was replaced! We showed up expecting it to be in the same place as last, but to find nothing! A quick call to the CO revealed the clever bugger changed GZ and changed the code form last time! He was gracious enough to help Us out and we had the cache in hand within minutes!

Great effort Jon for bringing this one back to life!

I apparently did this one years ago.
After finding it, the container does look familiar.
I really enjoyed the puzzle/code.
I'd say GZ terrain is a little more then 1.5 (probably 2).
Thanks for the resurrection!

Second to find. Cache container very similar to previous cache container, however i think it is in a slightly different area to the last cache of the same name. decrypted last week, went for a walk with the wife and her god son to the park and found on the way there.

Reperio at 1755. *FTF*

I was at work when this one was published, and of course, having found the previous version of this cache...it only took a couple of minutes to work through the puzzle to get the solution...only to find it was in the same spot as the previous one. After finding a few other new listings, I stopped by here on the way back home and found the cache. Now I've seen that somewhere before too! This was one of my favourite caches in the area when I first found it...not so much because of the puzzle method...but because of the effort to have to sit down and get it to work.

Gratias jonignite.

Published

About time this was replaced.