GRANITE BELT BIKE TRAIL, Mars Glen Aplin, Queensland, Australia
By Rainforest Cookie on 08-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4RQWT

and its gone.

Continuing along the trail, another stop for a cache. All good with this cache. Thanks again.

Looks to have survived a burnoff ok. Added small goody.

A slower day today preparing for the trails tomorrow, we did some excellent caches today, 30 caches in 3 hours ,all fine finds, many thanx to all cache placers for the efforts put in, top stuff

Found at 3:59:00 PM, staying in Stanthorpe for a couple of days and grabbing a few caches before continuing on our way North to escape Wagga's winter. We started the Granite Belt Bike Trail this morning and soon realised that if we were going to have any chance of completing it in one day we would need a bit more horsepower so we swapped the bikes for the Geomobile.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Tftc

Got it!

Bermik1963

Tftc

tftc

found one

Last day of Mega....having a great time camping onsite....caching today with robbieracer66 and Team Grub Fred...tftc Rainforest Cookie

Sadly Oz Mega Mega is over till next year. We are super bummed, but we love this area so much that we are staying for a couple more days before we start making our way home. Thanks to all the cache owners, volunteers and friendly residents we have met. We have thoroughly enjoyed our holiday.
TFTC!!!!

Out for the last day in Stanthorpe with Mistraluna and the Better Half.

Found the cache without problems.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

Visiting from Newcastle, staying onsite at the Mega, travelling around with earthly65 and robbieracer66, TFTC Rainforest Cookie!!

Bit of a sad day today, being the last day of the Queensland 2015 Mega Event. Many cachers are already packing up and heading home. Not us though - we have another day to fill in, hoping to find as many of the unfound caches around the Stanthorpe area as we can. Couldn't leave this one behind. Thanks for the smiley Rainforest Cookie

Thanks for the cache found it with earthly 65 and grubfred

Zipped south from Stanthorpe to find a few caches before heading up to Warwick for the night. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC

Up in Stanthorpe for the Mega Event over Easter. Did caching on this day when the weather was showery however this did not stop us caching. Enjoyed locating this cache and well done to the CO. TFTC

Touring around Stanthorpe and area with DOC-WHO, doing the Mega event caches.
Found quickly after a short search. TNLNSL TFTC

Enjoying a beaut day in Stanthorpe & surrounds with our good mates DazRascal & Mvyrmnd.
Our goal today was to find as many types as we could & help us reach 4000 finds.
We enjoyed our drive along the back roads to find these caches, seeing some great countryside, beaut hides, lots of laughs and no DNFs.

Felt like a Mars after this, so had to stop and get one! [^]

Cheers.

When I first spied this series, I thought id walk or cycle it, turns out, its more of a driveable Trail...

Visiting QLD from Central Coast NSW, and attending the Stanthorpe MEGA EVENT for about a week. Camping at the showground, caching days done mainly with SpikeyMikey, meeting up with members of CCG, HAVOC, and others from all over Australia.
Many thanks to all responsible for a smooth operating event, my first Mega, and first visit to Stanthorpe. Plenty of reasons for a near future visit
Whilest it did rain and drizzle almost every day, I much preferred this over hot days, which is what I encounted on the Gold Coast return journey, as well as a repeated bout of coughing with the flu on the long drive home.

Great Puzzles, Power Trails, landscapes, History, Apples!, and company. Politeness and respect by all

Many Personal records smashed this weekend First MEGA, Finds per day, Altitude, etc

[green] - Found It on Saturday ... at 5:24 PM ...
TFTC! - [blue]Rainforest Cookie[/blue] ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 1266
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Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 10:15am. The cache was found quickly in good condition. TFTC

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Out and about for a days caching with Haveanez and Mvyrmnd picking up a couple series of caches during the Mega weekend.

The weather wasn't the best but we didn't let that deter us from getting out and enjoying the Stanthorpe and surrounding areas caches.

This little series of caches came recommended by many around the campsite at the Mega weekend.
With Haveanez needing a few more finds to log the Mega as a milestone we came down this way to find a few more of the smaller series of caches.
This would have to be the widest "bike trail" I would have ever seen

TNLN, Cheers.

TFTC

Found it TFTC
Having a ball at the Queensland Mega Event, Stanthorpe and surrounds

Completing the bike trail as part of the how many different caches for the QLD Mega. Appreciated the variety of cache containers and places visited. Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Touring around Stanthorpe and area with DOC-WHO, doing the Mega event caches.
Found quickly after a short search. TNLNSL TFTC

After a rather eventful (read expensive, long and tiresome) trip down to the Mega, and spending yesterday and the morning trying to diagnose issues with the car, we decided we had better go find some caches.

Easy find, at 1515hrs. With all the cachers running around town, we decided to head out in a random direction to see what we could find. This is where our adventures took us.

Cheers

Bundy

doing the granite belt bike trail with red dwarfs and ned and mrs Kelly. having a ball at the Stanthorpe mega. gracias rainforest cookie

Tftc

Found at 11:10 AM GAFF5 in the company of Juddda.
A lovely drive out here after this mornings rain. Amazing how it dries out so quickly.
Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Found while out and about with Haveanez and DazRascal while attending the 2015 OzMega. Shooting for all of the available cache types today. Thanks to the CO's for their respective caches.

TFTC!

Thank you for Stanthorpe Oz Mega....

Found at 11:10:00 AM, GAFF1, in the company of Pprass.
SL, cache in good condition.
TFTC Rainforest Cookie

As part of the caching group tour de Stanthorpe with Alansee, Maccamob, Phetlern, Zobo04, Lazzal and The Coffees we found your cache. We signed the log as GLAMPCZ, I apologize for the generic log.
I saw this cache and could only think of chocolate and unfortunately it was a log time before coffee and chocolate was found on the day.
Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie for the cache
Regards
The "a mars a day helps you cache" Coffee's

Found with Tassiegirl13 while in town for the Qld Mega.
No problem here.
TFTC

Had a fun filled day caching around the area with Gonefishen07, Lazzal, Alansee, Maccamob, Phetlern and The Coffees. Thanks for the interesting tour around the area and thank you fir all the effort that has gone into hiding theses caches TFTCRainforest Cookie

Found on the fourth day that Pheltern, Gonefishen07, Zobo04 and Maccamob and I had cached togethe rduring the MEGA event. Another great day's caching with no DNF.

Had a great day great caching with Alansee, Maccamob, Phetlern, Zobo04, Lazzal and The Coffees. Found lots of caches some easy to find some not so. We signed the log as GLAMPCZ. Thanks to those that have gone to the effort of putting out caches in this area for us all to enjoy wre had a great fun day. Thanks to Rainforest Cookie

Day two of our Mega 2015 Stanthorpe adventure.
Today was our first real look at the event venue and the town, there was a sense of excitment with many cars zooming around Stanthorpe with the flags flying.
Thanks Rainforest Cookie for your cache, which added to our fun.

Day two of our Mega 2015 Stanthorpe adventure.
Today was our first real look at the event venue and the town, there was a sense of excitment with many cars zooming around Stanthorpe with the flags flying.
Thanks Rainforest Cookie for your cache, which added to our fun.

All this chocolate cannot be good for me
But I had burnt off a few kilojoules today to ride the pushbike this far along the trail

TFTC

Some more geocaching around the town. Signed those logs as ACDC (Alpenmilch80s, Cats&Dragons Geocaching). TFTC

Found as part of a short caching adventure before the official start of the OZ MEGA with Slieschke, Yorkshirekiwi83 & Vistra 0n Thursday 17th April. All logs were signed as "3ST"

We had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the drive and the caches that we were presented with (learning along the way some local acronyms SPOR which occasionally we turned in to LPOR )
Thanks for the fun of the run and the sights that we saw including a large Lizard basking in the road (swerved to avoid) alongthe power trail.

So again thank you for the FUN of the hunt

Quick find on our way back to Stanthorpe T4TC

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Enjoy GRANITE series runs with Everlasting after event by SA.
Also bumped into other cachers... follow all the way till end of series runs.
Thanks for the hunting and caches.

Rainforest Cookie

Out collecting a few easy caches with Screma today. All good fun

TFTC

Out Caching with Jaminappleford for the QLD Mega, looking for some quick finds TFTC

Out and about with iluvtrekking on a jaunt between Stanthorpe and Tenterfield while attending the Mega. Beautiful countryside and although we had some showers during the day, it didn't impede on our caching. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

Found by Mary & David, in company with Gonefishen07, Lazzal, Alansee, and Phetlern, The Coffees and Zobo04 (now signing as GLAMPCZ), at 1125. Our fourth day out and about around Stanthorpe, and we enjoyed more of the scenery, some wonderful caches and the company. We also made a start on the new Lab caches. There's a big factory for these in Ballarat. Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie.

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[font=Comic Sans MS]A great day out with, Alansee, Gonefishen07, LAZZAL, maccamob, The Coffee's and Zobo04 logging as “GLAMPCZ” to preserve log space.
[Red]C[/Red] [Blue] onvoys of cars,[/Blue]
[Red]A[/Red][Blue] ll stopping and starting.[/Blue]
[Red]C[/Red] [Blue]urious looks from the muggles -[/Blue]
[Red]H[/Red][Blue] ow are ye doing mate?[/Blue]
[Red] I[/Red] [Blue]ngenious caches![/Blue]
[Red]N[/Red] [Blue]amesakes by Wingaap are gold! [/Blue]
[Red]G[/Red] [Blue]reat caching round Stanthorpe![/Blue]
[Red]Q[/Red] [Blue]uestions to answer, quizzes to solve,[/Blue]
[Red]L[/Red] [Blue]ab caches as well.[/Blue]
[Red]D[/Red] [Blue]NF’s equal none – for the day![/Blue]
[Red]M[/Red] [Blue]accamob logged in 21,000- fantastic![/Blue]
[Red]E[/Red] [Blue]veryone clapped & cheered,[/Blue]
[Red]G[/Red] [Blue]eo friends all around.[/Blue]
[Red]A[/Red] [Blue]great day of caching with 62 found.
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Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie for bringing us here.
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During QLD Mega. [:X][:X]

In the Afternoon, Whitepaws9, Eskies5 and myself wander the Granite Belt Bike Trail - enjoyed drive the car.

Thanks for organising the cache and hunt.[^]

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With Everlasting & Whitepaws9 leading the way Mrs Esky and the eldest kid had an enjoyable afternoon along the Bike Trail racking up the smilies in order to log the Mega as #800. Lovely to meet you both. Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

#6298Found and Logged 10:23:00 AM with Roostaman and The Green Geckos
One of 31 caches for the day 0f caching out about around around Stanthorpe while in town for OZ-MEGA
Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie

[Blue]# 11632[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip at the Qld Mega town.
Another perfect Autumn day for caching with lgoody and The Green Geckos.
Another morning of caches on the GBB Trail and nearby.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina.
Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Out on a very enjoyable days caching with Roostaman and LGoody.
Having a fantastic time caching and exploring this part of the planet.
Kudos to all the local cachers for the many and varied caches in and around town.
Thank you Rainforest Cookie for placing this cache .

Day 2 of our return to Stanthorpe saga. Began the day with the Bike Trail and returned to it later in the day. Enjoyed the link to various goodies in the caches but our GPS hated the rocks. Nice size.
TFTC

We spent the 1st day of the Mega caching on a tour around the district, someone left a water bottle at one of this series in this vicinity, this sorta gave GZ away. TFTC

QLD Mega trip 2015 with Sol de Lune. On this almost 400km road trip we drove from Canberra to Stanthorpe caching in all the towns along the way with mostly great success. Around the Mega there were heaps of caches to be done including a few power trails. Despite the weather we got all of the planned caches done.

Day six was fairly gloomy and wet, but we started by heading up to the Bald Rock area, even though it turned out to be too wet to attempt the climb. Then it was back to the main road and trail caching for the rest of the way to Stanthorpe. Thanks.

19166.218 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 Australia Silver A#81

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Found with Albida33 on the way to the Stanthorpe Mega......so please excuse the generic log.

The cache was found without any issues and the log was soon signed....then back in the car and off to continue our travels.

Thanks for the cache and adding to the fun of our Mega trip.....

cache find #2986. Another quick find along the bike trail. TFTC.

Out and about caching with Tassie Trekkers doing the bike trail and other caches. A great day out. TFTC.

Today we explored Stanthorpe with Whitewebbs using geocaching as a guide.

We targeted this series today while being here for the mega.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Out for a day caching with Gullivers Travels54 and this trail was on our list. TFTC

Pprime does MEGA! Loving my days seeing all nooks and crannys of this wonderful area.
Thanks for placing this cache, Rainforest Cookie. Found in good condition.
{Overall find #3684}
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not a chocolate lover at all.

TFTC

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Currently making a quick 'run' on caches in Stanthorpe in preparation for the Mega.

After a few dramas we finally set off at lunchtime to grab as many 'smilies' as possible.

TFTC

Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at the next Australian Geocaching Mega event

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Day 73 of my trip to Brisbane.

Today, we're heading home after a week in Stanthorpe. I'm packed, so are the GeoSchnauzers, so is the car. We're off. Before we leave the area, there's a string of Bike Trail caches that I wanted to do but didn't get to. So I'll do them now!!! Then, I'll use caches to break up the trip.

No 4 of 12 today. Thanks, Rainforest Cookie. Interesting finding this one, but got it. Don't know why I had trouble with this one. Bling, I guess.

Out and about again exploring the beautiful Stanthorpe area. Cache found dry and in good condition.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie

On the trail with Aussiemates. Gradually counting them off. TFTC

Weekend in Stanthorpe with Stealth Seeker. We were going to ride the bike trail but with winds forecast at up to 35klm/hr we changed our strategy. Very glad we did. Even in the car this was a big day.

After a nice bit of wine at Jester Hill this was a quick find for SS. Thanks Rainforest Cookie for this series. We're really enjoying it.

There's quite an incline up to this cache! TFTC.

Tftc

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Great setup, thanks for placing the cache on the trail.

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

We headed out to Stanthorpe for the weekend, and headed off nice and early today, starting off the weekend a day early We managed to grab 23 for the day, and as always, we thoroughly enjoyed our trip out this weekend This one was next up on the list today, so we pulled up close by, and made the find quickly We added our names to the logbook, and headed off to the next one [^] Another one in the area ticked off the list



TFTC Rainforest Cookie



Gaz'n'Kab



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Picking up a few caches while in Stanthorpe, after attending an event yesterday.
We found a good variety of cache hides and sizes, in some great locations.
This one was found quickly, and in good condition. Took trackable to move it on.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Rainforest Cookie, for us and others to find.

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there Rainforest Cookie. We found your cache "GRANITE BELT BIKE TRAIL, Mars" at 12:13:00 PM today.
This was our 5th cache find in a caching run of 9 Finds & 1 DNFs today. (So this now makes our find count 9427.)
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Today's cache run was a quick raid to see how many "Bike Trail" caches we could find on the western side of the highway.

Thanks for not placing an eclipse tin or a 200ml Sistema here. For over ten years we have watched the quality of caches get steadily worse and worse. Once upon a time caches seemed to be "regular" sized,and well stocked with goodies for kids to swap. Nowadays it seems like every other cache is small and devoid anything to induce children to enjoy the hunt. It made us feel really good to find this cache in a "special" place.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent. (We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Grabbed Trackable: "Die 4 Regenbogenperlen"
Dropped Trackable: "Charlie Brown."
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
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Was polishing up the new caches along the bike trail even though I'm in my car this time. I haven't been riding enough lately to even attempt a short section of the Bike Trail on 2 wheels. My bike is with me but its in a box in the back. easy find today, dropped a TB
tftc

After a fun filled week-end caching and going to the Christmas in July event I still have one more day in town.
So I headed south and slowly worked my way north before continuing on home to Brissy.
A quick find here as I drive around the back roads.
Thanks for the cache.

Found at 1059 while in the area to attend the C I J event at the Summit this weekend. TFTC.

I was in the area with Sweet_bee and we decided drop in on this one.

I nearly rolled the car over something that was formerly alive on the road. Thankfully the picks on the car stopped it just before it slid into "Ewwwsville".

We hunted about for a while and soon found the cache safe and sound and in good condition. TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Another quick one. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

5349 Caches Found
Travelling North to the Xmas in July in Stanthorpe, Qld to meet old friends and to greet new ones and generally have a ball and of course the chance to discover some caches along the way and visit some interesting places. Great cache. TFTC

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

Thanks for the great cache %OwnersName(8D)

Our son who is on his L plates found this one for us. Geocaching is a good way to get his driving hours up. Thanks for the hide Rainforest Cookie.

Another quick find for the day and off to find more TFTC

A MARS a day helps you cache, cache, and cache! Quick find, TFTC

Found with J+J.au as we found some Stanthorpe caches We stopped along the way and enjoyed various cache hides and locations. Enjoying this trail along a very different landscape to our own. SL..TFTC

Baja15 and I are up north enjoying Easter break and have taken the opportunity to get out and enjoy the country side and collect some caches, the weather is perfect and thank you for placing the caches for all of us to find. Enjoying the varieties very much. TFTC

Quick find on this quiet Sunday
Sl
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After having found most of the bike trail a few months ago whilst cycling in the area -having a lot of GPSr troubles on completion of our tour, and falsley logging some of these, we came back to complete the series on our way to do some grape picking.
Thanks so much for all the new ones!!

SL

Good one thank you

Quick find. This will have to be our last for the day. Kids getting hungry. TFTC

To Mars and back

Finishing off a few of the cahes south of Stanthorpe that we bypassed yesterday. Another good day with mostly easy finds aching with Liz & Bruce. Thanks to Rainforest Cookie for these great caches.

A great combination of hides kept us entertained as we cached around the Stanthorpe area. A big thanks to Rainforest Cookie