'Hammer???' Blaxland, New South Wales, Australia
By
whitemushroom on 27-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VW1K
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As per my found log, the container is missing and the contents are exposed to the elements.
#3415 (6 of 10 today)
Real Life has really impacted my caching lately - Pokemon Go hasn't helped either to be honest - but finally a day opened up where I could spend some decent time on the hunt.
Decided I wanted both numbers and a nice walk, so the lower Blue Mountains was the logical destination.
Ended up starting out later than anticipated due to computer printer issues but still managed a decent walk and made 10 finds - and only one DNF.
A good but tiring day.
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I was 'Too Legit To Quit' this series (fourth and last bad MC Hammer reference) so continued on to this cache.
I ended up going too high here as I lost the trail, but found a good spot to drop back down to the dry creek bed and on to GZ.
One spot immediately caught my attention and I soon spotted... The cache contents without a container.
Luckily the log was dry in it's ziplock bag, and I found quite a few monkeys - although nowhere near a barrel full. The paperback is quite soggy.
I completed signing duties and put the components back where I'd found them - walking in au naturel ie without a backpack, meant I had no replacement container unfortunately.
This needs maintenance ASAP.
No leeches today but still plenty of buzzing bloodsuckers. Not for the only time today, either.
I'm now all hammered out, but ironically it's the next find that hammered me a bit!
SLTNLN
TFTC
Real Life has really impacted my caching lately - Pokemon Go hasn't helped either to be honest - but finally a day opened up where I could spend some decent time on the hunt.
Decided I wanted both numbers and a nice walk, so the lower Blue Mountains was the logical destination.
Ended up starting out later than anticipated due to computer printer issues but still managed a decent walk and made 10 finds - and only one DNF.
A good but tiring day.
###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION###
I was 'Too Legit To Quit' this series (fourth and last bad MC Hammer reference) so continued on to this cache.
I ended up going too high here as I lost the trail, but found a good spot to drop back down to the dry creek bed and on to GZ.
One spot immediately caught my attention and I soon spotted... The cache contents without a container.
Luckily the log was dry in it's ziplock bag, and I found quite a few monkeys - although nowhere near a barrel full. The paperback is quite soggy.
I completed signing duties and put the components back where I'd found them - walking in au naturel ie without a backpack, meant I had no replacement container unfortunately.
This needs maintenance ASAP.
No leeches today but still plenty of buzzing bloodsuckers. Not for the only time today, either.
I'm now all hammered out, but ironically it's the next find that hammered me a bit!
SLTNLN
TFTC
After finding Hammer Home, we noticed a faint track which we followed and then lost, then found again. Anyway, it wasn't hard to find our way to GZ. GeoDan ignored the spot below the sentinels, thinking it would risk being flooded when it rained, GeoSue had a look and said "I think there's something there." Yes, she was right again. TFTC
Parked nearby and found a trail that followed around behind some local houses until I needed to find my way through bush for the last 60 meters. Cache hide found that required some stretching to retrieve the cache and sign the log. Cache replaced as found and no sign of any leaches as mentioned by previous finders.
A nice spot. Picked up a couple of leeches nearby. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan
Indeed a great finish to a brilliant trio of caches ...... certainly, "too legit to quit" (sorry, that's MC Hammer, 1991 
). TFTC 
). TFTC Had an enjoyable walk from the nearby caches, our steps watched by some crimson rosellas 
Cache was a bit stubborn to open, but dad managed to crack it open in the end. Had a laugh at the cache contents, we sure could use a hammer some days. TFTC, this set of 'hammer' caches gets a favourite point from me!
Cache was a bit stubborn to open, but dad managed to crack it open in the end. Had a laugh at the cache contents, we sure could use a hammer some days. TFTC, this set of 'hammer' caches gets a favourite point from me!It was only 150 or so metres from Hammer Home, so I ventured UP! Thanx for the clue, as the phone was not coping with the terrain. You will get your knees dirty, and you WILL pick up a dozen or more leeches. Bring something to discourage them.
Took us a while to find it as our GPS was indicating about 10m away from the actual site. Thank goodness for hints!
left a Travel coin "5th Annual Age of Discovery"
TFTC
left a Travel coin "5th Annual Age of Discovery"
TFTC
Found on a day to "Spring Caching In The Bluies" event with 3MU. Very hot in the bush.
Was in the area for the Spring Cache in the Bluies event - and decided to do a few more caches while I was here. Stinking hot day, and more than once I told myself that I was mad doing this in the heat!
I should have known better in this heat - but having done the other 2 "hammer"s and really enjoyed them I decided to give this one a go too.
I came in from Tallowood Gardens - nice walk down a trail for a while until about 65m from cache then a bit of scrambling/ bush bashing. There were a few likely areas near GZ and had looked in a few before finding one that exactly matched the hint. Signed log, took Raymond the Manta Ray TB. Scrambled back up to the path & vowed "no more for today - I'll come back when its cooler."
TFTC
This entry was edited by celtical on Sunday, 26 October 2014 at 08:36:21 UTC.
I should have known better in this heat - but having done the other 2 "hammer"s and really enjoyed them I decided to give this one a go too.
I came in from Tallowood Gardens - nice walk down a trail for a while until about 65m from cache then a bit of scrambling/ bush bashing. There were a few likely areas near GZ and had looked in a few before finding one that exactly matched the hint. Signed log, took Raymond the Manta Ray TB. Scrambled back up to the path & vowed "no more for today - I'll come back when its cooler."
TFTC
This entry was edited by celtical on Sunday, 26 October 2014 at 08:36:21 UTC.
Found on a day to "Spring Caching In The Bluies" event with Hillster.
What a wander, a very warm & humid day to be stomping round the bush.
Scared the Hillster a bit, as he was reaching to get the container, I took a step down above where he was reaching for & and some sticks fell down on to his hand, he retracted very quickly, very funny.
TFTC.
What a wander, a very warm & humid day to be stomping round the bush.
Scared the Hillster a bit, as he was reaching to get the container, I took a step down above where he was reaching for & and some sticks fell down on to his hand, he retracted very quickly, very funny.
TFTC.
Looked in every spot other than the right one for a while before widening my search. The iphone was not helping much. What a great little spot to sit and listen to and watch the birds.
#3,122
This was the last remaining blank day I had in my caching calendar. Last year, this was the only day I had blank in the last 8 months of the year (I had a few blank days scattered over Feb-April). I thought this would be an easy day to grab a cache, as it was a Saturday.
But instead of going out to look for a cache, I spent the day at home, with fires in the bush at the end of my street. The kids & I spend most of the day watching helicopters flying overhead, and talking to the firemen who called in to check on us (& keep up updated) occasionally. By the time we were told in the evening that the risk had passed for the day, there was no way I would consider taking scared & stressed children out for a cache, just because I had a blank calendar day. And there was always next year.
This year I planned to go for a long bushwalk with the kids & get one of the more remote mountains caches. Then a couple of days ago, I realised The_Imp had a four hour rehearsal for Cats today. I had to rethink our plans for the day, and looked around for another cache. One that I could do between rehearsal drop-off & pickup. So I decided it was finally time to look for this one.
So, I grabbed a takeaway coffee after dropped Imp at BHS, and headed towards Mitchells Pass. I was enjoying my walk & actually went too far. I had to turn around & come back a little. With my GPS saying I had about 30m to go, I saw a spot that looked like a good place to hide a cache. But I was too far from GZ, so I didn't look. Continued on a bit, then my GPS coughed, looked a little embarrassed and suggested I really should go back to that spot. Lesson - when you're in an area where your GPS may be thrown a little by the rocks & you spot a good hiding spot, you should just look in it. By the time I'd signed the log & replaced the container, the GPS had stabilised to say I was in the right spot .
Thanks whitemushroom. I took the trackable from the container and left a few geocoins.
This was the last remaining blank day I had in my caching calendar. Last year, this was the only day I had blank in the last 8 months of the year (I had a few blank days scattered over Feb-April). I thought this would be an easy day to grab a cache, as it was a Saturday.
But instead of going out to look for a cache, I spent the day at home, with fires in the bush at the end of my street. The kids & I spend most of the day watching helicopters flying overhead, and talking to the firemen who called in to check on us (& keep up updated) occasionally. By the time we were told in the evening that the risk had passed for the day, there was no way I would consider taking scared & stressed children out for a cache, just because I had a blank calendar day. And there was always next year.
This year I planned to go for a long bushwalk with the kids & get one of the more remote mountains caches. Then a couple of days ago, I realised The_Imp had a four hour rehearsal for Cats today. I had to rethink our plans for the day, and looked around for another cache. One that I could do between rehearsal drop-off & pickup. So I decided it was finally time to look for this one.
So, I grabbed a takeaway coffee after dropped Imp at BHS, and headed towards Mitchells Pass. I was enjoying my walk & actually went too far. I had to turn around & come back a little. With my GPS saying I had about 30m to go, I saw a spot that looked like a good place to hide a cache. But I was too far from GZ, so I didn't look. Continued on a bit, then my GPS coughed, looked a little embarrassed and suggested I really should go back to that spot. Lesson - when you're in an area where your GPS may be thrown a little by the rocks & you spot a good hiding spot, you should just look in it
. By the time I'd signed the log & replaced the container, the GPS had stabilised to say I was in the right spot .Thanks whitemushroom
. I took the trackable from the container and left a few geocoins.Enjoyed the walk to GZ. Nobody around. So good to see this sort of cache container! Left the Swiss Walliser Chueglocke travel bug.
After being flat out with work for a few weeks it is nice to finally get out and grab some caches
Number3 for today!
Number3 for today!
Found with Phillxor. Fairly easy find, though lots of good hiding spots around here. Night find. TFTC
Parked near the speed humps on Mitchells Pass and followed the track in, GZ wasnt different to get to. GPRs wasnt playing nice with me jumping around everywhere. Took me a while to find the hide but still a nice little good old blue mountains bush cache. I like the book on "Micro Tin Nightmares" (A Blue Mountains cachers joke) Enjoyed this one, keep up these hides. TFTC.
So many leeches! One even sucked up so much blood it exploded when it was stepped on inside a shoe, it was so gross we got out of there A.S.A.P![xx(] Good cache!
#2355- we continued on from 'crisis cross', deciding to do a few close caches before the batteries died in bikerbuddy' brand new GPS. This was pretty close by, and the enticement of another regular, perhaps another ammo tin, was more than we could stand. We wandered along the track, but when bikerbuddy said that the cache was 'about 90 m down', NickHeap and Garks decided to pike out. They sat on the side of the track, apparently availing themselves of my true or false game on my phone. We continued down, and with a few metres to go, I spotted two like spots, neither of which turned to fruition. But bikerbuddy spotted it having gone a little lower. Another nice ammo tin. Now to make our way back to those, so tired teenagers at the top. Thanks white mushroom.
I was in the garden yesterday, using the sledge hammer to knock out the roots of a dead tree I had just removed. I later went to see my therapist, a man theoretically predisposed to Neo-Freudian diagnostics, and he told me that my efforts were redolent of a man deeply conflicted by micro-mania.
I was rather offended. After all, had he not just impugned my manhood? I leaped from the couch, waved my arms in the air, walked up and down his office, shouting, "I'll have you know..." and "You listen to me buster..." It was most embarrassing when my tirade abated (due to a dangerous lowering of oxygen to my brain) to hear that my therapist was a closet cacher himself, and had read my logs with deeply conflicted feelings, knowing that I was wasting the best caching days of my life on caches not worthy of my inestimable talents. At least that's what he gasped, almost incomprehensibly as I held him to the wall by his throat while I savoured deep restorative inhalations, myself.
It wasn’t until I lay in bed last night, my mind wrestling with the memory of all those micros, tainting and horrible in their aspect, that I comprehended the sound of a voice in my bedroom.
“When shall we three meet again? I wonder, be it in light or high terrain?”
My ears pricked at the sound. What could this mean? I listened, waiting for the reply I was certain would come.
Then a second voice said, “When the Hammer Series is done, when the micros are smashed and gone.”
And a third: “Then shall we go to White Mushroom’s one.”
“Where the place?” asked the first voice.
“In the bush!”
“There to meet little old bikerbuddy!”
I sat up in a sweat. The moon shone through the casement, with nothing revealed to my eye except three hammers I had left there that day, two of which were held in the hands of my therapist (who also happens to be a part time ventriloquist who performs at children’s shows to raise money for penguins with performance anxiety, I’ll have you know) What can I say? I mistrusted the man. He said the word ‘micro’ like it meant something. Like it meant something else!!!
“Go to sleep,” I cried, “or I’ll knock your block off.”
So, that’s how I got to this cache today. I took my therapist with me, although I didn’t bring him back. He’s all yours now, WhiteMushroom. I left him tied to the nearby tree. You might want to go feed him now and then. But only little portions. Only really really little portions. That should hammer home the point!
I was rather offended. After all, had he not just impugned my manhood? I leaped from the couch, waved my arms in the air, walked up and down his office, shouting, "I'll have you know..." and "You listen to me buster..." It was most embarrassing when my tirade abated (due to a dangerous lowering of oxygen to my brain) to hear that my therapist was a closet cacher himself, and had read my logs with deeply conflicted feelings, knowing that I was wasting the best caching days of my life on caches not worthy of my inestimable talents. At least that's what he gasped, almost incomprehensibly as I held him to the wall by his throat while I savoured deep restorative inhalations, myself.
It wasn’t until I lay in bed last night, my mind wrestling with the memory of all those micros, tainting and horrible in their aspect, that I comprehended the sound of a voice in my bedroom.
“When shall we three meet again? I wonder, be it in light or high terrain?”
My ears pricked at the sound. What could this mean? I listened, waiting for the reply I was certain would come.
Then a second voice said, “When the Hammer Series is done, when the micros are smashed and gone.”
And a third: “Then shall we go to White Mushroom’s one.”
“Where the place?” asked the first voice.
“In the bush!”
“There to meet little old bikerbuddy!”
I sat up in a sweat. The moon shone through the casement, with nothing revealed to my eye except three hammers I had left there that day, two of which were held in the hands of my therapist (who also happens to be a part time ventriloquist who performs at children’s shows to raise money for penguins with performance anxiety, I’ll have you know) What can I say? I mistrusted the man. He said the word ‘micro’ like it meant something. Like it meant something else!!!
“Go to sleep,” I cried, “or I’ll knock your block off.”
So, that’s how I got to this cache today. I took my therapist with me, although I didn’t bring him back. He’s all yours now, WhiteMushroom. I left him tied to the nearby tree. You might want to go feed him now and then. But only little portions. Only really really little portions. That should hammer home the point!
A couple more caches before dark.
I first attempted this from the East. Already done a couple of slopes like that today and was too tired for another, so I drove around and went the suggested way.
I first attempted this from the East. Already done a couple of slopes like that today and was too tired for another, so I drove around and went the suggested way.
Nice quick find on a sunny Saturday morning! TFTC.
This entry was edited by limaka on Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 22:27:50 UTC.
This entry was edited by limaka on Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 22:27:50 UTC.
What a pleasant patch of bush this is. Sion was nice but this was better. We carried on along the easy path from the previous cache on to the cache locale. It was totally overcast by now and a shower was threatening. A nice ammo can cache awaited us as well as a couple of leeches. Thence back to the road. Very nice spot this one.
TFTC and thank you for the great location. Caches like this make it a worthwhile activity. A very wet walk in but worth it. We will have to come in again when the leeches have finished their feeding frenzy!
Coming back to hammerland to knock this last one over with a gps in hand, thankyou for the cache!
Finally got around to finishing the hammer miniseries today on the way to "Swallowed". A nice ammobox to finish it all off. Bisygisy made a joke regarding the hint the other day so I wasn't looking for too long. TFTC whitemushroom!
I ventured into hammerland on ground hog day. The bush in this area is very pleasant to walk through. Thanks whitemushroom for another iconic mountain cache.
Five whitemushroom caches found today, while I was down in the lower mountains, rambling a bit with some time to spare while Mrs. pjmpjm and her visiting friend were on other business. Temperatures were higher than expected -- up to 35 degrees at one point -- showing that this part of the Blue Mountains can challenge Penrith in the hot weather stakes. So my energy was sapped fairly quickly, but not before I'd completed my projected tasks.
This one was my 5th find and the most challenging. I should have taken this little '250 metres' jaunt into the bush more seriously. I didn't wear my hat, didn't change into my grippy boots, and neglected to bring water. Have been in these parts previously, so found the trail entry straight away. It's not obvious, to say the least. (Look for the large, 'sculptured' sandstone boulders at roadside.) OSM maps don't really cover much of the area, including this cache's GZ.
The trail is easy to lose and the gum leaves were very slippery underfoot. Of course, you can't really get lost here, because you basically follow the far side of Lapstone Creek and beyond that is Mitchells Pass Road, running parallel. But it's somewhat challenging nonetheless, uphill to start, and then down into the creek bed at the end. I think this is whitemushroom's nicest hide so far; I really liked this area. Quiet today, with not a soul around.
My GSPr wouldn't play fair and at first I could never get closer than 14 metres to GZ. However, the hint was too good and I strongly suspected what I was searching for, so this limited the number of hiding spots.
Very funny!
All in good order. TNLNSL.
Thanks, mushie. A fav point from me.
This one was my 5th find and the most challenging. I should have taken this little '250 metres' jaunt into the bush more seriously. I didn't wear my hat, didn't change into my grippy boots, and neglected to bring water. Have been in these parts previously, so found the trail entry straight away. It's not obvious, to say the least. (Look for the large, 'sculptured' sandstone boulders at roadside.) OSM maps don't really cover much of the area, including this cache's GZ.
The trail is easy to lose and the gum leaves were very slippery underfoot. Of course, you can't really get lost here, because you basically follow the far side of Lapstone Creek and beyond that is Mitchells Pass Road, running parallel. But it's somewhat challenging nonetheless, uphill to start, and then down into the creek bed at the end. I think this is whitemushroom's nicest hide so far; I really liked this area. Quiet today, with not a soul around.
My GSPr wouldn't play fair and at first I could never get closer than 14 metres to GZ. However, the hint was too good and I strongly suspected what I was searching for, so this limited the number of hiding spots.
Very funny!
All in good order. TNLNSL.
Thanks, mushie. A fav point from me.
It's always good to see an ammo can in the bush, and not a bloody micro! Thanks for that.
On the way back I evicted a leech who was about to get me to donate some blood...
On the way back I evicted a leech who was about to get me to donate some blood...
Thankfully Webguy had a closer look in that spot and found it.
Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.
A nice after work walk that I made much harder than it needed to be!?!
This is a great short mountains walk.
TFTC.
This is a great short mountains walk.
TFTC.
Thought I'd duck out and do some quick caches before the end of the year.
After finding 'where's the hammer' and 'hammer home' I thought I'd do this one as well to complete the hammer series thus far.
After a pleasant walk to the GZ, it took me longer than it should have to find the cache - my own fault there.
Found at 1705
TftC whitemushroom
After finding 'where's the hammer' and 'hammer home' I thought I'd do this one as well to complete the hammer series thus far.
After a pleasant walk to the GZ, it took me longer than it should have to find the cache - my own fault there.
Found at 1705
TftC whitemushroom
Saw this new cache appear in the bush we love, know there's trails that drop in from above....Kids in bed, grandma visiting - off we head! Meant to be, lovely spot, clever cache of worthy size, ftf awesome prize. A favourite from us.
