Bald Hills No. 7 New South Wales, Australia
By groovydoo on 13-Apr-14. Waypoint GC52D42

At Armidale today for two nights and caching in the area. Some target caches that need our names in them.

Nice new fence.

Today caching and travelling with RoddyC.

TFTCache groovydoo

We have started our homeward journey from Canberra after the Mega, and after overnighting in Bathurst, and our first of two nights in Armidale, today we hunt high altitude caches. Bald Hills Road circuit is our target.

All good here

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 11:01 AM on April 16, 2023. TFTC, groovydoo

Coordinates changed from:
S 30° 19.042 E 152° 26.758

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 19.038 E 152° 26.757

Distance from original: 23.5 feet or 7.2 meters.

coord update

Found after owner maintenance

No luck in finding today

Crookedpete and I were given leave passes from our respective families for the Easter long weekend for a geocaching road trip. I suspect that this was our families' Easter present to themselves to have a weekend alone without our company .

As members of The Bromance geocaching collective, we are a rather contrarian bunch, so while the main geocaching action was apparently up north over Easter we decided to instead head south from Brisbane. Our main focus was on caches with lots of favourites, good DT combinations, high elevation or sitting sad and neglected with no visitors for an extended period.

After a second night camped on the roadside on the way into Armidale, our plan for the day was to head out towards Mt Hyland in search of a FTF. With that mission successfully accomplished, we headed back towards Ebor. Along the way we stopped to hunt for a few more caches to add to the tally, including this one which had not been found for a while and also helped qualify for an elevation challenge we were working towards. TFTC

Instead of heading mega north to Townsville for Easter, Seffnjarah and I planned a long weekend road trip south to Armidale and surrounds.

Another early start out of the swag at our preferred roadside camp site just out of town. The plan today was to cache along the Waterfall Way chasing unloved and high elevation caches with an FTF thrown in for good measure.

Time for some high elevation (for Australia anyway) caches. Thanks

Pete

Nice find

On our way to Armidale for a few day's caching and picking up the ones along the Waterfall Way as we go Had to take this little detour.. Thanks for the cache.

Easy find

That was a good fun find

Its not just fir the cache. Its also for rhe beauty one finds geocaching!

Visited by the local girls. TFTC

Hidden higher than I was looking . This cool tree was across the road.

This one is mine too. Yippee. TFTC

Tfc

Another great find. Thanks for hiding this cache for our enjoyment groovydoo

Another wet log. Sorry we dont have any to replace it. Easy find though

Found tyftc. On a trip to the coast to improve our D/T rating. Find #2009

A nice easy find TFTC

Tftc. #46

Left Grafton this morning heading to Tamworth to meet up with DiMorgan for the 29 Feb Souv. Stopped at Ebor and noticed this trail nearby. Setup the caravan at the Pub and set off for these. Nearly at the end and the heavens opened up on us. We were planning on doing the other trail but decided to call it and headed back to support the local pub for a few light refreshments.

TFTC groovydoo
Total Cache Finds 8907

I was on an Australia Day long weekend road trip with Pprime, Fangsoki and 1MinniMoo and we had targeted caches in the area which would help us to qualify for a number of challenges.

It took 2 looks in the right spot to find it.

TFTC groovydoo

With Fangsoki, Crew153 and 1MinnieMoo we have hit the Dorrigo Plateau for the weekend - having arrived yesterday we set out for day two through the early morning fog, next up here. Between us we had no issues finding this one.

Thanks groovydoo for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #7479}*

26/1/20 Find #3347
A road trip long weekend with Fangsoki, PPrime and Crew153, staying in Dorrigo. We let Crew153 grab this one... it was a little higher than chest height, especially for him.
Thanks for the cache groovydoo.

1MinnieMoo, Pprime, Crew 153, and I were in the Dorrigo / Ebor Area grabbing caches. This was our second day while in the area.

We enjoyed all of the caches in beautiful area - and appreciate the effort the cache owners put into the caches.

TFTC groovydoo

Found a bit higher than hint suggest Tftc

Found while on a geocaching holiday with tmann421.
Enjoyed the trip around and all the great hides.
Stamped TM/WW NZ, or if in pen our full names

Another very nice find today with woolwood9.
*Thanks for helping make our tour around fun!*
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or our full user names or tm421/ww9 in pen.

Thanks groovydoo for another good trail of caches.

Long weekend....time to get away. I left Brisbane yesterday after work and eventually made it to Grafton. This morning dawned raining with low cloud cover. This put a damper on my original plans for the day. Instead, I lounged around for a bit and had an extra cuppa or two before setting off. As the weather had begun to clear, I decided to follow this trail of caches. The cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

Nice and easy, loving the drive along this rural road. This series is a part of the reason we chose to have our holidays up this way.

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Logtime: 14:40 #6376
Heute: 11. Cache von total 17 Caches.

Vom Bald Hills-Trail haben wir leider 4 Caches nicht gefunden. Die anderen waren gut auffindbar.

Danke und Gruss
simeat und Frau
Switzerland.

Found out on a caching day around dorrigo and surrounds, with the main aims the bald hill and deer vale road caches. sorry for the generic logs and thanks for the cache.

Heading North for a short holiday and collecting some caches along the way.
Thanks for placing it for us to find.

TFTC groovydoo
Find 5915 logged from c:geo.

Staying around Dorrigo for a few days, camping and geocaching.

Time to attack the bald hills trail, most caches located after a short search, however a few took quite some time.

Beautiful scenery around here, we definitely would not have come down this road if it wasn't for these caches, nice quick find here.
Thanks for the cache

Our caching list for today was brought to us courtesy of groovydoo! Thank you for so many caches to be found.
This Bald Hills run was an easier series of caches to find and the countryside is really lush and green. Our name was noted in each log found and all the containers were in good condition as were the contents.

Yep this landscape is pretty cool. How cold does it get in winter? Does it ever snow here? Yep, this series is bringing out my inner toddler. Why? But why? Thanks for placing and maintaining these, groovydoo!

We have been staying at the free camp in Thora with our caravan and using it as a base to cache around Bellingen and Dorrigo to as far as Ebor. Fabulous countryside and we have loved the creative hides on this series which quite often took some time to find. Thankyou groovydoo for placement of this cache and sharing this special spot with us.

Found with my Dad and little brother on our Australia Day weekend adventure....

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Find #1854
Continuing our journey out into the sticks now, we managed 11/12 of the Bald Hills Series. The long grass gave us some tense moments, especially as a misunderstanding in my bag packing left me with only shorts to wear.....
No probs here, nice obvious hide. After 46 finds in the day, we need obvious! TFTC

this was a spontaneously action to do the Hill trail. it tooks a while to found all the containers we needed around 45 min - 60 min by car but we made it:) TFTC and maintenance the trail

Decided to do this circuit today
TFTC

A quick find but the O ring had perished and broken and log was soaked. We took it with us to dry out in the car while we went on getting the others in the series. We returned later and replaced it with log now dry and a new O ring. Thanks groovydoo

Found on a rainy caching day. Tftc.

Hidey hole full of water cache is soaked.

TFTC smile 3226# out and about with miss millie geo dog it seems like the wind is getting stronger

TFTC and the series.

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Find No: 5362. Visiting from Newcastle, staying in Woolgoolga, yukky day so thought we'd head for the hills, had a great day, great picnic lunch and 30 caches in total, thanks for the cache groovydoo!!

Found with shrimp 92. Beautiful day for caching. Very pretty out here. Thankyou for the cachei

A quick cache as we continue our journey. TFTC

A quick park and grab as we explore this beautiful rural country side. TNLN SL TFTC

Geo son got out to grab this one but additional height was required so geo dad to the rescue

Read the clue and thought ,my you've got a high chest,but the cache was a good easy find.TFTC.

Replaced today

DNF

Easy one. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Had to drop my son half way between Coffs and Armidale. Not without some cache. Wanted to do 14 but the storm started too early. Don't know where your chest is.
Thanks for all the caches groovydoo.

Thank you for bringing us to this beautiful area on our 3 day trip to Dorrigo & surrounds. TYFC
This is our 2nd Day. We are enjoying Today even more than Yesterday.

Our second series of caches for today. Enjoyed this series more than the other Deer Vale ones - maybe it was just that it was more open country. Thanks so much Groovydoo for the effort you have put into the series. Great way to see the less travelled roads of Australia.

Nice easy finds along the trail. TFTC

Found 4 more of this series today on a quick trip through. We had a couple of 'didn't look long enough' and 'the farmer is nearby' no finds, but that just leaves some for next time. This is a lovely series on a very nice back road. If you haven't taken the route through to Grafton rather than Dorrigo we recommend it. Thanks groovydoo.

A good find was made. Full description at number 12 in the series. Tftc tnln

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Decided to have an impromptu weekend away from Newcastle after the floods, so what better time to have a crack at gaining some stats for GC4K8YK NSW Altitude Challenge? It was however made more difficult by very limited reception, which meant all we had on the phone was the map with 30 closest caches and no information. A good test of 'cacher's instinct' - we only had 1 DNF which was pleasing. A fun day out with the kids, recommend the growers markets 45 minutes down the road too - great coffee and waffles!

We really enjoyed the Bald Hills series (as drive-by series go). Some inventive hides, with reasonable variety, and good coords. Nice views, cows on the road. Happy times. Thanks for all the effort.

Easy find. TNLN TFTC

Found as part of our run through the Bald Hills mini power trail. While we don't normally go a lot of D 1.5 T 1.5 caches however we enjoyed the county side on our way through and thought the rating on some could be lifted a little. These all qualified us for the NSW altitude sickness challenge. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC. Thanks for placing the series

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 10:53:25 UTC.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH GroovyDoo [^]

TFTC, groovydoo, SL

Out caching with geodaughter (geobunnybutts) to get the Bald Hills Road series. Had lots of fun along the way.
TFTC, groovydoo, SL.
My find no. 265 on 10 April 2015

If Number 9s log was soggy, this one was positively sopping wet and dripping when taken out of its container.

TFTC

6481 Caches Found

After leaving Stanthorpe and the end of the Mega Event. Heading home hoping to pick up a few caches along the way. What a wonderful drive Fantastic cache in a great location. Thanks for the great adventure.The log needs replacing it is saturated

Thanks for the great cache groovydoo(8D)

The Bald Hills countdown was rapidly heading for zero
So far .... easy finds and not a skool bus or car seen

TFTC !!

What a great series. I saw these when they were first published but this is the first chance I've had. Thanks groovydoo...
The log in this one is quite wet.

Found it with geodad Whitey Wiskas --- All Good .. TFTC ..

Found with Geoson Geoff511. TFTC Thanks groovydoo

Thanks for the cache.

Found

12.00 sunday replaced pencil all aok ..thanks groovydoo..

Found on ground. Signed and replaced in hide according to hint. Pencil lead broken. TFTC

Found after a quick search with Aussie_Rover89, touty78, scoots Beki & NSWLone Rovers

Not eight mtrs out either

TFTC

Quick find on a weekends caching with Touty78, Scoota Beki, Lonely RA and NSW Lone Rover Crew. TFTC

Found on weekend caching with Lonely RA,Aussie_Rover89,NSW Lones Crew,and Scoota Bekie..Tftc

Found with 2 1/2 Crew Members in Attendance at the last of specific camps.

TFTC

Nice one, TFTC groovydoo, SL.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

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Found it TFTC

Found It - - Quick Find TFTC -

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Found at 2:40 PM GAFF1. That was the quickest one of the series so far - a good logical spot.
It was a lovely clear cloudless day with just a hint of mist - or maybe it was smoke, however either way it is a lovely look.
Thanks groovydoo.

Today we drove from Ebor to Port Macquarie.
It had snowed the previous night & as we arrived into Ebor there was still evidence laying around in the shady areas.
It was an early morning start 7am & -1degrees. We spent as quick a time at each cache as possible, hurrying to get back in the warmth of the car.
All the caches we found were in good condition & some wonderfull & scenic locations.

Thanks for placing this cache groovydoo

not many to go now.sl. tftc.

Thanks for the cache

The drizzling rain finally found us at last but it did not make much difference to the GPS and we managed a quick find before heading off to the next stop. The car hardly has time to get started before it has to stop again on this series.

TFTC
Magpyre

MrG parked and the GPS said 1 metre...how could I miss a quick find? TFTC groovydoo.

What a pleasant drive the Bald Hills road is. Just me and the cattle. Always the cattle - they're so inquisitive. They can't get many visitors; they're up to the fence in a flash for a yarn.

The cache container here was almost out of its tree, just hanging by a thread. It's back in place now though. Thanks for the cache, groovydoo.