Bald Hills No. 9 Hernani, New South Wales, Australia
By groovydoo on 13-Apr-14. Waypoint GC52D4X

.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.

Found, thanks for the hint

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 11:20 AM on April 16, 2023. TFTC, groovydoo

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

Up and down the fence then saw the fastener.

Today caching and travelling with RoddyC.

TFTCache groovydoo

Found it TFTC

No luck - probably cache blindness!

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.

Not certain why this one hasn't been found for a while. Nice, quick find. Thanks groovydoo

Pete

Found it but it was super wet.

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.

Hard one

Hard

I had a helper for this one. He was the strong and silent type.

We’re getting the hang of these and enjoying the pretty views. TFTC

Oops nearly forgot to log this one too, I was concentrating on finding a comfort spot on this open roadway. this one was quite well hidden, log paper replaced. tftc

Logged soaked. Could not sign. TFTC.

No joy

No joy here today. Thanks groovydoo

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

Theres lots of tree forks, hmmm whoch one to chose...... got him

Found tyftc. On a trip to the coast to improve our D/T rating. Find #2011

A nice easy find, log too wet to sign

Tftc. #48

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 8905

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.

Another in the series completed.

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 #7481}*

26/1/20 Find #3349
A road trip long weekend with Fangsoki, PPrime and Crew153, staying in Dorrigo. It was still pre-breakfast on day two. As we pulled up we could see the cache just hanging there.
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 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. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

No problems here, found it pretty quickly.

Finn

Logtime: 14:30 #6374
Heute: 9. 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 5917 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.

Straight onto this one, quick sign and we were off.
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.

Wandering around exploring this beautiful region and of course finding some caches. 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 #1856
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.....
Cool container, I don't recall seeing a plastic one before... TFTC

We couldn't find this one 3 years ago but today it was an easy find. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

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. No problems. Thanks groovydoo

Found on a rainy caching day. Tftc.

TFTC smile 3224# out and about with miss millie geo dog going to my nephew wedding in the Hunter Valley

Today on a caching/maintenance tour with Groovydoo. 2 trails and some single caches on a nice sunny day. 39/41

Thanks for the tour and the cache groovydoo

TFTC and the series.

Found this one today as well for the full collection on this road.TFTC.

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Find No: 5364. 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 cache

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 spotted this one and the cache was soon in hand.

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Coordinates changed from:
S 30° 18.568 E 152° 25.944

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 18.575 E 152° 25.942

Distance from original: 43.6 feet or 13.3 meters.
Not only was the cache gone.... so was the tree it was in. New cache nearby

i really think this one is gone,at GZ there is a couple of large stumps where trees have been cut at ground level,major fencing project.TFTC.

Tftc

Weekend geotrip with ZO33 down in the Dorrigo Area.
What a glorious area with many beautiful natural attractions and plenty to see.
Thank you for placing and maintaining geocaches

Replaced cache today

Nothing that we could see

Don't know why the cacher was claiming a find?

The only thing we found in the rain, in the fork of the tree, was about 10cm of disgusting black stuff. gave up after that.

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

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

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On a day trip form Coffs To Armidale and took a slight detour to see how many of these Bald Hills caches I could find. Started late and ran out of light after a couple of caches, and of course had no torch so that added a bit of a challenge. Anyway still light when I was looking for this one and spent a bit of time searching here but no luck for today Groovydoo.

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.

Quick find. TFTC TNLN

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 09:28:40 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. 261 at 10 April 2015 7:19 PM.

Cache quickly found but log somewhat soggy.

TFTC

6479 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. But sadly the log is saturated needs replacing

Thanks for the great cache groovydoo(8D)

Here we go !!

[green]Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9

People cache, people cache,
cache, cache, cache, cache, cache,
Cache ! Cache ![/green]

Guess what !!??
There was a beetle on the cache container

TFTC

What a great series. I saw these when they were first published but this is the first chance I've had. Thanks groovydoo...
This log is quite wet and needs replacing.

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

Found with Geoson Geoff511. TFTC Thanks groovydoo

Found with Geoson Geoff511. TFTC Thanks groovydoo

Ohh yeh Liam on the board

Found

12.45 sunday, good cache ..thanks groovydoo...

Found easily. Log is damp but functional. Probably worth replacing when the c/o does his next visit. 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

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

It's not a ........!

TFTC

A nice cache holder, thanks groovydoo, SL.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

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Found it TFTC

Found It - - Quick Find TFTC -

TFTC

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Found at 2:54 PM GAFF1. Hey! what has happened to the numbering sequence This one was a lot easier to find than the previous one as there was no enough material to completely bury it in 5 cm of mulch [B)]
Thanks groovydoo.