The Dam Road 9 Ashendon, Western Australia, Australia
By jlotsos on 08-Apr-15. Waypoint GC5R1M9

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, jlotsos, requesting additional time.

An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache, by somebody else.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

###Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache.
I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner.

The cache owner needs to:
* Investigate the situation and either restore the cache, or address any other issues, such as correcting the D/T rating if necessary.
* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log
* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done, and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present.

Otherwise :
* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary, or provide other information..
**Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this, that is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**.

Alternatively:

* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.

In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by jlotsos and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.
[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)
**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been by the CO.
If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache.
*Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*

The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is there, and in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.
Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

No luck for us here either.

No luck on this one maybe next time

Must've been melted in the fire

Yeh seems to have perished

Will try again another day.

Found a melted clip-loc container. Don’t know if it’s the actual cache so I can’t claim a find. Greeted by beautiful wildflowers when we arrived at the GZ

Think this one got burnt in the controlled burn

Nice easy road side find. Tftc!

We were on the move again today and just picking up the occasional cache along the roads as we went. It was another hot day, so we did not really want to do too many. Each of the caches found was noted as being in good condition and each log had two names added, where appropriate, as we were travelling with ilook4geo. Our thanks go to jlotsos for putting this series of caches into play. We only picked out a representative few to do from this run.

It was time to go hunting again with goingplaces2 and we found some caches along the route we took. All were good finds and it was a fun day, as we chose a random selection of caches to look for. This was one of the ones we found successfully. TFTC.

Stomped around for way too long trying not to step on it but didn’t find it

Came down this way to try and claim some smileys, which I did. A nice little series with only one dnf TFTC

Cache found all in working order

Lovely day out for a drive, to pick up a couple of caches. Been stuck inside most of the week. With all this crappie weather. Same the fire has been through here, some caches are missing. Tftc

Nice little series. There's been a bit of fire damage through here. I only managed to find 5 out of ten. Tftc.

Found it. TFTC

Quick find... watch the mutli legged insects

#12819. Day 14 of our WA holiday and our 9th day based in Rockingham. Robmc and I decided to drive back through Jarrahdale today and visit some of the Bushranger Series, the Chandler Series, the Dam Road Series and a few others along the way. Managed to find 46 today with a few DNF's thrown in.

Another nice hide here only found after I had read the hint. All good here.

Thanks jlotsos

Day Fourteen of our holiday in Western Oz.
Bettyboo3747 and I went out east to check out some Bushrangers, the Chandler and The Dam Road series, and a few on the way home.
A lovely sunny day, not too hot, not too cold, just perfect for caching.

GZ was exactly at the search object. And we looked everywhere except where we eventually found it.
A simple hide, but well done.
Thanks, Robmc.

Good hide in a beautifal bush setting. Thanks

After doing a few caches in Roleystone we headed towards Jarrahdale for a drive a couple of caches.

**Found this while House Sitting in Bedfordale**

*Out and about letting my GPS be my guide*...

What a beautiful area for a drive through here. A pity that so many bogans decide to use this whole area as a rubbish dump.

A quick park and grab here today. Found cache, stamped and returned as found.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment jlotsos. Appreciate your effort.
-P

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#10694**

Just stumbled across this series on the way home, so it was meant to be! Looked for the ones on this side of the road on the way to the Dam & the otherside of the road on the way down. Found them all, so thanks very much for our unplanned excursion & the caches jlotsos

Beautiful day to be out caching in the hills. cache found in good condition. TFTC, jlotsos.

Found it. TFTC jlotsos

Quick find. TFTH

Decided to target a couple of jlotsos series today and The Dam Road was first up. Great little series and we managed to find 9 of the 10 of them.

TFTC jlotsos this is find # 1427 for us

Found The Dam Road 9. TNLN SL TFTH jlotsos.

With the day off work I set off with grand plans grabbing the kanadian bash series. But with the forecast of rain, hail and thunder thought it was best to stick with the car for some park and grabs.

So a revised plan to tackle the Dam and Chandler road series was hatched with a couple of bush rangers thrown in for good measure.

All in all a productive day with 24 smiles 2 dnf and 1 abort mission due to muggle activity

Thanks for a great day jlotsos

TFTC Took Casey lion TB.

Tfth

Took nothing, left nothing. Thanks for the cache.

I've been looking at this series for a while, and today was the perfect day. After completing the Boulderdash series I needed some easy driving caches and this fit the bill just right. I was pleased to find good sized containers that allowed me to drop a TB into each one!

I had fairly easy finds at most of them, with a couple of tricky little ones along the way. The hints were well appreciated and used in times of need.

Thanks for the cache jlotsos!

Nice easy find here! Cyclists are still whizzing past! TFTC

Completed this great little series on our way through the hills to Perth. Enjoyed these bush caches very much. There was enough variety to keep us interested, and for the most part they were easy to locate. Some were very sneaky!! Appreciated the parking spots, as the road verges and road are very narrow. Thanks for the series jlotsos. Did not take too long and was fun.

Another nice quick and easy one here. The snaplock bag is split and sadly I didn't have a replacement on me. However everything is still nice and dry. Wrapped the log in the snaplock bag and replaced as found onto the next.

We drove a long way south to explore the dam today. Weather was fantastic and, other than a few rev heads, the road was quiet. A couple of caches were between 10 and 20m from where my GPSr pointed and the rest were quick finds. The large cache took the longest time to locate which seemed ironic. We enjoyed the variety of sizes and hides. We appreciated the sensible locations of hides; there was only 1 location that we found it difficult to find safe parking. It would be great to see some more water in the dam; situation looking bleak at the moment. Thanks for a fun hour or so on this road jlotsos.

tftc jlotsos quick easy find today.

Heed the clue. TFTC

Out and about with RAPIDASH today to collect some smilies along Dam Road.

TFTC

Found while caching with Me&B for the morning and enjoying the scenery. This series has been on my radar for a little while and I was happy when Me&B reached out to say she was heading in this direction. There was just enough variety to keep us interested without any one of them being too difficult. TFTC and the series, jlotsos!

Quick stop and grab
Found with Lound16 & Goorjus69

Out for the day with Loudy16 and NewBut. Started with a roadblock at the Canning Dam but got better from there as we followed the Dam Road series. TFTC!

Out with goorjus69 and newbut today picking up a couple of caches today good find TFTC

Great series. Had a lovely afternoon driving through the hills.

Saturday caching in the hills around the Canning Reservoir. The Dam Road series was the main reason I came this way and it was a good choice. All caches were in good condition and fortunately it was easy to park at each hide.
I was sniffing around for a bit before I found this one. TFTH

Bit of a hunt. Looked in the same place as everybody else. Nearly trod on it. Nice series, bit of variety. Worth a fave for the series t4tc

A lovely day to be out and about caching. We travelled the length of The Dam Road, doing those on the left on the way up and those on the right on the way down. There was a good variety of caches and all were found without too much searching involved - and no DNFs.
Thanks for this cache and for the series jlotsos.

With the wife and daughter away at school camp and me up earlier than usual to drop off the lad at school, I decided to make the most of the week of annual leave I’m on and get some finds in on as many days as I can.

This little series that hit my radar after the CO mentioned in the WA Geocaching Facebook group yesterday, it seemed like a good way to start my week of hunting.

The weather today was perfect and I made fairly quick finds with all the hides apart from one, but some corrected cords along with jlotsos handy hints they place on all their hides made for an enjoyable morning with only 2 cars passing the whole time.

Thanks jlotsos for this series, a good mix of hides and placements kept me guessing.

After a little bit of a search I expanded my area, I then trusted the GZ and what do you know, a cache.
Sneaky.

TFTC
AlliedOz aka The Jokers

After completing the Chandler series and working our way back towards Armadale, we couldn't not take the detour and come and have a go at this series too. Most were found without too much difficulty, either with finding good safe places to pull off of the road, or with finding the caches. Thanks for this one jlotsos

Thoroughly enjoyed this little series on our way home from Araluen on Fathers Day. Lovely hides and containers thanks for the fun

Took some time to find this one. Coords were pretty good but I was trying to be too clever with the hint and was looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place. Geospouse would have found it in a flash. Tftc

Sneaky due to ground cover

Our GeoMarie found this cache.
TFTC

Gotcha. Tftc

Thanks for the hides loving our Sunday cache session.

Dropped the geo-muggle-missus off at her friend's place for the afternoon and went caching. After hunting down a couple of frogs, clearing up some Boulderdash DNFs and grabbing a couple of archived Mischief's Crew caches, I hit the Dam Road.

Used the hint for this one ... should have been more observant as it wasn't hard to find. I must eb getting lazy.

Signed the log. Thanks for the hide jlotsos

A quick find on my way towards some of the CCC series. No traffic around today - makes it very peaceful. The voices said to me that these are quite easy find and to finish off the series today - I hope thy're right. SL Thanks to jlotsos for the cache.

Clearing out the last of the dam road caches.

Thanks for the series great spot!

9 down one to go!!

(chwiliwr team catch up log)

We were doing a run of cache up this way and called in to find this cache along the way.

A quick find here after not being able to do the previous couple of caches due to muggles and workmen at their GZ.

Thanks jlotsos for the cache.

Was doing a run of cache up this way and called in to find this cache along the way.

A quick find here after not being able to do the previous couple of caches due to muggles and workmen at their GZ.

Thanks jlotsos for the cache.

This cache had been a difficult one for me for some reason. Flying solo today and knowing the Coords had been amended I came back to finish the series off.

Parked in the now familiar spot, and followed the gps straight to the cache. Can't really work out why I didn't find this on my last two attempts.

Oh well.

Tftc jlotsos.

Thanks for a great series of caches jlotsos Made for a great afternoon in the bush

After the Mothers Day gift giving was over, I must have been getting in Mrs jinta's way cause she told me to go caching . Well... who am I to start an argument? I quickly packed some supplies into the geo Corolla and headed out the door. Thanks for placing these caches jlotsos. Some of the coords were a bit out but the previous logs identify the likely GZ's.

Man, I am pleased the coords have been updated for this one

Decided to spend a pleasant afternoon caching and complete this series. TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 09.826 E 116° 07.625

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 09.820 E 116° 07.623

Distance from original: 37.9 feet or 11.5 meters.
S 32° 09.820 E 116° 07.623

Thank you to all who searched and still found hope these cords help make it easier for future finds

thanks.. admittedly 3rd try.. blind man here.. stepped over prob 4 times.. super frustrated, but so good to get the win in the end, for the series.. right where i thought it would be in the first place.. ha.. coords def a little out.. even with recalibration on the spot.. gz dancing all over the place.. rocky hills maybe.. used the update from the nathans.. many thanks.. still a little out by my gps though.. northish.. cheers..

This entry was edited by the bushrat.. on Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 11:53:43 UTC.

TFTC

That blew a hole in our confidence

Sad

Headed out to the Canning Dam with the kids for a BBQ lunch & of course had to stop & find some caches along the way

Looking for this cache, I was totally confused about where it was that I should be looking… I searched around what I thought was the obvious spot & lots of other spots after reading that the co-ordinates were also out for this one? I used some other co-ords that were noted but that put me closer to the road & I then spent probably 20 mins searching near the road The kids were totally sick of it, so I decided to move on…

That was until I was talking to a previous finder who told me to go back to the obvious spot… So after having our lunch & exploring the dam, we headed back for another look! After doing half a circle around, I soon noticed a familiar colour in the leaves… Phew, boy am I happy to find this one

TFTC & for enticing us out this way jlotsos… We had an enjoyable day out Again the co-ordinates seem to be off & should be updated.

No find. We looked for 20 min.

Came back after a hint

Thanks to a clue from jasenanie we found it, and removed flag post

The mission today was to pick up a nearby high D/T rated cache to fill a spot in my grid (Jurassic Jaunt!!, GCKDC6). After a successful outing there it was a trip along the Canning Dam rd to see if I could knock off all the recently published 'Dam Road' caches.

I would be doing them in reverse order which made for some creative parking maneuvers from time to time. Some of the co-ords seemed out a bit and I took some readings where applicable but I got them all and there were a couple of crafty hides here and there as well. Thanks for putting the series out jlotsos.

Was at an event yesterday and chatting to the CO about this series and in particular this cache after my DNF here the other day whereupon I got a pretty good hint as to where the cache would be. Found it straight away today and took a reading with the GPSr.

SLTFTC

I'm looking forward to meeting other geocachers in Busselton at the 'WA GOES BIG IN 2015' event. Registrations now open.

Log your 'Will Attend' at [url=http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5GR5X_wa-goes-big-in-2015]GC5GR5X[/url]

Met up with iluvtrekking and JacobsCrew2 to grab a few caches and attend the Cito event in Kelmscott.
This is a nice series and amazing change in vegetation between first and last cache. Thanks jlotsos

Met up with Richlinks, iluvtrekking and Branzy12 for a great day of caching. the weather is prefect with mild conditions.....found most caches quickly with the odd tricky one...TFTC

Set off early this morning with richlink to link in with JacobsCrew2 and Barnzy12 and do our bit at the Kelmscott CITO Event. This was one of many caches found while in the area. Always a sucker for a series this one did not disappoint. Thanks jlotsos.

Our second DNF in this series, we combed all around the area without lick. Will be back....


Tfth

A long way out. An obvious location but needs updated coordinates.
Change to s818 e628

Ok the GPS had us wandering around in the wrong area. On the way back to the car Geo son spotted it. TFTC.

TFTC! Out for a morning caching run before doing the afternoon shift at work. Thanks

After being involved in the setup of this cache I shall now claim a find.

Took us a while but finally found it. Gps is off about 10m

Came out this way on a reconnaissance run for an attempt this weekend of D/T grid filling cache and decided to have a go at a couple of the new Dam Road hides while in the area. I'll be back to do the rest on Monday hopefully.

Pulled up near this one and was searching around for a bit but not getting anywhere. Had a read of some logs and saw that I needed to expand my search area, I was running out of time but I decided to do one last big circle but couldn't spot anything obvious. The hint, I think, just added to my confusion.

Hopefully I'll be back in a few days and if I can locate it I'll take a reading with the GPSr.

TFTH

I'm looking forward to meeting other geocachers in Busselton at the 'WA GOES BIG IN 2015' event. Registrations now open.

Log your 'Will Attend' at [url=http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5GR5X_wa-goes-big-in-2015]GC5GR5X[/url]

Re-logging under new team name ONLINE ONLY (were formerly part of TheChatterboxes but the team had got too large). If CO is not ok with this please contact me. Thanks.

Yes, agree with the 11m, thanks for the help. Wouldn't have found it otherwise. Looked for quite a while, were about to give up then yey!

A LOT of searching for this cache! My gps says 11m out. TFTC

Out with Redlipsandunicorns picking up a few caches.
This one had us walking in circles for a while. I found it using the hint as i found the co-ords to be 11 metres out TFTC Jlotsos

Published

Helbren offered to share FTF but as he laid his hand on it first he can have this one. TFTC

bumped into Happyjacks here she had already been searching and i made the *FTF* yaaaay we had a chat and headed off together to the last one tftc