#10 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Upper Plenty, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 20-Sep-15. Waypoint GC5YJPC

Found by caughtatwork on 23/11/2024 at 8:20:00 AMA quick caching morning on a day that was very warm and will become even warmer.Took nothing, left nothing.Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches, there would be nothing around for those who like to find geocaches.*Overall Experience: 3*GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another day of adventure with doddlingalong. A bit chilly but so good to be out of the city. Thought we would give this collection a start and see how many we can collect. TFTC

Out for another day of adventures with carmlee1, quick find and onwards

Cold day

Someone had dumbed some nice xmas decorations near by TFTC

Out and about today just grabbing a few caches to add to my collection. Quick find thanks.

Trying to keep up with the Jones in the Cosmic Quest!Many thanks carkisser for providing this game piece for our enjoyment.Greetings from Tatura, Australia

Accompanied with theashleys7 for caching day at Mt Disappointment. We enjoyed our journey to find the caches and some DNFs. Weather was freezing in the morning and nice in the afternoon. Found it and logged as KASA24 as a team. Thanks Carkisser for placing the cache

Logged as KASA24 as kangas11 and I both had a huge day today caching together at Mt Disappointment and writing our team name instead of both our caching usernames saved us time. I did the driving while kangas11 did the finding & writing in the logbooks. Tomorrow back to Mt Disappointment for more and well be swapping our roles. TFTC Carkisser!

Tftc

New container placed.

Fixed

Heading to the mountain today.

On the list to check next week.

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DNF

Ma va a pensare che non troviamo neppure questa ......Thanks Owner

Very clever ! Thanks for find number 59!

Find#6017Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

sadly we were unable to locate this one today! We searched for about 10 minutes expanding our search. We read some logs of an unhappy property owner and decided to vacate quickly.WE SHAL RETURN! 28 December 2023 2:38 pm HoodedHooligans (H.H.)

Nearby land owner may of removed cache, found where it should of been.

Owner may need to check cache is still there.

Not found and owner of property not happy with us on side of road

Didn't find as owner of property threatened to ring police on us

Got the hint nice find

After a planned Saturday of geocaching around Lancefeild and sourounds, we found ourselves finishing up the day in Wallan. As a joke, I said to Mrs 4wd that we should just go to Dissa and camp the night and smash out the few caches we had DNFs on the power trail that had since been replaced.
Next minute, we were off into the bush and set up camp at Campsite #1 ahh the freedom of a rooftop tent and having the 4wd set up for such spontaneous decisions.. Caching is way more fun than the day I had planned to catch up at work.
I'm happy to have finished off this series
Tftc
Log is soaked

Log drenched. Unable to sign.

Log was wet, couldn’t fill in
#55

Pretty easy find. Logbook is quit damp but managed to sign it, return it and on my way.

Trying to complete some caches to get to 2000 for first anniversary of caching. Granddaughter found this while still sitting in car. Log is wet.Here at Mt Disappointment to do some of this series.
Thanks for the cache carkisser

Dropped by to grab a few more of this series while in the area. Chipping away at them a few at a time.

Thanks carkisser for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Good sized caches, with accurate coordinates and good hints are making for a pleasant drive and an enjoyable day. Thank you for the effort you have put in to setting this trail for all to enjoy.

More to come

The goal was 400 in a day—a pretty big task. But with Mt Disappointment and the Power Trail, it was a possibility. We started strong and hoped to find a high percentage of this excellent series. Unfortunately, it was a Mountain of Disappointment as the geomobile did not appreciate idling and travelling at very low speed as much as we did. It let us know the gearbox was not happy, so we had to pull the pin after 130 finds.

We did have the pleasure of seeing a range of Australian wildlife, one roo, several wallabies and four wombats, which it pretty cool.

We apologise for the generic log, as we prefer not to write them. We have some time pressures and cannot write 130 different logs.

All caches were found in excellent t condition unless otherwise noted.

Thank you, carkisser & JSando, for this long series of Traditional caches. We will be back to finish the series in the future.

Found this while attending the Whittlesea mega.
Depending on the log size and who I was with this is signed as nikid1, ND1 or TQ5 (team Queensland).
I had spied this series up north as it will help with a local challenge cache.
Was wondering if this would be doable with all the recent rain but with teamwork we could leave someone in the car where we couldn’t get over enough while others searched. One DNF for us the rest where found fairly easily.

TFTC carkisser

Friday and there is so much to do around town, in the hills and in the adjoining districts, where to start. I will say that despite the changing weather conditions every 9 minutes, this has not dampened my look on this area. It is fantastic and such a great little main street and with so much going on. A plan was set for today and with my caching buddies off we went, chasing caches all over the place. There are some fantastic views from up in those hills. We got in some great caches today and covered a very large area of caches, thanks to all who put these out.

We started with some of the challenge caches and a drive around the area doing some labs and the Mt. Disappointment caches. We were unable to check out some caches due to works being conducted in the areas, so we will have to come back another time.
There were a few events on in the Melbourne areas, so we planned our times around those.

We did these caches as a team, which worked out great for our days plans. Thanks for the great caches today, we signed as TQ5 or as individuals at the events.

Twas the night before mega
With dark night and cold air
Off we go caching
late nights do not scare.

Kangaroos are of plenty
Five wombats we did see
How many caches will we get?
One? Maybe two or three.

Great company with Dromaniax,
Lucky we had a stamp
Plenty of caches were found here
Some good, some old, some damp.

Thank you

Had an enjoyable day finding a variety of caches while out with goingplaces2. Just picking up the few of this series that GP2 had missed years ago. Name added to the log, all replaced. TFTC.

Today was a day of finding a mixed selection of different types of caches with ilook4geo and we had a good run. This was an easy find today to redeem the DNF of 5 years ago. There was no problem today. All is in good condition and the log was returned to place after having been signed. Thanks for this cache placement go to carkisser &JSando.

Adventure boys!
We found in peace.
#nosuchthingas [ftf]

#10 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson
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16 November 2022

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In the spirit of reconciliation I would like to acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Found and signed dsd or darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and the Adventure

Good to go

New container in place

Sadly I have been super unwell and had no time to fix this. There is light at the end or the tunnel and all of our caches will be repaired and back online soon.

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Hi there carkisser,

This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **MAY** need some attention.

You may recall having received an automated email from Geocaching HQ which explained what you needed to do.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to have happened, so I am having to take the next step and temporarily disable the cache - see here: [**Geocache Health Score.**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713)

**You do need to respond in some way within 14 days, so others know you are on top of it, as well as indicating exactly what is happening with this placement - please don't let a lack of communication scuttle this listing.**

#What should you do now:-#
You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-

- **Check On The Cache:-** Visit the cache to check, repair, replace or do whatever else is needed, post an [**Owner Maintenance log**](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) indicating the cache has been checked and [**ENABLE your cache.**](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) Then sit back and wait for the logs of praise to roll in.


- **Place A Write Note Log:-** Reviewers don't have a crystal ball, so without your note on the cache page explaining that the site works are on-going, or you have been in hospital, or the area is in flood, they can't tell what is going on with the cache.
So please just post a note to the page (within 14 days) and when a Reviewer next looks at the listing, all will be fine for a little bit longer.
**Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it. If you have a long term unavailable cache (where you don't have an actual date) please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 4 to 6 weeks, so as to keep everyone up to speed.**


- **Adopt/Archive:-** If you don't plan on fixing it then you could consider passing it on to another Geocacher by asking them to [**Adopt it**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=54) or alternatively, you need to [**Archive it,**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56) so it is removed from searches and someone else can have the spot. Don't forget to remove any remnants of your previously enjoyed cache too.

You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of the above. Well, when the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned and processed accordingly.

Honestly, I'd rather you decide, so please do something before then. Please don't send me an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.

Thanks for your cooperation,

Bunjil

[3AS]

Alas, we no find

Had a look around but no luck.

No luck with this one

Can see the spot but no bb for us

Can see the spot! No B B Berroca for us on this one

Disappointed ️

TFTC. Had fallen onto the road, so put back in place

Tftc

Great day out with Bogonghazy on our way to Mansfield. Goal was to find 200 caches and we did.
Beautiful day and thank you for placing the caches. Will be back to finish them off.

Found on our way to flowerdale pub for dinner

Tftc, #9 for the day with lilbassgirl

Tftc found with fourtwelve

TFTC found with wasp1997

TFTC with kimx123

Nice sunny weather and surely it can’t last So headed back into the forest from a different direction. Fab fun exploring this territory and a relaxing caching day. Shared the trails with dirt bikes, domestic loggers, and sightseers.

I wasn’t looking for huge numbers ‘tho the finds started to pile up after lunch. Having said that, a couple of sneaky hides had me spinning in circles As I’ve said before about this PT, the hides are consistent, good coords and hints Rounded out the day with a visit to Broadford to give the car a hose down before returning to Yea. I should sleep well tonight.

Not to get logging as keen to see what’s left on the map

TFTC carkisser and JSando

We decided to try a few of this series today starting late in the afternoon. We were a little surprised with the amount of traffic on what we thought would be a quiet road. Most of the caches were found quite quickly - almost park and grabs. My apologies for a generic log. Thanks to carkisser & JSando for the series.

Apologies for the late log, we made so many finds over this weekend that I'm just trying to catch up! This one wasn't too hard and another cache down! TFTC!

Thanks

TFTC

Sick tats

berocca

Once again we had a little jog backwards from a safe parking spot. Made the find and signed rather quickly as a large bull-ant looked on. TFTC

Awesome cache, we love this series my boys and I spent the day exploring this beautiful area!
The views are spectacular.
Thank you

Hubba bubba

Found this in cache too??

We could see this one from where we stopped on the other side of the road!

Locations on the opposite side of road

Thanks.... another quick one

Nowhere really good to park so had to be quick. Nice easy find thanks

Awesome again. Thank you.

Finally, a weekend with no kids and (momentarily) lifted ISO restrictions. We’ve known about this epic series since we started caching a few years ago but have never made the trek from South Gippsland. We started on Saturday 20th at about 11.30am and cached steadily until dark, which was pretty early given it was Winter Solstice. The campsites were all full with dirt bikers, so we found a quiet spot in the bush to camp. A wet night ensured followed by an early start and we got back to the caches again. We only had until mid morning, but over the two days we found a total of approx 152 caches.
Apologies in advance for the generic logs! There were only a few DNF’s and we’ll log those separately. Caches were otherwise in excellent condition and the coords and hints were spot on.
Thanks so much to carkisser and JSando for this extraordinary series! We applaud the effort that you have put into placing and maintaining these caches We look forward to coming back and finding the rest

What a great day to take myself alone, up to the start of the Mt Disappointment caches at last. It was windy and blustery but I had a wonderful time. It won’t be my last visit. I can’t wait to get all the way up to the summit. Tftc carkisser and jsando
Nature at it finest

Was telling is that it was on opposite side of the street. Found it though. TFTG

#58 TFTC Mothers Day 2020

Relocated to a new stretch of the trail, still going, getting what we can between rain breaks. Trying to stay dry again.
Cache for the day is Number 102

After a very warm start to the day, I was RAINED out so was heading home but still a few of the caches to turn from blue to yellow, this was one but seems there are TWO here well one at posted cords and another bigger drier one on other side of road, which one to sign, both of course, and then place smaller one inside larger one and both now at posted GZ, If this does not make sense, contact me

Many finds today with n0w0rries and our GeoMutts, EveTheStaffy and MaxTheCollie.
Perfect weather and very little traffic made for mostly nice quick finds.
Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

New log

Back out on the mountain with +Wife and our GeoMutts, EveTheStaffy and MaxTheCollie.
Fantastic caching weather on a public holiday. What more could you ask for.

Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

Two days after our last trek to the mountain, Team ZACAATT returned in an effort to finish what we had started.

Not entirely sure what would happen with the weather we headed into Whittlesea for the first lead up event to the next Victorian mega. Our plan was to get the last lot of the Mt Disappointment trail, but we were prepared to turn around and drive home with thunder storms predicted for the day, but as the meet ended, the sun was shining and we took off, first taking on caches that we had DNFd on our very first trek up the mountain in 2017.

Then it was on to the caches that we missed two days before. We had a completely different day for the third time. Zedaycee and AngéliqueAnja both took falls and there were a collection of bugs and spiders that returned to the car on unsuspecting cachers.

At one DNF location (we DnFd 2 today) we found an adorable little lizard sunning himself.

Eventually the rain and the thunder and the lightning did come and we had to make the decision to turn around and go home. It was windy and pouring as we drive home, 8 more caches that we had planned to do left undone.

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

It had to expand its Search Radius!

Caching today with Tally Tiger and Angelique Anja. Full log is the same as Angelique Anja and Tally Tiger. Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

Quick easy find

Thanks for the cache. carkisser
Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

With my caching buddy Spiffy- overseas, It was a chance for me to go get some caches he has already found (there are lots as he is 1500 ahead of me and started 1 year after me...)

My target area was Mt Disappointment. I had an idea to ride the bike, but it was a little warm and the roads a bit harded than I first thought so left the bike in the car. All caches were founs within a couple of minutes as the coords were good and the geotrails helped.

Thanks to carkisser & JSando for the placement and fun.

Different from all the rest nestled in pine needles. This cache needs some attention...soggy log. Suggest a more watertight container. TFTC

With permission of the team member who was in the local hospital we decided on a day our this time with a goal of collecting 150 finds for the day which will if achieved will be our best caching day and after spending the day collecting cache after cache we ended with 151 finds and 3 DNFs so it was a rely good outing today.

Sorry it is copy and paste logs most were nice quick finds some proved a little more difficult however most we very easy finds and some require a little attention from the owner for wet logs with it being a good day as it was cool to start and didn't get over hot during the day we managed to make the goal of 150 finds with 1 extra just to be sure.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing this series for us to make such an assault to collect so many caches on one day.

Log was dry and fully signable when checked.

Found with Jackez74 TFTC

A quick and easy grab with matho64. TFTC

I'm really enjoying this series of caches. Don't know how many I will get done today before the rain arrives!

A cooler day to keep the risk of snakes and bushfires lower however the shower did make it damp underfoot.
TNLN
Our thanks to carkisser & JSando for the cache.
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
Overall Experience: 1
Cache condition - too damp to sign

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Not where we thought. Put back where found.
Day 2 - out and about on our quest to log 80 finds. Beautiful area. Beautiful story. TFTC and to carkisser and JSando for placement and to all who help maintain this series for others to enjoy. (Log 34:80)

Americans resident in Singapore, in Australia to celebrate Uni daughters 21st. Enjoying the spring weather and the amazing outdoors and picking up a few caches along the way. Thanks for bringing us to this beautiful area!

TFTC