#20 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Clonbinane, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 20-Sep-15. Waypoint GC5YJRB

TFTC. doing a reconnaissance search for caches before bringing some families with young children out for a day of geocaching Log is a little damp.

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

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

Found

Found it log is wet Looks like a gd starting point for motorbike lots of utes and bike trailers near by TFTC

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

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!

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

Great fun

Thanks great fun

Found it

#14 TFTC, SL at 15:13

Nice quick find. Log book is a bit damp as zip lock is knackered. TftcDaily streak: 474

On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. Day 41/74, Saturday. Today, I decided to do some trail caching and headed to the Mount Disappointment area. I searched quite a big number of caches today. Some of them I simply skipped, due to various reasons: there were some DNF's and I could not be bothered - the place was too "bushy" or otherwise unpleasant, or I did not find the cache in less than a minute (which was my limit for patience today). I knew I would only get a fraction of the caches anyway, so it made no sense to try to get each and every one of them systematically. So, I was a bit lazy. Most of the caches today were found very quickly and I had a lot of fun.Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! P.S. Despite the DNF's, this cache is where it is supposed to be, so all good here.Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

No luck for us here today

DNF

Ma figurati se troviamo questa...Thanks Owner

Find#6063Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

A trip to this region of the Australia was planned. In order to search and find a few caches here, various caches were dragged onto the Garmin. When we got here we saw a nice power trail. Without further ado, we organized various groceries to make ends meet. Filled up the rental car again and off we went.Our 4 WD-Truck is ready for this trip!After some time of starting this challenge, we came across here as well. We had to search a little longer for one or the other cache.Thanks to the owner for laying, caring for and guiding. TFTCKind regards from Germany

Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches,

Thanks

Quick find but sadly lots of rubbish nearby.

Found by caughtatwork on 17/09/2023 at 3:32:00 PMWe have taken to the bush for some walking along the roads and track to see if we can find some geocaches. Most of our caching was done by foot, with the occasional relocation to a new section by car. Most of the caches we found were in good order with only a few with small amounts of dampness, nothing to worry about. 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. The area is lovely this time of year, the weather was warm but not hot and the smell of the eucalyptus trees was wonder to breathe in. *Overall Experience: 3*GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

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

Great day searching for caches in this series. At this point I encounter a lot of cars parked by the side of the road all unloading or have unloaded off-road trail bikes. This seems a very popular area for this past time as there ar dozens and so now I need to be wary of muggles.

I went from 17 to 20. I can’t recall now if 18 and 19 were missing or I passed them by due to muggle activity.

Anyway, 20 found and on I go. TFTC

Trying to complete some caches to get to 2000 for first anniversary of caching. Here at Mt Disappointment to do some of this series. Very hard but fun to find.
Thanks for the cache carkisser

Tftc

Took a bit of wandering around before I found the find. Found another container I thought was it, but it wasn', but I've actually taken that one to use for a hide elsewhere.

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

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.

Apologies for some generic logs for a few caches. This was found with the Queensland cachers and was a straightforward find. We had also started to collect a little rubbish - plastic and glass bottles as well as cans! Thanks to carkisser & JSando for the cache.

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

#20 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

Nice little walk in the bush, shame about all the rubbish around. tftc

Great spot

Spending the day grabbing the rest of these Mt Disa caches quick grab here. TFTC

No luck here.

I have been intending to have a go at finding the caches on this iconic geocaching route for a while now. Today was the day, well to make a start anyway .. generally the coords and hints were spot on, unfortunately a small number of the caches we found were a bit damp but I still managed to make my mark…next time I will bring spares. We were surprised with the amount of people here, dirt bike riders, shooters 4WDers and campers… and of course geocachers. A few caches we had to give a miss due to muggle activity but got them on the way back. Apologies in advance for the generic logs! Thanks to carkisser and JSando for the series .. I can’t imagine how much work was put into the series .. much appreciated! We will be back to get the rest.. but maybe not on Easter weekend

TFTC

TFTC, took a little while to find this cache.

Tftc

TFTC nice little path to this one

We're enjoying our stay just between Lancefield and Kilmore and as our holiday was drawing to a close we decided to take a leisurely drive up Mt. Disappointment. It was quite warm so we didn't plan on getting every cache along these trails but picking up a few on the way to our picnic spot would do us no harm. We pulled over safely and I hoped out alone to grab this one, after a bit of searching around the caches hiding spot was found. Thanks for the hide carkisser

Found

TFTC

TFTC, out today as the first day back in regional vic.. tis series has been on my radar for along while and now out this weekend camping and enjoying the beauty of Mt Disappointment.
A really good series. Aiming to get our 200+ in a day and hit #2000 soon.

This one took a. Bit more to find but got there in the end

Ok

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

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.

Retrieved the trackable to continue its journey

TFTC carkisser and JSando

Apologies for the late log, we made many finds this weekend and now I'm trying to catch up! So good to have plenty of parking options here that didn't feel dangerous! Unfortunately I have some mobility issues so bush bashing is just not possible for me anymore, the last time I tried I tripped over and broke my arm! So that's why Leeyah29 was with me lol so while she searched through the underbrush I gave her some moral support from the sidelines and after a good 5 to 10 mins of searching she had the cache! TFTC! ¹

Took me 5 minutes! Fun fun

TFTC

Found with the kids I work with number 3. Left a wrist band

We had to double back to get this cache as an early morning motorcyclist had parked his vehicle nearby and was getting ready. 30 minutes later he was off having some fun so we found the track deeper in but unfortunately someone had answered a call of nature in the area. Luckily the cache was a bit further along and still in good condition! TFTC

Yay last for the day (had to go deeper to find this one!)

Xmas Day geocaching, this was a nice little hiding spot!

Nice one..... easy parking

Nice little hiding spot away from the roadside. Pity all the rubbish and beer bottles left behind by all the cowboys.

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

Thanks

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
Lots of dirt bike riders around

1st ever find.

Mrs. iowaPete and I came to the area today to chase GC7A, the second oldest cache in Australia. We found ourselves with a few extra hours and no firm plans. I did what I usually do - pull up the geocaching map and look for....

Holy Powertrails, Batman!! Look at THAT series!! Mrs. iowaPete and I decided to chase a few of them. We wound up cherry picking several just because that had parking spots that we felt comfortable using. Since we don't know the area, we were concerned that we might get in somebody's way, so we skipped a few from time to time, and grabbed others.

Once we figured out what we were looking for, the cache chases went pretty quickly. The hints and coordinates were excellent and we grabbed a nice pile. All of the containers were in great condition. Clean and dry with log sheets that easily accepted our signature. We only scratched the surface of the whole series, but that's okay. We enjoyed it all.

TFTC

iowaPete

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?
A dirt bike unloading area.
Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

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.

Nice hide and good stroll in the bush. 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.

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

The GPS failed to behave so this one took a little longer to locate.

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 43:80)

Today was our second visit to this area, hoping to grab a few more of this fabulous series.
Thanks to carkisser & JSando and others who have assisted in keeping this series going, so we were not disappointed.

Tftc

TFTC

This series was on the cards today, most of the caches I did were all in good condition, unfortunately it seems some of the cache sbetween 45-69 are missing due to widening of the road were I had quite a few DNFs.
Caches between 184-191 need replacing as they are all wet.
Cache from 180-140 are in great condition and were all quickly located.
Overall I had a good trip and a good few hours out finding these

Today was a big day out, well it felt like it anyway. With the rain coming out of the clouds early I was unsure if my plan would be put to action. After hosting an event in the morning the skies seemed to clear so off I went in search of some Mount Disappointment caches. After finding just over 100 of them I decided to pull the pin and head back to Melbourne to do some more interesting caches. Some multis were on the cards and some finals were located but due to the amount of high muggles frequency due to this so called thing of “school holidays”, I had to leave the caches.  Finished off the day with an event near Marvel stadium and on the Spirit to Tasmania.

A great day out with 118 finds. A good few days in vic finished off.

Thanks for the cache

This is a wonderful day. I’m on my way to a dinner with friends to celebrate 50 years since the moon landing. This takes me up the highway so what better way to spend the day doing a few more of This seemingly never ending great series Thanks for all your work on this carkisser & JSando

Tftc

After a lot of planning over the last few months, the day had finally come to get stuck into this series. I followed the route I had worked out without being sidetracked and everything went pretty much as I had hoped. I made my first find at 7:10am and the last for the day at 6:15pm. By 7 o’clock I was sitting in the Red Lion in Kilmore enjoying a cold beer and thinking back over a most enjoyable day. There was of course the odd DNF along the way as well. The weather was kind to me which helped a lot as well. A big thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing this and maintain this series. Cheers and TFTC

With geo-daughter Sheri at the wheel and geo-mutt Ana barking orders from the back seat, we began our quest to collect all of the Mt Disappointment series. Even though it was a late start we will see how we go. There were a number of muggle motors lining the road so had to be sure they were all empty before making a dash for the cache. With confidence high that we were alone on the road, I went for the cache. TNLNSL. TFTC. KkAmS

Heading through to Albury today and thought we'd stop off and do a few of the Mt Disappointment caches.

All good to find for the most part, but a few were a little to dangerous to park so we left them...

Thanks for the fun carkisser & JSando - your work here is most appreciated!

Last one for this trip - will be back another day we promise - thanks for the trail, the hund and the fun!

Dad decided to take a drive on a quiet country road and collect a few (hundred) caches today tomorrow and the next day. Mt Disappointment here I come. Find #[email protected]

This morning we were heading for Melbourne’s Oldest cache and so we unfortunately didn't have time to do too many of this impressive series, but we couldn't drive right past them either, and so having left our overnight camping spot we took this road out so that we could at least make a dent in the series and draw a line of smilies. We soon found this one once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Interesting design on a lot of the container lids - we wonder if they have been personalised and if not what were the containers were originally used for? Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

**Find #2492**

Out and about enjoying another driving/riding lesson on the Geo-motorcycle. Grabbing another 10 Mt Disappointment Caches. A fantastic series that I hope to complete this year. Well done to the C.O. for the monumental effort in placing and maintaining this series.

Thanks **carkisser**

TFTC.

Quick find,thanks for a great series and bringing us to this interesting area.TFTC

Looks like I'm back in the forests of disappointment again
Much more relaxing along the trail up here,
though finding each cache might take a little longer with the multitude of hiding places at each stop

TFTC

What better way to spend the Australia Day holiday than on a Geocaching power trail!
Thanks

Great day out with Team Justice, successfully completing this wonderful series in a day. The challenge has appealed to us for a long time, and it was incredibly satisfying to be able to complete it. Throughout the day we often marveled at the size and quantity of the containers you must have had at home in order to lay these out. Thanks so much carkisser for this astonishingly ambitious and well executed series. We loved it!

A plan was hatched with Clint & Abby over 12 months ago when we saw these caches come out over time. We could get 100, nah, let’s get them all and soon after a few drinks we decided to attempt the lot in 1 day. Time passed and somehow we found ourselves talking about it at a recent event (yes, and more drinks). Let’s do it after Christmas, ok. So, we meet in Wallan at 6am to begin the long day.

We had a few ideas to speed up our caching given we were trying to find 300+ caches in a day and that our previous record was about 60 in a day so this was going to be tough. We put the GPS and pens on lanyards do we could keep our hands few when getting the cache and didn’t have to pick up or get things out of our pockets. We did shifts of 1 hour, so one person did the driving, ate, re-hydrated and relaxed, while the other cached for the hour. The driver also provided the clue up front between caches as the cacher counted the distance down to the cache.

Now to the clues. Tree, stump, log, rock! We were getting a good chuckle over the clues, ‘beside tree’, we are in a forest! We found some of the ‘logs’ were not yet logs (i.e. trees), but they were close most of the time. We thought there might be some sort of random clue generator sometimes.

To the numbers. 330 caches attempted in 10 hours and 22 minutes. We had 7 DNFs and a total of 323 finds. This meant an average find time (including DNFs) of 1 minute, 53 seconds. We were quite amazed at the speed we could go and how quick you could find, sign and move on. It also comes down to the great containers laid out by carkisser for this power trail. Nice and large, and easy to find and extract the logs. We only came across one Eclipse time late in the day. Our biggest hour of finds was our 5th hour of 42 finds. This averaged out at 1 minute and 25 seconds per cache.

Overall, we had a great time as it was a challenge to push ourselves to get all these caches. We loved the layout and the effort to place all these caches. Thanks so much to carkisser for the caches.

FBTJ #2514

Thank you

When the muggle family suggests a picnic, what else can we do but accept, and as we found our selves in this lovely area, our first visit here, even the family enjoyed the extra fun and joined in the search, we look forward to returning to hunt for more this is th elast for today on this trail, as our driver heads for home, Log found, signed and replaced as found, thanks for placing these caches and the fun

I'm in Melbourne for a few day's with Horsesrule1990, heading to the event and to pick up as many caches as possible. Once the Melbourne Mega raps up we will head to the Gold Coast , for a few day hitting all the fun parks. Then heading back to Western Australia, and back to Work. Would like to thank everyone for there caches and there efforts hiding then for us to find.all Tftc.

Over for Parkville Event started early this Morning after I landed in Melbourne, with Becknmonts and Loulou0212 we saw some beautiful scenery, great fun completing this series in 1 day

After Becknmonts and I picked gabs1963 up from the airport we headed out to start our day, a beautiful quick stop at Melbourne’s first before we headed to start this trail, thanks so much for putting theses caches out, I really enjoyed them - definitely a first for me getting my geo car off the road and on some dirt - TFTC carkisser

I had a great day out today after LouLou0212 and myself picked Gabs1963 up for the airport. We headed to “Melbourne’s First” and then onto this trail as Gabs1963 has cached our her 450km radius, so she wanted some “easy numbers”. Thanks so much for placing this trail carkisser

On my way from Newcastle to Melbourne for the Mega with a few random stops. This was one of them! Trying to rack up a few extra stats before the event.

This one made me work for it. TNLN TFTC

16/11/2018 I needed some numbers to get my milestone of 21000 finds so headed out to Mt Disappointment to grab 100 or so of the power trail caches. Only a few DNF's thanks to tree fellers and dozers. TFTC.

Heading over for the Mega, stopped by for a few of these.
Left my 'H' scrawl, as a mark for this powertrail...
TNLNSL
Thanks