#42 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Clonbinane, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser on 22-Nov-15. Waypoint GC5YJWC

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

Found

Found it TFTC

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

OzHockeyChick was in need of some caches so we found ourselves on an afternoon adventure in Mt Disappointment.I have found bits and pieces of this trail, however today was a chance to make a solid dint in the series. The area is rotting away and will have taken the cache with it. Maintenance performed and a replacement is now in place with a more secure footing.Thanks carkisser for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Are you ready to nominate in the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards? Start preparing by checking out the 2023 geocaching lists available [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/) and find some of the new caches ahead of nominations opening.

Teamed up with RoamingHowie to smash out a few more of the Dissa series.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, carkisser ~~

Find#6082Nice hiding place found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

Not here

This one appears to be MIA. The obvious stump at GZ appears to hold nothing for us to find.

This one will have to stay as a blue frown tftc

Bugger - couldn’t find that one

Another quick find on a pleasant afternoon.

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

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

#42 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson
3451
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.

Spending the day grabbing the rest of these Mt Disa caches, gps has out out 9m here. TFTC

TFTC

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

Findy thingys are not accurate today but we've only missed 3tftc

Found

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.

Rwall

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.

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

Followed the hint and a quick find by my geo child assistant. TFTC

The new log from n0w0rries is holding up fine. Cache was a little exposed so we made sure there was still some camo on the front. TFTC

No log book

DNF. The road side slasher has been along here recently and appears GZ has been damaged.

Third one found today! Thank you

Needs some maintenance, no longer waterproof and has no log.

New log.

Good to go

Back out on the mountain with +Wife and our Geo Mutts, Eve The Staffy and Max The Collie.
Fantastic caching weather on a public holiday.
Onto the dirt road now. Windows up, aircon on, in an attempt to keep the dust level down inside the car.
A quick and easy park and grab, thanks to accurate coordinates and a clear hint.
A nice variety of wildlife was seen and heard today.
The Pink Heath was in full bloom.
We are on the back straight now. Standing up in the stirrups. Racing towards the finish line.
Our goal of fifty finds is well in sight.
Log book was wet and moldy. Eeck. Removed and replaced. Dried out with a micro fibre cloth.
Lots of lizards and geckos out basking in the sunshine but we were quite pleased that we didn't see any snakes today. [^]
Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

I will be checking on this cache by February 16.

Needs checking

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

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 book wet

Water damaged. Log falling apart.

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 63:80)

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

2791 fltf

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

If you are not in a hurry then this is a nice little detour not too far off the Hume so here I am chipping away in chunks at Dads Driving Lessons which likely wasn’t a marathon done in one hit. Good day before the rain comes with little traffic - just a few wood collectors foraging around. All caches spotted quickly apart from one although a few a wee bit damp. TFTC series - I’ll be back for more sometime!

Day 2 of the series. CIPoorC TNLN TFTC, 9.19

Found with BorisB&Natasha and Bounty Trackers. We signed the log with our stamp Geo Nerds.
On a fun weekend with these two doing as many of these caches as we can while here. TFTC we had a great time. Stayed at Flowerdale pub overnight back for some more fun today.

2 day caching trip with Sioux & Leesa we have stamped log with our Geo Nerds stamp for Bounty Trackers, Borisb&natasha & Gonefishen.
Thanks for the cache.

Didn't take too long.

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

A cool start to the day up here in the hills
But it should be sunny and warm up later.
Perfect for taking this trail of caches to the top

Next stop here,
cache found there
Though some of these findings are tricky

TFTC.

This was subsequent find for the day on the actual Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson series which Geowife and myself decided to attack today in the hope of achieving 100 plus finds in a day (which was achieved. And this one was picked up from where we left off last year with the only DNF in our run on these new caches in the series been #115 Anyway after a quick park and grab on this one we started the series in earnest at this point and had a productive day in the end finding around 105 plus caches for the day. TFTC.
If there is a complaint that I have about this series it would be that some people do not replace the caches in the correct place as per GZ co-ordinates and some caches that we found today were up to 10 metres away from the GZ, not covered over or left out in the open. Other cache logs were so wet that the logs could not be signed and a sheet of dry paper was added to these ones. The caches that had water in them were emptied of water and resealed.

And to carkisser and JSando, thank you for this great series and the huge amount of work that the both you and your team of helpers thank you for making keeping this series in operation.
Due to the high number of logs to be completed a generic log has been generated for all/most logs.

Quick find... log may need to be changed soon as it is falling apart.
Thanks for the cache

Quick grab

This container is water damaged

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 #2550

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

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.

We arrived in the area with a particular plan and that was to do the Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson trail. All caches were found or replaced (with the permission of the owner) Some still need the logs replaced but we ran out of supplies.
This trail was done with Hans and Linda, the jumping in and out of the car was shared, the driving was shared, lunch was had on the trail where ever we found a place that appealed to us.
Some shots were fired near one of the caches which startled the crap out of us. We did not think that you were allowed to shoot here. The roads were a mixture of good, bad and ugly. Thankfully it was dry it did try very hard to rain but all we saw was not enough to wet the car or us.
We apologise for the generic logs, this does not mean we thought any less of this series. We appreciate the effort that has gone into placing this trail and maintaining it, this is why we were more than happy to help with some maintenance.
SL TFTC

TFTC. Our friends Jackie and Dennis (Muff1)had invited us to join them in making an assault on Mt Disappointment. We drove up on Sunday to Kilmore to join them. After putting a dent in the Mt Disappointment trail yesterday, our aim today was to finish the trail. We had an added incentive. We were close to 5000 finds and there was the pooibility we could track 200 finds for the day. The weather forecast did not look great but the weatherman was wrong . Muff1 had spoken to the CO and made arrangements to replace any caches that were missing. They will contact they CO with details of any issues we found along the way. We had a great time . We replaced 7 missing caches. We had never visited this area before and the trail gave us an appreciation of the area. Thank you carkisser & JSando for a great series.

AndyB84 and myself had plans to hit the Mt Disappointment trail and today that plan was realised.

We Arrived at the first cache around 9:45am and called it a day at 4:45pm before making one final sneaky find at the servo on the way home.

I had no idea what to expect in terms of numbers. My biggest day previously was 55 so I wanted to beat that. The next goal was 120 and looking bigger was 150.

We eventually ended on 129 finds for the day, doubling AndyB84's found count in a single day.
Pretty stoked with the effort. We cracked a cold one each on number 101 for the day.

Most caches were found easily with good coordinates. Some had wet logs, one was missing a lid and there were a few DNF's near the start of the trail as well.

The road was well maintained, we brought AndyB84's ute but my Magna would have been fine on these roads.

We signed most of the logs as A & K to save time.

A wombat had come to an unfortunate end right here. There was fur and flesh and stink everywhere. Signed and replaced as quick as possible.

Thanks for the caches

#2828

Since moving from New Zealand in 2016 I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T all multiple times.
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go to is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
I enjoy finding well maintained caches in fun and unique cache containers. No one likes finding a mint tin – but a find is a find after all
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she, had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well, It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, when
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

Wow! What a day. KmanNZ and I were out to find big numbers, however I never thought I would double all my previous finds.

WE got to the first cache at around 945am and kept going through to 345pm when the rain finally hit. All in all, we managed to find 127 along this trail and grabbed a quick one on the way home at the service center.

We signed the caches A & K to save time.

I would like to thank KmanNZ for supplying the beers which we cracked on our 100th find for the day.

Thank you to carkisser & JSando for placing this series. We had a great day.

#170

Found by TeamHP at 12:29pm

*25 Aug 2018, Found @8:52 am, Find # 1869.*

Needing to smash out a few caches to get me closer to another milestone I thought I would target this series. Our second one for the morning. A nice quick find.

**Thanks to carkisser for placing this cache.**

A quick find log is wet. But able to sign

Got a day to myself so thought I would duck up here to grab a few caches. A nice spot and some great hides. TFTC

Found on 1 Jul 2018 at 2:11 pm.
Since today was not raining I decided to head up here to complete a couple of challenges I was working on and the whole family decided to come. This speeded up a few of the searches instead of being by myself. We only had 3 hours but managed to get just over 50 finds in and a lunch break so it worked out well.
It wasn't too busy up here today with cars passing by but a lot of dirt bikes and trailers parked everywhere. Even a couple of people getting some free firewood in the old logging areas. A couple of bushwalkers as well and even a couple of guys testing out there petrol powered remote control cars.
We had a couple of DNF's probably because of the limited time we had...if we had found nothing in a couple of minutes we moved on just so we could complete the 50 I needed today.
Amazing change of scenery from number one up into the forest section and I wanted to find more but the kids were getting bored and we also needed to get back for my wife to work in our restaurant.
Half way along the section we were doing we noticed a few logs from people earlier in the day, never caught up with them at any stage though. (Sorry about the generic log)
Thanks carkisser for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Made a nice quick find here this morning with little blue wren.
Log pretty damp but still could sign. TFTC.

TFTC.Signed and returned.
Out with aussie fun seakers.
Log damp.

Scape

Found by Aussie Train Driver, 27/06/2018.
With a free afternoon today I drove East to take another bite out of the Mount Disappointment trail. In just over two hours I visited 30 cache locations and made 26 finds, with four DNF's.
The weather was overcast but pleasant and I had an enjoyable afternoon. My thanks to carkisser and JSando for placing and maintaining this series.

I have been meaning to do the Mt. Disappointment trail for some now but never seemed to get around to it. A couple of weeks ago, when the Parkville challenge caches started getting published I realised that I needed certain cache types and attributes to qualify...this trail provided them. This finally gave me the push I needed to go out and start the trail.

I haven't been here before so it was great to go somewhere new.

On the whole it was a successful day as I made my way to #70 with 61 finds, 7 DNF (3 of which had multiple DNFs logged) and 2 had been disabled due to missing caches.

A very pleasant way to spend a day and nice weather too. TNLN. TFTC.

Log book wet

This was one epic series, it had it all, easy finds, tougher finds, lots of dirt road driving, steep hills, bush bashing, open logged forest, deep dense forests and a leech or 2 to throw in the mix. Both me and TheSkype traveled from the ACT to cache in Victoria and this series certainly is one to bump up the tally which I personally believe is only for die-hard cachers. Do not bring a newbie here, it might get tough, zap their mind and they might never want to cache again. We camped at Andersons Garden campground and this was our base for the 3 days we spent caching. Thanks again pleasure to do business and explore this historic part of Victoria. TFTC. Day 2

#2584 Logbook was wet when we found it. Found with the Green-martian, both visiting from Canberra. Geocached in a 4x4 Outback for over 16 hours, over 3 days. Averaged 20 finds per hour hitting 30 finds an hour between #206 to #235. Found a total of 323 caches with several DNFs. What a marvel it was finding this series. All park n grabs with the car and GPS covered in dust. Weather was warm for April. Thanks carkisser for this epic series of caches.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Easter Sunday and out on a Planetary Pursuit to earn 10 souvenirs. So what better way to obtain these by hitting this power trail. Teamed with Geo husband to make these finds. TFTC

During a little warm-up here earlier this week I found about 65 caches in one afternoon. Today I returned for a full day effort, starting at 8am and stopping at 6:30pm having covered about 100km. Without rushing too much (all logs were signed and dated in full, caches rehidden properly, and photos taken of every GZ and logsheet) I ended up with 230+ finds for the day which is a surprising record for me .
Other than a shaky start near the residences (5 DNFs in the first 11) the rest went pretty well as I searched for them in numbered sequence from #1 to #240.
All were found easily other than #4,7,9,10,11,15,37,62,79,142 and 158.
It was nice and quiet on the trail all day - just saw 2 other cars and 2 police patrols on a mild dry sunny day. Perfect caching conditions.
Thanks for the cache and the series, carkisser and JSando.

This logbook's taken a beating. Mitsubishi Powertank pen to the rescue here.

So after our very enjoyable walk geohusband picked us up and we continued on picking up more of this series. We really enjoyed our afternoon, placing a series of this size is amazing loved the etching on the tops. TFTC and this series I would imagine one day we may be back to do some more.

Teamed up with BPF for a run at part of this series. Made about 50 finds which is huge for me as BPF swapped between finding and driving. Thanks

TFTC

Needs a new log book

Today I have come to do the start of the Mt Disappointment series. I have done No 100 to 137 by car many months ago. My day started off by getting dropped off at cache No 1 by the wife and I walked as much a I could as she drove to Shepperton and back. I started at 11am and managed to walk 16km in 5 hours from the start to cache No 63. The walk was good and there was a few people around today, One of which was parked next to a cache so I had to explain what I was doing. I didn't see any snakes which was also good. All the caches I found were in good condition with only 1 DNF. I think next time I come back I will do the rest by car as my legs were very sore and scratched up on the way home. Thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing this series.

Had the day off due to airport drop off / car pickup duties and thought it was about time I started getting serious with this trail.
I have spent a lot of time up here and love just the place for its tracks, campgrounds and nature.
Great design on the lids as well.
Most finds were pretty straight forward with just a couple that took a bit longer.
Thanks carkisser & JSando TFTC TFTS.

13:22, 28 December, 2017. #1147.

With a date to tick off the caching calendar and the need to knock up just a few more to have found as many caches in 2017 as I had found in all my four previous years of caching it was time to pay Mt. Disappointment another visit. It wasn't a serious assault today, just a minor hit for some quick number building.

The geo-wife and I started where we left off last time, at #27 with her driving and me in and out of the car like a jack-in-the-box. Goal for the day was to find 18 caches to get my total to 1134. We overachieved a little with the total for the day being 44 . We could have found more, but had set a time limit, which we stuck to despite the temptation to keep going for that one more cache .

The OCD side of me would normally want to keep running the numbers in sequence, but today the alternate logic of cleaning up the little off-shoot before going on in numeric sequence kicked in and I did the run from #181 to #194 before resuming the sequence at #41. After the diversion, and a short stop at Blair's Hut for lunch, it was back into it.

There was a bit of a trend with damp logs in today's hunt and this cache was one of them. Otherwise, the cache is in good condition.

TNLNSL. TFTC and the series carkisser and JSando.

A lovely pattern of moss on the log in question.
TFTC carkisser and JSando

***Team ZACAATT does 100 caches in 24 hours***

At 5.37am Tally Tiger, Zedaycee and Angelique_Anja were bundled into the car and headed towards Mount Disappointment. With one goal in mind (well 100 goals...), The mission was underway.

At 7.07am Zedaycee retrieved the first cache. It was all thrusters go then with 10 caches collected in 30 minutes.

There were:
Ducks blocking the road.
Endless scratches.
Falls.
Never ending GPS woes.
Red rashes that won't go away...
Wriggly sticks (we DNF'd that one...)
Stunning views.
Lots of pretty flowers!
Logs learning to swim.
Plenty of geopiles.
Christmas carols playing.
Angelique_Anja's sandwich collection.
Party collection of lollies.
Logs, stumps and trees of every variety.
And caches upon caches, upon caches!!!

At 5.20pm Angelique_Anja retrieved cache 100.

All in all, 103 caches were done today by this exhausted team. 6 DNF's, not too had considering!

But we did it! We really, really did it!

***Team ZACAATT does 100 caches in 24 hours***

At 5.37am Tally Tiger, Zedaycee and Angelique_Anja were bundled into the car and headed towards Mount Disappointment. With one goal in mind (well 100 goals...), The mission was underway.

At 7.07am Zedaycee retrieved the first cache. It was all thrusters go then with 10 caches collected in 30 minutes.

There were:
Ducks blocking the road.
Endless scratches.
Falls.
Never ending GPS woes.
Red rashes that won't go away...
Wriggly sticks (we DNF'd that one...)
Stunning views.
Lots of pretty flowers!
Logs learning to swim.
Plenty of geopiles.
Christmas carols playing.
Angelique_Anja's sandwich collection.
Party collection of lollies.
Logs, stumps and trees of every variety.
And caches upon caches, upon caches!!!

At 5.20pm Angelique_Anja retrieved cache 100.

All in all, 103 caches were done today by this exhausted team. 6 DNF's, not too had considering!

But we did it! We really, really did it!

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'Why did the chicken cross the road?' - 'Because he had to expand his search radius.'
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Finding 100 caches in 24 hours today with Angelique Anja and Tally Tiger today. Please see Anja's log for more details. Thanks for all the caches.

Staying at Kilmore, we tackled the rest of the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson series, dodging the rain clouds, thunder and lightning that added to the adventure.

This took us through the country side of the Mount Disappointment area, up and down the gravel roads where we met a few 4x4 and motor bike muggles having fun in the area as well.

Most were quick finds but some were not. Cache and contents were in excellent condition.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. Appreciate the time and effort gone into this series.

With a last minute plan hatched with abl973, we decided to head towards Mt Disappointment. With warmer conditions earlier on, the clouds rolled in later during the afternoon bringing a few welcome drops of rain. The landscape varied quite a bit with plenty of different flora along the trail. The satellites were agreeing with us today as the coordinates were pretty spot on. The detail of the lid on the containers was an excellent touch.

Thanks to carkisser for placing this cache.

This series has been on my radar for way too long so last night a quick plan was devised between square_pegs and myself to have a go at conquering a decent sized chunk of Mt Disappointment. I had no idea what to expect but what I can say with certainty is today turned out awesome. Even the weather remained stable and we got used to the humidity. Towards the late afternoon the rain came down which was welcomed as it reduced the heat and spurred us towards our goal. This cache was 38 of 128 found and logged amongst sights of Kangaroos, colourful birds and lizards.

Thanks carkisser for hiding good sized caches with spot on co-ords.

10772 Found and Logged at 10:44:00 AM
One of 89 cachers while camping at Anderson Gardens few a few days for the Mt Disappointment Trail
Job completed I will be moving on tomorrow
Thanks for bringing me to this lovely part of Vustoria
Thanks For The Cache carkisser
Lgoody

Day 2 of Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson run. All the cache containers were in good condition, but #70 needs a new log as it is full and #71 has a very wet and mouldy log that also needs to be replaced.
All logs had our initials added (GP2) and the containers were replaced as found where all was finished.
Our thanks go to carkisser & JSando for a seriously long power trail. We may have to complete this on another occasion with only limited time available now.

Our third day caching as the GOTHs, Geocachers of the Hills, made up by the following teams, Bushfire, Aussie M & M, mogni, Team Astro, brisal5 and 6hinemoa2. Our aim was to try to clear out caches in various spots and we had a special goal for good friend Lawrie, aka Bushfire, we wanted to bust his record of caches found in one day. This meant a desperate attempt on doing as many caches as we could on Mount Desperation, aiming to hit 200 in a day which is not my best day. So many power trails in SA do that for you. It was all about Lawrie today. Some interesting spots were found, got close to the river, and some amazing views. Thanks for the hides.

We wer exhausted after this day and half a night, had dinner at MacDonalds on the Hume Hwy somewhere in Victoria.... Only would do this for Lawrie. Thanks again, all cache owners.

Thursday 16th Meeting up with 2Hinemoa6 in Bacchus Marsh and then Aussie M & M and Brisal5 both from SA in Broadford the team is nearly complete. Mogni and Team Astro will meet us at our headquarters (Maybole Cottage) for the next few days.
Day 4 19th Sunday Our farm stay has everything required for a very pleasant few days.
Up early and ready for a long day caching we stopped at this cache as it was on our list, soon located, log signed so on to the next. To save space in the logs we logged as GOTHS or GOTHS + 2 as we all live in the hills.
With hundreds of caches to log most will be cut and paste but I do thank all the owners for their thought and effort that has gone into placing a huge variety of hides around this very beautiful area.
Thanks carkisser & JSando for organizing this cache

On a 6 day tour of Victoria with Barnzy12. Taking the red eye over from Perth we managed to visit some great places. The main reason for the travel was the Mega event in Alexandra and the opportunity to find 12 cache types in a day.

We originally travelled to Phillip bay, then up through the country side to Alexandra. Spent a few nights staying high in the snowfields and then moved over to Mt Disappointment. We then ended up back where we started returning the hire car at the airport to fly home.

Some quality caches were found all over the state, great to get a real range of cache sizes with some very large caches compared to what’s available in WA and the range of D/T options so close to each other was a bonus.

Thanks to all the Cache owners for you placements and creativity put into hiding and have awarded a few fav points based on this or the location it bought us too.

In Melbourne with Cravo10 to attend the Mega in Alexandra.

We took the red eye from Perth, leaving at 1am Thursday morning, and departed Melbourne early Tuesday morning, so it was a short five day trip.

We managed to snag a couple of nice stats for the trip. First mega event, 12 cache types in a day, 10 lab caches, 50th large cache find, and most importantly my 10,000th find at Mount Disappointment.

We spent the first day on a caching run from
Melbourne to Phillip Island where we had booked into the local caravan park for the evening. We cached all day chasing down a number of the whereigo and puzzle caches from the CF series, before ending the day caching the extremities of Phillip Island, where we had both never been, an amazing part of this country.

Next morning we cached our way to Alexandra which was the main reason for our trip to Melbourne as we had both never managed to attend a mega, which were hoping to rectify in WA next year! Attended the pre event and managed to get a couple of group FTFs by torchlight which was a real highlight.

Saturday we cached in and around Alexandra all day, chasing numbers, the highlight of the day would have to be the birdbox hides around Alexandra and the multi in Bonnie Doon from that famous TV show, a real nice touch!

Sunday was an epic caching day, chasing down 12 types in a day, which required a couple of huge drives to claim some of the rarer icons around. A huge caching stat which is a very rare feat in the Southern Hemisphere. We finished the day travelling to Mount disappointment where we found Melbourne's 1st cache and then started making a dent in the powertrail, finishing by torchlight.

Our last full days caching was spent at Mount Disappointment to chase some big numbers and with a few caches around the burbs for good measure.

Special thanks to all the wonderful COs around Melbourne for their brilliant caches, and to the mega committee for organising a ripper event, hope to be back next year!