TRLT - Meroo Creek Views Windeyer, New South Wales, Australia
By alnic39 on 06-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5YTNN

#13886 Three days on the road from Sydney to Mudgee, with the main objective of finding and logging the TRLT-North. It was an enjoyable drive, across dirt roads and some beautiful scenery. Day 1 we camped overnight at Hill End and day 2 we pitched out tent in Mudgee. The caches were easily found so the focus was fully on the journey through our Mid Western region of NSW.TFTC to all cache owners for maintaining this great series.

Find # 10051Nice quick find.Yay, we claim a find more than five years after we were last here. TFTC alnic39 28 December 2023 16:12

Stayed nearby overnight and grabbing anything along the way.Most hides where found after a short search. Loved the different containers and hides. Some great views to be had along the series.Thanks for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

Found with irondale TFTC

Found geocaching with malfromthefarm.. Tftc

Cache damp inside and log book becoming black....

80 finds, 5 dnf's on his trail today, starting at Andromeda, and finishing at Sofala with Geoian. Thanks to all the CO's for your efforts. I enjoyed this trail.

5 dnf's today with 80 finds on his trail, starting at Andromeda, and finishing at Sofala. Thanks to all the CO's for your efforts. They are greatly appreciated.

Missed another turn but we are back on track.

TFTC

On a day where it was expected +40mm of rain we decided to get out of the house. Apologies for the generic post. It's rather wet. Quick park and grab. TFTC

Cache had water in it, log wet. Water removed and cache positioned to hopefully be dryer

Thanks buddy

Great spot,coords out about 20m but not many places else it could be I guess
Thanks for the cache

What a beautiful spot definitely worth a favourite point TFTC, Ta Churpy and Koala B the trackable

good hint and scenery

Dead roo

#4836
Day 2 of our Mudgee to Orange weekend, we're taking the back roads (those less traveled!) to Bathurst. The car GPS spent all day in vain trying to convince us to turn here and there, but we took the longest way possible I'm sure.... Another day of great conditions, maybe a little too hot, and we made 50 GC finds, with a pair of GA as a bonus.
I like these nicely bound logbooks.... these efforts are appreciated - cheers!

Found today on our road trip on the section from Mudgee to Bathurst, had an amazing time on this section, caches generally in great condition, hints were also very helpful!

TFTC alnic39

Found with Dad and Samuel on our back road drive to Bathurst...
***TFTC!!!***

Found on a Saturday drive

Found with Pirates of pate today. Nice quick drive by

Fun find!

Tftc alnic39, another section of TRLT is being travelled today. Thanks for the series.

#935
Back to complete this section of TRLT with Calypso62.
#39 for this road trip
Signed the log and placed back.
TFTC.

Found tyftc. Heading home from Bathurst trting to complete some of tge TRLT series. Sorry but will be generic logs today. Find #2386

TFTC Our event at Mudgee was cancelled due to COVID so we decided to cache instead. Loving the quiet drive.

Found. Signed BSRK

Found with geo family bsrk

TFTC. Found with BSRK group.

TFTC signed as B S R K

Great view, don't go over the fence though.

Found with Archie_03 and Harry_02. TFTC

Found it! This one was quite tricky!

It’s not over the fence. This one was tricky. TFTC.
Found with: Harry_02 and Dorito171.

With COVID19 locking everyone down for so long, a MUCH overdue geocaching mission was welcomed. FurfacesLL #1 and myself decided to head towards Bathurst and attack some of the TRLT caches and see how far we can go. Spoke to a few of the CO's prior to heading up to see if we could assist with any maintenance that was required, so we went prepared with some camo containers and some fresh log books. We had a wonderful weekend stretching the legs and enjoying the country side.

Thanks for the hide alnic39 And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another fun weekend out and about the TRLT trails and others

Day 2
With the COVID19 restrictions lifting, we decided to head to the Bathurst area this long weekend on a Geomission with Rapidlywild. Our intention was to attack the TRLT trail and others around the area.
We had a great four days, only a few DNF’s but mostly smiley's, and have left plenty for another adventure. Lovely area to cache in and we look forward to coming back for some more fun and laughs.

Thanks for the hide alnic39 and thanks Rapidlywild for another great weekend away.

Apologies for the generic log, thank you to all the cache owners for their efforts.

Day 2 of Mudgee TRLT series. Reasonable start to the day and another road done. a couple of DNF's but thats geocaching.
TFTC alnic39
Total Cache Finds 9132

Beautiful scenery. TFTC

Tftc great one

Found

Brjdmkdkxnendjjdrjdhxhdbbdgchdhrhyrhf... thanks

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Alnic39 [^]

Tftc. Couldn't find gold so I decided to look for caches

This was to be the last long geocaching trail for us to undertake during our current travels around Australia, and so mid afternoon yesterday we had started at the top of the trail and kept going until just after sunset. This morning we returned to where we had pulled out of the trail the day before. Yesterday had been cold, windy and wet, but today the sun was out again and it remained dry throughout the day albeit with a very chilly wind. This one was a nice quick find once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the nicely camouflaged cache and for the information on the cache page. Greetings from Zimbabwe

On a trip West with teamMerlin to pick up some solved puzzles as well as doing a bit more of the Road Less Travelled series Meroo Creek Views was another spot we stopped to grab the cache.

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache alnic39

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

Out on a cache run for the day with phlphotos and decided to pickup some solved puzzles as well as a targeted section of The Road Less Traveled (TRLT) series. A nice quick find after a short search. With the cache in hand we all signed the log before replacing as found. Both the cache container and log are in good condition - thanks for the cache alnic39.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football

Day 3 - Travelling TRLT with oldmorty and marj01.
(Log signed OMF to save space).
TRLT caches: found - 80, DNF - 3.
Other caches found - 35, DNF - 1.
Thanks to alnic for placing this cache here for us to find.

On a big weekend caching with oldmorty and Frazeydaze and logs have signed OMF. 
Would like to thank all cache owners, for making and maintaining the caches.

OCW frazerdaze and marj01. House sitting at White Rock for a week has provided an opportunity to do some geocaching runs around Bathurst - mainly TRLT series indispersed with a number of trads and puzzle caches. During the day we saw lovely scenery, lots of sheep and cattle, a few foxes and one deer in the forestry area. We even encountered fire persons doing a burn off which included two of the caches we were chasing. Please excuse the generic logs and thanks to all the CO's for placing the caches and adding to our enjoyment. For expediency all logs were signed OMF.

All good to go.

New cache in place.

I am planning to replace the cache on the weekend of March 17. I hope this is acceptable in terms of the time frame for maintenance.

If anyone is planning to hit this trail in the coming weeks or months, I have replacement caches ready to go for this and the other disabled cache in this leg. I would happily deliver the caches to anyone in the Sydney area or Blue Mountains (where I live) and I could give detailed instructions of where and how to place them. The other option will be to replace and republish the archived caches sometime in the near future.

We ventured to where our GZ took us and there were no rocks no fence posts. Even ventured inside the property along the fenceline still no cache to be found. This one certainly seems to need checking.

This one has had a chequered history and been replaced twice since published. It will be a while until I can get out there. If anyone is planning to take on this leg of TRLT, please get in contact with. I can give you a replacement container and some options for where it could be placed.

GPS had me 17 metres on the other side of the fence. Looked at all the fenceposts but no reward. This is my first DNF of the series Travelling from the north)

Mudgee trip for The Road Less Traveled series. Day 3. Sofala to Mudgee via Hill End and lots more back roads. The main focus of this trip was more of the TRLT series, so it was good to get back to work on the main goal. No luck here for me.

Thanks.
Albida

**## Found Cache No. 2102 ##
(Caches Found Today: 44 OF 83)
Streak Day: 793
DNF Today: 1**

Unable to find today. Snoopy1976 and I looked around and after ready some previos logs we detrermined that the cache was not here.

No luck for us here

We are staying at the Mudgee showgrounds and with this extreme heat we headed out early and got back to the caravan by mid afternoon and the comfort of the aircon. We enjoy these rural locations and this was one of the caches we targetted and found. We appreciated the extra effort put into some of the caches to provide a more creative hide. Thanks to alnic39 for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

On a two day caching trip with GeodudeAU to cover more of TRLT series and others from Carcalgong-Mudgee-Gulgong-Ilford-Capertee-Lithgow. We had 90 finds and only a few DNFs for our efforts. A great couple of days exploring the Central Tablelands seeing some amazing places we wouldn't normally visit. We even survived the mini-hurricane that swept through our campsite along the Cudgegong River at TSR (Cullenbone)! Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining these caches. Most were in good order and easily found with the help of handy hints to get CIH.

As previous logs, a distance away, hanging about loose and the log is soaked. TFTC

Out with Brewmaker for a 2 day trip finding caches along The Road Less Travelled series. On this day 1 we started around Carcalgong and then headed north through Windeyer, Grattai and Erudgere before finally camping overnight at Mudgee.
It was an enjoyable journey through the countryside seeing farm and native animals along the way. There was only a little bit of light rain at times today, which didn't cause a problem.
We found all of the caches very easily (with just one providing a longer search). Most of the caches were in good order, so all in all it was a good day's caching. Thanks to all of the COs for providing this trail

After a pleasant night at the Old Bara camp site, we set out for another day of caching along The Road Less Travelled. This time we headed south, starting from where we had started but headed north the day before.

Found the cache 15 metres off the coordinates, loose on pole.

Not sure on this one our gps had us 14m behind a fence on private property so we left it alone.

Moooo Tftc tnln

Headed up with nissan 65 for another few days caching. Today we are heading towards MudgeeThanks for the cache .Log Needs Replacing. Very wet

Found with cullum68 on our way to mudgee thanks for the cache

Tricky to spot.

1/10/17. 3:10 PM. Cache #5371.
35th of 71 finds today.

Day 2 of the long weekend for which I have come up to plunder caches in the Mid West Regional council. Now on to the main leg of the day, The Road Less Travelled; I followed the trail up though Pyramul, Carcalgong, Windeyer, Grattai, Collingwood, Erudgere and Piambong - 62 caches in 6 hours including a handful of non-TRLT caches. TFTC to all the COs involved.

Sorry it's mostly going to be a copy/paste affair, but there will be the occasional extra commentary where anything of note happened...
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TFTC Thank you for going to the effort of hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity. Log is very damp.

Found as part of a weekend away with Hoojar. We headed up towards Gulgong the first night and camped near the start/ end of TRLT (@ -5 degrees ). The next day we made it through some nice historic places and great rolling countryside to finish up at Sunny Corner after a feed in Bathurst. The next day a few more finds before we headed home. Plenty of roadkill spotted, not many cars and not too much trouble at each cache. Thanks to all those cache hiders .

The opportunity finally arose that Steeba and I both had a free weekend to go caching. We quickly settled upon the northern half of The Road Less Traveled series. We drove to Gulgong via Mudgee after work on Friday, camping just before midnight at the suggested TSR nearby.

Saturday we made our way via the caching trail, and the odd additional cache, to Bathurst for dinner, then back onto the trail to Sunny Corner where we again camped for the evening.

Sunday we turned our heads for home, via a few additional cache stops in Portland and Wallerawang.

A fantastic weekend away, with excellent country to be seen and company to be had. We enjoyed the caches that we found.

Thank you to all of the cache owners, and sorry for the boiler-plate logs!

Again struggled to open the cache, it is just wet pulp in there sadly.

Cheers

14147. Found during a run through the Bathurst to Mudgee region this long weekend.

Having completed the southern part of TRLT series last month I had the northern part of the series on my radar for this long weekend - plus as many extras as there are along the way. Leaving home this morning I was caching before lunch on the outskirts of Bathurst heading north. All but two of today's caches were found and all were nicely hidden with good sized containers. This was the next find for the day. Getting dark now so out came the torch. Quick find at GZ. Log signed, cache replaced, and I headed off to the next one.

Thanks to all the COs for their caches - it was a great run up through this area.

TNLN - TFTC !!

Road trip North to tackle The Road Less Travelled Series with JordsAU! I’ve wanted to try this trail for a while but hadn’t found anyone to try it with. I ran it by Jords a few weeks back & after checking the roster for the week, the stars aligned and we started organising it. He was aiming for “200 caches in a day”, so we planned the trail as best we could!

Monday – we drove up to Gulgong to start the trail. We worked our way down to Mudgee (~30 caches) before setting up camp for the night. We had an early night so we could smash out a big day.

Tuesday – packing up at sunrise and setting out, the big day begun! We reached the first 100 by 2:00pm (7 hours elapsed). We were worried that we weren’t going to reach the 200 milestone considered how far we had to go and how long we had been tracking! The stretch from the Great Western Highway to Oberon made great time and we were on 150 caches. Instead of heading into Oberon to set up camp in daylight, we decided the best use of the remaining daylight would be to push through into the night for the last 50. Eventually we were down to the last handful, when we hit an area of the forest that had been logged. To make up the last few, we assumed there would be caches in Oberon, so we drove 50km back to town. We made the 200 at the Oberon Memorial Site and called it a (long) day.

Wednesday – I was all ran down from the big day, so we made our way back home! I found a few in Sydney, and made the drive back down home. It was a good to unpack and have a nice hot shower. Now for the long laborious task of entering these logs!

Thank you to all the Cache Owners along this trail. It was a real joy to visit another part of this great country we call home. It’ll be easier for me to return to the trail via Goulburn/Crookwell to finish off the series (and hopefully visit any further extensions). TFTC’s!

2/5/17 Found with muppet95. Muppet95 mentioned to me that he was keen to hit up The Road Less Travelled series and we decided to take a few days off to go on a bit of a road trip. I wanted to shoot for a goal of finding at least 200 caches in a 24 hours period and we made plans accordingly. We drove up to Gulgong on the first day and arrived in the early afternoon. We started The Road Less Travelled series there and headed south towards Mudgee, picking up approximately 30 geocaches on the way. We spent the night camping on the outskirts of Mudgee and had an early night, with the expectation of an early start to have the best chance of reaching our goal of 200 caches the next day. At the crack of dawn on day 2, we packed up camp and set out on the trail, finding our first for the day at 7 AM. We then spent the next 14 hours travelling The Road Less Travelled, caching the series and picking up some additional caches along the way. We powered on well after the light of day had disappeared, because we were on a mission and were resolute in our efforts to achieve our goal for the day. We reached a point, down near Gurnang in the pine forest, where the area a cache in the series was supposed to be had been logged and we could not continue, without backtracking and going the long way around. We made the decision to turn around and head back to Oberon, where we would pick up the last remaining few to reach our target number. I am very sad to say that on the way out of the pine forest, a wombat ran out as we were driving past and was struck by the underside of the car. We stopped immediately and I rushed over to its aid. The poor thing was in not in a good way and I did what I could to provide some comfort but it faded away within a matter of minutes. The accident is very distressing and upsetting, and it put a real dampener on a long and tiring day. There was nothing we could do at that point, so we continued on our way back to Oberon, picking up some more caches in town. We reached our campsite and setup, keen to rest up and have a deserved sleep in. It was another cold night, definitely dropping below zero degrees. We woke in the morning and, after packing up, we made our way back to the big smoke. Thanks For The Caches to the respective Cache Owners, and for putting this series together, which takes us on a different route along the Road Less Travelled. We will have to come back at another point in the future to try and finish off the series, and hope that one day the series may be extended further for everyone’s enjoyment.

Day 1 of 23 of our caching trip to Alice Springs, finding 300 caches in total. This was find #48 for the day.

We did The Road Less Travelled with Calypso62 and skebomonkeytown, staying at a lovely property in the Capertee Valley for two nights.

A pretty spot for a cache. Unfortunately the logbook is wet and the screws holding the camo are loose.

TFTC.

#2781
What a fabulous adventure I enjoyed with my great mates, Skyebomonkeytown and Team Canary. Our base was in the Capertee Valley at a friend’s hideaway. We had an early start to get to Mudgee for ParkRun then, after a bite to eat for breakfast, it was time to tackle The Road Less Travelled. It is obvious this series took a lot of effort to organise and to get it up and running. A big thank you to all the COs for your hard work. It is greatly appreciated.

Had a great weekend with Calypso62 and Team Canary attempting the first half of TRLT (most logs signed as a combo of C62 TC and SBMT). We stayed at a friend's place in the Capertee Valley and "commuted" both days through the lovely countryside. We also incorporated the Mudgee parkrun into our weekend on Saturday morning - C62 and my first. Thanks to all COs for the series.

A really nice location here, however, the screws are a bit loose and the logbook is wet.

Found this cache at 2.40, signed the log although quite wet! Thanks for the cache! : )

Staying in Gulgong and decided to tackle some of the TRLT series. We had a great day exploring the countryside. This cache was found by 'J'. SL TNLN Thanks to the cache owners for their time in putting this series together.

Found when geodad did a check on it this weekend.

Found while checking the cache with the CO. Geodad.

Another day Heading north today to do a some more of the TRLT series. Quick find TFTC

With a new GPS in hand I was on a mission today to find geocaches and see some of the countryside after all the rain we have had. The water is still flowing strongly here. TFTC SL

good camo on this one. I see by our differing photos and their respective water levels how much the creek has risen these past few days. Tf tc

Found & SL! TFTC

Up from Canberra on a solo geomission to Bathurst, Mudgee and surrounds The focus of the weekend was to attack as many of the TRLT series as I could as well as any others along the way!

Most of these were found quite quickly and I enjoyed the drive around the countryside collecting them. Apologies for the cut/paste logs - I found so many on the journey I can't possibly remember them all!

Thanks for the hide, alnic39

Now we are finally back onto dirt once more, love a good dirt road, this was an easy find.

On a caching adventure to Mudgee with pprass we set out to see some country side and some interesting caches.

Day one of the Power Trail - great country side - not a boring drive at all.

Thanks for the cache

Found at 3:05 PM GAFF1 in the company of Team Nurse Hayley.

Thanks alnic39.

Out for the day in the bush, fresh air and away from home , no better way to respect anzac day, than enjoying the country side, all cache in good order, some great country side today, many thanx

Day four of our five day geocaching trip from Brisbane to Canberra for Easter. Today we cached from Gulgong to Sofala, on the road not so often traveled, working for our 100-in-a-day challenge.

We are caching for 100 or more: that is our aim, so nice quick finds are the order of the day. So these logs will be rather generic - written up after the trip is well and truly over.

The country we traversed was wonderfully varied - a few Ks of sealed road but the majority was gravel - easily handled by our GeoFalcon, although we laughed several times at how the white dust (in sharp contrast to the usual brown and red of Queensland) made it look like a ghost car.

We crossed many causeways, traversed valleys and crossed mountain ridges. Scenery was magnificent. All in all we have only two DNFs in the total trail, so that was a bonus.

Would we recommend this trail? An unequivocal YES!

We had some trouble finding the road to this one. The signpost (and the map we had) both said to use the Williams Lane next to the pub, but it was blocked off by some heavy bins. The publican was hosing, so we asked him about it. He said the road was closed due to washouts - go around the long way. OK. When he asked why we wanted to go there, we said we were looking for the old school, but he said there was no school on Williams Lane. So we were a bit confused by that one.

When we arrived at GZ, the coordinates for us were some 15 meters out - putting us at the washout bank mentioned in the description, but we found the cache OK as per the very good hint.

Found at 1.10pm on 23rd March 2016. TFTC.

We discovered all those many a couple of days ago.

We have solved all the interesting mysteries before we started our trip to the Mid Western Region of NSW.

Day 1

We started the day in Meadow Flat, followed by Sunny Corner and Dark Corner past Palmers Oakley.
We loved the hilly nature along many peaceful Gravel roads. Many smilies were forming on our map.
We finished the day in Bathurst.

Day 2

We started all fresh again in the morning. Leaving Bathurst, we were able to get going about faster along the sealed road.
We reached Sofala at around lunch time. We couldn't believe that about 40,000 used to live here. It really seemed that the city stopped developing in around the 1850's..
We continued towards Hills End and Windeyer through dry grassy land in 47 degrees heat.
We spend such a beautiful night here in Windeyer in the caravan park. We booked one of the train accomodation where you got to stay in the train back in time. What a great experience. We really liked Windeyer as it seemed so far away from all the city rush. Te locals were very welcoming and were happy to see us in the pub next door for dinner.
What a great community living were it seems like everyone knows everyone.

Day 3

We left Windeyer after a big breakfast. We travelled along Hills End Road until we reached the turn towards another Gravel road. There wer many animals to watch and it got even hotter and hotter.
This day ended in Mudgee.

Day 4

We took a look at Mudgee city today were we searched for a couple of caches and ten continued towards Rylstone.
After we continued to the Wollemi National Park which a good friend recommended us to go. Here we climbed on the top of the mountain and simply enjoyed the stunning view and the tranquil nature.
After, we traveled towards Kandos, Capertee, Cullen Bullen, Portland and Wallerawang back home to Sydney.

We hereby would like to thank all owners for this great interesting tour. We got to see many historical places and sometimes felt like as if we were living back in the the 1850's, which is a good thing.

Thanks
Team sissifalke

Found it with ALL7 in 2016

Accompanied with Kamfindit drive to TRLT series.... Good weather today... Thank

Part 2 TRLT series with ALL7, great enjoyed drive long way to lot of find caches again..
* Lovely view and green mountain..
* Wow awesome beautiful old history of towns on small road plus gravel...
* Sign the log as no trouble...
* Thank for having us here..
* Wonderful series...

Sorry for the late log. Work and other stuff got in the way. Great cache! SNTNLN. Buggerme

#3421- The other day alnic told me he was coming out here to do some maintenance as he'd had a few genuine DNF's. This was one of the ones he'd replaced-today it seemed to be 19m out, but perhaps the cache gods just weren't smiling. I found it anyway, Thanks

We completed this series over 3 1/2 days in total, with a side trip to Hill End which we thoroughly enjoyed. We were heading homeward bound after a couple of weeks on the road, touring and caching around southern Queensland and NSW, and this series topped off a great holiday. Thanks to all COs for their efforts in placing these caches and making this series possible. Our coords put us over the fence towards the eroded creek but it was an easy find nevertheless. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 47.374 E 149° 33.827

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 47.367 E 149° 33.829

Distance from original: 43.9 feet or 13.4 meters.
Original has gone walkabout. Probably still in the vicinity, but 2 DNFs meant that something had to be done.

No luck here