Great Southern Mount Cooke, Western Australia, Australia
By Kyzabra & Jinta29 on 27-Jul-15. Waypoint GC6095C

Easy find. Cache in great condition. TFTC SL

What better way to spend a mental health day from work than to take a spontaneous hike and find some caches with a mate! I've spent many hours out here and had not yet made the trek over the top of Mt Cooke (wild wet weather turned us away from going over on my year 10 hike unfortunately). We parked at the Karijini cache and made our way clockwise around to find 21 relatively easy finds in total. TFTC!

My second last find on a day of geocaching the Mt Cooke loop. TFtC

Great cache

The cache survived the latest burn just fine. Lots of walkers out today. TFTC!

A short search but cache was quickly found.Another one for the series. Thanks. We like that the cache was 35m off the track so very safe from prying eyes and random bushwalkers that seemed to pop around the corner when you were not expecting them.

Found cache in good condition, out with Pat from Lyn Pat and Nathan team. Thanks for the hunt

Jabs

Found on a brisk morning while walking the Bibbulmun track for the 25th anniversary.

Nice morning out hiking with geowife. Doing the mount Cooke loop for the first time after many trips to Mt cuthbert. Didn’t realise until we arrived there were a wealth of caches to be had. TFTC!

What an awesome morning we had... set out at 6am with geo-hubby and muggle in-laws to complete this circuit while the weather looked fine! In-laws are 67 and 80 years old and absolute machines... they have completed the Bibb Track over many years recently so we knew that this intro to geocaching would be right up their alley! We ended up walking 14.7kms and had a blast with amazing views, beautiful wildflowers and great company!

We found all 21 around the circuit with no DNFs and loved finding lots of ammo boxes in there (that would have been fun bringing them all up here!)

Thank you Jinta29 & Kyzabra for placing and maintaining Great Southern for us and others to find and enjoy!

Also want to mention that the cache names are all places we love.... we travelled around in a Caravan in 2004-2007 and did not leave the state! Too much to see in this beautiful state of ours! (Big plan was to travel OZ but didn't leave WA!)

Great hide

Nice one. Tftc

Quick grab on run down the hill, thanks

Quick pickup on way to Mt Cooke
TFTC

Tftf

A quickie. The sun dews were out looking for a feed here.

Thanks Kyzabra and jinta29 for the series.

An excellent day of caching around the mountain circuit with Probsty. We made a 21 finds from 21 attempts including the final. All caches were in good condition

Nice quick find TFTC

Found on a walk from Sullivan Rock to Mount Cooke today - a great day for it, nice and cool!
Thanks for the cache.

Quickly found.
TFTC

TFTC

Needing a cache to help fill our D and T grid we headed off from Bunbury with caching buddies Copwats for the day. The cache took us to this spectacular area so whilst here what better way to fill in the day but to do the series. It was a brilliant Autumn day with amazing views. We finished the walk with a few tight body parts but loved every minute. TFTC

Thanks to the cache owners for putting this series and caches here. We thought this would be a short drive from our camp site at Nanga but the 42ks as the crow flies is over 100 by road. Amazing scenery and magnificent views from the ridge. The wildflowers were just starting to come out. In two weeks the orchids come out it will be spectacular.
All caches were found bar one and the mystery that we didn’t get a chance to work out. All caches found in good condition with accurate coordinates. The entire circuit took us 6 hours carrying a baby and having a half hour picnic at the summit. Apologies for the duplicate log.

Up from Bunbury on a lovely winters day, picnic and lots of water packed, the wind is fairly strong but the sun is nice and warm fantastic views and and a strenuous climb in parts crossed over a couple of creeks whilst doing this series absolutely awesome hike. TFTC

A caching expedition with Fratra, Two+Four & LAXA.

Had a fairly good idea where this would be on approach to GZ but came at it from the wrong angle, Fratra with the grab and we after grabbing 6 in the first hour felt like we were making good progress.

TFTC.

It was a bit of a spontaneous decision to answer Mr.fatra's call to tackling Mt Cooke series
In company of 2 + 4, CJ252 and Mr fatra all caches on the way where found quickly with one or two taking a bit longer.
We had a bit of everything Rain, sun, wind, magnifies views and clouds.

thanks for brining at this series with a fantastic hike TFTC Kyzabra & Jinta29

A call went out for anyone interested in tackling Mt Cooke. An intrepid group of hikers was formed - 2 + 4, CJ252, Daddy LAXA and Mr fratra and a date and time set. 24 hours before hand the weather caused discussions to be had and advice being sought before the decision was made 'let's go for it'. We had planned to meet at 7.30am but us all being super punctual meant we headed off at 7.15am and signed the final cache 4.5 hours later. We completed the hike amidst drizzle, sunshine, freezing winds and icy cold rain all at various points along the track. All caches were found and signed as 24CJFTLAXA. A fantastic hike and enjoyable morning with great company.

TFTC Kyzabra & Jinta29 this is find # 5015 for us.

Sixth cache of the morning and what a morning. Wind, rain and mad drivers. We set off for the series around 7.15 with Fratra, CJ252 and LAXA. All the caches were found in good condition although the weather conditions kept changing.
Thanks for the cache.

Still going

I've been eyeing off this series for a very long time, having walked much of this section of the Bibbulmun track some years, in my pre-caching days. A friend of mine decided he would like to do some hiking and I convinced him to come with me on this trail. Surprisingly he went all out and actually made a geocaching account - premium and all! - Deefa71 - so he could fully immerse himself in the experience A great day out - a magical winters day: 23 degrees, no wind or rain and compact ground underfoot- it took us about 4.5 hours to complete the circuit, with 22 finds and no DNFs. Apologies for the generic log. TFTC

Gibby just knew where this one would be
Tftc!!

Found on day 10 of our walk to Albany. Walking out of Mt Cooke to Nerang . Thankyou for the cache

Tftc

Found with GrilledMonkey while out on a day hike up Mt Cooke. Thanks for this great series. Easy finds and amazing scenery.

Find 3 of 20 on a clockwise hike up and over Mount Cooke, starting at Rottnest Island. A fantastic day to take in the views and enjoy the variety of hides. All were found within a minute or two which was good as we were on a tight schedule to get back to pick up our son from Scout Camp at Manjedal!

TFTC Kyzabra

Stopped by here with jinta29 on a maintenance run today. I really enjoyed the walk around Mt Cooke, happy to add some smilies to the tally. Yep, may have forgotten to log these ones for over a year - a la AlliedOz. Thanks for placing this series Kyzabra and jinta29.

I had planned a maintenance run up here today and stopped by to check this one on the way past. No problems here, the cache is in good condition.

Numero 4

Tfth

Tfth

Out for 7 days on the Bibb Track. Other walkers are geo Muggles so have to limit my finds a bit. Found 6 from 6 caches today. Not so many from here on. All caches found today were in good condition and no maintenance is required. Thanks Kyzabra & Jinta29 for the hide.

Had the Mount Cooke bushwalk on the radar for some time now and finally time and suitable weather all lined up. This walk is truly a geocachers dream having so many caches in close proximity to one another and being such a great walk. Thank you to all the CO's.
Quick find here after a short search. All good with the cache.
Thank you kyzabra and Jinta29 for placing this series. Signed log, TNLN.

Some junior members of another caching team begged to come with me today, but for one obvious reason, and another (lack of sleep on their part) I was a mean Aunty and refused their attendance. This did result in quite a few text messages asking where I was! It was a great day for a walk, just the right temperature and a nice breeze. I enjoyed the walk and geocaches very much. TFTC Kyzabra

Thank you! On a lovely autumn morning papillon367 and I teamed up to hike Mount Cooke. We were a little worried on approach as there was a prescribed burn in the area, but luckily it was on the opposite side of the highway. We parked near the suggested parking spot and headed off in a clockwise direction.
We had no issues finding the cache here.

Ullyssia and I teamed up on this beautiful day to tackle this series and the other hides in the area. We got to fill a few more spots on our D/T grid and it was nice to have a break from micros. All caches were found without too many issues, although some took a bit longer than others. This one was a quick find.
Thank you for the cache and for the series Kyzabra and Jinta29.

More bush bashing required

Xman is on a roll. Another quick find. TFTH

Found Great Southern. No trackables to trade TNLN SL TFTH Kyzabra.

Hiking buddy was delighted to make the find here. TFTC.

TFTC, starting the climb, still smiles all around.

Went for a hike up Mt Cooke with Pret WA Team and found some geocaches too - this was one of them. Thanks for placing this cache in such a nice place.

Tftc

Tftf found whilst out with a group of friends fantastic view from the top wowwow

A great series, left Busselton at 6 am for this series, the stars where still out and watched the sunrise as we went through Collie, which was a chilly minus 3.3 degrees.
Lovely to see Jack Frost everywhere, white footy oval, white crunchy lawns, icicles on the fence posts, steam escaping from the baby calves as they walked beside their mums.
Arrived at our destination at 10.30, a lot further than I thought but ready to start the trek and challenge of this series.
We tackled this in the anti-clockwise direction and glad we did, beautiful crystal clear streams trickling down the ranges and plenty of water going over the rocks on a beautiful, clear, sunny, but chilly winters day.
We made it to the top with spectacular views and no injuries, great to see all the bush coming back to life after the recent fires, lush new green growth everywhere and the grass trees where stunning against the brilliant blue sky.
We got back to the car after our long 6 hour trek then meandered through Jarradale and Pinjarra back to Busselton by 9pm under a star filled sky.
Thanks for the challenge and I am sure it added to our D/T grid.

Another easy find, tftc

Originally logged under family caching name. Clan- Wallace.Now relogging under new name.

I think we picked the perfect day for our great trek, I could never have done it in the summer months. Although it is quite a cool day we have already strapped off unwanted layers of clothing & developed a gentle, warm glow. TFTC

Todays mission- Conquer Mt Cooke!!!!

The merry group of Travellers included Clan-Wallace, m4yb and Megawat60.

And the ascent begins to far we are making good time and we are all in good spirits onwards and upwards from here!!! Had wonderful memories of the Katanning all ages playground in the Great Southern as I looked for the cache.

TFTC Kyzabra and Jinta29

Found on the Cooke's Tour by the famous 5, made up of Mr and Mrs Clan Wallace, megawat60, WebblyWA and moi.
This one was found by WebblyWA, and brought me to remember my drives through this region when she lived there, when I entertained the sheep with loud Dire Straits and similar from the car stereo.
Thanks for this cache!

We were all still smiling and laughing, so nothing is broken yet. Although the chill factor was getting high form the odd bit of wind, but as Clan-Wallace said, we had picked a perfect day for it, so far!

Thanks for this smily Kyzabra.

We had an awesome day hiking the mt Cooke trail all caches were found and in good order bar one which had no lid on it when we found it (co informed and cache dried out). We did the series in about 6 hours at a casual pace with numerous stops to take our crazy photos such s great series! We are so lucky in Australia! Removed some trash from the top as well including stove gas canisters and soft drink bottles. Totally awesome day thanks for the hard work in placing the caches

**Date: 2 June 2016
Time: 9:06 am
Find #7544**

Day thirteen of my across the Nullarbor, then to Perth via Denmark trip. Today I am going to call Mt Cooke day, a recommendation from a fellow cacher and bou am I glad I did it. Always wanted to walk a small section of the Bibbulmun track, so this was my chance.

Wow, it really was turning into a fantastic day, time to shed an outer layer. Easy one to locate.

**Thanks to Kyzabra & Jinta29 for the cache. TNLN**

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With a hike along the Kokoda coming up i needed to get out and do some walking. The Mt Cooke series has been on the radar for some time and today was the day to tackle it. I added 20L of water to my pack to make the trip a bit more of a challenge and headed off. A nice straight forward hike with all of the caches in this series being simple, sensible hides. A great morning to be out. TFTC.

We had previous been up the mountain from the south to get the old cache and a couple of others prior to this series being published. This time we came from the north as a clock wise loop. A good walk as we picked up the caches in the series and a few of the others on the north side we did not get to before and the other new ones. No real problems with the hides as we made our way around the circuit picking up the clues. Great views from up top. Once back at the car we did the final maths for completion of the circuit. The set of numbers looked good and soon we signed the final. A 3 hr round trip. Some Wallabies and Goanna's spoted. TFTC. A fav pt for the series.

(chwiliwr team catch up log)

We came for a walk today to do the rest of the series and a new cache published last night.

A quick find here and the code noted.

Log signed and cache returned as found.

Thanks jinta29 for the cache.

Came for a walk today to do the rest of the series and a new cache published last night.

A quick find here and the code noted.

Log signed and cache returned as found.

Thanks Kyzabra for the cache.

Day out with iluvtrekking's and Richlink's finding a few caches....It was great to get out a do a few..
TFTC

Met up with iluvekking and JacobsCrew2 to do this series. Beautiful day to be out on the trail and no problem locating any of the containers due to spot on co-ords. Couple of spots that were a bit tricky when navigating rocks but a great morning trek. Spotted a few skinks and fortunately nothing nasty along the way. Enjoyed the awesome views. Thanks for the series Kyzabra & Jinta

Met up with richlink and JacobsCrew2 today to tackle this series. The old bones found it a bit hard going in places, but all caches were found and we enjoyed the company and the views along the way. Thanks for the challenging series Kyzabra & Jinta.

Out with Lazarus_68 to complete the caches in the Mt Cooke area. We started reasonably early (for me any way). The caches were completed in a clockwise direction as suggested. This being the sixth cache for the day. All caches in the series were found without any trouble and a note of the codes was made as we progressed through the series. The assent was relatively easy although marred a little by the rain on the way up. It didn't take us long to dry out as the walk progressed. The views from the top were magnificent. The descent phase of the walk proved to be the toughest part for me and like some others we seemed to lose the track for a while. But that's why we carry a GPS so we can go directly to the cache. I spotted quite a number of small wrens flitting around, a couple of lizards and one wet kangaroo. All in all a very enjoyable day. Many thanks for the Mt Cooke series.

Out in the morning with hhheddy looking for caches + GCA's Mt Cooke Trig on top. Walked the track in clockwise direction, this being #6 cache for the day. The assent was relatively easy, although marred by light rain, didn't take long for us to dry out as the walk progressed. The views from the top were magnificent, plus found interesting rock formations. The descent proved to be the toughest part for sure, painful on the knees, taking care not to slip on loose wet stones etc. All in all a very enjoyable day. Many thanks for this awesome series!!

An early morning to some what get me ready for starting work again tomorrow, however after the day i may be a little sore.
B12 has done a full log and photos, trip was enjoyable and has helped the DT grid but I am still a little behind Steve on this one.
TFTH TFTC TNLN

TFTC! Found on a lovely morning walk with Cravo10 to complete the regions of wa trail and a few others along the area of Mount Cooke. Probably rates as the second best series I've done to date (5000caches) slightly behind the CCC trail.

Was good going for most of the way, with a well defined path although I managed to get myself somewhat lost between Cookes Nook and Gascoyne. I somehow managed to lose the trail, but with a small amount of bushbashing and taking note of a well marked waypoint found myself back on the trail. Slot of thanks to jinta and Kyzabra for putting together such a good trail. All caches were found with a minimum of fuss except for the puzzle which took me about ten minutes.

I managed to knock over a major milestone whilst out today - filling my DT grid on Cookes Tour which was the final spot on the grid to be filled (d1t4).

I would love to award more fav points but I am nearly all out so I will have to do some retrospectively. Thanks

Hello Kyzabra - I found this cache today (my find # 3493) and the cache is in good condition. with parking at the prescribed point and beginning my walk. The path is good for walking, though some hairy bits where trees have fallen, and generally easy on my old legs (although it did get a bit harder later on). All of your caches and logs are in good condition. SL. Thanks to Kyzabra for the cache.

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 24.174 E 116° 17.899

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 24.168 E 116° 17.894

Distance from original: 44.7 feet or 13.6 meters.
Had to move this slightly. Previous was burnt out.

Had to move this slightly. Previous was burnt out.

I had previously completed the trek over Mt Cooke a few months before this series was published. That time I went from south to north and always wanted to try it from the other end. I heard the CO's were doing a maintenance run today so asked if I could join them. We met up at Ningaloo Reef around 5:30am and headed off in a clockwise direction.

We were together for the fist six where they turned around to check the ones at the other end so I was left to my own devices from there on. The hill climb from the Northern end was less severe, but the old knees didn't enjoy the steep decline over the other side. Needless to say the terrain was a little different since the bushfire went through and disturbingly may have enhanced the views at some locations.

No evidence of the cache or apparently it's host. Signed the new log in the new location.

Kyzabra I found your cache at 6:07am, this was the 5th of 38 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 2564.

SLTFTC

This has taken a bit longer to get out to than I first planned.
Sorry for the delays and the series will be back up and running in the next few weeks.
Containers are just about ready

Several weeks ago McFonz and I organised to do the Mt Cooke series. Unfortunately in the time since, the controlled burn in the area got a little out of control and destroyed several caches. Luckily we were able to find all bar 4. Both puzzles were intact and signable. Started our walk around 7am and finished at 11am covering around 8.5km. A great day to be wandering the Mt Cooke area.

First DNF of the morning. Looks like the fire was pretty intense in this area. Hint helped us zero in on a likely hide but there was nothing left at all. Will return another day once the cache is back in action.

Had a brief stop over in Perth and what better way to explore the state than a trip around Mt Cooke. Set off early to avoid the heat of the day. On arriving in the area it seems a very recent hazard reduction burn has been undertaken over most of Mt Cooke. Unfortunately this has destroyed a number of caches in the series and a few others. These were the plastic sistema containers (South west, Gascoyne - prob burnt, eagles soar, Peel -prob burnt, great southern -prob burnt, ningaloo burnt, karijini burnt).
For Great Southern Had no luck in the blackened area around gZ, and did not find evidence for the cache. Photo of gz attached, think this one is also a goner.
Despite the blackened Bush had a great walk.

Have decided to temporarily disable the series until we get up there an check out where the burn has and hasn't affected.
Would be a shame for people to come all this way and only be able to get half the series.

With the wife and daughter away at school camp and me up earlier than usual to drop off the lad at school, I decided to make the most of the week of annual leave I’m on and get some finds in on as many days as I can. This is day three of my week of caching and I have been keen to do this series since it came out.

I wrangled in a muggle walking friend and we set out around 09:30 and finished the series at about 13:30, The expected forecast was for 27c but there was a nice breeze for most of the walk so it did not get too uncomfortable at all.

Spot on cords for each and every cache, different cache containers and a good amount of ammo cans

We saw a lot of wildlife, no slithery ones but heaps of lizards, insects and the like, so many flowers are in bloom and the drone of the bees added to the magic of the walk.

We stopped up the top for lunch and drank in the views, it really is worth the trek around this trail as it does have it all.

Thanks jinta29 and kyzabra, a well constricted series with a variety of cache containers at regular intervals, well done guys we loved it.

It is starting to get warmer but the breeze is keeping us cool and the caches are keeping me happy, not sure about the muggle

TFTS
AlliedOz aka The Jokers

As usual, I have fallen behind in logging my finds - some things never change. Anyway, I didn't just want to write something as meaningless as TFTC, or a , or Nice hide, or any of the other throwaway logs that seem to be becoming the norm lately. Nor did I want to write a generic log either, saying the same thing over and over. So I have found myself in a bit of a quandary...

As my companion on the day(~Tango~) wrote in his logs, this series is absolutely fantastic - everything that geocaching should be, and the CO's managed to highlight all that our great state has to brag about: amazing locations, great hiking trails, beautiful scenery, along with a great range of hide sizes and styles. And, as always, Tango was the perfect companion for the expedition - shame Ralph couldn't have been along with us too, but no doggies allowed up there. Next time...

In short, the entire series was an absolute pleasure to do, and I am extremely grateful to the CO's for the time and effort that went into the planning and execution of getting this benchmark series out there. Well done guys - you deserve every favourite point that I am sure this series will attract.

And while my logs may be mostly generic (sorry!!), I did manage to take quite a few photos whilst out there and will upload many of them to the various logs. I just hope they inspire others to get out there and enjoy this amazing series for themselves.

Thanks again jinta29 and Kyzabra

I have passed by Mt Cooke many times over the years and have always wanted to get up here. What better motivation than a well organized caching trail. jinta29 and Kyzabra, you have excelled in creating a landmark series which, to me, shows what caching should be about. I said to Mistraluna as we were admiring the views from one of the many vantage points that if I had enough favourite points I'd give one to each cache in the series. Well, on checking, I don't have enough. Probably a direct result of recently losing interest in caching after the flooding of the scene with meaningless hides. But I'll give as many faves as I've got.
Despite the weather forecast we had great weather for a bit of a hike. Lots of flowers, with even more orchids getting ready to flower within a month. Birds, views, a babbling brook, a bit of exercise, great company: couldn't really ask for anything else. You can't take the credit for the weather or the company but for the rest of it, thanks heaps for setting the trail.
Forgive the generic log and now get out there and set some more like these.

A late and showery start to the day but we gave it a go. First time here and the awesome hike rewarded us with great views between the showers. Unfortunately a wrong track was taken and we missed the last 6 of the series. Was getting late and needed to reach the car before dark. We will be back to finish!! Thanks for the caches.

Today was the day for the walk around Mt Cooke to collect the Western Australia Series and a couple of other hides on the way. All started really well, with a sunny-cloudy weather, but as we were climbing up towards the summit we got some showers.
To sum it up it was good fun despite the wet weather, nice flowers and scenic views from the top. TFTH

Had a great day with my mum OOH YEH doing this series and picking up a few others inbetween. We had great weather and the scenery was fantastic. Liked the variety of containers and we found all the co-ords to be good. Thanks for the series

Been planning to do this series since last weekend with the geodaughter Redlipsandunicorns and with perfect weather today we headed out this morning. It was a great walk with some amazing views and i was quite amazed out how many people we went past that were walking this track. It was great finding good sized containers and i found all theco-ords to be spot on. We collected all the clues along the way and also picked up the other caches that were inbetween this series. I will give a favourite point for each one of the caches as it was a very enjoyable series in a great location TFTC Kyzabra

Travelled to the parking spot in the early hours of the morning and set off in a clockwise direction to grab the Mount Cooke caches at about 0630. I enjoyed the pleasant walk by myself and took in the views at every opportunity. I was back in the car just after 10am and on the road to grab a few more before heading home.
Thanks for the series, a very enjoyable walk indeed.

Finally getting around to logging this cache with the permission of the CO. . We had a fantastic day while placing these caches and I don't think I have seen better views in WA than from up here [^]. A great circuit of the mighty Mt Cooke and I can hardly wait until I get here again. Thanks for the caches Kyzabra . A fave point from me here!

Great Southern was transferred from West Oz Geocaching to user Kyzabra

A great morning out on Mt Cooke this morning with Geodad,
Started at 7.20am at the first cache and found the final at 10.20am also rounding out with 22 finds, No DNFs and 1 FTF.

I picked up 3 souvenirs, International Geocaching Day,Put your thinking caps on and Lets get Extreme. I also got my first Puzzle cache FTF. I also collected 3 D/T combinations!!.

A cool looking tree at GZ...

So a great day all out with some stunning views. Thanks West Oz Geocaching for placing this great series

Thanks for the trek.

The plan was put in place last week to tackle the mighty mount cook!
Bech_is _ere and I were pumped 8am was the meeting time at gz and on we climbed scraped and bush bashed to the mighty top!

We found all the caches today with no dnf what a great series and what a view from the top !!
The sun was out and shining and made for one hell of a day to be out side and on the biblumum track !

Thanks to west oz crew for this one !

Yay FTF. Nice easy walk on the track here, reminisced a little as I have walked this section of the track before (many years ago). TFTC

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