#105 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Clonbinane, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 26-Mar-16. Waypoint GC63XFX

Another fun day out adventuring with doddlingalong. Our plan to kayak and cache aborted due to high winds we went to plan B. Our second visit adding to our Mt Disappointment collection. TFTC

Out for another grand day of caching adventures with carmlee1, quick find and on we go

at 12:15pm took a detour back to get service.Lunch time.

Quick find Thanks for the cache

On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. Day 48/74, Saturday. How lovely - the whole day just for geocaching. I had two main targets today: To find the oldest cache in Victoria, and to find one cache with a D/T combination that I needed still for March, for a Finnish challenge cache. In addition, I visited - hmm - 100 other geocaches, mainly the Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson trail caches but some other too. The day was really hot again (well, for a Finn, anyway), but I totally enjoyed. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Logged under TBKGreetings from Belgium

Find#6162Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

Found by caughtatwork on 31/12/2023 at 4:01:00 PMAn easy find on a nice day out in the country.Took nothing, left nothing.Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches, there would be nothing around for those who like to find geocaches.*Overall Experience: 3*GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

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

Quick find as I slowly chip away at this series. TFTC

Grabbed a couple more of these while scouting out the area.

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

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TFTC

TFTC!

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

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

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

Thank you

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

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

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

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

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

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

On our way to the Mega at Whittlesea, but staying a couple of nights on the way at Kilmore to do some more of the Mt Disappointment series.

Drizzly rain on and off through out the day. Soft edges meant we needed to be careful were we placed our vehicle and our feet. Returned to caravan wet to knee high and soaked boots and socks from walking through long grass.

All but 1 cache was found.

TFTC stamped log TB's visited

Adventure Boys!
Pick your quote below, cause it’s for you.

We found in peace

May the find be with you

I love the smell of fin in the morning

Foundiddily

This cache is _found_

Found town. Population: this cache

Mc Found (with cheese)

F to the OUND

foundaloonie

Found
Pound
Mound
Round
Sound
Bound
Hound
Clowned
Nouned
Towned


Curse your sudden but inevitable find!

I know geocaching

Live long and found it!

Danger, Will Founditson

Holy Foundit, Batman!

I love it when a find comes together

Resistance is Found it.

Found it, the final frontier

To the Found-it mobile!

_I_ am your found it.

Hasta la foundit, baby

Here’s looking at you, found it

Frankly, my found it, I don’t give a damn

Yippee ki yay, motherfoundit

The name is ‘It’, ‘Found It.’


#nosuchthingas [ftf]

#105 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson
3661
17 November 2022

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

Found this one disappointment series onto the next one

TFTC

Out finding caches this weekend with @the4wdshed and @smithiesoutbackgear.
Cheers for the cache

*found a few weekends ago but haven't gotten round to logging some of them*

Quick easy find
This trail has been on our radar for a while, this weekend was a perfect chance to get out and get it done with @Smithies Outback and @Searchingformacca and a chance to go camping and sit around a camp fire with great friends. Tftc

Out caching for a second day at Mt Disa with The4wdShed and SearchingForMacca. Heaps of caches in this area so we thought we'd get some off them under our belt. Nice uick find. TFTC

12 January 2022
5:10 pm
1367
Many thanks carkisser for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

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.

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.

Blue skies and sunshine so decided to scoot up the mountain today Rough tally was 73 finds and a stray DNF So apols for generic logs. I did some maintenance for the PT COs and replaced a couple of missing caches and logbooks. Personal notes have been included for the gnarly caches

TFTC carkisser & JSando

33 finds today and 5 fail to finds which I think have been taken as I not the only one to fail to find them. Oh well.
Most of the finds were straight forward and all in great shape.
Added a few little toys here and there.
Will return another day and complete this series.
TFTC Carkisser & JSando

Day two of our drive around this area. Getting very familiar with the tracks around here too.
Working our way to Broadford for late lunch.
Quite ironic that on Easter Sunday we are signing logs below the beautifully hand written logs of The_Easter_Bunnies.

Generic log attached.
Day two of our drive around this area. Getting very familiar with the tracks around here too.
Working our way to Broadford for late lunch.
Quite ironic that on Easter Sunday we are signing logs below the beautifully hand written logs of The_Easter_Bunnies.

We had a bit of back-and-forth here until success. The container and foliage blended in well with the late afternoon light. TFTC

Quick park and grab TFTC

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TFTC See full log at #289 All logs dated and signed as SG

Early start today, trying to hit some personal milestones, going after a LOT of caches in the day.... Swinging to the north a bit now, another section to attack...
This was Number 41

And another cache bites the dust, no it is me and it nearly lunch time

TFTC

**Find #3080**

Enjoying another ride on the Geo-motorcycle to Mt Disappointment and I grabbed another 11 driving lessons, Then it was time to explore more trails. This was the 10th lesson. All found quickly with spot on co-ords. A fantastic series, all Caches in great condition. TNLN.

Thanks **carkisser**

TFTC.

Today was a beautiful cool day for some caching however it started to drizzle and the weather closed in as the morning progressed after having a great start to the day we ended on a rather sour note as we went along we collected 52 finds and 8 DNFs and as the number of DNF were increasing along this trail due to the clearing of the roadside it was decided that lunch would be a good time to stop the weather being what it was and the finds petering out the daily goal was not going to be reached now so we went back to the camp and one of the team ended up at the hospital.

Finally a return to the area we had collected a few caches of this trail many moon ago (feb 2018) we have returned to conduct some recon for the Whittlesea mega so whilst staying in the are we decided on another assault of the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Trail and pick up some of the ones we didn't collect at that time owing to road works. This was a good day our except for those DNFs and the weather closing in on us around what would have been our lunch time so we called it quits. All caches that were found were in good condition however a couple could use a little attention as the logs are getting on the damp side.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing this series for us to add a few more to our collection today and apologies for the cut and past logs you know what its like.

It has been quiet awhile since I was last up here so I made the decision to to come up early this morning and tackle a bit more of the series starting at #52 and seeing where I end up.
It was nice and cool this morning but the sun came out and warmed up the place.
The roads were quiet as well with only the occasional car passing by.
I have ridden, driven and walked a lot of the tracks around here and have even stayed at No 1 camp a couple of times, I just love this place.
Due to the logging in the area these roads are in great condition and a pleasure to drive, but I must admit I have missed seeing a couple of drains while pulling over, the poor Mitzi is getting a hard time due to me.
You guys have done a great job in putting this series out and keeping up the maintenance as well as I know that can be a lot of work.

Thanks carkisser & JSando TFTC

One of fifty found today with n0w0rries and nirgalagrin.
Thanks for the caches carkisser & JSando

Always a fun day out caching with nirgalagrin.
Today we had +Wife at the wheel as we worked our way around the Mountain.
The Geomutts reluctantly shared the back seat with Mark.
Some caches were found quicker than others, some were practically drive bys.
A smattering of trash around. Maybe it's time for another Mt Disappointment CITO.
Thank you for placing this trail carkisser & JSando.

16:56
Took the opportunity of a drive through the countryside with n0w0rries +Wife to see if we could knock off a chunk of the caches around Mt. Disappointment.

It was fun travelling in the company of my hosts, sharing the back seat of the car with the two dogs. And by sharing, I mean squeezing my way into the car after finding each cache until I could close the door, only to find that meagre space usurped as soon as I hopped out for the next quick search. (they're good, friendly dogs, but you're never in any doubt as to whose space that is.

In all, we managed smileys on fifty or so caches before heading back home for dinner. All were found reasonably swiftly and, apart from the occasional damp log, were in good condition. I think n0w0rries and I found about half of the containers each, aided hugely by our driver's excellent positioning by the coordinates.

carkisser, thanks for the hides, and thanks for inviting me, n0w0rries and +Wife

#4941

Having a fantastic time with this series! Thanks so much for all of the hard work. Will start adding random favorite points, since it's all great !

Day 1 - 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 18:80)

Driving detour to collect another little string of caches - no disappointing moments today. All in good order - the road and caches and not too wet at all! TFTC and the series.

After a fabulous evening last night to celebrate 50 years since the moon landing, breakfast with many of the guests then back into this area to collect a few more caches to allow me to return the jewels to the museum. Having a great day along here. Thanks again for this huge series TFTC carkisser & JSando

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

Day 2 of the Dad’s Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson series. This geo-section was post lunch from 2pm to 5pm but could not log until later. All caches readily found with good coordinates and likely hides. Many thanks to CO. TNLN TFTC CIGC.

Tftc

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.

1Found with akpa5 and brutas12000

Found with akpa5 and akpa6

My eyes were to working properly here

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

Maybe one more before tea time

In the forests of disappointment again,
and headed along another section of the trail of lessons
This cache soon came to paw on a sunny day

TFTC.

These are subsequent finds 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). As such this one was a follow on in the series from where we picked up from after 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 a large majority of these, the series has been attacked in earnest at this stage and had a productive day was had and in the end we found 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.

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 #2749

Thanks to the long weekend back home, I was able to pop over the ditch for the mega and a ‘few’ caches along the way! I was really after the numbers on this trip, planning to achieve 50+ each of the three days for a challenge – something that is getting much more difficult back home! The weather was great and I had a ball thanks to all the CO’s placing great caches!

I left a couple unfinished tails on this trail, and I am glad to report that I was able to come and complete the rest on this trip! 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. TFTC carkisser

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

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 effects hiding then for us to find.all 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. We had planned a big day of caching with friends Muff1. Our aim was to complete as much as possible of the Mt Dissappointment trail. In general all of the caches were quickly to hand and signed. We attempted to do as many as possible without having to double back on ourselves.

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 128 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.


Thanks for the caches

#2884

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.

#226

#3183 A big day of caching with the aim to collect big numbers and collect a bunch of souvenirs. The geohounds tagged along for the adventure. A cool day with the temperature floating around 7-9 degrees, but much fun had. A handful of dnfs but lots of finds. We found the coords to be pretty good, a few damp logsheets but no trouble signing. Thanks for all the effort carkisser and JSando.

Nice, easy find. TFTC

The light rain has stopped, and dalerious made finding this one look easy. So glad we brought warm jackets today as the wind is icy.

Hume and Hovell were wrong. This place should be called Mt Rewarding. This was my 3rd visit here with Cybergran V and with the days haul of 102 finds (including 3 randoms) we now have 199 of this series completed and (when logged) all 13 virtual souvenirs currently on offer in the bag. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou carkisser & JSando for this amazing opportunity to crank the numbers when most needed.

I was in Melbourne with geoson for a few days. The lad was busy with some sort of gaming convention thingy at the Convention Centre in the heart of the City so I set about making plans to tackle a few caches on my travels. Fortunately I was mobile and able to hit up some relatives for accommodation in West Footscray and Croydon which allowed a few easy distance day trips!

I had solved a massive amount of puzzles (many more than I needed) and also targeted old caches, letterboxes, a few GCA caches and any others I happened to be passing by.

I headed north to grab Melbourne’s 1st and then decided on grabbing a few of the Mt Disappointment series. Cheers and TFTC.

G’day there carkisser, I was in this area today and found your cache #105 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson GC63XFX. I added my name to the log book at 11:19 am on 19 May 2018. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

This cache find brings our total find count to 9606. Woohoo!!

A birthday outing to Mt Disappointment tackling more of the caches on offer. With geo husband driving and me hunting we made a great team. TFTC

Anzac day and a good day for Spiffy- and I to have a mini road trip to visit some far away places for various challenge caches and the premier whereigo cache. The hints made these chaches a bit easier. Thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing this cache.

Found on 25 Apr 2018 at 6:19 pm.
Myself and Fleabag- planned last week to do a road trip on this ANZAC day public holiday so left home bright and early to head up around the Wangaratta area for a few different things we were seeking including whereIGo's, challenges and some solved puzzles plus a couple of nice D/T combos. A great day was had and we almost got everything that we planned but we kept getting distracted by other great caches on the way.

We wanted to finish our day with more than 50 finds so we stopped by here with a detour from the highway to find some more regular size caches to add to our tally.
Quite busy along these back roads and as day turned to night we luckily had our torches to find the last few we needed on our first of probably many more visits to this area.
Thanks carkisser & JSando for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

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

#2499 Found at 8:20am with the Green-martian, both visiting from Canberra. Travelled 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 9 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 & JSando for this epic series of caches.

Gotcha !!! 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.

That arched branch gives the cache some cover. Not really, but it gives it some shadow and shade anyhow.

These were the caches that McLookers and I had to do, which had already been done by the others on our group. We therefore left them to do these ones, while they did cache we had already done. There were no problems iwth any of these caches, save for one which we eventually found.

Found quickly.

We had planned a group trip to pick up the remaining caches in this series that we hadn't already found. Today with Alansee, Team Crackers, Good Look and micaparamedic we got an early start as we knew it would be a hot day. We signed the logbook as MICE...I will leave the others to tell the story of its creation!! Thanks carkisser & JSando for a terrific series with good co-ords and some stunning views.

A day out caching with Gis+Ger, and geohubby was the driver.
Nice easy find and TFTC guys and this great series

With 2peasinapod2012, back again to carry on where we left of a year ago
so when we are finished we will write our final log.
thanks carkisser & JSando

#68 in the run. Tftc

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.

***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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Staying at Kilmore, we tackled some 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.

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 101 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.

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.

Today was a great day to continue caching along the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson series as the weather started our being overcast and pleasantly cool. Each log in the caches we found had our name noted in the form of initials (GP2). In today's section of the series the caches seemed easier to find.
The only ones we did not locate were #131 and #132, which were both within a section of road controlled by stop/slow sign holding muggles as well as muggles on road repair machinery.
Each cache located was replaced as it had been found before we moved on.
Thanks to carkisser & JSando for this extensive series of caches.

10577 Found and Logged at 7:36:00 AM
One of 141 cachers while camping at Anderson Gardens few a few days for the Mt Disappointment Trail
Thanks For The Cache carkisser
Lgoody

Great series up here - living some numbers.

Thanks for another smilie. Quick find where all good at GZ.


Great to be over this side of the ditch for a few days with my key focus being the Mega in Alexandra and associated activities. I’ll be taking some ideas back to New Zealand so as we plan for a major Event next year we can look to implement some of the great things from Melbourne.


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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn’t be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU.

Headed down to Victoria with steeba and Hoojar to be part of the 3rd Victorian Mega celebrations in Alexandra. Our 3-day leave pass ensured we’d be constantly on the go! From 300 finds in the Mt Disappointment area to 10 different cache types there was never a dull moment.

The Mt Disappointment trail was a huge day for us as we'd driven down overnight, then on minimal sleep we had a huge day finding all 300+ caches.

Thanks to all the cache owners who contributed to a great 3 days caching with my fellow caching buddies. My apologies about the template style log, it certainly doesn’t detract from the thrill of the ‘find”.

TFTC

Found as part of a few days away with my great caching mates The Rats and Hoojar. Our main aim was the Mega event in Alexandra but we managed to find most of the Mt Disappointment series, did 9 or 10 cache types in a day (side trip to Mt Buller and then Melbourne CBD). Some great laughs, camping under the stars, a nicely organised Mega and some great wildlife (koala and echidnas ). TFTC!

The idea of going down to Victoria and to the Alexandra Mega was original floated by Steeba. Normally Megas are not something that I am super keen to attend, but the opportunity of also collect some serious numbers on the Mount Disappointment caching trail, and finding some Lab Caches really helped to sweetened the deal. I was in, along with my long time caching buddies Steeba and The Rats.

We left Wollongong at 8pm on Thursday evening, returning at 5pm on Sunday, 2,500km and over 400 cache finds later. With less than a handful of DNFs, a wonderful result!

Highlights of the trip included:
- Finding over 330 caches on Friday, the entire Mount Disappointment trail;
- Finding ten unique cache types on Saturday, which included a drive to both Mount Buller for a Web Cam, and then back for a late night Melbourne CBD visit for a Virtual;
- Meeting up with a few local Wollongong cachers in Alexandra;
- Setting two new personal records, for my most cache finds and cache types in a day;
- The always good company and banter of Steeba and The Rats;
- Seeing six echidnas, and a koala (my first sighting of a koala on the ground in the wild); and
- The absolute highlight of the trip was watching Sir The Rats be inducted into the Australia Geocaching Hall of Fame (or maybe the jokes that Steeba and I had over the weekend over the honour!).

Thanks to all of the cachers that hid caches for us to find over our short trip away. I have little doubt in thinking that we will be back to these parts again at some stage to find more caches!

Cheers