4.5 Tree Climb Trail #4.5 (Redux) Walla Walla, New South Wales, Australia
By Joelisa on 29-Oct-15. Waypoint GC65ZR8

OMG monkey boy scaled this tree while his poor mum watched from the ground. Now for the descent.

That was probably the most likely as the ladder reached the fork. But ultimately I was too scared. Never mind. At least we have done some T4.5s already.

Out and about today exploring the area again today with Grannan55 and Geodogs. We saw these a few days ago and thought we must come back soon. Well, here we are. What a fantastic series. All good here. Now, onto the next one for the day. TFTC

The last time we drove back from Rutherglen, after the mega, we came to have a look at this series. We took photos of each of the hides so that we could find them more easily on our next visit. At that stage, our ladder was too short to tackle any of the very high ones in this series, and we had no climbing/rope slings with us. Today we are back with a ladder which is well over 6 m and it did the job just nicely. We were very glad. We had taken a photo of this one on our last visit, as it is high and difficult to spot. Again, having the very tall ladder made this job, a little easier, although Mrs Domsky still needed to step off the ladder and climb a little more to reach the hide. Thanks Joelisa for this series. It is great for us to make this return trip to the area. Awesome hides! A favourite point added here for this one and for the series. Domsky

24/01/2022 4:47:00 PM
8 years ago I failed the find the original incarnation, last week I spotted the cache but had no desire to try and sign it in the rain and now I returned to get myself up the tree again and finally sign to log as found.

Thanks Joelisa for persisting with this hide


Find recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

22/01/2022 8:07:16 AM
Dropped by after a shower of rain managed to spot this after a short search however I wasn't game to attempting the wet. I will be back.

caching in the Walla Walla area, although this was not the plan at the start, so I had nothing in the GPS. Mrs Snakepitters saw this little series on the phone and thought that it would be good fun for me to show my inner monkey. Well the monkey did come out and in some cases with a very tight pucker valve climbing and working out the next step. Managed 4 out of the 5, with one requiring a TOTT to get started.



TFTC Joelisa
Total Cache Finds 12233,

WOW!!!
Certainly a challenge that took me a number of attempts, retreats and rethinking to eventually conquer.
Once up the going was not too bad and I had CIH quickly. Getting back down was better than expected. Great to pick up this unique DT combo.
Gets a fave point.
SL TFTC

#5286

Day 3 of the Mega road trip with PPE saw us grabbing a few caches before access to the Mega logbook at 9am and then heading for home, collecting some more caches and an LGA along the way.

I was sort of keeping an eye on caches as we were driving along when all of a sudden I spotted some smileys from a previous visit. This resulted in a short detour to complete some unfinished business.

Took a while to spot this one but a glint of a reflection gave it a way. Our TOTT only got us part way there and we used some rope for extra courage to get us to the final step. Certainly got the adrenalin flowing

TFTC Joelisa

At the Walla Walla trees and the road is dry - yeh! Travelling with Joolay and isopeda in convoy with Kittykatch and GrimRaider. Signed log as Capital Crunchers. That was hard and dicey!! Good climb isopeda! Tftc

On our way to the Mega in Wangaratta. Driving in convoy with Kittykatch Joolay Barb2e and Grimraider.
We had been here before, but it was windy and wet, so we only did about half the series and are catching up today. Some tricky climbs.


TFTC

OMG that was so hectic. Isopeda did the deed but it took repositioning the TOTT a number of times before being able to access it. Scary stuff and I was on the ground.
Day 1 of our Mega trip with Kittykatch, Grimraider, barb2e and Isopeda. So excited to have some time off and go on a caching holiday. Signing as Capital Crunchers.

Thanks For getting me out and about Joelisa

This cache took us a while to work out the best approach for retrieval. At one stage we tried a fishing pole but then lost the hook when it got caught on the bison tube. Treid another approach and isopeda managed to get to the container. Woohoo ! Now time for lunch. Found as part of our roadtrip to Wangaratta to attend the Mega with GrimRaider, Joolay isopeda and barb2e (Capital Crunchers). Thanks for your hide here Joelisa

Muggle65 and l had a borrowed TOT but it was rather short and we were still quite a way from the prize. Using due old lady care, managed to safely get to the prize and add our name to the log. Thank you so much for the fun

Pulled up to this one and after a bit spotted the cache. This is a 4.5 Terrain cache and no mistaken. After a wee bit of planning the best route up we placed our borrowed TOT it the best spot and ascended into the heavens.
That was the easy bit, what came next was amazing as she shimmied slowly & methodically upward toward her quarry. After getting as close as she could the bison gave forth its precious prize, the log was signed & returned.

Coming down was as slow & methodical as the ascent. Reaching terrafirma we high fives and she adjourned to the car to rest & rehydrate.

Could see it. Will be back when it’s not raining
Thanks For getting me out and about Joelisa

Generic log for these fantastic tree climbs. YES! what a beautiful day in Walla with Catnap clambering around tree limbs together. Truly great fun. Vehicle ladder mount did proove successful. Thanks Catnap for taking the time for accompanying me. And thanks Joelise for cache placement.

Generic log for these fantastic tree climbs. Out with OZREG this morning trying out his newly created ladder holder come extension, which, by the way worked fantastically. Was a sight seeing the two of us in the tree signing the log. One, the old Orangutan, the other the cheeky Capuchin. Thank you Reggie for taking me out on this practice run for some technical tree climbs in the very near future. All containers were found in good condition. Thanks to joelisa for providing such entertainment.

23,498. Found with minniek and Sui_001 after attending the Community Celebration Event held in Wagga today.

We headed down to Wagga today with a main aim of attending the neat Community Celebration Event. Once it was complete we headed off to grab some caches before we had to head home. We targeted this series of caches. We have driven past these ones before not stopping, but today we had the right tool in the car to do them. The TOTT was deployed and the cache soon in hand. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.

Thanks Joelisa !! Favourite Point for the Series !

Headed to Wagga Wagga with fitzy_1965 and Sui_001 for a bit of caching.

After Roostaman's CC event, we decided to head further south to the 4.5 series. Couldn't resist a few trads on the way down.

fitzy_1965 and I have driven passed these before but didn't have the right tools with us to make the finds....today, we did! Spotted it quickly but took a bit to work out how to get to it. Sui thinks it was easier than the last one lol.

Ha!
Lovely!
Great trail. Thanks

08:26:31
In Albury for a week and I noted this little series of tree climbs that looked like fun. Made a morning of it in Walla Walla - pretty town. I needed a boost from Suzee-car to get into this one, and thankfully I was able to spot my quarry fairly quickly. All good here.

Thanks Joelisa for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #8510}*

I decided on attempting this one again today. This was a very difficult cache to find. It still wasn't as hard as the next one I did today. This time I managed to find it after another long search. TFTC and the challenge.

After a failed mission to come to Walla Walla last week, I found myself with a full day off today to come today. I have been planning to do the ‘4.5 Tree Climb Trail’ for quite some time and collect the pre-solved puzzles located within the town limits. It was full of finds, DNF’s, lunch and conversations with the people I met along the way. I also loved the great locations I visited today. After finishing caching in Walla, I headed north to collect the lone caches around the back roads which lead to lots of backtrack driving. With all this driving I found myself with almost 600kms making it my biggest distant caching day I have ever yet. TB visit on all found caches. On some of the smaller log sheets/books I signed as 5/9 JM. I would like to thank all CO’s for the caches I found, the locations I visited and for the fun I had today.
Today’s totals:
24 Finds (20 Groundspeak and 3 GCA)
3 DNF’s

I tried a couple of different trees and after 20mins I decided to move on. A DNF from me.

For those that like to know about some of the history of the area, next year will mark the 150th year of settlement in Walla Walla and the upcoming celebrations will be held on the 25-28 January 2019. All are welcome to attend. If you are looking for more information about the celebrations, please use the following link.
http://wallawalla.nsw.au/WallaWalla150thCelebrations/tabid/682/Default.aspx

As we pulled up to this one we even remembered the colour of the cache from logging this one years ago. Ha! It is so much easier spotting it when you know where to look. We managed to free a sheep from a fence just up the road here. (Logged as per cache page info)

This was such a fun climb and a bit of a challenge to get up the first part. I love climbing trees and I love this series. It also gives me a reason to get my parents to let me climb random trees.. TFTC

Found with ILookedThere and Cybergran V.

The littlest member of our troupe had his time to shine here. I had brought along a pair of binoculars with which young Master ILookedThere put to very good use by spotting this nasty little hide well before any of us could have hoped.

Now it was just a matter of shinning up there to get it.
We had a system working well now, it was well rehearsed and seemingly impossible caches were actually being achieved. [^]

No monkeys were harmed in the retrieval of this cache. [8)]

TFTC(&Series) Joelisa.

This penultimate cache in the series proved to be the final for us. Sadly we had our only DNF on the last one, the D5 one that I guess was just too "D" for us.

Junior ILookedThere was in his element here, with binoculars in hand he elevated his position in the search party by locating the tiny object.
This made the retrieval much quicker than expected, with Mrs ILookedThere negotiating the Pajero into the correct position, MrILookedThere positioning the ladder, and dalerious doing his simian arboreal impersonations, and myself rolling the video camera.
What a great team effort!
Thanks Joelisa, another hole in our grid filled, and very pleased to see nobody injured in the process.

Out at Walla Walla chasing the 4.5 tree climb series with Cybergran V on Nav duties, dalerious. on the climbing to stupid heights duties (just because your wearing a superhero T shirt doesn't make the landing any softer) and Team ILooked There on ladder holding and spotting duties.

We had been going so well. No DNF's up to this point so we were all hell bent on keeping it that way. ILT Junior had the binoculars out for this and had spotted it reasonable quickly. Now all we had to do was retrieve it.

Thanks Joelisa.

Mr Team GBS climbed all over this tree but despite a very long search we could not spot the cache from up the tree or from the ground so very sadly we ended up having to walk away.

12:03
We enjoyed a day of caching from Culcairn thru' Morven & Gerogery to Walla Walla & return. It felt as if every DR and TR was covered at some point, so many creative, sneaky or just plain bold hides. Dedicated CO's have placed for geocachers to find or sometimes walk away from in frustration.
We soon found this series beyond the reach of us and our trusty TOTT.

Had a look at the Tree Climbing caches today. We hoped our TOTT would help but it wasn't tall enough for any of them, some would have been close but still too difficult. We will have to return with a younger fitter helper at some stage to get these ones.

Found it, but I'm not tall enough to reach it from the ground

Thought we would like to try out this little T4.5 trail while around the area. Some just jumped out at us, we could see easily others were not visible at all. The extendable ladder was good but was just not long enough all the time. It would have been much better with some younger and fitter people around to climb up higher than we could have. The trees keep growing, and growing so the terrain keeps growing with it. Mmmmm

We decided we would do this one backward with the theory that by the end we would be exhausted and the hard ones would be over. Leaving the easier one till last, this did work to some extent.

Getting to the #5 we decided it was a no go. This one #4.5 was not too bad from my mind my Geo Chauffer did my climbing for me, he is my hero after all, Thanks goes to him for that.

Found the cache, Signed the log, replaced it, then on our way.

Thanks for this series of cache’s Joelisa, Lil Donna

Found by Bailey, Talia, Luke, Ryan and Megan 14/10/2018.

Thanks for the find! The kiddies love it!!!

However the more the trees grow and the branches break the harder access is to log it.

After being flushed with success from the last tree climb, we rocked up to this one to have another go at it, having already found the previous incarnation.
It was Mr TLW who spotted this one from the ground as it seems dad has his eyes painted on and needed the binoculars to spit it.....I call it old age.....
So up we go again to make the quick find and sign.
Loving these fun easy tree climbs.
Cheers

This is definitely a challenging series especially for geo hubby, considering his age (72) and having had both knees replaced. However, he used a TOTT to achieve the result needed here. Geo wife mainly acted as safety officer and sometimes scribe. All in all we were able to retrieve and sign 7 of the 9 caches in this series. That was certainly better than we hoped.
The lid for this cache was broken. It neeeds to be replaced.
Thanks go to Joelisa for the series and we are giving a favourite point for each one.

Find a buddy and come back when it’s not raining! Looks fun.

7066 Located by baby&Mrs gopher in company with the SimpsonFamily15 at 1420. TOTT were again made use of to gather container from it's location.SL Tnx Joelisa

This was somewhat easier to retrieve than the last but certainly took a few extra seconds to spot. It all comes down now to the last one!! Enjoying a tree climbing day with Baby&MrsGopher.

Had my eye on this trail for a while .
T4.5 is a lot more hardcore than T5 and this series shows that.
Some of them I spotted easy, some I didn't.
I had lots of fun on everyone, and took lots of photos.
Some really tested me physically
Some that tested me mentally.
I was worried at times because I saw some big branches on the ground.
The white ants have definitely made the branches brittle.
This series would of been so much fun with some others, but it was was fun on my own enough.

Thanks Joelisa

Drove all the way from the other side of Melbourne to Shepparton (babysitting duties) with a ladder on the roof that sang to us the whole way. There is no way that we weren't going to attempt these whilst we were only a couple of hours away. Packed ropes as well as not sure what will be needed. A bit lucky with this one. As it turned out, this was to be our last one for the day. Thanks for the cache.

We have had our eyes on this series for some time after checking them out a while back. I am not as nimble as I once was so we made sure we had a suitable TOTT on board to make life a little easier. This one was a quick and easy find and we were soon on or way to the next. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache(s) joelisa.

By this stage our system was perfected and we made short work of the retrieval here! Thanks for placing yet another tree climb! TFTC Joelisa

A cache haul with BeckNmonts was planned so naturally this run of caches was on the list. Various equipment was deployed at some caches and fortunately all hides were spotted quickly apart from the final. Some interesting f moves in some of the trees to get to GZ. TFTC.

In the company of the The_Tritonz and Nawal, we made our way from Geelong to Wagga Wagga. We stopped periodically here and there grabbing caches along the way. There were trads, mysteries, multis and even tree climbs to contend with. Thanks to all of the CO's for their hard work. Special thanks to Chris for the tools provided and his specialist skill !! TFTC Joelisa

A geo trip was planned months ago after we got the green light for holidays and today we were off to explore some areas we hadn't been before. DAB, the Tritonz and myself (we were logging caches as The DNT) were in a convoy up the Hume and we broke up the 6 hour journey with a few finds along the way with the final destination today being Wagga Wagga. We had spotted this series and it was a must for us to complete with a new ladder purchased. There were 6 sets of eyes looking for this cache today and after not spotting it from the ground, up the ladder went and it was found once in a better position. Another evil hide but not as bad as the final. Signed and returned as found.

**Thanks for this traditional cache and series Joelisa**
**Smile # 5315**

While staying in Wodonga for the weekend we made sure we took the opportunity to head north over the border to try our hand at this small tree climbing series with excellent DT combos.
From the second climb onwards the climbs were to tricky even for the geomonkey, so a ladder was produced from the geomobile and caution was taken for these out on a limb type hides.
The Difficultly getting higher and the neck getting sorer as we searched from below proved useless, so the climb was put into action for a better view of the hide.
Thanks Joelisa for the series , we will be back to pick up the last 2, armed with a longer ladder a favourite point added for the great DT combo hides...we do thank you [^]

5364. A long day out with Rapidlywild, FurfacesLL and Loci612.
I believe my colleagues have covered our adventure to a T.
So a big thank you to them and especially to the CO for their efforts and providing us with lots of entertainment.

A trip was planned for last weekend but the weather spoiled those plans, re-scheduled for today and what a lovely day it turned out to be. Not too hot, not too cold, just right for some monkeying around. Headed out just after 6.30am and returned around 12.30am collecting just over 60 caches on the trip more than originally planned. The touring party consisted of Boot65, Loci612, Rapidlywild and myself with all logs through the day being signed as B.F.L.R.

Yep this one was tricky to spot and was only spotted when the searching level changed. The neck was happy to hear those wonderful words. There it is. Trusty tool deployed which made the grabbing and signing look very comfortable for Loci. Now off to the last one in the series.

Thanks for the tree climb series Joelisa and thanks for a great day out Boot65, Loci612 and Rapidlywild.

Myself, Rapidlywild, FurfacesLL and Boot65 who was our chauffeur and brought the sturdy 4x4 Vehicle with a double ladder attached to it's roof made our way from Canberra to Walla Walla to tackle this impressive tree climbing series! I will give a favourite point to EVERY cache in this series as I love tree climbs and I have never been so challenged before by them while caching!

Almost at the end of the series and finally reached the 4.5/4.5. A challenging cache indeed that took the 4 of us quite a long time to spot. We all stood on the ground craning our necks for a while which didn't seem to be doing us any good. I then ascended the tree via a ladder to get a higher view of the tree, while Boot65 decided to climb up the opposite side of the tree so that we had all angles covered. Once Boot was in the tree he caught a good tell tale sign of the cache and yelled for joy

Well over we went and I made the find and signed the log! A tough find indeed, but nothing compared to the final in the series....

Thanks Joelisa

A group of us in the ACT had been planning a Walla Walla trip to tackle the 4.5T series of caches for a little while now, we locked in last Saturday however weather and news was reporting "significant" rains so we postponed to this Saturday. After heading off nice and early, the four of us (Boot65, FurfacesLL #1, Loci612 and myself) set off for our long day of adventures. We had 9 caches in our initial target, came home with just over 60 finds after 17+ hours out and about. It was an amazing day challenging ourselves in many ways and hitting some awesome fun 4wd tracks under moonlight We signed all caches today as B.F.L.R. to save room in the logs. Picked up 3 D/T's for me and FurfacesLL claimed their 25,000th find Congrats ladies.

*End Predefined Log Starter for Saturday 27th May 2017*

**This Cache:** Wow, they are getting tough now !!! It took us quite a while to spot this one and like those before us, it wasnt spotted till we had 2 in the tree. Boot made the discovery then we all plotted the approach. After reassessing the situation, we determined the approach and Loci did the honors. When in the GZ zone, Loci looked pretty comfortable up there as he had a table to sign his log on and clear support both sides of his body lol. Wasnt sure he was gonna come back down And now to head off to the final one. We have managed to get through these pretty quickly so far, alot quicker than we were originally expecting.

Thanks to Boot65 for being our chauffeur today in the new 4wd beast, was super fun thanks also Loci and FFLL for the great day out and thanks for the cache of course Joelisa [^]

Well now they are getting more difficult to find. There was lots of neck craning but it wasn't until we were up in the tree before this sneaky little hide was spotted. Then after more encouragement from below, the cache was retrieved and signed, with much relief.
Thanks Joelisa for placing the cache for us to find.
5217

Another great hide which I could only see once I started climbing the tree. One more to go!

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH JoeLisa [^]

Found

Unfortunately by the time we arrived here it was sunset and while the dust storm experienced at #5 half an hour ago had passed, the light here was just not working as the sunset made it impossible. Then once the sun had actually set, the light in front of me sealed my fate here. A tad unlucky today, I was looking forward to these. Next time! Going to try a few others in the series as we are headed for a cracked puzz at Walla Walla and they are on the way over. TFTC, Joelisa. We'll be back again someday.
#386

Reperio at 1040.

After spending a great weekend in Anglesea for the Surf Coast event, I was headed back to Newcastle this morning, and couldn't resist stopping by this series once again to the attempt to finish it off. Having visited the previous incarnation of this one, I used the same technique to get up and down again, and headed up to where I thought a good place to start would be. Turned out it was a great place to start, as i turned around and there was the cache practically staring at me. Another nice little hiding spot, and a great day to be out climbing a few trees.

Gratias Joelisa.

With the Final found we were buoyed up for the next on the trail. This should be marginally easier. It was, after a fair bit of neck craning we were confident we'd spotted something worth investigating....and that was the end of marginally easier! Once it was worked out the best way to get way up there MrG was off...... 'Just like picking cherries' was heard from a looooong way off. Two down, seven to go. TFTC Joelisa.

Nearly got the 4wd Corolla bogged driving past here. I think we'll go back the other way. TFTC Joelisa.

Found this cache with:
Fox in Jox
AngelG27
Noikmeister
TikvaNZ
Together we signed the log as FANTZ.
This cache took us longer to find than any of the others. Both Fox and NM were up the tree, while the rest of us were staring up. Eventually I saw something that looked worthy of investigation. NM moved up and across and had CIH moments later. NM injured himself a bit during his ascent but the pain didn't kick in til we reached Wagga Wagga, much later in the day.
This was a very tricky hide and one of the tougher climbs of the day. But we were expecting it. There was some whooping and high-fiving when NM pulled the container from it's home. A great feeling.
Thanks again!

A mini posse comprising Fox in Jox, Noikmeister, TikvaNZ, ZQX and I headed south on a wet Saturday to grab these 9 tree climb caches and our Outdoor Day souvenir. By the time we arrived, the rain has ceased and the weather was much more favourable for our tree climbing experts. All 9 caches were found and signed successfully - although some took more work than others! We signed as FANTZ to shorten time up the tree. A great series to help with our DT grids thanks Joelisa!

Cache no 8 for the day and this one was super hard to spot. We all looked from the ground for a while and then Fox and NM decided to scamper up the tree to have a closer look. We were conscious that this one had two previous DNFs and was tricky. After a long time looking and scratching our heads, ZQX finally spotted something suspicious - yes, finally. The tree climbers were not too far away, and the cache was finally in hand, signed and put back carefully in the same spot. Phew!

Team FANTZ (Fox in Jox, AngelG27, Noikmeister, TikvaNZ & ZQX) undertook a road-trip from the ACT for the day to collect the series of nine tree climbs in Walla Walla and several puzzles and trads in and around Wagga Wagga. A fun and successful outing.

This was a tough one to spot. It took two in the tree and three on the ground to finally spot a suspicious cache sign. We were all starting to worry a bit that this was beyond us. There were plenty of theories, but no prize. ZQX made the spot, followed rapidly and excitedly by everyone else (except me, who was on another limb and couldn't see what all the commotion was about). Noikmeister made the grab and sign. Much rejoicing for this one - more for relief, I suspect. One to go. TFTC Joelisa

Found at 11:29:00 AM with TikavaNZ, ZQX, AngelG27 and Fox in Jox

After watching FIJ in the tree for ages I was starting to get a neck ache from craning my head up. I tried to ascend the tree in the same manner as him to get a different look, but 70kg <> 95 kg and the branch broke off leaving me flat on my back, but thankfully only from about half a metre up. After more craning I climbed up the traditional way and started looking around. We were concentrating our search on the spot right above where two GPS's said zero, but eventually ZQX spotted a telltale sign a little closer in and then it was a matter of getting to it. It took a bit of palm tree style ascent to get to the right height and sign the log. I had to fire pole slide back down and had a moment of dread when my body started to rotate around the limb. I managed to stop that motion and get to the next safe point. Then just a matter of sitting on a limb and jumping down just as Angel27G says "you can't jump from ther..... oh I guess you can!" Another nut cruncher.

Thanks Joelisa

#6363 @1125
Today's caching mission with Fox in Jox, AngelG27, Noikmeister and ZQX had been in the planning for a while, with the aim to collect a bevy of high difficulty/terrain caches to fill some holes in our respective D/T grids. We left Canberra just after 0630, arriving in Walla Walla just after 1000. We had some rain on the way but all was clear by the time we started caching.

Signed as FANTZ. TFTC

Alas this was a DNF for us today.
Will be back another time to complete the series.

Got to this today. We were standing at the base of the tree looking for this one when it started to rain hard. Thought about going up until one massive crack of lightning sizzled our resolve. Will be back to try and finish this series off but I suspect we'll need help. Thanks Joelisa. Great series.

We found the original version of this cache.

Found at 4:36 PM GAFF1.
We were onto this one after doing No. 3.0 so to us there was not a lot of difference in difficulty between the 2. However I think we should have started with D 5.0 (which is the cache that we were targeting) as p-pprass was getting a tad tired and the muscles were starting to quiver with the strain. One more to go!!
Thanks Joelisa.

We had looked at these cache in Walla Walla a few times, and with all of us (Harrowang, BettyBoo3747, and I) not having some terrain 4.5 caches in our matrix, we decided to take a trip up and see what we could do.
We also did a few caches that happened to be on our path up and back.

We passed on No.4 as the bucket was a bit high (after the last one) and the top branches a bit thin.

A lot of walking around the bottom of the tree (no snakes here now!), before we spotted the tell tale sign.
Interestingly enough the GPSr reading was spot on here (that helped a lot).
Knowing where it is helped encourage us to give it a good go. The book was soon signed.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 9867. On this last day of 2015 Harrowang, Robmc and I joined forces to go and attack some 4.5T caches over the border. We stopped for a new one at Huon Hill on the way and also gathered a few more in our travels. I am extremely happy as in the last 24 hours I have managed to add 5 smilies to my 81 squares and now I only have one left to colour in. So close.

The CO recommended the one before this but after looking at it from several angles we decided we didn't need to "kick the bucket" to get the bucket so we moved on to this one. Several minutes were spent with craning necks trying to spot the micro and it was only after almost giving up that Rob spotted something out of the ordinary so Mr Harrowang was again sent up the ladder to try to save the day. Indeed he soon had the cache in hand and we signed the log and moved on to the lucky last in the series where the CO and friends were caught up the tree at GZ.

Thanks Joelisa

Robmc, BettyBoo and harrowang did not really expect to get this one after passing on No. 4. Once again it was a micro and impossible to see amongst the leaves and many branches. Then something caught Rob's eye and so mr harrowang was once again deployed to 'go fetch'. By this time the girls were starting to get sore necks from gazing upwards, but that seemed a small price to pay for each success, so not many complaints were heard. We were all happy to see this one signed off at 12.15pm #3268 Thanks for the challenge Joelisa.

Staying with Joelisa again for the new years eve celebration. Wasn't able to make the last 3 finds in the series as they were down for maintenance. But with a team of newly formed friends we headed out to complete this series. Met up with some other fellow cachers Bettyboo3747 and Robmc who were also giving this series a go. Great, sometimes scary climbs. Tftc Joelisa

I caught up with The Drovers while in the Wagga area and they mentioned they were heading out to complete this series of tree climbs so I decided that I would tag along and have some fun.

Thankfully we had the TOTT with us which made life a bit easier.

After parking nearby the cache was soon located and then retrieved.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC Joelisa

With Konie visiting from Queensland, we headed to Walla Walla, to pick up a few caches.
An early start was planned to beat the heat, and this series has on our 'must do' list.
Konie had all 9 to complete, but we had signed the logs of the first 6, back in April.

Geo-hubby borrowed a TOTT to make life a little easier, which we used on 8 of the hides.
Thanks Konie for doing the climbing today.

Cache was found quickly, and in good condition. Signed the log, and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Joelisa, for us and others to find.

Found the original on 27/01/14 and happy to not have to re-climb it again ......
Will now have to drop back in to try No. 5 but dread the idea after reading that log !
TFTC again Joelisa, well done,
Roostaman

Great tree climb
Great series

A new cache listing and another chance at an **FTF**. After enjoying Cup day holiday in Victoria Screma and I decided we'd drive out and try our luck at some tree climbing.

Last time I was here we were lucky enough to find this one one the ground, today it took a little longer to spot but I did eventually. Up I went (the hard way apparently) and a fresh new log was the prize. Coming down was another issue but I managed... Even if very inelegantly.
Was nice to meet the CO Joel(Lisa) here and hopefully we can get you up some higher trees in the future on the ropes!

Thanks for another chance to climb trees today!

I'm definitely giving some favourite points to this series! I love a good physical challenge and these caches lived up to their rating. Lucky Jaminappleford was there to rescue me when my gnome legs failed! A few decent scratches ater we're three FTF richer . Thanks joelisa!

This entry was edited by Screma5685 on Tuesday, 03 November 2015 at 08:40:17 UTC.

Found the original on 27/01/14 and happy to not have to re-climb it again ......
Will now have to drop back in to try No. 5 but dread the idea after reading that log !
We will be driving past next week on the way south, so will drop by again then,
and log it when we are nearby anyway.
Roostaman

Published

We found the original whilst out with friends, not going to claim this one until after some crazy person with some ropes and the agility of a monkey goes out and finds it for real!