THE KEP - Viper Country Chidlow, Western Australia, Australia
By
jasenjanine on 18-Mar-16. Waypoint GC69Q4F
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Out and about again, been waiting for IGD for a while and coming to a town I have a lot of connection with. Nice to explore the area with fellow cachers and the beautiful surroundings. Grabbed this one on the way home.This cache is find number - 16188.Thanks to jasenjanine for the caches I have found.
Out for a weekend road trip to Toodyay for IGD. After attending the CITO in the morning, we headed out to Northam and then in towards Perth to clean up some dots on the way home.Quick find here in a very neat little hiding spot. Cheers jasenjanine! 
4000 finds!
And what a place to reach it. The Kep doing what I enjoy most. My faithful red steed, trail infront of me. The serenity of the bush. Thanks for the series JnJ.
And what a place to reach it. The Kep doing what I enjoy most. My faithful red steed, trail infront of me. The serenity of the bush. Thanks for the series JnJ.
Had a good day hunting Deadly Creatures before hitting the Kep Track. I had the mountain bike with me, but decided to pick off the easier caches by car first up. This way I can more of a ride when I return.
Last weekend, ultrarunners ran from Northam to Mundaring Weir. Two distances, 75km and 100km. Huge effort!
The bush bash from Coothallie Rd to the Kep was less than enjoyable. Parrot bush is not my friend. Reaching into GZ to grab the cache was a bit tough. Randomly, there was a bunch of rosemary at GZ too.
TFTC jasenjanine
Last weekend, ultrarunners ran from Northam to Mundaring Weir. Two distances, 75km and 100km. Huge effort!
The bush bash from Coothallie Rd to the Kep was less than enjoyable. Parrot bush is not my friend. Reaching into GZ to grab the cache was a bit tough. Randomly, there was a bunch of rosemary at GZ too.
TFTC jasenjanine
Our first day below 40 degrees over Xmas so talked my muggle friends to come
for a drive to collect some smilies. Thanks to the COs for placing these caches for us to enjoy. As we came at this from a parked car - we were challenged by the steep gravel decent and climb - but hey , thats what adds to the challenge! Access from the KEP track would be much easier. Signed and replaced as found.
for a drive to collect some smilies. Thanks to the COs for placing these caches for us to enjoy. As we came at this from a parked car - we were challenged by the steep gravel decent and climb - but hey , thats what adds to the challenge! Access from the KEP track would be much easier. Signed and replaced as found.
Out on the bike again doing some more of the KEP series. Well hidden this one TFTC
Decided to spend some long overdue time out on The Kep Track picking up some caches.
TFTC jasenjanine this is find # 8443 for us.
TFTC jasenjanine this is find # 8443 for us.
Our second day in The KEP Trail and this time megawat60 and I head East! He made the quick find here. TFTC jasenjanine!
Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches.
This is day 2 of our Lake Lesh adventure and a bit more of the east side of The KEP
Thanks for the hide and jasenjanine.
This is day 2 of our Lake Lesh adventure and a bit more of the east side of The KEP
Thanks for the hide and jasenjanine.
Decided to go for a ride from Mt Helena to Wooroloo after a failed attempt on Thursday due to me snapping my bike chain not 300m from the vehicle. This has been a great trail to do and a chance to get out of the house.
This cache was quick to find. tftc
This cache was quick to find. tftc
Out and about with Neva2old and themongrel to claim a few more along the Kep Track, happy to say we added a smilie here today TFTC
Out and about with Parkacruz and Themongrel today. On a nice sunny but chilly winters day, we only had 3 DNF's which was great. Parkacruz managed to squash her fingers between some rocks, so a tissue was issued and a couple of bandaids and told " to toughen up princess" so we could continue our caching day. ( Since coming home Parkacruz has been to the DR's and now has steristrips and an appointment for a surgeon OOPPPS)
Continued to work my way up this beautiful track with the geodog, this time starting at Chidlow. Thanks for the cache!
May not have many more chances to have a go at this series any time soon so we have strapped the bikes on the rack once again to see how many we can find. A lot cooler today. TFTC jasenjanine
After an enjoyable walk with my sister on the KEP track heading south from Mundaring Sculpture Park, today I decided to walk the track heading east from the same starting point all the way to Wooroloo. I was expecting a great adventure and this track (and the series of caches along it) did not disappoint. While the terrain was reasonably flat throughout, the frequent junctions and historical placards along the way made the trek more interesting. Lots of wildlife were spotted, lots of big grey kangaroos, bobtails, really large goannas, foxes and a wide array of birds. A great variety of hides can be found along the trail, with most caches hidden securely and in good working order. I had really good luck in finding this string of caches with only 2 DNFs for the day (i.e. Red Flag & Pipe-ular Picnic. I am feeling inspired to return another day to continue this KEP track epic.
TFTC jasenjanine
TFTC jasenjanine
Met up early this morning with ssclan with the plan to ride as much of the KEP trail as we could before the rain arrived. Armed with a coffee from DOME we arrived around 7am in Chidlow. With 2 cars we took the second to Wundowie and then headed back to Childow to start the ride.
Great morning with only the 1 DNF, arriving in Wundowie by bike around 11:45am, just as the drizzle set in. From there it was a tour of several of the caches around the town followed by a couple on the way back to Chidlow.
Ended the day with 55 finds, so a great day out. Loving the KEP trail, another 36 completed today but still plenty to go.
Thanks to Jasenjanine for this great series, and for the inventive puzzles and other caches around Wundowie
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Great morning with only the 1 DNF, arriving in Wundowie by bike around 11:45am, just as the drizzle set in. From there it was a tour of several of the caches around the town followed by a couple on the way back to Chidlow.
Ended the day with 55 finds, so a great day out. Loving the KEP trail, another 36 completed today but still plenty to go.
Thanks to Jasenjanine for this great series, and for the inventive puzzles and other caches around Wundowie
.Headed east early this morning to get some smilies on the KEP Track with Spatialriq. Also picked up some others along the way. Quite a successful day on the bikes with 58 finds and only 1 dnf.
Thanks jasenjanine for a great series and a couple of head scratching puzzles. Hopefully I'll be back soon to complete the rest of the series.
Thanks jasenjanine for a great series and a couple of head scratching puzzles. Hopefully I'll be back soon to complete the rest of the series.
I hardly needed to step off the bike here [^]
After too many delays in getting back to this area, I decided to put my Friday camping trip to good use and head north from home to grab a few more smilies along this trail
. This was my first ride on my mountain bike for quite some time and I had an absolute blast .
A MASSIVE thanks to jasenjanine for placing this cache here and contributing to this game that we enjoy so much [^].
jasenjanine - jinta29 found your cache THE KEP - Viper Country on 20/01/2017, 6:08 PM. This is my find #6215 and find #14 today. I was able to add my name to the log book and I replaced the container as found!
After too many delays in getting back to this area, I decided to put my Friday camping trip to good use and head north from home to grab a few more smilies along this trail
. This was my first ride on my mountain bike for quite some time and I had an absolute blast .A MASSIVE thanks to jasenjanine for placing this cache here and contributing to this game that we enjoy so much [^].
jasenjanine - jinta29 found your cache THE KEP - Viper Country on 20/01/2017, 6:08 PM. This is my find #6215 and find #14 today. I was able to add my name to the log book and I replaced the container as found!
Found THE KEP – Viper Country. Goodness heaven! It would have been much easier if I was on the right side of the track! No need to bush bash and clambered and tumbled up and down the drain 
. TNLN SL TFTH jasenjanine.
. TNLN SL TFTH jasenjanine.We have been tackling this series over a period of time and it was time to bite the bullet and get it completed .... So the geowife instructed me it was my time to complete it !!!!!
I packed the car with the old push bike and hit the trail early ......
It was dark when I hit Mundaring so it was out with the torch . Did I mention the weather was dismal !!!!
I managed to collect 81 and no DNFs.
Many different containers used so it was a pleasure to see a variety and the way they were used .....
I saw the history of the KEP track in different stages from the old water pipe to the railway sliding's / landings and the buildings close to the track from that era .
Sorry for the genetic log as I didn't take any notes but will comment on the ones I can remember !!!!
I packed the car with the old push bike and hit the trail early ......
It was dark when I hit Mundaring so it was out with the torch . Did I mention the weather was dismal !!!!
I managed to collect 81 and no DNFs.
Many different containers used so it was a pleasure to see a variety and the way they were used .....
I saw the history of the KEP track in different stages from the old water pipe to the railway sliding's / landings and the buildings close to the track from that era .
Sorry for the genetic log as I didn't take any notes but will comment on the ones I can remember !!!!
Last of the KEP caches today. Wooroloo to Chidlow leg complete in two hours. We've now got half of the KEP series turned into smilies. Thanks jasenjanine for this great power trail. TFTC 
Headed out for an afternoon with barnzy12 towards Northam. After picking him
Up and being told just wait a minute I need to bring a few things out I got rather suspicious. I at this stage had no real idea where we were heading and what we were to find today.
Steve as always thinks ahead, stays up late and develops a plan. Out he came with a ladder....... Then a canoe and said lets pack them in and go.
In the car he stated he wanted to do a sky, land and water day. I was intrigued to say the least.
The ladder would be used to help us climb a tree and the canoe to save us getting wet instead of going for a "light" swim as its getting rather cold now.
We started of getting some Kep track caches on the way to Northam.
Then stopped in for a field puzzle or two prior to making it to Northam.
Most caches were found in good condition with one DNF and a few a little water logged after the recent storms.
We hopped to find enough today to get B12 closer to the magical 6000 finds that he is hoping to log for the WA Goes Big event in 2 weeks. See a lot of you there.
Up and being told just wait a minute I need to bring a few things out I got rather suspicious. I at this stage had no real idea where we were heading and what we were to find today.
Steve as always thinks ahead, stays up late and develops a plan. Out he came with a ladder....... Then a canoe and said lets pack them in and go.
In the car he stated he wanted to do a sky, land and water day. I was intrigued to say the least.
The ladder would be used to help us climb a tree and the canoe to save us getting wet instead of going for a "light" swim as its getting rather cold now.
We started of getting some Kep track caches on the way to Northam.
Then stopped in for a field puzzle or two prior to making it to Northam.
Most caches were found in good condition with one DNF and a few a little water logged after the recent storms.
We hopped to find enough today to get B12 closer to the magical 6000 finds that he is hoping to log for the WA Goes Big event in 2 weeks. See a lot of you there.
TFTC! Had a days caching planned with Cravo10 as we haven't really gone out for a full day since our action packed whirlwind 3500 kilometre trip to Kalgoorlie, Leonora, Esperance, kulin and surrounds trip.
Had a sleep in this morning before we headed out on our mission to tackle a few caches on the Lep Track to Northam, with a few others along the way thrown in for good measure.
Planning the route last night i thought of the idea of a Land, Air & Seas day, with the kep track caches forming the land leg, a kayak on the Avon forming the sea leg (river) and the air leg being some tree climbing in wundowie. This was not mentioned to John in the plans as usual as he generally gets apprehensive about these "ideas", so when he turned up I just casually mentioned "I've gotta get a couple of things from the garage", that's when the face changed and I explained about the days "goals"
Anyway we had a later than usual start and tackled a bunch of the caches between mundaring and wundowie along the kep track before deviating to lake leschenaultia. The two field puzzles here chidlows well and assembly required weren't really on the days plans, as I generally have pretty poor form when it comes to field puzzles and I bring along muggle mate come geocacher Numbers Man to solve them which generally costs me a lunch.
Lake leschenaultia turned into the highlight of the day. WP2 of assembly required is probably one of the most fun geocaches I have ever come across. Such a simple task, but quite hard aswell as I struggle to follow instructions!! And chidlows well, was a bit apprehensive after reading some of the earlier logs but we had the container within about a minute of arrival, great job on that one. Tried to take all sorts of backways to grab the final for the assembly required puzzle but should have just walked from wp2, it would have been easier and not wasted thirty minutes of our time.
After completing the lake leschenaultia caches we then continued towards Northam but time was getting tight as we didn't bring any push bikes so we were walking from the car to the cache each time which was slowing Us down significantly. We eventually got to Northam a bit later than expected and grabbed some much needed supplies to refuel the body for our next leg.
We arrived at the banks of the Avon to complete the Avon a swim cache in the geo yaks, which has been on the radar for a while with all the caching growth in the area. We paddled down with a nice strong current pushing us down the river towards GZ, we took some notes from he listing and the maps as we didn't want to take the phones on the water. Was a nice quick find in a logical spot, well the only spot really. And we then paddled back against the strong current which gave the arms a good workout. Only got marginally wet, thankfully as it was a bit chilly!!
We then planned out assault on the tree climbing aspect of the day the eucalyptus cache in wundowie, unfortunately we arrived in darkness and even after coming prepared with an extremely large ladder we still couldn't reach it and didn't want to risk life or limb in the dark for just one cache, so we decided to leave it for another time
All in all another great day out, should be able fo complete the kep series on our next visit to the area which hopefully isn't too far away although the CPS series has really taken a back seat after this series was published!
Thanks to all the COs for their caches. Cheers!
Had a sleep in this morning before we headed out on our mission to tackle a few caches on the Lep Track to Northam, with a few others along the way thrown in for good measure.
Planning the route last night i thought of the idea of a Land, Air & Seas day, with the kep track caches forming the land leg, a kayak on the Avon forming the sea leg (river) and the air leg being some tree climbing in wundowie. This was not mentioned to John in the plans as usual as he generally gets apprehensive about these "ideas", so when he turned up I just casually mentioned "I've gotta get a couple of things from the garage", that's when the face changed and I explained about the days "goals"
Anyway we had a later than usual start and tackled a bunch of the caches between mundaring and wundowie along the kep track before deviating to lake leschenaultia. The two field puzzles here chidlows well and assembly required weren't really on the days plans, as I generally have pretty poor form when it comes to field puzzles and I bring along muggle mate come geocacher Numbers Man to solve them which generally costs me a lunch.
Lake leschenaultia turned into the highlight of the day. WP2 of assembly required is probably one of the most fun geocaches I have ever come across. Such a simple task, but quite hard aswell as I struggle to follow instructions!! And chidlows well, was a bit apprehensive after reading some of the earlier logs but we had the container within about a minute of arrival, great job on that one. Tried to take all sorts of backways to grab the final for the assembly required puzzle but should have just walked from wp2, it would have been easier and not wasted thirty minutes of our time.
After completing the lake leschenaultia caches we then continued towards Northam but time was getting tight as we didn't bring any push bikes so we were walking from the car to the cache each time which was slowing Us down significantly. We eventually got to Northam a bit later than expected and grabbed some much needed supplies to refuel the body for our next leg.
We arrived at the banks of the Avon to complete the Avon a swim cache in the geo yaks, which has been on the radar for a while with all the caching growth in the area. We paddled down with a nice strong current pushing us down the river towards GZ, we took some notes from he listing and the maps as we didn't want to take the phones on the water. Was a nice quick find in a logical spot, well the only spot really. And we then paddled back against the strong current which gave the arms a good workout. Only got marginally wet, thankfully as it was a bit chilly!!
We then planned out assault on the tree climbing aspect of the day the eucalyptus cache in wundowie, unfortunately we arrived in darkness and even after coming prepared with an extremely large ladder we still couldn't reach it and didn't want to risk life or limb in the dark for just one cache, so we decided to leave it for another time
All in all another great day out, should be able fo complete the kep series on our next visit to the area which hopefully isn't too far away although the CPS series has really taken a back seat after this series was published!
Thanks to all the COs for their caches. Cheers!
We were pleased to learn we shouldn't encounter any 'vipers' in this area and the title of this cache relates more to legend! The things geocaching teaches you! This is the last one of the KEP we have on our list for today. Thanks again for the time and effort you have made in placing and maintaining this series for our enjoyment! We will award a favourite point for this cache (we have collected a few from all finds you have given us!) You have well and truly earned it!! TFTC
TFTH Like the Robroy_co clan I to have collected a number of FP along the KEP and will have to make an effort to reward you some when looking through the logs. A quick find again. Thanks jasenjanine, fantastic effort.
Too good a day to stay indoors, so what better than to get a few more of "The Kep" caches , took the MTB for the ones off the road from Chidlow to Wooroloo, Quick find here
TFTC
TFTC
Found with KB on Easter Sunday sorry for late logging and repeated ones at that! thanks for the cache jasenjanine
Another early start to start where we finished last night. Had hoped to beat the rain but it was already falling when we dropped the geo-hubby's off on their bikes to do the section through the reserve down to Chidlow. Thanks jasenjanine
Richlink stayed over on Saturday night so that we could make and early, early start on Sunday morning.
So, with the bikes loaded we headed off in the dark to Northam, "The Kep" caches firmly in our sights. Some of the caches were accessed on foot from the nearest parking spot and others by bike. Although there was some heavy rain storms on Monday and we were wet through we found all of the caches and had a great couple of days finishing up with lunch at The Weir Hotel on Monday.
Congratulations jasenjanine, what a fantastic effort here.
So, with the bikes loaded we headed off in the dark to Northam, "The Kep" caches firmly in our sights. Some of the caches were accessed on foot from the nearest parking spot and others by bike. Although there was some heavy rain storms on Monday and we were wet through we found all of the caches and had a great couple of days finishing up with lunch at The Weir Hotel on Monday.
Congratulations jasenjanine, what a fantastic effort here.
I was back out after work again today to hit up more of the KEP track hides, and I picked up where I left off on Monday night. It was a bit of a hike from the road to get in here, I took the most direct route I could manage, and was happy to pop out on the track and make a relatively quick find at GZ.
Thanks for the cache jasenjanine!
Thanks for the cache jasenjanine!
I'd already found the Viper caches so this was my only Viper find in this area. Thanks for the cache jasenjanine.
(chwiliwr team catch up log)
We decided yesterday to come out and try and do some of this series and started in Mundaring and finished up near Wooroloo when we got too tired to continue doing the long walks. After recovering a bit we went back to Mundaring and then started the caches towards the Wier from where we had started this morning getting as close as we could to GZ with the car and walking the short distances from the road to the track.
Got a few firsts along the way and had virtually no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
We decided yesterday to come out and try and do some of this series and started in Mundaring and finished up near Wooroloo when we got too tired to continue doing the long walks. After recovering a bit we went back to Mundaring and then started the caches towards the Wier from where we had started this morning getting as close as we could to GZ with the car and walking the short distances from the road to the track.
Got a few firsts along the way and had virtually no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
Decided yesterday to come out and try and do some of this series and started in Mundaring and finished up near Wooroloo when I got too tired to continue doing the long walks. After recovering a bit I went back to Mundaring and then started the caches towards the Wier from where I had started this morning getting as close as I could to GZ with the car and walking the short distances from the road to the track.
Got a few firsts along the way and had virtually no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
Got a few firsts along the way and had virtually no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
