TRLT - Backdoor Blackberries Porters Retreat, New South Wales, Australia
By Team Webguy on 26-Jun-16. Waypoint GC6MF14

Reperio 14:52Today I had the day off, so decided to spend it along the TRLT series from Hazelgrove through Edith and Gingkin to Mount David. High winds throughout the day made things a bit tricky with signing logs and keeping zip lock bags from flying away, but almost all caches were found in good health, with only a few DNFs, and a few that need maintenance. As I was working from an offline list, I ended up revisiting a few caches I had previously logged due to the list not being updated. All in all it was a great day out.Gratias Team WebguyAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Cache was still here.

Cache wad found, still in place.

Finally able to head out to these next week.

OK, going to head out here in the next couple of weeks with a replacement cache...

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Found the obvious spot, but no cache.

Yeah no luck. A tree has fallen and there has been animal movement.

Had a quick look for this but got abused by a local farmer for parking on the side of the road out of his way but clearly on his road which was enough for him to have the shits about it.

Thanks, I will check this out soon and confirm.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Stopped and searched but didn't find the berries this time. No sign of the cache anywhere.

Got it

Cache in good condition TFTC

Headed out for a girls weekend away caching with Cosmonaut97.

We left Goulburn early and hit our target of TRLT caches we had to leave when last in the area.

All caches found quickly and in good condition unless otherwise stated.

Thank you to all CO's who have contributed to TRLT caches.

Found with minniek during our weekend away to nab the TRLT series in this area. TFTC.

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

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

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

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

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

This took quite a while and went to the right spot numerous times, but it ended up being buried quite a bit in the dirt.

Nice quick find in the fading sunlight. Thanks for helping make a fantastic trail in beautiful countryside. TFTC.

From June 1, travel restrictions are being eased in NSW. Cache on!

In light of the current travel restrictions and the requests by regional councils to stay away, I am disabling all my caches until the COVID-19 situation has passed and things return back to normal. Please respect this and do not go looking for these caches.

Day 4 of KmanNZ's VIC,NSW,ACT roadtrip of 2019.

Today had me on the old tourist road between Bathurst and Cooma.
A lot of smoke in the air from the fires over the hills. Met a caching couple in Taralga and found 41 caches.

Find #6

A quick find here on this quiet dirt road.

Thanks

#3444

Found it TFTC

Found with sjg66 on a three day TRLT and "History of" blitz. 220 caches over 1100kms. Lots of great scenery, but also lots of dust as it is all so dry out here at the moment. Thanks to all the CO's for hiding and maintaining these caches.

O319 and I have headed off for 3 days of caching. Mainly targeting TRLT and "history of" caches.

OMG I really need to take my sunnies off when looking in dark places. I went straight to ground zero, but I didn't see it. I widened my search and turned up diddly squat. Then I took the sunnies off, went back to the first place I looked and BINGO... YUP! first place I looked!

This was our fifth day of following this super long geocaching trail. Once again the weather was perfect and the route took us along yet more interesting and scenic roads. This one was a nice quick find once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book to the lovely sound of singing Australia Magpies and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

A surprise detour from the main road which isn't less traveled,
and onto this lane which is
Not far down the lane the first stop provided a juicy cache find [:d]
But no juicy blackberries !!

TFTC on TRLT

We were looking for a feed of blackberries, but there were none in cooee. Superb hidey place, and good views to boot. Nice to be off the tar on a well-made dirt road. Tftc!

Tftc found with earthly 65

found with robbieracer66...thanks team webguy

Find No.3522
Found with sesblocker.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC Team Webguy
5 November 2018 4:48 pm

One of over 200 caches found this long weekend whilst enjoying a fantastic few days away camping and caching with friends. Big thanks to all the CO's for placing the caches and adding to our enjoyment of what turned out to be an awesome weekend! TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

tftc tnln. description for Ghinkin to Burraga section at GC6PEFC.

Continuing on to this 1, another nice cache completed on a long day of caching in the area – a BIG thanks for the drive today – enjoyed it very much - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Quick and easy park and grab!
Thanks for the cache!

Must be time I stopped for a break while taking a run on TRLT series today, because this one took way longer than it should have. Its right where the hint says!
Great old tree stump. Loving the bush road detour.
TFTC Team Webguy

A beautiful day to go caching with it being neither too hot or too cold. We had a little drizzle as can be expected in the Blue Mountains. This was one of the caches we targetted and were able to find. We loved the scenery and findng the caches in this series. We saw lots of black cockatoos today and one black snake who was blissfully unaware of us as it was soaking up the sun. We are based at Lake Wallace near Lithgow for a few days and check out this area. It has been several years since we last visited. Thanks to Team Webguy for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Streak Day #1644 - Out with dave8153 to nab some more of this trail for my count towards 5000 to the OZ Geomuster. TFTC

Todays finds 37 of 68

**Found Cache No. 1792
(Caches Found Today: 37 of 68)
Streak Day 755**

Out doing some more of this trail today. Did a large chunk of this series today. TFTC

Enjoying the trail. Great work putting all these out. TFTC

Out on a caching trip with AlphaDeltaIndigo with the Taralga and TRLT caches in our sights.The drive throughout the counry side was absolutly amazing,we enjoyed every part of our journey seeing so much scenery and wildlife,we found most caches without too many issues,over the weekend we found so many caches so I appolise for the repeated logs.
Thanks Team Webguy for placing this cache for us to enjoy
TFTC !!

31 December 2017 @ 4:25 pm
Caching buddy: Bonfire7

We crossed gz then we ran back to it and BF7 had to double check to finally find the cache
TFTC Team Webguy

Obvious spot no good, searched a litle while with no luck.

Quick park and grab with use of hint
Thanks for the cache

A quick and easy drive by while we were in the area. See GC6MKZQ TRLT - No Ducks Here for our master log for this series. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Nice one. And I love this side road.

Today I’m driving from Goulburn to Sydney via Bathurst, and my plan was to see a bit of countryside and the local wildlife. It certainly is raining cats and dogs, so I’m covered there. I was hoping I wouldn’t be tracking so much countryside back into the car after each find!

Found with nissan 65 on a wet day caching . Up from south coast heading to Oberon.
Thanks for the cache

Found with cullum68 thanks for the cache

Another section of The Road Less Travelled was on the program today. While on route we have seen pine forests in various stages, from young pines through to mature trees and some harvested areas. There have also been sheep grazing and cattle grazing areas as well as eucalypt covered areas. We had a good run with the cache finding and the biggest problem was those caches where blackberries were rampant. We also managed to find some tracks that may mot have been on the route taken by the CO when setting some caches. Thank you to Team Webguy for contributing to this TRLT series by placing this cache. Our apologies for the generic log.

Very few blackberries here at the moment so a quick and easy find.

TFTC Team Webguy
Find 5660 logged from c:geo.

Found this cache at 11.45am while heading south for home and picking up a few of TRLT series. This one taking us on a little side road thru some great farming area.
Thanks TeamWebguy for the hide.
The Bushies

Hi there Team Webguy.

We found your cache **"TRLT - Backdoor Blackberries"** today. (This makes our find count 17803).

Today we headed out from Oberon so we could attempt some more of the "TRLT" series, plus any others we came across on our travels. We started at "Tatiana's Crown" & from there we proceeded to log caches up to "Back on the Bitumen" before heading back to camp. We thoroughly enjoyed today's cache finds, but please excuse our boilerplate logs - we know it's not really a good excuse, but it is really difficult to craft individual logs when we attempt so many similar caches in a day. [:(!]

We found 4 caches today & DNF'd 0. Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found most caches within a few metres of where our GPS said we should be looking. [:(!] (We did have to look a little further afield for some though). [:(!]
**Cache Condition:** Most containers and log books were in good shape but some require a little "maintenance".
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny

Abercrombie River area weekend. Day 2. Today was all about the Road Less Traveled series South of Abercrombie River Road. The day went fantastically, I made it through all of the planned caches just before it started raining very heavily. I look forward to more of the series.

Thanks.

23861.60 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Australia Wombat Matt A#162

**Albida**

All found and logged.

Heading back to the ACT, snow littering the side of the roads. TFTC.

With a rare weekend and sunday off (shift worker) and the geofamily not keen on caching in the cold weather i used the opportunity to head north of taralga to finally start tackling the road less travelled series.

With the temperature in the single digits most of the day i managed a heap of finds which were mostly accurate coordinates and enjoyed many photo opportunities along the way. Fantastic winters day well spend. Cant wait to return and chip away at the series more.

TFTC

With a rare weekend and sunday off (shift worker) and the geofamily not keen on caching in the cold weather i used the opportunity to head north of taralga to finally start tackling the road less travelled series.

With the temperature in the single digits most of the day i managed a heap of finds which were mostly accurate coordinates and enjoyed many photo opportunities along the way. Fantastic winters day well spend. Cant wait to return and chip away at the series more.

TFTC

Three geocachers (mizmaz, envirogirl86, and myself) embarked on a monumental long weekend to complete as much of TRLT series as we could. (Apologies for the generic log). Awesome series!! TFTC!

3 girls (Mizmaz, StumbleTrip and myself), a car, a gps and a sense of adventure resulted in 198 caches over 3 days. And, of course, we decided to go on our adventure on the coldest weekend in 110 years.
Sorry for the generic log, however most of the caches we found (162/165 in total) were in good condition and were quick, easy finds. Thank you for placing these caches in such a beautiful and interesting area. I hope to get back to finish the northern end (a little more casually) sometime early next year.

Having completed the northern end of TRLT nearly two years ago with the Rats, was now time to tackle the southern end during a three day roadtrip with StumbleTrip and Envirogirl86. Smilies gained on 162/165 (with the other 3 either disabled or several dnf logs before us) plus a number of bonus trads/puzzle finds along the way. Reported as the coldest weekend in 110 years, daylight hours were thankfully quite pleasant the first two days of the trip but today we felt the bitter cold and often experienced drizzle and fog however still managed our best daily tally to complete our agenda. Apologies for generic logs but all were fairly easy finds with mostly good co-ords or obvious camo.

Fitzy_1965 and I headed off to target the TRLT series and whatever randoms we could nab on the way An early start and perfect caching weather for our tour lead to a top day's caching with 120+ finds...YEAH!

Apologies for the generic log-We found most of the TRLT series were good sized containers and easy finds within seconds - only a few took a few minutes of searching!

Thanks for the hide, Team Webguy

13846. Found during a caching run with Caching Wench #1 along the TRLT series. Awesome day with 118 finds for me...

SpecimenX and I had an early start out from Canberra and arrived at the first cache of the series at about 0930 to start the day off. As with nearly all of the caches this one was a quick find on the nice container because of the good coords and nicely hidden from muggles. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Our thanks to all the COs of this wonderful series - we will be back to hit another section soon !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Another good find while going from cache to cache today.
*Enjoyed the drive around some of the TRLT series.*
Thanks Team Webguy
SL

I overshot this one. I walked back and overshot again!?! Easy find once I paid attention.

TFTC.

The WEEO and I had a great time caching all day and yacking as we went along and loved the countryside as we went. Thanks for the work to help make our 3 day caching spree a great time. TFTC

Thanks very much for all your efforts in putting this part of the trail together Team Webguy. I am so please to get away with 3-Kings and discovering this great TRLT trail. We went North yesterday and have great expectations for today. Please excuse the serial logs.

Day 2 of my adventure with Mikev1 to tackle part of TRLT series starting from near Meadow Flat and heading south. All up we found 110 and had 2 DNF. Backdoor cache.

Apologies for the generic log, but thanks to all the COs for putting this series together. We enjoyed taking these lesser known roads to places I would never pass through normally. There was a wide variety of scenery, vegetation and wild life throughout the journey. All the hints and coords were pretty much spot on. Great effort!

TFTC

After a very quick decision I headed off with Brewmaker on the start of a 2 day adventure seeking out The Road Less Travelled series (TRLT) an a few other caches along the drive.
We started half way through the second series and continued on from Meadow Flat then to Tarana, Duckmaloi, Edith, Gingkin, Shooters Hill, Jaunter, Porters Retreat, Black Springs, and Oberon. The roads ranged from tarred to dirt and included part of the historic Cox's Road dating from 1815.
We saw lots of interesting wildlife, farmlands, creatures of various shapes and sizes, and historic items along this tourist trail. Nearly all of the caches were a good size very easy to find - some could be seen before I even got out of the car! A few required a more detailed search but nothing too difficult or strenuous. After a while we could almost guess what the hint was going to be. I still can't get used to the new year - a few of the logs I dated as 2016 - doh.

This was part of Day 2 caching in what would become my largest single day cache haul to date.
TFTC

Just doing a virtual drop off of my 13000th achievement coin

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

After much deliberation and comparing of diaries, The Rats, Steeba and I eventually found a weekend that we could all commit to completing the lower (Southern) half of 'The Road Less Traveled' Series, along with some caching in Bathurst (which was actually the scene of our first combined geocaching trip nine years ago!). A last minute trip overseas for me cropped up; but I arranged it so that I could fly home just in time to not miss out on this caching extravaganza.

Friday night we headed to Abercrombie River via Goulburn (from Wollongong), and camped at the campsite there. Saturday saw us drive the lower (Southern) half of 'The Road Less Traveled' Series, ending up in Bathurst right on dinner time. We then found some local caches before staying at a friend's house for the night. On Sunday we headed back out to Oberon for some more caches and then did a couple of loops around Bathurst. We had originally planned to stay Sunday night, but once we clicked over 300 finds for the weekend the inspiration started to wane, and we all agreed to turn our heads for home.

Cheers

Nothing beats a "road trip". My find count had been suffering from the "rest of life" getting in the way of caching so along with Steeba and Hoojar a plan was hatched to go "beyond the Great Divide". The 2nd half of the TRLT looked to be the obvious solution. Under perfect skies and with gps loaded we hit the dirt roads.

Our first full day of caching had us weaving our way along the TRLT to a point where we completed the lower section of the series in one day. This half is contrastingly different to the other, but still very spectacular. Thanks to all the CO’s of the caches we found along the way. Apologises for the template style log but with 300 finds for the weekend each container begins to look the same.

TFTC

The Rats, Hoojar and myself made for the wider Bathurst area for a weekend finding some of TRLT series of caches.

The whole area was quite green and recent rains had meant the grass had exploded everywhere and was 3 or 4 foot high around many of the caches.

Not only did we find plenty of TRLT, there were many 'History of' caches found amongst others. Thanks to all the hiders. TFTC!

Out for a short while today for a few more caches on the TRLT run. Camped at Black Springs for a few days before we head for Oberon. TFTC quick find

TFTC, cache in good condition

I didn't have this one in my GPS unit. Luckily I had a complete list of TRLT caches from Whitemushroom. Had to back track and find it.

After joining some friends for a bushwalk in Mt Victoria I had planned to come back to the area and set up camp somewhere to complete this series on Sunday. I ended up arriving early with plenty of tone to get started on the power trail again.
Finally back on the main road for a while. But by the time i reached this one it was dark so i had to use my torch to find the cache by.
Thanks for the cache.

I was expecting a huge blackberry patch, imagine my surprise when all I saw was a few straggly canes, not that I complained though...

#3896- I love looking at the old farmyard barns and there were a few of them around here. As I looked for this cache it reminded me of the three bears. No, not there, no, not there, ah there it is. Just right!
If there is one plant I wish they could rid from the Aussie bush, it would be blackberries. I loathe them.
Thanks Webby

Two days of intense caching with J+J.AU. Main target was the part of the road less travelled, but we ended up picking up a lot more caches. The Saturday was ideal caching weather and we moved pretty quick. still there were a few tricky parts of still wet "roads" we had to manage with the 2WD. Not getting bogged was a accomplishment at the end of the day! Sunday started good as well after a overnight in Bathurst, but soon the rain set in and became worse and worse. we were glad we were able to finish this part of our planning just shortly after lunch! Any wetter and a few of the roads we travelled would have become very trick without 4WD. Great weekend and lots of fun thanks to J.AU anfd thanks to all the cachers that put the caches out there!
TFTC Wilbert67

I joined up with Wilbert67 to make our dent on the road less travelled series this weekend. Saturday turned out to be the better day weather wise with Sunday slowly becoming wetter as the day went on until the afternoon was just a wash out with heavy rain.
We enjoyed the drive around the beautiful fields freshly dotted with newborn lambs as well as abundant wildlife and views at times that are truly to behold. Most of the hides were easily found with different subtle twists that kept the intrigue going.
Thanks to all the geocachers that have injected the work into the series and making the experience possible. Thanks also to my partner in quest Wilbert for the great company once again.
SLTN TFTC

A third day on the new release of The Road Less Travelled with rogerw3 ...

rogerw3 was eyeing that evil evil rampant blackberry growth across the way, and the 'mushroom. Ask questions if there is but one name in the logbook. Thanks for the cache, Team Webguy

Another foray on The Road Less Traveled with whitemushroom finding a few more caches.

Sorry about the cut and paste but my memory is not that good! I blame senility for that.

Thank you very much for your contributions to the long line of nice caches.

**# 14887** Found on our extended 2016 winter escape trek.
A fantastic sunny day for a drive around the 2nd half of TRLT series with Scenic Routers.
Lots of more great scenery, plenty of animals and lush farming countryside.
Most co-ords were very accurate and mainly safe hides away from muggles sight.
Thanks for the cache and your part of the series Team Webguy,
***Roostaman***

Got a phone call from Little Red , saying he was coming to town an did i wanna go do the new trail and other caches in the area !
i said shit yeah ! it's on , we found all the TRLT caches bar 2 and plenty of others over a broken two days
Many thanx Roostaman for the excellent company on the trail, we will meet again to concur other areas as we make a pretty good teamup
logging them in one hit , why cause i can
Thanx to all the cache owners both on and off the trail, awesome work folks !

#4,617

Bikerbuddy’s notes for this one record that I complained that previous finders hadn’t put any camo back over the cache here. I don’t remember that specifically for this one, but I did notice a trend along the entire TRLT that cachers were in far too much of a hurry – ziplock bags not closed properly, lids not put back on pens, containers not snapped closed, people just scrawling initials in the log books instead of bothering to write out their names, and in some cases, the cache being put back too quickly & not hidden properly. I guess some people don’t get the concept of taking a trail slowly & enjoying the experience.

Thanks

We easily avoided blackberries here to make an easy find at the back. Thanks

Searched for 50 caches today, found 48. Started at Porters Retreat and finished at Burraga. The two I could not find were Bald Hill and Water views both at Burraga. Nobody has found them yet. Great scenery from Porters Retreat to Burraga. Roads were in good condition. A lot of work has gone into the series.Thanks for all the caches.

Bathurst day 2
We travelled many country miles, passing some wonderful scenic locations & along forest trails.
The wattle is blooming & plenty of new born lambs in the paddocks.
The temperature was about 5-7 degrees all day.
We got to recognise the hides of the different cachers.
Thanks for placing this cache Team Webguy

A fairly miserable day around home so we decided to hit the road to grab a cache or three when we saw that TRLT had extended down south a bit more.

A well set out extension from the original series and well worth the time to spend on these back roads. Even with the overcast and rain, the co-ords were good and the a variety of hides made the finds interesting.

A joint *FTF* with Just a cacher here today.

Thanks for the extension of the TRLT series.

Out with Black Bunny on an impromptu caching run. A nice extension from the original series and well worth the time to spend on these back roads.

A *FTF* with Black Bunny today.

Thanks for the extension of the TRLT series.

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