TRLT - The Dead Tree Hazelgrove, New South Wales, Australia
By whitemushroom on 29-Jun-16. Waypoint GC6MKXD

Gos wasnt happy here but easy find. Cache needs maintenance lid is broken. TFTC!

Broken lid

Nice quick find on my drive through the area. Thanks for placing these caches in such a beautiful part of the world. TFTC

Heading away for the long weekend to clear some counties and found this cache on the way. The weather is brilliant and the scenery wonderful. Thanks for the cache tnln replaced as found sl

Tftc signed ljblazeit

TFTC smile19746 Day 11 out and about on a Sunny day on my way to Wollongong in a round about way picking up LGAs on the way signed as GS1947 on small logs Thank you whitemushroom for placing this cache for our enjoyment

nice spot. cant write in book tho, infested with bugs

Reperio 13:15Today I headed out towards Oberon, and with that came the chance to pick up a few caches, especially some of the TRLT series. This one fortunately didnt take too long to track down. Gratias whitemushroomAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Spent a few minutes looking for the log by a dead tree. Then widened our search, the wife found the ca fairly quickly next to a not so dead tree?Thanks for maintaining the cache

Geo hubby at the wrong tree, me at the right one TFTC

Quickly found once at the correct treeThanks for the cache

A nice quiet road for a drive and a cache. Thank you.

Maintenance done on this cache, cleaned and replaced logbook.

Found 26/12/21 with Jennyfromthefarm. TFTC

WAs that a snake? TYFTC

Easy find

Don’t go in the property

We are on a cachey 10 day holiday, starting off with 2 nights at Emu Plains to hopefully collect the new GFA puzzle caches around Luddenham and some more of the Band caches north of Penrith. Then it’s 5 nights at Oberon to collect some of the many new & old puzzle caches that we have solved around the area, and also hoping to complete the Oberon Adventure Lab. After leaving Oberon we will be visiting Jenolan Caves, for both the caves and the Jenolan EarthCache, then heading to Katoomba for 2 nights to ride the Scenic World attractions (Railway, Cableway, & Skyway) and to do a few caches of various types plus an Adventure Lab. We will end the holiday with a stop-off at Wentworth Falls for some more caches and a couple of Adventure Labs.

Today we will be visiting the Oberon & District Museum in the morning (open 10:30am to 12:30pm), then after lunch we will be travelling some of "the roads less travelled" to collect some of the TRLT cache series, and also any other caches we come across along the way. This was our 13th find of the day (day 5), and 92nd find of the holiday.

After a visit to the Hazelgrove cemetery, and collecting the cache located there, we were now back on the TRLT trail, and this was the next one we came to. And it was another nice quick find on arrival at GZ. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC whitemushroom.

Find #5169

We have replaced notebook at this cache due to being wet and moldy. Had 20 signifiers in it.

Replace notepad - very wet.

Found

Needs maintenance though - log is completely sodden. Managed to write our names in but only just. TFTC

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

I’m really appreciative of there being a great place to park next to this one

Out for the power trail. Beautiful area a bit windy though. TFTC TNLT

Tftc found on a nice weekend out with th geo kid

Inside of container wet. Log was dry

Tricky to get to but spotted immediately. All in good condition and TFTC wm

nice one

Quick grab

Day 4 of our geo tour from Bathurst and surrounding areas..
Taking a drive on the road less traveled today. Expecting some great scenery and plenty of caches.
Thanks to everyone involved in creating caches and trails for us to enjoy.
Need some caches with alt above 1000m so Oberon is the target.
Tftc White mushroom,
All in good condition

TFTC

Found

Found tyftc. this trip for july school holidays in and around Bathurst, following the TRLT today to Oberon and Edith. Find #2160

Day 3
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 whitemushroom 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 whitemushroom And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another fun weekend out and about the TRLT trails and others

TFTC. Geodog Atlas was not with us today.

Go Geo cache!

Covid-19!!!

Quickly found. Tftc

Today I planned my adventure tour along the TRLT Trail in Meadow Flat and head south.
On the way I search and find a lot of boxes.
Again and again I am happy about the beautiful landscape and the many animals on the pastures.

Thanks to all owners for this great tour
Team sissifalke

Found -- Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the hunt *whitemushroom*.

**Cache Condition:** Good.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.
**Trackables:** None seen in this cache today.

**The Cache**
A nice quick find. Signed the log with our caching names or some scrambled form of *TOC, DJJ, LP* or even attached a cache name sticker, and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found.

Floating around while the others use their amazing skills to search for the cache - usually it's me snooping around for the find. Log signed and replaced and the scene evacuated TFTC

Heading somewhere unknown but stopping for caches on our way. We walked around and looked around the trees hoping not to see any snakes None seen today *phew*! Thanks for the hide. ️️ OCW *Throsbyonchurch* with *Little Panther* in the mix. ️

Nice easy find on a freezing windy day! TFTC

Greetings from DARKSIDEDAN.

This weekend I went on a caching trip and managed to get about 165 caches for the weekend. Your cache was one of the 165 caches that I signed CGG19 as part of our group signature for the five geocachers in our group. We saw loads of wildlife on our trip including 6 Wombats and loads of Roos. This was a fantastic series of caches. I cant wait to get back out and finish the rest of this series off. Thanks to the CO for the fun weekend.

Here is a little about me. At the time of this “Found It” log I have over 6750 finds and 350 Hides. I was the creator of the “Ducky Dip” Lab Cache that won 2nd Prize in the State Vs State Battle of the Labs during the OzGeoMuster – The Gong 2019. I am the owner of the largest GeoArt Series in the ACT and winner of countless Geocaching Prizes. I have got 200 plus caches in one day and I have also got 12 cache types in a day.

There is nothing that I love more than being out geocaching. I will geocache anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

I have included one of the Geocaching poems that I have written. I hope that anyone reading it likes it

Geocache Poem
By DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind
I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see
Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?
Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there
As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

* * * * I am currently writing very detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC called "The Author". This Badge challenges geocachers to write logs with an average one hundred words or more in each log. As of the 20th of April 2019 my average is 110 words per log, which seems close to the 200 words per log target. However given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 200 words for a long period of time to get my average up. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After more than 5500 aches (which includes all cache finds up and including today I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task very soon. Progress has been better than anticipated. * * * * *

Once again T H A N K S F O R T H E C A C H E. I R E A L Y E N J O Y E D F I N D I N G Y O U R C A C H E . . . ! ! !

A plan was hatched, for a group of Canberra (and one Goulburn) Geocachers to stay overnight in Bathurst on a Saturday night and cache our way there and back - mainly doing some of The Road Less Travelled series, and anything else interesting that we were near. So, on Friday afternoon All7 and I met up with Cosmonaut97, who drove us out to Goulburn where we stayed the night with MinnieK (thanks for the hospitality), and then DarkSideDan arrived in the morning and we crammed all our gear into the back of the Cosmonaut Geomobile, all 5 of us climbed in, and we embarked upon our adventure - and what a fun weekend we had! Lots of laughs, some interesting terrain to drive through, and a whole lot of cache finds - so, sorry - most of these logs will be rather generic ... (and also rather late, because I am only just catching up with all the logging now - oops)
Logs were signed as CGG19 by at least a couple of people, or possibly CGC19 by me, because that is what I have written in my notebook (except for the first one I signed, which I think I signed GGC19) ... so I guess our group name was Canberra Goulburn Geocachers, or Canberra Goulburn Cachers, or whatever else anyone else signed - lol)
TFTC - I didn't write draft logs for any of these, because it was too difficult to keep up with that as we went ... and with all the caches we found this weekend - in most cases I don't remember which bit of fun was which particular cache. I did write a few words in my note book for some of them, so I will include those below if I did.
(Unfortunately, if I don't just copy and paste the same log for all these, and try to go through my photos or something, or read the listing and get creative, to figure out different things to write, I will never be able to catch up with my logging, and I don't like being behind).

took photos of nice windmill, gate/grid, and dead tree (but my photos are not on the device I am logging with)

This was find #71 for day one of our geocaching adventure weekend. I had Darksidedan, ALL7, minniek and AyKayEm with me for the entire weekend. We had four wheel driving (some not planned) and had a pretty good time throughout. Thanks to all of the COs who initiated and maintain this track. TFTC.

Signed CGG19 with Group.. We enjoy drive everywhere and good Laugh... She is very good drive with 4WD.... thanks

Out caching with Cosmonaut97, ALL7, DARKSIDEDAN & Aykayem with an aim to do as many as we could on TRLT series. Signed logs as CGG19 to save space (Canberra Goulburn Group 2019).

Had a long and tiring day finding everything on our list for the day. Thank you to all CO's for their efforts in placing and maintaining the caches for others to find.

Look forward to continuing the trail when I can.

Beautiful view tftc

Hatzofff and I are in Bathurst for a few weeks house sitting, and of course have time for lots of caching.

Today we journey around TRLT caches from Taralga south, picking up others on the way.

Someone is cutting up the dead tree for firewood.

Log signed and replaced on June 12, 2019 at 3:37 PM. TFTC, whitemushroom.

Out with RoddyC while house sitting in Bathurst.
Caching to day will take us to Oberon area.

Quick easy find.

TFTC, whitemushroom.

On my way to Bathurst with oldmorty and thought we'd grab a few more of the TRLT Series. Didn't find as many as we wanted to, but there's always another day.
Thanks whitemushroom for placing this cache here for us to find.

OCW with frazeydaze who had suggested that we grab a few more of the TRLT series on our way to visit family at Bathurst. We targeted the area between Duckmaloi and Tarana although we didn't quite reach Tarana as time ran out. All the caches found turned out to be park and grabs and were in good condition. TFTC whitemushroom and thanks for showing us some lovely countryside.

This was our fourth day on this super long geocaching trail, and so first thing this morning we set off to where we had pulled out of the trail yesterday evening. The weather was perfect and once again we found ourselves travelling through some truly beautiful scenic countryside on interesting roads. This one was a nice quick find once at Ground Zero. We were very glad to have found this one with it being placed just over 1,100 meters of elevation and thus possibly a qualifier for the NSW Altitude Sickness Challenge cache. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

A good quick find and now off to Oberon for lunch. TFTC whitemushroom.

Must have been a magnificent tree when it was alive. Quick find. TFTC

A good spot

Lovely tree and easy cache - a bit of a climb

Tftc

cache completed in the early morning on a big day of caching – being good Friday nice to complete this 1 – thanks for the drive today TFTC / TFTH / SL

Time for another stop !!
And I could see the dead tree from where I parked.
So of course I rushed off in its general direction,
only to be stopped by a fence [:o]

Ah !! GZ is over there
And that is where I found the cache,
in sight of the dead tree

TFTC on TRLT.

Found with Jaybeem! On a caching weekend in Oberon. TFTC!

Tftc! Top cache

Gotcha

found with robbieracer66 en route to the caves
..tftc

Tftc found with earthly 65

Loving this windmill. Found on a great day out with geocacheing friends!!

Thanks for cache!!! ‍

Mr. C️

Coords were bang on for this one

Find No.3644
Found with sesblocker.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC whitemushroom
7 November 2018 3:51 pm

My fourth day on the TRLT series.
All were easy enough finds.
Passed through some nice country, rolling green hills after the recent rain.
Loud croaking frogs nearby
As I got back to the car a ute pulled up and the driver checked that I was ok. He’d found a dog chasing his sheep. He thought it might have been mine.

SL TFTCs

Ducks flying off, cattle scampering away, but the cache stayed still for us.

After a night in a motel in Blayney, we decided today to head home via some TRLT caches and complete the hidden creatures souvenir challenge for the month. We had a great time enjoying the quiet roads, taking in the scenery, and finding the caches. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Quick and easy park and grab!
Thanks for the cache in a beautiful area!

Went up from Sydney to Newnes for the weekend. Camped at Newnes Ruins Campground, surrounded by kangaroos, possums and a wealth of birds. On Saturday we headed out for some caching, and came up to this section of the TRLT series. This was the TLT for this time. We will be back to complete the series

Agree with previous log, the CO has done lots of effort to put these in place.

Found at 11:42.
Thanks for the cache .

Back today to do more of this fun series. We love the rural areas so this sort of caching suits us just fine. A lot of work has gone into putting out these caches and we are grateful to the co. Thanks to whitemushroom for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Streak Day #1638 - Decided to start this power trail to go towards a milestone of 5000 for the OZ Geomuster this easter.
All were quick finds for the day with dave8153. TFTC

Out completing some more of TRLT Series with Snoopy1976 today. TFTC

Day 5 of our xmas caching trip to complete the trlt series, this afternoon we are joining up with our earlier northern finds. Really appreciate the placing and maintaining of all the caches for our enjoyment. What a sight the striking dead tree, windmill white horses and black cows ....perfect. Tftc

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.

Day 2 of our trip away. Stayed in oberon last night and thought we would head out here to collect a few extra smiley faces. Thankyou for the cache .

Found with cullum68 thanks for the cache

The continuation of The Road Less Travelled called us today, so we took up the offer of some more smiley faces for our caching map. We do apologise for the generic log to each of the cache owners. All the caches were easy to locate and our name was written on each log book before it was put back into place. Then we were able to move on to the next find. Thanks to whitemushroom for being a part of TRLT series caching experience.

Thanks for this series of caches a lovely excuse for drive in the country.

More on TRLT! And finally, we've worked out that this series means The Road Less Travelled! Doh. Only took us 20 caches or so!

The Road Less traveled weekend two around Oberon. Day 2. After a great night at Bummeroo ford, I went on the TRLT trail for the day, ending up just past Oberon and spending the night there.

Thanks.

24042.79 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 12000 Finds A#260

**Albida**

Hi there whitemushroom.

We found your cache **"TRLT - The Dead Tree"** today. (This makes our find count 17731).

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 "Pine Cone Corner" & from there we proceeded to log caches up to "Stumpy" 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 14 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

Tftc

Another find for TaurusSix and I.

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!

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. Though reported as the coldest weekend in 110 years, daylight hours were thankfully quite pleasant and made for a fun girl’s weekend. Apologies for generic logs but all were fairly easy finds with mostly good co-ords or obvious camo.

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.

A last minute plan saw Fitzy_1965 and I heading off to make another attack on the TRLT series and whatever other caches we could nab on the way Lots of laughs and perfect weather made for an all round enjoyable day cruising around the countryside caching with over a 100+ caches in the bag!

Apologies for the generic log-We found most of the TRLT series were good sized containers and easy finds with only a handful proving to be a bit of a challenge.

Thanks for the hide, whitemushroom

13979. Found with specimenX during another run around finding the southern half of the TRLS series plus as many others as we could squeeze in.

Another big day out with Caching Wench Number 1 starting with an early departure from Canberra, with perfect weather for our ramble along those country roads for many many finds. We found all the caches to be good sized containers and nice hides. Next find of the day. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, returned the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks to all the COs for a great series !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Another good find while going from cache to cache today.
Enjoyed the drive around the area.
***Thanks for the fun.***
SL

Road trip North to tackle The Road Less Travelled Series with JordsAU! I’ve wanted to try this trail for a while but hadn’t found anyone to try it with. I ran it by Jords a few weeks back & after checking the roster for the week, the stars aligned and we started organising it. He was aiming for “200 caches in a day”, so we planned the trail as best we could!

Monday – we drove up to Gulgong to start the trail. We worked our way down to Mudgee (~30 caches) before setting up camp for the night. We had an early night so we could smash out a big day.

Tuesday – packing up at sunrise and setting out, the big day begun! We reached the first 100 by 2:00pm (7 hours elapsed). We were worried that we weren’t going to reach the 200 milestone considered how far we had to go and how long we had been tracking! The stretch from the Great Western Highway to Oberon made great time and we were on 150 caches. Instead of heading into Oberon to set up camp in daylight, we decided the best use of the remaining daylight would be to push through into the night for the last 50. Eventually we were down to the last handful, when we hit an area of the forest that had been logged. To make up the last few, we assumed there would be caches in Oberon, so we drove 50km back to town. We made the 200 at the Oberon Memorial Site and called it a (long) day.

Wednesday – I was all ran down from the big day, so we made our way back home! I found a few in Sydney, and made the drive back down home. It was a good to unpack and have a nice hot shower. Now for the long laborious task of entering these logs!

Thank you to all the Cache Owners along this trail. It was a real joy to visit another part of this great country we call home. It’ll be easier for me to return to the trail via Goulburn/Crookwell to finish off the series (and hopefully visit any further extensions). TFTC’s!

2/5/17 Found with muppet95. Muppet95 mentioned to me that he was keen to hit up The Road Less Travelled series and we decided to take a few days off to go on a bit of a road trip. I wanted to shoot for a goal of finding at least 200 caches in a 24 hours period and we made plans accordingly. We drove up to Gulgong on the first day and arrived in the early afternoon. We started The Road Less Travelled series there and headed south towards Mudgee, picking up approximately 30 geocaches on the way. We spent the night camping on the outskirts of Mudgee and had an early night, with the expectation of an early start to have the best chance of reaching our goal of 200 caches the next day. At the crack of dawn on day 2, we packed up camp and set out on the trail, finding our first for the day at 7 AM. We then spent the next 14 hours travelling The Road Less Travelled, caching the series and picking up some additional caches along the way. We powered on well after the light of day had disappeared, because we were on a mission and were resolute in our efforts to achieve our goal for the day. We reached a point, down near Gurnang in the pine forest, where the area a cache in the series was supposed to be had been logged and we could not continue, without backtracking and going the long way around. We made the decision to turn around and head back to Oberon, where we would pick up the last remaining few to reach our target number. I am very sad to say that on the way out of the pine forest, a wombat ran out as we were driving past and was struck by the underside of the car. We stopped immediately and I rushed over to its aid. The poor thing was in not in a good way and I did what I could to provide some comfort but it faded away within a matter of minutes. The accident is very distressing and upsetting, and it put a real dampener on a long and tiring day. There was nothing we could do at that point, so we continued on our way back to Oberon, picking up some more caches in town. We reached our campsite and setup, keen to rest up and have a deserved sleep in. It was another cold night, definitely dropping below zero degrees. We woke in the morning and, after packing up, we made our way back to the big smoke. Thanks For The Caches to the respective Cache Owners, and for putting this series together, which takes us on a different route along the Road Less Travelled. We will have to come back at another point in the future to try and finish off the series, and hope that one day the series may be extended further for everyone’s enjoyment.