#287 Dad's Mount Disappointment Driving Lesson Clonbinane, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 27-May-17. Waypoint GC6Q9HP

We hunted high and low with no luck here today.

At it again for another brilliant day with carmlee1, our goal this time is to crack 100 finds for the day Was to be out last for the day but ya just can't end a brilliant day on a dnf...so it looks like just one more

Due for a DNF. No luck on this one with digging around at GZ.

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

Today is Groundhog Day #1, decided to head out and grind this trail. TFTC. I was only with my Garmin eTrex 32x, trusty pen or 2, some supplies and my ute. TFTC

Eccoci di nuovo a Melbourne, lasciata la costa, alloggeremo in citt, con NitiFlex la visiteremo in parte camminando in parte con il monopattino, personalmente resto stupito dalla vivacit e dai tanti parchi tenuti come fossero giardini.Ci aspettano tante cache e Lab a non finire.Oggi usciamo dalla citt, destinazione la cache nascosta a ottobre 2000 manca a entrambi, un emozione vederla, la trattiamo come una reliquia, in Europa questo mese non c', o si viene in Australia o negli States.Era uno degli obiettivi della nostra vacanza.Trovata la vecchietta puntiamo a questo trail, da noi tante regular non ci sono, un occasione ghiotta e non ce la facciamo sfuggire.Purtroppo registreremo tanti DNf, sostituiremo alcuni book e anche nuove box dove lo spoiler sicuro, per i box per le sostituzioni finiranno, servirebbe una manutenzione generale.Siamo abituati ai trail in giro x l'Europa ne abbiamo fatti tanti, x me un divertimento.Saremo fortunati, troveremo erba tagliata da pochi giorni, in un tratto troveremo i mezzi proprio al lavoroCi firmeremo 2024 NETFTCSaluti dall'Italia

Finalmente con Eletab sono arrivate le nostre vacanze in Australia e New Zealand.1 e 2 GiornoViaggio davvero lungo, pi di 18000 km da casa in linea d'aria !!!Appena arrivati affrontiamo una Traditional per ottenere il badge ma poi alziamo subito la posta con una multi ma la stanchezza prende il sopravvento e abbandoniamo velocemente per uscire a cena.La vera caccia inizia solo domani..3 GiornoCi svegliamo presto e abbiamo 2 ore e mezzo prima di colazione per cui i primi 10000 passi volano cos. A fine giornata arriviamo a farne le quattro volte di piu' (39.000). Abbiamo visitato un mercato di prodotti alimentari locali e esplorati 3 bellissimi parchi. 4 GiornoOggi abbiamo deciso di provare a usare i monopattini. Io non posso reggere un numero tale di passi per due settimane.... Una figata, io sono abituato ma Elio si comporta divinamente e per me se lo comprer hihihi. Nonostante questo arriviamo a oltre 20000....5 Giornomattina presto ci facciamo 2 ore e mezza di monopattino in giro per Lab poi partiamo per Dunedin per cercare le cache storiche che ci interessano. Qualche sosta obbligatoria a cache di elevato valore statistico allietano il viaggio !!! 6 GiornoTorniamo a Christchurch ma prima un'altra Novembre 2000 a Dunedin. Nel tragitto facciamo un po' di belle soste all'HQ di Steampunk e Moeraki.Domani all'alba partiamo per l'Australia... Iniziamo una nuova avventura!!!7 GiornoAereo OK Auto OK SIM Australia semi OK. Partiamo carichi come molle ma ben presto ci rendiamo conto che il traffico dati difficilissimo. Zone scoperte?!? Boh. Adesso in paese vicino ai Twelve Apostles tutto funziona bene.8 GiornoPartiamo con calma e dopo una buona colazione ci dirigiamo piano piano verso Melbourne percorrendo una buona parte della Ocean Road !! Ci fermiamo per alcune tappe programmate ma anche a sentimento.... Ricordiamoci che siamo in vacanza !!!!9 GiornoOggi abbiamo Ottobre 2000 in programma e un PowerTrail da fare in auto di regular, per Elio sar una faticaccia ma a lui questi posti piacciono da morire !!!About this cache:impossibile, per me, fare un log diverso di ogni cache. Un mega ringraziamento a chi ha "seminato" tutte queste scatole per questi bellissimi boschi !!!Abbiamo firmato con la sigla " 2024 NE " (NitiFlex e Eletab).Thanks Owner

Logged under TBKGreetings from Belgium

Find#6334Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

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

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

Waking up in Rutherglen this morning, it was raining cats and dogs. So we decided to head south where the skies were clearer and attack some more of the Mt Disappointment series. We had been here a few years back and did a chunk of them, so it was good to be able to revisit today and knock off a heap more. We only have a small handful left plus the challenge caches left up here to do after this trip.

A lot of the older caches need some loving, the logs were pretty bad at some of them but it was great to see a heap of original containers (loved the ones with the engraved lids). We were fortunate with the weather here, only one small shower and the roads were in pretty good condition. Seen lots of muggles with their trailers and chainsaws which was concerning (being there are allocated firewood collection points for muggles).

Thanks for the trail carkisser & JSando, apologies for the cut/paste logs, glad to be able to get some more smilies up here. Thanks for the fun day out in the mud FFLL

It was pouring rain when we woke this morning so Rapidlywild and I decided to head up to Mt. Disappointment to hopefully get out of the rain and try to finish off this trail that we had started a few years ago. We were lucky to have a clear day with one quick shower while on the trails. A successful day although we still have a few to go as well as the challenges, we will be back one day.

This trail could really do with a maintenance run and some TLC. But there are also still a lot of original caches here too which was good to see.

Thanks for the trail carkisser & JSando and thanks Rapidlywild for a fun and busy day.

This is my first trip outside New Zealand and caching in Melbourne I enjoyed getting this cache with Team SPINZ tftc

On our way to the Rutherglen mega, we decided Mt Disappointment would be a good place to start. We really loved chasing down the caches and enjoyed the whole experience. - The eucalypts with the occasional other species here and there, charred trunks everywhere, the echidna, the leech, the kangaroos, all part of the Australian landscape. Thanks for setting up and maintaining this series.

I visited Mt Disappointment back in 2016 on my last trip to Victoria for the Surf Coast Mega so we skipped those i had already found and concentrated on the rest. Found on our Rutherglen Mega trip, all logs signed as SPINZ (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from NZ). Sorry about the cut and paste logs. TFTC

#13192

Found on our way to the Rutherglen as part of the SPINZ team over from Aotearoa/New Zealand for the Mega. Enjoying the stop/start drive along the trail thanks carkisser & JSando. All good here. TFTC # 18,930

Tftc

Our previous visit to Mount Disappointment was back in November 2016. A short time later, additional caches were added to the series and they were added to our "to do" list. However a number of factors (including covid) meant that our next visit was five years later. Today we went to look for all of the caches published since our previous visit and to revisit some of the caches we DNFd previously.

The first thing we noticed today was the condition of the roads - they are in much better repair than five years ago. Reasonably accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. There were beautiful fungi next to the hide. Thanks carkisser & JSando for this cache and the series.

In Melbourne to attend the Mega at Whittlesea with tmann421.
Enjoyed the short trip around locating a few caches before heading to the event
Log signed tm/ww NZ
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts with the hides

Arrived in Melbourne to attend the MEGA Event at Whittlesea with woolwood9.

ww9 and I had a great time and appreciate effort in setting up the caches for us all to visit.
Trying to get some of the Mount Disappointment caches that were published since my last trip and find some I got a DNF on in the past.

SL tm/ww NZ
*Thank you for helping to show us around different areas and adding to our enjoyment*

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

We found in peace

May the find be with you

I love the smell of fin in the morning

Foundiddily

This cache is _found_

Found town. Population: this cache

Mc Found (with cheese)

F to the OUND

foundaloonie

Found
Pound
Mound
Round
Sound
Bound
Hound
Clowned
Nouned
Towned


Curse your sudden but inevitable find!

I know geocaching

Live long and found it!

Danger, Will Founditson

Holy Foundit, Batman!

I love it when a find comes together

Resistance is Found it.

Found it, the final frontier

To the Found-it mobile!

_I_ am your found it.

Hasta la foundit, baby

Here’s looking at you, found it

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

Yippee ki yay, motherfoundit

The name is ‘It’, ‘Found It.’


#nosuchthingas [ftf]

#287 Dad's Mount Disappointment Driving Lesson
3677
17 November 2022

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

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

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

A day of mixed success so far but think I'm making enough finds to get across the line. Time for a quick lunch and to take stock of the number so far.

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

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

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

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

12 January 2022
5:15 pm
1383
Many thanks carkisser for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Find number 9834 at 1:34:06 pm on Thursday the 11 November 2021
Out to grab a few geocaches to bump up my total as I’m approaching 10 years of geocaching and I’m just shy of 10,000 geocache finds, can I make the milestone on my anniversary, I’m damn sure going to try.
An early start from home had me arriving at the first cache at 8:15 am and I headed for home after my last cache at 2:20 pm. Six and a half hours on the road for four hours geocaching. Once I finish these logs I’m going to need a glass of wine
Visited 112 Mount Disappointment geocaches today, found 108 and didn’t find 4, a good day by all accounts.
All geocaches were found in generally good condition except where noted otherwise.
**Thanks for placing this cache carkisser**

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We’re all going to Wangaratta to participate in Victoria’s next Mega!
*Are you coming to join in the fun?*
[**The Wangaratta Event 2021**](https://coord.info/GC8EW45)
*15th & 16th January 2022 - GC8EW45 - Wangaratta - Victoria*

Needing to be in Mansfield early tomorrow, LittleBoss2 and I decided to head to Mt Disappointment to try to grab some of these amazing caches dedicated to Carkisser's Dad.
We had a great day where the aim was to see if LB2 could nab 200 caches in a day, which she did. So many great caches, accurate coords and great hints made for a very successful day with only one dnf.
Our thanks to Carkisser and JSando for making our day so special

Great day out with Bogonghazy on our way to Mansfield. Goal was to find 200 caches and we did.
Beautiful day and thank you for placing the caches. Will be back to finish them off.

Doing another section of the Mt Dissapointment series today before work. Lovely day out, no one really around which let me do my thing. TFTC

Last week I struggled with mobi reception and returned today with my GPSr aka Mr Garmin Managed to make a dent in the powertrail with good coords, great hints, reliable hides, and nice sunny weather

TFTC carkisser and JSando

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

Found at 1.15 pm. Another fine day for a forest walk with my dog, I am combining finding a few caches together with exploring some of the smaller 4wd tracks in the area to make a loop walk.
Since the caches are very similar, I will make this note a generic one and change the time of the find. Only saw 2 cars today, very quiet during the week.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

On our way to meet up with Team Crackers, but a small detour to pick up some caches on the way.
Thanks to all the CO's for a entertaining day. All caches found quickly and in good condition.
Many thanks for placing this cache, carkisser, for us and others to find.

Plenty of camo was here over the little stump, but a GC logo caught our eye. TFTC

TFTC
Lyciah

**Find #3390**

Out on the Geo-motorcycle today and enjoying more driving lessons, a great series.

Thanks **carkisser**

TFTC.

TFTC. Out with team boomijarril one last time to finish the Mountains caches.

Apologies but poor internet service means short logs. This is another of our find this afternoon. For more details see #204. All were dated and signed as SG. TFTTrail carkisser and JSando.

TFTC

We had been to My Disappointment once before on a challenge to do 100 caches in one day. Well, today we had a goal to try for 200 caches in one day. It had seemed like a great idea, but we got out of the house late and didn't make it to out first cache (#271) until 8.26am.

One might ask, why endeavour to do 200 caches in one day? Well, at the start of the new year Tally Tiger made a new years resolution: Team ZACAATT would find 1,000 caches in one year. So, we thought, why not get a head start while we still have time!

Well, not everything went to plan and we only found 150 caches. (Not a bad endeavour, but not our ultimate goal). Google lead us on a very round about route that we had not expected. We drove up, a sleepy geodog resting his head on AngéliqueAnja's lap most of the way up.

We arrived at the first cache and averaged about twenty caches an hour, where we found cache after cache. While many were wet or soggy, even a little moldy we found all but one despite GPS that would jump all over the place, leading us up and down in some places as we relied on geosenses to help us find the cache! 150 caches and only 1 DNF seem like a pretty impressive feat.



Thanks for the cache. carkisser & JSando
Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

Caching today with Tally Tiger and Angelique Anja. Full log is the same as Angelique Anja and Tally Tiger.

Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

We had been to Mt Disappointment once before on a challenge to do 100 caches in one day. Well, today we had a goal to try for 200 caches in one day. It had seemed like a great idea, but we got out of the house late and didn't make it to out first cache (#271) until 8.26am.

One might ask, why endeavour to do 200 caches in one day? Well, at the start of the new year Tally Tiger made a new years resolution: Team ZACAATT would find 1,000 caches in one year. So, we thought, why not get a head start while we still have time!

Well, not everything went to plan and we only found 150 caches. (Not a bad endeavour, but not our ultimate goal). Google lead us on a very round about route that we had not expected. We drove up, a sleepy geodog resting his head on AngéliqueAnja's lap most of the way up.

We arrived at the first cache and averaged about twenty caches an hour, where we found cache after cache. While many were wet or soggy, even a little moldy we found all but one despite GPS that would jump all over the place, leading us up and down in some places as we relied on geosenses to help us find the cache! 150 caches and only 1 DNF seem like a pretty impressive feat.



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Why did the chicken cross the road?

It had to expand its Search Radius!

With permission of the team member who was in the local hospital we decided on a day our this time with a goal of collecting 150 finds for the day which will if achieved will be our best caching day and after spending the day collecting cache after cache we ended with 151 finds and 3 DNFs so it was a rely good outing today.

Sorry it is copy and paste logs most were nice quick finds some proved a little more difficult however most we very easy finds and some require a little attention from the owner for wet logs with it being a good day as it was cool to start and didn't get over hot during the day we managed to make the goal of 150 finds with 1 extra just to be sure.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing this series for us to make such an assault to collect so many caches on one day.

Après un premier passage en mai 2017, me revoici pour finir cette série de caches. La journée est magnifique et la balade sera tout aussi agréable

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

Thanks carkisser & JSando TFTC.

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

Day 1 - out and about on our quest to log 80 finds. Beautiful area. Beautiful story. TFTC and to carkisser and JSando for placement and to all who help maintain this series for others to enjoy. (Log 2:80)

“How delighted Miss Darcy will be to receive such a letter!”

He made no answer.

“You write uncommonly fast.”

“You are mistaken. I write rather slowly.”

“How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of a year! Letters of business, too! How odious I should think them!”

“It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of yours.”

“Pray tell your sister that I long to see her.”

“I have already told her so once, by your desire.”

“I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well.”

“Thank you—but I always mend my own.”

“How can you contrive to write so even?”

He was silent.

Captain
Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
HAMLET
Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
Captain
Yes, it is already garrison'd.
HAMLET
Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
Will not debate the question of this straw:
This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
Captain
God be wi' you, sir.
ROSENCRANTZ
Wilt please you go, my lord?
HAMLET
I'll be with you straight go a little before.
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the event,
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward, I do not know
Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'
Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:
Witness this army of such mass and charge
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and danger dare,
Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men,
That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Found with dad (day1976), ilukaperi, Nacarra and Geolibrarian. Signed log as GINDY. TFTC!

Found with day1976, Yeah09, geolibrarian54 and my sister Nakarra. Signed as GINDY.

We love this series so a big thankyou to the CO’s for your time and effort in keeping up the maintenance. Teamed up with CorianderConnected during the school holidays with 3 kids in the back and the 2 geo-dogs (Minks & Poppy). With a record 102 finds in one day over 5 ½ hrs, & 4 DNF’s it was an awesome day that we had been looking forward to for months.


#89 for the day @ 3:12pm. JK found it.

Mission also accomplished and another string of Dads lessons completed but it did take a few hours so looking forward to a G&T and kicking back. All containers in good condition with just a couple a tad damp. Happy and glad to be doing these before Joe Blakes get too active not that I mind the handsome reptiles from afar. TFTC and the drive- be back again when I’ve recovered from this lot!

Found @12:35. TFTC!

Found with Cybergran V out trying to unlock the vault for the "Mystery at the Museum" challenge.


TFTC carkisser & JSando

With 15 more to go we were very appreciative of the nearby convenience. Facing homeward now

Found this cache OK, perfect day to be out.

Got it thanks

Found this one today as we went about cleaning up the balance of the Dad's Mount Disappointment Driving Lesson series today. carkisser and JSando have done a wonderful job in setting up and maintaining this series, to them a very big Thank You from the InspectorrexTeam for all of these caches.

Today I headed out to complete the Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson series of caches. I really enjoyed coming up here again and its a really amazing place to take your time to find the caches and take in the serenity of the area. I'm pretty sure I found all of the remaining caches in the series and finally cache #62 which had become my Mt Disappointment nemesis.
It's an amazing area to explore and if you get the chance to camp the night as well I highly recommend it. There's plenty great areas to pitch a tent.
Thanks for the caches and for bringing me up here again.

After a lot of planning over the last few months, the day had finally come to get stuck into this series. I followed the route I had worked out without being sidetracked and everything went pretty much as I had hoped. I made my first find at 7:10am and the last for the day at 6:15pm. By 7 o’clock I was sitting in the Red Lion in Kilmore enjoying a cold beer and thinking back over a most enjoyable day. There was of course the odd DNF along the way as well. The weather was kind to me which helped a lot as well. A big thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing this and maintain this series. Cheers and TFTC

1.56

Out for our second trip to mount disappointment, KmanNZ and I decided to better our first trip by finding 150 caches. It took us 7 hours with a beer stop in the middle until we finally made our goal with zero DNF's. TFTC

Day #94

#478

A big day up in Mt Disappointment National Park for AndyB84 and myself.
150 finds and no DNF's.
Signed logs as KH/AB.

Majority of caches were safe and dry, one or two had soggy logbooks but still able to sign.

Thanks for the cache.

#3217

***NO CLUES OR HINTS IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT***

Since moving from New Zealand in 2016 I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T all multiple times.
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go to is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
I enjoy finding well maintained caches in fun and unique cache containers. No one likes finding a mint tin – but a find is a find after all.
I’m currently working on a Project-GC challenge to get the average word count on my logs over 200 words.
So please ignore the rest of this log as it is just nonsense and song lyrics.
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she, had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well, It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, when
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

2 day caching trip with Sioux & Leesa we are now night caching after a great meal at the flowerdale pub we stamped log with our Geo Nerds stamp for Bounty Trackers, Borisb&natasha & Gonefishen.
Thanks for the cache.

Found with BorisB&Natasha and Bounty Trackers. We signed the log with our stamp Geo Nerds.
On a fun weekend with these two doing as many of these caches as we can while here. TFTC we had a great time. We went back to Flowerdale pub and had dinner then did a spot of night Caching. OMG it is a little cool up here at night

After dinner at the Flowerdale Pub it was decided to mix it up and do a bit of night caching with Gonefishen07 and Bounty Trackers. Not before I put on my thermals beanie and gloves for that elegant look.
Thoroughly enjoyed the caches, the area and the company.
Thanks for placing these caches

Found with akpa5 and brutas12000

Found with akpa5 and akpa6

Ok

One more with TaurusSix

Quick find while out caching with Little Blue Wren.TFTC

TFTC. Quick find while out with moroldies.

The end of another tentacle of this cache series
So after finding the cache,
it was decision time again !!

Head for camp or keep going along another leg ?? [:o]
Too early for camp,
so off we go again !!

Nice, easy find. TFTF

Great day out with Team Justice, successfully completing this wonderful series in a day. The challenge has appealed to us for a long time, and it was incredibly satisfying to be able to complete it. Throughout the day we often marveled at the size and quantity of the containers you must have had at home in order to lay these out. Thanks so much carkisser for this astonishingly ambitious and well executed series. We loved it!

A plan was hatched with Clint & Abby over 12 months ago when we saw these caches come out over time. We could get 100, nah, let’s get them all and soon after a few drinks we decided to attempt the lot in 1 day. Time passed and somehow we found ourselves talking about it at a recent event (yes, and more drinks). Let’s do it after Christmas, ok. So, we meet in Wallan at 6am to begin the long day.

We had a few ideas to speed up our caching given we were trying to find 300+ caches in a day and that our previous record was about 60 in a day so this was going to be tough. We put the GPS and pens on lanyards do we could keep our hands few when getting the cache and didn’t have to pick up or get things out of our pockets. We did shifts of 1 hour, so one person did the driving, ate, re-hydrated and relaxed, while the other cached for the hour. The driver also provided the clue up front between caches as the cacher counted the distance down to the cache.

Now to the clues. Tree, stump, log, rock! We were getting a good chuckle over the clues, ‘beside tree’, we are in a forest! We found some of the ‘logs’ were not yet logs (i.e. trees), but they were close most of the time. We thought there might be some sort of random clue generator sometimes.

To the numbers. 330 caches attempted in 10 hours and 22 minutes. We had 7 DNFs and a total of 323 finds. This meant an average find time (including DNFs) of 1 minute, 53 seconds. We were quite amazed at the speed we could go and how quick you could find, sign and move on. It also comes down to the great containers laid out by carkisser for this power trail. Nice and large, and easy to find and extract the logs. We only came across one Eclipse time late in the day. Our biggest hour of finds was our 5th hour of 42 finds. This averaged out at 1 minute and 25 seconds per cache.

Overall, we had a great time as it was a challenge to push ourselves to get all these caches. We loved the layout and the effort to place all these caches. Thanks so much to carkisser for the caches.

FBTJ #2736

Found on the way back home after the Mega event in Melbourne!
TFTC

Another one bites the dust.

Down in Melbourne for the Parkville Mega. After a detour to Geelong for a wedding yesterday I am back for some caching fun today! Travelling with Minniek, fitzy_1965, B0tmun, Lovetherabbitohs, death killer & my_name_jeff_1 & sneakysquirrel3326 out to Mt Disappointment with a few little extras to get me mine and sneakysquirral3326’s first 100 in a day! And I reached my 2000th cache - what a day! Tftc.

Road trip to Melbourne for the Parkville Mega with fitzy_1965 and my 4 geokids, B0tmun, Lovetherabbitohs, death killer & my_name_jeff_1 (signed kids a 4GKs).

Day 3 saw us convoying with nibletricecakes & sneakysquirrel3326 out to Mt Disappointment. Fitzy_1965 wanted to pick up the newer sections of the series and we picked up a few more inbetween. Quick finds at all caches today......although hayfever set in quite badly for me

17,010. Found during the Parkville Mega trip down south with minniek.

Its Mega time ! Headed out for another full days caching with minniek and Nibletricecakes. Today we decided to do a portion of the Mount Disappointment series. I had previously done numbers 1-250 back in Aug 16, so it was great to be back to do the 'new' sections. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and then headed off to the next one.

Thanks carkisser !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Over for Parkville Event started early this Morning after I landed in Melbourne, with Becknmonts and Loulou0212 we saw some beautiful scenery, great fun completing this series in 1 day. TFTC carkisser

After Becknmonts and I picked gabs1963 up from the airport we headed out to start our day, a beautiful quick stop at Melbourne’s first before we headed to start this trail, thanks so much for putting theses caches out, I really enjoyed them - definitely a first for me getting my geo car off the road and on some dirt - TFTC carkisser

I had a great day out today after LouLou0212 and myself picked Gabs1963 up for the airport. We headed to “Melbourne’s First” and then onto this trail as Gabs1963 has cached our her 450km radius, so she wanted some “easy numbers”. Thanks so much for placing this trail carkisser

I'm in Melbourne for a few day's with Horsesrule1990, heading to the event and to pick up as many caches as possible. Once the Melbourne Mega raps up we will head to the Gold Coast , for a few day hitting all the fun parks. Then heading back to Western Australia, and back to Work. Would like to thank everyone for there caches and there effects hiding then for us to find.all Tftc.

Found on the 13/11/2018 at 2:40:00 PM

It's been 2 years since I found the Disapointing trail. I was so disapointed that I didn't finish until 11pm, searching for caches by spotlight and keeping my eyes wide open for wildlife on the windy roads.
To my greater disapointment, I only realised recently that the trail continued on beyond the 250 that I had downloaded into my GPSr at the time, and had to come back again to find the rest. At least I finished this time with plenty of daylight left.

Thanks for the caches.

We arrived in the area with a particular plan and that was to do the Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson trail. All caches were found or replaced (with the permission of the owner) Some still need the logs replaced but we ran out of supplies.
This trail was done with Hans and Linda, the jumping in and out of the car was shared, the driving was shared, lunch was had on the trail where ever we found a place that appealed to us.
Some shots were fired near one of the caches which startled the crap out of us. We did not think that you were allowed to shoot here. The roads were a mixture of good, bad and ugly. Thankfully it was dry it did try very hard to rain but all we saw was not enough to wet the car or us.
We apologise for the generic logs, this does not mean we thought any less of this series. We appreciate the effort that has gone into placing this trail and maintaining it, this is why we were more than happy to help with some maintenance.
SL TFTC

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

I was driving home from an event in Shepparton, and my reason for having to get home quicker then originally planned evaporated so I decided to grab one or 2 of these while kind of in the area, just a slight detour really...LOL. So I ended up collecting numbers 272 to 287 and 204 to 195. So I am slowly collecting them all bit by bit. This must make it about 270 in total. Unlike everyone else I wont apologise for the generic logs because thats just life in the power trail world, so rejoice. But a big thanks for all the effort you have put in. TFTC

Cool Sunny 19° TFTC Cheers

Away for a long weekend of caching with Freddo and Four Fun.

Over 300 caches in 4 days means that the logs will be mainly generic.

The main target of our mission was to finish off the Mt Disappointment series. We achieved our target along with other caches as we headed east and then west.

My apologies for the generic logs.

TFTC

Away for an extended long weekend of caching with Freddo and Team Waldron.
This wasour main target for the weekend, the Dad's Driving Series, and it was definately a fun exercise collecting the series as well as a few other fun finds along the way
Cheers & TFTH carkisser

Logging a find as part of the 4FW crew for this giant series. A lot of work has gone into putting this series together. Thanks to Dad and your helpers. All caches were found and logged. The driving was a lots of fun on a beautiful day.

This is my third day getting Driving Lessons. I must be difficult to teach because I haven't finished all the lessons yet. A prefect spring day - I didn't meet any other cachers. I will drop a few Hearts along the way in recognition of the mammoth effort put in by Carkisser and JSondo.
Two caches were missing, 285 and 140. Thanks a million carkisser and JSando.

We returned to try to complete this series today. Woo hoo, last cache in the series.....so far
This was another enjoyable and good quality cache in this series. Thanks again for the enjoyable roadtrip.

#3270 A big day of caching with the aim to collect big numbers and collect a bunch of souvenirs. The geohounds tagged along for the adventure. A cool day with the temperature floating around 7-9 degrees, but much fun had. A handful of dnfs but lots of finds. We found the coords to be pretty good, a few damp logsheets but no trouble signing. Thanks for all the effort carkisser and JSando.

That's one fiddy finds for the day .