Silver Birch Molonglo Valley, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Aykayem on 14-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6Z8QX

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, Aykayem, requesting additional time.

An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache, by somebody else.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

No, this cache wasn't abandoned ... I just hadn't had a chance to figure out how to replace/hide it in a different way, because the original hide no longer works after the whole area was disturbed - they laid down some bitumen to make a "nice neat" (boring) carpark where there used to just be dirt, and the rock it was tucked under was moved.
Unfortunately I have had a few too many other things I have had to attend to/going on in my life, besides figuring out how else I can hide a replacement Geocache with the same size, and same D/T, in a different hiding spot, or keep track of how long ago I disabled it (where has this year gone?!)
... I guess it now won't mess up people's statistics if I hide a different size/etc. to replace it ...
btw, if I do get myself organised enough to put a new cache here - it probably won't be in the same spot, but somewhere nearby

I ducked past to check this ... and unfortunately it is indeed missing. There is now bitumen where there was none, and some things things have been moved around ... including the thing that was hiding the cache ... I will organise another way/place to hide a replacement cache here, hopefully very close to where it was, but it might take me a week or 3 because I may have to get creative and/or see if I can “Macguyver” a good way to hide it, which will probably require more than one trip and some fiddling around, organising, etc, and my life is a bit crazy at the moment - my to-do list is a mile long, and I have a few too many things to keep me busy ...

GPS lead me to the edge of the carpark, where large rocks have been placed where construction work has gone on?

No obvious hiding spot near GZ. Expanded my search zone quite a bit, but still nothing.

No luck here, but some road work made us think that maybe it has been destrotyed.

We had no luck here today, roadworks at GZ may have taken the cache

Seemed to be in middle of construction!

The fences and do not enter sign bit off putting until I overheard someone reading the little hard to see sign saying pedestrians allowed

Nice and easy!!

Cool spot

Car park

Found it easily on the beginning of my walk today TFTC

Good ride and find

Quick find thanks

I found it ty for the game

Found it.

M

Fun little cache with the kids

Nice one!

A nice quick park and grab while passing by this afternoon, no real trouble locating and logging this one, thanks Aykayem for the hide.

Good little find great to have a drive out to see a wonderfull view

Today’s adventures out and about around the Arboretum and surrounds on a blustery ️ winter’s day.

All logs in good condition unless otherwise noted.

Thanks to COs for placing and maintaining these caches

Hide was compromised with cache discarded nearby. I remediated it and replaced in what was obviously the hide. I made sure to properly disguise it this time. Dropped a trackable too TFTC

Eazt

Found whilst out getting 10k training on feet done with my friend Diane. Hilarious as we were parked so close and left the cache as our reward for our walk.

TFTC

Thanks

Thanks for the little stop. Miss 2 found her first cache hiding spot, she was very excited. Took out a bracelet and a little book and left 2 other things. Thank you!

Winners are not people who never fail but people who never quit!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotcha

Coming home from Woden, I needed to grab a cache, the problem was, the 2yo in the back having a sleep. This one looked like it fitted the bill.
Quick and easy find. Thank you

Got this one a few days ago riding the trails around here. A great day out called for a quick stop for a cache! Tftc!

Nice and easy! Thanks!!

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Hi

Thanks for the fun find! Beautiful location!

Find 745 at 19:17
Nice quick park and grab on this lovely evening.
Thanks Aykayem for the cache!

Amazon views

Tfth

Crystal Warrior and I took the opportunity of lunch followed by a nice afternoon wander. After completing the virtual, we stopped by for a quick find. Thanks Aykayem.

Nice & easy to get to.

TFTC with mrs_aeiou

TFTC quick find with me-aeiou

Yay!

Found it! Neat hiding spot

Found it

TFTC

Quick park and grab on a day when I was trying to max out the arboretum.

Happy new year 2nd cache of the day TFTC

Tftc

Found on second attempt because first time there were muggles nearby so had to leave and come back but I spotted the hide before I left. Tftc

After parking, basically on top of GZ, we decided to take a seat as some muggles passed by. As we were sitting the cache was spotted as the concealment was very non-concealing. After signing the log we replaced it with as best cover as we could. TFTC

When DeadThief and I got to this one there was very little concealment in place.
Filled out the log and returned to its hide, taking the effort to cover the container as best we could. TFTC

Nobody was around, if you discount parked cars, making roll for an easy search and find. TFTC.

Diky

A nice cool day with a few spots of rain seemed perfect for a short wander around the Arboretum between commitments. Still surprisingly busy, although less so down the hill near GZ where I had the CIH quickly after a brief search. Thanks Aykayem.

Found quickly with a bogong moth

found thank u!!!

Super cute find! Bring something to swap if you are looking to find this cache!!

very nice hiding spot

While visiting our son this weekend we are taking in the sights of Canberra and finding some caches as well. On our way to the lookout we stopped to grab this cache. SL then returned as found. Beautiful place.

Found on 2 October 2020. TFTC, Ayjayem.

Great hide!

Stopped by today to average a DNF. It’s a lot easier to find since the container was replaced. TFTH

was driving back from doing caches out at Uriarra Village and thought I'd just add one more.

Silver Birches remind me of canoeing in Norway and Sweden.

TFTC

Quick find today and glad of no rain. Left a TB and enjoyed the views. TFTC

A beautiful afternoon for a visit to the arboretum and a wander around. This was a fairly easy find with no cars around. TFTC

Busy here today but we were sneaky:) Tftc!

Nice one !

Thanks for the find.

My children found it straight away
Beautiful sights
tftc

Tftc found it

Found it

Nice one

Very easy find to finish our stroll. Tftc

Quick find whilst out walking. Docs do

Fun find TFTC

TFTC

Easy one. Thanks nice colour of trees is amazing

Found it

Found thanks for the cache, hid it a little a better as it seemed in plain sight.

Rode over to the arboretum via the Lyneham Eucalypt plantation, O'Connor Ridge, Bruce Ridge, Black Mountain & the Cork Oaks. There were plenty of people put getting exercise despite COVID19 At the arboretum I proceeded to gun it around the trails, going up and down the hill several times. Wow, the trails were hard packed, fast and superb - I was having a ball. Tons of other people were around too. I thought there was a cache near the yellow pole thing, but nothing showed up on the phone (probably archived now). This was the next one and an easy find between muggles. Once returned, it was back to the singletrack and several more trails before working my way home through the various Canberra Nature Park trails. Ahhhh....

Got it!!

Found

These are my favourite caches when the weather is putrid! Easy park and grab indeed. Spotted the hidey hole before I even got out of the car ️ TFTC!

An easy find but had to wait for a muggle who parked in front of it and just sat in the car for ages, before driving off...

Found it

Dropped by with the kids for a morning walk. Lovely place! Thanks

Rode from Weston to here was lots of fun.

Found this one, had to be a bit sneaky as there were lots of people passing by!

Found with OzKEG. TFTC.

The family took a trip out to the Arboretum today to collect a few of the caches out here. A beautiful day and plenty of people have picnics and enjoying the open spaces. Signed as OK + CL03 + Mrs OK. TFTC.

TFTC with OK and CL03

Was just cruising, made the day a lot more interesting

Found at 5:15:00 PM

Silver birch, silver birch
I came to her via the city
Ring a ling, log signing
This is the cache for today

Thanks Aykayem

Found this one towards the end of the nearby Virtual. This one was so much quicker and easier to find thank goodness. TFTC AyKayem. SL

Doing the nearby new Virtual (highly recommended0 , I managed to park almost on top of this. Not too much traffic on a weekday so no problems with retrieval and signing. Love Birch trees though they're not very drought resistant..

Out with dty73, Tankengine and Aquilus1 doing the Virtual and collecting a few caches we had not had a chance to collect previously. Why not! We were right there. TFTC. Kutgw

This one is ready to be found ...

I just remembered this one was still out of action, so I put together a new container, log, etc., and came past this way to replace it yesterday ... and realised I already had replaced it! LOL ... I don't remember when, but I do now remember digging out the container at home (A recycled HMAS one - quite apt, seeing this cache is where I parked to find about half of that, now archived, series), and I vaguely remember putting it there ... probably before I went away in January ... so I guess i forgot to do the maintenance log and enable it - oops!

... anyway ... If anyone was waiting for it to be enabled - go and find it

Hmmm ... and an added bonus - I now have a spare cache set up ready to hide somewhere else ... probably up the next suitable tree I find - lol

I took some photos there too ... Looking a bit dry still.

There and ready to find

Hmmmm ... I stopped by to check this, and it does indeed appear to be missing. I wonder where that "unnatural pile of natural objects" came from? ... when I hid it, I put it behind 1 or 2, not about a dozen ... and it was a lot less obvious that something could be there...
Sometime in the next few days, I will try and find some spare time, in between the too many things I have to do/be at/etc, to organise/install a replacement, and maybe sort something out so I can make it less obvious again (so it hopefully won't go missing again as soon as I replace it)

I got to the GZ and quickly spotted an unnatural pile of natural objects. Unfortunately there was no container hidden within. I then checked the surrounding area and only spotted a discarded pen cap near the GZ.