Mt Roland [1] Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia
By Angus88 on 09-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y2WM

Found 17/824

Thanks found - coords a bit off

Thanks Angus for this wonderful series which today I finally completed. It took a few years of gradual chipping away. This series gets a Fav.I actually did this section backwards starting at Sheffield and walking to the Mountain Bike Parking area. I took a bunch of Muggles with me and three Geo Dogs and everyone enjoyed themselves. Fortunately it was overcast which help particularly in the open farmland areas. After the walk we returned to Sheffield for lunch to complete a beautiful Geocaching day.Cache was in excellent condition.

In Tassie for the next few months. So many great places to visit and so many different caches to find.Staying nearby so we could get out and do some of the bike trail again today. Enjoyed the ride a variety of scenery. Most hides were found with only a short search with good hint where needed.Thanks Angus88 for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

Today we headed out from our camp at the Sheffield Pub to finish off the rail trail caches that I had begun on Christmas Day. We walked out to the furthest cache and then cached our way back. All caches we looked for were found and we enjoyed our walk. We were glad we were not up Mt Roland today as it was covered in a very dark cloud.The beasts in the fields were super interested in us some of them were glorious. One very fat healthy black snake encountered on the track I dont know who got more of a fright the snake or me .Thanks for all the caches and this series I have enjoyed it and so has my heart health.Quick find TFTC

All found in good order here on a maintenance run today. Mount Roland shrouded in cloud.r

Tftc ️

Come down to finish the rest of this trail. Lovely day for a walk tftc

Decided to combine a couple of my hobbies this evening, running and geocaching. Nice flat trail on a beautiful evening.
Thanks for maintaining the cache

It is a habit of mine to not conform and this is a good example. Starting in Sheffield on the 16th I decided to do this one backwards and took a few days off in the middle. At first I was a bit clumsy, trying to get the caches without taking off my big heavy hiking pack full of camping and cooking gear. At one point I tripped and did a somersault into a soft grassy ditch, pack and all. From that point I began taking it off to retrieve the hides. It was good exercise.
There was some wildlife, tiger snakes, one was on a cache, and a jack jumper nest under a cache.
All in all, it was a great geocache trail and an excellent walking track with caves and waterfalls.
Thank you Angus88!

Christmas Day, weather is brilliant, bikes are loaded, and we figured this might be a quiet place to spend the morning away from the excesses of a "traditional" get together. Met a couple returning on bikes with their dogs in tow (or vice versa) but the rest of the time logging this and 8 other caches we had the trail to ouselves. Bliss !
Thankyou Angus88. We have enjoyed picking off bits of the Railton hot spot for caches over a period of time now.

Hdhw

Yeah boys

out caching with the Rafa family in the north of the state, TFTC TNLN log dry, a cool weekend with lots of caches on the list.

Thank you for the cache Angus88.
Staying in Sheffield for the weekend with RLD4963 and the two GeoGSP's.
RLD4963 had done a small section of the Railton-Sheffield rail trail during a visit in February. We have always planned to come back and spend a weekend here so we could attempt the remaining sections of the trail. Today was the day!
Gorgeous views of Mt Roland. A nice quick find at GZ.

It was a Big enjoyable day out caching with ANNAGJW on a nice Sunny winter's day (even managed to get sunburnt). Have had this on our to-do list for some time, so with Anna trying to make it to find her 300th by the end of the month we finally organised a caching day together.! I found my 1100th cache along the way. Nice to get out and have a good day doing caching after not finding many in the last year.
Started at the Sheffield end and worked our way down to Railton. 52 finds including an adventure lab. With only 1 DNF we were happy with the day.

Thanks, Angus88 for placing all these caches for our enjoyment.

Easy find

Another fast find, thanks so much for placing these caches Angus88.

We have planned this day so many times before and finally today on Geocaching World Record day, CoxFamily7310 and I were able to head out on our Railton to Sheffield adventure together.

We found 52 caches, my highest number in one day!! Our day also included, walking a few km (got a beautiful blister to show for these ), an adventure lab, replaced a cache for another CO, some easy finds, some crazy coords, some slips, slides and falls, crawling in caves, jumping creeks, caching by torch and only a couple of DNFs.

We started at Sheffield today and worked our way back to Railton, completing the track in reverse.

Massive thanks also to CoxFamily7310 for an amazing day out.

Out on a rainy day run. Music and good company with my muggle friend. Most logs signed J8 for short. Thanks

Found with a quick search thanks to the hint. Will have to come back and try the local MTB track. TFTC

Found it, logged it, next!!!

Another great viewing spot as we searched out the cache.

This weekends adventures was instigated by TazScout with a discussion/statement 'Day Walk' followed by a map of the area around Sheffield and Railton on the 8th of April, after we all talked to our significant others and arrangements made and diaries double and triple checked we had a sort of plan on the 15th and accommodation was booked for a busy weekend of walking between Sheffield and Railton collecting those caches along with any other GC or GCA we could find the time to grab as we were in the area.

Along with a wonderful walk we had time to catch up with friends and find some great caches, so a perfect use of our time, i think we all were better for a caching weekend and swear we wont leave it as long next time, thanks to all the CO's for making this trip possible.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 01/05/2021 at 9:39:00 AM thanks to Angus88 for placing this cache for me to find.

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

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Our friend is still following us, much better than an angry farmer!

It was TazScout who first mentioned the idea of doing the Sheffield to Railton rail trail caches. I suggested this weekend to tie in with a CITO in Devonport that I had organized to attend, and a plan came together fairly quickly. Hotel rooms were scarce around the area but we managed to find a place to accommodate stainless steel rat, the egg and I. TazScout has a busy weekend so drove out to meet us for the day.
As always, our day started with coffee whilst we did a car shuffle before starting at 'The End'. We talked non-stop as we walked, it had been a long time since all five of us had been together and we had a lot of news to catch up on. The company was great, the weather was perfect, and we really couldn't have asked for a better day.
Thanks for all the caches today.

Had a day out with Stainless Steel Rat and Goose & Egg. Decided we'd tackle the Railton/Sheffield run. Of course we picked the busiest weekend of the month with three events in the area one of which being cycling so we had plenty of company on the track.

I'm afraid I"m going to have to send a long run of very boring log posts. If the cache was big enough I left a Scout behind but otherwise all my notes on each find have vanished into my phone storage so I"m relying on memory. Perhaps our Co-conspirators can fill in any blanks. Thanks for a great run of finds with no DNFs in sight.

Found

21st January 2021. Maintenance check proves that cache is in place and in good condition. The cache however, has been replaced with the new 'double cache system' where the log is inside a second cache. This is done with the hope of keeping the log dry. Please replace the log carefully.

Tftc

This area of caches had been selected to be done after the Community Event held at Latrobe a couple of weeks ago but as it was pouring with rain we left them. Today we headed out with Tassie Trekkers in glorious sunshine to find them. The coords did wander a bit so we were pleased with the detailed hints. A lovely trail. Thanks for placing and sharing this area with us. TFTC

Today we targeted this series of caches with whitewebbs that form part of the Tasmanian Trail between Sheffield and Railton. We started early when the breeze was cool but soon became hotter as we worked our way to Railton.

Some were easy to find, but others took some time as we had trouble with co-ords. Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

They boys next door here were a bit firstly too. Again, glad for the wire

A trip to Launceston and Devonport on Thursday and Friday with a a night in Launceston. Thursday was work and Friday was a day off, so I took advantage of the new caches in Devonport and Railton for a run on my way to my target of 500 finds for the year. After a very successful day, I came home with 58 cache finds and 2 and nature lab stages.... so 60 which was a good day considering I was home by 7pm. Thursday weather wasn’t very good, so little was down after work, but Friday was a perfect day for caching. Not to hot not raining.
Really enjoyed a walk along the Tasmanian trail. And all was good until on the back roads to Railton, where one stop I was surprised by a tiger snake, which luckily didn’t seem interest3d in me. To be honest it was about 10 metres away, but going Parallel to my walking path.... I don’t like snakes.

Anyway. Managed to finish The Tasmanian trail whole series which deserves the huge favourite point.



Cache in paddock in puddle on far side of fence. Retrieved with walking stick. Watch out as fence as well as electric fence is live. Note. Cache is very close to fence. Zap wasn’t very nice.

Fftf

Found it

Found while taking grandkids for bike ride

Heading north for a few days, no real plan, by the look of the weather that will most likely determine what we do.

The weather was looking good so we decided to see how far we would get in this series. We decided to start at the end.....as you do. The start was very wet but improved the further we went along the track.

All good with and with the hint found it.

TFTC

With the treat of a cloudy day and maybe some rain we set out to collect a few caches in this series.
All we found with excellent coordinates and helpful hints!

Thanks Angus for a great series - we will collect the rest in the following weeks !

Thank you for the cache from GeoMaggie and her sidekick Bonnie.

This one was very close to the electric fence so after what happened to the dog at the last cache I was very careful not to touch it.
Our first glimpse of Mt Roland here and what a spectacular mountain it is.
We live about 10 kms past Forth on the Wilmot Road and from one of our distant paddocks you can see the mountain. I also noticed it as we were driving back from Penguin to Ulverstone along the old road yesterday. It really does dominate the landscape!
Thanks.

Hi Angus88
Showery weather when I arrived and the gps was quite erratic....didn't read the description...only the hint but found quite quick.
Out in the open paddocks with a great view of Mt Roland.
Many TFTC and setting up an interesting series of caches...most appreciated...cheers ST.

As she walked Mrs Y'stassie kept an eye on the tractor in the distance. She smiled as it stopped, turned and headed back towards her. The driver stopped shut the gate behind him and headed back towards her. Just as she reached this cache the tractor came up beside her and the driver stopped and opened his door. He asked what she was doing out on the trail in the rain. She explained that she was taking a trip down memory lane as she had grown up in the Railton area. He said he owned the farm land either side of the trail. She mentioned she had known his grandfather in her youth. and a pleasant chat followed.

After the farmer drove off she retrieved the cache container. She had to take care as her hands had become muddy and she didn't want to get the cache log wet and muddy. Another blank log and a third {FTF} at 13:15. Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for another cache in this series Angus88. Even in the rain this is a pleasant walk. The water on the trail was only 2 or 3 cm deep. So no need for your boots today.

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 22.712 E 146° 22.420

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 22.712 E 146° 21.420

Distance from original: 4566.4 feet or 1391.8 meters.

Updated at request of CO.

Enabling cache.

Published

Expect coords are way out as satellite photo puts it well into private property....certainly nowhere near the railway?

Co-0rds need to be checked.