Mount Roland [2] Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia
By Angus88 on 09-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y2WT

Found it - Mints

Quick and easy find

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 and sign TFTC

Coordinates changed from:S 41 22.802 E 146 21.024Coordinates changed to:S 41 22.799 E 146 21.018Distance from original: 32.9 feet or 10.0 meters.On a maintenance run it was noted that the original GZ had become very overgrown with vegetation. The new GZ is more user friendly.

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

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The log he was replaced on the maintenance run today

Decided to combine a couple of my hobbies this evening, running and geocaching. Nice flat trail on a beautiful evening. Stunning views from this spot
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!

Yeah boys

Hshw

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.

So much fun, thanks so much for placing these caches Angus88. Super fast find

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 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!
Another straightforward 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

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

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GPS put us in the paddock. But the clues were spot on. TFTC

Such a lovely crisp frosty morning with clear sunny skies and no wind. So we're off on a little caching expedition with newbie cacher daughter to lift her tally and add some more to ours. Found soon enough to spur us on for the walk across the farm to the next one. No tractors, belligerent farmers or muggles to contend with here. Curious cattle wanting something different to eat though ! Found in the picket line today. Thanks Angus88

Friendly moos

Found it, logged it, next!!!

Anotehr quick find, we added our names to the log as we looked at the great view.

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 9:29:00 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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It felt like the mountain was following us for a while, we enjoyed the extra company.

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.

Had to dig through the grass a bit but was able to find

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.

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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.

Quickly found this cache with TaurusSix

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.

Took some great photos of mount Roland

Tftc

Found this one as well

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.

With the hint this was found fairly quickly. The lid was not done up properly so a little wet inside but log book good.

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.

We had just left the shelter of the bushes and found this section of the track a lot worse than the rest of it to this point which was basically a good gravel road. There were quite a few muddy puddles to negotiate around and an icy wind was coming from our right.
But the cache was a quick find. 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 stepped back out onto the trail she heard a tractor start up so distance behind her. She turned and saw a green tractor moving on the hill near the entrance. It was raining heavily.
She continued walking keeping an eye on the tractor coming steadily up behind her. She was aware that there had been some hostility between Tas Trail users and the property owner so was not sure what to expect.

She arrived at the hide as the tractor drew up beside her. She stepped off the trail and waved to the driver as he went by. When The tractor was a couple of hundred metres ahead she extracted the cache container from its hide. Again the container and contents were in good condition and the log was blank - a second {FTF} at 12:57.

After replacing the cache container she continued down the track.

Thanks for another cache is this series Angus88. Mount Roland was hidden behind heavy cloud at this time.

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