Minnesota Sutton, New South Wales, Australia
By ALL7 on 02-Apr-21. Waypoint GC98HED

In Gundaroo for a couple of days. Out for a few caches between the showers. TFTC

After attending the nearby CITO event at Lake George, I went for a long country drive for another four hours to enjoy more geocaching adventures.I appreciated the power trail as I headed south back to Canberra I was usually able to find somewhere to *mostly* pull off the road safely Thanks for the cache, ALL7!

Catching up on some late logs when attending the Geobash Mega in Canberra. Took the opportunity to explore the many sights in and around Canberra and grabbed this one along the way.Chasing caches with Omegaman1971 today. Always great catching up friends, with lots of laughs and fun. We grabbed this one, while out today.Thanks ALL7 for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

Reperio 14:41Day 5 of our Capital GeoBash mega event trip to Canberra with Miss Vitruvius, and today it was time to head home, but not before finding plenty of caches. We decided to line up the caches around the Sutton area, which had plenty of high DT caches, and plenty of easier ones as well. This one was one of the nicer easier drive by finds today.Gratias ALL7As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Find No: 9333. Down from Newcastle NSW, in Canberra for the Geobash MEGA, thanks for the cache ALL7!!

n Canberra for GeoBash 2024. Had an awesome time and joined up with Happy Feet 1 for some epic caching fun. We tackled tricky puzzles, found loads of caches, and had a great time meeting old and new caching buddies. This is one of the caches we found whilst in Canberra.Cheers for the cache.

TFTC smile out and about on sunny day in Canberra with so much to do signing as 5 for Qld what a great team we make and lots of laughter and fun Thank you ALL7 for placing this cache for our enjoyment

Thanks for the cache

Very happy to be here for my first Mega event from WA. Out with Meme28, Burns345 and Neva2old. Signing as WA6 today. Apologies for the late logsMany thanks ALL7 for placing this hide for me to find and adding to my adventures.

*In the area with woolwood9 attending the MEGA Event.* ????We cached from Sydney to Canberra, then after the MEGA, up through Yass, Cowra and Bathurst to return to Sydney.*We had a great 3 weeks and enjoyed finding many good caches.* ????We soon had the container found!SL *tm/ww NZ* Or with the group at some caches!*Thank you for putting this cache out for us to visit!*

Over in the area heading for Canberra to attend the Easter Mega with tmann421Tons of caches done while here and this was one of them.Enjoyed the touring around and all the containers foundLog signed tm/ww NZThanks for the placement and the effort put into maintaining these hides for us to find.??????

Find # 10936Nice quick find.We've travelled to Canberra for the Capital GeoBash Mega event this Easter long weekend. We have parked our van at Capital Country Holiday Park for the next few nights and are looking forward to catching up with our old caching friends and meeting new friends.TFTC ALL7 ??29 March 2024 11:13

Found on a typical Autumn day with a small group. In the area for the ACT Mega and a few caches of course.Not many muggles around and a quick find, thankfully. . Thanks for the cache ALL7, ***Roostaman***

Found while attending the mega in Canberra. I had a great time caching and catching up with friends.This is one of the caches found today.Thanks ALL7 for the cache.

Canberra Mega Today I teamed up with Rebel Acts and Roosterman for some caching shenanigans was there a plan?? You bet ya..lol...Go Go Go was the morning motto as we cached cached cached. This was one of the caches we found

Out and about with Burns345 Geotrakka and Neva2Old on this beautiful sunny Canberra day. Logs signed as WA6 and JAR.Apologies for the generic logs as we were on a mission working with JAR along these tracks!Cache found with no issues. Cheers

Out caching today with friends. 3 of us having a fun time each trying to be the first to get a hold of the cache. We signed as team JAR to save log room. Joojoo57, Aussie Liahona and RichmondLad. Many thanks to all the COs who hid the caches we found today for ensuring this was a great caching day while we were attending the MEGA.Today we found a number of caches with team WA6 as we could contribute a ladder and they could contribute a climber and we could help each other with our different skills and equipment. Cheers and happy caching!

Today is the first of a couple of visits to the Sutton area and the surrounding countryside. We cached as Team JAR and even met up with WA6 along the way and combined our TOTTs and enthusiasm to spot the caches - especially the pole ones. Thanks to the COs.

Over here for Canberra Mega from Western Australia picking up caches. TFTC logged as WA6 (Geotrakka Meme28 Burns345 and Neva2old)

Day 2 of my Canberra Mega adventure. A brisk start to the day, but the day is looking good. Out and about with some other West Aussie teams and very happy to claim a smiley here . Some logs signed as N2O or WA6This is my 12571 find Thankyou ALL7for placing and maintaining this cache.

Out and about caching today around Sutton. Three of us and signing the Log as JAR (joojoo57, AussieLiahona and Richmond Lad). Great going around the countryside finding the caches. Thanks to CO for the placement of the cache. TFTC

Just a night time. Thank you for the blind.

Caching in Canberra with friends before the MEGA begins. My first ever visit to this area. We are signing logs as 5 for QLD. and concentrated on Sutton Road Power Trail and then a few others that popped up.All logs signed and replaced as found. TFTC

Enjoying the pre Mega couple of days out in the countryside with our group, RoddyC, hatzofff, grannysmith1947, and Imbunda. To save space on the logs, we have signed as 5 for QLD.All caches found today were in good condition and a credit to the cache owners who placed and maintained them for our benefit ??

Out and about after the CITO and a couple of tunnels.Caching with and signing as the group '5 for QLD' and having a great day.TFTCache ALL7

Another day spent Pre-Mega geocaching. Today we are chasing caches along Sutton Road north of the town and across to Murrumbateman and down. Log sheets as "5 for QLD" to save space and time. Pulled up and hatzofff slid out of the car! Haha. G 40 is Going 40 kph!Log signed and cache replaced as found on March 24, 2024. TFTC, ALL7

Gundaroo staying at the sporting grounds, until we go into Canberra for the MegaWe did more of the American States, Animal Series some challenge caches & a variety of others were included in our trip today. This was a great way to visit the area,Thanks ALL7 for hiding this cache.

No trouble here. Thanks for the cache ALL7

Ta

ample parking

It was 7:30pm the night before New Years Eve. Chatting to injuryman I mentioned how I was 34 cache finds short of my biggest year ever. I didn't have much motivation to beat this statistic and get across the line, but thankfully injuryman did! He said "Let's go night caching, I'll be at your house in 30 minutes".

So, that's what we did! I quickly searched for the closest & easiest 30+ caches to grab, but of course there weren't many as I have done most of them! We ended up starting in Sutton, grabbing the string of caches I had vowed never to find because of where they were placed, but thankfully doing them late at night before the night that everyone else stays up late was perfect. The very busy road was quiet for once, and we only saw about 6 cars go past, it was nerve wrecking every time they did though, and almost all of them stopped to check why we were half parked on the road with our hazards, but I'm glad to not have to look at those unfound caches on my map again after driving past them usually at least once a week!

We then did the full length of "Yass River Road". Here we didn't see a single car for several hours! Lots of potholes and a few other little things to navigate through / around, but not too bad. The grass was OVER head high the whole time though, and we clocked up a few DNF's.

Once we had popped out the other side to Murrumbateman, we headed to Dog Trap Road just for a few more caches to get the number we were looking for. A string of DSD Letterbox caches just outside town did the trick here, with a couple trads and even a Challenge thrown in! These caches were excellent, and our favourite of the night. Quiet roads, larger sized containers, well placed. Appreciate that!

Our last cache find was at 1am on the 31st. So yes, our finds for tonight were spread over two dates (30th / 31st)! Eventually got home and in bed by 2am after that! Phew...!

Thanks injuryman for giving me company to surpass my "Best caching year" and thanks to InnocentApple, ALL7 and DSD for hiding park and grabs, which do come in handy sometimes even if they aren't my favourite thing to do anymore! We also got one Sui cache, and a Sui hide that was disguised as a DSD cache which had us confused for ages as we were looking for a DSD hide instead, so thanks to him too

A fast find with a setup that I’m surprised isn’t used more often. TFTH

Out and about for a few caches with GreyHams on a cold and windy day. We only had a limited timeframe and the weather put off the idea of walking any of the areas we had in mind. Especially after the overnight heavy rain and wet trails waiting out there... and it was freezing at times so close to a warm car was great!

In the end a trail of caches out around the Gundaroo/Sutton area worked well. Still a bit wet under foot and some good mud and pot holed roads along the way but a good trail and a good choice for the day.

With the recent rain a few of the logs were really wet, signed them as best we could although generally most were dry and in good condition, coords were good and all found without issue.

The bakery at Sutton for a nice hot pie was yummy and warming, still very busy for the later time of the day and pleased to see they had eclairs left, caching fuel at its finest!

Thanks for your cache!

Aquilus1 & I originally planned a walk around Mt Ainslie to pick up a bunch of newer hides, but the weather wasn't the most pleasant, so we decided to do a little loop up to Gundaroo and back through Sutton collecting a power trail or two.

Most hides in decent condition, some mushy....replaced a missing container for the CO as well.

Was amazed at how busy the bakery at Sutton was!

After the busy (and wet) summer had finished, The Rats floated the idea of a trip to the area around Canberra and Yass with Steeba and myself. We compared diaries, and had a two day mid-week window where we could make things happen, in the week wedged between Easter and ANZAC Day.

The weather was on our side for the first time in I forget how long, and we were able to make the most of our time opportunity.

A lot of excellent caches were found, and some fantastic terrain caches too. A few power trails, some crafty hides, some hard hides, and even some climbs that I could not do... even with our ladder!

Thank you to all of the cache owners for placing their hides. This boiler plate log does not reflect the quality of the hides. Most importantly thanks as always to my two great caching mates for their company!

Cheers

The Rats, Hoojar and myself teamed up for an assault in and around the Yass area for a couple of days- a most enjoyable caching trip with my mates. Plenty of power trail type finds but a lot of great variety here and there, particularly around Yass itself. We started off on Wednesday night and finished up Friday afternoon. TFTC!

The Gong Gangsters (steeba, Hoojar and The Rats) took advantage of an extended Easter / Anzac break to head out for another caching juggernaut through the Southern Highlands and Yass regions. Blessed with beautiful weather we targeted a few powertrails and high D/T rated caches.

After 2 full days we'd collected a plethora of finds, made some new friends, laughed alot, pushed our bodies beyond the comfortable level and most of all - had a great time with mates. Thanks to all the CO's for your caches and those who tagged along.

Tftn

Making this found, as I have transferred ownership to ALL7.

Minnesota was transferred from InnocentApple to user ALL7

Sixth one today. We were here as well on AMTRAK. I think we set foot in St Paul at the railway station.

Quick afternoon caching ring with sjg66. TFTC.

Out with O319 attempting to get enough caches to better our best month

Accompanies ALL7, nice spot TFTC

Out on a day caching with Kittykatch Joolay and Barb2e.

Lots of traffic along the road.

TFTC

Out for the day with Joolay, Isopeda and Kittykatch and heading to Goulburn. Signed as Capital Crunchers. Tftc

Found on a drive out to Goulburn with the Capital Crunchers (Joolay, barb2e and Isopeda). It was great to be out exploring the area. Thanks for placing this cache InnocentApple

Weather was a bit unpredictable today but we decided to head out and pick up a few.
Lovely to be out with Capital Cachers again. Today it was myself, Isopeda, Kittykatch and barb2e.
Thanks For getting me out and about InnocentApple

Decided to finish up a little early at work today and go for a drive to collect these caches whilst the road is less busy.

Another quick easy find. On to the next one.

TFTC

I've been reluctant to do these as its a busy road and parking for these is a bit tricky and dangerous, but today the road was unusually quiet with few trucks, so I decided to give these a go. Managed to grab them all, so that was good.

Thanks,

Out and about with the family to Berrima and found these along the way. TFTC.

Found.

Cache 8148 on 17 Oct 2021.

It was such a lovely day that Bobl27 and I decided to go for a Sunday afternoon drive in the country now we are allowed over the border! So targeted some easy caches so Bobl27 could rest his back after moving some big arse rocks this morning! Unless otherwise indicated the cache was found easily and in accordance with any hints.

This cache: quick find!

Thanks InnocentApple for the cache and the fun!

This lock down we have been experiencing has been quite hard, Im sure its been same for every one.
Now that we have been given some freedom, we made plans for today to go out and geocache at Sutton area, we have been puzzling, doing jizsaws and ready for what was a very a wonderful day out, even thou it was a bit cold, a little rain, a bit of wind and sunshine as well.
It was successful day out.
Lots Tree climbs, lots of bending and stretches done today, feeling quite alive been out and about.
Thanks to all the CO for their hides, sorry for the generic logs.

Back in the area to pick up a few more of this series.
What better way to finish - very close to the best pie shop.

Cache in good condition, signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, InnocentApple, for us and others to find.

Her mom had warned her. She had been warned time and again, but she had refused to believe her. She had done everything right and she knew she would be rewarded for doing so with the promotion. So when the promotion was given to her main rival, it not only stung, it threw her belief system into disarray. It was her first big lesson in life, but not the last.
It went through such rapid contortions that the little bear was forced to change his hold on it so many times he became confused in the darkness, and could not, for the life of him, tell whether he held the sheep right side up, or upside down. But that point was decided for him a moment later by the animal itself, who, with a sudden twist, jabbed its horns so hard into his lowest ribs that he gave a grunt of anger and disgust.
I've rented a car in Las Vegas and have reserved a hotel in Twentynine Palms which is just north of Joshua Tree. We'll drive from Las Vegas through Mojave National Preserve and possibly do a short hike on our way down. Then spend all day on Monday at Joshua Tree. We can decide the next morning if we want to do more in Joshua Tree or Mojave before we head back.

So I found this cache today. I habe been holding off on doing some of this series as the parking is not the best at some of them. Found this cache as part of my daily finds as the series is close to home.

Found and signed dsd or Darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook thanks for the cache and the adventure.

Please enjoy the random photos for entrainment only that I have included with my log.

**This Cache**
We came across a string of USA city caches that we had not planned to pick up today, and had not completed on a previous trip. Our plans evolved as we were on a roll finding every cache quickly leaving time to spare to do more.

Quick and easy find at GZ. TFTC InnocentApple.

**Our Day**
With the previous day’s constant rain ️ and continued overnight falls our planned 30+km cycling trip down and around the Orroral Valley swamps had to be postponed.

So, where do you go on a beautiful sunny Winter’s ️ day when the ground is too saturated to hike and too muddy to cycle on dirt tracks?

At the 11th hour, our weekend plans were brought forward combining two adventures into one ️very, very long day driving around the north of the ACT. With Contesta and GeoPartner we headed out early seeing, in the gorgeous morning sunshine ️, Lake George that should be full soon if these rains continue. Many paddocks and fields are partly under water , livestock were standing water, and some backroads had in parts turned into streams.

It was cold and very windy in some areas so we spent much of the day running between GZ and back to the warm car for the best kind of exercise! Fortunately, all GZs were quite straightforward and none required extensive searching. Just lucky today!

Yep, the car is muddy but nothing soap and water can’t fix. Home in the dark tired and exhausted but happy for our productive day in great company. Now for bed - after a shower of course!

Today’s adventures with StarsAlign and geoPeter, out and about around Collector and surrounds on a gloriously sunny ️ winter’s day after all the rain of late.

All logs in good condition unless otherwise noted.

Thanks to COs for placing and maintaining these caches

This was a big day for me, with the targeted nine Traditionals to be found today I reach two targets. 10 Traditionals found on every day of 366 days per year and 20 total finds on every day as well. I was happy they all these caches today were straight forward finds, except one. I was also happy that the very heavy rain held off till about five minutes after I was finished out on Sutton Road.

Thanks for the cache InnocentApple

32722.11 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2012 Ninja Star A#231

**Albida**

I had us on the wrong side of the drain - sixpence6 honed in on this one TFTC

Don't go into the drain!

A drive by cache day heading north along Mulligans Flat Road, East Tallagandra Lane and Shingle Hill Road for 50 ish caches or so. Freezing cold day and the sun did not come out till 3 pm. TFTC.

Great caching this morning, following some adventure labs and picking up caches along the way.
TFTC Wilbert67

This afternoon fitzy_1965 and I took the long way home and picked up some caches to help fill in some of our self-imposed calendar challenges. I’d had a busy day at work so caching helped take things off my mind.

This cool series has certainly helped us with filling our requirements over the passed few weeks. I’ve only been to California but hope to get to the USA to visit Geocaching Head Quarters when world travel is acceptable again.

All the caches we attempted today were found quickly and easily. Thankfully, the road was fairly quiet today making them easy to access.

24,891. Found with minniek on our drive back home this afternoon.

After a day of domestics in Canberra today, we hit the road towards home taking a detour to grab some caches for our self-imposed challenges. This neat US State series sure has helped us out on a number of occasions in maintaining our run. Today was no exception, and a number more were collected. This was a nice quick find once at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one on the list.

Thanks InnocentApple !! I've never been to Minnesota but it's on the list ! One Day !

The weather had cleared up so we decided to head out for some fresh air and a drive to collect a few more of this series.
There were some tough pull offs on this leg of the run as this road is pretty busy. Luckily most caches were found pretty quickly.

Quick find here once again bad pull off area.

Thanks for the hide InnocentApple

#11434 - 10:53:00 AM; Wasn't long out of bed after a late night at work when I spotted a message from sol de lune about the possibility of a caching mission out to Gundaroo and back. Sent off a response in the affirmative and was soon headed on our way. Sdl grabbed a coule of caches I had logged on previous missions as we passed, then we started on the US state series as we headed east and then north. All caches were found pretty quickly, although the coords on one were a little out. Logs were signed LL & Sdl or vice versa as we complted the section along Mulligans Flat Road and then on towards Gundaroo. TFTC InnocentApple

Headed out with LuckyL10n for a few caches along here before work.

No problems with any of the finds and the caches were all found without issues.

Thanks for the series IA....

Continuation of this series. All 9 attempted today were found after searching hides of varying difficulty.
Parking a bit challenging on this sometimes busy road. TFTC InnocentApple.

TFTC with mrs_aeiou

TFTC Filling in a Saturday afternoon with mr-aeiou

#15092 @0747
An early morning drive to top up my find numbers for the day. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Chooo ooo [found] with dty73 on a nice sunny day. Very busy road - not nice for pulling over! Thanks InnocentApple!

Tankengine and I weren’t sure what to do today, so we thought of grabbing these while we can. As with all power trails around here, they are only caches good for the numbers really.

This series had a few technical issues - the D/Ts were obviously easier to just write as 2/2, but these do not reflect most of the hides. Some are harder, but most are easier. The final I think the D/T was swapped accidentally too. There are the occasional micro/small mix up and of course parking at some of the GZs seems to be difficult for the CO to work out the best spots.

Not all caches were bad, there were a couple with something good about them like the cows in the paddock at one and they were all found and in good condition mostly. And it was a lovely sunny day. Tftc InnocentApple!!!

I do like a nice cache series. Doing a bit of this one each week.
Parking was a bit scary. The road was busy and there was hardly anywhere to park around most of the caches. TFTC.

Found all the states on the part of the trail we tackled today. Some were more difficult to find than others but we managed to find and sign all the logs we wanted. The run might actually have been fun if it was possible to park safely near the hides. Very few placements had safe parking.

Began this series with goingplaces2, but just did a part of it today. Found each one, signed each log and replaced as found. TFTC.

Found this cache on a trip around our nations capital. Thank you. for hiding and maintaining this cache, *InnocentApple* .
Warmest Geocaching regards from *AppleCircus*


I went a searchin' a cache t'day,
I looked and looked for that cache t'day,

A mystery did I say,
A mystery I did not find t'day

I did not find it in the bush,
I did not find it in the tree,

By this time I was starting to ponder,
could it be over yonder?

So off I went trudging over there,
but I could not find it anywhere.

Day out in Canberra and Yass area. Quick find. Signed and replaced. Tftc

I soon signed the cache and was on my way, thanks.

Found -- 4:37 pm -- Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the hunt *InnocentApple*.

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

**The Cache**
Some of this series took a bit to find and others were spotted easily. With CIH we signed the log in either our names or our initials in some switcheroo form of LP, DJJ, ToC and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found. This cache wasn't on my list of caches to tackle when I printed out my list and popped up just as I was downloading the gpx for my gps, so while I had extra work to do finding caches, it hs given us some bonus finds.

**The Day**
OCW *Little Panther* and *DustyJapserJet* on a much welcome and overdue camping trip for a few days at one of our much liked locations in *Gundaroo,* and tackling a couple of power trails and caches in *Canberra*.

17 = 17 0 0 [8)] not attempted.

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>PLEASE
ZIP BAGS CLOSED so the log doesn't get WET
Please have consideration for cachers who come after you.
Time, effort and money have gone into this cache.

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Floating around on the hunt for **Minnesota**. Found while OCW *Throsbyonchurch* and *DustyJasperJet*. All signed, sealed and delivered and we evacuated the scene TFTC! **Innocent Apple,** Your efforts in placing and maintaining this cache are much appreciated.

InnocentApple asked me to assist him with placement of more caches.. TKs

Tftc. Driving home with Jaybeem, caching our way along the back roads. Log signed JBM/TLM

Tftc. Quick find on our way home. Good placement

*FTF*

Watched as the alerts came rolling in for this new series just outside of town. Didn't pay them too much notice, the afternoon far from being free. After dropping off the eldest at footy training saw they had all still yet to be found. With 90 minutes until pickup decided to have a shot at a few of them, as time would allow.

It was a mixed bunch of finds, some I found immediately, some after a few minutes. Any that I hadn't found after 5 minutes I moved on, there were plenty to find and I wouldn't be finding them all.

Eventually finished for the evening with a healthy number of FTFs, time to head back to collect the budding AFL star. Back home and with dinner finished and I noticed a good amount were surprisingly still to be found. Bedtime for the geokids came around and decided to head back out and grab what I could.

Continued on where I left off earlier, focusing only on the newly published caches. Most were again found without issue, a few took a little searching and a couple I did not find. In the end I managed a total of 30 FTFs, getting home just after midnight.

Apologies for the generic post. TNLNSL TFTC

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