AMP004 - Mount Hotham Murray Bridge East, South Australia, Australia
By OZGrumpy on 04-Jul-21. Waypoint GC9DHJH

TFTC

Love this trail

Thank you for the cache! Found with Chloe! Found 50 caches around Murray Bridge!

Found by The Empire + HEach time we found one, I quickly stamped the logbook wherever it happened to open, not bothering with finding the perfect spot. It was all about efficiencysign, seal, and back into the car. Once the log was stamped and the cache replaced, we were off to the next location, keeping a steady pace as we worked our way through the series. Most of the caches were quick and easy finds, though a few took a bit longer than expected. Thanks for the cache, and the trail OZGrumpy.-M

Nice quick easy find

Out around Murray Bridge this morning for a few caches. TFTC

Nice pull off, cache found, no rabbits. TFTC

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Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. Spending a few days in Murray Bridge to cache the surrounds. Loving the scenery that we pass as we move through the caches. Thanks OZGrumpy

Another cool spot tftc

We enjoyed a few days away from home, enjoying the scenery, the people we met and, of course, finding cachesThanks to all who made this an enjoyable week.

Find # 13986I'm in the Adelaide area for the Great Leap Forward event. Not just for the days event, but making it a week long trip of caching n catching up with mates.Flying solo......Day 8. Homeward-bound.Day started off with a tree climb and a big stretch off the ground. Then a bit of a look around Mt Barker. Then it was the trails. It's been a while since I've hit a long trail and being alone it was just me and the caches to fill the rest of the day in. Some power trails are tougher than others, ie parking locations and barriers can be annoying and chew up time. But happily I managed all hurdles. Even the odd orb spider that made some tracks mazes. Happily that what I'd pland out fell into place with only a couple of DNFs.End of day was a surprise with my biggest solo grab of over 300 in a day. But I have plenty more trails in SA to utilise if I want to better that score TFTC OZGrumpy

Love this Mountain too. Hiked up here a few times.So different in the snow too. TFTC Easy find

Geoturtle37 and I are making our way towards The Great Leap Forward. A mega being held just out of Adelaide on February 29th 2024. She is very keen to get a mega on a leap day. There seems to be a lot of Victorians heading across to attend. This series was very interesting with the details provided being a great source of information. Not sure that we read all of them but we certainly read most.Thank you for all the work that has gone into setting up the cache pages, putting out this series and now maintaining them for all to enjoy.Please accept our apologies for the generic logs but we have sooooo many to catch up on. Thank you!

Please turn to get quite toasty out here. Thanks for the fun!

Heading west this time I found these caches while heading hime. Thanks for placing them.

found it quick, TFTC

We headed back out of town today to try to wipe out a few more of the many in the area. All the caches in this series were fairly quick find with the aid of accurate coordinates, good hints and consistent hides. We found all of them this time. TFTC

Nice o nice

Quick find today while introducing LittleLeah79 to power trails.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

TFTC, great spot. TN, LN, found with Beaker.

Thank you OZGrumpy for this marvellous series of caches. I have been on top of many of these mountains and would have like to have been on top of many more. It will take me some time to peruse all of your research. I visited the caches by bike deciding that 22 would do me today. All were in place, some of the square containers had water in them but there were no wet logs. Thanks again.

Thanks OZGrumpy for the AMP series, found while staying at the Showgrounds tftc

What a fabulous series of caches up in the mountains!! The detailed cache notes make you feel as if you are really there.
We thoroughly enjoyed the excursion along with our caching buddies and fellow Victorians Suscoe.

Thanks to OZGrumpy for adding this amazing series of caches to the gameboard.
35208

Suscoe was out and about enjoying a day of caching with our very good friends Phetlern.
It was a delightful day, blue skies and sunshine. Hard to imagine it is still Winter.
We found lots of caches today, The AMP Series, The SAR Series, The “Straya” Challenge caches and a few other nearby traditional and multis as we wandered to the North East of Murray Bridge. We had fun using a range of TOTT at a few caches as well.
Thanks to OZGrumpy for this hide.

Visited today for maintenance. This one is in good condition.

Found it

Smell

Buzzz go the bees

Whoop whoop

Ffhxbdj

Found another

Found whilst out for a day caching with friends. TFTC

Out for a caching day. TFTC

Making my way back to Adelaide. Got a target on some caches but not as many as other days. Perfect day today

Quick find. TFTC TNLNSL

Quick find with CherryRose on this enjoyable trail. TFTC OzGrumpy. TNLNSL

31,169. Found with minniek and albida33 (signing either as FAM or MAF to save room and just for fun) during another great day of caching in South Australia).

Rutherglen Mega and South Australia Trip Day 14. Today we headed out to drive the Straya series of Challenges plus we also managed to complete the Australian Mountain Peaks (AMP) and South Australian Rivers (SAR) series with a few bonus caches thrown in. A great days caching with no Did Not Finds which was also a bonus. This was the next find of the day, and a quick find once at GZ. Signed, replaced, and then we headed off to the next one on the list.

Thanks OZGrumpy !!

Southern Autumn adventure Day 15. Post Mega South East SA trip Day 9. Our second day spent in Tailem bend was to target the Straya Challenge series. This did not take all day so we were able to get to the Australian Peaks series and the South Australian Rivers series. It was interesting to see some of the 2014 Mega sites re-used. With the end of the day closing in we targeted a bit of the newer section of Wandering heroes, as usual a wide variety of caches in this series. Today is was Fitzy_195, MinnieK and Albida33 and we signed as F.A.M. or similar.

Thanks for the cache OZGrumpy

41539.36 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 18000 Finds A#295

**Albida**

Day 14 of our loop through Vic and SA then home.

Today fitzy_1965, albida33 & I headed out early to get the caches in the area. We signed as MAF or FAM to save room.

Our aim was to collect the nearby Challenges, then the River & Peaks series and anything in between. Once we understood the hints on the River series, it made the finds so much easier….a clever idea. A great day with no DNF’s.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

Out on a nice day getting some numbers up and getting out and about with sesall tftc

Out for the day with marajade01 to knock off a few local caches all looks good here good coordinates made for a fast find tftc

Stamped as JAMS (JJ52. Allister W, mogni, sir_spectre). Found with some or all of the JAMS crew.
Thanks

Out with sir_spectre and AllisterW making a small dent in the huge number of caches around Murray Bridge. I am trying to hit a major milestone in April and today was ay target chance to get closer to my goal.
Thanks to OZGrumpy from mogni

Out with Mogni and Allister w for the day. All logs stamped as JAMS. Today's target was to get Mogni closer to 20,000 finds with the aim to get her to 20,000 by the Rutherglen Mega in Victoria. We got 131 finds and 1 DNF for the day. We did the AMP ( Australia Mountain Peaks ) and SAR ( south Australian Rivers ) plus some of the Bindi's GeoMobiles series.

Found by Mary and David at 12:20. Cached around Murray Bridge today, finishing the AMP series and others close by. Tumbling tumbleweeds! Our thanks to OZGrumpy.

Day 2 of my three day weekend camping and geocaching around Murray Bridge.

Today I concentrated on the area between Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend.

I started this trail back in April this year and I returned today to chip away a bit more on this trail.
All caches found were in good condition.

An enjoyable day with lots of great caches.

Thanks for the cache OZGrumpy.
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A weekend away in Murray Bridge for some R & R and of course caching! Out today to tackle a couple of trails and a few new ones that have popped up since we were here last. This was a nice tidy PT. Thanks to the CO for their efforts in placing and maintaining. TFTC

Water fun is amazing

Swan Reach to Murray Bridge staying in the showground.
Weather quite overcast but we headed out to do the mountain series & a few others along the way.
Road works along the way so we missed a couple.
Thanks for placing this cache.

Another geocaching trip to Australia with tmann421.
This time to SA and surrounding areas.
Enjoyed the caches and the sites
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
Thanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing the hides.

*Another geocaching adventure with woolwood9.*
*We visited many good caches and trails on our trip and had a lot of fun!*

**Really appreciate the cache owners effort putting this container out.**
We soon located this hide.
All logs stamped: **tm/ww NZ**

Very enjoyable trail of good caches, thanks OZGrumpy

Bonus finds for me while gets to her 500 points for the next souveneir. Tftc

Caching with Gral4 today to finish the Signal Labyrinth.

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Another cache hunt on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

We are off to finish the AMP Series today and pick up others along our route. A nice clean cache here, thank you OzGrumpy.

We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches and cliffs & wine. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Getting some exercise
TFTC

Lovely sunny day....... not.......it's raining but it's the weekend having fun with geodog voodoo and Yatesy222 tftc

Went out for the day with M-dolphin and her dog and thought we would go for an Adventure today tftc

It’s raining cats & dogs in Adelaide, so rather than spending the day indoors at home, I’ve headed to Murray Bridge where it’s dry and sunny for a day of caching
TFTC

Cache #11808
Was being taxi driver for DPA down to The Bend for the Supercars again today. Between drop off and pick up it was time for some caching. Main aim was the Australian Mountain Peaks series, on the way there found 10 new Wandering Heroes and the Happy Armpit Series. After those, with just enough time left, headed east for a couple of Used 2Bs and a Game Set and Match, and of course anything else that needed finding without going too far off the planned route.
Thanks to OZGrumpy for putting out this cache for us to find.

*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

Found your cache OZGrumpy. This trail road is a tad busy during the week but needed a cache. .

A nice row of caches along here. Every time another one was found feathertop knew it’s whereabouts, it’s amazing how many of them she has actually climbed.
Thanks for placing and maintaining them, it is giving her lots of happy memories.

This was Day 7 of our trip to SA. I was in the splendid company of Cybergran who assumed chief navigator role again today.
Starting at Mount Kosciuszko we completed the remaining 31 in this series.
The Mannum road was quite busy but good areas mostly to pull off.
Much quiter when we turned off at Mount Woodroffe
I like this series a lot as these mountains bring back so many happy memories to me amongst their summits.
Nice easy to find containers too

Logged as Ftop and Cgran.
Thanks OZGrumpy

A quick find while staying at the showground in Murray Bridge.Thanks OZGrumpy for this trail.

TFTC

First off, we apologise for the generic log and this in no way reflects on this series as we thoroughly enjoyed it.
Some of the mountains we were quite familiar with, some we have even visited whilst geocaching b but quite a lot we hadn't heard of which made the information on the cache pages very interesting and informative.
All the hides were found quite quickly, the only problem being no 23 which had a bit of water in it and we dried it out as best we could and the log book is still suable. We're not sure how it got wet with the extra protection which we think is a great idea.
A couple of them the ants had taken it upon themselves to be guardians and didn't like the idea of us signing the log.

Many thanks OZGrumpy for all the effort gone into the placements and the cache pages, we are looking forward to doing the rivers series but unfortunately we ran out of time today as we had an appointment to keep.

Today we are starting a new journey with Brisal5, our aim is to have a fun day and make loads of memories. Laughing was a main priority and there was plenty of this. We did the Happy Arm Pit series, some more Wandering heroes, SAR, ice-cream and AMP. All caches that needed any repairs were fixed. The short story is that we had a great day. SL TFTC

Muff1 had snuck across the border to hit some power trails and were staying in Tailem Bend at present. Hey, I have a few down there I would like to get - so it was off to meet them for a long day caching. [^] We did some newish ones along Wandering heroes and that led us into the Happy Armpit Series. Early visit to the Tailem Bend Bakery for an early lunch and then it was off for Ice-Cream for dessert followed by South Australian Rivers and Australian Mountain Peaks series. Skipped stopping for any tea and continued unstill after dark by torchlight to finally completes the series.

SAR AND AMP SERIES:
Karoonda Road caches completed we just had this little section to the turn off to complete as the sun started to set. [^] Glad we didn't do this first as this was indeed the hardest section to get access to the caches. But we found them all...eventually finishing by torchlight.

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again I will trying to get the other two this year. [^] Should be easy as I only have to get two multi caches in July from the lockdown and couldn't get out. [:o)] The other was DNF's that came down from over 50 to the low teens before blowing out again but I really want to see only single a single digit this year.

***Thanks OZGrumpy for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Today I headed to Naracoorte for a friends 50th celebrations at Farmers Leap. I was supposed to be leaving home at 9am which became 11am, I blame a very busy week at work.
So ended up with just enough time to find 40 caches. It was a super day for caching and didn’t see any snakes although I am sure they saw me.
Then on to Naracoorte and copious amounts of Destiny.
Thanks to OzGrumpy and Ghosty7 for the great hides.

Tyftc

An interesting little series (for the descriptions ) with the containers and hiding spots all well laid out (a great effort in itself) [^]. Accurate coordinates made for a quick find [8].
TNLNSL.
Thanks for one more OZGrumpy.

Quick find but weather getting colder. Mid November should be warmer. Tftc

TFTC. Getting to know my mountains. Left baby

Hmmm what to do while hubby is in a conference in Murray Bridge?? Cache of course and boy did I cache!! Decided to start OZGrumpy's Australian Mountain Peaks series, and managed to finish it an also get 2/3 of their South Australian River series completed too!! A great day caching in some wet weather. 100 cache finds for me today.

I noticed a new addition to a trail out this way so thought I would go have a look as had some time. Cache and contents are all good. TFTC

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Honeysucker, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC OZGrumpy
Find #3308 at 09:20.

as we have a look around the area after attending the Mega at millicent this was one of the caches we found with good friends

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks OZGrumpy for placing them

Caching the trail with Wollaston, Liz&Bruce and HoneySucker.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out hides and showing us your part of the world

TFTC OZGrumpy

Find # 956

Thanks for arranging this hide. Travelling with Wollaston, Honeysucker and Seasoned Bird. Pleasure to do such a well maintained cache series.

Erine14 and I made the most of a shared day off while the weather was nice! It had been a while since we had done a trail, and this one was excellent. Coords spot on, all caches found in good condition. We did the first 30 of the series, and will be back for the rest! 47 finds total for the day. We did it by car and were happy to see that the roadside was nice and wide to park safely. Thanks for the series!

A pleasant day spent caching around the MB area. We targeted this series and a few odd ones to begin with before heading back into MB for late lunch and a handful more. A great series, we will be back another day to complete is and the river series TFTC

Originally I was going to find some caches in Murray Bridge, but as it happens, The Show is on. So I move to Plan B, which is to make a start on this series. It’s my preference to do a trail like this on foot rather than stop/starting in a car, and this series is suitably spaced for that. Great work, thanks OZGrumpy.

All my (very limited) skiing experience is overseas, so haven’t been here. It’s on the list.

Doing a numbers run in the Murray Bridge area. TFTC

Full time nomads since 2014. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.

Back in SA for harvest work. Spending a few days in Murray Bridge today we headed out to start climbing some mountains. Good quality hides and excellent coords made todays hunting a pleasure.

TFTC OZGrumpy

Found with hevwalker on our day of caching....we met up with froghoppin and Mattycat around noon to discover new cache trails and search high and low for smiley faces. Great stories shared and made today as we cached the trails in the area. TFTC OZGrumpy.

I ventured to Murray Bridge with scramping for a weekend of caching & to attend CP's event tomorrow...
Around mid morning we were joined by froghoppin and Mattycat for a fantastic day in perfect weather...there was a lot of catching up to do in among the finds...

scramping & I did the first 16 before the boys arrived then did some individual caches while they caught up and met at AMP017 for the rest of the day...

TFTC OZGrumpy

Arrived with Mattycat for a days caching adventure catching up with Scramping and Hevwalker to tackle a few series down this way as we were behind the eightball we began with the first sixteen before meeting up, being quite warm and prewarned of snake sightings already we were searching with eyes peeled but no live wriggly sticks were seen today caches were all in great shape
TFTC OZGrumpy

A great day to find a cache (every day is a nice day for that!)
An even better day to team up with froghoppin, then Hevwalker and Scramping, for a few more caches.
Quite a few it turned out. This was one of them!

It's a shame I haven't been to this one... maybe one winter post covid!

Grateful thanks to OZGrumpy for hiding this cache on our SA geo map game board



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Please do stay safe when caching.
Lookout for mud, snakes, surprise cliffs, wild goats, wombats, bulldust, and lightning,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins... but especially lookout for bugs. [xx(]

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We really appreciate all those placing quality caches out and about especially away from the city crowds,
it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

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Thank you OZGrumpy for placing this nice quick trail. It was a lovely sunny morning for caching after so much cold weather.

FeatherWaite and I arrived early and decided to hit this series. Excellent coords meant most were quick finds. The odd one made us look - but all were where they were meant to be. We didn't use oxygen for these mountain peaks, just diesel and air for our laughs. Caches were signed as F.A.

Thanks to OZGrumpy and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Found during a caching tour of the Murraylands with TeamAstro to complete the Australian Mountain Peaks and South Australian Rivers series, and any other caches along the route. Thanks for the cache OZGrumpy!

Found during an outing with cows with guns.

In the Murray Bridge area to have a crack at some of the multitude of cache that are popping up everywhere and yours is one of them.
Thanks for the cache!

Quick park and grab in a quest for numbers on a stunning late winter's day! TFTC

Apologies for the generic log

On a fine Saturday I set out with Southern Cross Caching an Uni and Medusa for a day around Murray Bridge. There were a couple of new series published recently and it seemed like a good place for a day out.

We started at the Lonely Lookout Cache, and I think this is the third cache I've found in this location over the years. Then went on to Slow Mail, and a few others around Eastern Murray Bridge.

After an average coffee at OTR we started the Australian Mountain Peak series, with a short side hussle for some bush fishing and then to Sunnyside. Its been years since I found the other cache at Sunnyside, and glad to see its still there. As a kid we used to live nearby and my parents would go skiing and fishing here with friends. I also spent a lot of time hanging around footy ovals on Saturday afternoons while my dad umpired the local games.

Following on from the Mountain Peaks we ventured on to the SAR series. I was thinking South Australian Railways, but it turned out to be rivers. I am surprised that dry South Australia has so many rivers!.

Turning back towards Murray Bridge we caught up on some of the more recent Wandering Heroes, I have met and know a lot of the heroes, but some are still just names and I hope to meet you in future.

Then on to the Hairy Armpit Series, but I misread that and it seems its Happy Armpit Series. The former is funnier

Getting late in the afternoon we still had an hour or so of daylight, so started on the Oz Mega Signal series. This was interesting because I remember riding my bicycle along this stretch of road in the 1970's as a 9 year old participating in a cub camp. We had to ride from Murray Bridge to a farmhouse near where we spent the night in a shed in the farm that fronts number #66, then rode to Jervois Oval the following day. All roads being gravel and having skinny tyres it was a long and grueling ride for a 9 year old. And the night was freezing.

All caches were found except for one DNF, and on the last three caches the rainstorm had finally hit and we were drenched, and it was completely dark. Finding a cache by torch in the bush in the dark in a wind and rain storm, well it stopped being fun and we decided to leave the final cache for another day. Over 200 caches found and this helps with a challenge cache that I've found but not logged in Victoria.

Thanks OZGrumpy for placing and maintaining the cache

Found at 9:26 on what started out as a perfect caching day with Shonkylogic and Southern Cross Caching. Perfect right up to the last three or so, where it was getting dark, cold, windy and rainy. In the end, that defeated us, even though there was just one cache left in the plan.

We had lunch somehwere along the Karoonda Highway at a picnic table, sandwiches supplied by Southern Cross Caching, chilli sauce supplied by Shonkylogic. The mozzies were a bit troublesome, but nothing compared to SXC's encounter with a snake.

It was so good to get out on one of these runs. There were plenty of old caches which have been on the must-do list for years, but also some newies.

Thanks for the hides

Apologies for the generic log [|)]

This one was found on a big day out with shonkylogic and Unicycle. Our plan was to knock of the AMP mountain series along with the South Australian Rivers series, then head for the old 2014 Signal series. We almost achieved our goal of all three (after a few additions to the plan) which included a bush fishing expedition, a submarine hunt, quite a few wandering hero’s (including one up a tree) and several other caches here and there along the route but not far out of the way. We also found two down on the river bank at Sunnyside, which was one of several highlights for the day. We started around seven AM and finished after dark in pouring rain and a howling wind which put an end to our day as it was no longer fun, falling short of finishing the signal series but not before reaching a milestone of over 200 finds for each of us for the day. We only had one DNF for the day which was a great find to DNF ratio.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Out caching around Murry Bridge, Karoonda, Tailem Bend with Team Waldron today
Great series, excellent containers, good coords
Had fun & enjoyed some sunshine
TFTC OZGrumpy

A day out with TheWhiteDogGang..

We had a day to clear a couple of new series around Murray Bridge.

All caches that we found were in good condition.



TFTC

Lovely start to a long series of Hurtles. Great day out x