MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Mount Cooke, Western Australia, Australia
By
team "unknown" (dave, shane & landee) on 27-Oct-02. Waypoint GCA316
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Logs
Only 15 finds in 6 years and the owner has moved so I will take my box back for use elsewhere, and get the coin moving.
Hi as the part owner of this cache I have moved to adelaide and can not do any maintainance on this cache could someone take a new container with them to repair cache
Cheers ....unknown....
Cheers ....unknown....
Easy find, would have been a good view if someone would just cut down all the trees. Nice area for a drive. The cache is sodden due to the lid being cracked. I removed mouldy treasures and the decaying placcy bag. Next to come should bring a box. The owner seems to have retired.
t4tc
tnln
t4tc
tnln
This was a snack! I got within 230m of the cache. Walked up the hill and found it - almost exactly one year since its last visit!
Grabbed the TB (but in my haste didnt jot down the number before moving it on).
As Silama says, the cache was wet and he did a tremendous job at restoring it. With the cracked lid its bound to happen again. The contents are already useless.
Given the lack of finds and the condition of the cache - this cache may have to be put to rest?
Anyway - if my log generates some interest - here is how I got there.
Albany Hwy, Randall Rd...travel about 15 kms and you pass under powerlines, a bit further on you cross a small bridge and a bit after this the needle points left. Turn at the obvious rd and its just up there a way.
Grabbed the TB (but in my haste didnt jot down the number before moving it on).
As Silama says, the cache was wet and he did a tremendous job at restoring it. With the cracked lid its bound to happen again. The contents are already useless.
Given the lack of finds and the condition of the cache - this cache may have to be put to rest?
Anyway - if my log generates some interest - here is how I got there.
Albany Hwy, Randall Rd...travel about 15 kms and you pass under powerlines, a bit further on you cross a small bridge and a bit after this the needle points left. Turn at the obvious rd and its just up there a way.
Spent close to 2 hours driving down the gravel roads in the area looking for a road that wasn't under Dieback control to get closer to the cache. Travelled most of Watershed road and couldn't find a way to get closer than about 7km's from the cache.
Water damage still a problem. Most items are pretty well ruined and the log is soaked to mulch. Left a new log in another zip-loc and tried to dry whatever I could but not enough time to do a proper job. A new container is what is needed.
L: Tim Burton (looking for caches with "mission" in name).
L: Tim Burton (looking for caches with "mission" in name).
This cache was been on my ‘To do†list since 2003! It was a good time now to do after researched the best to approach to this cache from the different tracks on either side of Brookton and Albany highways from the logged notes and the maps. Nice to see green leaves coming out and growing on the burnt trees in some areas as we travelled along the Jarrat Rd. Found the cache only 200m from the parked vehicle. Thanks for fun and a little exercise.
Took a while to find the 'right road' leading most of the way to the cache. Then it was about a 200 metre walk up the hill. Nice place out in the middle of nowhere. Thanks, TNLN
Found it at 2:50 PM and second cache for the day. Cache hunting interupted to place a cache in the locality. Actually put my bag down and GPS right next to the cache without seeing it! Only found it as I noticed the GPS reading 0.00 metres to cache! First I have ever seen that. Repackaged the cache in a ziplock to hopefully protect it better from the weather. Removed the old bags. Took insulation tape and left glow in the dark lizards. Thanks "unknown" (dave, shane & landee) for the cache.
BTW found using the 1:50 000 CALM topographical map, Jarrahdale was helpful in locating this cache.
BTW found using the 1:50 000 CALM topographical map, Jarrahdale was helpful in locating this cache.
Right in the middle of nowhere.Co-Ords spot on, and found without any probs. Left Frisbee took nothing. The container is in bad shape, as the lid is pretty busted up and posibly needs replacing.
Like others that came 'B4' us we had real 'trubble' finding a way into this one it really is mission impossible [^]
We tried every track and road from the brookton Hwy side and all were either gated off or warning signs about needing CALM permit to access the area. We had to back track about 20km's towards Armadale and followed the power line track back to GZ I couldn't find another way around the blockade and wasn't really sure if the powerline track was the way to go but we didn't see any signs that way in.
Didn't realise that no one had been here for a year. The bag containing the cache has deteriorated so I placed it in my cito bag with the cache, so could next visitor bring a bag to CITO it out for us.
Took - Lighter
Left - Pencil Sharpener
Thanx for the hunt Team "Unknown"
We tried every track and road from the brookton Hwy side and all were either gated off or warning signs about needing CALM permit to access the area. We had to back track about 20km's towards Armadale and followed the power line track back to GZ I couldn't find another way around the blockade and wasn't really sure if the powerline track was the way to go but we didn't see any signs that way in.
Didn't realise that no one had been here for a year. The bag containing the cache has deteriorated so I placed it in my cito bag with the cache, so could next visitor bring a bag to CITO it out for us.
Took - Lighter
Left - Pencil Sharpener
Thanx for the hunt Team "Unknown"
I'm still not sure if we came in the right way, but we still found it. A nice site, easily found once in the right area. We took the torch keyring and left the goecache cigarette lighter. Thanks to Dave, Shane and Landee
[last edit: 6/22/2003 4:03:55 AM PST]
[last edit: 6/22/2003 4:03:55 AM PST]
Found this one while out on a cache fest with Allan of Nissan, we picked the right road and drove right in not a problem.
A short walk up through the bush and a quick look around and there it was.We stped here for a nice cold drink and a bit to eat.
When I replaced the cache one of the rocks fell and broke the lid of the container, I had a plastic bag with me and placed it into it,
so could the next one out here please bring a new container thanks
Andrew
A short walk up through the bush and a quick look around and there it was.We stped here for a nice cold drink and a bit to eat.
When I replaced the cache one of the rocks fell and broke the lid of the container, I had a plastic bag with me and placed it into it,
so could the next one out here please bring a new container thanks
Andrew
Easy to find, Drove straight to it. Although a bit of a scratchy walk through the bush...
Nissan...
Allan
Nissan...
Allan
no need for a 4x4 to get to this cache. i drove most of the way on a main gravel road. you just have to take the right road and it is very easy to get there.
[last edit: 3/24/2003 4:12:33 AM PST]
[last edit: 3/24/2003 4:12:33 AM PST]
10:30am Wednesday...We entered from the Albany Highway side of the area, which meant we couldnt find a road that wasnt either catchment or Dieback controlled. finaly we used Wearnes Rd and followed this along to Metro and Randall. Where we ran into Dieback control again. We back tracked until we found Watershed road and followed other tracks until we managed to find the right road again. From there it was easy. There was a 200 meter walk from the car in thick bush so make sure you mark the location of your car in your GPS when you go hunting. We needed 4wd the way we came in but we drove out the easy way by heading towards Brookton Highway.
The cache is easy to find as someone marked the top with a cross of Branches. Coordinates seemed very good to us.
There is a lot of uncertainty as to the status of the areas we were driving in. So be careful that you dont go on the wrong (illegal) tracks. The safer way seems to be from Brookton Highway direction, but if we are wrong then just correct us.
We took the 16 amp Circuit breaker and added a Grover figurine and a roll (pack) of insulation tape from a previous cache. Lyn Pat and Nathhan
The cache is easy to find as someone marked the top with a cross of Branches. Coordinates seemed very good to us.
There is a lot of uncertainty as to the status of the areas we were driving in. So be careful that you dont go on the wrong (illegal) tracks. The safer way seems to be from Brookton Highway direction, but if we are wrong then just correct us.
We took the 16 amp Circuit breaker and added a Grover figurine and a roll (pack) of insulation tape from a previous cache. Lyn Pat and Nathhan
was the 1st to find this cache but only just. meet ghost who walks looking for the cache and only just managed to find it befor him. don't know why it is called mission impossible when it is a very easy cache to get too and find!!