Woodcutters Hill Glenpatrick, Victoria, Australia
By Mikita & Pyrenees Kid on 20-Jun-03. Waypoint GCG8WW

28 September 2024 9:33amThis was the biggest walk we had all day... and it was just 200m. We had two 4x4s to choose from. This day it was the Nissan's turn to play in the Pyrenees. Picking up another handfull of these ripper old caches for the day, we still left plenty up here for another adventure. We figured they had lasted up here in such good condition for so long, they should last long enough for Azrin80 to invite his Aunty catnap777 and I back for another tour of his back yard. TFTC&Series Pyrenees Kid & Mikita, and thanks for looking after them chooknchunk. [^]

28 September 2024 09:21Both dalerious and I haven't cached through here before so we were looking forward to visiting my nephew, who happened to be up at the bush block in Glenpatrick for the long weekend. We got to his place Friday arvo, and after unpacking the car and having a good chinwag, we decided that we would all hop in the Hilux and grab a few on the mountain before going back down and cook some steak on the barbie for tea. The next lot of caches were found on the Saturday morning after dragging ourselves out of a very comfortable bed for the night.This time we went in Azrin80's Nissan Patrol. He had a ball driving us around and once he found a cache or two we couldn't stop him!The bugger hopped out of the car and had the cache in hand before I could say "Go fetch Az".The place was relatively quiet for a long weekend, and the bush looked fresh and not too dry. Although, there was plenty of fuel on the ground, and it makes us wonder why they don't perform fuel reduction burns here, considering the severity of the fires in the region last year.Thank you chooknchunk for keeping this "old" series alive. All the cache containers and logs were in good condition. And thank you Azrin80 for a wonderful weekend.

Found with catnap and daleriuos

**31/10/2021, 11:20:00**
**Find #4748**
**Traditional Find #2966**

I headed out with Steve to Avoca to target some of Victoria's 500 oldest caches.
The weather was perfect all day but once in the bush, our progress was hindered and then stopped a number of times by branches and entire trees that had been downed by last week's storm.


**Thank-you to Mikita for placing this geocache**

*Found on the 31 Oct 2021 @ 11:21 am.*
*Cache find # 11894.*

Today I headed out West to Mt. Avoca to tackle the hills and target of the first 500 Victorian caches.
We did have a few obstacles along the way with a number of trees down from the high winds earlier in the week, there were also a couple of tracks later in the day that we decided not to tackle in the Subaru so we did miss a couple but we got most of our target caches.
It was certainly a great day to explore the area.

**Thanks to Mikita for placing this cache.**

Found it

Oh no

I found it then forgot to get it

When making some rough plans for our weeks stay in St Arnaud, Geoturtle had mentioned that she really wanted to spend a day exploring this area. She likes looking for the old caches and the chance to practice her 4x4 driving.
At a bit of a chat last night, others mentioned that they would like to also have a look around the area so we ended up with 6 Victorians, 2 Canadians and 3 Vehicles.
We left St Arnaud at about half eight and were on our way after fueling up.
Avoca was our first stop as the bakery there has some awesome combinations and our overseas visitors had never heard of, nor tasted a snot block.
With taste testing over, we were on our way.
We had a good day with great company. Many laughs were had, caches were found and some great views and driving fun was had.
As it was getting dark and we could see rain heading our way, we chose to leave the hills behind and come back another day to complete what we didn't get to this time.
Avoca was again a place for nourishment, both food and beverage. After everyone had had a good feed, we stopped in at the Chinese Gardens and the cemetery for that "just one more" cache.
Thank you to all the CO's that made this possible. We all thoroughly enjoyed our day and we will definitely be back to look around some more.

Before leaving Melbourne, we discussed the caches that we wanted to target with OHC and I mentioned that the ones in this area were definitely on my "to do list". Quite a few of them have CO's that we know, they are old caches and we have heard a lot about them.
We had today free so with a few more friends (and two more cars), we headed to Avoca to visit the bakery after re-fuelling in St Arnaud.
Once we had finished our snacks, and introduced our Canadian passengers to the delights of "snot blocks", we were on our way into the bush.
We had a great time exploring the tracks and locating caches. There was only one road that we chose to not attempt but there were more than enough other tracks to get us where we needed to be.
We saw some great views and explored a mine shaft or two. We eventually found our way to civilisation and found a few more caches.
We watched the sky darken quite quickly and it was decided that we would make our way back to Avoca for some dinner and come back another day.
I believe we all enjoyed our dinner and we made our way to the cache at the Chinese Garden and then onto the multi at the cemetery. By the time we got to the cemetery, it was dark and drizzling which definitely added to the atmosphere of caching in a cemetery at night.
From here, we re-inflated our tyres and made our way back to camp at St Arnaud.
Many thanks to all the CO's that placed, maintain and adopted these great caches. We are looking forward to coming back here and doing the caches that we didn't have time for today.
Again, to all the CO's and today's company, Thank You for a great day out.

Find number 7681 at 12:17:12 pm
Out on a geocaching trek with seven others in 3 vehicles to conquer a few geocaches in the Pyrenees State Forest. Chasing some old caches and also some different D/T combinations.
After fueling up we departing St Arnaud at 8:30 in the morning in convoy and headed direct to the pies shop in Avoca where Kangaroo Pies and Snot Blocks were on the agenda for our international guests. We reached our first cache at 10:45 for a quick find, the start of 24 in total for the day. There was some easy driving tracks, a few missed or incorrect turns, some fairly heavy 4x4 tracks and many interesting places were discovered.
By the time we arrived back in Avoca at 6:30 pm for a counter meal at the pub most were weary and needed a meal and beer.
Somewhat revived we headed to the Chinese Garden and the local Cemetery for a couple of quick caches on the way back to St Arnaud, arriving at 9:30 pm.
Thanks everyone for a fun day!
All caches were quick finds by one or another of the group.
**Thanks for placing this cache Mikita & Pyrenees Kid**

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nice hike with aussie friends to get this one tday..thks for the fun

12:17 pm #8316
Staying in St Arnaud for the week for the mega.
Today we set off for a 4WD day trip to explore this area. Missed the walking track but cross-country styled it.
Thanks for bringing us here by placing and maintaining this cache, Mikita & Pyrenees Kid

After a few scary moments a nice walk was just what I needed.
Thanks for the cache
Buttons.

D.B.U.

Spotted a walking track that seemed to be heading in the right direction so parked the vehicle and walked the 200 metres to the cache.
TFTC

The ants have moved it.
Out into the open.
Just so the bananas could find it easily.

You see, the most obvious place to hide this, a few centimeters away, had been taken by an ant nest.

So B1 asked the ants how they did it.

All together the shouted back in their little voices.

"Teamwork."

In the stillness of the day...
We just heard it.

6th cache for the Easter long weekend! 4WDriving in the pyranese and camping in the area, couldn't resist going on an adventure to find the nearby geocaches! Found with beaker, ferociousflea, poeleypoel and goitsy.
TFTC

Found with Ferociousflea and Astronaut99 on a 4WD weekend with the club. This was the 6th of 23 finds over the Easter break. Some involved some pretty hardcore driving, some were easy.
Beaut spot for a cache
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found with Beaker, Astronaut99, Goitsy and Poelypoel on an Easter camping trip with the 4wd club. Thanks

Found it

The Warrens found it with the Daleys!

Found it with the Warren's

We CAME. We CACHED. We SAW STUFF. Eight South Australian caching teams on the prowl in Lake Victoria. We were attacked by vampire mosquitoes. We were attacked by rogue magpies. We were attacked by brown snakes. We were attacked by running kangaroos. We were attacked by publicans and cooks. In the end we got the message and went home, but not before finding lots of hidden cachey things using billions of dollars of satellites and cheap hand-held devices.

A 4 day trip from Adelaide to Everton, Beechworth and surrounds.

8 of South Australia's finest caching teams came across the border Freddo, Team Astro, The White Dog Gang, Four Fun, Unicycle, Southern Cross Caching, Shonkloic, and Team Waldron hit the bike trails and country back roads.

It wasn't nice the the mozzies were sent to defend the ceches against us but we persisted.

On the way home we visited Bendigo, St Arnaud and many towns in between.

Many thanks to all the cache owners who put out caches for us to find.

A great time was had and we left enough to make another trip worthwhile.

Great cache found during the "SAW STUFF" road, bicycle & walking trip to central Victoria with Shonky, Astro, Waldron, Southern XC, Uni & Freddo
Easy find, cool spot, great cache
TFTC Mikita

One of many fun finds on along the way on the "SAW STUFF" road trip to central Victoria with Shonki, Astro, Waldron, Southern cross, Twdg, Uni & Freddo [^]
Cheers & TFTCMikita

Found on an awesome trip with the SAW STUFF boys (Shonky, Astro[me], Waldron, Southern Cross, Whitedog, Unicycle, Freddo & Four-Fun). The trip had it all including this awesome cache. There were pots and schooners (no pints) , mazzive mozzies the size of small elephants we hitched rides on , realistic lizards, real live [xx(] kangaroos that got too close and uphills. Then there were bikes and pumps. There was sweat and dust but no tears. My thanks to the group and the coordination that enabled an amazing fun filled few days that will go down in caching-lore. [^]

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

Found with sxc and uni on a boys roadtrip. Thanks Mikita & Pyrenees Kid

Found at 11:58. Awesome spot. The log book is a history of aussie caching
On a road trip with Shonky and SXC
Thanks Mikita & Pyrenees Kid

Found as part of the SAW STUFF secret men's business weekend. Southern Cross Caching, Astro ,Waldron, Shonky Logic, The White Dog Gang, Uni, Four Fun and Freddo.
We came, we cached, we cycled and we left. Thanks for your cache placement and my apologies for the generic logs in most situations as we found hundreds

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Out and about with Glanville Girls, Wozzle68 & ChooknChunk for a day of caching in the area.

Replaced the old cache container here and made our way to the next one

TFTC

A plan was hatch today to meet up with chooknchunk, ST37E and Wozzle68 to tackle some of the caches in and around the Avoca region. What a fantastic day we had! Chooknchunk noted on their last visit that the lid was cracked on this one so came armed this time with a replacement. Log book and contents transferred and replaced as food. All nice and dry here. Thanks for placing Mikita. Such a great series!

Having enjoyed this fantastic series of caches last year, we, along with Wozzle68 again, couldn't resist the opportunity to accompany our friends ST37E and Glanville Girls on another day out here in the Avoca Hills. It was a perfect autumn day and a great fun day was had by all. We also came prepared this time and were able to replace any broken containers and soggy logs as required. Thank you again Mikita and Pyrenees Kid for this legendary series. We are so lucky to have this on our doorstep.

Enjoying our day out here exploring the Avoca Ranges, and having a great time with Wozzle68.

Having studied the maps the night before, we easily located the track that would bring us closer to the cache. We then navigated the small walk from that track down to the cache. We reached what was the clearing, but the trees have grown taller over the last decade and now partially obscure the view. You can still see the view however, and it is definitely spectacular.

The cache was found in good condition with contents safe and dry. The lid is cracked, but if placed carefully in its hidey hole, it is protected from the elements.

Thank you Pyrenees Kid and Mikita, for bringing us to this beautiful place.

Found in the company of the effervescent duo that is chooknchunk. Earlier in the week
we made plans to hit this beautiful area to pick up some older caches. We had a great time here today, luckily it was cooler and much less windy than yesterday. The cache is nice and dry and in good order.

Found it on a family adventure

Caching today in the Pyrenees Ranges with becca85. It was a bit like girls gone wild but not the first sort that you might imagine! We were in the bush for the day in hubby's 4WD and I only had a quick rundown last night on what to do! Lol. We had a super day getting about 10 caches. We saw lots of kangaroos and wallabies, plenty of cockatoos, amazing views, some DEPI blokes, a few cows on the road and plenty of laughs. What a beautiful spot so very close to home. Many thanks for the cache

A very fun day had today, knocking off many of the caches in the Pyrenees Ranges with GemmaSistema and her trusty 4WD. Plenty of wonderful views, wildlife and great company.
Great to get some old cache finds, many of the containers have served their time and need replacing though. TFTC

We suspect there was access to the nearby track when this cache was laid , but it appears to have been closed for quite some years now .
Parked in a bit of a dodgy location and scampered up and over the hill to find the cache.
TNLNSL. Yep, more great views from here too .
Thanks for another one Mikita & Pyrenees kid.

PS. These buckets need replacing quite urgently - they've done their duty well since 2003, but it's really time for an update now [xx(].
Maybe someone needs to adopt these, since the CO hasn't been active since 2005 [|)] (last logged in 2009) [?].

Up in Avoca specifically to clean the caches up in the area. Had a thoroughly fun day 4x4 driving through the Pyrenees Ranges enjoying the great vistas and collecting caches, even some unloved ones.
TFTC

The hardest thing was finding a safe place where I could get off the road while I walked the 200-odd metres to the cache. GPS led me straight to it and it was found easily. No swaps. Cheers.

Bit of a hike to find it.

Took game and placed a storm trooper

found it.
small but easy bush walk to find this one.

Great find of the beaten track.

Went to a couple of wineries this morning then decided to go up the hill to find a few caches. Nice little walk to the cache, certainly only a 11/2 star terrian but the drive in is much more.
Thanks to Mikita for this cache

Beautiful weather, 4WD packed, geodog for company on this caching trip. A nice short walk in the wind to wear off the biscuits I've been eating in the ute. Thanks

A nice easy find tftc

quick easy find on a 4wd cache trip tftc

quick easy find TFTC

4/11/12 12:18 #162
Lovely walk.
Took Geocoin

All I can say is wow. Had an awesome amount of fun on this cache. What a track to try and get up, in our poor 2 wheel drive territory. We made it and the views were worth it. Had some family along for the ride to show them what it's about.

Kids got it

Found it after a nice walk thanks!

Found on a geocaching trip with The Quiet Plodder, Morphoist and Little Gnome. TFTC

Found together with Dylan 7a, Little Gnome and Morphoist. Just the ticket to walk off some of the calories after a Pub Meal at nearby Avoca and gave Dylan's 4 WD a good 'workout' getting to near the cache up from the racecourse and along a rideg line. It is a lovely, lush forest, full of eucalypt smells, Cicada sounds and we were treated to a fiery sunset that illuminated the roll of the landscape. Cache is in good condition. Thanks to 'Mikita' for the cache and location.

Found this one while doing a 23km hike around glenpatrick with Bmak. Was a really good walk and it was nice to do some caches on the way. TFTC.

Nice easy find. Nice bit of bush bashing for the last bit after a walk along an unmarked walking track.Last find for me today but still alot of walking to do from here.

This entry was edited by Bmak on Thursday, 06 January 2011 at 01:41:24.

great find whilst enjoying this beautiful area. thanks Timbo for the 4wd tour.

This entry was edited by Almacs on Saturday, 30 October 2010 at 20:26:55.

There was 11 of us on this hunt and it was the first find for Summer. Great spot.

This entry was edited by JellyNelle on Sunday, 07 November 2010 at 14:44:35.

After being scared by some Kangaroos, we soon had it in hand. TFTC

Nearly stumbled upon some rather large kangeroos well they sounded big

13:20
In contrast to the last group to visit this site -The Pyrenees are currently looking green and refreshed! It was a pleasant walk in dappled sunlight to GZ.

TN Left wristband TFTC Mikita & Pyrenees Kid

Found by F & local family, took a direct route via the "bumpy" 4WD track then walked through the forest only to find it was almost a drive-by .Kids loved the adventure though! Sad to see the Pyrenees so dry and brown TNLN TFTC Mikita & Pyrenees Kid . Cheers 'scargoes

Great find with the kiids.

Cheers Mikita and Pyrenees Kid for the find, No.6 for the day 4x4ing with sandar10 Oenze and Flyjabiru.
TNLN

Found with FJ1 + family, Oenze and Highrod on a 4x4 day out at 12:10. Thanks for the cache.

Find # 2263 and 6th of the day at 12:11pm. on our "Try out the new (very used) 4 wheeldrive" expedition around Avoca. Accompanied by Flyjabiru1, Highrod and Sandar10, we drove as close as we could to this one, then the race was on to find it first but Highrod was the victor. TNLN, Signed log, Thanx Mikita & Pyrenees Kid....

Found at 12:15PM with MrsFj1, geoDy, highrod, Sandar10 & oenze.
TNLN SL
Thanks The Pyrenees kid & Mikita for the cache

0417 re-logging due to name change

Found on a VERY hot summers day whilst 4WDing and camping in the area. It was a clear day but Avoca was hidden by the foliage that has obviously grown since your listing. TFTC

Mr.Coffee, Mini Cacher 1 and Mystery Inc777 took the walk to this but it was almost dark so they missed the view.
Took South Park figure Left Lanyard and Sticker.
Thanks Mikita and Pyrenees Kid,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "I'm a lumber jack and I'm OK" Clan

Found it OK

I had a long walk to find this next cache,
But find it I did !
And in the right place

But why the long walk? I hear you enquire,
The road had been closed,
By Avoca shire [:o]

Enough of the bad rhymes,
I can find no more caches,
In this terrific series of of mountainous places

Thanks for the tour of some of the Pyrenees [^]

The drive to the cache was real exiteing. Had some of the passengers holding on for dear life ( Bunyip's & Bilbies).
After a short hike we came across the cache.
Thanks for the for a great time & Realy giving Myself & My 4WD a good work out.

All the best from the " Grumble bum's"

Thanks to the driver of "Grumblebums" for taking us to this cache, as our Magna sure would not have made this treck.

We were only 35 minutes later than 2Dudez in finding this cache. Nearly got to meet other geocachers!!
Took: whistle
Left: Rainbow shoe laces
Found in the company of "Grumblebums".

Last of 15 finds for the day.
Part of the 2Dudez Avoca/Ampitheatre Easter Assault 2007
Was minus the other Dudez, but Deano had Muggle Dad as Driver, (might make a cacher out of him yet )
Found at 15:35
The day was starting to cool off and a comfortable walk down the hill to GZ.
Cache spotted after a brief search.
We really have enjoyed these caches and highly recommend anyone with a 4WD who hasn't done them to do so.

Took Glow Ring
Left Water Pistol
Thanks to Pyrenees Kid for a fantastic and challenging day of caching.
Also a special thanks to Dad for being Chauffeur for the day in the Land Cruiser.

Seems like I'm on the trail of Ian and Penny, in most of the caches I have found around the pyrenees these last few days theirs is the last entry in the log

Found @ 16:00

Twelfth of our Pyranees 4WD Cache Raid. Considering that this cache hasn't been disturbed for 12 months, it's in great condition - nice and dry..

T: N
L: Screwdriver and a kids handkerchief.

Our second cache during our assault in the Pyrenees Hills with pprass, fullonphil & Vombatus on a lovely mild afternoon with spectacular views of the local scenery. The search was on and pprass came up with the goods at 13.25
TNLNSL
Thanks again Mikita and The Pyrenees Kid

Found at 1.25pm GAFF1. In the company of Team Crackers, Vombatus & fullonphil. Took: Mondo doll, Left: Whistle. Thanks M & PK.

Found in the company of Team Crackers, Fullonphil and pprass.

TNLN

8.15am
Found by Roma and Max.
We are still upsetting the cockatoos. They must be related to the mob over on Mt Black that were so rowdy yesterday.
We took a small Trinket Box and left a Mondo Figurine.
Thanks Mikita & Pyrenees Kid.
Romax.

Great day in the outdoors. found after a very short search, and run from snake. took padlocks and left four legged tweety bird thingy (may make a good hitchhiker) thanks from doc and the team.

Beautiful now with the day quite sunny. Found after a short search. Took car and left padlocks. Thanks Mikita and Pyrenees Kid.

Found our 2nd of the day at around 1435. Marvellous views on a great day - we thought it might be a little cloudy based on the Melbourne weather we drove out of today but thankfully not!!!

Took NT teatowel. Left Harry Potter pencil, CUB tour pen & horse figurine.

Thanks to PK & Mikita

A bit of a search was needed for this one, the GPS was bouncing around a bit. Swapped a melon baller for a compass.
No.2 thought she got bitten on the bum but it turned out to be a prickle from the previous cache site. Then on the way back to the 4wd fell flat on her face, not a good spot for her.
Thanks M & PK

Stumbled down the hill, found cache, admired the view, made swaps comic book for MR2 squishy red car. Climbed up the hill. PB still complaining about giant ant attack about 6 caches ago. Thanks PK & M.

Found at 1:15pm. On a mild day like today it's great to just sit back in this place and admire the forest and paddocks below.
Swapped magnetic memo holders for a compass.

The day was not clear and we could see at best about 40 metres. We still liked our fifth cache though. No exchange made. Thanks Mikita & Pyrenees Kid.

Great area.

found by stumpyspud & Lisa and Jez, our legs were starting to get a bit sore by now

Found by Ray and Greg (The Nomads and Gahpee) at 3:10PM on the 19th of July. We were fortunate to have a fine day with clear skys to enable us to enjoy the panorama to the East. The Nomads took an organiser and left a glow stick. Our thanks for placing the cache.

Another one found with the nomads. Nothing exchanged. Greg and Bev

(aka lisa and jeremy) we found this one with stumpyspud

Found in the company of Boodi (solo), Kiwideb and Biggles Bear. (Mr. Blobby may have also been there for this one). Took a rubber ball and left the leatherman multitool which was immediately taken by another.

Thanks to Mikita and Pyrenees Kid for the cache and the whole day.

Had to walk down a slight hill it was a bit slippery. Lovely area.
We(biggles bear, team boodi and muzza) seemed to
have picked up a stragler cacher blobby.

Swapped a memo holder for a leatherman tool.

Another good one for the day, no exchange thanks P K and mikita

Found 14:00, Took Lady Bird shaped tea light and left Fozy Bear. Thanks Mikita & Pyrenees Kid.