Coping Well Rundells, Victoria, Australia
By telefreaks on 07-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMFPZ

Thanks to all that visited our Geocache. Had to have a laugh, it took us two attempts to locate the container as it had moved about a meter from where we originally left it.

Found today during my Beechworth - Mt Beauty - Falls Creek - Omeo - Mt Hotham - Bright - Beechworth caching extravaganza.
Great to be back up here again. Have been here many times before as a Leader at the nearby Rover chalet. A great place to learnt o ski and soak up the winter scenery.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Left a key ring and travel bug. TN.

Found during a mammoth round the mountains one dayer road trip.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

We stayed in the hut overnight but realized only the next day that we are really next to a cache!
TFTC, Team C&A

Looked through this fascinating hut, and checked out all the facilities whist we waited for the muggles to depart. A quick swoop to sign log and replace cache, before the next lot arrived. Must be fantastic views from here, but all we saw was pea-soup fog
TNLN SL
TFTC
greynomads

We manages to Cope with the walk to this one. Road was more like a creek flowing well with water
TFTC

Found while camping in area with wife.

Oh.......My........Gosh!

We ( My mum, auntie and I) spent about an hour searching for this one, and refused to leave even though it was bucketing and we had double checked every possible hidey hole. After checking the hint, We still couldn't find it. I urged myself to one final effort and.......

I FOUND IT

TNLN, TFTC

We decided to use the Christmas break as an excuse to do a drive through the high country, now that the Bogon High Plains Road is sealed all the way around. We planned out our route (Wodonga to Wodonga via Mt Beauty, Falls Creek, Omea, Mt Hotham, Bright) and put together an (optimistic!) list of 23 caches to pick up along the way. This one was number 10 on the list, but when we got to the location, it was pretty busy with muggles. We waited around to try to get an opportunity to have a good look without an audience, but there was another couple hanging around that looked like they were waiting for us to leave. It became almost comical as we each ignored each other but tried to look busy while waiting for the others to leave, but just as I was about to ask them if they were fellow cachers, they came up and asked if we would mind moving out the way so they could take a photo of the hut without our ugly mugs in it! We obliged, they took their pics, then left, and we quickly had the cache in hand.

Out in the hills because it should be much cooler on a 35 degree day and catch some caches. All was good, but the flies enjoyed our meal as much as we did. Any way another reason to check out a wonderful hut. Signed the log and walked with the flies to the next gz. TFTC

Can't remember exactly which day I found this on, you lose track of time when your staying at the Rover Chalet, stopped by after a morning at "ski school" on the slopes above, TFTC

The forest boys found this while doing the loop from Wallaces Hut a magical autumn day. Took hippo, left lion. TFTC

A nice and quick find before embarking on a few days walking to the north. Great location and nice hut! Thanks

Fantastic location. Had a great walk around a number of the historic huts. Always enjoy a few days in the high plains.

Found after a few days walk from Bogong Village (42.6 km over three days) via Spring Saddle, Little Plain and the Fainters, Tawonga Huts and Mt Jim. Camped the last night near the waterfall on High Plains Creek - what a fantastic place for a swim to cool off. Have many photos of Cope Hut from nearly 20 years of walking, and I never tire of seeing this beauty. Took Geocaching Evolution GC, left Globe-trotting Smilie GC, TFTC

Found at the end of a 3 day walk starting at Bogong village via Mt Fainter and finishing at Wallaces hut. Cope hut is in good condition and the toilet a welcome sight at the end of a 3 day trip. This place is well worth a visit if in the area. Took Globe Trotting with a smile TB just as it was dropped off by Aussie Puschaks TFTC

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Catching up on some belated log entries - have been on a motorcycle tour from Qld down through NSW to the Snowy's, on to the Victorian Alps and back though NSW Sapphire coast. Limited room on the bike, so no swaps this trip. Dropped in and retrieved geocoin. TFTC

Found at 1:50pm with Eudes while on AWG bushwalk 87 with a group of friends on a magnificent alpine day. Fortunately the muggle stream was clear when we needed to make the find. Great to see this piece of high country history.
took box of matches - not sure it should be left here & Cinemaboxers geocoin
left turtle & geocaching evolution geocoin
thanks telefreaks

Found this one at 11:40 with Alsume and all the others of our bushwalking crew. A nice easy one in a wonderful part of the world.

TNLNSL, although a few of our geocoins had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks telefreaks.

Great hut in a great location. Took spirit level and left Pedders No-Bull keyring and Cinemaboxers Geocoin. TFTC.

Easy find; though you have to pick you time. Lots of muggles about.
T: sea scout badge
L: Hippopotomus
TFTC.

Found this one today at 14:52 after spending the morning at Wallaces hut with some of the builders descendants!!
I had never been to Copes hut before, It was great to explore and in amazing condition too!
The V.H.C.H.A book in the hut was full, and the geocache log (being two years older) still has plenty of space to spare, so come on i reccomend getting out to see this piece of history.

I was camped at Langford West camping area over the weekend,and picked this cache up on the way home.Very easy find

Found by Krandy, there were a group of hikers around so was unable to write in the log. The cache was a bit exposed when we found it so quickly rehid cache. TFTC TNLN

Found this one on a short trip from the Bogong Rover Chalet. Took TB Thanks

Dropping off TB.

After finding Outdoors Type Point, it was time to tackle its next-door neighbour. I've been here many times before, on a variety of trips of varying durations. There were no cars at the carpark, so I was hopeful of a quick and easy find. With rain still coming down, I ran most of the way to GZ, only to hear voices from inside Cope Hut!

I opted to enter, in case I had been spotted. Inside where two blokes and a bunch of kids, having a rest day whilst on a 5 day circumnavigation of the Bogong High Plains. With the slow combustion stove cranked up, voices everywhere and food cooking away, the hut had the perfect atmosphere. These humble structures are as much a part of the alps as the mountains and plains themselves.

After chatting for a few minutes, I bid the hut-dwellers goodbye and left the warm interior. As the muggles were concentrating on consuming their pasta, at last I could commence the search and the cache was soon in hand.

Retrieved the geocoin and left a TB. Thanks telefreaks! One day I'll come here in the winter and carve a few telemarks on the surrounding slopes myself

Good to see the place minus the snow, last time i was here it was partially snowed in.
Left Victor Harbor Sea Scout Badge, took little froggy.

great hut last for the day

out - UFO TB
In - geo coin

Found this one before the GPS had time to fire up! We did a round trip from Wallaces Hut. Fantastic day and a great excuse to get up onto the high plains.

Took: Flag pin
Left: Frog

TFTC

Team Telefreaks returned to our cache to introduce our 7 week old son to Geocaching.
It was a very cold day with sunshine alternating with rain.
Left travel bug Send me Selma

Found easily on our walk to check out Rover Lodge.

Took Nothing
Let UFO TB

TFTC

great day, good walk to the hut and good place for the Geocache nice spot for a picnic inside the hut.

took - geocaching pin left- green guy

Another one on our Geotrip to Falls Creek - have been to this hut many times but happy to come back again to find the cache.TNLN

Found it on a beautiful day.
Placed a travel bug that likes altitude.

This place was like Bourke street. Muggles had surrounded the building.
It took a lot of time and skill to retrieve this cache.
We had to resort to diversion tactics to retrieve and to put back the cache safely.

Another great place for a cache.

Took Travel bug and padlock and left geo caching pin.

TFTC Cheers Bushtrakker

Found! I have been walking around the Falls Creek area in the last few days. Decided to pick up this one while I walked past. Relatively easy to find once I got to the hut. TNLN
Thanks heaps!

A lovely wet and cold day found us in the High Plains. Didn't take us long to find the cache. TNLN. TFTC,Telefreaks

1:40pm
After spending ages playing in the nearby snow, we wandered down to this well appointed hut and found the cache easily. Had a look inside, nice to get out of the wind that was now starting to really blow.

Beautiful vist to wake up to every morning here.

Cheers

No digging required, the rovers clearly did an above-average job of uncovering this one. They also left us some tasty 'treats' at the Bogong Rover Chalet, being colourful vomit-textured snow. Ranga-dang-a-ding-dong (Tremaine) and Trevor helped us find this as Ben and I kinda didnt look properly. Yeah good cache, some people camping at the hut when we went past with the venturer party. Good fun skiing down the valley after the disappointment of walking down it last year, even if you do faceplant at the bottom o.O

Great Cache, and pleased we could find it for ourselves (sort of) this year.

Took. Canadian Flag
Left. Highly useful nostril clearing paper.

Josh and Ben (plus Ranga and Trev)

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Found this on my week staying at Bogong Rover Chalet 3kms from GZ.

great little hut would be interesting to come back when there isnt a metre of snow for some hiking

TNLN TFTC

I love this spot and this hut. Found with a whole bunch of geocachers, can't remember who they all were and no risk of muggles today.

I love this place.

yay, digging through snow payed off. I was totally looking forward to finding this while at the chalet, pity there aren't more around the huts in the area.

TFTC

Here for a winter party at the Bogong Rover Chalet and to pick up some caches on the way. Introduced our Rover Advisor to geocaching as well. Left fluffy chicken, other cachers took some things (i can't remember now, hopefully they do!). Snow is fantastic! TFTC!

Found with other SA Rover Scouts while staying at the Bogong Rover Chalet. Took travel bug.

Difficult find - had looked before over the Easter weekend but perseverance paid off.

Found by Joe Possum and partner on 5 April after a bit of a search. GPS had us looking some 20 metres from Cache location. Needed hint to find the cache.

Took karabina and left a spirit level. Also left TB: FLIP on the beach and back home again.

Quick & easy find once the rampaging hordes of long weekend walkers cleared. TNLN.

Nice walk down to this hut with Falcon, Mrs Bent and Tuckers. Found after a few minutes of looking. The hut is really big.

T: Coin
L: Board Game set
TFTC

On a short walk while camping at Wallace's. This is a place I have enjoyed several times so thanks telefreaks for putting a cache here. TNLN SL. Thanks for the clue too as the gps was jumping a bit.

Only 2 horse riding muggles here when we arrived, sitting and resting right at GZ. Within 5 minutes, near another dozen muggles turned up from all directions; bushwalkers, mountain bikers, and 4wd`ers. We took a short walk with the camera and returned without anyone around - PERFECT. Found quickly with the help of the clue.
Beautiful place. Will have to plan a weekend walk and retrieve a few others in the Bogong area.

Out - Mondo figuirine
In - Monsters Inc Mike figuirine and USA Geocoin USRVC4.
Signed Log.
Cheers.

Found on 18/10/06 @ 1210 AEST. After a meeting in Mt Beauty, Fearless Leader, Mark, and I inspected the site where 90,000 cubic metres of material may be placed, then decided to have an early lunch in Cope Hut. The cache was easily found, and we retreated from the wind into the hut to log and dine

TNLN

Cheers Team Telefreaks

Found by djcache & family (GAFF1)

Returning from Omeo to Shepparton via Anglers Rest is something djcache has been meaning to do for quite some time. Actually, having lived in Mount Beauty for much of my life I had never gotten around to doing the short link between the Omeo Hwy and the Cope Hut turnoff. Now I have - and I did it before they seal it which I felt I had to do.

It was a great day for it. Stopped in at the recently reconstructed McNamara's Hut for a look & laughed at the morons in the new 5 series BMW battling the corrugations. The guys on the bikes looked like they were having fun.

We found the cache without difficulty. I've been here many many times. We used to bring visitors up here for a look, and my sister had her wedding photos taken at Wallaces. Never skied out this far though - only in summer.

The cache had been gnawed through by a rodent - probably used to such containers containing food. I had a spare container with me so we replaced it. And rehid it a little better than the last finder.

Won't be long now and it'll be ski season and it'll all be white again. Yay!

DJ

Found while doing some bike riding in the area over easter. Even go some snow...
TNLNSL. Cheers Telefreaks

I should not have read the clue first - made it very straightforward. Park Rangers were at the hut measuring up the chimney so they could fit a new flue on the heater.
I took a pencil sharpener and left a little lock.
Thankyou telefreaks.

Bit of a search but eventually located it.


Crooked Mick of the Speewah

When I arrived at GZ, there were already two muggles inside, with another two approaching up the track. After saying hello to those already inside, and the next two to arrive, I went outside and safely located the cache away from muggle eyes. I had left my pen in the car, so I ended up borrowing a muggle pen to log my find.

No swap was made. Thanks, telefreaks, for the cache and bringing me to such a great area.

Nice short ski, with a nice sleep on the small patch of grass out the front in the blazing sunshine (would've preferred 2m of the white stuff, but this was still pretty pleasant). A fine reward for the previous day's epic which, for no real reason only ended after a few hours of darkness and a long trek back along Langfords East aquaduct from Edmanson's, Johnston's, Kely's & Fitzy's huts via Nelse. Great spot, great company, excessive pig products.
TNLNSL
Thanks Gimp....err Telefreaks.
Cheers.

We dropped in on the way to ski school to see how the the cache was doing in the snow.
Left another two scout badges and took Mr Bill E Goat as this is the first travel bug i have seen.

Ducked in to get a moments shelter from the wind while heading up to ski school. A beautiful spot that i have visited before, found the cache quite quickly then had to scrabble around in my bag for a pencil. TNSNLN, cheers.

Found enroute to Mt Cope on another perfect skiing day with 4Fun. Passed this way many a time so good to log it.
TNLNSL

Bill E. now in residence!

In the area for a week with a group of venturers so had to grab this one as we passed on our way to the top of Mt Cope. Lots of white stuff around but no digging was needed to retrieve. Dropped the 'Bill-e-goat' TB in here as he likes high places and thought this would be perfect for him! Cheers.

Found by Maya and Ray in company of Max and Roma at 12.55PM on the 24th of April. Nice walk on a beautiful day. There were Muggles on site, but they soon left when our arrival shattered their solitude. The cache was quite easy to find and we completed the formalities quickly. We took the chook and left an English figurine. Thanks for the reason to visit the location. The Nomads.

12.56pm.
Found by Roma and Max, together with Ray and Maya, who scored the find.
In all our previous travels this is our first visit to this type of scene!
Took: Xmas Tree Stamp.
Left: Smiley Face Suction Cup.
Thanks Telefreaks for this experience.
from Romax.

We were on a work party in the Falls Creek village and needed a break and the kids in the lodge were really keen to see what geocaching was about. An ideal cache for a short walk, it was quickly found after realising that the hint was very relevant. The only difficulty in the terrain is the high plains road which is getting a bit rutted and rough after a long summer.
We left a pencil sharpener and took a squishy robot which the kids said was a good trade.

Found at 5.40pm.
We have used this hut many times in the last 30 yrs whilst skiing.
It is a welcome refuge.
Cache found easily enough.
We believe terain rating is over rated. 1.5 would be closer to the mark in summer.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M