The Nugget Hill End, New South Wales, Australia
By rustymac on 17-Apr-05. Waypoint GCNJPM

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TFTC.loved the little tiger toy

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#4425 A quick find with GM in this historic township. No, we didn't find any gold...

After a unsuccessful gold finding weekend, this cache was found. Tftc

A pleasant drive by. Unfortunately we couldn't do a mine tour. Next time.TNLN K&M

#6155Out and about with Frazelle and Ash Kate for a great weekend of caching around the area.A quick park and grab hereI'm really enjoying my day. Thanks rustymac.

Quick find for us this afternoon. Tftc

Nice quick park and grab TFTC

A relatively easy find while walking the Bald Hill track. TFTC.

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Found it safer to park below and walk up due to narrow road.

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Definitely safer to park below and walk up the stairs!

Did a couple of jigsaws and re-solved a couple of history mysteries to fill my time before taking a trip to Hill End via Wellington. I decided to use geocaching to show me things in the area I had previously missed. It worked.

Highlights were a number of lookouts, the Cornish Roasting Pits, and an incredibly creepy looking graveyard.

Thanks to everyone who hid these caches.

We found the Nugget

After a bit a search we soon had cache in hand. TFTC

Searched a few interesting possible hidey holes before finding this one. Great spot. TFTC

Loved it

Great little hiding spot!!

Found while in the area looking around at the lovely Hill End town with COM084. Co-ords a bit off but found with the hint. Recent council works have not affected this cache. Park near the old mine shaft access Rd. Watch the geokids as the road can get dusty.

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Found with v8minnie while checking out Hill End.

Always nice to come to an old historic mining town and discover a nugget
Thanks for the cache

TFTC #2 for today! Just love hanging out with the boys and doing boy things. Little bit steep but held my mates hands. Safety first with my fave bros <3

Good fun. Tftf

Done

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Once we located the cache, we worked out it may have been easier accessing it from the top, but either way, bit of scrambling and had the cache in hand. Tftc

Verrrrrry hard but in in the end at 3 pm we found it

Easy find with container in good nick.
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we are camping just down the road and its a nice evening for a walk. so after a lovely evening walk we found the cache. cheers.

On a trip out west a quick find was made at GZ

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache rustymac

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2021 NSW geocoins, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, CITO 2019 Geocoin, CITO 2021 Geocoin, CITO Leaf Nano Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

Full log to follow

Heading out to Hill End and collecting a few caches along the way. A quick park and grab. With the new cache in hand we signed the log before replacing. Both the cache container and log are in excellent condition. Thanks for the cache rustymac.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Vanlith The Youngling, Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), teamMerlin's Football, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, Merlin's Steed, GEOCACHING WITH JORDYS GREEN LOGO, Geocaching - All In One Geocoin 2009 Geocoin, CITO Tag Geocoin, Schneemann, Premium Micro Geocoin, Scrooge "Mac" Duck, The Bison Tube from AUS, teamMerlin's GIFF 2018 Geocoin Companion Tag, Bigfoot 51, Purple

step incline ..found after widening the search

Tftc. A lovely ride with @megaplusone picked up a couple of caches in the way back

Quick find. Thanks

Nice spot! Tftc

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Interesting spot!

Great little hunt!

Quick find by Geowife on a freezing day. TFTC

Staying in town for the night. On the way to the look out. Such a lovely place to visit. Glad I could find a nugget on the way. TFTC

5171 13 February 2021
Visiting Bathurst, Sofala and Hill End areas this time. Looking at finding a variety of caches.
Thanks for the caches and AL's.
Terrain a bit tricky here.
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Back out this way again today to check out a few more caches. This one was a hard scramble with a sore shoulder, but we managed to make the find. It has be a wonderfully busy weekend in the Bathurst Region as we pushed ourselves to get 25 different D/Ts in a day. The things we will do for a challenge cache!! Thanks for the cache.

Found with Nibletricecakes on the way to a waypoint on the Hill End AL. TFTC.

#9064 13:25
It is a long drive from Gulgong to get to this place. And it will be a long way back as well. How do people do groceries around here?
But I wanted to complete the Adventure Lab and pick up some of the local traditional caches while I was here.
Hill End is a beautiful little town, very leafy and a few historic houses.
This cache was found on the wat to the final spot for the Adventure Lab. Luckily not a lot of cars around so I could just leave my car in the middle of the road as I scrambled to the cache.
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Starting to warm up! A short scramble with full motorcycle gear got a sweat up. Quick find. TFTC. A good weathered container still holding up.

Found but nearly fell all the way down . Signed and headed to lookout

Really great hiding spot! Found it alongside the deafening hum of the cicadas. Tftc

In the middle of nowhere but found the container alright.

Totally eetswa

After arriving in Hill End for a couple of days, we went out to see the sights, firstly pick up a couple of caches, not sure which road to take, but ended up near the cache. Stamped log and replaced. Thanks to rustymac

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Visiting the area for a couple of nights with plans for something different.
Visited trackables.

Found.
Year 12 geo kid found it - should be home studying but what the .......

Great spot!! Great for kids

Cheers tftc

Easy find

We found this one one a drizzly day, but it was good in a way as it kept everyone else indoors. Thanks for getting us out and about!

Thanks for cash

Found with Twinkletoes72

Did the walk, lovely history and beautiful views. TFTC found on our winter camp at Hill end. Lovely little village

Up at 6am so decided to do the Bald Hill walk before breakfast on a beautiful winters morning!
Left some treasures.
Thanks for the cache.

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Found at 10:09:00 AM

Drove down a back track from Bald Hill. Should have come up from the bottom. Went past wha is probably still an active prospectors hut.

Thanks rustymac

After taking the road less travelled we paused for some sustenance in Hill End. With our appetites satiated it was time to grab some local caches before making our way further north.

No issues in locating this one but we do wonder if the people further down the hill had any ide we were here.

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We found it

We found it

Another great day on our one-year tripp around Australia. We love to travel in this country and we love to look for geocaches. This geocache has again shown us a place that we might not have visited without geocache.
Thank you for the geocache !
Greetings from Switzerland.

Our first Aussie cache! Parked at the mine parking and hoofed it. Found it after a short search and scramble. Hippo out and seashell keaychain in. TFTC

Found while having a quick visit at Hill End. TFTC

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After the rest of the group finished their orienteering session, we decided to pick up this one last cache in the immediate vicinity. Thanks for the hide, and the challenge.

Spent the morning checking out the town and then off to find some caches.
Parked at the car park down the bottom and walked up to the cache.
An easy enough find.

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Nice spot TFTC. Watch your step. Left trackable!

Tftc on a warm Sunday drive. Be careful I slipped on the rocks

Find No.3894 while based in Hill End for a couple of days.
Found with sesblocker. Nice easy find! We spotted a likely hidey hole from the road and bingo, had CIH.
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14 November 2018 10:20

Got it. TFTC

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Good spot

Found as part of a great weekend exploring Hillend. Nice easy find once we found somewhere safe to park. TFTC

TFTC beautiful spot xxx

Nice steep challenge for this cache. Did the legals and replaced as found. TFTCM
Cheers
Dkmacca

Thanks. Challenge to find where to park the car!! But found the cache

I walked here from the village campground after a very chilly night. this time of year drives me a bit batty as you spend as much time moving as removing or replacing layers of clothing trying to stay just comfortable.
anyway I recommend the walk, its interesting, not very long and I saw lots of roos. tftc rustymac

TFTC. Love finding caches that haven't been found for a while. Found between inspection in the vicinity.

Great find. TFTC.

In Hill End for the day with Clazza we decided to visit the Bald Hill Mine and picked up this nearby cache.

Good one, thanks rustymac.

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Having bid our farewells to folk at the Oz Geo Muster, we set our compass for Mudgee, where we set up camp, in order to explore the area to the south west of town including Hill End.

This was real gold, for us - a great hide and close to our current centroid of cache finds (S 33° 02.953 E 149° 23.402) to fulfill a challenge cache.

Thanks 'rustymac' for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
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Found.

Mudgee trip for The Road Less Traveled series. Day 3. Sofala to Mudgee via Hill End and lots more back roads. A dramatic spot, and of course a local wanted to pass me while I was stopped at GZ.

Thanks.

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Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 Sleepy Hollow A#326

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Easy find

First find for the day! What a great place, came out from Bathurst for a scenic tour and wow what a historical town! TFTC!

TFTF rustymac. It's worth continuing on to the lookout.

Slipped and slid all the way down to this and then had to get rid of the ants running up my legs. It was good to locate this cache but was obviously not as good as finding its namesake. Thanks for bringing us here rustymac Worth a favourite point.

found

We found out why this has a higher terrain rating, and parking was not exactly ideal but the cache was located and TB picked up. TFTC

Did the 'ant dance' as I spent too long deciding how to get to GZ. TFTC

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Found after Orienteering event. Cache is in good shape. Dropped off TB.

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. Quick find after orienteering in the area. TFTC