Cipher Gold Payneham, South Australia, Australia
By Zytheran on 28-Nov-06. Waypoint GCZK1E

Out with Cheezel1961 on a fun days caching. Cheezel had already found this one and let me make my way down to GZ awkwardly with his TOTT where the awesome find was made.Signed and returned.TFTC

Oh My, not sure what day number it is or what caches I did yesterday, been caching for a while and the days and the caches just run into each other. With the Leap Day event over and the Grapes done yesterday, I am looking forward to a morning of small walks and then to finish the day off with some target caching around town. It will still be a long day as well that's what I'm here to do, lol. To save space on log sheets we signed as BOLD 9. Adelaide is proving to be somewhat of a great place to live. The atmosphere and the people seem to be just nice. While i have ventured out of town a little there are some really nice pockets, I will admit there does not seem to be any bad areas as such that I have come into. Thanks for the caches today and the hides, all were replaced as they were found, sorry for the generic logs but I did find a good number again today.

Its day 9 of Team SQUIRMs adventures around South Australia and our last full day in Radelaide. We have a few more hours left in the day before an event and a Fringe show so its time for more caching. Tftc ZytheranFind #5776

The SQUIRM Adelaide Tour - 2024 is almost over Its our final full day which means getting even more selective with our finds Theres still lots of do we want a __________? from the backseat of Staceys Mum, which means plenty of deviations to Davinells well laid out plan With a CITO in the middle of the day, an event in the early evening and Dizney in Drag tickets tonight we have the fundamentals of a timeline Beardman75 made short (no pun intended) of the hide hereThanks Zytheran

Found by Six Queenslanders Unsupervised In Radelaide Mega'ing. It's the last day of our magical mystery tour. All logs signed or stamped as SQUIRM. Thanks for the cache Zytheran

The SQUIRM team has travelled from Brisbane for the MEGA.We are here for a week and a bit of Fun, Fringe and caching.Our last day of caching in Adelaide today so we are up nice and early (for me anyways ).Thanks for the cache l

Been to this one, but was in Winter and a bit too much water was around then.Decided today after work to call in on this one.Nice steep walk in and then the hunt was on. Soon had the cache in hand, signed and replaced.Gets a FPTFTC SL

I hatched a plan last week for a T4 cache by reaching out to weredunn4 (the high terrain maestro), asking if he was free after work one day this week to tackle it.It was a Zytheran T4 cache and along with the logs, it read like a nasty one. So 2 of us attacking it was a far better option than one That plan then morphed into a search for many high T caches from St Peters, Bridgewater, Mylor, Chandlers Hill to Reynella, so we covered some territory Weredunn4 claimed 5 new finds while I managed a handsome 7 new caches.and with the COs consent, we even managed to replace a cache that had gone AWOL.2 x T5s, 2 x T4s and a T3.5 in the mix, a great collection Finished the night off with dinner at Hungry Jacks at cholesterol corner Gets a favourite point from me, great adventure getting this one and a great hide TFTC

Cheezel1961 hatched a plan while at work to target a few high T rating caches today after work.A list was made and an after-work adventure began.I had previously had a brief look for this one, but as I had the 2 geopuppies with me, I couldnt get too adventurous. Getting to the correct GZ was quite an adventure, so it was on with the hiking boots, gloves, plus a torch and ladder. The final for this one is a brilliant location. Took about 10mins to finally spot it after checking nearby spots (the torch helped), and the ladder assisted in elevation (although I could reach it with a stretch without the ladder).Fav point for the brilliant hiding spot and the adventure in getting this one!And 829 days of unlove on this one too.

Took the geopups for a 10+km walk along the Torrens linear trail, picking up caches along the way. Not too many people out on the track considering it was the middle of Easter, and the weather was perfect for a stroll today!
Had a look for 5mins here but couldnt see a cache up high in any surrounding trees. I could be blind or the cache may have grown wings. I'll be back another day for a better look.

Well that was a hoot! We all got down to GZ but soon realized that some assistance was required to reach the cache. I was deployed to the street to grab a trusty TOTT which I passed down. Only a few minutes passed and we were successful. It was a real te4am effort to get this one and we worked well together, despite a few misplaced hands [8)]
Thanks Zytheran

The Millicent Mega trip had been a long time in the making, for the Tassie trio of stainless steel rat, budgietas and gooseandegg, due to a couple of false starts thanks to COVID19. More and more caches were added to the extensive list as planning was being finalized. We focused on old caches, large caches, certain D/Ts, virtual caches, the On your Bike series and a few other special ones on our journey. Our route saw us caching in Adelaide for a few days before heading north via Gawler to the Barossa in preparation for the On your Bike series, whilst basing ourselves at a gorgeous cottage in Waikerie. We continued on to Renmark for a night before the long trek south to Millicent.
Some of the many highlights along the way were Gawler Fort Knox, Dustin’s Cache, Barossa High and Riverland (the oldest surviving geocache in South Australia).
At the Mega we caught up with a few of our caching friends, made some new ones, and of course missed many who could not make it this time. The weather was not the best in Millicent, and a COVID19 situation in Mt Gambier altered our plans but we had plenty of caches to keep us busy between showers, including tree climbs, plenty of adventure labs, and the entertaining Finding a Fish series - giving the new pole a good workout for the first time.
Thanks to all the CO’s who have placed and maintained all these caches that made our adventure so memorable.

Found this cache while touring around north of Adelaide, the targets being high D/T caches


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Early in 2021 I received an invite from GoosenEgg and Stainless Steel Rat to join them on a caching trip to the Mega in South Australia. As planning got underway some caches with high Favorite points, very old caches, and the On Your Bike Series were listed as "must-dos"

The trip ended up being 10 days of solid and very enjoyable caching with quite a few highlights. The find count for the trip was around the 950 mark when all GCA, Adventure Lab, and GC caches are included. The high point for finds was a day of 335 finds in the one day, which would have been more, but a sudden storm put the end to caching for the day. No one was interested in getting out of the car to find a cache in a downpour in the dark

We were lucky enough to find Gawler Fort Knox, Dustin's Cache, and my favorite for the trip Barossa High (From 21st of January 2001 with the original log book still in place) all in the one day.

Unfortunately, the caching around the mega was beset by bad weather and the day we had put aside for Mount Gambier was scrapped due to a covid case in Mount Gambier on the previous day, so we avoided the area. We all enjoyed the Fishing series and just managed to get the remaining of these before the light failed for the day.

In the end I managed to completed my D/T grid for the first (and possibly the second time) which was my aim for the year, although some of the D/T combinations were not really achievable in Tasmania without a 3 day overnight bush walk.

TFTC

Oh this one was outstanding and needed a fair bit of teamwork to complete but that made it all the more fun, thanks for a great cache.

Even with the numbers being down it was great to attend a Mega and at least get to meet some fellow cachers after so long and catch up with a few people, we flew over from Tassie on Thursday and after spending a few days in Adelaide we headed Northeast to clean up some series and then head South to Millicent for the start of the Mega long weekend.

This trip has changed so many times since it was first booked and I'm glad we got to do it at long last, to start with it was just myself and GooseandEgg nipping over for the Mega and then it was a few more days with the addition of 1 toolman, then with lockdown it was back to two of us but then another Tassie cacher in the shape of BudgieTas stepped up to the plate and we were back on for an over a week trip to grab a few caches before the Mega and then finish off with Millicent before flying home on the Tuesday.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 26/09/2021 at 12:27:00 PM thanks to Zytheran for placing this cache for me to find.

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

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Found It!
At first I had the 2nd word of the clue wrong and nothing would work. Then last week I was in the supermarket when I suddenly realised there was another word that fitted the clue a lot better. That did the job and the plain-text was soon revealed. Today I went past GZ and climbed down only to realise I needed the ladder. So back up to the car to get the ladder before descending again. Then after a bit of looking around I soon had the cache in hand! Odd little spot, any idea when it was redirected and the old path bricked up?
TFTC

found on route to else where with a previous finder. Flip flops where not the best choice in getting down the side of the hill but i did it with out sliding down on my backside. Then it was time to start climbing up, better foot wear would have helped. After finding a few wasp nests i got my hand on the cache. At least gz was dry.

Out today near this cache with sir_spectre and mogni who had already found it. We stopped here and sir_spectre made his way down to GZ where the cache was found along with lots of wasp nests. He managed to retrieve the container without any mishaps, then it was back up the slope and we were on our way.
Thanks for the cache Zytheran.

A final cache for today, and at least sunshine was about to help with the find. I looked around and felt at GZ, with not much reaction returned. Sigh, continued to look, and sure enough, felt the Zytheran cache. Signed the logbook, and placed back - a tough puzzle, thanks Zytheran.

Found! Full log to follow.
Ciphers have fascinated me for a long time. I started with the classic mono-alphabetic, uniliteral substitution cipher that would have to be the most common cipher out there among geocaching puzzles that involve ciphers. Then I graduated to the Vigenére cipher and checked out some basic transliteration variants. More recently I have been playing around with grandpré and homophonic ciphers. Along the way I've been exposed to dozens of others, including the type used here. It took me a bit of time to get my head around it, but I got there in the end. The hints are especially helpful. And having solved this back in the spring of 2018, I consolidated what I'd learned by solving a few others around Adelaide that are similar.
Fast forward to today, when I was super keen to collect this. (I'd wanted to collect it the previous October while in Adelaide, but there was so little time and there were so many caches!) I scrambled down and looked around. I climbed up and felt around using the tips of my fingers. Aha! Gotcha!
Eureka! I've struck gold! Cipher Gold, that is.
Thanks for the puzzle and cache, Zytheran.

After having a doctors and physio appointment this morning I decided to do some caching in the area on my way home.
After completing some caches along the river last year I was told this was one I had passed, back today I called upon a friend for a hand, the cache was soon found.

TFTC

As I noted in my log for Cipher Silver, ciphers are not my favourite puzzles. But a while back I decided that I needed to work my way through some of them.

Of course the next step is to actually be able to find and access the cache. I have previously visited the area of the final location a couple of times before with a view to finding this one. But each time I have turned away, thinking that it may be much too difficult for me to access on my own. However, after reading some previous logs, I returned today with a better idea of what I might be looking for and, to some extent at least, where.

After a bit of a scramble and a clamber, I was rewarded with the cache fairly quickly and without too much stress at all. I was both surprised and relieved. Its nice to finally be able to convert this one to a smiley!

Thanks Zytheran for the puzzle and the cache.

A little while back while looking at some caches in another location we had cause to re look at solving these hand ciphers and also to put them on the to be found list. This one certainly gave use some grief in getting the right key until that golden moment.
An early start saw us rugged up to make the decent and ascent to this one while clearing out some cob webs. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC.

Solved this awhile ago, and it has sat in the solved pile.
Mrs Rat needed some caching therapy.
She also only needed 2 caches to get back to true Bob nirvana.
So brisal5 arranged to pick up the Rat and collect Doctor Owl and Anymules.
This one has sat in the GPS for sometime.
Today while passing by we stopped so Mrs rat and Doctor Owl could find this cache.
We elected to send Anymules down there to get the cache and throw it so we could sign the log.
Then we threw it back down to Anymules to replace the cache. TFTC

An Owl, a Starfish, a Rat and a Mule decided to spend a day caching. Last time they were in this area the Owl and Rat had taken one look and decided against any attempt. Today they had 2 geotools in tow, so retrieval was as simple as sending in the Mule to do the hard work, with ignored advice from the Starfish. Simple! (But that doesn't describe the hard work in store for Owl now!)

Revisited - again - with a Rat an Owl and a Starfish this time, on a day out and about. There has been some serious water through here since my last visit and the approaches were significantly washed away in parts. Still, a fun slide down was made and the cache easily retrieved, signed (by others, just below my earlier mark), and replaced before the scramble back up again.

Late log.

Driving past to get and this one popped up on my map.

I found this one quite a while ago with Moneydork one night, but must have forgotten to log it.

Thanks for the cache Zytheran. Found on 17 Aug 2017 at 7:34 pm. Find #5018.

Awesome final location

I liked this cipher, it fell out much more easily for me than the last three. It sat in my phone for a while but this morning I was early for a meeting in town on my bike so I thought I'd give it a go.

A nice little ride to what I took for a ? ? and I soon found a ? ? With a ? ? The light was good and the cache easy to see and after a little climb it was in my hand.

Could I get the logbook out? It was comprehensively stuck until I remembered I had my Leatherman in my bag! Log signed, cache back in place and off to my meeting:)

Thanks for another great adventure, Zytheran

Well. What a journey this one has been! After unsuccessfully attempting to decide the cipher several months ago, Paerole and I periodically went back to trying to complete this elusive puzzle. However it bested is each time. Being in the low 90's in my cache count I became infuriated and proclaimed that this cache would be my 100th even if it were the death of me. After putting a few inquisitive feelers into the community, we realised our error in completing the cipher and came up with a convincing clue to GZ. Yet the adventure didn't end there. With a slight mistake in deciphering (his fault), I found myself crawling 12ft into a flooded storm drain on hand and knee at a suspected GZ. No luck there. Just thoroughly wet clothes and a stinky pair of caching shoes. But behold! A timely reply from a fellow cacher on querying our suspected GZ led us to correct the error in our cipher and at last, a spot of googling and landscape survey and we found a new GZ! So there we headed this morning to finally achieve this goal. A scramble down the banks led us to the likely location of the cache. Previous finds listed it as potential climb, and, being quite out of shape I worried as I spotted a glint from up high. Luckily a couple of well placed footholds and being in the taller end of women kind I managed to secure that little wonder to finally completed 100th cache! Unfortunately a bad spate of vertigo brought on by a recent illness had me crashing to the ground on my bottom after replacing the cache, but nothing could dampen my spirits now to help Paerole on his next achievement - 1000!

This find was a long time coming. Me and Myrtie have been trying to get this cache for several weeks now and have only recently been able to make the solve thanks to helping nudge from a very helpful person who had previously found this cache before. Turns out that we had the correct information all along, and that a slight oversight in interpretation of the deciphering process was what was leading to our gibberish answers in the beginning. With the correction the puzzle was quickly solved and the answer in front of us. Though I had originally intended to find this as my #1000 cache, it was decided instead that we would find this for Myrtie's #100. So off we went for our first survey of the location we had believed the cache to be. The first day we had looked at the initially suspected location because of a recent rain we were unable to go down there. We came back the next day with the same scenario and decided to grab lunch in the mean time; here Myrtie decided that she was going to jump in anyway and just go for the cache. After jumping down the perilous area and getting completely drenched we came up empty handed. Frustrated, after putting so much effort and loss of dryness into trying to make the find, we once again consulted our helpful source to see if we were in the ballpark of where we were searching. As it turns out we were very off the mark and getting soak was not necessary at all. Upon reviewing my original transcription of the puzzle I noticed that a single character being incorrect caused this misunderstanding of the geography of where we needed to be searching. Now that we finally had the information we needed we headed out this morning to make the find. As mentioned in previous cacher's logs both the descent and ascent to the final cache location are somewhat perilous, but we managed to reach our goal without too much incident. Myrtie, after her heroic efforts in getting soaked previously was determined to be the one to make the final climb and grab in the end. After some struggle she stood victorious with the cache in hand, her #100 find! Feeling very accomplished after all that went into solving and attaining this one.

Thanks very much for the puzzle, the hide, and also for the helpful nudges along the way to success! TFTC

Friends who help muddled brains with this stuff - they're gold.
Had been for a look at gz a while ago, but part of the fencing had been broken
(never a good sign) and down low or up high I had little luck.
Wasn't quite convinced in the right place, so re read logs and returned
with geoson Timotatus.
We scrambled and climbed, and he even had his head right next to the cache, but didn't see,
until he went higher to check another spot that looked likely, and then I saw it.
Sneaky little thing wasn't gold after all - gold would have stood out better.
Some catty gymnastics to retrieve and then again to return.
Geoson gets up and out safely and I take a slide down and land on my hip.
That bruise is gonna last a while!
Getting old.
tftc Zytheran

Well it is clear that practice makes better at these.
Plus remembering to read all the information given and read it carefully.
This one fell out very quickly and now I have the puzzle solved to add to the cache log that I had already signed 36 hours ago. I can now happily log "Found it".
After Cipher Tin I was worried about the terrain for Bronze, Silver, and Gold - my Tin log shows why! But no more blood. Maybe that experience has made me more careful with the next three retrievals?
Also I can see the metal puzzle caches seem to have grown in number with at least 4 more, so not time to relax yet.
Meantime TNLNSL.
Thanks Zytheran for the Cache, the puzzle, and the lessons in applied ciphers

So now I have solved and found Cipher Tin, Cipher Bronze, and Cipher Silver. So Gold should be next…
Hopefully I can log the find soon

Sometimes you pass a location and think that would be a good place for a cache.
The you pass again.
And again.
And then one day you stop. Because your brain is hurting from trying to solve Zytheran metal puzzles, so some exercise will be a distraction.
And you start climbing.
And then you find yourself in a spot you have never been.
So more in hope than expectation you look around.
And you spot something!
A bit more effort and yes it appears to be a cache. How about that?
Open it up.
It is the Cipher Gold cache!
As mentioned I have only just started on the metal cipher series but I am not yet up to Gold.
Well I signed the log and returned the cache but I decided to wait until I have solved the puzzle to log it as "found".
Maybe finding it like this means I am starting to channel Zytheran? Frankly that thought's a bit scary.
Thanks very much Zytheran...I think!

I enjoyed playing with this tough cipher. I had it close to solved but a transcription error had me a mile off. A previous finder set me back on track so today I was able to come for a ride to look for it. East of GZ had a truck fixing a sewer so I gingerly descended from the non-recommended side. I spotted the cache on a reconnaissance climb then took two more to retrieve and replace it after signing. Thanks Zytheran for extending my brain and my bike ride.

Reperio at 1900.

I arrived in Adelaide today ahead of the upcoming Oz Mega event, and the majority of the day was spent trying to track down a few chosen caches that I was keen to put on the found list. I arrived at GZ a little later than I had planned, but given the proximity of it to the road, access to the cache didn't prove too much of a problem. After a brief search around, the likely location of the cache was realised, and was soon in hand. This was a nice little puzzle and a fun final location.

Gratias Zytheran.

CACHING Member - Cachers Against Canned Hunting In Nomadic Groups

Things I learnt today.
- 4Z has very nimble offspring
- Tigers are also quite agile although not very tall
- Malco! should be an inventor
- micro containers up very high are borderline invisible
- superencipherment would be a bugger to decipher without the right information

As a chemist, working with the elements is all part of the job......unless those elements involve complex ciphers and Zytheran. Not even an ICP-MS is going to help here. Next stop - platinum. TFTC Z.

With some spare time on me hands, lots of spare time, I decided it was time to tackle a Zytheran puzzle [:o]
Oddly enough, this puzzle gave me little grief
That terrain rating still had me worried though
All I had to do was find GZ [:o]

That turned out to be harder than I thought and I completely failed to locate it on a bike ride a couple of days ago !!
Last night I discovered another likely spot on the map.

Bright and early this morning I set off on the bike and found that my new spot was not the spot, but a nearby spot was the spot.
What a spot !! [:o]
Glad I wore the hiking boots for this one.

Once down I looked up.
You gotta be kiddin' me
I grumbled around for a couple of minutes working out how to get to the cache.
It turned out to be relatively easy in the end.

And so my visit to Adelaide is complete.....
I have crossed another 'Z' puzzle off the long, tormenting list [^]

TFTC

As a member who like caching in nomadic groups it was great to get this Nearby cache of the list although not solved by me the process was explained and gone through

Having been invited out to celebrate Mrs Honeysucker's birthday with a group of geocachers, I think it was an odds on bet that there would be some geocaching happening afterwards.
Honeysuckers, firesafe, Mogni, Brisal5, Semik and Skippy went caching and kindly took me too as the muggle partner took Harry home.
7 smileys for me tonight

Luckily for me, others in the group did the hard yards here...both solving the cipher and then doing the retrieval. [^]
An interesting cache to be doing at night and so much fun watching the men head down, down, down until they struck Gold!

TNLN. SL. TFTC Zytheran

After celebrating the birthday of Mrs Honeysucker at the local Tavern, it was time to find some caches with the group.

It is handy when you have a 4m telescopic ladder in the back. TFTC.

Having friends who know stuff and have stuff really helps with these challenges.... I did have the pen!!
Thanks

Mr Tardis saw the mob of cachers going to grab a couple of nearby caches near the event, so I tagged along. I've been enjoying the two Z cipher series so I didn't want to log this one online until I solved the cipher.

I cracked this one after a couple of hours. I wrote some code to do the hard yards and played with a few ideas until a sensible answer came out. I really enjoyed this cipher, this is the first one I've solved with "Superencipherment". And I'm super proud I didn't need any nudges from others to get an answer, it was quite logical, although without the hints this cipher would be almost unbreakable.

I solved cipher tin two years ago, but I've still not been game enough to retrieve the container! Maybe I should hire Tiger_Muffin for the day!

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Zytheran.

At a nearby event with a group we headed off and soon the cache was in hand.

TFTC Z

Gordon Patrick Samuel celebration, more people heading off for another cache, got to be in on this one. Some climbing was involved and cache was retrieved. Thanks Zytheran TFTC

In the area for the GPS event so had to grab this one!!! Certainly four star terrain. Thanks Zytheran for the hide!!

Found with some friends better able to decipher then I. It was fun so I'll be sure to try the other levels.

Got in on the hunt for this one while at the nearby GPS celebration event.
TFTC
Gayle minus Mark

Found while on a walk with a mob from the nearby GPS event. Did most of the physical effort required to retrieve cache but the mental side was done by people much better at this sort of thing than me.
Many thanks to the CO for explanation of ciphers in the description, will help me in my efforts at solving the simpler ones in this series (and others).
Thanks for the cache Zytheran

Walked to this one while attending a nearby event with a group of keen cacher's and soon the cache was in hand, having solved just over half the cipher series it was nice to put this one to rest TFTC Mr Z

Gotcha!

Wow! This one, I managed to solve so long ago, I can't remember exactly when, or how. But today was the day 3 of us headed off to make a find.

After a quick scout of the area to try to locate a means of gaining access to GZ without falling to our deaths, we decided that the closest and most direct route was as good as any. Only a few minutes later, we were standing at GZ, looking up at the cache and wondering how we would retrieve it.

In the end, and rather surprisingly so, it was the smallest and youngest member of our troupe (11 yo) who managed to make the retrieval while the other two of us were still scratching our heads!

After signing the log and celebrating the realisation that we were the first to sign it in over a year, it soon occurred to us that we would not be able to return the cache to its home by reversing the retrieval process.

Oldest son (15) then decided that it was his turn to have a go and put his strength, height, and agility to good use. Cache was soon replaced, right where we found it.

Thanks

ZZzz..

Out for some Friday night caching fun with Aussie M&M. On the way here we blew the fuse by plugging too many devices in the splitter from the cigarette lighter. Had to stop and get a new fuse and then work out which fuse it was? Finally got to near GZ but then had to walk a fair way to work out where a real GZ was from the puzzle solution, clues and logs. When we found a likely spot it was a case of down there.... Nothing for it.. down I went. As I had a torch in one hand I lost footing momentarilly and slid a bit using my forearm as a brake. It was a caching night, as usual I lost a bit of bark and there was some blood! . Once down, it was then up and search for the prize which I quickly spotted. A quick scale and reach and like so many before me a was a few inches too short. Lucky for me Mrs. M carries a handy extendo cache tool with her. Must get one of them. Back up again and the cache was quickly in hand. A quick sign of the log and back up yet again to put the cache back in it's hide. Then a more careful ascent back up and out of there. Thanks Z....only bark lost was on me and no revegetation was damaged in this quest.

Found with brisal5 on an evening/night/early morning cache assault which was small on results but big on fun.

We were a little unsure whether or not we wanted to log this one as we were unsure whether or not our contibution warrented it, but brisal5 entered our names anyway.

brisal5 solved the puzzle and made the final assault on the cache, but wanted a support crew. Our contribution was assisting in finding the final location, providing a tool to retrieve the cache, and to be around in case of serious injury.

Thankfully, although there was blood, there wasn't enough to call an ambulance.

I will definitely start solving this series now. Thank-you Mr Z for the cache, and also to brisal5 for doing most of the work and highlighting this series to us.

A favourite point from us, as it was the highlight of the evening.

Whoops!
Logged the wrong cache.
[B)]

Find 1461
With New Year Honours.
Found BFE Style without the GPS.
On previous visit I looked at what I thought was the final location as indicated on the older version of Google Earth and decided that I was not equipped to make the find.
The new version of Google Earth is much clearer and today the cache was easily retrieved as I had the necessary equipment.
Thanks to Zytheran for the cache.
Fine Elsewhere

Wow! - found my first 4-4 Z cache and lived to tell the tale.
Solved the puzzle last week, same time as Silver but waited until this week so that I had backup. I'd already done a driveby and didn't fancy doing this one solo.
In the end it was my partner Pegasus93 who found the hidey hole and extracted the cache.
Great puzzle and very clever hide.
TFTC!!!

After watching a few teams recover a nearby cache I decided to attempt to retrieve this cache as we had a fellow cacher to assist with the recovery as I have found one golden rule with attempting Zytheran caches of a higher terrain rating NEVER ATTEMPT THEM YOURSELF. Luckily for me I had some assistance as neither of us are very tall. However its amazing how much easier it is when you can lift someone up to reach a terrain 4 hideyhole. The cache was soon in hand, signed and returned. Thanks Zytheran for the great caches that you put out.

TNLNSL

This entry was edited by The lost wanderers on Sunday, 11 September 2011 at 12:31:44 UTC.

Was nearby getting a water cache and The Lost Wanderers decides to get this one but wants some company, I'll not say no to another cache find!
All the kids wait on the middle bank with Mrs. Wanderer and Mr. LW and I wander over, or should I say hopped and scrambled over?
Craig gives it a go but scurries down again so I offer as I am taller and hope I can reach it but alas, I cannot. So, he holds my foot so it will not slip and I make the final lunge and Whallah!!
Signed and replaced with more ease than the retrieval. Only injury was a bloody knee, good day I say!
No cats were wet in the collection of this cache!

After last week's episode, tonight's retrieval felt like a 1 star terrain rating. Although it still took a little while to actually put my fingers on the cache. True to my form of late I parked 300m away from GZ and didn't locate the 'structure' until I had perused the entire stretch in between. Once at GZ I naturally selected the wrong corner to look, but perseverence paid off and finally the cache was at hand. Now I must see if last week's spot conforms to the 160m rule. Maybe it is time for a new cipher puzzle.......

Having just found 'an unfortunate cache' close by I set out for my second target of the evening. I felt like I had graduated from Cipher school after solving 10 of the cipher puzzles in the last week. It was time to convert some of these solutions into smileys. I had timed my run to perfection and the sun was just about to set. Harldy a soul about and the place was mine to explore. Even finding 'the entrance' seemed almost too easy. So off I went. A blue gardening glove on my left hand, a builders glove on my right, a cap to protect my hair and fully clothed with no skin exposed to what I might find on the journey. I inched forward in anticipation. Two meters and nothing, 5 meters and still nothing, 10 and 15 meters came and went, daylight was making way for total darkness inside as well as outside. At the 20 meter mark I started to wonder if this was the right spot, yet I kept going. Oxygen was getting thin and finally after some 30 meters, I decided to do a 180 (I challenge any 6'4" to do this...) and make my way back inspecting every nook and hideyhole on the way. By the time I exited it was pitch black and I knew today was not going to be the day to claim 'gold'. I now know from browsing the logs, that I need to return and find another 'entrance'. But if gold was not achievable, there was always silver. Or was there? If you want to find out, read my log and relive my second unfortunate cache of the night.......


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Admittedly had a nudge with the keywords a long time ago.... and, subsequently, it has taken quite a while to solve the puzzle! Very pleased to say that I got there in the end, with GZ not all that far from where I park the car on workdays. Took a short detour on the way home and grabbed the cache after a bit of a clamber. Thanks for the puzzle and cache Zytheran!

Found this as part of the group down from Queensland for a cache raid this weekend.

We all headed off to a likely spot, after a while we all figured must be the wrong spot.

Meanwhile part of our group had found the right spot and the cache.

Should have looked to the right when we hopped out the car, we would have seen it and made this a quicker find.

No matter it's all fun and games, TFTC.

I am sure the events that were to unrol at GZ were out of a far side cartoon. We deciphered the information of the cache and we were off in the search. A couple of the team ventured down to begin the search which yielded nothing. We were amused by a man who kept asking his dog "what are the doing?". If he didn't know, I am sure the dog was going to struggle!

After a number of minutes the question was aksed where was Kaisho and Ozibags? Oh yeah they had somehow found the right strucuture (yes the one right next to where we parked the cars) and had found the cache.

So another amusing anecdote for the trip!

TFTCZ

Found with the SEQ puzzle solvers. Called the owner when it appeared that we were looking in the wrong spot. As it turned out, some of the others had in the meantime located it, much closer to where we started from and owner intervention was no longer required. TFTC and the puzzle!

We had an interesting time searching for this cache with others in the SE Qld Puzzle Solving Group, initially in the wrong spot. There was at least one muggle intrigued by our antics, whispering to the dog tucked inside his jacket about the hijinks he was observing. Not sure what he would have made of all the clambouring about. A great area to spend more time in if you have the opportunity. There were kookaburras laughting as we arrived, they probably knew we had headed in the wrong direction! TFTC Zytheran

Found while participating in the SE Qld Puzzle Solving Group Puzzle Raid to Adelaide

Puzzle solved during our lead up sessions before heading to Adelaide...

Arriving at location we headed out in search of a cache...

a likely location was found but as this was searched some of us decided it didn't quite fit the bill so set off scouting around...

Heading back past our start point we discovered a more likely spot and soon realised we had a cache...

A quick scurry up by ozibags & it was ours

TNLNSL

Thanks to Zytheran for the cache

Found as part of the SE Queensland puzzle solvers group raid on Adelaide. First likely location came up empty, but a few of the group looked elsewhere, saw a likely spot and yep, a tricky last few metres and the cache was in hand. TFTC zytheran

This one found the group spread all around the water looking for a likely spot. Bedmaker, Loki, JAT and myself focussed on what we thought was perfect for GZ but, then it clicked that one part wasn;t fitting the bill. Only after a good 20 minutes of searching of course...

Meanwhile, Kaisho53 and Ozibags had moved on, found GZ and extracted the cache, signed the log and put the container back. None of us had any idea they had the cache, or indeed where they were...

We needed to pidgeons to get the message out but after a couple of minutes, we were all back in the geomobiles and moving on... [^]

Cheers Zytheran.

#14 day 3 on SEQ puzzle solvers Adelaide trip. I first started looking at this one and just could not make a solution appear. I tried multiple code words and fiddled with various methods. Put it aside and came back to it a month or so later and tried my first thought again. Had a solution almost immediately. I have no idea what I did differently on my first attempt... :/. With the solution in hand, I scouted out a likely spot. On arriving at GZ, we wandered around until, yup that seems right. After the initial scouting, we were still cache-less and starting to wonder if we did have the right spot. More searching, still no cache and it was time to PAZ. After this, it turns out that other group members had started searching elsewhere, found the cache and we just hadn't realised it, so another phone call to cancel the PAZ and back to the car. Hmm how did we miss that spot in the first place! . Thanks Zytheran and sorry for the multiple phone calls!

Log book replaced.
Tricky climbing getting it, it's now back in the corner.

The puzzle took a long time due to a stupid error on my part. Without that error the cipher would have been fairly easy to solve, but this is a Z cache after all. Unfortunately I had a lot of trouble finding the right location, and after 2 hrs walking along the Torrens looking for every likely location and either deciding they were too easy or too hard I had to call a friendly Astro. With some new advice on board I headed off to the right location, and after a few fancy rock climbing moves I had the cache in hand. Got it back up and was off home happy. Ironically, I've looked at the location as a possible spot for two other Z caches nearby, but never thought I'd strike gold there.

A great cache for number 500, a great puzzle and a fun final location
TNLN
Thanks

A few trips to GZ with no cache had me scratching my head.
An e-mail to the cache owner confirmed I was close but a bit off the mark.
Today on the way home from work it was time to revisit and the 'real' Gz was found after a short walk.
With the log of the previous finder ringing in my ears it was off home to construct a lengthy cache extraction tool.
With the knowledge and the tools, the cache was as good as found.
Found, signed and replaced the cache and had this one done and dusted..........or so I thought,
driving off from the area I realised I had left my sunnies at the bottom! Grrrrr.
Chipher gold (my nemesis) has the last laugh.
Cheers Z for a great cache and an awesome series.
Time to crack on with the rest....................

Have had the puzzle solved for some time.
Also have ventured down to my interpretation of GZ two or three times now.
After reading the logs and the solved GZ description it seems I'm in the right place.
No cache yet.
Tin, Bronze and Silver all done. Gold is next on the list and it's giving me some grief!

As usual, I had solved the code a few months ago, but needed the right opportunity to go and get it. I had a stab at it in Nov09, during a midnight raid on a few caches on the way home from squash, but I had neither the height nor the tools to reach this sucker. I could possibly get it down, but no-way could I get it back.

Now, with a newly fashioned fing-longer fashioned from a telescoping mop handle, a clamp, cord and garden wire., I approached my quarry from a level direction, avoiding the slippery bank and stealthily retrieved and replace it. Everything worked out perfectly. On to Cipher Silver...

The log book is chocker ocker, so I donated a sheet of paper for future finders, but a new log is called for.

Thanks for the Cache, Lord Zyth.

After three years it finally needs a new log book - and an Ikea pencil would be handy too.
Cheers

Finally back to this one
Looking back through the logs expected to find a DNF from 23 April 2007, but we hadn't been going long so must have skipped it Remember that day well, as we went to our first caching pub lunch and sat with UdderChaos Cal hand'nt turned two, and Bek had just turned 6. They stayed at the top while I looked, but I couldn't leave them long along up there.
Puzzle was fun, but took a little longer to drop out after doing a "Langy", but managed to learn a great deal more about the superencipherment ciphers, so may put one out one day.
Bek was with Sandy who was donating blood, so Cal and I went for a short drive while we waited. We found a route down, although I was always ready to dive after Cal if he slid out of control on the way down (but he didn't). We then picked out way to GZ, again I had a watchful eye on Cal. Cache easily spotted this time and after a little thought, the experience I'd gained since April 2007 made it a quick retrieve (although at 4.5 years old I couldn't expect Cal to make a successful catch). Cal opened up the cache and I grabbed the log and found possibly the last spare spot to sign (sharing the page with Skippy). Replacement looked like it was going to be fun, but luckily I spotted something and it wasn't too hard (although I did drop it once). Thankfully Cal was able to retrieve and help me get it back into position for replacement.
Next the fun climb up. The first attempt was too steep and loose for Cal so we found one with a slighter less slope. Cal went first with me right behind ready to catch him (and then probably slide down with him). Thankfully he made it, although the last bit was easier for him than me. Threw him over the fence for safety before catching my breath and then throwing myself over. High Fived Cal twice for managing to make it down and back up again and for the assistance he gave in retrieving and replacing the cache. If only I had a Z Path Tag to give him (Please). He deserved one for his effort here today. (and thankfully he didn't tell Sandy about how hairy it was for him).
Having conquered the climb we then went to the nearby playground and Cal finally managed to make it all the way across the three rope bridge that gets quite high - although I did have to be very watchful for his last step, as it is a big gap at the end for someone who is only 3ft.
TNLN, TFTC Zytheran

Cheers
P.S Just realised I now nolonger have any of your caches within 10kms of home.

This was cache # 50 of 68 for the day, in the company of Alansee on our five day long weekend Adelaide caching Bonanza. I remember my last trip here with dak, he took one look and said forget that, this time I was determined to get this one, thankfully alansee is not to heavy and I got him into position, Having chronic shoulder pain constantly made for a very painful next day, but It was worth it. My thanks to Zytheran for the cache.

Found with Acts2youthgroup on a trip from Melbourne. I freely confess that I had lots of help with this one, especially from Acts2 who had a sorer shoulder than normal for a while after! A toughy!

The cipher took some time to learn how to crack but a spreadsheet full of workings helped out. Finding the location also took a bit of local help, as did retrieving the cache. While there I reckon I saw about $5000 worth of local recyclable currency sitting in a crate. With this economy it's probably a safer nest egg than superannuation.

Many thanks for the challenges of this cache.

R - B

What an awesome cache ! Found with Everlasting and my trusty Adelaide step ladder LOL We had a lot of fun here and luckily the water was flowing which gave my wellies a good clean [^] SL TFTC
All that glitters is Gold - especially a good cache ! Cheers Z

Wow very interesting spot... lovely water flow into the creek... Sometime I wish I were young but managed found the cache. Thanks Z for organising the cache and hunt.

I was here recently but could not spot the thing. Today with a second pair of eyes it was all too obvious. No climbing, just a handy stick. Thanks Mr Z.

Just waiting for the right opportunity to get this one and we had it today. Thanks for the interesting location Zytheran

I had a ladder in the back of the Ute. At long last. I also had a gold geocoin cum TB. How fitting. It was damn muddy just after the rain so the Astro rating is defiantly up a notch.

GOLD GOLD GOLD for TeamAstro on the first day of the Olympics. Yeah, right. A first for me. [^][^][^]

Clear skies and our thanx to the Z man for this absolutely bloody hard cache and even trickier final.

Found at 19:30. I parked 30m from the cache, but didn't realise. By the time I worked out where it was I decided I might as well do a full lap. A beautiful spot - I can't believe I didn't know it was here.
Climbed to all the possible locations, before checking the first spot again and finding the cache. I was knackered.
Log is nearly full, but I don't think you need rush to replace it.
Thanks for another well implemented cache.

My third time here looking for this cache, I needed a second pair of eyes to help me find and grab the cache, it seemed to have had some cache creeping in the past
Lucky for me this particular area was bone dry
TNLNSL
Thanks Mr Zytheran Now only one to go and now that it's back online i can complete the series, WHAT INDIGO ! your joking
Any hints Mr Dragon Sir it's ok don't worry it has a high terrain I'm not going up there until next year

We came we saw we left, They don't allow you to bring ladders on the plane and this one was out of our league, Stuffed shoulder on acts2 and stuffed knee on dak's Emu Mob thats our excuse and we are stinking to it. Perhaps next time we can get a local to supply the equipment. Thanks anyway Zytheran.

This is the third on the quest of doing all 5 metal ciphers in one day and my 200th find. I was a little concerned at this stage, even though I had done both silver and bronze, winter dragon and I had peeked at platinum on the way through to gold and a couple of weekends ago we had looked at tin, so I knew two hard ones awaited me....

Gold was fun, found the location, then worked out what the clues meant and after a bit of discussion I climbed and then got a boost to the right spot... nice example of working together on this one... ta winter dragon!

3 down 2 to go... left a bit of flesh and blood at Gold and the wind is picking up... and I still had to do platinum...
[xx(]

ta z that one was better a little bit of a physical challenge

Miss Jane


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I'd solved this one some time ago, but the incentive to actually go out and collect it came in the form of Miss Jane's Cipher Sunday. Found a spot that seemed to match the description, and Miss Jane sprang over the fence to survey the area from above. I jumped the fence rather less elegantly and tore some ventilation in my trouser leg...

Found the cache easily enough, but retrieval required an interesting balancing act, with Miss Jane doing the honours. Then on the climb back up I managing to grab hold of a plant covered in thorns, while Miss Jane quietly bled from her scraped knee... all in all, great fun!

Thanks Zytheran!

The previous logs should have warned me but after the mental rigor of solving the puzzle I hardly expected the physical challenge that awaited me. However, notwithstanding a rather exciting moment or two the log was dutifully signed and returned. I had a great time solving this puzzle and then visiting an area previously unknown to me, thank you zytheran.
Of course the mental picture I have now formed of the esteemed 'Z' is of a personage with an enlarged cranium and a set of extremely long arms.

Starting at the top with platinum and going down... thanks for the generous cipher explanations and examples Z!

This hide I think is terrain 5, unless you're spiderman. Freddo kindly packed the required gear and I soon had the cache in hand. TNLNSL. Thanks!

2nd found on a 'Zytheran Expedition for Rust' with Abowie!
Shielded from muggles at this spot, but didn't draw any attention going to and from the location with the 'extraction extension' device!
"mmmm rust rust rust, has served well for a longtime, may need some work soon...."
TNLNSL
Thanks Z

Found while checking for rust and ascertaining the integrity of the walls with Hurtle Engineering Pty Ltd.

"We're going to need to do a fair bit of work to bring this up to code. Gonna cost a bit (grins)"

Required special inspection equipment in order to aid cache extraction

Solved this one over Easter but have waited until now to actually go and get it.

Weather was right for this one today. There's no way I could have gotten it on my own, much thanks to onewiseowl for retrieving. (But on the other hand, I did the solving part! Maybe he should be thanking me...) There is nothing to write with, and I didn't have anything of the right size to leave, so BYOP. TFTC!

Found this cache on my trip with Cooroy Scouts to SA for our final RDMH requirements.

This was one of our RDMH requirements.

With some assistance by a local in getting the two letter code word we were then able to work out the cipher while home in Qld. On site we had a few troubles finding the cache where we thought it should be; after a phone call to our lifeline (SA Parrot Head) we were informed as to where the cache should be found. Unfortuantely that was where we were looking so we thought we may have to give up on this one.

Disappointed Cooroy Scouts climbed dwon from the wall and at the bottom happened to kick up some rocks. There low and behold was the cache sitting at his feet. It had been there all the time; it must have fallen from its hidey hole.

Returning the cache to its rightful place we were pleased we had achieved our goal for the weekend at this cache!!

TNLN

Thanks Z for another challenging cache.

urdera and cooroy scouts cold and frosty trip south.
we enlisted the help of family(scouts honour)to go to point of interest,after talking over the phone we thought we may have the starting point.cyphor was proven in cooroy and the hunt was on.i had a guess at the coords for gz.pulled up at a nice park and had a look.could not see anything.drove around and parked elsewhere and walked and walked.whats that we said.??????it was below where we parked(doh)looking,looking looking.no cigar.life line enlisted but he was saying where we were looking.(doh)i dropped of where i was and feel awkwardly,looking down to see what was doing and i spied the treasure on theground(doh)releived we signed the log and replaced as per helplines instructions.
this was a rdmh requirement.
thanks z
well done.
will take a few great ideas north

Due to popular request (no..seriously!!) keep youe eyes out for the release of Cipher Platinum..all we need is the location..

Figured out the cipher once we realised there was an issue with an IF statement we were relying on....
Checked out a possible location but the recent weather impeded our progress. Luckily we widened our search today and found the right place. Found on sunset in a really picturesque location that we haven't really explored until now.TNLNSL. The log book is a little damp.

Well that is all the ciphers solved, even if the silver box still eludes me.

I really enjoyed this one. The cipher wasn't all that hard, but the many steps in the quest for the cache made it a great adventure.

I had started collecting the required elements last Saturday and had the cipher solved on Monday. Tuesday I identified GZ and did a reccy. The plan was to return for the cache early Saturday morning, but after yet another failed search for Silver on the way home from work Friday night I swung by this way and thought I might take a closer look. Once I was in the right spot I could see the cache and the temptation to recover it there and then was too great, so with the torch propped on a rock giving me meagre light the cache was had, although I am convinced I am following someone round this series who has arms about 2 inches longer than mine.

Rated: for Overall Experience

"I love golt the touch of it the schmell of it the taste of it." I was driving down the road on a golden autumn afternoon when a golden shaft of light caught my eye. At the same time the proximity warning on the gpsr sounded. Cipher gold 5/4 was all it said. I started simply with the mental rigors of tin and bronze and the torture of silver and here I was finally at a golden GZ. But alas my eyes are dim and the afternoon dark and stormy. I searched high and low and the suddenly just before leaving a golden ray from the setting sun illuminated the cache and it was mine all mine. And double golden number 100 too!
In the imortal words of Goldmember " Dats veird!!"

Thanks for a great series of fun caches. P.S. Does anyone want to buy a hard copy of US army Cryptography Manual?

Team Evilcrazyrobot

Well I was sitting on 1399 caches and it was our 28th wedding aniversary today so I had to go for gold.



Almost missed it but luck was with us and the Parrots have made their mark.

So this brings up 1400.

A great way to start the day.