Fairy Mount TS Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 23-Jun-19. Waypoint TP12952

I came to Kyogle today just to see dingo say hello. How hilarious is that. hahaha. I decided to cruise around checking the place out whilst here.

I knew there was a possible FTF cache up on this hill... near the coords you might spy on a rail at the lookout. I guess the old DGS cache was originally meant to be a multi?
BUT, post-op in June, there are now 2 days in a month I really shouldn't go on a strenuous walk. Definitely not day 1. Guess which day I chose to visit Kyogle with a mountain I want to climb, a trig I want to find, possibly an archived cache contents in a post up there, and a possible FTF. Yep.

I sat contemplating doing the walk for nearly an hour, watching the billowing white clouds build beyond the hill top, wishing I hadn't removed my camp gear box with coffee making gear in it from the car yesterday.

Can I just say, being female REALLY SUCKS sometimes.
Ah well.

I witnessed something here that was the highlight of my day and it had nothing to do with geocaching, I’ll get to that in a moment..

Continuing today’s southern adventure I arrived at the car park and lookout. Dusk was approaching so it was a quick grab of my GRAYL and bag and I started the walk up the hill. The track had recently been slashed. I don’t know if this is done regularly here but today it made the way up very nice and easy. Nearly anyone could complete this one with a track like this. Just take your time and enjoy it. One step in front of the other, rest when you need it. Repeat. The reward is a splendid Trig, albeit with graffiti. Unfortunate. I really felt the urge to paint this Trig and clean it up haha. My 10th of 11 Trigs visited today! The way back down was easy going. You still need to focus on where your feet are though. Round trip took just under a hour. This includes photos and checking out the sun doing its thing at this glorious time of day.

Now for the highlight.. Once back at the geo-van I decided to prepare a light dinner. As I was doing so a 4WD showed up and reversed into a park. A man and his young son got out of the vehicle. The man released the tailgate and they both sat on it then shared a couple of ginger beers and a sandwich. They were here for the sunset. They began chatting about 4WDs and the man was explaining how lockers work. To my pleasant surprise the young son was engaged and invested in this conversation. Not an electronic device to be seen! It was a beautiful thing to witness. How many times have you seen families out and the lot of them, including parents, are just looking at their phones. Today I witnessed the awesomeness of ol’ school simplicity. A man and his young son having a chat, a drink, a snack, a sunset. I finished my dinner, walked to the edge of the lookout and said hello, wished them a good evening and I left with a warm feeling inside of me. Driving down the hill I thought to myself if I had a son, I would have wanted life to be like that.

mmmm I’m thinking one more Trig but it’s now nighttime. I wonder if this next one can be done at night? Can the lights on the geo-van help me? Spoiler: yes..

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Thanks. We went up the mountain in search of a Dirtbag cache. Parked at the lookout and then hauled my unfit body up the top. When I got there I spotted the trig point. Thought there must be a GA cache here. Found it on the app and then took the picture. Great views from up the top.

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Jack and Jill went up the hill aka the soldier and the bean counter. Luckily it was an overcast day with 100% chance of rain. We started the trek from the Kyogle Lookout well-prepared with rain jackets and hiking poles. The only way was up a steep and muddy track that even a 4WD would be brave to attempt. There were many steep slopes, gates and a few pauses but the view over Kyogle was stunning. We paid due notice to the 'Danger, Shooting Range, Keep Out' signs and kept to our track. We literally walked into the rain clouds with mist over the track.

Finally we reached the top and were taking some photos of the trig when the rain began in earnest. Jackets on, a few more rainy photos and what's that? A Dirtbag Geocaching Society sticker on the trig. Unfortunately the trig point has grafiti on all sides. Fairy Mount trig point challenge met and best tackled on a cooler day.

I am logging this cache without the photo, I arrived to do the GC cache up there, and went wow must log that trig point, did my necessary bit and other party became lets go, walked couple of hundred metres and went oh no, looked back and went not going there the log in the GC cache is proof I was there. I have to say but it was almost a brown trig point today, I have never seen so many lady bugs in one place, at first we thought native bees but when we got close it was lady bugs. TFTC I love where these trigs take you to.

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This hill is a nice workout for the legs.
We took some photos while here.
Thanks Geocaching Australia.

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I’ve been up atop Fairymount a few times – but never logged the trig. Caches come and go up here. First time I was up here was to find Griffo’s ‘Turkey Town’ cache. Then I hid one when it disappeared. Then it was muggled. But the trig has just sat here and watched it all happen. There’s a bit of graffiti on the trig, but I don’t think many people come up this way anymore. 4x4 access is no longer possible, so you have to leg it. Not many young ones are going to make the effort. An interesting tower nearby. Two radio antennae, some solar panels – and an old fridge that that been here for 20 years. The electrics must be housed in it. I wonder what it transmits? The walk itself is a good track, quite steep in places. A good leg workout. It’s not too far from the carpark though.

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