Hungry Ku-ring-gai Chase, New South Wales, Australia
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Geocaching Australia on 20-Apr-11. Waypoint TP5681
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S33° 39.312' E151° 13.656' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 335654E 6274664N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 199 m |
| Local Government Area: | Northern Beaches |
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Description
Hungry TS2531
The official name of this Trig Station as per the department of Land is: Hungry.
Serial number: TS2531.
Last inspected: June 7, 1983.
Elevation: 197 meters.
This one requires a bit of a bush bash up the hill on the left hand side of the road but easily done. Only the cairn is left with a tiny bit of the pole the vanes have long gone.
Logs
Reading the logs, and finding the cairn today, I am surprised to see that this one still has a terrain rating of 1. I reckon it's a 3, but as I have stated many times, "If I can get to it, the terrain rating should probably be halved. I came up from the armco to the south, where there is just enough room to park a car across the road. I came up from the national park gate,as I could not park while heading north. I'm going to change the T rating to 3. Others can change it if they want. Hint for those coming this way...go around the rock formation to the left. No need to scale it.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Took about an hour including a side-trip to an Aboriginal engraving site. Some nice views from near the trig. https://hikingtheworld.blog/2020/06/17/trig-bagging-at-cottage-point/
Rated: for Overall Experience
Tagged along with Shankspony on an exploratory circuit in Kuring-gai Chase NP. Can't believe it has taken us this long to nab this trig as we've done most of the others in the area. Great little side-trip, definitely worth the effort.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Part of an exploratory loop, and it seemed rude not to duck off the road whilst passing - top notch trig with sufficient effort that not many know about it or bother, but still only a 15min sidetrip 
Rated: for Overall Experience
#98
Today I visited 6 trigs collecting over 13 years of unloved days. This was the second and probably the hardest of the day. I parked to the north and scrambled up the hill. This would have been a great spot for a trig but the iPhone suggested I needed to go another 100m. Had to descend into a small valley before heading uphill again, this time getting to the cairn. I decided to head directly for the road instead of retracing my steps. Not quite as easy going but only about a third of the distance. Then followed behind the guard rail back to the car.
Today I visited 6 trigs collecting over 13 years of unloved days. This was the second and probably the hardest of the day. I parked to the north and scrambled up the hill. This would have been a great spot for a trig but the iPhone suggested I needed to go another 100m. Had to descend into a small valley before heading uphill again, this time getting to the cairn. I decided to head directly for the road instead of retracing my steps. Not quite as easy going but only about a third of the distance. Then followed behind the guard rail back to the car.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I've been revisiting trigs and taking pics so I can log them but I hadn't visited Hungry before. Perhaps daunted by the climb up from the road from the tiny parking area. But as it turned out is was just a 20 minute scramble up the rocks perhaps made a little tricky by the dead small trees. As it leveled out on the top you come across Hungry Trig looking a little unloved as others have commented.
Retracing my steps I wandered a little to the right of where I came up and found a step about a metre or so high. It turned out to be part of a wall which formed the uphill side of an old road, again as mentioned by others. There are some big trees in the middle of what seems to be the road so it is yonks old. I have walked Hungry Track to the north of the trig until it peters out so I'll come back and see if I can walk from the track to the trig and locate the carvings.
Retracing my steps I wandered a little to the right of where I came up and found a step about a metre or so high. It turned out to be part of a wall which formed the uphill side of an old road, again as mentioned by others. There are some big trees in the middle of what seems to be the road so it is yonks old. I have walked Hungry Track to the north of the trig until it peters out so I'll come back and see if I can walk from the track to the trig and locate the carvings.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I parked to the north of the trig for a bushwalk and followed the ill-kempt trail about 2kms to a point where it dropped down over a rock ledge towards the valley.
Coming back 400 metres there was some tape around trees indicating a side trail. This climbed to a small promontory with good district views. There was also a stack of bushrock bigger than the usual bushwalkers' marker cairn. Perhaps a stockpile that the piling labourers collected in the 1880s for a trig that was never constructed?
Coming back along the trail I climbed to the ridge 400 meters away from the trig. The bush was very open and easy to traverse. I was also rewarded with some nice aboriginal carvings (man, large fish, shields).
I found Hungry looking somewhat lonely and forlorn. Took my photos then went down to the south so I could check out the original cart track mentioned in Yurt's log and also in Tony Dawson's book "Guide to the Historical Trigonometrical Stations of Sydney's North". Interesting stuff.
Found at 9:04 am.
Coming back 400 metres there was some tape around trees indicating a side trail. This climbed to a small promontory with good district views. There was also a stack of bushrock bigger than the usual bushwalkers' marker cairn. Perhaps a stockpile that the piling labourers collected in the 1880s for a trig that was never constructed?
Coming back along the trail I climbed to the ridge 400 meters away from the trig. The bush was very open and easy to traverse. I was also rewarded with some nice aboriginal carvings (man, large fish, shields).
I found Hungry looking somewhat lonely and forlorn. Took my photos then went down to the south so I could check out the original cart track mentioned in Yurt's log and also in Tony Dawson's book "Guide to the Historical Trigonometrical Stations of Sydney's North". Interesting stuff.
Found at 9:04 am.
Rated: for Overall Experience
This was a bit of fun climbing up th esouth side to get up to the trig. Like Yurt, I found I was on an old, very overgrown road coming back down. It looks like it goes to roughly the end of the armco on the road, but you'd be hard pressed to identify it there.
The trig is just a cairn now, but in quite good condition.
The trig is just a cairn now, but in quite good condition.
After two trigs and three GC caches today we had to find one more trig to even the score.
Some months ago we headed along Hungry track for several hundred metres but when the track didn't head the right way we gave up. At that stage we weren't too keen on bushbashing. Now with a lot more experience we thought this one looked easy. Also we had the new coords and the knowledge it had been rediscovered.
This time we came in from the southern side which involved a decent scramble up some rocky crags. The interesting thing we found was the remnants of an old convict road. It headed up the hill and over the shoulder - see photo.
Made our way right to the top and spotted the formidable cairn, not as big as Wallaroo which we'd found earlier today but still a good one. There was a fragment of the original post in the top but no vanes, long burnt off I guess. Took our pics and headed back down the hill.
Found my original coords were a mere 16 metres off, slightly better than rogerw3's original coords but not as close as the new ones.
A good spot.
Some months ago we headed along Hungry track for several hundred metres but when the track didn't head the right way we gave up. At that stage we weren't too keen on bushbashing. Now with a lot more experience we thought this one looked easy. Also we had the new coords and the knowledge it had been rediscovered.
This time we came in from the southern side which involved a decent scramble up some rocky crags. The interesting thing we found was the remnants of an old convict road. It headed up the hill and over the shoulder - see photo.
Made our way right to the top and spotted the formidable cairn, not as big as Wallaroo which we'd found earlier today but still a good one. There was a fragment of the original post in the top but no vanes, long burnt off I guess. Took our pics and headed back down the hill.
Found my original coords were a mere 16 metres off, slightly better than rogerw3's original coords but not as close as the new ones.
A good spot.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A special gold star were awarded to rogerw3 for successfully tracking down the whereabouts of this elusive old trig, which we failed to find on our last outing.
We had a bit of a scramble up the hill, directly from the road, but the old rock cairn turned out to be exactly where rogerw3 predicted.
What a great find! And a NSW State Survey Marker was nearby, as an added bonus.
'Three Thumbs Up' for the fun of the find!
We had a bit of a scramble up the hill, directly from the road, but the old rock cairn turned out to be exactly where rogerw3 predicted.
What a great find! And a NSW State Survey Marker was nearby, as an added bonus.
'Three Thumbs Up' for the fun of the find!
Rated: for Overall Experience
This was the first of four Trigs found today with pjmpjm. After a failed attempt a couple weeks ago and some refinement in the coords estimation calculations we were quite sure that this Trig could be found and sure enough after a short bush bash up the small hill the cairn was found. It is in great condition, the post and vanes are gone but pjmpjm did find a tiny little piece of the post right on top of the cairn. Worth noticing the Survey Marker 38365 just 11 meters North of the Trig.
Rated: for Overall Experience
