Mole Belrose, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 14-Jun-11. Waypoint TP5861
Cache Details
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| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S33° 42.564' E151° 11.364' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 332216E 6268592N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 179 m |
| Local Government Area: | Ku-ring-gai |
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Description
Mole TS5083
Official name of this Trig Station as per NSW Department of Lands is: Mole.
Serial number is: TS5083.
Last Inspected on: June 8, 1983.
Elevation is: 181 metres.
There is no stopping on Mona Vale Road at this point, but parking is available in the Driver Training Centre. The entrance is just west of the TP opposite St Ives Showgrounds, follow the road in to the parking. From there a faded trail gets you reasonably close to the remains of the trig.
This trig is a Brass Pin in PM Cover Box surrounded by a stone ring. This is also allocated a PM number as PM3429.
Hints
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Logs
Found Mole and its alter ego, PM3429, after parking at the former Police Driver Training School and walking the 70 odd metres through low grass and invisible, sticky webs. The CI box is fairly siff but I managed to open it enough to expose the pin and see "3429" on its brass plate. Left just ahead of the swarm of upset ants and arrived back at the car as another swarm of temporary Australians arrived.
Rated: for Overall Experience
#101
Today I visited 6 trigs collecting over 13 years of unloved days. This was the last on my way home. I was expecting some more unloved but looks like I hadn't refreshed my logs recently and alnic39 snuck in recently. Unfortunately not much of a trig to look at. I parked at HART having done my L and P sessions there within the last 2 years.
Today I visited 6 trigs collecting over 13 years of unloved days. This was the last on my way home. I was expecting some more unloved but looks like I hadn't refreshed my logs recently and alnic39 snuck in recently. Unfortunately not much of a trig to look at. I parked at HART having done my L and P sessions there within the last 2 years.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I did as suggested by previous finders and parked in the Driver Training facility and walked just 50 or 60 metres to this old stone cairn. I couldn't open the lid with my hands, so left the pin for someone else to photograph.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Pretty sure this was another that I had found in the 80's, but it is a lot easier with GPSr technology - certainly at night !!!
Decrepit looking cairn of rocks. But with a SSM under the cover probably not worth re-rigging this one.
Decrepit looking cairn of rocks. But with a SSM under the cover probably not worth re-rigging this one.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Final one for a trig run this afternoon. No parking here on Mona Vale Road, so will update the description as to the best approach. Found with the light fading.
Nearly didnt spot this one! I have bumped the D/T just a touch as it cetainly is not a 1/1. After the GCNSW AGM I was heading to the Northern Beaches to finish off my GeoSportz caches and parked here as the start to my 1,500m Event which would be the next Trig over 
Took so effort to raise the plate but got there eventually!
Took so effort to raise the plate but got there eventually!Rated: for Overall Experience
We'd gone looking for this one when I'd found the trig marked on some old parish maps. Explored the area but not thoroughly enough it seems. Later rogerw3 came up with accurate coords - how does he do it? and today we wandered in the short distance from the car park through many spider webs to make the find. Not much of the poor old cairn left but it could be rebuilt a bit maybe.
Good to know something is still there.
Good to know something is still there.
Pulled up at the HART motorbike centre parking and once I found a little bush track, started my way to the Trig. Once at 0m though, I wondered where it might be. I found the rocks and then after checking some logs, realised this was the spot with the marker in the centre. Took the photos. Nice one.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found with blossom* on a great day around West Head. Not much of the old trig left now.
After finding a number of well preserved old trigs along the West Head road, this one was was a lot more scattered! As the gpd read only 10 metres to go, I was still unable to see any evidence. But the co-ords are so accurate that I walked right to the stone circle with the metal trig plate in the middle.
Found together with rogerw3.
The old stone cairn is now reduced to a stone circle, but still unmistakable.
In the middle of the circle is the PM mentioned by rogerw3, which was intended by the NSW Department of Lands to replace the trig.
This was a fun find -- not too hard to reach from the car park of the driver training establishment.
The old stone cairn is now reduced to a stone circle, but still unmistakable.
In the middle of the circle is the PM mentioned by rogerw3, which was intended by the NSW Department of Lands to replace the trig.
This was a fun find -- not too hard to reach from the car park of the driver training establishment.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Another old trig found with pjmpjm. This one used to be a cairn type, but was unpiled and the original location plug encased in a PM Cover Box, this was also registered as a Survey Marker as number 3429 but is also registered as a Trig number TS5083. The remains of the cairn still make a nice circle around the Cover Box.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I went for a walk through here about a week ago but found nothing. However I was expecting it to be closer to the road. The coords indicate it's well away from the road. Good to see it still exists.
*FTF*
Close parking was a little challenging for this trig, as the roadside is all No Stopping, though it looks like you could get a park in the HART carpark area which is only 50M from the trig.
The stone surround is easy to spot, though the centre was full of rocks too and I did want not dig in the dirt without gloves today.
Close parking was a little challenging for this trig, as the roadside is all No Stopping, though it looks like you could get a park in the HART carpark area which is only 50M from the trig.
The stone surround is easy to spot, though the centre was full of rocks too and I did want not dig in the dirt without gloves today.
