Madden Maddens Plains, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 20-Aug-11. Waypoint TP5979

Out with fitzy_1965 to take advantage of the bonus points on offer this week.

Having solved most of the Princes Highway Puzzles, they were our main target today. All were found quickly & easily unless otherwise mentioned.

Made a few detours for trigs too. Certainly a long walk to pick up these four trigs....all so different.

Bush bashing is best done with a long shirt and jeans that aren't already torn! Came out with a fair number of scratches and nearly fell over when my jeans got hooked on a long branch.....managed to follow wild pig trail for the most part which made it a tad easier.....well, sort of.

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GCA 2,078. Found during a run down the Princes Highway with minniek today.

Having solved 21 out of 22 existing puzzles in the Princes Highway Puzzle Series we headed out for a run today to grab as many as we could for a last day grab of bonus dZ points. Next find of the day. A bonus Trig along the way. The 80m bush was pretty tough !

TFTC !!

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While in the area getting the Waymark/Trig Point (Madden New) I thought I would grab this one as well. It was getting a little bit late from hunting for Madden New on the wrong side of Princes Highway from having the wrong coordinate in the GPSr, but I did initially find a very similar tower very close, which had me quite confused. Now in the correct area it was just a matter of getting close enough on the tracks, and then daring to head off into the thick scrub.
Found the scant remains of this once proud trig at: 1616, Sunday, 20 August, 2017

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On a 'gong escarpment trig road trip with rogerw3.

Parking along the highway and a short walk over a stone mound side track, then the service road ... an initial view of the tea tree enclosed terrain was disconcerting but rogerw3 peered and pondered and sussed a fading track that wandered through the prickly bush but unerringly ended at the trig, or its poor remains.

Tapping around, though, also unearthed a nearby Permanent Marker that with a little effort opened the hatch for the number- 23758 - and a dig of the light soil revealed the pin.

Worth the effort and the adventure.

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Out on a Trig hunt with Whitemushroom.
A bit of bush bashing to get to the remnants of this one, only the vane and a bit of mast is left to slowly rot away, there is an anchor point for a guy wire and very close the PM 23758, this was placed in 1973 after the Trig was destroyed and replaced by "Madden New".

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Yep, this one has seen better days. What's left of the vanes are still attached to the short pole....lying on the ground. Bush bashed the last 50 metres to it.

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This Trig wasn't too hard to find. I had to bush bash for a while but it was a bit easier the closer I got, however long pants would have been a help. There is not much left of this one just some rusty metal and a short piece of the post.

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We pushed on to find this one after Madden New not expecting much. Did almost a complete circle trying to avoid a bushbash, following the tracks and roads until finally we had about 50 metres of horribly prickly scrub before locating the remnants at GZ. A poor old burnt down post and rusty vanes is better than nothing. A few rocks nearby may have been the cairn but it must have been unpiled when Madden New was built.
For historical trig buffs only.

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A really bushie one this one! After parking on the nearby road it is only a few hundred meters away. But those last hundred meters are really hard and thick bush to find the rusty remains of this trig!
TFTC Wilbert67

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