Bingleburra CORS Bingleburra, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 01-Oct-12. Waypoint TP6556
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S32° 24.707' E151° 39.140' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 373272E 6413120N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 442 m |
| Local Government Area: | Dungog |
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Description
Official name of this Trig Station as per NSW Department of Lands is: Bingleburra CORS
Serial number is: TS 12166
Last Inspected on: No Data.
Elevation is: 458.742 metres.
Receiver Type: TREMBLE NETR9
(CORS Continually Operating Reference Stations) collecting geodetic data from GNSS.
Information regarding CORS including a picture of the receiver can be found on the Land & Property Information site (a NSW Government Service) via http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/surveying/corsnet-nsw/network_information
To log a find on the Geocaching Australia website, you will need to include a picture of the CORS, along with your GPS receiver and (preferably) yourself. You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the CORS.
Logs
We had clearly not researched it well, but we arrived at the (very) steep unsealed access track from Bingleburra Rd, noting a work 4WD with trailer parked there. The road surface was dry, so we figured we'd give it a shot. I stopped and checked the first couple of (giant) drainage humps before just ploughing through them, and with a little wheel spinning here and there, arrived at the top. We did notice an open gate at 400m from the trig on our way.
At the top was a Hunter Water work team, and the ?boss approached us, and politely told us the gate would normally be locked. We told him what we were up to, and would stay out of their way, and they seemed ok, even offered to help me turn the car around, despite there being a huge amount of space (in caching terms!).... I think he was concerned about a potential WorkSafe incident!
The views are nothing less than spectacular - the best around, and would be worth the walk, just note you'll have to jump a vehicle-no-access gate (we couldn't see any signage prohibiting any access).
The drive down was certainly slow and steady.... I wouldn't like to do it in the wet....
Mistake 1: "This looks nice and close to the road" - doesn't check elevation difference
Mistake 2: "Uphill, hey? The tonne of rain water overnight will have drained off by now so it should be easy in my 4wd - the road has been graded and is loose mud.
I give up.
Thankfully they were the only mistakes I made and doing a thousand point turn slipping in the mud didn't get me stuck on a tree or sliding down to the main road. All for a trig point. Nah.
But only found it as a result of remembering the track off to Starlight, thinking that I would check out if there was any remains of it, but then noticed a trig at the top of the hill (Richardson), so added the coordinates for the CORS trig as well, and set on off up the hill. (With a wrong set of coordinates for Richardson I found Bingleburra CORS first). Well labelled, tho don't know if the photo shows the details. Terrain 2½ I would think (unless you are able to drive up). First time I have been able to identify the plate on a CORS trig.