Geocaching

A jaunt up the Mt Tennent Fire Trail to do the Tennent Trail series (and some others), in the hope that I can catch up to my geocaching buddy. Hopefully he's out today with the SES doing some civic duty, whilst I'm selfishly caching. A Canberra Bushwalking Club walk up from the NVC, so the opportunity for a lift back to my car on Apollo Rd.

A great series! So well put together and it encourages a great walk. A huge investment by the CO for our enjoyment.

#6 - spent a bit of time on this one, but finally made good.
#13 - very good! Which was sized for which? In July 2008 I was wandering up the Mt Tennent Fire Trail and found them digging in a power cable under the road, all the way to the top. So this one aptly named. A favourite from me.

TFTC and TFTS, Tankengine.

Solved the bushwalking-geocaching dilema. Put on a walk myself and make the primary objective caching. Pleased to log this, it was a good puzzle.

The description and previous logs hint at an ascent. If this is the case, let me tell you a gospel-true story. I was at the opening of the enhanced track up to Stockyard Spur. One of the speakers described the initial stone steps at the bottom of the track as representing the 4 rises and flats on the track to the helipad. Only trouble is, is that the ratio of risers to treads in the 4 steps don't quite represent the enormous climbs and short flats of the track. How far up will you have to go to find Basil?

Gets a favourite from me. TFTC.

Hats off to Agent Basil and his fellow RFS volunteers. And special thanks to him for peeing on that smoldering log.

Can I add a little something to the description? As the sign on the door indicates, it was built for personnel tending the alpine annexe of the National Botanic Gardens, not the adjacent Scotts Pine arboretum. The alpine annexe site is centred around S 35° 34.3614' E 148° 46.9428' (GDA94), about 130m up the gully from where the Mt Gingera footpad leaves the Mt Franklin Rd. I started walking after the 2003 fires and the only evidence I can find is perhaps some benched tracks on the high side of the site.

Solved the bushwalking-geocaching dilema. Put on a walk myself and make the primary objective caching. After puffing up from Corin Dam we met another Canberra Bushwalking Club party which included mr_roo. With a little direction from him, I logged it too. TFTC.

Solved the bushwalking-geocaching dilema. Put on a walk myself and make the primary objective caching. After puffing up from Corin Dam we met another Canberra Bushwalking Club party which included mr_roo.

The story of Gingera is that many folk think that the guyed pole at S 35° 34.6350' E 148° 46.8204' (GDA 94) is Mt Gingera. It certainly boasts the best view and has a nearby tenacious Snow Gum clinging to the granite. I've seen maps marked 'NatMap Gingera'. However, if you look up the crest of the ridge to the NW, you'll see that the trees are higher. About 110m in that direction you'll come across some high granite rocks. It's here that Harry Mouat, the early 1900s surveyor of this part of the ACT border, took a 1" gaspipe and drove it into a cleft of a boulder to mark this border point. I look for it every time I come here (being a more tragic border marker hunter than a geocaching tragic - one day I'll bring a metal detector!).

In the company of mr_roo and 3 others, we wandered a bit further to the NW along the crest and looked for the cache. Thanks to mr_roo, he not only found the cache but did the pen work for me. Now that's service. Never seen so many Bogong moths before! TFTC.