 Geocache Black Mountain, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By geodesy#5 on Sunday 21 October 2001. Waypoint GC239F
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Logs
September 2010
1st
Arrived in Canberra this afternoon and once van was set up off to view some of the sights and find a cache or two.
TFTC
TNLN
August 2010
30th
great little cache- found on a school excursion
TFTC
22nd
Sent from my mobile device.
7th
Our last cache for the day. This one was on a steep hill, but we got it!  TFTC
7th
Last one for the day and I'm feeling every step (Thursday P.E, Friday Work, Geocaching and today Work and Geocaching.... ) so it did take me a little while to get here and get back to the car. I'm so hurting right now but what a fun day of caching thanks Herca, Wasptor and T-rex 05! ohhh and TFTC!
6th
After taking the "long way round" with MV found the cache and went back to tower to check out the view.
July 2010
25th
Walked down the hill after being told that trig points don't all look alike. As my lovely husband just pointed out, I whinged most of the way up the hill... oh well! New goal: get fit. TFTC! 
25th
Found this one before going up the Telstra Tower. There are some crazy people here in Canberra, they are either riding bikes up Black Mountain and back down again or they are walking up from the bottom, (wish I was that fit) just about killed me climbing back from the cache.
TFTC
25th
Walked down from the top to get this one. Glad I did there is no way I would have made it from the bottom, it was bad enough walking back up after finding it. TFTC.
16th
Just a short walk from the tower. Nice
4th
Found by edmil and maddie. we had just been admiring the views from Red Hill, enjoying the sunshine and some good coffee and cake, We decided that we would see if could find our way across to the Telstra tower as there was sure to be a cache there. We asked a local the best way to get there and she pointed us in the right direction. However we still needed to refer to the GPS for some advice.
We arrived at the top off the hill and admired the structure. While it was open to the public maddie assurred me that there was no way she was going to take the tour, so we gave it a miss. Instead I fired up the GPS and we took off in search of this one. It didn't take us long and the stroll was quite pleasant. At GZ the log was signed and I removed TB to Journey on; no swap was made. As this was a cache at our third hill top adventure in Canberra I figured it deserved some recognition and dipped our traveling Geocoin into the cache this registering the cache on our coins log. The geocoin is reserved for special caches that offer us something different or have special significance to us.
Thanks for the cache.
June 2010
27th
Nice location. Found without any difficulty - had to pose for photographs as muggles went by just as we had retrieved the cache.
Took Liam Bear TB.
Left Beacon TB Dog Tag (Beacon the Frog!). He has come from UK but would like to travel the world!
TFTC.
23rd
We decided to visit another hill to admire the view. The kids flatly refused to get out of the car - not another look-out.
So the rest of us went over to the today for a look around - there must have been a time when you could walk out on the outside area.
We then headed off to find the nearest cache to mark our visit.
Bee2 did th enavigation and while not appreciating the return uphill walk quickly lead us to the cache. There was an amazing looking tree on the left as we headed towards the cache.
TFTC
9th
Different outlook over northern suburbs on this cool morn--needed dry wall skills. tnln
7th
Quick walk down to the cache with P from PUDDLE GANG. But a long walk back up - well it felt bad as my cold was starting to kick in. TFTC
7th
Out and about with Puk Ed when we should have been at work.
Easy find and dropped off a tb that I've held onto for way too long.
TFTC
May 2010
31st
We're the cachers who went up a tower and came to find a cache  . A nice easy find with a pleasant walk at the same time.
We were down visiting friends in Canberra for the weekend and picked this up at the start of the trip home.
15th
Beware of muffle joggers!!!
14th
What great views! Thanks for getting me out at lunch time to see this. TNLN. TFTC
[This entry was edited by Newberys on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 3:51:48 AM.]
11th
Found it 1355. Cache is high and dry but as Black Bunny says it is showing its age. I collected Mighty Wee Caterpillar TB and will move it on soon. TFTW
10th
Found during a lunch time stroll. The container is starting to show its age with a cracked lid but all is still high and dry. A great spot to catch the views of Canberra. SL TNLN TFTC
[This entry was edited by Black Bunny on Monday, May 10, 2010 at 2:23:58 AM.]
April 2010
13th
found on nice sunny morning
8th
Great today to get to this historic cache. Walked off the lunch that we had just consumed several metres overlooking this hide.
Left Mighty Wee Caterpillar GC
5th
Travelled to Bendigo via Canberra from the Oz Mega event. Headed up to Black Mountain to check out the view from the Telstra Tower and to find and log my first ACT cache.
Time: 17:30
Items in: Nil
Items out: Nil
March 2010
31st
Found whilst visiting the Telstra Tower. TNLNSL TFTH
9th
Nice one, TFTC! I picked up the two TBs, they are well cared for.
8th
what a great hill, a struggle for the 2 wheels going up, but a great walk to GZ. Left a couple of friends for company for the next walkers thru here. treat them well. GOYA
8th
Good spot. Lots of excellent hidey holes
February 2010
27th
10 yo Nodwar has been busting to get out caching again, so picked up this one with a few others on a pleasant Sat mornin. TFTC
1st
A familiar walk up but I certainly chose the wrong time! 4pm on a baking hot summer day.......
Thanks for the excuse to get out and do some exercise.
Petra!
January 2010
27th
Was up on Black Mountain collecting a clue for Tourist Tours and decided I should do this venerable old fellow too. Since I did "A ride around the lake" so I could do "Triangle's Apex" I figured I'd make it a trio and do this one also. Almost got sprung by a muggle, but she had her heaphones on and didn't hear me clunking rocks around. If you park at the tower be careful locking your car. My remote didn't work at all.
Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble
22nd
Thought this might be a quick grab but wasn't counting on the gradient (I know, it was obvious right??? - I plead a looooong week  ). Still a nice wander despite the heat and the wind with a well-stocked cache at the end.
TNLNSL - TFTC
12th
Our first cache in Oz!! Had to go up to the Telestra tower while in Canberra. Fired up the GPS because it looked like prime GC country. Great trail, wish we'd had more time to hike (and a day that wasn't 38!)!
TFTC!
7th
Found after a short search in the heat...
Thanks for bringing me here!
5th
Found this again. Didn't realise while caching with Ratpackleavings that I had already found this. Fun both times....
5th
This cache wasn't on the planned list, but it was close enough and it would require an actual walk when all previous caches for the day had been virtual drive by's. Found easily, recovered with some manual labour that the others just watched me perform. Sara took the TB, but then she also had to carry one of her kids back up the hill! TFTC
3rd
forgot to drop TB and GC!
3rd
Easy found after visiting the tower and enjoying the 360 view of Canberra.
We were dipping the worldcaching geocoin for mileage and will grab it again afterwards. The Senior Bom red car TB will be left here. We wish you a good journey back to Denmark.
TFTC! Bernbom (Denmark) #589
December 2009
30th
A brilliant largish cache. One of the few traditionals in this area and a normal sized cache at that. I enjoyed the walk down from the top. nothing hard about this at all. GZ was obvious but I needed a little bit of Herculean strength to removed the entombed cache. Great views from up top too. Left the Travelling Toyota TB
November 2009
14th
Good thing the path is sealed here. It can be a bit steep. TFTC
11th
15th and last find of the night. Found with steveski74. TFTC.
10th
Gotta live a night bush walk. Last for the night I reckon. TFTC
October 2009
26th
A quick lunch time run as I work at the bottom of Black Mountain. Only one muggle in the area that thought I was enjoy the scenery eating out of a largish lunchbox!  TFTC
13th
Found it. Took the travel bug, heading for the Central Coast.
4th
Visited with Gumblossom over the long weekend. Not the best weather but you can't let that stop you. The kiddies really enjoyed the various toys and trinkets. Mum dropped in a travel bug to begin it's very own adventure.
TFTC, Shumway.
4th
Found by Shumway - dropped in TB "Aussie Bear Trinkets" to go cache seeking far and wide. TFTC
2nd
Had to avoid meditating muggle nearby. Just waited until he closed his eyes... TFTC
September 2009
7th
Very cold, wet and cloudy day in Canberra. Our last cache for the trip. We came up for the view, but standing at the lookout we couldn't even see the Telstra tower, as we were standing in a cloud! Not many views today
Quick & easy find of the cache, and then we headed off to the airport.
Thanks for the cache.
6th
Great view, great cache. Loved this size.
SL TFTC
August 2009
15th
Straightforward find of fairly large cache. Nice view after bit of a hike up. TNLN and TFTC.
13th
Nice view. TFTC
11th
Found easily - and then it began to rain.
TNTL TFTC
10th
Thanks for leading my to the largest cache I have found so far. This was an unplanned cache for me on my work trip to Canberra, and it was a good, if steep, walk in the bush. TNLN.
July 2009
24th
Visiting the Mountain for a look around the capital, we found out there were a couple of caches about so we had to have a go. As promised there were plenty of Muggles on the tracks but I think that they were so busy sucking air that they hardly noticed us as we quietly sat there and wondered at their defiance to be jogging up such tracks.
Took TB But had left our swaps at our boarding place in the northern suburbs.
Thanks
15th
After a bit of a bush walk to find the newest cache available we decided to work at the other end of the scale and catch the most antiquated cache as yet unfound by us.
We enjoy hunting antique Tupperware.
11th
Dropped off travel bug Mrs K Nickel to help her hop along its way.
11th
Took geo girlfreind out for her first cache today. loved the romantic view. took a toy soldier and left a butterfly hair clip. TFTC.
7th
Found this cache easily enough with some help from my little geo-sister. I loved the little area it was in.
TNLN, TFTC
June 2009
27th
On my way home from doing another cache today I thought why not climb a mountain. So up I went on one of canberra's well know hills.
Found the walking fairly easy. Yes I walked didnt drive! Found the cache easily. Took a TB so it could meet mr_roo TFTC
Visited mr_roo's addiction geocoin for distance on my pushbike
8th
This second cache was fun and easy so I thhink it's one of the best ever caches man.
Kind regards Injuryman.
8th
Sat down to have a think about where it might be and found I was sitting on top of it!
May 2009
22nd
Fun find.
Left spiderman travel bug.
8th
We stopped to decrypter the code on top of the cache
April 2009
18th
Did the tourist thing and went up Telstra Tower and picked up a couple of caches on the way down.
Easy find while a lot of joggers went up and down. Left Asgard TB. TFTC.
Day 308 of non-stop caching
17th
#2 of the return to caching trip. Many thanks. Was also Emily's first cache, not bad for a 6 week old
12th
Rocks, rocks and more rocks.
12th
Found with geosister as night fell at the end of a productive day geocaching on Mt Ainslie and Black Mountain. Had to use the flash on the N95 to illuminate the area and locate it. Geosister managed to spot the tell-tale signs of a hidden cache. TFTC
5th
Found with robwoozle and aboyandhisdog. It was robwoozle's 100th cache!
5th
Yay, #100 for me. A pleasant stroll from the carpark with eozboots and aboyandhisdog. Thanks.
3rd
Found this cache today while visiting the Telstra Tower and enjoying the view over Canberra from up there. Cache was a easy find.
TFTC JM-Project
March 2009
20th
I found this one, while waiting for the nearby building to open.
no trade
TFTC Gecko_jm
15th
Looked for, very hard, didn't find. Oh well, never mind.
4th
Great hide spot away. T:TB L:item SL TFTC
February 2009
14th
Found this one whilst waiting for the sun to set and heading to the lookout to watch night fall on Canberra. A Tough Climb as we atacked it from the top down! TFTC
9th
I thought caching was making me fit, but that hill tested me out. Thank goodness the weather has cooled down!
Once the GPS had settled down, found the GZ quickly and signed log.
TFTC!
3rd
So the trail starts at Frith Road, Acton does it
I'm glad I didn't know that fact today as I might just have approached the cache from that point 
Instead I hopped out of the geomobile and into the 30odd degree heat of the afternoon and strolled downhill to find the cache
A nice easy find
It was still an effort to get back up to the sumit even from here though [xx(]
I left Crew153's Boomerang#4 geocoin in this ancient cache.
January 2009
30th
Found with nathanr and wilga. TNLN, TFTC!
29th
Find #2 of 2 for a lunch time cache hunt with gavz. The heat made this one seem a longer walk than it was - it was really quite short, but we were glad to be back in the air conditioning of the car afterwards.
TNLN, TFTC.
19th
After a visit to black mountain, I took a short detour to find the "geocache". Going down was good, going up took a little more effort.
Thanks geodesy#5 - Great location.
17th
196 A pleasant find on a Black Mountain run. T4TC
16th
Our last for the afternoon and we decided to walk down to this one. Little So even wanted to keep going down a little!
Very nice area around GZ to sit and enjoy the view. We retrieved the cache quickly, signed log and returned it before any muggles came by, then sat and enjoyed the area before heading buck up.
Again So wanted to go down first but shortly after starting up we heard the familiar 'my little legs hurt - I need a shoulder ride'. Ah well, there was my exercise for the day.
SL TFTC
10th
Nice quick find this afternoon following a short enjoyable walk from the car park. Great location and a nice hide. TNLN and TFTC.
7th
A quick find whle on a caching trip to Canberra. Nice easy find. Thanks geodesy#5 for the cache.
2nd
#37 for Ozdoogies. Oldest Cache for us, Gr8 to see going since Oct 2001. 
Needs a new log book- signed piece of paper that other cachers had placed in cache from visits last month.
Cache in GC.
Left: ActionMan figure
Took: Pink dinosaur
SL
TFTC / TFTH
Ozdoogies
2nd
Needs new log book. Others are full..
Cheers
Ozdoogies
December 2008
31st
Nice stroll from the carpark for dogma, maddog & dogtired
going back up is a bit harder [xx(]
Easy find, great that this has been here so long.
TFTC
28th
Great start to a night caching run cool place to hide except for the walk back up the hill. Nice place.
MC KENNA
TFTC
28th
#206
Part of a night run done with Mc Kenna.
Nice in the evening. Though heading back up the hill was more challenging.
Thanks,
Gwen
24th
Kids bashed through the bush, but quite a nice track right next to it. Took us a bit to find, but well worth it.
21st
Found with the kiwi team on our great Australian caching tour.
Great location and a good cache to do.
TFTC
21st
Found this one with Moneydork, Tofska , Rediguana and ADV during our Australian caching holiday.
21st
Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: Good to visit one of the older geocaches in town. T4TC, M@
21st
An awesome spot - went up the tower in order to fully appreciate the view. TFTC
13th
Ye olde cache- hadn't got to this one before so today was the day. TFTC!
12th
Wow. This is one of the early ones. Found during rainy conditions, so we missed out on the view. You could almost hear the surrounding countryside drinking it up. The cache was found quite easily, and was in good condition (dry). TNLN Thanks for the cache.
November 2008
29th
Gut und schnell gefunden.
Danke
4th
A good way to encourage the kids to the top of the mountain!
- toy soldier
+ toy monster
October 2008
25th
This is definitely the oldest cache I've ever found.
16th
Found today with geobaby - I came from the top of the hill - which was the easier way (I think) - as mentioned by others, the log is very full but I found a blank page earlier on to record my visit.
TFTC
7th
WanderingAus wandered by on day 152 of a 6 month trip Wandering Australia and made an easy find.
My find No 959, LCC, TNLNSL, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again.
T4TH geodesy#5
Keith
September 2008
14th
Found this just as huge storm cell zoomed in over Canberra.
Left hedgehog and ball puzzle and took fake rock. Seem appropriate.
Celebrated with milkshake up in kiosk of tower. Terrific storm
TFTC
14th
I'm getting better at spotting likely hides from a distance. I had walked up from Belconnen Way so I had a little rest while I read the log....which is full (ish).
TNLN
8th
Getting down to the cache was no problem at all. Walking back up the path was a bit more difficult though. Nice easy find, however the log book is getting rather full and will need replacing.
TNLNSL
TFTC
4th
We didn't quite follow the instructions for this one, but we found a nice little trail in from the top. A quick walk down the hill to GZ and the cache was quickly spotted. A nice night time walk.
August 2008
30th
I love this walk around here and finding this cache meant we had an excuse to come back - not that we needed one.
Great spot. Sadly it ended in tears for JJ as he was getting tired and tripped over some rocks.
TFTC
30th
Found it with Jemalong and family. Good sized cache easy find with some nice views along the way.
TFTH
Cheers
mandaj and timmeh
29th
A quick run down the hill to get this one, youngest geokid loves caching in this type of terrain and found the cache quickly. A not so quick walk back up the hill, visited the tower for a fabulous view of Canberra. TNLN TFTC
23rd
Walked up hill from car park and down the other side, repeat on the way back... i hate hills.
nice cache though
9th
Found with Teamppss and Unicornnikita on a cold day of mountaintop views. TNLN, TFTC
9th
Found after a scramble down the hill, the track back was a better option. Great views and a nice spot for a picnic. Thanks for bringing us here. TNLN
9th
Found after a long walk from Black Burley across the top of the hill. Took chain, left butterfly hair clip, TFTC
4th
I found this cache easily and then decided to go up Telstra Tower. The views were amazing today and I imagine this will be my last visit up the mountain. TFTC!
July 2008
26th
Found this with Rick.
Very nice spot... One of the black birds seemed to object to us being there but...
Took Beachball TB...
9th
Found @ 2:45:42 PM (Cachemate time)
Saw lots of people puffing and panting past here, whilst we were only silly enough to walk down and back.
T: N
L: Screwdriver
SL
TFTC
9/07/08
- Bug "Beach Ball" dropped
6th
After a big day at the National History Museum we arrived at the tower for a night view of the city.Managed to nab this cache just before sunset TFTC.
June 2008
25th
Picked this one up after visiting Black Burley. Great views, great weather, great walks ... we are so lucky to be able to cache in Canberra. TFTC
20th
1 out of 22 caches for the night
TFTC
20th
#107
a cache of 22 today for a birthday caching run with geoKid zoratz
walked down from the top of the mountain at 0300 at night, very cold but rewarded by find and views
TFTC
16th
Third day of the Great Southern Raid with Rastas000. Nice stroll down to the cache and no Muggles ona week day, Yay!. Poor Rastas was doing it tough with the flu and I thought I was going to have to piggy-back him up the hill! TFTH
16th
Day 3 of the my southern caching run in Canberra and points west!! In the company of the She-Gecko of THE GREEN GECKOS. Top little walk and I must admit to a lot of pain when forcing air in and out of my flu ridden chest on the walk up the hill. Found easily as the coords were spot on!! TFTC SL
May 2008
31st
Nice stroll from the top of Black Mountain. Found right after the sun went down and got some great pictures. Such a contrast from the landscape of Florida. TFTC.
25th
Easy find but had to hide from the morning hill scramblers. Grabbed the geocoins and left a geocoin. TFTC
15th
An original name! but the ACT's second oldest surviving cache no less. Came down from the top and an easy find was made. Thanks geodesy#5 for putting this one out all those years ago.....
11th
This one has been on my to-do list for quite some time. I only saw one person as I wandered down to the cache. It would be quite a climb from the bottom! Found quickly, signed the log and headed off.
Thanks geodesy#5 for the cache.
Left: Flower of Life Coin and Denmark Coin.
Took: Nothing
5th
Great this time you get to park at the top of the hill and walk down to the cache. But that means that one has to walk back up.
JABs.
5th
Parked at the top of the hill and walked down to this one.
Quick find whilst on a caching spree in the ACT.
TFTC
March 2008
22nd
Good walk to this great cache
Tool Ball for geo dog "Bella"
LEft FAce wipes sachet
TFTC
9th
12:29am
Tis but a cache I see before me after a quick stroll in the warm early morning air. Stunning time to be out really.
Cheers
February 2008
23rd
Nice little path, a few muggles around as it was a weekend. Tricky for us (only beginners) to find but spotted rock pile ok in the end. Good kids one.
January 2008
30th
Went there straight from the Botanic Gardens (after having hunted the multi-virtual cache there). It was a very pleasant walk (despite the toasty temperatures!) and there was no one around (except for animals, mainly ants).
I like the spot Swaps are in fact mainly for kids, but some can be nice
IN: Irish golf tees; golden chain; a couple of eurocents from several countries (guess from where!)
OUT: a yellowish glass stone
Thanks for the walk 
26th
#15 - Nice view, good spot, sadly no enticing swaps. TNLNSL.
21st
The cache was listed as 2.8km from my home coordinates so I thought why not go for a nice long walk with the geohound. Well it turned out to be a 9k walk with an elevation change of 185m and most of that was as I was getting close to the cache. Once we got to the top it was no troubles finding the cache.
TNLN - TFTC
5th
Didnt even know this path existed cache was exposed so it was hidden in a manner to be a bit more elusive T toy car left dice
thanks for the strolle
December 2007
28th
Discovered during a day in Canberra. Took Prisoner of War Hero Badge TB. SL. TFTC.
23rd
First (for a while) of a couple targeted today.
Nice views & no-one about.
T - GC
L - Speedy4 (Vietnam Star) TB
23rd
Nice little walk. TFTH!
22nd
Dropping of a TB and GC (and retrieved another GC).
13th
Just before leaving work the decision was made to try and conquer tradition caches on Black Mountain.
Made our way down to this, followed the clues and found it quickly enough. Signed the log, took 'Cache Movers' TB and moved on, as the TB will do shortly.
Loved the views from up here.
TFTC,
Cheers,
13th
Picked up Hot Dog geocoin - but not for long....!
13th
Down Good - Up bad.....ha ha ha
I just love the clue about the tree...still true as of today.
A nice location and hide - big cache !!
Took Hot Dog Geocoin - already know which 'food' related cache its going to...Left Nil.
TFTC !!
Cache Number 88.
Cheers....
November 2007
30th
nice easy find, still got me out of breath though (not very hard to do). also left a new coin to start its journey.
[This entry was edited by sil on Friday, November 30, 2007 at 8:14:13 AM.]
29th
Checked this one out on a lunch time cache run. Easy find and nice walk down, no so fun going back up
Left two GC's for the start of their journey...
TFTC
29th
Last one for the day on my way home, it was a pleasant stroll there. Nice big cache, but I had some trouble putting it back! TNLN, thanks!
3rd
Not too hard a cache to get too. Found it after extricating it from a landslide. Great location. Always nice to be able to do some geocaching on holidays.
Took the Monkey Business travel bug and left an SES ruler.
3rd
Logging the drop of Monkey Business travel on behalf of Marcus Vitruvius.
3rd
Found at 1325. Easy find in a great location just off a great walking track. Would like to come back to walk the length of this one.
T - 4x4 Jeep TB
L - Monkey Business TB
TFTC.
3rd
Not too hard a cache to get too. Found it after extricating it from a landslide. Great location. Always nice to be able to do some geocaching on holidays.
Took the Monkey Business travel bug and left an SES ruler.
October 2007
28th
Nice walk up the north side of Black mountain, found this cache no problems, hint gives it away nicely
TFTC
L: Jeep 4x4 TB
T: Bouncy ball
21st
I enjoyed the walk down the hill. Passed a bloke coming up pushing a unicycle. I wouldn't like to ride one down that path. Found the cache easily.
September 2007
11th
very quick find, the hint is very good.
cold wet and windy day, haven't done much walking on this side of the mountain, might have to spend some time exploring the area.
T-nothing
l-hoppity frog
7th
72of74
Not a pleasant place to be today with all the rain around. Thankfully I'd taken in the view many times before so i was only here for the cache. Apparently Canberra's oldest cache. Well I'm honoured. TNLN Cache is good nic despite the rain. Thanks
August 2007
27th
Nice Its a good walk around there.
19th
A nice bush stroll after a bird's eye vew of Canberra.
Lots of muggles tested our stealth skills!
TFTC!
July 2007
29th
Found with Wasptor, Great walk, TFTC.
29th
Wandered down the hill to pick this up. Seems to be a fairly well used trail as a few muggles went past on the trip down. Didn't take too long to find the cache, and then we powered back up the hill as Lucas wasn't too happy. Thanks for the cache.
T - Bish0p Tag #1 TB
21st
What a beautiful view. We had fogotten how pretty Canberra is till we started caching! Puffing like a train getting this one!!!
T;Gorilla
L; Shell
TFTC LivandMez!
19th
our very first geocache. YIPEE!!
13th
Dropped in to pick up the Two Towers Travel Bug. This 6 year old cache still going stong.
8th
Great views in what would have been a nice lunch spot ... if I had brought any lunch that is.
June 2007
28th
Dear fellow geocachers, we are trying to locate our Skycity Travel Bug left in Geocache ( near the Telstra Tower ) on 26/5/2007, it has now been noted the TB is not in this cache, we were wondering if anyone saw it there ( it is a skycity Adelaide casino chip $5 ) perhaps it has been taken it to move along and it did not get logged out, if so could you do so, if not we thank you for your time, kind regards Team: A Flipper&co, Gayle & Mark
26th
Nice hide dropped off TB’s. (jeep and Bishop)
23rd
Mrs Gribbly, the Gribblet and I made a quick trek to this one. Had to wait a few minutes for muggles to dissapear then the cache was in hand. The Gribblet loved the Tower!
15th
Dropping off TB - Princess bride.
Was looking to grab TB - Skycity Adelaide but it is nowhere to be seen.
6th
I used to walk past on the trail near here all the time. Today I walked up from the botanical gardens - first made the mistake of trying to go through the gardens - couldnt find the gate in the fence. So instead went on the trail near the road. coords seemed a little off, hint helped alot. left bug, took bug
May 2007
27th
I must have riden by this cache many times over the years. It's in good nick considering how long it has been here for!
TFTC.
Cheers.
27th
Found on a weekend of cycling, caching and punctures. Didn't take long, signed log and moved on to the next challenge. TFTC!
27th
My first go at geocaching, found fairly easily. Interseting in that I have walked past this spot before, not knowing it was there...
26th
Team: A on the Canberra visit 26/5 1.50pm find 9
Nice walk, but the return, ouch, had to go sit in the tower and recouperate over the view.
L: Skycity Adelaide Casio Chip TB on it's journey to Las Vegas
L: pen
TN TFTC SL
19th
If only the car was parked down hill then it would not have been a stuggle to get back up. Plenty of muggles although only one acknowleged my presence (while I was still on the path)
Took nothing left nothing
Thanks for the cache and the view, I had no idea that there was a path in that area.
7th
Our second of thirty finds on our third and last day in Canberra. (80/108 for the trip.)
A great spot! - We enjoyed our time around the landmark that we had been seeing all the time we have been here. It was a very nice stroll to the cache with birds everywhere. Thanks to geodesy#5 for the cache.
April 2007
27th
Quite afternoon caching with Little One whilst Mum and Bub slept. Thought I'd grab this one whilst I was near WP1 for "ET Phone Home".
Nice stroll down the path, not a soul in sight.
TNLN
TFTC
26th
A nice easy find for first of the day after heading up the hill to admire the views. No-one on the path, I guess everyone was back at work today. Cheers Gav [1238]
22nd
Found this evening. Great views from around here. Had no real swaps but left a TINY coin which I have left in this large cache never to be seen again.
TFTC
16th
Quick grab to test out my new GPSr! found on dusk on the way to a dinner engagement. TNLNSL
16th
a quick side trip after work, while looking for WP1 of ET phone home.
now back to this other tricky cache.
Grabbed Allanon's Pet Dragon
L: Party Blower.. woooot
Thanks
Rated: for Overall Experience
15th
Found with frebbles. Nice spot for a cache, good views and a pretty patch of bushland. Lots of walkers going up the path nearby but no one seemed too interested in what we were up to. TNLN TFTC
15th
Found with Hayleylou,
Lots of fit muggles going up the path, not many seen going down, pretended to be taking pictures which seemed to satisfy the curios passers by. Nice views from up here, excellent mountain biking tracks at the bottom of the walking trail too for anyone who's game.
TN Left: Allanons Pet Dragon.
TFTC!
14th
Another great location for a cache with interesting tower near by to explore. TFTC.
14th
First time up to the lookout. Me, Harrip and Neutralguy went up to the lookout for the great view of canberra. Then me and Harrip headed off to find the cache. It was an easy find, but the walk back to car had us puffing... Took a porcelain cat, left a teddy bear toy. TFTC!
13th
Early rise to watch the balloons go by
Some of the shapes, its amazing they fly
But enough of that and the pilots that are mad
A cache was waiting, it just had to be had
So without further ado I trotted down the hill
To get my geocaching fill
Thanks for this but I must flee
Gotta head back to good old Sydney
10th
The Odlids and Company Rathard were on a cycling, touristing and caching fiesta in sunny Canberra. This was a Rathard solo to kick off the trip.
Thanks,
Rathard
9th
Easy walk off of the peak. Met some people who were coming up the trail looking a whole lot more worn out. Plenty of gaps to permit a quick grab. Thanks for the cache.
March 2007
14th
#98 @7pm
An easy walk down - but what goes down must come back up!
Nice hide.
I had forgotten how good the views were from Black Mountain
Thanks
L: Ice Queen from Wanniassa Wander
T: Nascar Navigator TB
12th
Found @ 5:30pm after work. Not too far to walk. TFTC.
4th
Found with SW2092. There was a group of muggles walking up the hill when we got close to GZ and a couple of them decided to stop for a break right next to us. Grrrr. They moved on eventually and we found it.
4th
Found with Sumbloke after the ACT Cache of the Year Awards at Woden. We'd just completed Bug-Off, so whilst we were in the area..... Again, literally nothing to CITO - clean as a whistle. An elderly muggle bushwalking troop decided to have a break right next to where we were looking, so Sumbloke and I just had to take in the view for a while. When they eventually hobbled off we kept on looking, and Sumbloke came up with the goods this time. Didn't know about the GC theme (did this one without reading up on it), so the chain is broken. TNLN. TFTC !
2nd
To Continue in the theme, I dropped by to grab the coin: Operation Australia and New Zealand - reinforcement agent #05 CoinsAndPins Geocoin
Albida.
February 2007
27th
Dropped in to swap GCs, which seems to be almost an established pattern here . Almost dark, the lights are nice. Thanks again.
26th
Visited to exchange a geocoin. The lights of Belconnen and North Canberra were another reward of the visit.i
25th
Dropped by to exchange GCs. Took very cute Monopoly coin and left Volunteers in Geocaching coin. Thanks again.
[This entry was edited by winglen on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:20:19 PM.]
23rd
Great day for caching our 5th for the day, we were after the Geo-coin "Holiday" but missed it by a day, left "Monopoly" geocoin, TNLNSL TFTC
22nd
Found the cache no probs.
Nice Hide.
Took Geocoin LNSL
TFTC
17th
Found in the near dark, any later and we would have struggled. Took Geocoin, left Caching in the HOlidays GC. Nice view of Canberra's lights on the way back.
17th
Nice, easy walk and find. T- plastic worm. L - Monkey and also dropped off GAG9 - Beaver Buddy (PC22QA).
Thanks for a great easy one with some spectacular views.
Steve
January 2007
30th
Nice walk on a paved walking trail. Spotted by an elderly muggle at the site.
Left a mobile hands free kit.
Took TB for a drive; it is definately not a Toyota.
TFTC.
27th
Love that view
TFLH the bower birds
22nd
Lovely view. Nice find.
11th
2nd and last of the 8 caches i planned to visit today..it was just too hot! Nice drive up the mountain, and then walk to the cache. The breeze that came up while i was sitting signing the log made the foray into the heat worth it. Liked the camouflage, took me a bit of thinking of where i would put it myself if i were hiding it. A muggle walked by while i was thinking about where it might be, prompting me to pull out my camera and pretend to be taking a photo of the view through the trees 
TNLNSL TFTC
J!////`/
9th
Found! A well hidden cache in a good location. At first I had the co-ordinates wrong, and I found a white banded tree thinking that the colour had faded, but then I cam back yesterday (9/1/07) and found the actual yellow one! Thanks for the cache... L: Geocaching Tip
T: Crocodile Squeaker toy
medicalmarcus
4th
"Terrain is typical for a Canberra bushwalker!" Without being rude, do you guys only walk up and down hills?
A nice spot on an hot day, giving us a good over view of our caching areas.
Thanks, Robmc.
4th
10th find at 2:29pm for our 5 Days expedition to Canberra, Accompanied by Chewinprickles, Geojen and Robmc. I found this cache.
In :Fireman, Out:Pink Frog, Signed Log, Thanx Geodesy#5....
4th
Another walking one after completing 76 Trombones and Botanic Boggle and a few others, and it's getting pretty hot by now. Still enjoying it all though.
Left a jeep TB here and took Homer Simpson which I later dropped off in Hall if I remember correctly.
Thanks indeed
3rd
Found with -e^ip and friends. He took the find. A nice sized cache too. TNLNSL for me. Young S swaped something however.
Thanks Geodesy#5
3rd
Found this one at about 10:15, and logged this one along with Geof and Youth Group.
December 2006
9th
I went back up to this cache to verify that my GC Ghost Jeep #3 A#45 was indeed missing and to colect the UK traveller GC.
I did see one log in the log book from the 10th of Nov that has not bee entered on the website, maybe there is a traveller out there. I will wait for a miracle.
Albida.
3rd
Visited to exchange geocoins. However, I could not see anything even resembling a geocoin in the cache. So left UK Traveller - Australia and TN.
1st
Found with mightybent while watching aroc adventure race.
1st
Found with the help of Hawke-eye. Walked down from the top as we knew how steep the trail up is after running up it many times.
TNLN
TFTC
November 2006
24th
Its an easy walk down, from the look of those muggles I saw walking up, I think I got the easy end of the deal! Found this cache after a days work on the tower at the top of the hill. +-nothing TFTC.
10th
My sincere apologies - I do indeed have the coin and did not log the cache on my return. Sorry!!!! The coin is still with me and will be going to the Bathurst area get together tonight.
6th
A nice easy walk coming from the uphill direction, and an easy find too. Great views to the north. An oldie but a goodie.
TNL: GC Ghost Jeep #45
TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
4th
Nice walk but very dry for spring.
October 2006
14th
Hot, windy afternoon - ridiculous weather really for this time of year. But had a nice walk up the hill and no trouble finding the cache. No muggles around today. TFTC
T: TB (The Original Celebrated Strong Ginger Traveling Cache)
L: Ring
4th
Today, I rode my MTB up the hill and looked for the cache. Nice ride!
Thanks for the cache - fogg (from Germany)
In: TB
Out: TB
September 2006
19th
A nice day up on the hill. Easy find just before my GPS went flat.
Took Dolphin
Left Star Gazer TB
Cheers
CamHelen and Kids
8th
First find for the day - took a little longer than anticipated, but still found relatively quickly & easily. I thought the hint was missing, then I saw it & finally found the cache. Was ankle-tapped by a loose rock when coming down from the top[B)]. A surprising number of muggles (4) spotted on the trail, so I had to exercise some caution. TNLN TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
August 2006
27th
Found with mcphan/kid
27th
Found with coolaid and mcphan
27th
My third cache find for today, and it turns out that my visit was the second one this cache had as well. I came down from the top of the mountain, rather than hiking up from the bottom.
TNLNSL TFTC!
27th
2nd of the day with McPhanKid, CoolAid and Ictinus. Intersting spot to hide - well done. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
14th
Ninth of twenty-three caches on my one day ACT assault. The cache was found at 12:10. This was a nice walk to GZ where the cache was soon in hand, No matter where you go in Canberra the tower seems to be ever present. The view from this location was great. On the way back to the car I spotted a plane doing sign writing, the writing said vote no, was this the way the politicians told the people what was going on? Thanks geodesy#5 for taking me to this location.
12th
Nice easy find and enjoyed the views
thanks for bringing us here
keener
8th
Beautiful location, just the ticket for a lovely blue day. Took: Toy Car, Left: Australia Geocoin TFTC.
[This entry was edited by biddrm on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 at 6:00:18 AM.]
July 2006
29th
Spent the weekend working in Canberra so we decided to find a few quick cache locations. This was our second find for this afternoon.
After a plesent walk and possibly passing the previous cachers who logged in approx 1hr earlier, we found this one.
We took the wooden block and left Homer from the Simpsons.
The log book was full so Andy left behind a new notebook that he had in his pocket.
29th
Found the cache at 4.30pm. Great walk along to the cache. No swap. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.
20th
found a tb? which is not listed yet!
17th
Easy find, came down from the top. Bikin Bug travel bug not in there but the Old Yella TB was - left it there as its already been moved by us. TNLN - Thanks.
16th
Found by Kimberley @ 13:15. We took the long way on a cloudy day. Nice views and saw some colourful rosellas.
Sorry about taking so long to log this.
Took Bikin Bud TB and left Ol Yella TB.
Thanks,
Fishing's Fun
8th
Third for the day and a nice location
TN
L TB bikin buddy
2nd
Great day for a walk, so we thought we'd do some Geocaching also. Walked up from the other side starting from the carpark on Lady Denman Drive.
Nice easy find. Some Muggles about, but we didn't give the game away.
We would have written in the log book. But it is now totally full! The next visitor should probably bring a new one.
TNLN
June 2006
12th
Terrific Canberra's winter day - and a very pleasant cache hunt. Anyone planning to do this one soon might think to take a new notebook (small). We filled in the last page this morning.
Cicare and fellow cachers
May 2006
16th
The logbook is very nearly full! A great part of Canberra.
April 2006
14th
Nice walk, nice views, very large geocache. Very busy Easter Saturday in cold Autumn Canberra. Left friendship coil, took furry Kangaroo. Will take to NZ. Visiting next week, will leave at NZ cache somewhere
8th
Gday
I took 2 of my friends who have not been geocaching before to find this one whilst down in Canberra for the weekend. They were so excited when they found the geocache!!! Very easy one indeed.
Read the logs below for clues on accessing this cache which make the find less tiring, even though it isnt that bad to start with.
Thanks
Baulko Bundy Bear member + 2 friends new to geocaching
[This entry was edited by Baulko Bundy Bears on Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 10:12:12 PM.]
5th
Thanks - it's been a while since I've been up here and it was nice to go for a stroll in some great scrub - the concrete path wasn't that natural but pretty good nonetheless. Met the Gigglygecko Clan while I was up there (I spied their carefully concealed GPS and had to say G'day - thanks for the chat and also the flattery of being considered 'cool' *grin*) so it was good to have a quick chat with likeminded souls. Missed each other at the cache by mere minutes which would have been funny . I didn't get to the Bot Gardens to catch you guys again as I didn't have any change for parking.
Cheers,
Leighroy.
PS - the log book was very nearly full so the next cacher might consider taking some more paper up?
5th
Geoteen led the way as true as a north needle on a compass! There were a few people around but all were up top whilst we were busy down below We met a fellow geocacher in the carpark and had a lovely but quick chat. First time that's happened and Geoteen was chuffed to see that there are some cool guys doing this. TNLNSL, TFTC
March 2006
26th
I thought this would be an appropriate cache for my 50th find, Drove all the way to the top and walked down. No one around so a quick little look for the cache, nice and easy find. TNLNSL TFTC
February 2006
25th
Had this one marked to find since last visit to Canberra so when back for a rowing weekend we decided to give it a go. Found the site relatively easily then had to do the hard yards to check all the likely hiding places.
Left MacDonalds Barbie doll and took Saruman the White.
25th
We were on Black Mountain checking out the great view from the tower and noticed the chache was close so we decided to go chase it.
Well hidden. It took nearly 10 minutes to find once we got to the spot.
We didn't have anything to swap so we just signed the book.
23rd
Back-log drop & grab of the "Coyote Trust Tracker TB".
23rd
With many thanks to ADAcache for taking me on this whirlwind tour & cache hunt today, we found this cache promptly in its niche. TNLNSL, cache is in good condition (although the logbok is getting full). TFTC.
[This entry was edited by CoyoteTrust on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 4:11:17 AM.]
14th
I had already walked to the top of the hill via the road, so I approached this one from that direction. The cache was found nice and easily. The track was clear of muggles at the time, but there was an anorexic looking young woman running up and down the track several times that passed by shortly after I had rehidden the cache. Thanks for showing me this area, and for the cache.
12th
In Canberra for a 21st birthday yesterday and of course couldn't resist the urge to cache. This is our 8th for the trip, lots of muggles walking nearby. Took coin left ball. Also no TB in cache, so someone must have moved her on and not logged her...... Thanks for the cache
12th
I was in the region and tackled this one from above.
TN. Left small dinosaur.
Albida.
10th
A nice hide in a great area, 360 degrees nearby!.....though it is always harder to find this cache AFTER having lunch up the top!!
Thanks for the cache,
Agsmky
6th
Another great cach.. I a great walk to it... I thought I was been followed by someone... But I guess with area and great view there would be plenty of people around...Thanks guys
January 2006
20th
Found it with Fore! and Allrounder....
Great location even if we attacked it from above.
Great cache, lotsa stuff..
Fun tnln
20th
Sometimes do you ever get the feeling that ya kinda cut corners on things? Ha... use the road then the path.. "sure... we'll do that!"
Loved the size of the cache... it was like "eureka!".
TFTC
In: arrow golf ball marker, red frog and nemo plush toy
Out: toy car
Deposited: Katie Bug
20th
After heading to the end of Frith Rd (& beyond), we decided the better approach would be from a different angle given that I had an idea what trail it was off after doing a certain race on Tuesday.
After parking, we had less than 200m to walk and found it after a very quick search. An excellent location & a well stocked cache.
Found with Fore! & Shadow!
Took toy cars (x2) & mini yo yo.
Left Nemo plush toy & red frog.
TFTC.
7th
nice one. can't believe it's been there so long. I went a-huntin' for the travel bug but, alas, she weren't there.
December 2005
29th
After escaping the Yuralumla-Canberra fire we decided to get as far away as possible and with a quick phone call we discovered Thyla and Thylo had the same idea and they too had been trapped by the fire on the other side of the old Brick Works.
We met up near this cache and after a much needed coffee we teamed up for an assault on this cache.
The walk to the GZ was enjoyable even though the heat of the day was hot, and in no time we arrived at the GZ.
The cache was found by Thylo after a very quick search and the cache was duly logged by both teams.
Many thanks geodesy#5 for placing a cache in a now familiar area, and a big thanks to Thyla and Thylo for your friendship and company in Canberra.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Great people, fun caches this is Geo caching" Clan.
29th
Stopped to have a look at the nearby Telstra Tower and to have a nice cool drink after, and to let the nerves settle down from the drama of the attempt on a previous cache.
Got a phone call from the Coffee Clan, who also got caught up in the drama of a previous cache. Meet up, had drinks at Telstra Tower, and went off as a group to find the cache.
Nice easy find.
Left: i! Chick TB
Took: Jeep TB
Thanks for the cache and the excellent nearby views.
Thyla and Thylo.
29th
dropped of Jeep Travel Buggy in case we needed a 4x4 way down the mountain.
17th
My first cache! Go team newbie!
17th
I had my first cache within an hour of finding out about geocache (thanks to a thief and the wookie). I can already tell this is going to turn into an obsession.
17th
Our first cache! Dont listen to Hailtothethief, it took a lot of coaxing to get him to give up his Mariah Carey card.
17th
An evening cache for team newbie. Took postcard and block, left mariah carey (not mine, really - I got it from roger, the cabin boy) and christmas earring.
November 2005
27th
While in Canberra for the weekend we thought we'd check out some of the sights and do a little caching. Overtook some cyclists on the way up, did'nt realise it was a race until we crossed the finish line. Took a pleasant walk and found gz with ease.
Took Screwdriver set
Left Soap and Garfield DVD.
A most enjoyable cache. Thanks geodesy#5
18th
The views from up here are wonderful. I always try to visit this spot when I am in Canberra.
Took a candle
Left a Stanley precision screwdriver set.
Thanks geodesy#5
10th
great cache!
found it and signed the logbook.
tnln
6th
Looks like cyclists use this road up to here as a stress test. We know it would stress (kill) us. Left pink manicure set, took clamp.
Chris & Renate from Barrie, Ontario, Canada
August 2005
13th
Up hill and down dale. Down was ok, up wasn't. Great area with some nice views.
T: Fusewire
L: Shell Candle
Thanks
13th
I visited the ACT with Team Horizons for a weekend of caching.
Another hill descent/climb. Nice stroll & view.
T: Darwin star toy L: mini clamp
TFTC
Roostaman
12th
Nice walk great views. Did this on way home. Discovered that the Crewman security system doesn't work on Black Mountain need to lock manually almost forgot how
Enjoyed sittign there just before sunset.
TNLN
Thansk for the cache
9th
ITS SNOWING UP HERE.
Here I am on this mountain in my work suit trying to find a cache in the middle of a blizzard... What the hell am I doing. Plus a couple of muggles jogging passed. Don't know what they thought I was doing
Tried to find this when my GPSr was broken but was looking on the wrong side of the path. Much easier now that it is working again. TFTC. TNLN.
June 2005
4th
Nice walk down, hard walk up.
May 2005
21st
Nice spot. Took roll of film, left Darwin Fringe stress ball, SL. Thanks.
19th
Glad we came from the top for this one. TNLN but almost got busted by muggles twice! We've had some close calls on this trip.
February 2005
8th
No 2 for the lunchtime.
Walked straight to GZ and spent more time digging the cache out than finding the hiding spot.
Took car
left goanna
nice spot
January 2005
4th
Found it around 12:30 while visiting the tower.
IN: Compass-Whistle-Flint-Matchbox thing
OUT: Stamp
December 2004
19th
We haven't done a cache for a while so this was a nice one to get back into it. An easy find and we're glad that we came from the top also...
Took: Platypus & Owl, Left: Cactus & Pink Lanyard
November 2004
21st
Nice cache, easy to find with the clue. Forgot to bring anything, so didn't take anything.
6th
I took the sensible course of action, and approached from the top. Couldn't help thinking "Why would anyone except Derringer want to come up from the bottom". However, when I checked the logs, I found that even Derringer came in from above. Found it easily at 1325 (sorry lattejed).
IN: Leprechaun Snoopy and Sydney 2000 Platypus
OUT: Zimbabwean $2 coin
2nd
This was more difficult than I thought it would be, but enjoyable as well. Still a fair bit of fire damage in the area but the cache is well protected.
T Owl
L $2 Zim coin
September 2004
25th
A close cache to home, but never got round to visiting til today. Popped down from the top, while Mrs Kiwijam walked up from the bottom (hehe). Was a bit worried on approaching as a fire's been through recently, but cache safe and sound.
Second oldest in Canberra I see, so a fair bit of geocaching 'history' in the logbook.
Took insignia, left ...something?
25th
First of four for the day. Snuck down from a nearby waypoint for a multi.
Just missed KiwiJam. Spent most of the day just missing other cachers!
Mr Darcy.
Took Dice for my daughter's collection. Left appropriate stamp
18th
Started from the spot in Acton and had a pretty good work out finding the cache. Had to play "kangaroo" as a couple walkers went by as I filled out the log. The area still smells like a campfire from the controlled burning that happened a few weeks ago. The cache is intacted and filled with some goodies. Took nothing, left U.S. Navy rank insignia.
17th
First of 8 finds for the day
I came from the top and it was a nice walk. was this a bush fire just recently.
Took something? and Left Kangaroo
Thanks geodesy#5
July 2004
30th
Dropped DOWN here while 'researching' a multi nearby. The walk back up to the car was bad enough - just as well I hadn't tackled this 'from the ground up'!! A good easy one to find in the dark.
10th
Not cheating to start from the top!
3rd
The track around the hill may be easier than the one from Acton. Took cricket to "bug off" left fan from "Pines 2"
June 2004
27th
Just quickly dropped up here to drop off the ball (it likes it this side) – no fog here, and lovely views.
27th
I thought it would be cheating to start from the top, so we started from the suggested spot in Acton. It was a fun walk up the hill, but you get a much bigger sense of achievement when you make it.
Great view, and lots of Canberra where out on the track enjoying it.
Took nothing, left a roll of 35mm film.
EDIT: Corrected swap info, I really should start noting down what we leave.
[This entry was edited by Team Toogood on Sunday, June 27, 2004 at 3:10:02 AM.]
6th
Yup, took the long UPHILL option which was "a lot of fun". Sometimes pays to read the map first! But did find some unexpected bushland. Good cache position but we're getting much better at spotting them. A few walkers about but not a problem. After a interesting read of entries going back to 2001, we headed up to have a coffee! The walk back to the car was more direct and much quicker - down hill all the way.
5th
Went for an afternoon walk to work off some of my lunch. The hill is great and especially since everyone in Canberra was walking the trail. Another geat view on another great hill. Left a bug and took the racing car.
May 2004
23rd
My goodness me, I wish I had read the previous logs properly. Great walk but whew! Took some time to sit and rest once I got there. Content of the cache looking a little drained. So replaced Margaret River sew on patch with Torch+Battery, the "I" Bear and Purple Runner.
February 2004
29th
Fought through the triathletes. Nice cache. Just needs a better name? L, N, A + Dad
22nd
Our 1st of 5 for today! Nice easy find (bit hard/steep getting back to the car)Cache in good condition. Took little man and left a caterpillar and a centipede.
January 2004
26th
First geocache find. A good one to start with as well I thought. There where several things that matched the last part of the hint as thou someone had place decoys hinding places.
10th
finished botanic boggle and decided to try for this one, as it was pretty close. Next time I will try taking a path, or not going straight up the hill. or not doing it at 3:00 in the middle of summer. Oh well. Found the cache with no real difficulty. Took whoopee cushion, left little man.
October 2003
17th
Came here for my sixth cache of the day but it wasn't to be low batteries, lack of sunlight and no torch all contributed to me not finding this cache. Basically me being completely unprepared for this cache meant that I only got five out of six finds today instead of six from six. Oh well whilst I was in the area decided to start tourist tours.
TEAM PHANARGH
Rex
Onto Tourist Tours.....
11th
Nice day for it because it was sunny and the cold wind had died down. Took the easy way and came down to it, Swapped the clog (put there by traineediplomat for a whoopee cushion.
10th
Found today by the youngest of our team: Hill M.E. The cache is in excellent condition. We took 'Lizzy Lizard' and left the spider we picked up in the 'Roger, the Cabin Boy' cache. We made it back to the car just in time as it began to hail and almost sleet. This in October!? Wow.
September 2003
3rd
Great morning hike easier to find than the cache hidden just up the track!
July 2003
20th
First find for the day. The pictures and clues helped (as I have no GPS  ...yet!). The surrounds looked like the sort of place for an owl. Go forth my minion.
12th
Third for the day (doubling my finds to date - yay). Did not have any trouble in the failing light of dusk. Took a trio of foreign coins for a trio or our own. I really need to find some trinkets for trading. Ta geodesy#5.
4th
I had a flex day from work so I set off after this cache. I also came from the top and followed a now well established track down to the cache. Remembering clues from past logs I looked for a non natrual pile of rocks.....ahhh and admired many piles of rocks. But I thought where would I put it and found it okay. Nobody told me there was a teddy bear in it! I love teddy bears! The little teddy bear will join my collection of teddy bears at home. Does anyone else know of Canberra caches in them with teddy bears? I was so grateful for the teddy bear I left two toy cars and a plastic sea urchin in the cache. Excellent big container too. Spent the rest of the day marking waypoints for my new multi cache. 
June 2003
30th
We tried to find The Pines but the light disappeared on us. Traineediplomat suggested we head op and grab this one (he's already logged it, so he just followed me while I looked). Everyone I've talked to about this cache said it was fairly easy to spot, but looking well after the sun had set made it just a tad more difficult. Found it after walking over it twice.
Took the travel bug Hercules.
[This entry was edited by BundyB on Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 3:40:32 PM.]
29th
Foung this afternoon on our way to the snow. We dropped off hercules the travel bug. to send him on his way.
Great view !
Thanks Andrew and Maryan.
28th
Our fourth cache for the day on an expedition with Hecta, Kit Kat & Company. Hecta found this one fairly easily.
Out: Octopus thing
In: Star Trek Next-Gen baseball cap
May 2003
22nd
Second one for today another hill another nice view. We came from the top....
Malte and Nathan
April 2003
23rd
Yet another hill to climb. Hope people realise there is more to Canberra than hills. Cache had food in it and was covered with ants. Removed the food.
19th
Found with little trouble as geodesy#5 were there at the time, checking on their cache!
Great chance to watch the sunset before heading home.
Took the electrical tape and left an I Love Maisy badge.
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18th
Easy find, 1st of the day, 5th overall. Found with sshaw and JonnyDragon. Was moving away to get another angle and when I turned was visible under it's cover.
Took glowstick, left Dutch Clog (with a bit of ink on it after an accident)
[last edit: 4/23/2003 5:08:55 PM PST]
March 2003
14th
Found at 1.45pm after a short stroll from the top. An easy find with plenty of views.
Took cat stickers and left stubby holder.
Thanks geodesy#5
K&M
February 2003
20th
Second time lucky! Well actually didnt need GPS as I remebered point to go off the track and within two steps could see the cache. Looks like the stones had fallen away. In my rush to get to the cache had forgotton to bring exchange so nothing swapped. Came across a coupe of runners who had approached from below. They didnt look well.
12th
To be honest; I did try from the bottom but soon realised where I was heading so I used some wheels to get to the top. Found the cache without any problems but got attacked by ants. They probably knew that I came from the top...
No swaps.
1st
on a visit from singapore to cover the catastrophic bushfires for german tv, i took the chance to go for some caches - and as well stored some new in this area! yes - i did it from the top. i just had the coordinates and no discribtion from the website - still easy to find. beautyfull area. took the punk-musik and left some coins from singapore and malaysia.
November 2002
16th
Approached this one from the top - passed a couple of blokes who were jogging up from the bottom - mad! Found the cache without too much hassle, great placing! VK2TDG
October 2002
16th
Found 7:50, Early morning find for this one. We had been here the night before but I didn’t think the party shoes were up to it so a second visit was required. Quite a different view the morning after!
Took Party Pack (Balloons and Poppers) and left Glow Stick. Thanks for setting this on another fine Canberra peak.
September 2002
14th
OK, who was the bright spark who suggested coming from the bottom of the hill? I should've read the logs first. Parked in the suggested place, and promptly took completely the wrong track, heading off to the north, but amazingly it swung around to join a dirt road that eventually led to the same track. So after walking about twice as far I did find the cache. However I'd strongly recommend anyone attempting this one to WALK DOWN FROM THE TOWER!
Took the Urge Overkill CD and left a soft toy, mini-briefcase and something else which slips my mind.
August 2002
10th
Plenty of good views nearby, and a nice easy stroll (thankfully we came in the easy way). Did a few laps of the GZ before the GPS settled down, maybe the stray EM from nearby was playing games with us. Took the RAM (we may be able to put to use), and left some teabags. Gratitude to geodesy#5
July 2002
14th
Yep so I did it the hard way and came up from the bottom, straight up the gully over the rocks and scared the (*& out some old couple wondering along the dirt track below the cache....
Shoulda started up top but hey what the heck...
Cheers..
Peter (vk1npw), Narelle (wife), Daniel, James, Adam
11th
Decided to do this one first before Tourist Tour Cache. Nice and easy one. Swopped 32 MB IBM Thinkpad RAM for a neat pouch. Thanks Geodesy#5!
June 2002
15th
Can't remember the date I found it. Forget to log on to website until just now. Easy to find with the hint.
10th
Left Janet at home to recover from this morning's hike. Stu & I decided to take the easy option, and walked down from the top of the hill. Soon found the appropriate tree and then Stu located the container nearby. Thrilled to take the bubble pen left just a few hours earlier - it will keep me entertained at work!! Stu grabbed the poncho, and we left behind a twin doll and something else (can't remember!). Had to stand and enjoy the view for a while as there were some walkers nearby before replacing the cache! Great location
10th
Started from the top. Found it straight away, the GPS just pointed us right to it.
Found by the wife, who finds most of the caches.
Took a purse, party popper, and stickers.
Left, Dolphin bubble pen. Emergency Poncho.
Left this one to go do the London's Loft.
Which we also found. But what a miserably bleak grey and windy day for caching.
8 out of 8, no FTF's yet (Failed To Find)
Yeehaa we're on a roll.
May 2002
27th
What a well hidden cache - but with all the traffic in the area, I guess it needs to be. Found it early this afternoon - sun was shining - great day to sit up there on the hill. I cheated and came from the top. Took Melbourne Gnome and left a car air freshener.
24th
Yep, not a problem, even took three screaming kids with us. Even old 'flat sole' had a good time rummaging around the ground looking for the cache.
Anyway, one down, many more to go...
AGM158
24th
Found by Mary & David at 1450. Our first in the ACT. Misty rain falling so views not great. Found quickly, and in good condition. Took citrus soap and left stickers and post-it notes. Thanks Geodesy#5.
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17th
Took the easy way, enjoyed the views. The old oak tree is still there.
April 2002
20th
Just off the end of Frith Rd eh, so off I goes on me trustee MTB, riding up ever increasing steep and narrow tracks, puff, puff - found it - within 2 puffs of that tower thing on top of the hill - DOH. Just visited, no swaps. Seeing as I was so close to the top, I went up there and Coo-ee, - what a ride back down the bitumen road, no traffic, open road Coo-ee. Nice spot right in the middle of Canberra, very pleasant.
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March 2002
30th
Nice views. Pretty easy find just a short walk from the car park. Took life savers and left some easter eggs.
17th
Out for a pleasant Sunday arvo cache find. Should have started at the top and worked down rather than the other way around, but it was all good exercise anyway. Found the ol' oak tree (proverbially) and then fossicked for a while amongst the rocks to look for anything that was out of kilter with nature. The cache is reasonably well hidden but nature could never have placed the rocks as they are and that was the giveaway. Exchanged a couple of party poppers and a champagne bottle cork for the strawberry chew-chew bar. A few people walked up and down the nearby pathway while I was writing the log entry but I don't believe that they noticed me or saw what I was doing. I made sure it was all clear when I reset the cache, so that it remains well hidden from the view of unwashed plebs and detectable only by us of the GPS cognoscente.
10th
Found the tree... Found the outcrop.... Didnt find the cache 
February 2002
22nd
Found at 11.30am. Reasonably easy to find as we started at the best spot for once! We are on a short visit to Canberra so only managed this and 2 other caches on this trip. We will return! Nothing was exchanged. Greg and Bev
17th
Getting the hang of this – and with my Son helping, found the cache fairly easily. There was stacks of stuff in the cache, and lots of interesting log entries. My son decided on the Matchbox Quattro so we took that, and left an Oxford Dictionary CDROM.
ThomasS.
January 2002
26th
Great! Enjoyed Australia Day up there, with some international visitors. The contents of the cache and everyone else's amusing comments in the logbook made for more merriment than the trek up there - and it was all worthwhile. Thanks!
December 2001
31st
This is quite easy is you come from the right direction, but I can see it would be tough if you don't.
I took the emergency poncho - it may come in handy.
13th
User's web pageJust thought idd grab this one on my way in to see the Questacon, 2 hours later, decided to go back to my digs, and clean up first. Again, not being a local territorian, and following the guides on this log page, i started at the bottom. and ran out of trails after only 300 meters, still had about 700 to go, so dead reckoned ot till i stubled back on the main path about 50 meters from the cache, Doh!. Finaly found it, only to see that there was a great, tidy, concrete path only meters from the cache! AAAArgH! had fun any way, saw some wallabies, and thousands of wanderer butterflies, which was great.
November 2001
28th
Made it back again over a lunch-break, with booty in hand this time. Exchanged a slinky for the lego car (though the Audi was tempting). Thanks.
[This entry was edited by Ladderman on Friday, August 20, 2004 at 4:28:51 AM.]
19th
This was my first cache. It is less than 2km from my office, so I ducked up after work. Being slack, I walked down from the top. The Etrex took me straight to the spot, and I found it no problems. Cache is in good condition, however, being unprepared, I had nothing to offer, so took nothing. I will be back though. GPS is now 3 weeks old, and I now have 1 cache and 1 confluence (36S149E) under my belt. There will be more to come.
17th
10:40 am. Nice day for a little warm-up. I followed the instructions of geodesy#5 and did it from the bottom. The terrain is what bushwalkers in NSW often have too. Took two water pistols for some dip and lick and toys.
Nice to see you have an original name for the stash. I notice there isn't another quite like it!
6th
This was our 3rd Geocache for the day. After driving from Jindabyne this morning and geocaching in the Snowies the day before we were both tired so the hill from Frith avenue was not inviting. We decided to take another approach. Well it paid of in both time and energy. Cache is in good condition. Surprised to see Tangles had been there recently. Exchanged some items, soap and a small purse (ex Canberra Nature Park) for batteries. After this we had some dinner up above the cache and headed home.
Good one Geodesy#5.
2nd
On the way to the cache we rescued a juvenile echidna off the road, that all the other cars wanted to run over. This was the only time we have been to this location and it has not been windy. Swapped some space stickers for an Audi.
October 2001
28th
Logging the caches I found. I was one of the quitetypes crew. What a day we had. The walks were great and the scenery was tremendous. Hope all of the
the caches I find have walks as nice as this one.
28th
Nice hike up the hill! (puff) Well hidden! Great view. #2 for the day (3 total). Foreign imports enjoyed seeing the wildlife, but kept holding the GPS upside down, something about north and the sun.... tourists Took squirt and CD, left spaceblanket and Guinness pin (it needed a good home). Enjoy!!
23rd
Phew I made it. My first virgin cache. I've been watching the web site like a hawk for about a month to see any new caches come up in Canberra and now it has paid off.
In my haste to get to the geocache I forgot to take along a replacment item and my digital camera. So there will be no photos for the moment and all the items in the cache are the same. But I do have my eye on the red water pistol so I will be back with goodies in hand to relieve the cache of the aqua propulstion device.
A hint for the geacachers walking up from the end of Frith road, don't do what I did and walk up into the fenced off area with the sign at the gate that said no entry - danger It takes you in to and old mine site with no access to the cache. Follow the fence line around to the right.
By the way the place is in a great spot. With a nice view over the north west parts of the city.
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