8 March 2014 Geocaching Mt Tennent View from Mt Tennent Map: Williamsdale 1:25000 Walk Description This walk was organised and enjoyed by me as a private walk: Saturday 8 March: Geocaching Mt Tennent - L/E. Geocache the Tennent Trail series up the Mt Tennent Fire Trail from Apollo Rd to Mt Tennent. Descend via the Link Track and AAWT to the Namadgi Visitors Centre, picking up another few caches. I drove from Canberra and parked at the Mt Tennent Fire Trail car park on Apollo Rd. Further Information I've been struggling the last couple of days to get on even par with my geo-buddy Marmaduke Rothschild (aka Roger E). Here was a few easy ones (I hoped) and, because he's more civic minded than I, I was hoping he was tied up serving the community and so couldn't cache. That would give me a selfish opportunity to catch up. As well, there was a CBC walk from NVC to Mt Tennent and return and I'd asked Edwina Y that, if we met up, could she give me a lift back to my car. As well, I'm no doubt disgraced in many people's eyes because I postponed my 3-day trip to hunt border markers on the Scabby Range (now hopefully 14-16 Mar 14) and also caused another party going to the same area to postpone. As it turned out, a lovely day today. However, storms and rain this evening, so maybe I'm vindicated. Photographs Click here to access all walk photographs,or sit back and watch the pretty pictures (slideshow not available via smart phone access). Track Maps Track maps: thumbnails are active - click for a larger picture
Google Earth Click here to download the walk's .kmz file for display in Google Earth on your PC. (Haven't got Google Earth? Get it for mobile or Get it for PC/Mac/Linux) Track Notes Parked in the designated area on the side of Apollo Rd and immediately had the first of the Tennent Trail series to find and log. Then followed a lovely wander up the Mt Tennent Fire Trail, finding all 21 in the series. I must say these COs (cache owners) go to a lot of trouble and expense to plant the caches. This series was extremely well set up - small steel containers equipped with log book and pencil, pencil sharpener and a well chosen small number of items. The caches were: GC4B97M 01 Tennent trail - Car park I rang the CBC party when I could get a signal and was glad that I was ahead of them, thus ensuring my lift back to my car. At Mt Tennent I found GCVEMF Tennent's Tip, then had a bite of morning tea. Heading back down the steep straight bit of the Mt Tennent Fire Trail, I ran into the CBC party coming up just as I was about to duck off into the bush to find GC1XG61 Tennent Termination. Lovely view from this cache. Back down in the nearby saddle, near where the link track meets the Mt Tennent FT, I found GC1XYV2 Basil the Brush Ranger Mk 2. An uneventful trip down to Cypress Pine Lookout, running into quite a number of walkers. Two groups of 7 from Merici doing their silver Duke of Edinburgh hike. Somewhere on this leg I found the final GZ for GC1XYTA Tennent's temptation. It's a puzzle, so obviously I can't reveal the final location. Down at the NVC I picked up a drink, then found GC43AQE Lost on the way to camp... Not wanting to hang about, I wandered back up along the AAWT and ran into them coming down after 1.5km. Summary Distance: 18.6km Climb: 840m. Time: 7.10am - 1.05pm (5hrs 55 mins), with 20mins of breaks. Back to Walks Index This page last updated 8Mar14 |
