Up the Montrose Again

Saturday , 27 December 2014

Eight caches had been added since our last walk up the hill, which is now getting to be close to 4k to the end one. For variety, and to get an additional cache at the northern end of Goat Hills, we walked own the Zig Zag fire trail and that needed care to avoid involuntary sliding.

Montrose List 12 - Holden on

Fortunately it didn’t take long to work out the answer as an internet search just happened to bring up the right list, although there was 1 dicky one in there.

Montrose List 11 - Hard Rock (but no Cafe)

Number 12 was visited first and while there Peter's pack tipped over before we headed off to this cache.  Once the log was extracted we discovered that some items were missing and Peter had to walk back to 12 where he also found his drink bottle as well.  An unplanned 300 metre extra walk.
 
But we did have a cup of tea, although it was a BYO variety.

Montrose List 13 - I Love Puzzles

I worked out what the puzzle items were but then drew a blank until  Barad Bunch pushed me in the right direction.

Montrose List 14 - It's Elementary

I could not work this one out and tried all the information found on element properties, but each sort produced results on Google Earth that were not at the required locale.    Eventually I queried Barad Bunch, mistakenly assuming it was his puzzle, but once that was sorted out he pointed in the right direction.  I did find the Royal Society of Chemistry a nicely executed site.
 
This left that walk up the hill  to do.
 
The internet map was used to work this puzzle out.

Montrose List 16 - Veggie Might!

After reading the previous logs we walked past and then turned around to view GZ.  However it was at the spot first suspected on the initial approach so we should have gone straight there.

Montrose List 17 Merry Christmas 2014

This was quickly solved by Sue who could remember the rhyme.

Montrose List 18 - Gold

Solved by Sue pretty smartly, as predicted by Barad.   When we got there it took a while to locate the cache as the GPS was pointing to the western side of the track.  This side looked quite an unlikely spot, but then the other didn’t seem right either. We walked about the area searching for Barad type indicators without success, until Peter finally went for a closer check at that eastern side spot and bingo; we were quite relieved because a return visit wasn’t likely to be considered for some time.

Big Woks

It was windy up this way today, particularly where the big power lines went over the hill.

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