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Bradley’s Snow Trip – Thursday 26th
Aug 26th
These are my entries from Facebook for those that aren’t my “friends”:
11:51 The snow has been falling all week and the powder is deeper than me and then some. Makes it impossible to ski back to the lodge without having to swim through 2m snow
16:13 Reportedly the best snow in 8 years for falls. Fox trail is about 1 metre higher than usual and took several runs to make it even skiable through the powder.
22:00 My group was skiing past an American snowboarder when one kid cut him off. He then did a perfect John McInroe “You can not be serious!”
Bradley’s Snow Trip – Wednesday 25th
Aug 25th
These are my entries from Facebook for those that aren’t my “friends”:
11:45 Freezing cold, snowing and windy, but the snow is good 
15:52 the powder on the summit is sooooo good
Bradley’s Snow Trip – Tuesday 24th
Aug 24th
These are my entries from Facebook for those that aren’t my “friends”:
07:48 Why did neither of my alarms work again!
11:44 fingers and toes frozen. Extremely cold today
15:34 Overtook 67 people down wombats just then
20:29 just played 4 games of pool and it only cost me nothing!
Yorke Peninsula Cachout – the stats …
Aug 24th
Left Adelaide at 3:30 pm on Friday 20th August.
20th August – 244km, 18 finds
21st August – 275km, 61 finds
22nd August – 305km – 37 finds including 1 FTF
23rd August – 488km – 68 finds
Total finds of 184 after travelling 1312km.
Arrived home on Monday 23rd August at 9:50pm.
Yorkes Geocaching – Day 3
Aug 23rd
The final day of my Yorke Peninsula Geocaching trip and the weather was mixed with sunshine then rain, strong winds but very cold. I am not complaining though as this weather will find its way across to the snowfields of Falls Creek and drop a record amount of snow.
Starting at Point Turton, the trip took me through Warooka, Hardwicke Bay, Brentwood, Minlaton ending up at Bluff Beach for lunch. One thing I have noticed on the Peninsula is the large amount of building going on at coastal settlements. And we are not talking shacks but 3 car garage, 2 storey houses.
After being blown away at lunch, I kept moving up the coast to Port Victoria and coffee with Mollypix.
It was now time to head inland through Maitland and the dirt roads were no different to 12 months ago with all the rain and mud.
As it was approaching dark, I grabbed more caches coming out at Paskeville before hitting the road to home.
Today’s count was 68 finds with 6 DNF’s. Total for the weekend was 183 geocache finds and 19 DNF’s – a long way short of the 300 I was hoping for but I guess that leaves 150 for the next trip
Bradley’s Snow Trip – Monday 23rd
Aug 23rd
These are my entries from Facebook for those that aren’t my “friends”:
11:47 First day of work exp going well. Spent the first half of today picking up 3-5 year olds and ushering them onto ‘Pete’s Train’ magic carpet at the Snowclub. After lunch i’m going to be skiing with the 6-14 y/o MILO kids at the Junior Workshop
Yorkes Geocaching – Day 2
Aug 22nd
After grabbing a few caches around Yorketown last night it was time to head across the south coast.
Starting at Edithburgh, went through wind farms and sheep farms, then visited some spectacular coastline which has caused many ship wrecks over the years including the Clan Ranald and the Ethel.
Did quite a bit of walking in sand dunes to grab some caches in Innes National Park including a FTF at Inneston. Visited 2 lighthouses while down there – one at West Cape and the other at Cape Spencer.
After leaving the Innes National Park, I headed north along the coast to Gleesons Landing and Corny Point. Another lighthouse at Corny Point then across the top of the foot to Point Turton.
It was now dark and with the Tavern at the top of the hill and the caravan park at the bottom of the hill and free WiFi at both, the decision to call it a night here was made. After a seafood meal at the tavern, back to the cabin to log some finds.
Count for today given the large amount of walking for caches was 37 with 4 DNF’s but there was one FTF.
Yorkes Geocaching – Day 1
Aug 21st
I awoke to more noise coming from the hall next door. This time it was the setting up of the Polling Booth – how convenient, I now knew where I was going to vote.
I went into vote and they said I wasn’t a local – wonder what gave it away. Placed the vote and hit the road grabbing some caches at Black Point and Port Julia.
The weather was so different from overnight with sunny skies and calm water in the Gulf. There were a few fishermen on the various jetties but other than that it was fairly deserted.
I moved inland to Curramulka which was a little geocache hot spot. From the signs here, I could see where the Rocky Glen Grommets got some of their pathtag designs.
It was time to play in the mud again and head back to the coast to Port Vincent and then down the coast to Stansbury. Found most of the caches at Vincent but had a poor find rate at Stansbury 
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Kept moving down the coast to Wool Bay with a few multi-cache finds before stopping for the night at the Edithburgh Caravan Park. The weather was looking to be rough again tonight and so grabbed the last cabin. The football was in town so accommodation was tight. The best thing was they had free wifi so I could log my finds for the day. (Bradley had my Vodafone dongle in the snow so free wifi was great.)
Total Finds for the day was 78 geocache finds with 9 DNF’s – not a bad days work but well short of where I wanted to be.
Bradley’s Snow Trip – Saturday 21st
Aug 21st
These are my entries from Facebook for those that aren’t my “friends”:
10:41 bacon and eggs for breakfast
16:19 Skiing was great again today, no wind, a bit of snow and perfect run conditions. On my last run for the day on Drovers i cased it on the biggest jump so now my heel is keeling me
Bradley’s Snow Trip – Saturday 21st
Aug 21st
These are my entries from Facebook for those that aren’t my “friends”:
08:00 Woke up after 7 for the first time in a week. Snowing outside too
08:35 Ceebs getting out of bed, so hungry though
12:39 Snow is incredible today, too bad i have noone to share it with
Tummy’s rumbling, lunch time!
16:34 Snow was epic today. Best runs were Last Hoot and Milky Way (run under Falls Express). First ever stack for 2010. Was at the top of Milky way and hit some powder which flipped me sideways down the hill. Landing was soft though 
Just before that on the previous Milky Way run I hit a huge lump at high speed, getting ma…ssive air and landing upright in a huge pile of powder and skiing off as usual
16:43 No clue what to do… GTA?
19:44 Annoying how it takes longer to prepare and clean up a meal, than it does to actually eat it
20:06 There is absolutely nothing to do here after the lifts are closed and tea is eaten
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