Forty Thieves Traditional Cache
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A small/micro cache at a well-dug-over part of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park.
This one is at a slightly unusual feature at one end of Forty Thieves Reef, one of the many reefs in the hills around Chiltern from which gold was extracted in the 1850s and 1860s. The diggings along this reef run up the hill from the cache for several hundred metres, and well over the top into the valley to the South.
You can follow the workings up and over the hill and imagine how busy this place must have been in the Gold Rush - but be careful, especially with geokids, as several pits seem to be bottomless!
Cache is a small polypipe container with log sheet and pencil - make sure it's well-hidden when you leave! And admire the artefact from the mining days......
National Park so no dogs..... and please park out on the main road (Depot Rd).
(ps the reef here is actually Places Reef, a much more boring name than Forty Thieves, which is actually just over Howlong Rd - so don't bother writing in and correcting me!))
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