Over the years the road has had a few name changes and seen many realignments, some minor and some major with entire towns being bypassed and the section of the route north of Marulan being totally different to today's Hume Highway. So I thought that I would do a series of caches based on the old sections of the Hume Highway and the Great Southern Road.
Before the Hume Highway was diverted to its current route, it used to pass through the towns of Camden and Picton via the Razorback. Elizabeth Villy in her book titled The Old Razorback Road describes the road like this.
In Australia's state of New South Wales, the Great South Road was built in order to transport wool, tallow, hides, and other goods to Sydney's docks. The chosen route was over the Razorback Range, a jagged range of steep cliffs and rocky spurs with an unstable, porous, sandstone base that shifted and lurched with the heavy rains. The Razorback was a nightmare for the convicts who built it and for the travellers forced to endure its horrors. This detailed book documents the local stories of the people who travelled, worked, or lived on the Razorback, and who were seminal to the development of the country: the migrants, teamsters, tramps, gold escorts, toiling convicts, and bushrangers who terrorized settlers and travellers alike. It is a century of history brought to life. The Old Razorback Road is atmospheric and timeless, presented in a sense of freshness and adventure through its account of the people and their lives.
Today the southern section is still a terrible bit of road, so after finding the cache go and check it out. Cache should be an easy find where you can use your car as cover from passing muggles.