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The Canberra Times
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Tim the Yowie Man

Solving the mystery of the baffling yellow barrel, but where did this pole come from?

Tim The Yowie Man investigates the mystery of the Mount Foxlow barrel

Regular readers may recall the yellow concrete-filled barrel weighing in at over 300 kilograms that's squirrelled away near the top of Mt Foxlow, located between Carwoola and Captains Flat.

Avid bushwalker David Wardle was first to alert this column to the curiosity early last year when he stumbled upon the out-of-place "large concrete weight" on a bushwalking club trek. And since then, its origins have remained one of this column's longest-running mysteries.

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