Westward Ho! Rise and Fall (North Otago) Danseys Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By erninz on 22-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3XAGY

I'm ditching dad again and heading down south for the Mega in Dunedin. During this trip I managed to do many things and meet many people over the 2 weeks I was away. Thanks to all the cache owners and other cachers for making this trip enjoyable.Day 4 of the trip. Todays adventure is Danseys pass. A great lot of caches but I struck a large hurdle towards the end of the day with not only 1 but 3 punctures. So had to get into dunedin via a 2hr tow truck ride. A nice quick find. TFTCAll logs on this trip were signed by any of the following:Taybee NZ,TBNZ,TNZ,TB/D (When I was out with mother)

Found it

Finally getting a chance to stop for caches through the pass! Lovely day and no one around. TFTC!!

Nice and easy thanks for hiding a cache here

Didn’t quite get the hint? However followed the GPS & aha!! TFTC

Found second time round

2198? Found with Rayzr. Tftc

Another for the collection.

Enjoyed the find TFC

Found on a night away to danseys pass with family and farmerkeith. Awesome geocaching along this back road. Thank you to all who keep these maintained. Easy find. Hint didn’t mean anything to us at gz

Found with coconuts3 and nearly at the end of our long but great day. TFTH

On an adventure with busy paws to explore Danseys Pass. Packed lunch and drinks for a big day. All good here, great hint. Thanks for the cache erninz.

Making my way over the pass, such a cool road. A quick find.
TFTC
P.S Sorry for very late logging.

Quick easy find grass a bit overgrown around cache - TFTC

Found it. Gave up trying to decipher the hint.
TFTC

Out for a days geocaching with Aussie Pete. Left home at 8am and got back 12 hours later. Travelled through some wonderful back country, esp over the Dansey's pass. If you believe in Murphy's law then he was one step ahead of us all day. We had a wonderful time finding and exploring. This resulted in an unexpected tumble down a hill, a number of scratches and bruises and a few holes in a hand where I grabbed some grass to steady myself only to discover I had grabbed some hidden barbed wire. This is what geocaching is all about. A fun filled day with a good mate. Thanks to all the people who took time to hide the caches.
No idea what the glue means.

Boneybruce and I are stranded south of the Rangitata with both bridges closed, so making the best of a bad situation and checking out some back country I've never been through before, but had my eye on for some time. Nice quick find here and boneybruce took an interest in the animals, although they are a bit wary of him, for some reason... TFTC!!!

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Quickly found. TFTC

Tftc

Decided to make a trip to Duntroon over the Dansey Pass. Lots of logs to find and sign and this one was one of them. TFTC

#16869. Happy to let Troodles do the finding here will I was otherwise occupied. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalker on a big day, starting in Duntroon at about 8:30am, and finishing in Clyde, via Danseys Pass, nine hours and 62 caches later . A fantastic trip with great views and interesting places.
SW changed into different socks (he was wearing thermals and his feet were overheating) while I found the cache. Certainly it was a lot warmer than when we set out this morning. TFTC.

No sign of the hint, but there was a cache eventually.
+ a marble, - nothing.

12.55: On the way from Naseby to Fairlie, going over four passes. We wrote 12/8 as date in the logbook by mistake, but we passed by on the 9th. Here the hint left no doubts for where to look for[|)].

Weather: overcast, 21°C;
Wheelchair: paddock, should be possible;
State: once again just a sheet of paper, but dry.

Thank you!
Oliver+Gabi

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Took longer than it should have don’t you hate that when searching for cache.

I'm from Norway, escaping the cold winter and travelling around New Zealand for 7 weeks, using geocaching as my tourguide. Today I drove from Glenavy to Dunedin over Danseys Pass. I really really enjoyed this powertrail, the scenery just got more and more spectacular the further I got!! It was a good place to have a powertrail, there were hardly no cars, and the caches were hidden in spots where it was easy to park the car. All the caches were quickly found with good hints, that's the way I like powertrails to be. I only had dnf on two caches, that's because I didn't allow myself to spend time searching if I didn't find it instantly. I would never have known about this pass if it wasn't for all the caches that showed up on the map, so thank you sooo much for placing and maintaining them. I really enjoyed this drive. I'm adding a couple of favourite-points on the caches I liked the most. Thank you for all the caches!

after a couple of maintenance dives on my bcd caches it was time for a few caches , on a mission to finish off the westward series nice quick find tftc

Lovely views of the rolling countryside from this vantage point. TFTC # 11,516

Geofest Oamaru is over but our (The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara & I) epic adventure continues - Day 4 Danseys Pass - another 'must do'. The weather is drizzly, so its raincoats and gummies for the day.
The sun still shining on us for capturing this one. Cheers

A enjoyable days drive through Danseys Pass and down State Highway 87 to Mosgiel. Lots to stop and look at along the way. Not to mention a few to stop and look for as well. Cheers and TFTC

The Geofest ended yesterday, but Taybeedragon and I are still going strong. It's raining - just light rain, and so rather than walk or cycle somewhere, we are driving Dansey's Pass, the slow way. Well, actually, the rain has just stopped. But we are still wearing our raincoats.

With a small amount of drizzle we were able to still visit many caches and see areas we have not yet visited, thanks for the placement we have enjoyed each cache and where is has brought us.

The (major road trip was about to begin) that was for the Oamaru Geofest trip in the company of HKCB and iammrwalker for a bit of a road trip across to the west coast, through Haast and in a roundabout way to Oamaru.

My trip stats were as follows: 617 caches (214 Puzzles), 3300kms, 500 litres of Petrol, 21 hours sleep, 100+hours caching time. THe weather was wonderful and apart from about a 6hour period on the sunday we had fine weather all the way and feel that we made a bit of a hole in the region.

Firstly thanks to all the CO's that put in the effort to to set up these caches and to all the CO's whose caches we did not find this trip, well we are already planning our next trip.
We worked hard at getting specific caches (especially the Geo Art around christchurch and hence our concentration on this area for the preliminary 24 hours. So after a couple of running repairs to the rental vehicle (fuses not working) we were off knowing that all ports could be charged and that sleep was for the weak.

Sorry about the copy and paste logs but that is what tends to happen with a number run of this size. Last came through here a couple of years ago as we worked towards starting a 24 hour run to secure the NZ 1day/24hour record. Nice to finally get to finish this trail through here before heading back and up to Oamaru

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No idea what hint means. Signed as TIE. Tftc.

14:25. On our way back down now, team TIE collected another one. Tftc number 4932

Hint not helpful bot coordinates good. Signed as TIE. TFTC

Came down this way from the North for the Oamaru Geofest, and decided to add a few more days to the weekend trip and turn it into a bit of a Mega mission, starting 5pm on Wednesday 18th and finishing 3pm Monday 23rd! Teaming up with Cats&Dragons for the first 24 hours then with Iammrwalker joining the team for the remainder.
Just a few of the stats for the trip were:
- 700 caches found, including 270+ puzzles (thanks to the Christchurch Geoart)
- 3300 km's driven, using over 500L of fuel $$$
- Just over 20 hours of sleep (about 4 per day on average), and about 100 hours of caching time.
Certainly a Mega Trip!

Day 4: With the lack of sleep starting to take a toll we finished Day 3 off early and got a few hours sleep before getting back to finding about 2am this morning. Todays mission was to find caches around Tekapo before heading South through the Mackenzine Country via Hakataramea Pass, and onto Dansey's pass before coming out on the coast and heading to Oamaru for the Geofest and caching around the area.

Sorry about the cut and past logs, but that seems to happen with cache runs of this size!

I found this Geocache on a Geocaching mega mission along with Cats&Dragons and HKCB. With only just over three and half thousand Geocache finds I was very much the over achiever in training. We were in the South Island to support the Oamaru Geofest event, hunt down some Jasmar and D/T harder to find Geocaches, lonely caches (those not found in more than 6 months), virtuals and try and meet some milestone numbers. We signed the logs HIC, an abbreviation of our respective Geocaching names, (H)KCB, (I)ammrwalker and (C)ats&dragons. A huge thanks to all the CO’s who placed and maintain the Geocaches we found.

I arrived in Christchurch late Thursday evening having left straight from work and was picked up by my intrepid companions in our four wheel drive rental to find they had already grabbed about 270 finds in the previous twenty four hours. I wonder if the rental company would have still let us have it had they known we would travel 3300km in it before returning it four days later? Our trip took us to Greymouth via Arthurs pass, Ngahere, down the west coast to Haast across to Hawea, Cromwell, Twizel, Aoraki Mt Cook, Tekapo, onto the east coast up to Oamaru and back up to Christchurch via Akaroa and countless diversions and small towns along the way. We slept in the car for the first two nights, grabbing some shut eye between cache finds, taking turns to drive. We rented a small place in Oamaru for the other two nights and appreciated a bed to sleep in and a hot shower. It was an amazing trip, in which I discovered the South Island has some of the most incredible scenery in the world.

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)… Our journey to the bottom of the South Island has been almost two years in the planning. We were determined to make it to Oamaru Geofest. We decided to also factor in completing a couple of missions (JASMER and Virtual challenges), and the wheels started turning...

Day Four: Naseby-Danseys Pass-Oamaru

Our plan for today was to be in Oamaru by evening. We wanted to be ready for the opening of Geofest tomorrow. We began stirring early this morning... A long haul to the top of the Danseys will also require a trip down the other side... Just when we thought we were over the worst of the road, the other side was more of the same... Not sure about the hint, but another quick find here (Apologies for cut and paste logging). TFTC.

DAY 4
After a good cafe breakfast at Naesby our mission was to complete the other side of Danseys Pass. Some caches were wet and damp and a couple of DNF'S. SLTFTC

Have messaged the CO with answers, now logging to keep th order.

Heading to the Oamaru Geofest with a group of like minded people, and collecting a few caches along the way....

Travelling with NZTravellers, UncleSamNZ, and KeyLev we signed in as 'SEAC17' to save logbook space.

Thank you to all the CO's for placing caches along the route.

TFTC.

Ruru_NZ's into her maintenance by wiping out damp/wet caches again after the winter season. Just as well we have a plentiful supply of goodies to deal with this. Usually I don't have much in the way of extras with me.

Greetings from an Auckland Cacher. In the area for the “Almost Mega” event.

Started off at Dunedin Airport. Enjoyed our drive.

Sorry for the generic logs. Thanks for taking the time to place this cache.

All logs signed as “Team SEAC”

In the area driving to Geofest Oamaru....

Not sure where the hint comes in which put us off for a short while but we soon corrected and had the cache in hand.

Enjoyed the views on an awesome day through here....also liked the safe parking at each cache location!

Thanks for the cache.

Signed as SEAC 17 (South East Auckland Crew)

We arrived in Dunedin today and traveled to Oamaru for the 2017 Geofest through Ranfurly, Nasbey and Danseys Pass. We attempted many caches throughout the long hot day and as it was the Geofest we bumped into fellow geocachers as well as a few muggles along the way. We were travelling with Keylev, UncleSam, Stik-a-Crane so to save log paper signed as Team SEAC 17.

Thanks to all the COs for the caches along the route.

Day 3 of my Oamaru GeoFest week. Naseby to Oamaru today.
Expecting dust, dust and more dust.
Another one that got a wipe out after the winter. Not sure what the hint related to though.
Thanks for the smilie.
1619 20 October 2017 16:04

Drove down from Wanaka. Mainly because of the virtual. And then went over the pass. Nice little trail here. I didn't have to much energy, so a didn't search for to long on some caches, that's why some didn't got logged today. Thank you for all the caches. And sorry for the copy and paste logs.

tftc

Found during Labour Weekend expedition over Dansey's Pass. Although it wasn't sunny the weather was mild and still and the scenery was stunning.
TFTC

Checked today and log changed.

The second weekend of planned caching trips for Chelzea and I. This one started caching near Temuka and then on down to Timaru, Oamaru over Danseys Pass and then back to ChCh from Palmerston the next day. Long and winding trip in places but managed a good number of caches with only a few DNF's. Too many to remember in detail so sorry for the cut and paste logs but thanks to all the owners it was a great two days of searching new places for a good variety of caches.

Found on our way to Danseys Pass.tftc

[#219] Nice park and grab. Container was a bit wet. Dried it as best as we could.

TFTC Larosch / LFL

I'm currently hitchhiking my way around the world and geocaching everywhere I go. My first stop was in Ireland where I spent a couple weeks touring the country. I then flew to London and spent a couple weeks touring the United Kingdom. From there I made my way through the tunnel and up to Amsterdam and then back down to Belgium. After that I headed for France. Then from there I headed to Portugal for a mega event that was happening. After that I headed for Denmark to attend another Mega event. I then made my way North into Sweden and then even further North to Norway. After that I proceeded to work my way back down South through Finland and then ferry hopped my way through a few of the islands to arrive back in Sweden. Next I made my way to Germany for another Mega event and then back to the Netherlands for still another mega event before heading for Luxembourg. After that the next stop along my journey was Switzerland. I then made a quick detour up to Belgium to grab a July 2000 geocache I had overlooked before making my way to Croatia passing through Austria and Slovenia along the way. After that my route took me East to Serbia and then through Romania into Moldova. I then couldn't resist going North and crossing into the Ukraine. After that I began heading South passing through Romania once again. I then passed through Bulgaria as I raced for Turkey in order to catch a flight to Australia timing it so that I could attend a mega event happening there. After that I made an extensive 2 month tour through all 8 states of Australia before flying over to the North Island of New Zealand. I then gradually worked my way south to Wellington and took the ferry over to the South Island. I then continued hitchhiking my way around the South Island via Blenheim, Murchison, Spring Junction, Leithfield Beach, the bypass around Christchurch to Ashburton, Dunedin, Brighton, Bluff, Queenstown, Danseys Pass, and then Christchurch airport.

Staying at Danseys Pass Holiday Park as a guest of the owner and figured I'd walk along the road and grab a bunch of geocaches before hitchhiking back.

Thank you so much for placing this geocache!

TheLoneBaker

Interesting trip through Dansey's Pass, good find.

Sunroller, my caching partner for the day, and I decided to go over the Dansey Pass collecting caches on the way.

Cheers for the cache and the series.

TFTC

Another great find while slowly heading to the Christchurch Mega.
Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of this trip.

Another lonely cache!

SL TFTC and the series erninz

Well we were more Eastward Ho! Actually we were totally Homeward Ho! after a trip to Naseby and the Dansey Pass Hotel for the weekend. A lovely weekend (first child-free weekend away in over 15 years). No sign of anything relevant to the hint, no TB either. The cache container doesn't match the description either, so I suspect it's been replaced at some point.
Last find of eleven today, and twenty for the weekend. TFTC

Found it

Found with Chosen1978. Got the right hint and cache soon located and signed.

Today we drove from Ranfurly to Twizel. We decided to take the shortest way, which was through Danseys Pass. This way was really an experience! We are certainly not used to this kind of roads in Denmark, and even in New Zealand we haven`t been on roads, that can be compared to this. It can definitely not be recommendated for faintheartet people!

No problems finding the box .

Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for the cache, had busy day geocaching through these parts.

No trackable here

Adam Steele USA

As with others we were confused by the hint. Could it be that some of the hints have got jumbled up and applied to the wrong caches? Great series. We will be back to complete it on bikes to avoid the difficulty of finding safe parking places.

We did already some of caches from Oamaru, today we came from Ranfurly to complete the series. We managed to find nearly all -just one without any luck and we spent quite some time there. But considering that some coordinates were out by about 20m we should have widened our search even more. Most caches well done, but the hints were sometimes more confusing and not helpful. We are glad that we completed the drive - but have to come back for one. But this is just an excuse for another great drive over the pass. Thanks for placing all the caches.

Didn't quite get the hint but still managed to find the cache. (no TB though)
TFTC

Day 3 of our 5 Day end of year geocaching trip. Today was our biggest day with 75finds and 4DNFs with most of them being park and grabs. Another quick find here. Sorry for the late log but Thanks for the cache [purple]Our cache find: #3240[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 12/75[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 79/235[/blue]

Lots of lambs about today. TFTC.

tftc

Found quick enough

Left TB

Last time we came through here this one was not to be found. Today bingo! TFTC

Spent sooo long looking last year while this year walked straight to it. Still don't understand the hint though?

Nice quick find. TFTC.

I have been across Dansey's Pass a couple of times before and have always enjoyed the majestic scenery. The last time was with the family and there was a general veto in place which stopped any serious caching. This time caching was the objective
I started the trail at about 6:30 pm and took a few pics along the way which have been uploaded to the Glimmer cache.
Many thanks

Good place to stop. Tftc

Found on way over the pass

Enjoying the pass caches

We enjoyed the day caching in this area

Tftfun

Plenty of space to park, a bit wet underfoot.
Found on our way from Naseby to Oamaru, warm sunny day and not much traffic. SL TFTC.

Enjoyed another find as part of our 24hr caching cruise through North Otago into the Maniototo and back. TFTC

Found it, TFTC :O)

13267… The cache was revealed after a Rise and Fall, TFTC.

Out and about with Karma Reprint on a weekend down south. Thanks

Found with Kiwi Moose on a big weekend of caching. Thanks for the hide.

No problem TFTC

Found at 3:45 PM
Easy Find

TFTC erninz

pipedream

We had been waiting for a good day to take the BMW on a long ride and we had had on our mind to do the Danseys Pass for some time. So we got up early and decided to go clockwise because that is just how John likes to do things. This is the 14th find of 31 today.

This entry was edited by Guzzi Riders on Monday, 07 October 2013 at 20:58:39 UTC.

The Box of Tricks did it's job and led us straight to it.

Found with DebsNZ and Aoraki Sheep.
TFTC

Not so sure about the hint but the our GPS was spot on. Found with Aoraki Sheep and Woody104

Of course it has to be by the prickly one Found with debsnz and Woody104

Searched and searched and searched with no luck

We nearly gave up on this one but luckily the geo-nana scratched around a little more and came up trumps. Co-ords were fine (fluffyduck38 had the old ones). Thanks erninz

This entry was edited by dakotacats on Friday, 05 April 2013 at 05:23:57 UTC.

The hint helped a lot as the given co-ordinates seemed to be well out. Eventually found the right gate post... and the cache

This entry was edited by fluffyduck38 on Saturday, 06 April 2013 at 01:33:51 UTC.

not sure what clue has to do with it as the marker is 2198,still found it .TFTC

The Daneys is such an enjoyable drive.

Well nice quick find this time.-Bitsprayer

Replaced as it had gone walk about and relocated Thanks to Jamien for his efforts today