Rollercaster (Canterbury) Burnt Hill, South Island, New Zealand
By NZTIKES on 04-Jan-10. Waypoint GC22PDX

The tree has gone and an electric fence has appeared. It wasn't switched on so I ducked under it and made a quick find. TFTC.

Easy find. Still there but the tree is not. Tftc

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Thanks for hiding this cache NZTIKES I appreciate it. It's a lovely day today. The weather inspired me to go and find some geocaches. Jude_E and I set off together for a wee took tour.

A rollercoaster getting here that for sure. The wind here today is phenomenal. Trees have been felled but cache still safe. Replaced the plastic bags. Thanks for the hide.
#7683

FITW Albijos

We are out for some caching in the area. An easy straightforward find for us. This is the last find for the day as its getting late for school run.TFTC.

FITW Harisree
We decided to go for a drive and grab some cache . Taking a break from work and spending some time outdoor.

TFTC

FTF this year, happy new year. Greetings from Whangarei.

Down in Christchurch with the Squirrel, ABCDF4 and eyespyben. During Covid lockdown, we solved a load of puzzles and decided that this would be a good time to visit. We've enjoyed a few days of good weather and seeing the Canterbury countryside. The caches have been in varying states - some good, some not so much. Our time here has been a blast, and we'd like to thank all COs who have made this adventure possible. Thank you and TFTC.

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap). Logging all finds as Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa - Our hometowns)... During Covid-19 lockdown, we solved a truck load of puzzles around Christchurch - Canterbury region. No use thrashing the old grey matter for no cause - We decided we should make good on this handiwork...

There are lots of interesting trails and geoart surrounding Christchurch. What you aren’t told is how far flung some of these caches actually are. Some beforehand advice would have been great, so here are some of my notes... You’re welcome!

1. Mobile coverage is patchy, especially in those quiet, rural areas where it was most needed. Saving caches to offline might show that you are prepared and organised...
2. There are many dusty metal roads on the trails. The car will get messy, and your hair will feel like cardboard at the end of the day...
3. Suitable clothing and footwear are essential. You will climb in and out of hedges, gorse, and other rough stuff. You might get scratched, cut to shreds, and bleed a lot. It’s not advised to wear your brand new jacket on the day...
4. Take lots of food and drink. You’ll probably be head down, tail up and not realise you haven’t eaten until late afternoon. There are very few shops or gas stations out there...
5. Make sure that you secure keys and wallet and know where these are placed for easy retrieval. A full box of pens might be useful too, especially if you’re inclined to free some into the wild...
6. Know the difference between left and right, and north, south, east, and west. Turning right and heading north will not get you to South Christchurch quickly.
7. Look with girl’s eyes rather than boys eyes... Some caches haven’t been found in a while and you might have to get down on your knees to pray.
8. Always be prepared for misleading hints. This is what turns simple caches into D5/T5 hides... “Head height” could mean the cache is positioned at your toes.
9. Have a sense of humour and like the people you go caching with. It’s going to be a very long day, and you might want to hurt someone during the journey...
10. Make sure you can operate your phone/device and it doesn’t crash when you most need it...
11. Learn to cut and paste logs because you’re going to repeat this function so often when logging all of your finds.
12. Above all else, have fun and be kind...

No time to waste today - We each had caching jobs to do, and our day was mostly planned... A dusty dash out for this lonely hide... Thanks NZTIKES and TFTC.

After puzzle solving in the Canterbury region along with ABCDF4 we were invited to join Fap (from Fap & Gap) and Squirrel Nutcase to a week long caching adventure in the Canterbury area. With flights and accommodation booked were off, all met up in ChCh. and many hard dusty Kms travelled and many caches found, I think the Squirrel has said it all in his brief. Many thanks for the placements and Cos for bringin us to the very pleasant areas we travelled in to your region

After puzzle solving in the Canterbury region along with EyeSpyBen we were invited to join Fap (from Fap & Gap) and Squirrel Nutcase to a week long caching adventure in the Canterbury area. With flights and accommodation booked were off, all met up in ChCh. and many hard dusty Kms travelled and many caches found, I think the Squirrel has said it all in his brief. Many thanks for the placements and Cos for bringin us to the very pleasant areas we travelled in to your region

Found it what a lovely spot. Tftc.

Hot

Sunday caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

Arrived in time for a southerly storm to arrive. A real case of hang on to your hat while hanging onto a power pole. Extracted the cache without loosing anything. TFTC - really thanks as I was able to drive a few new roads.

Cache was a little exposed but covered it again. Nice spot looking back up the road

Thanks

It was promising to be a nice crispy winter's day, so i decided to go out a bit to explore. Long drive around to avoid fords! TFTC!!

Quick find.

Awesome back road love the gravel road

Cool cache. Cannot see river though

This one has been on my radar for a long time and finally made the trip today. It a quiet and remote back water and not a muggle to be seen. TFTH

Quick find heading home.

Out doing a delivery to a local farm so couldn't go past this one. Gorgeous Winter day and the snow on the Southern Alps looks amazing. Tftc

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This was a nice quick find today. The container did not have a lid so we replaced it with a new slightly smaller camo'd screw top container.

Kids all tuckend into bed, Mrs TW tucked up with a good book and Mr TW off on a mad mission. Packed an array of 'tools' for a certain cache and headed off into the sunset. The evening was spectacular, warm and still great caching weather. Not many caches under the belt this evening but a great distance had been driven, just over 200km! There was FTF, multi tool madness, DNFs, muggles, sweat, cuts, blood, tight spots on 4wd tracks with a ladder on the roof racks, more muggles, lovely sunset and a long long detour down rough gravel roads to a haunted patch of blackberries and gorse, all in all a fun evening getting home just after midnight!
This was cache 13 of 13 for this mad mission.
This ended up being the last find. As I drove nearly 35km to get here from my last cache would you believe a muggle parks up about 30m away at 10.15pm!!! I parked near GZ and waited. They did too. I out waited them and they took off then I made a quick find. Not off to the reason I'm in the area...

Thanks for the cache.
#2734

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Found it.

Quickly found. TFTC.

No lid on container

1st of a trip finding a few out on their own caches

In all the years of driving past we had no idea this was here. Amazing what is on ur back doorstep.

First cache on a new day after camping the night near the bridge, a long dusty road but cache all good and dry. TFTC

Haven't been up this way for a while. Road could use a bit of a tickle up with the grader. Lid was missing off the container but all dry inside. TFTC.

Quick find in a beautiful section of Canterbury. TFTC!

Heading over to ChCh for the M&M's Birthday tomorrow and wanted to pick up the rest of the lolly series before then. This one had been on the list a few times, but we never made the effort to come and get it. Today it was first up on the list to make sure we came. The road was abit bumpy for Mums little wee low slung car and it got a pretty good dirt wash on the way out. The cache was clearly visible in the rock pile from the car. The container no longer has a lid and the logbook wasnt in the bag so had gotten wet and since dried causing the book it be abit mouldy. It was hard to find the next page so we signed as close to the start as we could. Thanks for the cache

[purple]Our cache find: #2665[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 1/31[/green] | [blue]Cache for the Weekend: 1/44[/blue]

Saw it before we got there. Quick easy find on a hot sunny day. Found with Victoriousone

Finally got down here to get this one. Nice drive. TFTC

Finally got out this way to knock this one off my list. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Log book wet. No lid on container. Great view though.TFTC

This is the first cache i found with sevren after i first meet him.before i was not a member of geocache.so i did not sign the log.and now we refound and sign the log.the log is very wet and i try to sign but the pen is not working coz the paper is very wet.

12/06/2013 5:51:00 PM
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I was having a really bad week. Nothing was going right, I had had my bike stolen on the weeekend, was still pretty sore from my expensive wisdom tooth removal, had an evil project at work that wasn't going well, had a parking ticket for parking outside my house... not a pleasant week. And I so badly couldn't focus at work that I decided stuff this, I'm going geocaching. So I left work at quarter to 5, and headed out this way to collect a bunch of nice easy caches.

14th of the 14 I collected today.

Judging by the last log I had on my GPS about th eplace being scary, I honestly had no idea what I was going into, and was a little worried...and the very pot holey road in the dark didn't help much!! I felt like I was going into some horror scene!!

But once I arrived and got out of the car, well this wasn't so bad! I have been to much scarier cache locations by myself in the dark before... this was tame!! Haha.

TFTC!!

Out and about on an evenings adventure. What a weird spot. Luckily GPS autorouting directed me to the spot.....eerie in the dark. No views in the dark and drizzle...certainly the back of beyound. Yet; plenty of letterboxes along the road indicating houses/farms. Nice. For the hang of it I continued up Thongcaster Rd to the main road. Nicely maintained road I must say. Cheers for the cache - certainly a spot I would have never come to otherwise!

Not much of a view of anything today.

A quick easy find, on a very windy corner this morning. The cache lid has perished and broken, and needs replacing. The cache will no longer be waterproof. TFTC

A quick find. TFTC

Found with Jamien and Marcello1. TFTC.

Found with Jamien and Tankboy5. TFTC.

Tftc quick find by theroamingreliever

Quick find in the rain.

Until now it had been a very hot day. A wind change has brought in a cool breeze so we didn't linger. A car followed us down the dusty road. TFTC

Found this cache on a day trip in the car from Christchurch, west along Old West Coast Road, up to Oxford then back down into Christchurch going north of the Waimak, a big loop. By now my pants were ripped up the front, my legs are bleeding and I'm soaking wet from the waist down - it was a good start to the day. This cache was number 10 of 27 for today TFTC (506)

This entry was edited by dan.reilly on Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 11:52:41 UTC.

I seem to be developing a theme - dusty road as dusk approaches, out later than I'd intended, just can't resist finding another cache....
I was out in this general direction, didn't expect it to take quite so long to get here.
TFTC.

got it got a travel bug to

Its been a long time since ive travelled this road,TFTC

Grreat view, cool wind this morning.-Bitsprayer

Good to see the Waimakariri from this side. The wind had come up so I didn't stay long. Thanks for the cache.

dodge the mail man for quick find.

Bit of a drive round the block but easy find

TFTC. A clever name to this cache. Just a slight diversion on the way back from the West Coast Event.

Quick easy find. TFTC

Not too hard. Could be seen from parking spot . Long way to come, but thankful all the same. TFTC

It was a cheap ride and an enjoyable one but a bit bumpy in places. TFTC.

It is a great view on a lovely day. An easy find. TFTC

My third 'lonely' cache and my second for today. Nice country drive to GZ too. Quickly found, signed and replaced. TFTC, Biggles.

A quick find after the long drive in. TFTC.

quick find on a damp day

Not quite the view from here that we were hoping for.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Easy and nice drive Tftc

Easy first find of day

A very hot blustery dusty Nor'wester today. Interesting to drive down a road I'd not normally use. TFTC.

Hmmm... Definately did this one, but somehow forgot to log it. Better later then never! TFTC

Not been caching in a while and getting the bug back again and this cache was close to Girlfriends house so decided to see if she interested in caching at all and took her to locate it. Was hoping for a bit of a hunt but was an easy find in the end. TFTC TNLN

Found as I made my way out into the Canterbury Plains

TFTC

Sometimes it just happens that you see a spot and say to youself.... That looks like the right spot, and it is! A nice trip around roads usually try to avoid. Thanks TFTC

Interesting area, took a bit of dusty driving to get there. Passed 2 milk tankers near GZ - wouldn't like to drive these roads daily.
TFTC.

#1502 (1/4 in North Canterbury). Nice views of the Waimak. Interesting spot. TFTC.

Nive quick drive by on a great day for caching. Interesting route back to Oxford. Good job I have a 4WD

3371. A good drive out through unknown territory. There is lot of new dairying going to pop up around here over the next few years! A pity about all the tree that are coming down and not being replaced.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Heh - I think the name should have had Thong in the title instead Cheers Gav [6347]

Dusty road... but easy to find!
Fun. TFTC

out of the way - last one of the day

Clever name indeed but not much fun in this weather. TFTC

(99) Had to grab this one as am so close.. Interesting hole in the ground.. TFTC. SL.

Most difficult part of this cache was the long unsealed road to GZ with our fresh cleaned car!!! Quick and easy find.

Wondered about that title, but all was revealed. A remote spot that really wasn't. What a view. Thank you.

What an isolated feeling area of the country yet within an hour of the city.

Didn't even fire up the GPS.We found it quickly.There was a great view of the Waimak Plains from up here.TFTC

3rd caching stop on Tsunami morning. As I approached GZ from the East I thought that the cache must have been named after the interestingly flexible irrigator in the farm across the road. I have never seen one like that before. Then I noticed the name on the road sign. Oh well! TNLN T4TC.

TFTC Great area forgot how much this has changed since the irrigation came on

Didn't linger with the view (low cloud and driving rain), cache quickly found, TFTC.

First cache for the day and first one for a long time using a 60CSx instead of my Oregon 550 as the 550 is playing up.
TFTC.

Are first to log vist but betten in log book in cache. TFTC. Big holes are going to be irrigation ponds.

Some how managed to miss this one on our sweep of the Waimak on Saturday but by chance I had to come this way to a job today so a short detour was made to bring me past the cache and surprisingly an empty log.I passed the natural rollercaster on the way in.Thanks NZTIKES.

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