Valley Walks #3 (Manawatu) Summerhill, North Island, New Zealand
By me&him on 12-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2F15J

#10,382. A good walk that took us from Fitzherbert to Linton. This cache had been on our GPS for many years, and this was the first opportunity to have a look. GZ was all quiet when we arrived. Found after a short search. The cache was in reasonably good condition considering how long since it was last found … and all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement, and for bringing us to this site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

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Decided to check on a few more archived Valley Walks... some are gone but here's #3 in good condition with a dry log that hasn't been signed for almost 3 years!
TFTC Me&Him... a great series of walkways with cool caches just waiting to be refound!

Decided to check on a few more archived Valley Walks... some are gone but here's #3 in good condition with a dry log that hasn't been signed for almost 3 years!
TFTC Me&Him... a great series of walkways with cool caches just waiting to be refound! ?

Archived

Found in gloomy light at 2008hrs. Looked easier than it was. Tftc

After searching fruitlessly for a while finally spotted the cache nice hiding spot tftc!

Stopped to watch the ducklings in the pond on this hot afternoon.
I met a jogger when I first got to the site and spent far too long looking and getting paranoid before finally finding it.
TFTC.

TFTC

I really enjoyed the walk from the car park on Old West Road with only a jogger passing me as I was nearing GZ. After a short search the cache was found in a spot just perfect for this cache. The contents were looking a bit sad so I added a few more trinkets .

After finding the cache it was neat to stop at the nearby pond and watch the Welcome Swallows aerobatics. They are very cool birds!

TFTC

Had to ditch the bike at the bottom of the steps and walk the rest of the way. TFTC

Took a while but found it, nice hide. TFTC

Found it on my morning run, ashamed to say it was my second attempt, and cannot believe i missed it the first time, must have almost touched it three times! TFTC

This one took me a long long time, well hidden. Felt like a troll hiding under the bridge when some runners came over.... but beats explaining my strange behaviour. TFTC

Found..after little search with Junior Cachers...Dora trackable not inside..major disapointment to little Miss Junior Cacher

This entry was edited by kiwipicman on Sunday, 05 May 2013 at 06:59:47 UTC.

This entry was edited by kiwipicman on Sunday, 05 May 2013 at 07:11:50 UTC.

Second attempt at finding this one. Lucky I know where trolls live. Cache container getting a bit rusty making it hard to open. GPS spot on Tftc.

nice easy walk today very hot!!!!TFTC

Found it!Great walk...TFTC!

Counted from both directions on staircase and looked underneath bridge around the 22 mark and came up empty handed.

#2646 @0905
Another mornings caching in PN - east of the river today, mostly involving short walks. Arrived at GZ and spent a few minutes searching before I found the cache - didn't look there carefully enough. Amazed and pleased at how many muggles passed by/over - a very popular track. Took 'Jack' TB. TFTC.

Nice walk

A quick find while caching in the area this morning. Very pleasant little walkway, I came in from SH57 and returned the same way. Signed log, TFTC!

Our last of 29 today, we come in past the disabled member of the series and left while it was quite dark.

-GC
+TB

Dropped geocoin!

Found with supersaks. Took a little while - knew where it was, just not exactly where it was sitting.
Saw lots of dead wildlife, so I guess it made my weekend complete.

left geocoin

Wooohooo! Finally a win for me Thanks!

Another excellent hide..!

Came in from La Lena Grove for this one, hoping to avoid too much climb, but still had a climb on the way back to the car. Took a little while to locate this one, but knew it must be there somewhere. TFTC

After a DNF on the last one in this series, continued on and had no problem finding #3. Nicely hidden and great track system in this area. TFTC

Clue very good troll undisturbed and cach in good condition

Dammit, third attempt and no luck... My non-English roots don't help me with getting clues

This morning @Wifey said "don't come home for lunch because I'll be icing your birthday cake (design is a surprise). Why don't you go caching instead?"
I replied with "see you after work!"

Found during my lunch break.
SLTNLN. T4TC! [#199]

Happy Birthday to me!

TFTC, nice hide. My log is the kind of unreadable red one...

Tried to find this one a few months back, but found a broken duck on the roadside. Took it to the vet at Massey....
Had to be put down.

TFTC well tucked away

Found with help of kiwi_flyer. TFTC.

Classic hide. Left felt pen.

Yay, 1st easy one to find

Thinking like a troll for a quick find. TFTC!

TFTC, didnt check the GPS enough and walked 250m past it, so had to turn around (we will have to take more care in the future). A quick find once we had back-tracked

TFTC TNLNSL

Fourth cache in a row for Eagle! This girl is good! And this is her first time caching... Dropped of Beware of Kiwi. Hope it'll see some native birds from here.

Another good hide, I came across this one just after the Moody Family had paid a visit, and caught up with them on later cache. TFTC

Nice find for Braiden! Great location for a cache, we are having an awesome day finding the caches in the series! Thanks for the cache.

easy find

I continued along the track from #2 with kaikawaka and found the area. First searches were a bit wide, but at a hint that this was so I quickly homed in on the right spot.

Another quick find . Very neat walkway around here. TFTC.

An enjoyable walk through this area. TFTC

Good walk along to GZ. Troll asleep. TFTC

Had some fun this afternoon dodging showers and completing the Valley Walks series. Nice quick find here.
TFTC.

A quick find after continuing on down the track from Valley Walks #2 followed by a fast walk back to the car just as it started to rain. TFTC

nice easy find thanks

A nice easy find, although I wasn't sure the container I found would be it until I got it open! Thanks.

Easy find, all in good shape. TFTC

First valley walk of the day. Found without any drama's. TFTC

We walked on from #2, a bit of a slog coming back so happy to have some shade to cool down in.
TFTC.

#2135. Carried on here from #2. Great collection of tracks in this area. TFTC.

Becoming a caching cliche...another place I never knew was here...thanks to this series of caches. Scrabbled around, found it quite quickly.

Walkways very quiet today, great for a walk Number 3 of the series for us. -stick, +train

Nice walk to GZ. a couple of joggers around this part of the track.

I made my way here from the Old West Road carpark. It was a nice stroll on a walkway I didn't previously know about.

cool

A nice little walk and was pleasntly surprised to learn of this his track which I didn't know of previously.
TFTC

easy

Found with nz1 nice group of caches tftc

Found with Gumpy Boy. Great series. TFTC

Found with sfortyoner while working off too much lunch. Hope the next flood does not wash the cache away. TFTC.

Very accurate GPS on the day so it had to be that end, but there was nowhere for it to be. Well, there was, but the container is a nice colour match for its site. Plainly there once you spot it.

Have removed a travel bug and will take the Sergeant to a LotR site in the Hutt. See if I can construct a nice photo to add to a gallery.

Nice walk to help work off some Xmas calories.

Stream was up a bit today but a nice spot in the rain - TFTC

Nice hide. Mr 10 (with his sharp eyes!) insisted he had looked under that end & it wasn't there! So while he was looking on the other side i scrambled down & quickly spotted it, much to his disgust
S/L
Last one for today - thanks

tb drop

1500hrs. A good walk from number 2. We enjoyed the new tracks while visiting from Australia. TFTCSL

Thanks for the cache, That is a beautiful little stream

Found it with Doomwheel, tastefulpi and blonde. Thanks for the great hide!

TFTC

Continued down the path to get this one from Valley Walk #2, found this one in the first place I looked after the muggles disappeared from view, was a bit hard as muggles would appear out of no-where BUT got there in the end. Now for the walk back to the car, enjoyed the walk and the views, thanks for bringing me here, TFTC TNLNSL (2360)

Had to wait for a few muggles to pass but nice quick find TFTC

Three down, three to go. TFTC

dropping off pukeko and puss'n'boots geocoin for a stay by the water..

Nice quick find. TFTC

Another walk for the dog. I see they have fixed the approaches to the bridge up. No longer looks like it is going be washed away.

feel like we are cheating a little, driving as close as possible. Aim to come back and walk them all at some stage. TFTC

A quick find now that we were back on track with the route!!!! Left a pet rock - a chicken. TFTC

Lovely day to be out GC.....I got a lovely dose of Vit. D

Quick find using clue after getting #2. Signed log, left signature trade item. TFTC

The access under the Turitea Stream Bridge wasn't usable today - completely under water and may have been washed away? We had to use the alternative track up and across the road instead. A slightly longer walk for this one, then the cache was a quick easy find. Mrs W.E.K.A. went to write the codes on her little piece of paper, only to discover it was no longer in her pocket, along with the codes from #5 and #3 done earlier today! TFTC

This was the easiest find in the series TFTC

After #2 we soon were in the area for this cache - another nice location. Quick search and cache found. SL -TB TFTC

All quiet and peaceful today - no trolls to be seen, fortunately. TNLN TFTC

a quick check after the storms and pleased to say all is well, even the tracks are drying out

Found quickly and signed log. TFTC

Published

edvern found this one, while I was looking on the other side.
Nice location.
Thanks.

Found on a joint FTF night time raid with nzcoozer. The track from #2 to this one is extremely sloshy at present! Neatly placed, thanks.

dropping in travel bug