The Pile ( North Otago ) Omarama, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 31-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2HHFT

Checked cache gone. - Bitsprayer

Could not find thus one

In Omarama for a caching weekend with BCD. A lovely drive around an area I have never been to before and after visiting the Ahuriri Wetlands it was time to head back with a few P&G's for me while BCD was driving. I never knew what a Cairn was until today and there were many I inspected along the way back to Omarama! Unfortunately this was the only one I DNF.

Still not found it so many piles we will be back to look for it again

To many piles have been knocked over and phone gps not accurate

We too tried in a 10m radius but no luck

Nope beat me

Lots of piles, but none within 10m of GZ appeared to contain the cache. 1st dnf for today.

Earned a favourite point from us.
TFTC

Finally, the day has come and I have arrived to New Zealand. This three week long trip has been planned for more than 6 months. First of all, I was going to visit my daughter and her boyfriend, who has been on the islands for almost one year, next was to see as much as possible of both North and South islands. My daughter had done a day to day planning on where to go and what to see. This trip was not planned as a Geocaching trip, but we should definitely search for some caches all over the islands.

Day 20. Cromwell – Mt Cook

A shorter trip from Cromwell to Mt Cook was on the program for today. A few stops was made on this trip. This was one of the caches we found. Logged together with Klövsson and Familjenloov. Tftc

What a random find. Fun!!!!!!!

Lots of piles but found it. TFTC.

I found a pile

Found the right pile

So many piles here..... made a quick find. so cool. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc Bitsprayer. Find # 3947

just another pile of rocks, cheers for this one

Found on our way from Wanaka to Christchurch, TFTC and Happy Halloween

Quick find TFTC

Easy and nice!!

Found while on a a geocaching road trip with wymo

A holiday trip away to Wanaka - caching on the way! TFTC

Easter weekend caching road trip .tftc

I was following the cairny road for a while Quick find here, although definitely more than one pile TFTC!!

An Easter weekend trip to Queenstown picking up a few caches on the way. Chelzea and I had her brother muggle with us so not as intense cache gather as previous weekends but managed a good number. Thanks to all the CO's for all the placements with some cool locations and placements. Sorry for the Cut and paste logs but will note anything special on the cache page.

So many piles, but I found the right one, tftc

Last time I drove through here I was daunted by the many piles - this time I wasn't as faint-hearted.....
Didn't have to dismantle more than one Pile.
Thanks, Bitsprayer.

these cool cache I found quickly... but I let SeRi84 and Danafee looking a little...
TFTC...

Found together with Tinu72 and SeRi84... TFTC...

Thanks for this cool idea. Have never such a cache found!

Greetings from Canada. Great hide. Coordinates spot on...thank gawd lol.

Took a couple of piles being dismantled and re-stacked to find this one. A clever idea although the container is missing. TFTC

Found the right pile tftc

Check and recheck and found. Nice cache. Tftc

Found this cache on our 4 weeks honeymoon through New Zealand. So many great places to see in this beautiful country.
On the 4th day with our campervan we drove from Mount Cook to Queenstown and stopped several times along Lindis Pass to grab geocaches. Nice one here.
Merry Christmas.
Greetings from Germany
TFTC

Logged another pile

Found at 09:45 AM - #5585

TFTC

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

Well that took a bit longer than I thought It would. I must check everything. TFTC ☺

Quick find.

Made our own rock pile with a little surprise left behind

First day of two days trip from Christchurch to Invercargill via Cromwell. Cache 65 of 72 today. This is part of my challenge to find as many 'minutes' for a 400-minute challenge cache, with most caches being straightforward finds. Thanks for the cache.

Found with allaboutthatcache, becsicasa and Biartch79. Tftc

2nd time lucky fingers crossed for the next with becsicasa, allaboutthatcache and gonna cache em all. Tftc

A tourist stopped to ask what they were. Advised art lol.
Then we struck the target
Biartch79 Becsicasa Gonna Cache Em All
Tftc

Found a cd too! Nice! Lots of piles!

a short stop and a quick find. very nice container! - T4TC ..punkt on tour with chomo

Must be a boring edge of the world. Or how are the masses of rock piles along the road to explain?

Thanks and greetings from chomo along the way with ..punkt

On the way to Twizel we found this.

A lot of wind today, cold cold wind.

TFTC!

Today we drove northeast to Omarama to get away from the rain. That seemed to be a good idea, as we nearly wasn`t bothered by rain at all . We had a great day with many scenic views and found a lot of caches as well .

We found the right pile, and we found the box . Thanks for the cache.

Sore back

Better this time

Found it

good hide - not what we expected tftc

Found on a nice day in the area

Lovely day for caching ! Not much traffic as well !

easy found but will not call it a pile anymore

More rocks

Yes, another cairn, have been wanting to do these for a long time, with a work trip here, today was the day...

Pile had been destroyed and cache was lying close by so signed log and rebuilt a cairn tftc

Unfortunately this great cache has been destroyed along other piles in area.

Very clever! TFTC =)

Took awhile & can see why we dnf if awhile ago. TFTC

Haha! Should have expected something like that! A fav point from us . TFTC Bitsprayer.

Took us quite long but finally found with my two asian friends

There are a lot of these cairns around!!

just another pile of rocks

Today found on our way to Te Anau.
#5986
TFTC Ulrike & Ulli

The hide was not quite what we expected but co-ords were spot on. Found with Aoraki Sheep and Woody104.

A good few piles around, found the right one pretty quick.
Found on a round up in the area with DebsNZ and Aoraki Sheep.
TFTC

The cache is a bit wet but still good to write on. Found with Woody104 and debsnz

During our wonderful travel from Christchurch to Steward Island we stopped here for a break. Lovely spot for a cache. Many thanks for showing us around. We have been here one year ago and it's always great to come back, such a beautiful place!

DNF here

We have now left Queenstown. After a short stop in Wanaka in order to do some buskig, we head to omarama to spend the night there. The weather is fine and it is a good opportunity or us to do some caches on the way. We stop at this one, and we find it quickly, fun place.
Thanks for the cache.

Nous avons maintenant quitte queenstown. Apres un petit arret a Wanaka pour faire du buskig, nous voici en route pour Omarama pour y passer la nuit. Le temps est bon et c'est une bonne opportunite pour nous de faire des caches. Nous nous arretons a celle-ci, que nous trouvons rapidement, sympa comme endroit.
Merci pour la cache.

Found on my way from Wanaka to Tekapo.
No problems.

Sorry for the late log. This is one of many founds during my four week visit to NZ.
The date here may differ from the one in the log book, both could be a day off from actual log date.

Nice easy find tFTC

Found with Chosen1978, Great hide, got the connection fairly quickly, TFTC

Great hide!! Logged with granville86a

This time we found it straight away. Gave the log an sheet and a raincoat. We wood have done this last time but we couldn't see the wood for the stones. Great hide.

5/5 found on the way from Wanaka to Lake Benmore. Nice one SL TFTC

There were a lot of piles...
But after PA passed, none of the piles stayed at the same place : MA had a lot of fun in the camper while PA was turning every rock. 1 thing for sure : no gold at that place!!!!
A bit of rain did not stop her...

After some 15 minutes of laughter in the camper, MA came out and caught the cache in 15 seconds - more laughter was to come!!!

Thanks for this one, Bitsprayer! (btw : notfor me (PA))

We did not find because there were no piles of rocks at the co-ords but after reading others logs we think we may have spotted a pile but were unaware that it was one. Will re-visit.

In the rain & just could not find this today.

TFTC!

Quick find. Skink has taken up residence in hole! Log quite wet.

Quick found,

TFTC

Georode

Very funny, well done. Log sheet is damp but able to be signed. Thanks for the cache.

You almost had me! Cheeky one

Got it! A favourite added for the fun.

Easy on the second attempt. Should have looked at the name. TFTC

TNLNSL many thanks for a great hide

Plenty of rocks to play with today. Rocks of all sizes, large, small and pebbles. But are they a decoy ?

You can't fool us - the geo-nana especially. The logbook was mushy so I replaced it with a new log. Cheers Bitsprayer - it can have a fav. point because I like how many DNF's there are!!

We thought this was going to be a DNF, after checking the remains of several cairns, but as we were about to depart Mrs W.E.K.A. noticed something unusual, causing Mr W.E.K.A. to recheck something he had previously checked, but apparently not sufficiently thoroughly, and this time the cache was quickly in hand. TFTC

Easy find TFTC

No luck despite quite some searching...

first for the year yay

Might have been muggled. Most likely cairn had been scattered.

Caching our way to Mt Cook. No probs here

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

Found straight away. Log is a little damp.

A little wet but all good. TFTC.