Valley View (Nelson/Marlborough) Kahurangi National Park, South Island, New Zealand
By liquorboy09 on 21-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MX8G

Weekend:We set off on a great adventure with the whole family: one night in Mt. Arthur hut and one night in the Lower Gridiron Rock Shelter. So cool to be able to do these hikes with all the kids and enjoy the outdoors together. Very low visibility on Saturday but great weather on Sunday, we really enjoyed being out here in the mountains!Cache:Great spot where you can realise for the first time how high up you already are. Thanks for the nice hide here, tftc!

Cache was found reasonably quickly. The note book is really wet and can't be used. We signed on the back and sadly we didn't have any replacement paper on us. TFTC

Trouve ! / Found it ! Petite cache trouve lors de mon expdition sur la Tablelands Loop. La mto et les moldus sur les chemins ne m'ont pas permis de m'arrter partout mais j'ai trouv quelques belles caches sur le chemin.4611me cache trouve.Merci liquorboy09 pour la cache Small cache found during my expedition on the Tablelands Loop. The weather and the muggles on the paths didn't allow me to stop everywhere but I found some nice caches on the way.4611th cache found.Thank you liquorboy09 for the cache

Logbook was really wet, impossible to open or even write in.

The view was completely obscured by clouds. The container had some water, the logbook was soaking wet, we couldn't open it and write in. Nice loop, thanks for taking us here.

Found with livingk on the way to Arthur hut. Log far to wet to sign so took a photo instead. Thanks for placing the cache

Found in way to Mt Arthur hut and circuit of the Tablelands. Found with Elihyn. Cache is sodden and we were u able to sign it. Elihyn who took a photo.

Tftc easy find, log book was to wet to write in took a picture of the cache if needed!

I could not find this in the way up the hill, one of my muggle walking companions found it for me on our way back down

Bill found this one. The log was too wet to sign, so I took a photo.

Nice Walk to Arthur's hut. Unfortunately not found.
TFTC and greetings from Germany.
Klatho & Gazzelli

Out on the Tablelands with victoriousone bagging huts and caches

Found with Madcow2. Quick find on the way down. TFTC

I think the adults in the group had more fun on this one than the kids.

A nice cache
one of our favorites
TFTC

SJT_NZ and I are heading off for an overnight tramp on the Tableland Circuit, a quick find and all in very good condition. Thanks liquorboy09 for placing the cache.

Completed with Tregearp whilst on a two day tramp over Mt Arthur and on to over night at Salisbury Lodge. A great day to be in the bush - a small amount of scattered cloud and a gentle Southerly that kept temperatures in the high teens - but perfect when carrying a pack.

A quick find with all in good order. Thanks liquorboy09 for the cache.

TFTC!

We looked on the way up but there was too much snow. next day we found when snow melted TFTC

Paused here for lunch as well as the cache before the last wee climb to hit and beyond a bit. Thanks

Found with msebn. Helps to have a few extra pairs of eyes!
Great view. TFTC.

Out for a tramp up Mount Arthur with The Sullisaurases. Cool cache it was a really good idea to put the matches in. It was a great one to do while eating.

Thanks liquorboy09
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Logged using Cachly.

Found with troy222- tftc!

Found it with Jubey01. TFTC!

Out for my 3 weekly Wednesday walk in Kahurangi National Park. Today's trip was into Clouston's Mine, Gordon's Pyramid and out via the Mt Arthur track. Quite windy today but clear weather.
This was the fifth for today and a welcome spot to drop the pack after the trip from Gordon's. A easy find, tucked away and covered from the elements. Cache in pristine condition so all good here.

TFTC liquorboy09

Dnf. It is sometimes a little bit complicated with muggle friend when you do not disturb your trip so much ...

My sister is in town, so we decided to go for a walk. This is one of her favourite routes from childhood. Amazing how popular this walk is, considering how narly the access road is. Good cool tramping weather, but the top was clouded in, was very cold, and there was ice shards in the wind. And naturally, when we turned back, the sun came out. Still cloudy up top though. Best part was a flock of nine kea who came over to check us out! Worst part was not finding one cache, and walking straight past another without realising it!

Quick stop and admire the view.

Indeed very nice view

Tftc

After staying one night in Gridiron but, today we went to MtArthur hut where I solved the multi. I went for a quick walk to find it but only made it until this cache and then decided to leave the other one for tomorrow when we head back to the carpark.
All good here. Now back to the hut and a warm meal

A great day out

TFTC

Found on a great day up here

Found on Saturday. This walk to Mt Arthur hit is fantastic with a great view from here. Thanks.

5 for 5 today...

With Judithn.very pretty spot in the snow. Fortunately the cache remained uncovered by the snow.

Nice view tftc

TFTC! Slept in Mt. Arthurs Hut for a night and went up to the summit...what an awesome environment to spend time in! This view was awesome!
After the few muggles left we found it pretty fast...

We walked up mount Arthur today with cousins & aunts visiting from the U.K. Everyone stopped here for the viewpoint anyway, so it was only a quick grab to get the geocache. Find #373

Great view. Very cold

We found this on our way back to the carpark, it was a very busy day on the track today bur luckily nobody came past while we found and signed this one. Thanks liquorboy09 for the cache

**Found on an overnight round trip from Flora Car Park, with Mum and Dad, staying at Salisbury Lodge. **
Quick find. The nice track since the hut has been much appreciated compared to what we've encountered today. Motoring along - be home in no time at this rate - looking forward to a beer! TFTC (3676)

What a beautiful spot to take in the view and get a photo or two ,a quick find .Tftc Liquorboy09

Great view, very pleased to take the pack off even if only for a couple of minutes. Easy find TFTC liquorboy09

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Always enjoy coming up here. TFTC

On the way back to the car park I found this. A great view point.

On our way through the south island TFTC greetings from CZ R&J.

Had a few pairs of eyes searching for this but no luck today.

On Wed 14th the brand new Oregon 700 crashed (for the second time these holidays) and lost all caches from the Nelson PQ. So visited the Richmond Library to note down the coordinates and details for a handful of essential Nelson caches... this was one of them.

Today seemed the best day to attempt Mt Arthur , although as it turned out the best day would have been the day we left for home. A real motorway up here now. Paused to get the cache and the view.

There was snow on the terrain today which made it a bit harder to crawl around. Awesome view from up there! Really had fun with this one. No TB found in the cache though. Tftc!

onward and upward on my way to the top

HOTA

Nice spot. View was a little bit in clouds... Thanks for the cache! IN: TB

Díky

Found on our way down from Mt Arthur.
would have been a great view but for lkw cloud today and skme snow underfoot. Will be back again. TFTC.

Limited view today because of cloud, snow under foot,still a lovely walk. TFTC

If this is the view from here I'm looking forward to the view from the top TFTC

Great place for a seat shame there isn't one. Log not signed because I was quite wet after an afternoon in the rain. TFTC

What an awesome view. Great spot. TFTC

Awesome view and a great place to take a quick breather. tftc

Had to wait for a large group of muggles to stop admiring the view, but all good after that.
Thanks for the cache!

Found with Vydra20. TFTC

Perfect view. TFTC!

Awesome view

Thanks for the cache

Indeed worth coming up here. At this point the sky was still clear and we could actually see the valley other than later on the summit

What a terrific view of Motueka etc from here

Found on our day up in the hills cache was out in the open so replaced under cover TFTC

Had a look while the others refreshed at the hut but no luck for me. Our plan to tramp up Mt Arthur and over Gordons Pyramid.

Loged the wrong one. Found on the way up Mt Arthur.

Great views between the rain showers. TFTC

Near the end of a lovely day up to the peak. Resorted to the clue as tiredness was setting in! Found with nickgastrell. TFTC.

Found on return from the top with Jackie from jackieandgrant

Stopped here on the way to the top of Mt Arthur in perfect weather. Found the grave first and then the cache, Signed log, TFTC.

On our way down to car

great hide in the scape
tftc

Found with m42komar, nice trip, TFTC

New year trip : ) TFTC

No clouds, no fog... for a last few hours and after that only hard raining and freezing cold all the way from Mt. Arthur:( TFTC!

Third find for the day on a walk in the area. We left Nelson too late to aim for the top today, but enjoyed the walk part way. Nice views here today although we could see the clouds moving in. Now onwards and upwards. Thanks.

Great view!

Had a really neat walk up this track today. Our view was not the one the cache was named for, but pretty special none-the-less. TVMFTC

Nice spot for a cache found on a family walk up to Mt Arthur hut this arvo.TFTC

took longer than it should have. found cache easier when i actually turned torch on. tftc

Reflected on Syd, then found the cache, while the others did take photos!

Just in case you think I wasn't interested in finding any caches today, I did manage to find this one! Not much of a view yet, but weather was improving and sun was breaking through from above. Nice spot - I suspect the views are spectacular if I pick a better day. TFTC

could write a page about this spot, lets just say, very familiar with it !good cache.

Unfortunatly the view was poor..... mostly as it had been dark for an hour or so. A difficult find in the dark and snow - cache was frozen shut!

Well on the way to the Mt Arthur Hut. I had a good idea where this one would be. However, we also encountered Syd before finding the cache. TFTC, Biggles.

No view today drizzle most of the way up and low cloud. Cache found and logged before continuing up. TFTC.

The GPS was still wandering. First place we looked turned out to be a grave !!!!! There was a plaque under some rocks remembering a Syd Jenkins. [xx(]
Moving right along we looked at the next likely spot and there it was.
Was a good view and the last spot before we hit the wind.
Picked up coin.
TFTC

A second FTF in one day unheard of for me!!! One cache lead us to another and another today telling ourselves well we have come this far we may as well go up to the Hut (which we did ) but only after looking at the spectacular views on a fine sunny day - photos of course were taken !!!! thanks for leading us on up the hill (I think !!!! signed log a great place for a cache

Great spot and in just the place we were going to take a break, we are far further up the mountain than we intended today. Took in the view and took a few pictures signed log and carried on heading up the hill. MMMMM thought we were going down ok nevermind lol.
Good work on the cache placement .

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