101 Dalmations: Puppy #14 (Auckland) Waitoki, North Island, New Zealand
By barkingmadnz on 25-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2PBN2

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in a prior reviewer note.

Hi barkingmadnz

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Like previous cachers last year we couldn't find anything. We checked a lot of trees and stumps without any luck.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Thought I'd start on this famed 101 today. What a day to choose, wet and windy. Well, Since I'm up, might as well get started.

Didn't find this

No Luck here today

Looks like the pine tree has been recently chopped

??

On a mission to find 119 caches before the end of the year! 101 Dalmatian seemed like a good power trail plus any others nearby.
Yep - QEF (great hint) SL TFTC

I've been looking at this power trail for a while now and today I set off on my journey. I knew i wouldn't get all of them so I stopped at #45 hoping to come back another day to finish the trail off. The caches on the trail aren't in the best shape and a number of them have gone missing. Almost all of the logs were wet and a few were simply unsignable. A lot of them need maintenance but it was a beautiful spot for geocaching. I managed to find most of the caches with a few dnfs and a few that were simply just not there. Thanks barkingmadnz for this power trail as it is my first one. (Sorry about the copy and paste logs) TFTC'S!

Find number 6321. My mission today was to come north and grab some of these Dalmatians and others in between. With the intention of riding my bicycle from the MTB car park and collect the caches along the way. And then cut thru the forestry road back to the car. I left Hamilton at 3.30 am in order to get thru the Southern Motorway before the morning rush hour traffic. This achieved I arrived at about 6. Before I started I had some breakfast. Then it was was on with my Hi Viz vest as there appeared to be a little fog around. I stopped at 63 caches and found 52 and had 11 DNF. Some of the DNFs were not really looked for as I did not fancy the gorse or the cutty grass. Many of the Dalmatians need attention. Containers were broken or missing lids. There were wet logs as well. Remarkably many were still in good condition. I was back at the car by 1 pm. Then it was back on the road to miss the afternoon traffic jams. Arriving back in Hamilton at just after 3 pm. A good day was had and thank you for the cache.
Water in container but log all good.

Out with Nicholson_family. found quickly. TFTC

Nice easy find out with kids. Tftc

Easy find, picked up the duck! TFTC

Found it and dropped off trackable Kalua Pork Duck who wants to travel NZ

Easy find....as described....tftc

Quick and easy Tftc.

Our mission today was to collect as many 101 Dalmation caches as possible plus pick up any other ones on the way.
Brother In Law was our driver which made it a little easier to collect.
Most caches were very wet but luckily signable and some of the caches took time to find due to the sides of the road being overgrown with thistles and blackberry bushes.
We started our mission at 9am but had to quit around 3.30pm due to losing service in the area, so will have to come back and make sure we have downloaded to off line to complete.
So glad that we are 50% complete on this, we will be back. SLTFTC

Easy find. Park about 35m past. Nice outlook across the road

Nice quick find while doing the trail. TFTC

Puppy #14 - Having decided to head home we only managed to skip a couple before the forest lured us in for one more search. Found easily. Thanks

And we're off!! Nanna (visiting from UK), Mum, Master 10 and Master 6 making a start on the puppies! Living locally (and having just gone hard-core and paid our premium dues) we were delighted to find such a mass of caches at 'our' forest. Only aiming to knock off 10 or so today before heading back to base for lunch. Thanks for an awesome school hols activity

All this walking into the outskirts of the forest made us want to go on a real walk a bit deeper, but that would have to wait for another day as our mission today was to find as many puppies as we could and time was running out, so we were pleased to make a quick find.

I have observed the caches on this trail starting on Blackbridge Road for quite some time now hoping that one day I would have some time up my sleeve to try and get as many as I could in one go. That is how I came to be looking for this particular cache. As I had until 1PM free, I left home and headed out at 5.45AM this morning… and it was a great day for it. So when it came to finding this particular cache it was a nice straight forward find. So thank you for taking the time to set up this particular cache. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so. TFTC!

Tb drop

yebo barkingmadnz

what a work to set up a trail of 100 and more caches - congrats, and i see now it had been a lot of work to out them aout plus to maintain them.

we are a few days in this area and of course wanted to tackle this power trail, which turned out to be a very thorny one
therefore the advise of long pants and sleeves and sometimes gloves (had none though) was the best hint ever in this series

starting at the number 1 we needed about 4 hours 30 min to finish the trail (including some other caches), though the bonus is in my eyes is (seen today april 2018) bogus as most of the caches are in desperate need of some love, or had been replaced by fellow cachers (nice!) or i had too many tomatoes on my eyes to find the clues (did find 2 though but that was not enough)

and i noted that from #50 onwards, the caches were in a much better state than the previous ones (almost no water or no wet logsheets, where sometiems you just couldn't log)
But NO complains: all in all a good time with many smileys on the new zealand map!

this copy & paste text is ending every log entry, if there was something significant, it will be on top to read for the next cacher (and owner of course), not to go through the whole repetitive text

great work!

greets from cape town & vienna

tftc

"It is going to be tough going" ... it was for me ... Did it with my "city bike" not very well prepared for hills ... it was hard sometimes ... Started at #1 to finish at #50. Long trousers , long sleeves , gloves is a must here. Had all of them. Found several caches and also had some DNFs for balance. Spent about 5 minutes for each of them ... 75% of plecements here had wet logbook sometimes unable to sign off. Waterproof paper helps in some of them but few hides had just ordinary logbook. TFTC

#9769. A day to explore the 101 Dalmations trail around Riverhead Forest in Riverhead. We had set out to complete about half of the trail. In the end we picked up 52 geocaches on or near it, plus 3 DNFs. A quick stop on Blackridge Road. Good view overlooking Waitoki along this stretch. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside.

Took Errol the Dragon
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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Easy find nice winter day so I did a few of 101 Dalmatian GC

Found the spot but no sign of the container

TFTC
#562

Need to collect 50 for the month to meet the Bakers Dozen Challenge so headed off to get some more of this trail. TFTC

I've had the puppy trail on my list to do for quite some time and as RustyNZ and I both had the day off today we set off to do as many as we could. Followed the trail in and made a nice quick find

Caching with merlot58 along the 101 Dalmatians Trail. Thanks for the hides

Please see main log at 101 Dalmations - The Puppy # 1.
I soon had this one in hand. TFTC
Apologies for the lateness in logging.

Cache found - see MAIN LOG at #1. Many thanks

Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer celebrating her taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 GC6JZNY this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

Good hint, followed the trail at GZ, cheers

#3731. After spending a few days in Auckland on a work trip, I had the opportunity today to grab a few geocaches before flying back south in the late afternoon. I am working on the DGSC challenge and one task in the bulk find elective is to locate 50 or more caches in a day on eight occasions. So decided the Dalmations power trail would be worth a visit. Managed to find 74 caches in just over 6 hours which was more than I expected to find and only 2 DNF's. Then back to fight the serious traffic congestion as people flocked to Adele's concert at Mt Smart stadium. I found a number of caches today matching this hint. Signed log and returned the cache as found. Thanks for setting up the powertrail.

Nice view of farm land across the road. Thanks.

Two years ago we were told of this power trail. This year on holiday from Greece we eventually got here. We were expecting puppies but now pigs and sheep are in on the act. All coordinated by the muffin man. Thank you to all involved for creating and maintaining such a great geotrail. We had an exhausting but fun filled day. TFTC.

Have been putting this journey off for ages and ages, but the time has finally arrived to make the start.
Dressed to deal with reported condition, so on my way. Tftc

Thanks for replacing....it seems to be a small container now !

Sommige caches zijn makkelijk te vinden, andere caches laten zich niet zo makkelijk vangen. TFTC

Sommige caches zijn makkelijk te vinden, andere caches laten zich niet zo makkelijk vangen. TFTC

Finally knocking off this trail, found with Aiden29 & Small Pooka, TFTCT

This trail has been on my to do list for so long, so it was nice to finally complete the series with Reveurs and Small Pooka. Cache found and waterproof paper added.

Easy enough location. No cache.

Also bypassed

Somehow I'd turned off some of the sizes so they weren't coming up. What a pain!
Returned today and found the host item, but no cache, which should have been straight forward.

Re log 1

Would not say this is a large container but still a easy find, replaced bag. Full write up on cache #1. Thanks for the series! (:

Grr hate gorse. Quick find. 3 day road trip from Hawkes bay to Auckland and back. Great few days to grab a number of caches. Tftc

Prickle prickle prickle but found cache in the end. Thanks

Yai, a power trail not to far from my current place. So a must go during the weekend to find a few caches there.
The road is OK for having a power trail but the caches were not well maintained. That was a bit sad. Often totally wet and smelly and often in the bushes. Not what I think a power trail is usually like.

Found

Well started at 10am and finished up at 3.30pm we are feeling ready for bed after a lovely soak in a spa bath, this was my birthday gift from my hubby that he would be my driver for the 3 days of caching this was the first day that will be hardest, we have replaced caches that we knew were going to be missing and only had a couple of dnf. Thanks for placing the cache (sorry about the copy and paste logs it's been such a big day we weren't able to remember them all) we also hit our mile stone of 2000 caches while doing these caches.

We have been wanting to tackle this series for a long time, but with so many saying phone reception is not great up this way we chose to wait until we had a GPS unit before attempting it. We have now had our GPS for some time and Easter Monday is the first opportunity for us to give it a go. We had a reasonable successful day, making it to puppy 75 with only a few DNF's along the way. We will be back another day to complete the series.
A nice quick find here with purply and darthcacher1

Detailed description in Puppy #1. TFTC (green tube, not white)

Found this one after being harassed by one of the locals in a blue truck who stopped and took a photo of our number plate and accused us of dumping rubbish! Not very nice and will see how we go with the rest of the trail.

Small green tube not a white container. Otherwise all as it should be.

I think we all have different definitions of what "big" and "kind of small" mean.... Must be cause I come from a different region of NZ to the Auckalnders I'm doing this trip with! ha ha ha. ok, I shouldn't joke. It's such a lovely day out today, don't want to spoil it! Beconaze, Onawe, and myself signed all logs on this trail BOD or DOB (depending on who was writing) to save room.

Puppy hunt with lisadrysdale and Onawe. Signed DOB. More detailed description in puppy 1 and 101.
TFTC

My series log for the first part of the trail is at puppy number 1. TFTC
Easy find

Cache all good
Tflc

We decided to do this trail and collect as much as caches as possible. We started early in the morning and winded up by afternoon.It was bit of a task with missing containers, log sheets, wrong hints, jumbing coordinates, lack of parking etc. Have tried some maintenance by adding log bags and sheets at some places.Thank you so much for all the placements. And effort taken by different cachers to keep it alive.
we actually found green tube here.

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Second day and Dalmations trail. We had fun.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Second day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards south. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka.

Todays mission was to do some powertrails north to Auckland. A bit different what we were used to, or maybe the main reason was that we drove this from the end to the first one..

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

Today we spent time to see some puppies in reverse order. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Today was the day to break records. I started the day on a search for an Isuzu ute with Philip.Perry and Davidsonclan. We decided to head up to do this series. I was looking forward to celebrating my next milestone - cache number 800, and it turns out today I would also be celebrating cache number 900 also.

I knew about this powertrail, but had not heard a lot about, nor researched the previous logs.
Just like 101 Dalmation puppies, it would be a big task looking after it and cleaning up all that crap would be a neverending task. Thats quite evident with this series. The lack of maintenance, and piles of rubbish littering the road side, was quick disappointing.

This was a long and arduous task made more difficult by missing containers, missing trees, mown verges, lack of parking spots, inaccurate coordinates and hints, but I am glad I knocked it off.

A 4:15am start to the day driving to Port Waikato for the first stop, the Isuzu D-Max Hunt 5. The Ute was found within 13 minutes with around 300 people looking which was no surprise, but it meant a large chunk of our day could now be spent... here

I hadn't read this description until now and I have to say while I was physically prepared, phone charged, gas in the car, food, water etc - I may not be mentally prepared which really started to dawn on me at around #37 for some reason. But with TNXpro happy to do the driving and Davidson Clan with an uncanny ability to sniff these caches out - we made it!

This series of mint tins, tubes, pill containers combined with every prickly weed, a hundred tonnes of rubbish and everything TNX mentioned below was actually a huge undertaking, sometimes depressing and in the end - a nice achievement. We replaced close to 20 new logs (which like many in this series will turn into rotting mush quickly ) and in this game of numbers I must say thanks to those cachers before us who did the same. Another thanks to the CO and while a trail like this ain't easy, it's probably time you had a quick sweep through.

I started the day at 1am so that i could race over to Tauranga from Rotorua and get a FTF at 2am before TNXPRO and PhillipPerry got up. I knew they were also on there way to Auckland to Hunt for the Izusu D-max what I didn't know is that they had plans for after that if I had known that I wouldn't have got up at 1am. So after the hunt for the D-Max ended after 13mins I raced back to my car to get out before all the other cars I had planned on doing some caches around Pukekawa Tuakau etc but I had a call from Tnxpro to meet them at Pokeno and to join them for the day I got to Pokeno and had a call where are you we are in Mercer I asked where we were going to the north shore great lets meet at Bombay service centre then I grab some breakfast checked phone and there was a cache ill do that while I wait. Another phone call where are you they said I said where do you think in the bushes get your phones out and find me lol.
I then jumped into Phillips car to make our way over to do this power trail after spending to much time at the first cache it was time to speed things up if we were going to finish this and be home by 3pm like I had told my wife (I knew that this was not going to happen ) by the time we finished up and were back to bombay to pick up my car I was hungry and tired so grabbed a feed and headed home I had to stop about three times on way home for a nap to get some groceries for the week as the wife was going to go shopping at 3pm. I finally made home at 930pm stuffed.

Thanks to the previous log to aid in the find of this one.

Decided a couple of weeks ago with Biartch79 to set aside a day to complete this trail. So we set off bright and early today (6:30am!!!) armed with caching tools, picnic lunch, drinks, and a whole lot of other necessary items, all squished into the geo-mobile.
Although we had a few DNFs (we were able to pick up a few piggies and lambs in the place of the missing puppies), we still had a great, albeit long day, with plenty of laughs and a fair bit of adventure!
We were able to replace a few of the logs and bags, but didn't have too many supplies with us so just tried to do the best maintenance we could on the ones in the worst repair. Many thanks to Kiwiscot19, who also appears to have replaced several logs and bags.

We were pretty satisfied with ourselves by the end of the day, having being able to achieve 100 caches in our day out!

Thank goodness a previous log said to stop looking for a large white container.... thanks to that, it turned out to be an easy find of a small eclipse tin!

After looking for a lrg container we changed tictacs and we found the mints hidden well. Off to the next puppy. Tftc

Took a little looking

Geocaching my way around Auckland with Just-Lookin.

Had lots of fun finding some caches.

TFTC

A quick find on this one.

Found with Princess-Emily.

TFTC and the series.

Easy to find when we stopped looking for a large white container.

This one had a searching a moment
... And after missing the previous Dalmatian it wasn't looking good but we're back on track once again

A bonus early finish this arvo had me leaving work at 4 o clock and with a bit of daylight remaining decided to hit the puppy trail again. I've already found a few of these puppies on a couple of previous stops on the way past but with my car here this time and a bit of motivation (and a torch) decided to do 10, or 20 or more. Only one D N F this evening and made a big bite out of the earlier numbers in this series. Most caches were in better condition than the others I've found previously and finders have replaced log books too. I removed a few damp splodges where necessary. Quite a pleaseant after work unwind and cached until it got dark. Managed over 30 so please with that amount and I'll be back again to do some more. Also managed some more numbers towards the final puzzle cache
T F T C barkingmadnz

Had me confused til I realised the container had changed

Nice quick find - and as others have said - container definitely NOT large & white.
Puppy #14 found safe & sound!

TFTC!

We thought to do as many "Dalmation" caches to complete our 100 in a day challenge. We completed 28. 4:30pm to 7pm. TFTC

Found this one and as previous logs indicate the cache has changed colour. Could this be a clever disguise like the coal the dogs used to escape Cruella last time? It's getting dark. I hope Rodger and Anita are not too worried about their puppies.TFTC

If that container is white then I'm a saint!

On a Puppy finding mission with Pazzabella - and a packet of Toffee Pops!
(Container now appears to be a Mint Tin) TFTC

Kiwiscot & Kiwi out for a few hours rounding up some missing puppies. Had a bit of fun before the rain set in. TFTC

Looks like a new eclipse container instead of large plastic. Coords good. Thanks

Headed out today on a mission to track down all the puppies, piggies and the caches that were closeby to the series. we spent 8 hours but we had a great day with 109 finds and no DNFS. Some caches were found quickly but quite a few took a bit of searching. It was a great series but the CO really needs to go out and do a maintenance run on the caches. We replaced 9 caches today (all mint tins) and I would say half the caches had soaking wet log books with scraps of paper inside.A lot of the hints were incorrect due to people replacing containers and unfortunately we couldn't do the final as only one container had a clue on it. We still had a great day but we were worn out and certainally deserved a cold drink when we had finished TFTC
Replaced container here.

No, couldn't find it

Our first did not find for the series searched and searched but just had no luck with this one. onto the next one

TFTC

We didn't find this one. Try to be succesful next time

couldn't find anything at gps location, so read the hint and still couldn't find anything.

Looks like #14 is also unlucky for us. Too many pine trees! lol! Will come back later.

Headed up here early to make a start on the 101 series ... A pine Tree you say - in a Pine Forest.
Yep got it. Thanks

Crawled under this cache and only spotted it when I stood up to do a 360 degree survey of my immediate surrounding.

Had been thinking about this trail for a while now and it was just a matter of waiting for the right day. TODAY IS THAT DAY!

Texted Miss NZTraveller "woof woof" and she knew instantly today was the day. We picked her up (topped up with coffee of course) and we were off!

We knew this was going to be a team effort to find all the puppies and we were decidicated to the cause!!

TFTC (well thanks for the Trail!)

Not a white container or at the base. Still easy find on this great series

Out and about with jgbeau to collect the 101 puppies (or as many as we could in a day) plus a few extras along the way. Thanks for putting this powertrail together. It was an interesting drive, taking about 5 hours to complete most of them. We missed 5 but were still pleased with our efforts in getting the rest today. Signed log as S + JG. Many containers need replacing in this series and we weren't organised for that much maintenance (only had spare log sheets and bags).

My daughter is visiting this week so we're having a Geochacing day. Thanks for providing a great day out.