101 Dalmations: Puppy #16 (Auckland) Waitoki, North Island, New Zealand
By barkingmadnz on 25-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2PBN7

We really had good look for this one. In branches and then as past logs suggested around on ground but we just couldn't find anything here. TFTC

After a nice walk back to get car and starting a new stretch master 8 still not having luck

Today was the day to take on the puppies. Not the easiest power trail I've ever undertaken. "Interesting" parking options, variable co-ordinates and some caches that definitely required digging out. Still, with some great info from previous logs, pretty good hints (if one casts ones eye a bit wider sometimes) and a nice (not to hot but dry) day I managed to find a good percentage of them. Thanks to those that have rescued a puppy or two as they became abandoned by the original owner. Generic log to cover the series.

Didnt look too hard after other log reports no find and seems unlikely to still be on a branch after so many storms

Spent a while searching for this one as it looks like it was found recently but again no luck for us at this spot.

Bag with log too wet to sign.

Found a bag with a log on the floor underneath some strapping!

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.

I found the log only and the container is missing. Placed it under said tree.

Here again with Albijos

FITW Harisree
On our trip to attend my First mega in Auckland. Decided to do caching while in town.

On a mission to find 100 Cache

TFTC

Easy find, watch for broken glass

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

GeohoundandI put a new log in a plastic bag into the remains of the cache here. The cache itself has rusted away but the strapping is still around the branch.

The container has more or less disintegrated. A new log has been left in the remains but it could do with a new container.

Log full and needs maintenance

Needs maint and a new loggy. Thanks doggy.

Needs maintenance

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 found this one! 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!

In the area to collect some new / old hides and try to find also previous DNFs.
Quick fins at GZ! All good here.
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Find number 6319. 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.
No lid on this but because of the placement the log is still dry.

Found it! Also found an easier way in tftc

Quick and easy find TFTC

That was easier than thought.... cache lid not in place.... 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

Argh there it is. That was the cry after searching to no avail for a while and realizing we had been there but just missed it
Container definitely squashed as the tree has grown, log near impossible to get out without tweezers.
A relief to finally sign this.

Spotted the cache after a short search. The container has been squashed and the log barely fits inside so extraction and reinsertion was tricky but we managed it with a tool.

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… as soon as I arrived at GZ I found it. So thank you for taking the time to set up this particular cache. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so. TFTC!

No joy here. DNF number 3 today.

#9771. 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. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was nicely in place, but with no lid. The log book was dry though. 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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No sign of it

Different tree than the last one I checked.

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. The remains of a dead sheep that had been dumped nearby were a little off putting! The log was difficult to extract as the lidless container has been a little crushed by tree growth. Thankfully Rusty had tweezers on her

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

Please see main log at 101 Dalmations - The Puppy # 1.
There was no lid to this cache either. It was so tightly attached to the tree, I had real difficulty extracting the log. TFTC
Apologies for the lateness in logging.Eclipse tin tied on no lid diff to extract log

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!

Another great hint, quickly found after work today.

#3733. 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. Quickly found. Just followed the geotrail. The log book is getting trapped by tree growth so not easy to extract or return. Signed log and returned the cache as found. Thanks for setting up the powertrail.

Nice hide. Day is warming up and there is a little more traffic on the road. Thanks for the cache.

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

Nice quick find on the Puppy trail thanks !!!!!

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 signed.

The "Flyjin" geocaching team are attempting the 101 Dalmation series - all in one day - by foot!!
The goal is 109 caches this is cache #11.
Cross branch has grown and deformed cache so that lid doesn't close.

Tftc. I was out with my daughter, Raven-eyes, today. We had decided some time ago to have a shot at the 101 Dalmatians trail so today was the day. It was slightly overcast so was not too hot for us. We had a phone & a GPS with us as sometimes one seems to be better than the other but today the GPS seemed to be the king as service for the phone was prone to dropping out a lot in some areas. I don't like to cut & paste logs but with the number we have today it seems logical to do this. We have signed the logs were they weren't paper mache & some of the logs the pen didn't want to oblige. Some didn't have a log in them. Some we found with ease, some were a little trickier & some were DNF's. All in all it was a good day out We returned with many battle wounds from Pampas grass, Blackberry string & Gorse. (Why anyone would hide a cache in Pampas grass is just sadistic). We had looked at previous DNF's on some of the caches & where there were a lot we decided not to waste valuable time looking for them.

Tftc. I was out with my Father, stevecoxnz, today. We had decided some time ago to have a shot at the 101 Dalmatians trail so today was the day. It was slightly overcast so was not too hot for us. We had a phone & a GPS with us as sometimes one seems to be better than the other but today the GPS seemed to be the king as service for the phone was prone to dropping out a lot in some areas. I don't like to cut & paste logs but with the number we have today it seems logical to do this. We have signed the logs were they weren't paper mache & some of the logs the pen didn't want to oblige. Some didn't have a log in them. Some we found with ease, some were a little trickier & some were DNF's. All in all it was a good day out We returned with many battle wounds from Pampas grass, Blackberry string & Gorse. (Why anyone would hide a cache in Pampas grass is just sadistic). We had looked at previous DNF's on some of the caches & where there were a lot we decided not to waste valuable time looking for them.

Holiday in New Zealand.. so we started in the morning to visit all these dalmatians geocaches. It was very hard, but we finished this trail. Thanks and greetings from Germany!

Quickest find since puppy 1 TFTC

Heading down to Auckland today as I'm flying out to a 4week holiday in Hawaii. So we hit the road early to hit this power trail. Not sure how many we will be able to find but we'll give it a good try

(sorry due to time constraints while powering through the trail and then time in the airport to log todays finds while waiting on my plane finds will have to be copy and pasted- and even that will take time)

TFTC

One that was in it's correct location. Logged.
Thanks for placing.

(2012) Down south today to compete the 101 Dalmatians power trail. Another quick find. TFTC

Another one down. Full write up on cache #1. Thanks for the series! (:

We were on a mission and keen to make the most of this powertrail. Despite being wet and quite muddy in places we did a fair job of tracking many of these down even where the gorse and blackberry threatened. Cache was different to what we were expecting and difficult to open as had rusted closed.

Quick dash past mud. Still attached. 3 day road trip from Hawkes bay to Auckland and back. Great few days to grab a number of caches. Tftc

Lots of mud around. A quick find of cache here

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 easily although terrain a little difficult !

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

Found after a short wander.

Out for a puppy hunt with lisadrysdale and beconaze. Lovely day for it but my legs are still showing the scars a week later from all the gorse/blackberry/cutty grass!

Yay, found it. Beconaze, Onawe, and myself are only logging these once on the paper logs as BOD or DOB (Depending on whos writing, I know I've swapped between the two a few times)

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

Quick find
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.
found the spoiled camo and log book, so replaced with a small white pill bottle.

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.

Always seem to take the wrong approach but got there in the end.

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!

An easy find here- spotted quickly.

Quickly found with Newlynfam signed off and moving along getting quicker by the cache. Tftc

Spending the afternoon chasing a few more puppies. Hoping to break our daily record. Quick find this time with Garmin GPS. Previous visit we were using a phone and failed to find.

Nice quick find

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.

Difficult to access when it's been raining. Might be a summer activity in the future

A nice quick find and another puppy saved. Cache is still in good working order... Added new paper for logs

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

Walked straight past this one while checking out all the trees then saw it on my way out. TFTC

Nice quick find - container still strapped to branch, and obvious to see.
Log in good condition, but very full.
Puppy #16 found safe & sound!

TFTC!

Found tied to a discarded branch. I think this is the one we untied and tied backup on original live tree. tftc

On a Puppy finding mission with Pazzabella - and a packet of Toffee Pops! TFTC

Kiwiscot & Kiwi out for a few hours rounding up some missing puppies. Our only DNF today (16 others found). Searched the area thoroughly but did not come up with the cache. Rain starting to set in.

Found once GPS settled down. Coords were good. Found tied to dead branch in front of pine tree though. Cheers

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

Hopefully I'm back on track after 3 DNF's tftc

#3114

looked but didn't find

TFTC!

Quickly found this one. After reading previous log glad we didnt notice the green bag with dead animal!

No luck. The green plastic bag nearby has a dead animal in it, so no need to investigate that.