52 Cache Pickup - Four of Hearts Ngaruawahia, North Island, New Zealand
By McCutchan Cache Clan on 20-Sep-11. Waypoint GC34EJW

Took way longer than it should have. Tftc.

8yr old hunted this one out

Biking trip with the kid in the bike trailer and a friend along for the ride.Cache attempt 11 for the dayTotal finds 10 out of 11 (total of 17 attempts this trip)Took a moment to find this one beacuse of how thick the bush was, but once found, a quick stop, sign and replaceTook the moment to take a photo of the setup while we had a moment.Then onto the next

Tftc

Passing through to Auckland and grabbing a few more of this series - apologies for the repetitive logging, many werent able to be signed with the condition of the cache container and log papers . Appreciate the trail and TFTC!

No problem with the fine, but I couldnt sign long as I could and retrieve the log out of the container. Thanks for the fun!

Went through this power trail today with JTP2001. It was a nice day for it - overcast, but not raining until the last few of the trail, and a pleasant temperature. I drove down from Auckland, he drove up from Hamilton, and we got going from Ngaruawahia northbound. A reasonable success rate without too many challenges, although there are still a few gaps to fill in another day. Thanks heaps to McCutchan Cache Clan for getting these organised and looking after them, this was a fairly enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. Log signed as BAPJTP where possible. TFTC!

Completed the power trail with Bapboy1996 today, meeting 'halfway' between our respective cities. Had to miss a few on the trail due to muggles nearby, and some DNFs, which Bapboy has logged. It was a pretty successful day though, which ended on 50 caches thanks to some extras we found nearby too - this is about 2.5x my previous most in a day, and about the same as I've found in the last 8.5 years thanks to a bit of a hiatus. Was also the first time I had properly attempted a power trail so that was a fun adventure, I'll definitely bring snacks next time though. Logs are signed as Bapjtp, but some were quite damp and were unable to sign, though we attempted to dry these ones out where we could. The roadside could definitely do with a CITO at a few spots. TFTC McCutchan Cache Clan

Good

Good condition.

Very good

Heading to Waiuku for an overnight stay so I decided to take the scenic route and pick off a number of these ‘cards’.

Yep, the dogs are still in good voice and did nothing to allow me a quick search.

Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan
#4557

Logged using Cachly.

I was upsetting the locals dogs so i didnt hang round for this one. Onwards and upwards and will leave this one for another day.

Attempting to do a few of this series on our way back to Auckland today but rain is threatening. Giving it a go to add to our numbers - wish us luck.

This one is as a good one for Geokid 9 to get out and attempt, but it was Geodad who made the find. This is our 9th of the series today.

TFTC and for placing this series .

TFTC

Found while being barked at by the not so friendly neighborhood dogs

Headed down this way today with the intention of collecting the Pickup 52 trail of caches, and any others along the way....as am in need of some numbers for my goal for the year.....

Thank you to the CO's for cache placement, and bringing me to these locations.

Let the adventure begin......as I was travelling by car and by myself, I didn't attempt all caches in this series due to unsafe car parking/walking.....

TFTC and the series....

Quick easy find TFTC

Camoed well, took a minute to spot but an easy find!

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Found with my family gogoguises ??????

Thanks for the cache ?????? found with my mum and dad gogoguises.

Nice, TFTC

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Thank you for the clue. Made for an easy find

Oops - an easy find but got busted by owner returning home. A lovely lady who asked if we were OK and just looked bemused when I explained what we were up to.

Need 50 caches today for a challenge so got the bike out to try these.

This is number 9.

9.

Quick find

Found yesterday, thanks

Found the little trakeable and will move him. Dogs barked but kept to there side of the fence

Bit rocky but found a couple TB's for the effect. Thanks!

Finally had the opportunity to collect this series. I missed some as my geo-eye was off and some of the parking was a bit precarious. Dropped two TB's in this one. I went on a road trip following the "Mega that wasn't" in Auckland over Labour weekend. TFTC.

Once again figs barking and owner came out. All good though. Cache dry

Another quick find with @kudz21 on a geo mish for a bday weekend.

Ren138(nuk04) Geo Roady Birthday Part 2...
Been wanting to do this series for a while now and we've finally cleared our busy schedules to complete it.

Nice quick find, and we've downloaded the sheet for convenience
Getting a few stares from muggle driving by lol

#️
#MRS.K

A not so friendly looking dog jumped the fence and we decided to get back in the car before we could have a good look

Heading south today with Team Gold ( 0B80B8, Lis's Crew & DaffyNZ ), from Northland to do a weekend caching trip in the Waikato, with the main objective being the Hakarimata Trail. We also wanted to pick up the Pickup 52 ones we missed last time. A nice quick find here of the replacement cache, although we did have to contend with a large barking dog who came around the end of the fence and stopped just 3 or 4 metres away. Had to keep one eye on him whilst signing the log and then it took ages to fold up the long thin log and replace. TFTC

Nice to sign this one off on this trip. Thanks for replacing it. The house owners' dogs rushed over barking which was a bit frightening especially when they came around the fence and close to gz. Lucky my team G0LD mate was braver than I was and signed the log for us. TFTC

Quick find second time around, despite the barking dogs. Thank goodness for big fences! Out with team Gold.

Quick look here but we were upsetting the neighbours dogs so we left it

Day Two of our 11 day binge trip we are signing as Lots of dogs barking here.

Yay school holidays! Time for a road trip with my friend Ethness. I flew from Christchurch to Wellington. The idea is to drive up to the top of the North Island and back. We planned the trip ages ago.

Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan for placing this geocache 7692 find for me.

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The school holidays are here and NosyNel and I are on a road trip north - to the far north. Today is a numbers run and for me, time to complete this series that I started in January 2015. TFTC and series. Signed NNES.

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Found while visiting from the South Island. A great way to fill in some time before headinh to Akld to fly out late this evening. Thanks to all the cache owners.

Wow looks like i missed logging 15 of these caches when we did them on 8/7/18. Logging now.
Tftc

A little more of a hunt here but still a quick find. TFTC.

On a mission for the Cache Carnival challenge. Trying to make as many finds as possible this morning, This series was tailor-made for this purpose. Tftc

Easy find with the hint and very well maintained cache. All new, nice, dry. Lovely. Interesting logbook! Cache Carnival, here we come!!! Found together with Pyphant and Greenkiwikids and signed as Team Piraten. Tftc.

Nice and easy find.

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T.F.T.C.._ ((___)
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New container in place, hint updated

Down from Northland for the weekend along with Lis's Crew and DaffyNZ, with the challenge to get 200+ caches in one day and set some personal records. All logs signed as Team G0LD ( Geocachers 0B8, Lis & Daffy )

After arriving in Hamilton on Friday evening, we grabbed a few caches and then Saturday was the main event. With some good planning and teamwork, we managed 214 caches for the day.

Today was time to head home, but we had to make the trip really worthwhile and get some more on the way. This trail looked appealing and although it was drizzling at the start of the day, we charged into it anyway, continuing our good teamwork from yesterday. Part way through, the drizzle stopped, the sun came out and it got really hot again.

A few more DNFs on this trail than yesterday and this was one of them, but still a neat series that added good numbers to our weekend tally. Apologies for cut & paste logs, but no time to make notes about the individual caches on the day, especially with the damp conditions. TFTC

I didn't manage to find this one today.

No luck today.

Unfortunately due to the large amount of DNFs on this series today, I can't remember each one, but I would have given a good search. Some were obviously missing but can't remember which ones now. Others were tricky hides and the difficulty should reflect this.

Can't find this one

Found with NZFlossy

Out on a road trip with NZBiscuit collecting this series and catching up as it has been awhile since we have been out caching together. The weather was not the best and I was the runner while NZBiscuit handled the driving like a pro as a lot of the parking was in hard places. We had a lot of fun and thank the CO for the series. Some of the containers are broken and have wet logs while some others are all good. It wasn't the day to do maintenance as everything I touched go very wet. TFTC

Darn. 4 hint items to check and I found it on the fourth. I should have taken my phone with me which would have made the find quicker.

Nice park n grab - tftc

Now thats a flash and expensive looking entrance...cache all good thanks

I felt the pressure on to find this as there were barking dogs, and a dead hawk at GZ. Thanks for the cache MCC

We had some extra time today and thought this power series would be a nice trip down memory lane for us. Thanks for some easy to find caches, but you do need to watch the traffic on a Sunday afternoon.

Out for a day's caching with Team BOPnJam. Most were quick easy finds and a little bit of maintenance. This was a card game I never found enjoyable, but this was a better way to play the game. Thanks for bringing us over this way.

A plan was made with Team BOP to come to Huntly and do some serious caching for the Hidden Creatures souvenirs. 52 Pickup was a good place to start and we signed BOPnJAM to save space on the log. Most were nice easy finds so thanks for the series.

We made up a team BOPnJAM with a group of cachers from the BOP (McJandals, TNxPro, Philip Perry, FrogyBeCaching and Davidson Clan) and Merlot58 to complete this 52 cache pickup series and to earn some some of the Hidden Creatures souvenirs. Great weather and great company and a lot of fun - TFTS

Another big trip planned this time in an effort to obtain all the Hidden Creature Souvenirs. Team BOP (Davidson clan, McJandals, Frogybecaching, TNXPro & myself) joined with a couple of Westies (Merlot58 & Jag50) to fill up the van and finish this series... and most of Huntly as well!

I've always thought this was a really good idea for a power trail but getting motivated to do it was an issue. Today we've got a good team on and were able to knock this off in a couple of hours. 95% of these were found quickly with accurate coords and a good hint. Some logs were mush, some containers were broken and at least 1 was missing entirely. All of our cache repair kits will need restocking when we get home but we're all stoked to have *'picked up 52'* caches.

A big thank you to the McCutchan Cache Clan, we had a good day

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Out with team BOPnJAM today to knock off the long anticipated 52.
This series didnt quite win our hearts, but we aced it and managed to score the full deck with a little maintenance on the way. It sure was a good way to clock up a large number of caches in quick succession and were were glad to have completed it.
Thanks for the series MCCC.

With Hidden Creature souvenirs up for grabs. A plan was hatched with our Westie buddies. We were all ready for a stormy rainy day but the weather gods were good to us today with no rain until getting home at 10pm. A great numbers trail with many of these caches needing maintenance, we will definitely have to restock caching kits as many log sheets were mush and unsignable!!. Still a fun day was had by all and many thanks McC for giving us a reason to come here. Please excuse my cut and paste logs in advance due to numbers. Cheers

Sunday trip on the bikes to complete 52 Cache Pickup - Waikato's power trail. Great company of Janno216. We just had one DNF today. Plesant day - great wetaher for cycling and joy! Thanks for placements. We had great time along Waikato river.

Some time ago tramyard and me already thought about doing this 52 Cache Pickup Trail. Today we both were free and it didn't rain so we made our way to Ngaruawahia (what a name !), prepered our bikes and started our journey.

All the Caches were fairly hidden and very easy to find. A couple of them were really wet so we were not able to sign the logbook. We only had one DNF, so we were done after three hours and made our way to the Bonus Cache after a nice lunch breake.
A different type of box here. Nice!
After this tour we had still time to find some local Caches.


We had great fun finding all These Caches!

Thank you McCutchan for hiding all of These!

Fun day out, thankfully with little rain, with cragger, laval and Dragon.Griffin collecting this series. We found all except 2, a few were quite wet so we dried as best as we could. I think we did them back to front but found ok parking in most spots so was no issue. Loved the document that you uploaded which we ticked off as we went.

Thanks for the caches.

thanks for the cache

I was out on a fabulous day caching with Keylev, Laval & Dragon.Griffin.

Thanks for the cache McCutchan Cache Clan.

This was a series that myself and Keylev had wanted to do for a while. As it was the school holidays we made a plan to complete it today with Cragger and Laval as well. We did the series back to front which meant some parking spots were a little tight, especially with the amount of big trucks steaming along that road but we completed the series with two only DNFs. Unfortunately it was those two that had the codes we needed for the Joker Bonus. After a few tries with different coordinate scenarios we settled on one that was plausible and made our way there and soon had the cache in hand.

This was cache number 41 and a quick find once we waited for all the work trucks to leave... , TFTC!

We were going to do some maintenance work at the Bush Tramway club today but this was cancelled due to the weather. That leaves me with the perfect opportunity to nail the rest of this great trail. I've parked the motorhome down by the reserve in Ngaruawahia and set off on the bike to takle these caches. Having already found some from the south end previously, this was my first find today. Certainly a lovely spot to stop, and nice easy find. Forgive me if the rest of my logs are a little brief today but a great fun trail to get the numbers up, FP added for all the effort placing this trail, cheers

last full day in the Hamilton/Auckland area, awake at 5am so decided to wait for first light and head off and get some caches, on the way to visiting a friend in Tuakau via Auckland to attempt a few challenge caches that I qualified for awhile ago.
set off around 6am when the sun hadn't quite come up yet, but by the time i got to the first cache it was light enough to see what I was doing, headed towards Ngaruawahia first to get some petrol and then on to having a go at the 52 cards power trail.
All was well here, noticed that most of these caches had really good parking opportunities, only a few had a couple of interesting spots, lucky I had set off early enough where there was no traffic, until further in where more and more traffic came down this road. All caches were simple finds.
signed the log and replaced exactly where I found it. thanks for the cache.

there was a dog over the fence, once it saw me he barked and barked and barked and didn't stop until I drove off, this dog if it wanted to would ave been able to jump the fence be mindful of this when finding this cache.

Happy Easter

NZPatoto and I set off to find the Pack of Cards caches. 53 in total. We were going to bike but as I wasn't feeling 100% I offered to drive and NZPatoto did the finding. There were times we both did the hunting. Our road was very busy, with a cop car travelling south with lights flashing. SH1 heading south was at a crawl until lunchtime. Parking was interesting, would have been better in a 4x4. A few times I would drop NZPatoto and then find a park. I did manage to find 8 and there was 2 DNF. While we had lunch and a coffee we solved the Joker cache. #11 of 53 Found by NZPatoto. Log damp but signable TFTC

Nahkins and I set off to find the Pack of Cards caches. 53 in total. As Nahkins wasn't feeling a 100% she did the driving and I did the hunting. There were times we both did the hunting. Very busy road and not many places to park it was drop me then find a park. I found 42, Nahkins 9 and 2 DNF. While we had a cuppa we solved the Joker cache. #11. The log was a bit damp as there was a bit of moisture in the container. TFTC

Nice quick park and grab. Lost count of how many today.

Big write up in under the Ace of hearts. Thanks for keeping us caching all day

Nice trail and we had lots of fun... more details from me at the Ace of Hearts.

Hey gonna get u too, another one bites the dust.

Stopped at every cache along the trail, replaced log sheets and containers as needed, relocated 2 of them to better places. Trail is now 100% ready, happy cache hunting.

Check the drop box link in Ace of Hearts GC34EG3 for an updated spreadsheet that contains updated information for each cache.

Found with Mum as 'Jess & Caro'. She is now Carø and I now have my own geocaching profile so we are sorting my logs for caches we found together. TFTC!

We have had a fabulous time in NZ catching up with friends and doing some sight-seeing including 10 types in a day from Auckland to Taurange, finding the caches at the Hicks Bay lighthouse, down to Tolaga Bay and Napier, out to Cape Kidnappers in Hawkes Bay, in to Taupo, then a crazy day of 10 earthcaches between Taupo, Rotorua and Waitomo / Otorohanga! A fabulous day yesterday abseiling, caving, blackwater rafting / tubing, glow-worm admiring, and rock climbing... and a quick visit to the kiwi house too.

Today we head to Auckland, with a short list of caches on my "Must Find" list including challenges and oldies. Oh and because we are running ahead of my non-existent schedule, hehe, we grabbed a few of these caches along this powertrail. Just a few that were able to be parked near super easily, which seems to be getting difficult as the road is very busy... that may have something to do with xmas?!

Thanks for the cache, McCutchan Cache Clan!

This was such a good find and left a little something behind

#5047. Had a short but enjoyable stay in Auckland. Now its time to head home to Wellington for Christmas. But first another mission. My DGSC bulk find challenge concludes on Boxing Day and by then I will be trying to find up to 200 caches to bring up 1500 qualifying finds this year. So have three full on days of caching ahead of me before I get back home. Today I am tackling some Waikato power trails and staying overnight in Te Aroha so I can visit the old timer cache 101 tomorrow morning. Time to do the 52 cache pick up series. Quite a lot seem to be missing unfortunately. After a while I got pretty picky about the pick-ups and only stopped for those with recent finds or not in the direct gaze of muggle houses. Still a good series to get the numbers up quickly. Managed to find 28 between 3pm and 7pm then time to head off to Te Aroha. Thanks for the caches McCutchan Cache Clan. Nice easy find here in an obvious spot. Lots of houses nearby so hopefully no one will flog it.

Tftc

4th find for day 3 into Kelligula and my New Zealand holiday. TFTC

Found this one on day 3 of Caching New Zealand. TNLNSL. TFTC!

Nice to find a big cache in this series. Geowife missed this one somehow...maybe too used to looking for little blue boxes, so I jumped out the car and found it straight away...hard to miss after all. A muggle was doing something with the fence down the way so we were careful not to be too obvious about what we were doing. Grabbed the travel bug we found here to move it on its way. Thanks for the cache.

Took advantage of dry cache to drop off a traveller. TFTC

I sighed a sigh of relief here tonight: good parking and a nice largish cache to find. All good here.

log later

Cool stuff to find left a treat too

Having an enjoyable trip along the river bank. Thanks for another one.

I was in Hamilton for the weekend for the Dahlia Show. Today I planned to find 120+ caches - the pack of cards series was the first to attack. A lot of the logs were full, and I just stamped where I could. I replaced some with paper where the containers weren't too wet. I just found 41 of this series - 7 DNF, & 4 didn't stop to look as they had had some DNF's. Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan for this series.

Nice spot! TFTC.

Found it

good one tftc