52 Cache Pickup - Five of Spades Ngaruawahia, North Island, New Zealand
By McCutchan Cache Clan on 20-Sep-11. Waypoint GC34EPC

No luck with this one

Hi side. Thanks for the fun!

Unfortunately we had to give this one a skip for muggles today, will be back another time to try and fill in the gap.

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

Quick easy find here! TFTC

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Found with my family gogoguises ??????

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

Good hide, TFTC

A nice easy cache.

Walked straight to this one. Was nice & easy

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

This is number 17.

Easy find just sitting on the grass waiting for us

Yay found!

New container in place ready to be found

No find today.

Couldn’t find

No luck today

Another dnf, I either suck or theses are gone

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 this time, so not sure how we missed it last year, but the weather was certainly less kind then. TFTC

I see from the CO's log after our last trip that we were just blind last time we were here. The weather was less favourable last Jan so maybe I didn't hunt hard enough. Thanks for checking it. It's nice to see these caches tuning into yellow smiles, TFTC

Quick find, second time around. Out with team Gold.

Such a fun day caching with SarahB20 and sharing turns to find the hides along this series along a route I'd never traveled before. Tftc

Kathykaches and I have been looking at this trail for a while and finally today we managed to complete it. It was a great day of parking and grabbing, running out of petrol, driving to Huntly for a top up of fuel, then back to caching, lots and lots of caches We had 5 DNF's for the day, so only managed to find 47 of the 52 on the power trail. Of course we had to find 3 others to make it up to 50, a new record for one day for both of us. Mostly signed as SB20 + KK. Thanks so much for placing all of these caches and maintaining them. Sorry for the copy and paste!

Day Two of our 11 day binge trip we are signing as NNES.

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 7704 find for me.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
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Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

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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* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

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Signed the last spot on the log. 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

Found after short search. All in good condition. Take care, barbed wire close to cache. Found together with Pyphant and Greenkiwikids and signed as Team Piraten. Tftc.

Easy find.

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T.F.T.C.._ ((___)
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Checked, container is safe and secure in it hiding spot, hint is accurate reflection of the hide

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 another 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.

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

All good and a nice dry log.

Nice park n grab - tftc

We had arranged a special trip towards Hamilton with some friends a few weeks ago it was supose to be 14th July but were unwell so this weekend is the weekend as we are also doing the Hidden creatures adventure 100 caches to be found and logged. So why not start with the 52 pick up we have some a few a while ago so today is to complete it. cache number 30 was a nice quick find signed the log and placed it back exactly where we found it. thank you for placing a trail along here, parking is a challenge but we managed. now onto Spades we are. TFTC. Its amazing how quickly this trail can be completed in we thought it would take hours but as they are so close together we are ticking each cache of rather fast. Sorry about the copy and paste.

Our next chalenge weekend is the Wellington Mega hope to see mant geocachers there should be fun.

I was quite keen to complete the current Hidden Creatures souvenir challenge and so I thought that I would focus my attention on this series. So I came down from Auckland to begin just as the sun was coming up. I was in absolutely no hurry at all and just enjoyed the experience. Over all I found most of the caches with only three DNF’s. I also met Team BOPnJAM in the process which was cool. It was quite adventurous at times with the traffic and trying to find places to park… but I got there safely in the end. Some of the log books were also too mushy to sign. So thank you McCutchan Cache Clan for taking the time to set up this series. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so ?

Found all good thanks

Although this is a common hide in geocaching, the only one one this trail. 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.

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.

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.

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

Out with friends today collecting caches for the hidden creatures souvenirs this power trail was a good option to get half the souvenirs. Looks like it was a busy day on the trail with alot of people having the same idea.
Thanks MC Clan .

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 (Jag50&Merlot58) to fill up the van and finish this series... and most of Huntly as well! We signed the logs as BOPnJAM for expedience and to save on log space.

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.

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!

Barbed wire not a problem but never saw the electric fence. Got a big shock . Nice easy find once i recovered though writing a bit dodgy.

792 Another session on these with my granddaughter.

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 29 and a quick find thanks to the hint... barbed wire avoided , TFTC!

Continuing along here on my bicycle, quick find cheers

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. #23 of 53 Found by NZPatoto. All good. 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. #23. Everything okay. One less to do. TFTC

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.

Lots of thorns, tftc.

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.

Thanks for the tip about the barbed wire, found where you said it would be and managed to not hurt myself. TFTC.

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.

good one tftc

That is cleave I like this cache tftc

I set out today to find the caches on the 52 Cache Pickup power trail. Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan for placing the caches.

Under fence

On a mission today to find 120 + as a team of 4. All logs signed Naki 4
Team is Blenheim Bear Thatsneat Tmninjaturtle and 2 Bulbars.
It was a fun filled day finding many sorts of different caches and visiting many interesting places.
Many thanks to all who placed these caches to help make it such an enjoyable day

Found this with the team "Naki 4" (Blenheim Bear, 2Bulbars, TMNinjaTurtle and myself) on our mission from Huntly to Hamilton on our hunt to 120. Was a long day but pleased to have it completed! Thank you for the cache.

Another find thank you

Found this cache during the Naki 4 team (Blenheim Bear, 2Bulbars, Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtle and That’s Neat) run on the 120 caches in one day on the 3rd Oct. Many thanks Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. TFTC! Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

On my way up the line for a week of r&r and stopped for a couple of nights in Hamilton to pick up some caches. Decided to do this power trail to up my numbers. Another quick stop. Nice drive along the river. Have travelled the other side many a time but never this road. Lovely views of river. 90% of these caches need some sort of maintenance.

See Ace of hearts, TFTC

Found this series a couple of months ago...not sure of the date. Have just found all the details of this picturesque trip up the river. Have not traveled on this road before. Thank you for the placement of all the caches.

No luck here today.

We have hit a little bit of rain but not enough to put us off, we are getting through the run and in great time, thanks for taking the time to place the caches, we have placed our cards in the caches and our paracord keychains where we were able.

Well hid!! Or well put back.still a crazy busy road and massive uphill of electric fencing

What the hell is a strainer post I ask husband. He explains. Get out of car. Jump up on bank - watch out for the blackberries and the electric fence (Is it electric?) Look under strainer post. Look under other posts. No. Go back to car. Back up bank on hands and knees under electric fence (is it?) look at other strainer fence. No. Back to car. Getting tired, cranky now. Back up back, back under electric fence. You little ......................................found it.

The bank was fully overgrown with blackberry and there was an electric fence set up so kept riding past.

Until I started geocaching I had no idea what a "strainer" was (other than for making cups of tea!), so knew exactly where to look. Thanks for the hide

Tftc

Doing power trail in reverse. Story to come on the final log. TFTC

Had to wait for all the cyclists to go past before hopping out of the car to get this one...

Beautiful day to be out geocaching with my geomuggle friend. Lovely drive along the river. TFTC 

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. Third day. Wonderful country and we enjoyed a lot. To way Aukland to Hamilton we found 52 Cache Pickup Power Trail.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cachel

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.

This day we started to head towards south and to Christchurch Mega event. We cached also this nice little power trail on our way to Hamilton. Nice views and easy containers.

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.

We had enough time to get this series before the event in Hamilton. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Still peddling and still finding them . Wife can't be far away. SL TFTC

On a north island road trip with my father who I am introducing to Geocaching. Started in Napier and are heading right up to Cape Reinga! Thank you for placing this cache.

Tftc

TFTC!!!

We had a few days to spare so decided to head over from Whangamata to Huntly to check out the local walks and of cause grab some of the caches in the area. TFTC

Our first attempt at a power trail - and we loved it - GPS was bang on every time - and the clues are great