52 Cache Pickup - Jack of Clubs Huntly, North Island, New Zealand
By McCutchan Cache Clan on 20-Sep-11. Waypoint GC34F0D

Out of town on a caching mission with Kiwi Does Stuff, made a plan for the few days up in Auckland and hit the road. Making our way back to Rotorua through Huntly and grabbing some quick park and grabs along the way. Completing our night caching with some park and grab along this power trail, apologies for the repetitive logging but its been a fairly big weekend of caching! Unfortunately pulling off to collect and log some of these were getting a tad risky with the lack of space to pull off we will be back to collect the rest of my deck of cards. TFTC!

Day 2 of our out of town mission with Reschedule. Decided we would head into Huntly on our way home to bulk up numbers. We followed along these as far as we could, but in the fading light, and with lack of space to pull over for many of them, we eventually gave up leaving to tackle another day.

I had a new replacement log at this location. Thanks.

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

replaced cache

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

A few options but none yielding a cache.

Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan
#4557

Logged using Cachly.

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....

Did not find

new container in place

Very wet

Wet & smudged but wrote best we could.

Nice quick find. Log was damp but dried it as much as I could. Put it back in the plastic bag to try and keep it drier

A quick park and grab with very dodgy parking. TFTC.

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

This is number 31. Too wet to sign.

TFTC

Nice find

Nice quick find

TFTC

Couldn't sign log as too wet.

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. I went on a road trip following the "Mega that wasn't" in Auckland over Labour weekend. TFTC.

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.

Coords spot on. Racing against the arvo light now

#J️
#MRS.K

Another good find with @kudz21

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!

Found on our TA thru-hike. Another wet log here.

Didn’t get too wet going through the long grass to retrieve this one.

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 7724 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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Nice and easy to get thanks

On a souvenir hunt for the Mystery at the Museum challenge. Today we wanted to add some good numbers to our tally.
Found -not so easily- together with Piratenschatzsucher and Greenkiwikids and signed as team Piraten. Tftc

Don't expect a long log, we are just kids who like to find big caches with lots of toys in them. And we like earning souvenirs, that's why we're here today. Thanks for giving us this opportunity by hiding and maintaining this nice series.

With a badly bouncing smartphone I thought it would another DNF, but then there it was. Good hint. Log is getting wet, but still good to sign. Tftc.

That’s a brazen 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, 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

Out for the weekend with Team Gold (Go 0B80B8, Liz's Crew, DaffyNZ). Thought we would look at this series on our way home. Thanks for the challenge.

Out with my crew trying to get a few grabs at the end of a beautiful day. This was in good shape although the local horse wanted to be helpful by eating what we had in our hand. TFTC!

I decided on doing as many of this series as I could. Some I had to pass by as I couldn't park. Most were easily found but quite a few had a soggy logbook.

845 get some more of the pack of cards

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

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 10 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 11 Queen of clubs we go. TFTC not many muggles so pleasewd about that the traffic doesn't care about what we are up to.

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 ?

Great trail a long the river bank...enjoying thanks McC Clan

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.

We are powering through these today thank goodness. Great area to explore. Thanks for the cache MCC

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!

A challenge to park up and quite a few cars on the road, checking up on us. Good to know people care to find out we are ok.

thanks for the cache

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

Thanks for the cache McCutchan Cache Clan.

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.

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 10 and a quick find , 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. #43. Cache okay. Easy find. TFTC

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. #43 of 53 Found by NZPatoto. All good. Under stone 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.

TFTC.

Last one today in this fun series, 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.

Found a fence post at the coordinates with a pile of rocks at its base and no cache. Searched all other posts 15m either side and no cache. Either cache blind or its gone.

nice quick park and grab.

Checked a few posts but nothing

Competed 5km at the Huntly half, grabbed and ice cream and geocached home. Won't get all 52 today! But will head back from Hamilton soon

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.

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

Most of the cache containers I have found are perishing. This one was full of water too.

Had to move quick with dog watch around

My kids are keen 500 players and a black Jack is really appreciated if you're suit is spades or clubs. Thanks for the series

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 nice quick find!

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.

First spot we walked to. Log signed as b&p.Tftc McCutchan Cache Clan. Find # 3016

With Miss Davieland safely dropped off in Huntly at her grandparent it seemed a good time to try this power trail. Nice quick find. Log is wet but could get my name on it. TFTC. On to the next one.

tftc

This cache was full with water but you can still write on the paper thing tftc

Surprising number of familiar names on the log. Added my own for heightened familiarity. TFTC

On a brief road trip with tmann421 today collecting the 52 Cache Pickup Series. A few DNFs along the way, but managed to collect most of them. A nice quick find at this one and then we were onto the next. A lovely drive along the river. TFTC and the series McCutchan Cache Clan.

After doing the 101 in Auckland this one was second on the list, after spending the day at rainbows end with the boys we headed down here to get the rest, added our card and all done with a twisted ankle, and one loving husband who has been my driver, only had a couple of dnf so a great day and and now to rest the body and have a well need beer, thanks for taking the time to place the caches. (Sorry for the copy and paste logs)

With rustynz finding a few more caches from the "52 Pickup Series"

Just a little behind with the logging, the PA discovered I had not logged these.

Tricky parking, a busy road, a bit of a cut thru, so cops about.

Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan for the series, maybe one day will get them all.

Working towards my goal of getting to National Park the long way! whilst rebel98 is happy to drive me and navigate to the caches, I keeps searching Thanks for the hide!

TFTC. Out for a spot of caching south of the Big Apple.
Did a few of the series, sadly several were full of water, which I did me best to dry.
Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan for placing the series.

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

Nice quick find this morning.

Another quick find on this trail - 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!