52 Cache Pickup - Seven of Clubs Huntly, North Island, New Zealand
By McCutchan Cache Clan on 20-Sep-11. Waypoint GC34F0Q

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.

Well camouflaged.

A quick find on a rainy day. Thanks for the fun!

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

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!

Looked north south east and west of the pole but no luck. The grass is quite long and overgrown so it is possible i missed it.

Well this was a cracking game of cards...a bit of twisting; a bit of sticking; mostly came up trumps, but I was also dealt a few bad hands.
Many of these logs might be similar, so I will chuck in some interesting(?) facts which I found on the internet...so they must be true
FACT! :

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In an average year, the USPCC manufactures over 100,000,000 decks of cards! That equates to almost two decks of cards for every American child every single year!

Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan
#4586

Stopped on way back from doing the Kauri Loop. Nice easy find, as we could pull over. One day we will come and do the whole lot! TFTC

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.....

Found on the North side as the South is very exposed....

TFTC and the series....

Needed some help from Hamo who spotted this one quickly after reading the description

A quick find with Lucy who had a bit of a man-look for it. Thanks for the hide

Beside the river watch for turning trucks into Quarry. Parking available

Found it

Nice quick find

Yes -back to a nice easy find with spot on co-ords & hints.

Stopped in Ngaruawahia today on my way to Auckland and picked up a few caches along this stretch. Used the bike but didn’t particularly enjoy the traffic whizzing past with next to no shoulder on the road to provide a little bit of ‘safety’ for a cyclist. Ran out of time after seven finds. Most were reasonably quick finds which was great! This was my eighth one here, located a considerable distance from the other seven as I was starting to drive north. A ‘bonus one! Found it on the north side. #4573. TFTC.

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

This is number 35.

On a roll with the cards - tftc

TFTC

Quick find

Quick find.

Nice park n grab

Day 30 of my TA adventure..
Heading out of town but not before having another crack at a few I missed yesterday..
Haven't time for a game of cards today but hopefully get a few on my way passed.

No problems

918 another found

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.

Thought we'd grab a cache on our way to the Parker road hakarimata.

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.

2 in one spot, yaay

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#MRS.K

Geo hunting mish with @kudz21 living the dream.

New container in place

Found it someone must have replaced the cache recently because I was the first to sign it.

Couldn't locate 09/12/19

Looks missing

This one is probably missing.

A quick find spotted on our approach.Would be such a nice riverside walk if there was a path along here.

Day Two of our 11 day binge trip we are signing as NNES. Very nice parking 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 7728 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. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
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.

Nice and easy to find thanks

On a souvenir hunt for the Mystery at the Museum challenge. Today we wanted to add some good numbers to our tally.
Found -easily- together with Piratenschatzsucher and Greenkiwikids and signed as team Piraten. All good here. 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.

Nice and easy how we like it. All good here. Tftc.

Tftf

Beautiful autumn day next to the mighty Waikato

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. TFTC!

Easy find. Good place to park to. Win!!

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.

849 get some more of the pack of cards

Nice big layby to park in for this one. Grabbed it then walked down the road for the puzzle. I think that's about enough for today. I'll be back to finish the series another time. TFTC.

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

Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
This cache posted with CacheSense for Android.

Nice park n grab - tftc

many thanks

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 6 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 8 of clubs we go. TFTC.

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 ?

Thats some nice power pole tagging ...not!..found cache all good signed and returned tftc

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. This one was a real drive-by, could reach out the car door!

Nice big parking area here, so all OK. A few spits of rain, will it get worse? As it turns out no, we were really lucky. Bit of a laugh though, as we got to the top of the Kaimais on the way home we were greet with thick fog which deteriorated to rain. Good decision to go to the sunny Waikato! 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!

Easy find

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 6. This was a nice wide area to pull off the road , TFTC!

Some TVs dumped nearby. Quickly spotted. TFTC

Thanks

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. #47. Another different container but all good. Nearly there. 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. #47 of 53 Found by Nahkins Drove to it very easy find. TFTC

Starting from huntly so i thought id come to this one first just to see how easy they wer (tight schedule) will be back later on in the day to start from ngaruawahia

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.

And another, TFTC.

Would never have headed down this side of the river if not for caching, so big thanks for this trail.

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.

#5027. 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.

Was in the area and introduced a muggle to the game no longer a muggle @Portugueseprincess

I am no longer a muggle found 1st cach @stylestwin24

Nice easy quick park and grab. Amazed how busy this road is.

Yay another find, quite easy to find and in the open

Tftc!

A bit disappointing to find the area is used as the local dump.

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 done your name sake didn't have time to do more of your caches so just the one card do the pack later TFTC

Had to do at least one on the trail! Now to head home. 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.

Tftc

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

Another quick find but the log was hard to remove.

Nice quick find in the dark