House of Pain (Dunedin) Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
By Castlewood_Crew on 04-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3G6ZY

As this cache has been out of action for too long and the cache owner has not performed any maintenance, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to un-archive it.

Regards,
Status Quo
Geocaching.com Volunteer Cache Reviewer.

Difficult with the ongoing works, but hopefully soon there will be a break and I will get in a replacement.

Work is still continuing on this site but I am currently scouting nearby for a suitable replacement area, not too far from original spot.

Yes, I do intend to undisable this but demolition is still in the area and I am cut off from the cache site temporarily as it is a construction zone and no public access.

Looks like I need to temporarily disable this cache while the demolition of this fine old building is finished. Will reassess area and placement when it is finished.

Road closed, workers on site.

Nice one. Log book a bit wet

#320 its proximity to the demolition might reduce its life - it looks like the main building will go soon. Sad sight.

Very sad to see the House of Pain in such pain itself. Proud to come and pay our respects though. End of an era. TFTC

Found it found it so sad about the brook!

Phew! Got this one before the house of pain is gone for good TFTC

Quick easy find
Log is wet, possibly needs maintenance

Tonight we had 10 eyes on the job (12 if you count my glasses as I was told) No Vee but young Patrick Hammond and family but I found this one first. Sorry to see the House of Pain looking so much in pain.

easy find thanks for a great cache

tftc

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Got this before it gets archived like its sad-looking namesake. TFTC!

Took a fair bit of searching as the GPS on my phone was having trouble getting good signal past the big building. TFTC.

Found it!

Nice spot - so glad did this in the afternoon with a friend - would feel a little creeped out on my own as things creaked and groaned in the staduim :S

Found it with BON3Z who had already found it a year earlier

A great dunedin spot. I hope it's future is as glorious as it's past.

That ain't my 'Brook! Got quite a shock rolling up here this afternoon...finding the cache help alleviate it though!

Wow that's different, haven't seen inside the brook for ages. Thanks

Found w/ asardovir. Pity about the Brook, all broken

i hope this cache can last as long as this stadium has

Not the House of Pains finest moment.

Thanks

TFTC

Found it - yay!

My effort of getting up early was paid! Relatively easy. The cache is good condition. Thanks.

The House of Pain proved to be a painfully hard cache for us to find. But finally on our fourth (if could even be fifth) return visit we found it straight away. I have a feeling that perhaps we had been looking around a different hint object on previous visits, otherwise all I can say is that we must be blind!! Thanks Castlewood Crew.

First find of the day.

Tftc

kids were out of car and snatched it before we could even get our doors open TNLNSL

Glad to find this one before they demolish the icon of southern rugby!

Nice easy find

TFTC

Finally. Third attempt at a cache this morning and at last a find.

Heading out of town so dropped by to pick up TB.

nice easy find dropped off travel bug

Easy find on a quiet afternoon. TFTC

TFTC

Auf unserer Campertour in Neuseeland haben wir nach Caches gesucht und fanden diese Box. So konnten wir uns erfolgreich in das Logbuch eintragen.

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On our campertour in New zealand, we were searching for caches and found this box. So we could successfully log into the logbook. Thanks for bringing us here.

Greetings from Germany

TFTC

Auf unserer Campertour durch das schöne Neuseeland sind wir (claudischen, llamingo, thundercatcher und ich) an diesem Cache vorbeigekommen und haben ihn gefunden.

Viele Grüsse aus Deutschland!

TFTC
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On our campertour through the beautiful New Zealand we (claudischen, llamingo, thundercatcher and I) got past this cache and found it.

Greetings from Germany!

TFTC

Together with Thundercatcher, Bommelstation and Claudischen we make a trip trough New Zealand.
I love this country! It' so beautiful! .

On our tour there are a lot of caching places. This is one of it and we found it
Thank you for showing us this place
And greetings from Germany!

I thought "what for a cool name for a cache. Thats the right for my 500th cache." And so we come here and find this cache quick.
Thank for the castlewood crew you for cache.

Easy find

Found it easy find with friends tftc

Quick find n way home 5.15pm tftc

Easy find. Left our wee mate Chuck to continue his travels, bon voyage! TFTC

Great hide, a nice simple cache for beginners. TFTC.

27/01/13 3:30 PM Find #340
Interesting way to camouflage cache

A well trodden path now marks this cache. Loved the house of pain. Lots of good memories. Tftc. Tslo

Last one for the day. TFTC.

TFTC

12 of 12 today. Had been here previously and looked everywhere and didn't find it, but today straight to it, obviously in a much easier spot - yay. TFTC

tftc

thanks

great park and grab thanks heaps!

Its a bit sad to see this great venue so desolate. TFTC #4325

Tftc 19 December 2012 2:25pm squishwithanumber

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

It was nice and quiet back here today, so after a quick search, the cache was soon in hand

TFTC Castlewood_Crew

Gaz'n'Kab

quick find on walk before work

Quick find TFTC

TFTC

quick and easy thanks

had looked for this one once before, but gave it away after GPS signal kept bouncing all over the show.

This cache has had a pretty bad hammering over the MEGA weekend - it looks as if elephants have been living around the area! 24

Guwapo had to help with this one, for some reason my GPS was playing silly games and it wouldn't give any magnetic direction variation - very frustrating!Signed log on October 2012 at 19:56:00

The area around the GZ is getting a good work over from slipping shoes. The cache is in good shape. TFTC

Day 5 on our 6 day caching trip to Dunedin for the NZ MEGA 2012 event with Gunnie69, Kaisho53, Ozibags, ghostgums and MrMeccano. Once again we hit the road reasonably early with a plan. The day started off spent around Saint Clair, St Kilda, South Dunedin, Kensington, Mosgiel, and Caversham.

Sorry about the bulk log but I am never going to catch up at this rate.

TFTC, Castlewood_Crew!

I was the only in the group who knew the significance of the place and why it was called the house of pain! The hypothermia was only part of it. Looking a bit run down these days.

Kaiho53 found this one.

Day 5 on our caching trip to Dunedin for the NZ MEGA 2012 event with Gunnie69, Kaisho53, Ozibags, fourbees and MrMeccano. The day started off spent around Saint Clair, St Kilda, South Dunedin, Kensington, Mosgiel, and Caversham..

TFTC Castlewood_Crew

Last day for me of Cache Hunting at NZ Mega 21012 with Gunnie69, Ghostgums, Mr Meccano, Ozibags and TheFourBees

explanation of name vs venue provided by Ghostgums

search was then begun & I soon had container to hand

Sticker applied to log and we motored onward


TNLNSL

Thanks Castlewood_Crew

Our dear friend RexTrex was looking for a suitable cache for his milestone 1500th find. Being a Kiwi travelling with Aussies he was more than happy to choose this location! Congratulations Rex. And thanks CC.

As this was a significant find for RexTrex we stood back and let him do the hunting. Congratulations Rex on your 1500th! Thanks Castlewood for taking us here, have heard of the stadium while watching some Rugby back in Oz.

Ghostgums, being the rugby fan among us, gave us a run down on the venue and why it was named as it is... Ahuh, we are much wiser for his knowledge... [^]

At GZ, it was almost cold enough for us Brisbanites to feel like we were on the inside. But, we battled on in search of the cache and it wasn;t long before Kaisho53 pulled the container from its lair. Back to the van for some warmth and to add a sticker to the log, everything was replaced and we left the pain behind...

Found in the company of fellow Queensland hunters Kaisho53, OziBags, TheFourBees, Ghostgums and Mr Meccano.

Cheers Castlewood Crew.

Caching with Ghostgums, Mr Meccano, Gunnie69, kaisho53 and fourbees while attending the NZ Mega. If the house of pain is about players getting very cold, then I can relate to that today . TFTC Castlewood Crew.

Took a bit of hunting to find this one, not my favourite flora! Cheers Gav

A tricky find in a great location.

Another neat little find as we headed back from the peninsula and the lighthouse. A wet day on our tour, but we manged to make the find. The lighthosue ended up being out of reach which was a little disappointing, but the drive was still worth it.

Found with ZsaZsa7, Winglen, fitzy_1965 and Rextrex (local NZer) on our trip around the South Is after attending the New Zealand Mega. We managed to grab a few caches on travels and this was just one of them.

Thanks for this one, another one to the tally.

5549 + 591 = 6140. Day 3 of my week long visit to the New Zealand South Island for the NZ Mega 2012 event along with Sol de Lune, Zsazsa7, Winglen and RexTrex.

A general run from Dunedin out to the Peninsula and back caching. Heading 'back' now and stopped to grab this cache. Congrats to RexTrex on a minor milestone find here - eventually ! Thanks again Castlewood Crew ! Pain? What Pain? The Canberra Raiders have never lost here?

TNLN – TFTC !!

Cheers....

A shared find with my Aussie caching mates Winglen, Zsazsa7, Sol de Lune and Fitzy-1965 as a part of the NZMEGA2012 experience and our subsequent tour.

This was about my 1500th cache so my Aussie mates let me do the deed in the flaxbush (until they had to hand the cache to me so we could get on with life). They were well aware of the House of Pain and departing the area caused them no grief.

Thanks Castlewood Crew - good historic cache location (for some).

Only a little pain finding our way to the cache. An easy find once at GZ. TFTC

Last day in Dunedin for Sully1 and I as we visited as many caches as we could before making our way to Oamaru for the last night in NZ. The cold fierce wind today didn't deter us and the range of hides was once again a large one.
This was a quick find again, thanks Castlewood Crew

Found along with bogonghazy after the Mega Event, while picking up as many as we could before leaving Dunedin and beginning the trek towards Christchurch and the inevitable trip home. Sadly the weather had begun to turn on us this morning, but like true Ozzie troopers we continued our NZ assault armed with raincoats. Thanks to Castlewood Crew for placing this cache, and for bringing us here.

Finding the correct street for this one proved hardest, the actual cache was pretty easily, just follow the muddy trail to GZ...sure are encountering alot of shrubbery hides but this one was not too painful.

TFTC
# 678

A quick find once we got onto the right road.

House of pain is an appropriate name for any cache in a flax plant, luckily there had been many tracks made around the plant, so it was a fairly straight forward find. Thanks for this one, no one about today.

Easy find. GZ well worn with tracks from others at mega event

Out for our last day in Dunedin. The Mega over, many teams returning home.

TFTC SL

We found this neat cache while on our two weeks Blitz of the South Island for the Mega Event.
Many thanks for the hide.
TNLNSL.

Reperio at 1645.

After an enjoyable morning caching in and around Dunedin and attending the mega cleanup CITO in the inner city...Roostaman and I decided to continue the day with some caching around Dunedin and then head out of town a little to find a few more. I'm not sure about the house of pain...but where the cache was situated could probably described much the same. Luckily it was found after a short search around.

Gratias Castlewood Crew.

Ya know, I never knew Flax was so big. I always thought it was a small plant, I learn so much with caching. THANK YOU. Found with mtbikeroz

Find # 4567 and a total of 45 today with Marcus Vitruvius, on our NZ Mega trip.
Another day of Mega caching all around the Dunedin area.
Another cache in this stuff, and one we were glad to find, and then on the way again.
TNLNSL TFTC Castlewood_Crew,
Roostaman.

Made a quick find due to a MEGA geotrail. I do like the new stadium. Sad to see this one go just like losing Athletic Park last century.
TFTC

Out and about on a MEGA cache raid with IndiannaJill and team FMZ. Seemed an appropriate place to visit while the rugby game was on. We made this one harder than it needed to be TFTC.

Today is the last day of the NZ Mega... Decided to grab some caches after the CITO in central Dunedin...

Grabbed this cache whilst travelling with highrod & Kinkell1 & taking in the fantastic views around the area... What an absolutely beautiful country to explore and photograph...

Thanks For The Cache & for bringing me here
- Peter (Melbourne, Australia)

Found with MtnLioness on our tour around Southern NZ and the NZ MEGA event.

I just HAD to find this cache, being only 200m down the road from our Motel,

AND,

GO THE BRUMBIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the fun, and cache too.

Found during Mega 2012
TFTC, Bruce

EB99 and Wal made a super quick find.
What a stadium. Is it still used
Thanks for the cache