Thompsons Track #7 (Canterbury) Hatfield, South Island, New Zealand
By Old Boots! on 14-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3NJF0

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Time to go

All good for this one, if you would like a more detailed description of my finds today, check out #1.
The highlight of the day for me was finding the previous logged ‘cacher’ in one of them was someone who had accidentally found it while pruning trees. They signed it and left it there, nice.
Thanks the Wanglers for all these hides and maintaining them. Random FPs awarded throughout the series, but I will need to come back another time to finish it.

On the road from Geraldine to Christchurch and decided to get a few caches along the way.

TFTC.

TFTC quick find

I'm in Christchurch with my wife who is undergoing surgery in Christchurch Hospital and what better way to take my mind on what's happening to her than to go geocaching. I was actually down here with her about a month ago for a similar operation and it was then doing the Thompsons Track crossed my mind. I passed on it then, but when I mentioned it to a fellow cacher back home, he said to get in fast as the CO is about to archive them due to the high maintenance burden. I wonder if he has considered adopting them out. Accordingly, I don't intend to moan about soggy or full logs, broken containers, missing caches etc, as I'm sure the CO knows already. I am also going to unashamedly post copy and paste logs because it is a power trail and they are not going to be spectacular caches. However I will make a comment specific to the cache where I deem it appropriate and I see that should be to about 20% of the finds. After my second DNF on a cache that already had previous DNF's, I decided to drive straight past any that already had more than one DNF. As I result I only recorded one fresh DNF on 70.2. There is a brand new power pole at GZ and I would say the cache has gone the same way as the old pole. My logs were dated 6/10/19 or similar and signed with my full cache name or KM where space of a soggy log made it hard to write. There were a few soggy logs that my log was more of an etching rather than an inscription and there were a few logs that were full and I scribed a shortened version of the date and my caching name on a suitably sized area of the log that was free. As I was caching solo it probably took a lot longer than a team effort would. I picked up my first cache about 7.20am and the last around 2.00pm. A caching buddy from back in Blenheim is in Adelaide at the moment and intends to attempt 800 finds in a day. Well good on him I say.
I lucked out with the weather as it was a beautiful Canterbury blue sky day and the predicted wind didn't pick up too bad. My geomobile was NO102 Actual registration plate number, not a vanity plate, a 1987 Blue Toyota Starlet with 42,000 original kms on the clock and a 1000cc engine that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding so I was never going to win any races. I also had to be careful there were no other cars in view when I pulled back onto the road. I did all the caches from east to west and managed to park on the left hand side of the road for all but one. I can't say I had any real difficulty with any of the caches thanks to in the most, good coordinates and excellent hints. The average time for the caches was about 5m 30s and the longest I would have spent searching for a cache would have been no more than 5 min apart from a couple that would have been less than 10 min. Most of the time would have been spent getting the log out of the zip-lock bag, signing the log, putting it back and replacing the cache as found, then getting back to the geomobile which was only a few steps away, selecting the next cache, checking its size, hint and previous finds and driving to the next location.
My thanks go out to the CO for making the effort in placing these caches and maintaining them for so long. It also goes out to my fellow cachers who have provided replacement logs where necessary.
TFTC Old Boots

Wow what a day, packed a picnic and off we went. Our aim was to do all of Thompson's Track and get home whenever. As Mr C had hurt his wrist I drove to Rakaia then his job was to drive and park and me to get out and find. This is our biggest day ever with a result of 70 of the 80 found yeh!.Thanks for this cache Old Boots!.

TFTC

Container , logbook ... Going next...

TFTC
# 1574 August 30, 2019 16:34

On a road trip south, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from Austria  
Die_Asseln

A planned geocaching trip with specific targets in mind.
1: The final 2 caches to fill my D/T grid
2: The last 5 caches available (all in the South Island) to meet the NZ Jasmer challenge GC4R9Z6
3: Get as many caches as possible in a day (Solo)
I had no timetable and only a vague route (Christchurch - Dunedin- Invercargill). So after 20 days of sleeping in my tent/car I arrived home having traveled 4500km and visited some interesting places. Met some great people. I had found over 650 caches. That was a lot of park. Jump out out. Find cache sign and return. Then on to the next. All this done by myself. Also attended an event and had 2 FTF
Mission 1 and 2 were achieved and I had a best day of 153 caches. All this done by myself.
Day 7 Chch to Rakaia 153 caches found. My big day of caching. This was the second part. After setting up my tent at the camp ground I set off and gathered as many as I could before it got too dark. Thank you for the placement.

Maybe on day 3 I will get this, all the workmen were standing at this location
No, now day 3, gave up, will have to do this another day

Yebo OldBoots!

We are on the southern island for business and leisure and that leisure part includes geocaching, of course

Found well

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Found all good ...road works ...widening road major works tftc

I wondered if this would still be here with the roadside grading, but yes it was. Cache had tried to escape so I signed and resecured under tree. Thanks for the cache

On a mission to get 800 before the end of the year, this is 782 tftc

TFTC easy find

I found some of the caches in this series in October last year but the rest have been sitting patiently waiting for my attention for a very long time. Today was the day to pay a visit and enjoy the veritable feast of geocaching along this route. Thanks so much for hiding these caches.

Today we made a trip to Mt. Sunday. On the way we searched, found and logged all other caches, too. The weather was fine, not too warm, a little bit cloudy, and in the mountains there was a heavy wind.
Almost no muggels could be seen there - but a lot of beautiful landscape and snow covered mountains.

Thanks to Old Boots! for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Thompsons Track #7 (Canterbury). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 2. Oktober 2018 @ 10:13 Uhr @ [#11727](https://coord.info/GC3NJF0)

TFTC

Found with nissan 65. Flew in yesterday from sydney for a short holiday. Hoping to see as much as i can on the south island and pick up caches along the way . Thanku for the cache

Day 2 of our trip in new zealand with cullum68 thanks for the cache

Quick find. TFTC.

On my way back to Dunedin after cleaning up some of the Fresh Breath ones west of Chch. Decided to go as far as I could along here before it got dark.

On a mission with BCD along Thompsons Track to get numbers for the Hidden Creatures. TFTC

Pretty hard

Quick find TFTC

Down from Auckland visiting family. Stopped in to gt some caches. this was our 3rd of the long line.

Easy find

Quick find. Thanks
#2826

Many thanks to all the COs who helped make our geocaching holiday a great success
We left home early April and returned 21 May 2018. We toured from our home base up to a wedding in North Taranaki then carried on heading south right down through wellington and on down the west coast and back up via the eastern side of the alps some times going around in circles. Our aim was to get as many smiley faces on the puzzle caches that we had solved but of course stopping for many traditionals, multies and others as we went. some time we biked the bike trails or walked but mostly by campervan. we enjoyed the quite back country roads, many of them were metal but we just travelled along slowly going from cache to cache. Most caches were in good condition and I will remark if we thought it needs maintence etc.

Lol

I didn't find any thing

Couldn't find

Good find with two peas in a pod. Log needs to be replaced

A few caches before heading back to Australia tonight.
TFTC

TFTC

Easy find . Thanks for the hide

Team DIM nice easy find tftc

On holiday in ChCh (Ashburton) for the weekend with darkangel so we decided to join the local Ashburton ianfr on what turned out to be an 11 hour adventure through Thompson's Track and around town, in an attempt to collect 100 caches in a day. We'd all always wanted to do it, and we saw a perfect opportunity to try. What we got to around 80 before we hit a brick wall and soon could only log DNF's, but thankfully and eventually, we hit the milestone in the end (104 in the end!). Signed all logs today as Team DIM.
#15. Nice and quick find. TFTC.

An epic day out with darkangel10151 and MikefNZ on a mission to find 100 cache in a day, Pleased to say that made it
Signed "Team DIM"

Quick park and grab with Aussie Pete. TFTC

Found it. Damn cabbage trees there everywhere.
TFTC

Quick park and grab. Easy find. Thanks.

Found today with BDP82. Left tiny diamond. Thank you for the cache.

Found with LadyE

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Driving through to Christchurch - to deliver a truck that I have sold on Trade Me - time for a couple on this trail that I missed last time through
TFTC - quickly found

Over from Australia to attend the Oamaru Geofeast. In Christcurch caching with Di Morgan and doing this series while in the area. Ran into a few other teams along the way.
Thanks TheWanglers for placing the cache for us to find.
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Well we are on our way back to Christchurch from a great weekend in Omaru attending the Geofest. we met some lovely people some we knew and some we didn't its been great seeing familiar faces along the travels all geocaching of course. Now to get the last few of the Thompson track series and head to our nights accommodation then its time to head for home tomorrow night. Thank you for placing this trail we have really enjoyed it, its got our numbers up for the weekend. aswell as seeing some lovely country side. TFTC

Oamaru -
Left Oamaru today heading for Christchurch, we cached with Happy Feet 1 during our time here.
We found caches in some amazing places, travelled along some great country roads.
Started the Thompson Track, planning of finishing this in the morning.
Thanks for placing this cache TheWanglers

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Found as part of Team IE, TFTC!

Making my way home after the Oamaru Geofest. Had wanted to do this track for a while now and today worked in perfectly. With sun and no wind it was a pleasant collect of this varied and interesting trail.

TFTC and the series.

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A quick find. Signed IE (Team Infoferret and EthNZ). TFTC

A fuller log posted in GC3NJDJ Thompson’s Track #1 (Canterbury).

Like that cabbage tree.TFTC

thanks for the placement, we have been loved travelling and visiting the roads of Christchurch and the many caches each CO has taken the time to place, thank you for taking the time to place and maintain them.

An enjoyable morning geocaching with KotukuSI along Thompsons Track. Thanks for setting it up.

Gorgeous Spring morning, decided to hit this trail with peter 007; we had been down this way a couple of months ago but there had been a lot of mud around -
I'm a bit of a fiar weather cacher at times ! Found it today without any difficulty.
Thanks Old Boots for setting this up & TW for maintaining the trail.

Had a goal of 50 caches today to go towards a challenge I am working on. This was a very easy and efficient way of finding 50 in a hurry. I really appreciate you setting up and looking after the trail. Thank you TheWanglers for the caches

Ty

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Found with BarKrn and new player Gogin91.
Tftc !!

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Gave this one a miss

Another drive from Central Otago to North Canterbury and the chance to get a few more of the TT caches. Many thanks.

TFTC

TFTC

I swear writing the logs is just as hard as collecting all these caches in one go...


I'm on a 5 day caching trip in the south island. Have a few aims - right now its to up a few specific caches that I need to complete my grid for a challenge - and find some interesting caches on the way 1800km later I can say I've accomplished my aim! I started this series a year ago, and decided that I really must finish it on this trip. I have to admit I didn't plan to do it all at night time. All up took 4 hours work, with a 3 hour nap in the middle. If I started at 9pm ... well I'll let you work out what time I finished

Nothing there today.

With a free flight from AMEX to use up by the end of the month and no family trips to use it on, a days caching along Thompsons Track seemed like a good way to use it. Awesome sunny day and lots of different caches to find. Some logs were too wet to sign. Some DNFs as well. Thanks to the CO for a great power trail. Too many to do individual logs so one log for all. TFTCs.

Looks for a bit but after looking at a few flax bushes gave up and moved on.

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Today Injeanious and I started early and left home at 7am aiming to complete our biggest geocaching day ever. We started in Templeton before heading to Thompson Track and Rangiora. Altogether we found 126 caches in 14 hours. We had maybe 3 DNFs all day so felt very successful, although very tired.
Thanks to all the cache owners for helping us with our great day!
Sorry for the cut and paste logs but there were too many caches to log individually.
We signed our logs as JeJe to save time and space.

Jess.daphne and I decided to beat our personal best caching day of 51 finds and try to get 120. We did better than that coming home with 127 finds! We started our mission at 7 am heading to Thompson's Track, then we went up to Rangiora before getting home just before 9 pm. An epic day. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches. We signed our logs as JeJe. Sorry for the cut and paste logs.

We both got out to look for this one. Searched the wrong place first and then I spotted the cache. Tftc.

We are visiting relatives in Christchurch and are from Canada. We started caching the Thompson track a few years ago but were unable to complete it at that time. Also There are many additions since then so we are back to complete it today. Thanks to those who put this trail together.

Got some cheap flights a few weeks ago so the plan was to come down for a big run in Ashburton to achieve the 120 in one day and get the gemstone. OMG! We started at the crack of dawn and finished in the dark. Foggy and cool but cleared by lunchtime. It should have been achieved much quicker. We had not really planned a route and detoured a bit. Some of this backfired as we ended up on some long gravel roads that had missing caches and was most disappointing. We got stuck for about an hour on a multi I specially wanted for qualifying for another cache which was frustrating. However, we made it - with a few to spare I believe - but are totally shattered. Too many to log individually so are doing the copy and paste. Many thanks to all who placed caches. What beautiful countryside and we love the fact we could pull over and park safely. Not keen on the many prickly pine trees so many were hidden under. The breeze only got up in the afternoon and it was a lovely warm breeze - not like Manawatu freezing winds even at this time of the year. More traffic on the roads than we expected and they fair motor along. Many thanks for the caches. It has made the whole trip worthwhile.

2nd one today on the road. Thanks.

Out for the first time in a long time, picking up some caches around the Canterbury area. #13 for the day

Catching up with Becsicasa and we planned to hit up the Thompsons Track. Borrowed my Dads car and we met up and Rakaia to begin.

Really enjoyed this series, it was nice to have a couple of easier park and grabs, and a couple that I found a little more challenging (because I'm apparently blind)

Thanks so much for the effort that went into doing this series of caches, I enjoyed my day.


TFTC TheWanglers, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 13 finds of 79 today, making this find #1448

Found

Funny how they don't tasted like cabbages.

#13552. I'm not keen on this type of hide, and was pleased when Troodles spotted the cache. TFTC.

StreetWalker and I want to reach 3000 finds for the year - a record for us - but I was still 95 caches shy (SW needed 83) so we thought the 53 remaining Thompsons Track caches would get us well on the way to our target. We left Christchurch at about 7am, and by 11:30am we were heading to Ashburton for a well deserved coffee and, being gluttons for punishment, some more caches .
With 80 caches found, we were well pleased with our day, thanks to the COs for their cache placements.
Oh, no, not the synk! After initially searching the wrong one, we spotted it in the second one - the first word in the hint being the important one. TFTC.

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Found on a run with Sarmeli16 on a roadtrip to Mt Cook, sorry for the copy and paste logs.

TFTC

Quick find on the Thompsons Track run. Thanks from Grandalf(2458)

Today's trip was supposed to clear out the area between Lincoln and Southbridge, but instead I ended up in Rakaia... well done me? Grrrr flax... Found it eventually after looking in the wrong one for most of the time... I remember coming here the first time - glad to have redeemed myself. TFTC (3112)

Todays challenge: the Thompson Track. I only have 7 DNF out of 80 boxes. Not bad
Thanks for the series and for maintaining it. Weather was horrible: snow, rain, mud and water. But nothing can stop a dedicated cacher
Rolofant

Pulled up to this one and realised it was dreaded flax! Wasn't too bad though.
TFTC!

You read flax with dread but it was OK. Found with geo Jessie. TFTC

Good hide

Great spot

Nice hide

Yeah boy

Got it

Kia ora for the cache. Found with Spydude13 and Lollipopcat.

TFTC, found with Spydude13 and Us04.

TFTC, found with Lollipopcat and Us04.

Quick find here TFTC