Thompsons Track #8 (Canterbury) Hatfield, South Island, New Zealand
By Old Boots! on 14-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3NJF8

gone

DnF another missing

I didn't bother to stop and look due to previous DNFs

New power poles installed here, no luck for us.

Yes new power pole has been installed

Under the soil. Recently here was some road side maintenance work and many of containers who was nearby power line pole are under the soil - gone. Must have to do maintenance work

DNF

August 30, 2019 16:30

Cover is missing..
Greetings Die_Asseln

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. No top on container

quick & easy find, tftc

Yebo OldBoots!

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

Found well

Tftc

The power pole has gone ..but a lucky find of the old container ..no log added new log and placed at nearest new power pole thanks for the cache Old Boots

Well how lucky can we get. No power pole at gz (new ones recently installed). Check closest power pole, then walked back to gz and spotted container minus lid. Put in new log and covered at closest power pole. Thanks for the placement Old Boots!

Another park and grab; TFTC

On a mission to get 800 before the end of the year, this is 783 tftc ps, log book absolutely soaked, added a bit of paper but didn’t have a plastic bag sorry.

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.

Quick find on the way through from Chch to Mount Cook. Warm day in the sunshine. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 1844

Log too wet to sign and couldn't take pic as on 1% battery.

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. The lid was off this one and log slightly damp.

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

Found

Quick find TFTC

Log book very wet, will let CO know

Book very wet

Quick find. Thanks
#2827

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

Fun

Found cache but log too wet

A few caches before going bach to Australia tonight
TFTC. Log book was too wet to sign

Easy find . Thanks for the hide. Great series of caches. Wet log in cache can’t sign sorry.

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.
#16. 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. Quick Park and sign.
TFTC

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

Found with LadyE

Tftc

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.
6371

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

Tftc

TFTC

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).

Going great here no DNFs so far.TFTC.

On the big road trip to the Oamaru Geofest.
I did most of this trail two plus years ago.
Today was an opportunity to find the rest.
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.

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 !!

T

Set off to claim a few TT caches, on the way to the Pirate event at Lake Hood. Lovely day for it- clear skies, snow on the mountains.
Thanks for maintaining these caches, TW.

Found with KotukuSI while on the way to the Pirate's event at Lake Hood.
Perfect winter's day. TFTC

Easiest one so far said my eldest

TFTC

TFTC

I'm trying to decide if its getting wetter or not... Does this mean it's going to rain all day (cause its still night time)


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

Grabbed while passing. TFTC

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.

Tftc

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. 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.

On our way to Tinwald and took opportunity to grab some caches along Thompson Track. Mostly straightforward just one dnf at no. 7.

#2836 More to Follow

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.

Out for the first time in a long time, picking up some caches around the Canterbury area. #14 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. 14 finds of 79 today, making this find #1449

Found

Almost 18 months ago we DNF'd this cache however today there was no such issues.

Parked very close and spotted the hide pretty quickly.

Glad to turn this into a smiley.


TFTC

Quick find TFTC

#13553. We enjoyed polishing off the TT series this morning. 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.
There were quite a few tractors in the neighbouring field, so it must be harvest time, but of what, we have no idea. TFTC.

Tftc

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

TFTC

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

Another quick find. Found with Busy Paws on a windy day out caching.
TFTC!

Wind beginning to build, a good hide all dry. Found with Geo Jessie. TFTC

Easy find

Good hiding spot

Awesome cache

Got it

Another quick find TFTC

This weekend saw us travel down to Christchurch from Auckland to tackle some caches towards our GIO Licence Challenge on Rangitoto Island. We needed to find 125 caches at least 500km from home, which also consisted of at least 50 different owners. Some cheap flights made Christchurch seem like the perfect opportunity to fulfil these requirements. It was a jam packed caching filled weekend, and a bit of a whirlwind visit, but we got to see some cool things during this time. Day two of this weekend was all about getting the number of finds up.

Part of getting the numbers we needed meant that we would tackle this power trail along the Thompsons Track. It was a very successful run along the series, seeing they were recently maintained, so we had no DNFs (great timing, on our part!). Otherwise, nothing else to report, it was a quick and easy trail (took us about 4 hours), and the road was fairly quiet today, even though we did bump into some other cachers along the way.

Thanks for all the effort gone into setting up and maintaining this series!

One of 28 found in Mid & South Canterbury today, 17 of which were on Thompsons Track. Most of the 'track' ones were relatively easy to find. Thanks for all the effort that's gone into placing (and maintaining) these. #1129. TFTC.

Tftc

Appears the area has been cleared and no bushes left.

Unfortunately the farmer has been here and cleaned out the bush and the cache. Previous log in error

I think it ones been dug up with bushes gutting!

replaced in new position

Thompsons Track #8 (Canterbury) was transferred from Old Boots! to user TheWanglers

On the way to Moeraki we took a detour to visit the Thompsons Track. We found almost all the Caches, some of the Logbooks are wet and some Caches were not on the spot.
Thanks to the owner for the lay out and the maintain.

Greetings from the Steipilzbrätler