A Step Up (Canterbury) Methven, South Island, New Zealand
By N!mrod on 17-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3NNV8

Looks like this has done its dash.

We gave GZ a thorough look but obviously not thorough enough.
M&P.

On a three day geocaching trip around Mid-Canterbury. This was meant to be cache number eight on the second day and should have been a very easy and quick find. But no luck even after both of us had searched for almost half an hour! Thanks anyway, Rodney and Iris.

No luck for me here today. Maybe it sailed on the tide.

Simple find through a cool glade. 31 degrees in Methven today. TFTC

A quick easy find once we sorted out the way to get to this location. TFTC

Quick find, TFTC

Had an awesome day. Today was our best find day of 104 caches. TFTC.

Merci pour la cache

Found this one pretty quickly, but made a classic GC mistake by not bringing a pen to sign the log (pencil is missing from cache container). My daughter took the frog TB as "proof" that we were there. TFTC.

At first I did not know what a stile was , but then I found out that you climb over a fence using it. TFTC

Whilst visiting our daughter and our new grand son we took a littl hike around Methven. This was our firs find in New Zealand and impressed our daughter. Left a trackable - Froggy - and hope that he gets to travel around NZ

Another quick easy find, lots of broken glass though, cleaned what I could.

A great way to spend Christmas Day. Introduced a friend to GC today and he came along for the ride. With Streetch.

Found with Toytrix_nz

A quick find in the dark.

GPS 5m out but M is still good.

Lack of local knowledge had us approach GZ the long way. We stepped up to the challenge at GZ and log was soon signed. TFTC

We took the long way here while following the GPS and found a much shorter way back to the car. Co-ords a bit out for us so the search took a bit longer than expected. TFTC.

Nice area wouldn't have found it without the cache

Thanks for bringing us here N!mrod...wonderful to experience this walkway!

DNF Had a look round and we were defenitly where it should of been but spent a lot of time running back and forwards looking over and under.

great hiding spot

Found with Schatzsuche after the NZ Mega event while touring around NZ in the campervan.
Found on an evening walk while staying in the nearby caravan park for the night. We walked from your Stumpen in Methvern cache through the cemetary and spent a while looking at the history.
Clever little hide, took us a wee while

TFTC's N!mrod,
Cheers and Happy Hunting,
Southern Cross Caching

Found after the NZ MEGA while touring NZ in the Campervan.
Found on an eveing walk.....very quiet area. Love all the high trees.
TFTC
SS

This was almost another DNF for us today but after a good look around we went back to the car then decided to try again - it just sort of fell out of its hiding place this time, even tho we had looked there before. There was lots going on over the bridge, show day tomorrow I think, the gate at the end of the bridge was all wired up so that part of the walkway was closed off.

This one eluded me. Obviously I couldn't step up to the required ability to locate it.

85th find of the day. #170

#521 85/85
Since we were in the neighbourhood it would have just been rude not to step up to the plate and look for this last cache of the day, even though flashlights were required in the fading light. It took us a bit longer than necessary as the container size seems to have been changed and is now smaller. Still we found and logged before heading to the Blue Pub for tea before going back home to Christchurch.

453 Our last cache for the day, and was found with the GPS batteries just about dead and with torchlight. Clever hide, I enjoyed it. Found with MacPacMum and Pokernet as we finish our day's caching and head off for a meal before heading home. This was a nice way to end our time here. TFTC

Wondered where my gps was leading me but all obvious at GZ.

A beautiful day for a drive! A quick find, with a fresh log. Thanks.

This cache was muffled and replaced with a pill bottle BYOP

3 DNF's huh? Will check this week end, it shouldn't be too hard, so suspect it has been muggled.

tried stepping up to find this one with no luck

Very clever hiding spot, but unfortunately could not log my visit as there was nothing to write with in the cache.

Third DNF in a row for Methven.

Oh dear, spent a while around here going back and forth but no luck.... Bother. Next time eh? Cheers

Had some trouble getting there but nice hide!
greetings Nik from PT13

This entry was edited by PT13 on Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 13:35:34 UTC.

very slippery after rain

In Methven for the penultimate rugby match (or could be ultimate if a loss). Circling the action we collected this. A few memories from this hurdle . TFTC

#1972 @1441
Found with BaldEd, Wombles-BBT & la Vista. TFTC.

Found with Balded, TivaNZ & Wombles BBT. Nearly drove to it except for the last few metres. Sharp eyed Terry said Balded "You are standing on it!" TFTC

After compleating the Thompson's Track Series,and in the company of BaldEd,La Vista & TikvaNZ,this was last on our Methven List.My sharp eyes!!!noticed something under Ed's foot.It was indeed the Cache.TFTH

Do we drive via the road, drive direct, or shall we walk? We did both the latter and it was a quick find. Found on a boys' day out with TikvaNZ, Wombles-BBT & the male half of La Vista.

A nice easy evening find. TFTC Cheers Bo

Took the wrong step but soon found our mistake and had another find before lunch. TFTC

Lovely wee spot I did not know of...thank you.

Found

no go

Took us two visits to find this one, but got it

Not a so quick grab, took longer than it should have.-Bitsprayer

I must confess that I was quite close to water at one stage but after a bit of a rethink all was revealed.
Thanks
erninz

Number 400 for us. yay!!!! TFTC

Out and about for a mornings adventure with Mrs G. Completed the power trail along Thompsons Track...and had a wee bit of spare time before needing to head back to CHCH, came out to Methven to try for a couple more. Nice wee spot. Had the place to ourselves so drove right in & wandered the last. Took a couple moments before Mrs G spotted the prize. 44/53 for the day! Cheers.

TFTC. I wasn't sure where I was going to end up or if I was going to end up in a dead end. But no - another interesting spot. The cache was exposed so recovered as I think the N!mrod would have done originally.

A cunning little hide. That domain suits everyone's type of sport/activity. A real asset. Thanks.

Walked in from stumped, a quiet wander down to the end of the cemetery. TFTC

Walked in from about the furthest point. Jacob (age 4) turned up the cache while I was looking in the completely wrong place.

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