Thompsons Track #44 (Canterbury) Ashburton Forks, South Island, New Zealand
By Old Boots! on 18-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3NVJP

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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.

Quick find; TFTC

Beaut day for a Thompsons Track mission.

T4TC

Together with TEMBO! I had a really interesting geocaching-trip today. We could find some geocaches, met some locals and had a great talk to them.
Concerning this geocache I want to say thanks because we had much fun in searching and finding this geocache! The cache made our trip even more interesting!
TFTC!

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

TFTC.

A chance to find the last TT caches on a circuitous route to Timaru. No big log from me but thanks for the trail. Cache was well buried and wet but in place.
#4930

I did not stop to look for this cache due to multiple previous DNFs.

Fence moved can see where should of been.

Can see where it should be

DNF

August 20, 2019 17:56

On a road trip south, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. Today we kake the Thompsons Track. TFTC

Greetings from 2 Austrians  
Die_Asseln

Found but unable to sign log as it is saturated

Another quick find, tftc

Found it. Quick park and grab.
TFTC

Taking Aussie Pete to the airport. Had to do a few caches on the way to finish of the holiday. A quick park and grab.
TFTC

Today we drove by car from Staveley to the Thompson Track. Here we stopped some times and seeked for the box. All of them were to find good.

Greetings from Germany and
TFTC El_Mue

After making a start on this power trail from the Rakaia end mid July last year today I had the opportunity today to finish it off heading in a westerly direction. I was quite chuffed to get to the end with no DNF's although a couple of them had me searching for a few minutes.

We are on our summer holiday, travelling around the South Island with no particular destination in mind, when I suggested to GK that we spend a bit of time trying to find a couple of Thompsons Track caches that I had missed when I was in the area a couple of years ago, he was obliging. So with those three now turned from blue to yellow smilies, I suggested we come and finish the series.

I am not sure he knew what was in store for him, but with plenty of good parking I knew it would be an ideal place for the campervan and trailer.

This was a nice easy quick find.
Thanks for placing these caches and thank you for the smilies

Quick find tftc

Nearly missed it. Well hidden.

Located the appropriate hint object and signed log sheet. Lovely warm days. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 1861

Day 3 of our trip in New Zealand with cullum68 thanks for the cache

So many good hidy spots it could have been in near here. Would never have found it without the clue.

Found on our mission today to get the 46 we needed to get the last hidden creature! Have been saving Thompson's Track for just this situation. Beautiful sunny winters day, some caches thwarted by a massive herd of cows being moved along the length of the road!! Thanks for all these caches.

Great detour home.tftc

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

TFTC- quick find today - all dry - thanks for placing and maintaining these caches

Some months ago we started from CH and worked our way out collecting caches on the same side of the road. This time we started at Mayfield and worked our way back.

This is the last couple of days these Aussies have to go caching in New Zealand and it has been a lot of fun. We have also enjoyed the sights and experiences we have had along the way.
Along this series we found all the ones that we looked for, but a couple we left, as we did not find a safe parking place for a larger vehicle along this quite busy road. Our thanks go to Old Boots for an interesting series.

Been wanting to do this track for a while. Quick and easy find . Thanks for the hide

Thanks for the find

Team DIM nice easy 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"

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.
#75. Nice and quick find. TFTC.

Easy find! TFTC!

Another one off the list and a smiley. TFTC

Tftc

After attending the Oamaru Geofeast we are now heading back to Christcurch. Caching with Di Morgan and doing this series while in the area.
Thanks TheWanglers for placing the cache for us to find.
6208

13:17. Found as part of team IE, TFTC. Number 4992

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).

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

Well we arrived late last night and today once we finally got our rental car started to head off and get some caches this was our first three for the day of getting many as we will slowly head down towards Omaru for the big Geofest events happening down there and looking forward to meeting old and new faces. thank you for placing a cache here and starting our adventurous weekend ahead nice quick find signed the log and placed it back exactly where we found it. now onto the next cache its still morning, but not an early start, but couldn't be helped. TFTC

The clue was right.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.
I parked up at the near #52 and pulled out the bike to find the caches in the top part of the track.
A nice 20km round trip on a perfect day.
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.

Minimalistic

Coordinates changed from:
S 43° 44.188 E 171° 32.398

Coordinates changed to:
S 43° 44.189 E 171° 32.388

Distance from original: 44.5 feet or 13.6 meters.

terrain has changed

Shrub and stones gone. Farmer working too hard

Hmm. Roadside has been recently graded. Think this one might be missing in action.

Clue had me stuck!


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

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.

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.

Another quick find. Thanks.

Staying briefly at Mt Somers for a few days . searching for Caches and the elusive summer weather. thanks for the caches. We appreciate everyone's effort to make and maintain each one.

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. 74 finds of 79 today, making this find #1509

Tftc

Found it thanks

Another one ticked off. A few more cars around now. Tftc

Day #3 of our Labour Weekend trip to Geraldine and time to head back to Christchurch, but first we had a few more caches to find in and around the town. Thanks to all the COs for these cache placements and for making our stay so enjoyable.
Now heading back to Christchurch via Thompsons Track and picking up some caches as we go. TFTC.

#13330. Good to finally make a start on this series. TFTC.

TFTC

Thanks

Found all safe and secure 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

Quick found TFTC

TFTC

Great hide

Two dead trees good way to trick people

Awesome spot for s hide

Found @2:27:00 PM.

Enjoyed the trail today. Weather wasn't the best and I didn't manage to get them all but enjoyed the variety of the containers and placements.
Thanks

Thanks to TheWanglers for the cache

Meant to log this a while ago and forgot to get round to it! Quick find with Caiktin & Geomum
TFTC! (Sorry about the generic logging)

Thanks

Quick cache and dash 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!

Tftc

Traffic is busy

Easy find

Caching on our way home from Dunedin! Tftc! This is no. 50 today!

On way home to Dunedin avoiding the traffic on state highway one on a long Easter weekend. TFTC #64

TFTC

replaced log

Thompsons Track #44 (Canterbury) was transferred from Old Boots! to user TheWanglers

Tftc

Thanks for all the Thompson Track caches!! We drove out here from Chch for this series. Hubby and I had a fab time doing a bit of caching without geoboy (8) hahaha we only managed 21 before we had to get back home, but we will come back!!

Found this Cache together with Juekru during our Trip around the World! Thanks a lot to all the Owners for showing us such nice and interesting Places

Thanks for the Cache and nice greetings from Austria!
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Found this Cache together with Kadres during our Trip around the World! Thanks a lot to all the Owners for showing us such nice and interesting Places

Thanks for the Cache and nice greetings from Austria!
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Beautiful bike trip, together 45km, TFTC

That one is pretty close the bend.
Couldn't help being seen that time.
Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Easy find. Thanks and cheers from Grandalf(2401)

Nice find on holiday in you beautiful country. TFTC

Old log mush
Temp log in place

All information to our trip can be found at number 1, therefore here just a TFTC

Finally get around to finishing Thompsons Track which we started quite some time ago. Found with Geo Jessie. TFTC.