Thompsons Track #76 (Canterbury) Hatfield, South Island, New Zealand
By Old Boots! on 25-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3P9HC

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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.

No cars passed while logging this one either.

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
# 1577 August 30, 2019 16:48

Thanks

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.

I have a cache and my clue says "brace" which down this way means "strainer' but still found either way, tftc

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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All good here....nice paddock of hay being baled ..thanks O.Bs

Of course when there are two strainers I will alway pick the wrong one first. Thanks for the cache Old Boots!

Another park and grab; TFTC

On a mission to get 800 before the end of the year, this is 776 tftc

Another one down

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.

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

Had the whole day to travel from Chch to Dunedin today so I was allowed to have a caching splurge!! No trouble here. Thanks (11th find of the day)

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

Yea still a hard find but a lot of fun

Quick find TFTC

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.

Not exactly where indicated. Returned to correct position. Rubbish everywhere, toilet paper included. 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.

Caching for the day with peter007; we had had a couple of sorties down the Track previously & had hoped to finish it today - however there is a section closed for road works which was a bit of a glitch.
Thanks, Old Boots, for placing these and TW for maintaining them.
The log was sodden' we replaced it with a fresh bag and a sheet of paper.

Dun

Lol

Found

Couldn't log it as log was too wet. Needs maintenance

Had the cache container in our hands but the log book was way too wet to sign.
TFTC

Quick find TFTC

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

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.
#10. 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"

Team DIM nice easy find tftc

Quick park and grab
Tftc

Found it. Nice and easy the way I like it.
TFTC

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

Found with LadyE

Found it but log is very wet

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.
6358

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

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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).

With the clue ,on to this in a flash.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.

Not sure why it is me and not the kids jumping out each time to find these caches. TFTC

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

Down in Christchurch for the weekend to visit my elderly parents and we went down to Ashburton today, to visit other relatives. Took some time out on the way home to pick up some more of these caches here, TFTC and the series

Ty

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Found with BarKrn and new player Gogin91.
Tftc !!

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Stayed the night at the Blue Pub,Methven and we're on a mission to find 50 caches in on day! #15 TFTC

Grabbed while passing. TFTC

To easy

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.

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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. 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.

#2831 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. #8 for the day

#8 for today. Tftc

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. 8 finds of 79 today, making this find #1443

Nice

And the number climbes.

#13547. 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.
Another quick find. TFTC.

Quick find between Christchurch and Wanaka. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. BJ25.

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

Quick find on the Thompsons Track run. Thanks from Grandalf(2462)

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

Yet another nice and easy find. Found with Busy Paws.
TFTC!!

Unsure what a "Strainer" was. but we soon found out! Good find and dry. Out for the day with geo jessie. TFTC.

Tick

Tick.

Easy find

Nice find

Nice find

Yeah boy

Got it

Nice hide 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!

Quick find, tftc

Tftc!