'Woodses Way' Rakahuri MTB area track (Canterbury) Rangiora, South Island, New Zealand
By MountainToad on 16-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WZCC

Followed exactly what the map said and it lead me off track slightly and there was nothing to be found. All the tracks have recently been redone though so maybe it’s been moved or got washed away??

May have been washed out by floods?

Found it fairly easily but watch out for blackberry thorns they are nasty as. With swtgeo who got completely lost

Found with nige_1979

Nice quick find! TFTC!

Great find

TFTC left a hotwheels for someone to grab

Found by Team Heslop. Our second ever Geocache.

Nah. Overgrown. Scour holes. Wet. Light shoes. Might skip this one for today. Cheers.

Nice day for a walk and enjoyable find. Thanks.

Enjoying a lovely summer's afternoons going. Heading downsouthand stopped at this lovely spot for the night. TFTC

Found it after being devoured by thorns. However well worth it.

Found after some bush bashing.... well hidden TFTC

Hot assss

Found it, tftc

Taking the dog for a walk in the area to get a few caches. Our first find of the day after two dnf. Thanks for the cache

Found on a trail run

Day 2 of my three day March Madness road trip.
Just completed Gracie7's baby trail and now onto this stop bank trail.
The trusty e-bike is eating up the k's today.

A bit of a terrain challenge which ended well.

TFTC

Out for a Saturday morning can caching stroll /drive with Jessflett before the day gets too hot...

Bit of a scramble but got there eventually.cache all good tftc

Found with bcd tftc

Quick find on our trip. TFTC

Found container in the open with contents scattered about. Collected everything together and repacked. Log very damp. Cache owner, to rehide?

Found, see note; TFTC

When our mechanic closed his business (for family reasons) & took a job in Rangiora we followed him out. This means that when I bring the car out for a WoF or service I need to do something to fill in my day. I've run out of Rangiora caches within walking distance, but they have loan cars! Today I travelled in all directions but South, finding 34 caches (& not finding 3). I'll apologise now for the cut & paste logs, but I'll try to add a bit about each cache here:

Funnily enough, with a hint like that, I knew exactly what I was looking for here! Spotted from above I soon had the log signed.

TFTC MountainToad
Find # 3970

Quick find. Liked the hint. TFTC

Nice walk. Tftc.

Mind the holes

Picked up a tb.

Retrieved the trackable.

Found with brucemorgan21

Placed a trackable!

It was there

TFTC. 8yo says it was a goldilocks one, just right for her.

Found on a day walk along the ashley river walking tracks.

This was my final cache find on what was a rather busy caching day. I enjoyed the walk and managed to get myself in a good location to be able to make a beeline to the cache site where I made a very quick find.

To dangerous for me, I can’t see where I put my feet.

Tftc

We weren't really planning to be her today but that is how things co, and this was the only cache I had loaded in the gps.

It took a we bit of cross country to get here but that saves it from Muggles.

No honey about, but there were a few yummy blackberry's about.

Cheers and thanks for putting it here.

S.t.

Snagged and tagged this one as we cycle along this trail. Big holes int he ground here to traverse.
Its Waitangi day and its the Ashley River Mountain Bike Trail today. We park Toby at the mouth to the Ashley and Zara to our start point. Now its on our trusty steeds Jack and Jill to travel this bike trail.

Its Waitangi Day - day one of a five day weekend exploring the amazing Canterbury, with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby, Jack and Jill. Two days Rangiora, a day in Lyttleton and 2 days in Banks Peninsula. I got call from The Seagnoid, hes taking a long weekend. Lets go to the West Coast! Lets Go!! but maybe not the West Coast - rain on the way. So lets go to Canterbury. We leave for Christchurch Tuesday evening after picking up The Seagnoid after work. We make camp for the night at Amberly. Today its off to Rangiora for a cycle trip.

Cache descripion is out of date - no sign of a treefall getting here. Some big ditches / holes between the stopbank and the cahe. Stepped over one on the way to the cache, stepped IN one on the way back.

Down to Christchurch with Taybeedragon, Zara and Toby for a five day weekend starting Waitangi Day (which this year fell on a Wednesday. I reckon half the country would have been taking 5 day weekends!). Three days in Rangiora. We did two cycle trails there - having two vehicles makes it so easy. One of those cycle trails was fifty caches. Fifty caches in one day on a bicycle! Then a couple of days exploring the back roads around Akaroa. Darn close to two hundred caches in all. Dropped off a lot of path tags along the way, especially if the cache was nice and dry.

I was out riding the stopbank on the southern side of the Ashley River today.

Cheers for the cache.

Fun to find with the kids!

Nice quick find on a walk along the river bank. Thanks for the hide. #3221

Tricky tree hiding spot! St joes pedal power third term 2018!!

Nice find while the hockey team are warming up nearby. TFTC

Nice walk

Was a beautiful day for geocaching so decided to pick sister up and go for a walk to grab these caches on the way.
Very overgrown here but was determined to get this one. Quickly spotted signed log and replaced as found. Tftc an smiley

Nice name, thanks for the chance.

Cheers.

Easier than I thought it would be after looking at the terrain.tftc

Thanks for the cache

Anzac Day early morning caching, TFTH

A very enjoyable autumn bike ride on a sunny day with 8ManAfter and Akira. Many thanks.

#3,214: Tough T2 Smiley!
I came to this one with tandem4 and GeoYoungling #3 on a great autumn morning. Found in good shape!!
With all the growth, this was much more than a T2, I think.
SL/TFTC!!

Wouldn't want to try this one in the dark or while wearing bike shoes. First the shingle on the bank makes it very unstable so of course I slipped down it and then the ground is covered in holes of various description that are well hidden by the long grass. Luckily I spotted one before falling in so that made us a lot more cautious and we came away without incident. TFTC # 12,239

Down from Nelson for a big day caching. Have been picking up smilies in and around Rangiora for the last hour or so, now starting to head east along the trails. Thanks for the hide .

A tad wet but all good. Tftc

Nice break from the mountain bike ride. Bit trickier to access with the long grass, watch out for holes.

Nice quick find

Out and about on a Saturday for a few caches and to enjoy the beautiful day! I decided that it was time for a nice long walk, the day looked promising, so I left the car and went off for what turned out to be a 13.3km stroll along the Ashley. Best way to spend the morning!! TFTC!!

Found it

Found

TFTC

Found it with a small sports car inside

Good hunt to try and find this one

Congratulations Sonia and Peter for rediscovering Woodses Way. I hadn't been down there for some time and thought that it may have become a victim to the Regional Councils flood maintenance work.

03/01/2017 3:54:00 PM
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A gorgeous day, and so it was time to go for a wee bit of a wonder!!

Hubby was keen to join, and I was keen to knock off a whole bunch of caches that I still had unfound in the area! We ended up going on 3 different walks, with the last one quite unsuccessful unfortunately...

This was cache number one. Quite nice & easy to get to, and nice & easy to find - no idea where the last finder tried to approach from!!

TFTC!!

Couldn't get near the area as the undergrowth was too dense.

Too dense from either side

Too dense to get too from either side

Approached within 20m from the wrong side then decided to head around to the right side, from where the geotrail showed the way! Thanks

Found with quinella today- I hate walking mtb tracks- too many corners!! And I didn't need to!! Never mind - a good walk anyway and fresh air for all of us - quinella, me and geodog. Tftc

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Found with Warfi, took trackable and Left one.
Great wither day to go walking with Warfi and family.

Needed to "get outdoors" today- so decided to try for this one, as it was bugging me. In the past, I have tried to work out where to go to get this one, but was bamboozled! Out with Monson.clan today- and we found our way to it. Great day for it. tftc

A quick easy find at the start of my ride. Interesting history, now that I read it. +TB. Thanks.

A quick find to start the day hunting for the Ashley River series that I have not yet found.

With a few more days of holidays left we decided to head south again and find some caches we didn't have time to look for last week, plus some more off the beaten track. This was one of 51 found today as we headed homewards again.
Thank you to all CO's who made this possible.

Our recent multi day Canterbury cache raid was so successful we decided to have another one before the holidays finished. Again we got stabbed, prodded, pricked and scraped by the variety of hedges the region is so famous for. And of course we can now hold our breath a lot longer. A skill well worth developing to avoid breathing in part of the road surface every time a vehicle passes. Just over 200 finds were logged this time and a great time was had finding the caches with a variety of shapes, sizes and placements. A big thank you to all COs who made this possible.

Five pairs of eyes found this one! TFTC.

A great day for a bike ride, and that is exactly what I did. I have been very keen to bike this trail for a while and finally got the opportunity to do s,o on a most brilliant and somewhat hot day. I really enjoyed all the finds and exploring the area along the river today.

Many thanks for the cache placement.

Went out for a decent walk in the morning. Enjoyed the walk along the tracks.

Took a couple of go's to get the cache, cracking wee hide TFTC

Well hidden fun to find

Well hidden fun to find

Found it - well hidden in Elephant grass

Found this one on a day of location scouting. Elephant tracks soon had Crood kids at the right spot. Tftc

Sent the Crood kids to go get this one from the roadside. Quickly found on this lovely (ok i really mean hot) afternoon. Another day another Cache. TFTC.

Was going to do this trail earlier in the week but rain stopped me

A walk through town, then onto these caches along the stop bank. This being the second, wasn't sure how to access the best, when I came across the cachers trail. TFTC!

Great! bit nervous it was quite overgrown, not sure what may have been lurking in there

I followed the vehicle track from the lawn cemetery, and via the railway bridge to reach GZ this morning
An energising stroll in the lovely coolness of a sunny Canterbury morning

A roly-poly tumble down the slope and I was able to find the cache without delay.
Hooray !!

TFTC.

find differed from map site

Continuing on our Mega trip with tmann421 and enjoying the variety of caches in the area.

TFTC

Great find with Just-Lookin after the MEGA. SL TFTC

Out caching in the afternoon with the DCC group. Loved driving and grabbing these ones.

Found by one member of the Team during a 3 weeks holiday trip to NZ.

TFTC

Found as a part of my Mega day walk along the Ashley River/Rakahuri Trail.
It was a beautiful day for a trip, and I had a nice walk.

TFTC

Out grabbing caches with the Dunedin Caching Crew.

Found as part of the Dunedin Caching Crew, (DCC).
TFTC

Found with the Dunedin Caching Crew (DCC)