Westward Ho! Tree Top (North Otago) Danseys Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By erninz on 22-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3XAFJ

I'm ditching dad again and heading down south for the Mega in Dunedin. During this trip I managed to do many things and meet many people over the 2 weeks I was away. Thanks to all the cache owners and other cachers for making this trip enjoyable.Day 4 of the trip. Todays adventure is Danseys pass. A great lot of caches but I struck a large hurdle towards the end of the day with not only 1 but 3 punctures. So had to get into dunedin via a 2hr tow truck ride. A nice quick find. TFTCAll logs on this trip were signed by any of the following:Taybee NZ,TBNZ,TNZ,TB/D (When I was out with mother)

Finally getting a chance to stop for caches through the pass! Lovely day and no one around. TFTC!!

Found hanging around by a long dead sheep

Continuing on our road trip found quickly with Rayzr. Tftc

Another car. That's 4. And a dead sheep, poor thing.

Heading over the pass with Mrs Wilby so only stopping at a couple of select caches. Found on the second loop around. How did i miss that first time around?
Thanks for the cache, erninz
#3272

Enjoyed the find TFC

Found on a night away to danseys pass with family and farmerkeith. Awesome geocaching along this back road. Thank you to all who keep these maintained. GPS was on other side of road. Dead sheep still there haha. Nice cache

Easy find just a few metres out for us. Found with coconuts3. TFTH

Out with busy paws steeper than it looks. Mrs C found the cache and all signed log. Thanks for the cache erninz.

Quick easy find on an incredibly windy day - TFTC

Left upside down, wet.

Easter family adventures. After a night in Timaru and a morning bike through another section of the A2O we were now heading for Danseys Pass and Naseby for a few nights. With family in tow and needing to get to Naseby there were far too many caches through the pass to get them all - so just stopped at a few. This was one along the way - thanks.

I started my great and unique round trip over the South Island in Christchurch.
My first major stopover was at Lake Tapeko - here I hiked up to Observation Mountain.
I then planned two days in Mount Cook NP with some unforgettable hikes. My big goal was the Mueller Hut - on a super strenuous hike I reached it.
I continued my journey over the lonely Danseys Pass to Dunedin.
Afterwards I drove along the Southern Scienic Route via Invercargill to Manapouri for some days. On this route I visited many sights and enjoyed the beautiful nature again and again.
I already booked a tour to the Doubtful Sound in advance - another highlight on my tour.
Afterwards I drove on to Queensown and Wanaka. From there I continued over the Haast Pass to the lonely Jackson Bay with storm and heavy rain. Afterwards I drove along the west coast always in pouring rain.
The rain stopped the whole west coast, but I had good rainwear with me. Only high up in Nelson the sun shone again.
Soon I reached the east coast again in Picton and Blenheim and the sun was shining again.
After a few days I travelled back to Christchurch via the beautiful town of Kaikoura.
At the end of my round trip I spent a few more days in Christchurch and its surroundings.
I visited many geological sites and found many caches on my round trip. In Rangiora I visited an event.
I travelled 3418 km and take home a lot of positive experiences.
Thanks to many beautiful caches I was also shown unique locations, historical sites and geological features.
I am overwhelmed by the fantastic and ever changing nature on the South Island of New Zealand - I will definitely come back.

Many thanks to all owners
Team sissifalke

Found it. A bit of a change for this one.
TFTC

Out for a days geocaching with Aussie Pete. Left home at 8am and got back 12 hours later. Travelled through some wonderful back country, esp over the Dansey's pass. If you believe in Murphy's law then he was one step ahead of us all day. We had a wonderful time finding and exploring. This resulted in an unexpected tumble down a hill, a number of scratches and bruises and a few holes in a hand where I grabbed some grass to steady myself only to discover I had grabbed some hidden barbed wire. This is what geocaching is all about. A fun filled day with a good mate. Thanks to all the people who took time to hide the caches.
Be careful getting down to this one. Also discovered a dead sheep behind the tree

Cheers

Still there

Decided to make a trip to Duntroon over the Dansey Pass. Lots of logs to find and sign and this one was one of them. TFTC

#16865. GPSr had me on the uphill side of the road, but on the downhill side was a big tree, so I headed down and made a quick find. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalker on a big day, starting in Duntroon at about 8:30am, and finishing in Clyde, via Danseys Pass, nine hours and 62 caches later . A fantastic trip with great views and interesting places.
GPSr was a bit out here, but obvious where the cache was hidden. TFTC.

Got it

Plus one beer bottle number 17 today gathering cache for planetary pursuit challenge. A good road to choose for this.

I'm from Norway, escaping the cold winter and travelling around New Zealand for 7 weeks, using geocaching as my tourguide. Today I drove from Glenavy to Dunedin over Danseys Pass. I really really enjoyed this powertrail, the scenery just got more and more spectacular the further I got!! It was a good place to have a powertrail, there were hardly no cars, and the caches were hidden in spots where it was easy to park the car. All the caches were quickly found with good hints, that's the way I like powertrails to be. I only had dnf on two caches, that's because I didn't allow myself to spend time searching if I didn't find it instantly. I would never have known about this pass if it wasn't for all the caches that showed up on the map, so thank you sooo much for placing and maintaining them. I really enjoyed this drive. I'm adding a couple of favourite-points on the caches I liked the most. Thank you for all the caches!

Started heading over the road where the arrow was pointing and then thought I should be sensible and follow my own sense to the obvious spot. Thats where I found the cache. Not sure why but there was water in the cache - tipped that out, signed the loig and then continued on my merry way. TFTC # 11,520

Geofest Oamaru is over but our (The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara & I) epic adventure continues - Day 4 Danseys Pass - another 'must do'. The weather is drizzly, so its raincoats and gummies for the day.
The drizzle has cleared away - Sunshine - Yes!! But for how long? Snagged and tagged - enjoying the warmth of the sunshine. Cheers

A enjoyable days drive through Danseys Pass and down State Highway 87 to Mosgiel. Lots to stop and look at along the way. Not to mention a few to stop and look for as well. Cheers and TFTC

The Geofest ended yesterday, but Taybeedragon and I are still going strong. It's raining - just light rain, and so rather than walk or cycle somewhere, we are driving Dansey's Pass, the slow way.
Hey look! Shadows! The rain has stopped and we have shadows! Didn't last long though. Coordinates are pretty crappy here, but the cache location is obvious.

With a small amount of drizzle we were able to still visit many caches and see areas we have not yet visited, thanks for the placement we have enjoyed each cache and where is has brought us.

The (major road trip was about to begin) that was for the Oamaru Geofest trip in the company of HKCB and iammrwalker for a bit of a road trip across to the west coast, through Haast and in a roundabout way to Oamaru.

My trip stats were as follows: 617 caches (214 Puzzles), 3300kms, 500 litres of Petrol, 21 hours sleep, 100+hours caching time. THe weather was wonderful and apart from about a 6hour period on the sunday we had fine weather all the way and feel that we made a bit of a hole in the region.

Firstly thanks to all the CO's that put in the effort to to set up these caches and to all the CO's whose caches we did not find this trip, well we are already planning our next trip.
We worked hard at getting specific caches (especially the Geo Art around christchurch and hence our concentration on this area for the preliminary 24 hours. So after a couple of running repairs to the rental vehicle (fuses not working) we were off knowing that all ports could be charged and that sleep was for the weak.

Sorry about the copy and paste logs but that is what tends to happen with a number run of this size. Last came through here a couple of years ago as we worked towards starting a 24 hour run to secure the NZ 1day/24hour record. Nice to finally get to finish this trail through here before heading back and up to Oamaru

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Signed as TIE. Tftc.

22 October 2017 14:44. Team TIE strike again. Tftc number 4936

A quick fine. Signed as TIE. TFTC

Came down this way from the North for the Oamaru Geofest, and decided to add a few more days to the weekend trip and turn it into a bit of a Mega mission, starting 5pm on Wednesday 18th and finishing 3pm Monday 23rd! Teaming up with Cats&Dragons for the first 24 hours then with Iammrwalker joining the team for the remainder.
Just a few of the stats for the trip were:
- 700 caches found, including 270+ puzzles (thanks to the Christchurch Geoart)
- 3300 km's driven, using over 500L of fuel $$$
- Just over 20 hours of sleep (about 4 per day on average), and about 100 hours of caching time.
Certainly a Mega Trip!

Day 4: With the lack of sleep starting to take a toll we finished Day 3 off early and got a few hours sleep before getting back to finding about 2am this morning. Todays mission was to find caches around Tekapo before heading South through the Mackenzine Country via Hakataramea Pass, and onto Dansey's pass before coming out on the coast and heading to Oamaru for the Geofest and caching around the area.

Sorry about the cut and past logs, but that seems to happen with cache runs of this size!

I found this Geocache on a Geocaching mega mission along with Cats&Dragons and HKCB. With only just over three and half thousand Geocache finds I was very much the over achiever in training. We were in the South Island to support the Oamaru Geofest event, hunt down some Jasmar and D/T harder to find Geocaches, lonely caches (those not found in more than 6 months), virtuals and try and meet some milestone numbers. We signed the logs HIC, an abbreviation of our respective Geocaching names, (H)KCB, (I)ammrwalker and (C)ats&dragons. A huge thanks to all the CO’s who placed and maintain the Geocaches we found.

I arrived in Christchurch late Thursday evening having left straight from work and was picked up by my intrepid companions in our four wheel drive rental to find they had already grabbed about 270 finds in the previous twenty four hours. I wonder if the rental company would have still let us have it had they known we would travel 3300km in it before returning it four days later? Our trip took us to Greymouth via Arthurs pass, Ngahere, down the west coast to Haast across to Hawea, Cromwell, Twizel, Aoraki Mt Cook, Tekapo, onto the east coast up to Oamaru and back up to Christchurch via Akaroa and countless diversions and small towns along the way. We slept in the car for the first two nights, grabbing some shut eye between cache finds, taking turns to drive. We rented a small place in Oamaru for the other two nights and appreciated a bed to sleep in and a hot shower. It was an amazing trip, in which I discovered the South Island has some of the most incredible scenery in the world.

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)… Our journey to the bottom of the South Island has been almost two years in the planning. We were determined to make it to Oamaru Geofest. We decided to also factor in completing a couple of missions (JASMER and Virtual challenges), and the wheels started turning...

Day Four: Naseby-Danseys Pass-Oamaru

Our plan for today was to be in Oamaru by evening. We wanted to be ready for the opening of Geofest tomorrow. We began stirring early this morning... A long haul to the top of the Danseys will also require a trip down the other side... Just when we thought we were over the worst of the road, the other side was more of the same... Another quick find here (Apologies for cut and paste logging). TFTC.

DAY 4
After a good cafe breakfast at Naesby our mission was to complete the other side of Danseys Pass. Some caches were wet and damp and a couple of DNF'S. SLTFTC

Have messaged the CO with answers, now logging to keep th order.

Heading to the Oamaru Geofest with a group of like minded people, and collecting a few caches along the way....

Travelling with NZTravellers, UncleSamNZ, and KeyLev we signed in as 'SEAC17' to save logbook space.

Thank you to all the CO's for placing caches along the route.

TFTC.

Getting up would be more difficult than the getting down but then when a cache is involved we do tend to suffer these things for a short time. Had the rope in the car should it be needed to haul one out or up or whatever the situation could end up being. Ruru_NZ is prone to accidents while caching but not this time.

Greetings from an Auckland Cacher. In the area for the “Almost Mega” event.

Started off at Dunedin Airport. Enjoyed our drive.

Sorry for the generic logs. Thanks for taking the time to place this cache.

All logs signed as “Team SEAC”

In the area driving to Geofest Oamaru....

Nice quick find.

Enjoyed the views on an awesome day through here....also liked the safe parking at each cache location!

Thanks for the cache.

Signed as SEAC 17 (South East Auckland Crew)

We arrived in Dunedin today and traveled to Oamaru for the 2017 Geofest through Ranfurly, Nasbey and Danseys Pass. We attempted many caches throughout the long hot day and as it was the Geofest we bumped into fellow geocachers as well as a few muggles along the way. We were travelling with Keylev, UncleSam, Stik-a-Crane so to save log paper signed as Team SEAC 17.

Thanks to all the COs for the caches along the route.

Day 3 of my Oamaru GeoFest week. Naseby to Oamaru today.
Expecting dust, dust and more dust.
Bit of a scramble, but found quickly. Wiped residual moisture out.
Thanks for the smilie.
1619 20 October 2017 16:36

I overshot this one on the way out from the campground so I stopped and got it on the way back.

tftc

Checked today and log changed.

The second weekend of planned caching trips for Chelzea and I. This one started caching near Temuka and then on down to Timaru, Oamaru over Danseys Pass and then back to ChCh from Palmerston the next day. Long and winding trip in places but managed a good number of caches with only a few DNF's. Too many to remember in detail so sorry for the cut and paste logs but thanks to all the owners it was a great two days of searching new places for a good variety of caches.

Found on our way to Danseys Pass.tftc

I'm currently hitchhiking my way around the world and geocaching everywhere I go. My first stop was in Ireland where I spent a couple weeks touring the country. I then flew to London and spent a couple weeks touring the United Kingdom. From there I made my way through the tunnel and up to Amsterdam and then back down to Belgium. After that I headed for France. Then from there I headed to Portugal for a mega event that was happening. After that I headed for Denmark to attend another Mega event. I then made my way North into Sweden and then even further North to Norway. After that I proceeded to work my way back down South through Finland and then ferry hopped my way through a few of the islands to arrive back in Sweden. Next I made my way to Germany for another Mega event and then back to the Netherlands for still another mega event before heading for Luxembourg. After that the next stop along my journey was Switzerland. I then made a quick detour up to Belgium to grab a July 2000 geocache I had overlooked before making my way to Croatia passing through Austria and Slovenia along the way. After that my route took me East to Serbia and then through Romania into Moldova. I then couldn't resist going North and crossing into the Ukraine. After that I began heading South passing through Romania once again. I then passed through Bulgaria as I raced for Turkey in order to catch a flight to Australia timing it so that I could attend a mega event happening there. After that I made an extensive 2 month tour through all 8 states of Australia before flying over to the North Island of New Zealand. I then gradually worked my way south to Wellington and took the ferry over to the South Island. I then continued hitchhiking my way around the South Island via Blenheim, Murchison, Spring Junction, Leithfield Beach, the bypass around Christchurch to Ashburton, Dunedin, Brighton, Bluff, Queenstown, Danseys Pass, and then Christchurch airport.

Staying at Danseys Pass Holiday Park as a guest of the owner and figured I'd walk along the road and grab a bunch of geocaches before hitchhiking back.

Thank you so much for placing this geocache!

TheLoneBaker

Found it

Time to knock off a few more over the pass while heading to omakau for the weekend.
Stopped at the previous pine by mistake no wonder I couldn't find it .
Was a quick find once in the right place and having found similar earlier it was easy tftc

Interesting trip through Dansey's Pass, good find.

Sunroller, my caching partner for the day, and I decided to go over the Dansey Pass collecting caches on the way.

Cheers for the cache and the series.

No luck for me here today.

Down in this part of the world for Queens Birthday weekend, finding a few caches

TFTC

Mrs Paws saw this before I did

Found with Chosen1978. Quick find then on to next in the series.

Thanks for the cache, had busy day geocaching through these parts.

Working at Danseys pass, getting caches on the side.

Adam Steele USA

We did already some of caches from Oamaru, today we came from Ranfurly to complete the series. We managed to find nearly all -just one without any luck and we spent quite some time there. But considering that some coordinates were out by about 20m we should have widened our search even more. Most caches well done, but the hints were sometimes more confusing and not helpful. We are glad that we completed the drive - but have to come back for one. But this is just an excuse for another great drive over the pass. Thanks for placing all the caches.

We certainly have it easy (driving in a car) than the early settlers.
TFTC

Day 3 of our 5 Day end of year geocaching trip. Today was our biggest day with 75finds and 4DNFs with most of them being park and grabs. This one took longer to find than most of them. We would call this a micro and not a small which changes the way you search. Sorry for the late log but Thanks for the cache [purple]Our cache find: #3237[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 9/75[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 76/235[/blue]

Nice to see a bit of tar-seal. TFTC.

big tree. TFTC

Glad I didn't have to climb to the top

Down we go

Easily spotted as it was on the ground. Re-hid where I assume it should be. TFTC.

Easy find, TFTC. Charismatic pine tree!

I have been across Dansey's Pass a couple of times before and have always enjoyed the majestic scenery. The last time was with the family and there was a general veto in place which stopped any serious caching. This time caching was the objective
I started the trail at about 6:30 pm and took a few pics along the way which have been uploaded to the Glimmer cache.
Many thanks

Found cache on the ground. Rehid. Tftc

We enjoyed the day caching in this area

But dnf

No luck today.

Enjoyed another find as part of our 24hr caching cruise through North Otago into the Maniototo and back. TFTC

Quickly located and signed log, TFTC

13264… Quick find at the Tree Top before our steep descent, TFTC.

Out and about with Karma Reprint on a weekend down south. Thanks

Found with Kiwi Moose on a big weekend of caching. Thanks for the hide.

#3429 @0925
Heading for Naseby via Dansey's Pass, for some mountain bike orienteering. Stayed the night on SH1 (just south of the Waitaki River) in the back of the van. Woke early and headed here to pick up some earth caches for an Auckland Challenge cache, before heading over the pass concentrating on the Westward Ho trail. Spotted it on the second time around the tree - not sure how I missed it the first time! TFTC.

Took a little search.TFTC

Found at 4:15 PM


TFTC erninz

pipedream

This was a sneaky one. Found after a bit of searching.
Found with DebsNZ and Aoraki Sheep.
TFTC

Found on the ground so rehid where we think it should be. Found with Aoraki Sheep and Woody104

Woody104 took the quick way down while the rest of us stayed on our feet and took an easier route down the bank. Found with debsnz and Woody104

Found it lying on ground and left it using its hook

TwoSharpe can claim this one. Dedicated to the cause. TFTC

Didn't hang around for too long searching for this cache... there were more to find further on.

Ohh something a bit different than the others. Didn't fool us though, onwards we continue.

Tyfc

took a wee bit of searching for this one.TFTC

Almost took out an eye searching for this one.

After finding a nice campsite and having a great dinner ( pasta with egg and ketchup ) done a few more little cache TFTC

that's a big one! TFTC

TFTC erninz.

Good one! TFTC

Quick grab...final caching day for 2012 going for a record finds in 12 hours for my personal best..having a blast! Havent been over the Danseys in 20 years!

Decided to take a diffrent route to Central and pick up some cache. TFTC

The first one we have had problems with. GPS not showing right place. Left right spot and then came back. Found on ground out in the open which didn't coincide with the clue. Got it eventually.

TFTC