Kaimanawa Corridor (Central Plateau) Waiouru Military Area, North Island, New Zealand
By funkymunkyzone on 05-Jan-13. Waypoint GC439HB

This hide is no good anymore...

**taybee nz** is caching again with **taybee** and **Infoferret** at the New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016 (mega 2016 )
had a great weekend at the mega thanks for all the caches and events also see **taybee logs**
All in good order, sign log book as ***IFTBNZ*** or ***IFTB-NZ*** TFTC Log by Gsak

No luck for us finding this one today, I think the muggles must have gotten to it.

Hunted for a while but no luck.

No luck may have gone judging by all the DNFs

Didnt see it today

What a lot of rubbish. Sad face

Nope nothing to be found here.

No luck finding this one either.

Add me to the list - a bit elementary now really now that I see its been archived and reborn

All said by others.

No luck today.

Felt a little strange entering an area that said quite clearly dont enter.

Looked around the area for the cache but couldnt see it, saw that the last people left it on the ground but I didnt spot it.

Just done a jaunt up to the Tukino skifield and on our way home from a weekend in Wellington. Had to cross the road while Richard waited for this one - and had to walk through bit of snow - cache lying under bush ok but no leaf litter around - but should be ok TFTC

Picking up a few caches on our way back to Taupo after visiting the Waioru Museum for the day. TFTC.

Another convenient break in the rain at the perfect time as we approached GZ. Had the live map going on our journey to Wellington and this popped up at the side so had to do it. Very quick find thanks to the hint. Log a bit damp but otherwise ok. TFTC

Quick grab on the boundary to home...

Heading back to Palmy from Hamilton & the traffic is diabolical. I'm one to stay in the flow of the traffic but I couldn't give up the chance for a quick find, esp since Mr Muggle Partner wasn't accompanying us back home. He would be muttering under his breath & wouldn't have stopped the car to give me a few minutes euphoria from a find. The mountain was beautiful & clear today so it was a double win. The cache was nicely nestled in its hide but exposed probably from the elements blowing the leaves away. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

TFTC cruisey day out caching with the kids

Very easy visible. Left it covered by some leaves.

Quick find! Thanx god because it is freezing out there in the middle of the night!!
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Left a little flag behind

Greetings from Spain

Driving home to HB we are enjoying stopping and finding all the caches. Quick stop and find. This is our first time along here. TFTC

A quick find on visit to the Tongariro National Park for the long weekend.

Found together with 49tiger and Nils.

Found Geocacher from Luxembourg with sanpa254

Nice quick find Tftc

Quick stop off on the way to the army museum. Lots of low cloud around here and slightly damp but cache in good condition. Thanks

Nice views of the mountains from here. Thanks.

Nice quick find tftc

Didn't happen to see any signs and tried looking on the other side of the road for any interesting objects that might make totally Politically Incorrect cache containers for urban environments like Queen St or the Airport but was gutted to find only goat pellets and more bloody tussocks. Looked on the correct side of the road and found a cache. Found together with Commander KiwiLeon piloting the personnel carrier, rear-gunner 11HPG11 taking out muggles by staring at them, Ilka "Red-Baron" alpenmilch flying up behind in the camo green suzuki, Evil Squadron No9 Leader, and a draft-dodger trying to cross the border into Canada. T4TC

Quick drive-by on our way to the Whangaehu hut to farewell one of our fellow geocachers who decided there are more FTF's in Canada.
Signed as team FOT which could be translated in various ways (Farewell Old Tinkerbell - Fuck Off Tinkerbell, we'd probably had a few different versions later that night......).
TFTC

A quick drive by cache on the way to Tukino - and Whangaehu Hut. Weather looking fantastic, great views of the mountains all the way in. Signed with Alpenmilch80, Evilno9, Greenblat, Kiwileon and Slieschke, signed with our team name of F.O.T to save room on the logs.

A few muggles around today but luckily they didn't cause us any problems. A quick stop here to have a look around the area before heading off up the mountain.

Found on the F.O.T- Road Trip together with slieschke, evilno9, Greenblat, KiwiLeon and 11hpg11. No more to add as Greenblat explained the scenario very well. TFTC

Last find on the road with Team FOT (slieschke, alpenmilch80, Greenblat, KiwiLeon and 11hpg11) before heading into the desert and up Ruapehu for the weekend. Plenty of eyes available to make for a quick find and then time to go 4WD mode. TFTC

YAY my 200th geocache stoked az. Tftc and a beautiful view

Didn't have a great look as we were being muggled.

Will try again.

Quick stop on way from wgtn to coromandel. Tftc

Couldn't have parked much nearer to this one a quick find. TFTC

Found. Signed TFTC

One of the many caches we found on our campervan journey from Lower Hutt to Tauranga. A mighty and enjoyable journey through many great and iconic parts of the north island. Many thanks to the many CO's for the great cache placements and for bringing us to new places. Sorry for the generic log.

Found in between showers thanks

Timed it for a break in the rain, but it was pretty breezy here. Not much view today, too wet. TFTC

On a trip to Taupo for a week long of solo camping and lots of geocaching!
A quick find after navigating down the bumpy track - twice! I had to do a clever bit of reversing to let another car out.
This is my first time up this way and I am blown away by the views.
TFTC

Neat cache would've been better with a oen

#7282. After exploring the Tongariro National Park on a glorious day, we ventured into the Waiouru Military Area, albeit briefly. What a wonderful landscape, with great views of all three mountains of the Park. A couple of vehicles were in the parking area, but the occupants had gone walkabout. So it was all quiet. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Covered the cache with leaf litter when we rehid it.

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A quick stop on our way to Wellington from Hamilton. We went straight to it, more worried about getting stuck in the mud than anything else. The mountains are gloriously exposed today. Unfortunately the cache was too and I've only just read the cover suggestion - I know I didn't need to be told, but wasn't thinking. Anyway, we are planning to return on our way home and cover it better.

Nice find thank you the warning signs scared me a bit though!!

Day SEVEN of Clan Murrays 2015 Geo Road Trip - Palmerston North to Tauranga

Nice cache - GPS bang on - nice views of the mountain too

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Heading to Rotovagas for work, making sure I get my 10 minute rest break from driving, just happened to be a cache where I stopped. Quick find and off again as I think I may have another rest break almost due. TFTC.

On our way to the CHCH Mega. Although we have boat in tow until Picton, so only able to stop for a few caches with excellent parking today. This was our 4th stop today. Enjoyed that finally we crossed the desert road in better weather to make leaving the car reasonably pleasant except for wind today. SL. TFTC.

Another quick find on out road trip home plus the mountains looked stunning.

Easy find today, all in good condition, TFTC

Found with Wafflekitties, cache all in good condition, TFTC

Not loaded into GPSr..... stubbornness meant i did not manually add it in, found with phone after searching wrong tree thingy.
Jesserfly searched second one and came back with cache, did not want to go further into here, as could see people in distance.
Cheers
~G

Unbelievable clear day today. Couldn't get this one last trip due to muggles but a quick park and grab this time. TFTC

Not a horse in sight. Tftc

Found with deonrocks and twistiedog after spending the night at kaimanawa forest. Left SWAG. TFTC

Wanting to grab a few more of the Desert Road caches so we stopped off the highway here. Outside temp was about 14 degrees with not a breath of wind - a perfect day in the desert. Left the car at the road and walked in, nice and dry underfoot and cache was quickly located. TNLNSL. Thanks for the placement and having us stop here on a cracker day in paradise funkymunkyzone.

After almost getting my campervan stuck in the sand driving in here I spotted the cache laying on the ground from the drivers seat. I have tried to shelter it away from the wind before skidding my way back out to the highway TFTC

All this snow and a white container as well, but fortunately it was a quick find.

Tricky with all the snow

I was really keen to get this cache as I have a cache at kaimanawa Park in Palmerton North. And it is called Kaimanawa horses... The ground was a little wet but not too boggy. So it was a fairly quick find thanks to the clear hint. Thank you for this cache and another smiley face.

On our way to Whanganui to pick up an old coal range, 1000km round trip, first cache of the trip, stunning day for it
PS Please go easy on the flora lots of damage by previous cachers

Good camo covered in snow - 2deg many thanks

TFTC, ….. burr cold today, cache covered in snow so very camouflaged ..

Quick park & grab. Struggled to get logs out. Original sodden but others in good condition.

Cache was fully uncovered so easy to spot once I got close. My arms were quite long enough to fully cover with leaf litter but I gave it a good go.

Quick little grab while I was on the road from Wellington to Auckland. Great views if a little cold, I feel sorry for the poor squadies who have to run around in the mornings out here! Many thanks for the cache. #81

Quick little grab while I was on the road from Wellington to Auckland. Great views if a little cold, I feel sorry for the poor squadies who have to run around in the mornings out here! Many thanks for the cache. #81

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Thanks

Found by ScubaShandy

Found the cache by human kaka.haha. bit of entertainment for the day.lol.

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Visiting from Australia and spending 3 days in Ohakune caching and exploring the area. We decided to go for a drive and grab some caches since it is raining and we can't be out and about on foot. This one was one of the caches along this road we felt safe stopping for and were able to park and grab without getting too wet were glad we came up this way the scenery is breath taking even on a foggy day. Tftc.

Heading off for a six day sortie though the lower North Island with the primary reason being to pick up the CANZ caches we need to complete the North Island half of the challenge.

Well, we're doing well. Halfway across the Desert Road by 1.30pm and we still have to get to Upper Hutt.
Today, not next week. MMM. Mr S found this one as well. He's doing all the finding today as well as all the driving.

Thanks funkymunkyzone. One more smilie on the road south.

A quick stop on our way south to catch the ferry to the Mainland tonight. TFTC FMZ

TFTC. No pen will stop in with one another day. Added a new paper for logs

Quick one together with Pandabaer13 and taupomoth.

TFTC!

Found on my down from Taupo. The bush has grown a bit since the cache was placed and bit difficult to reach, but I got there in the end. TFTC

I found this one on a trip from Turangi to Waiouru.
Thank you for that cache.
Regards from Bavaria
CR

Found

Quick find on way south for a caching trip

We were passing so grabbed it TFTC

Fun find! Added another 10cents to it

#1478 Driving Turangi to Wellington today and made an early start. Picked a handful of caches to pick up on the way through- this made today's list! When we pulled up, there was another car parked there but it wasn't a geocacher. Didn't cross paths with them though and it was a simple find and retrieval. TFTC!

Quick find TFTC

Easy to see - hard to get! TFTC

#382. A quick park and grab on the Desert Road before we start our real treasure hunt today for a 1000+ day lonely cache hiding near Taihape. TFTC

TFTC Funky one !

Another quick find... some days it works like that and sometimes it doesn't- great that today was a quick day. T4tc

Didn't take long to spot this one as it had rolled free of the hide location. Not sure exactly where to replace it but did ensure it was covered in leaf litter to make it less visible. TFTC.

After yesterday's day on the Tangaroa Alpine Crossing Track, we continued our tour through New Zealand today together with Silli1310, anne82 and sushisun. To avoid sitting in the car we took a little break for the cache and represented our feet a little bit during the little walk to the can. Thanks a lot for the cache.

Short stop on our way to Wanganui. Thanks!

Found in my annual, crazy new-years-eve-trip, this time backpacking in NZ with Smellfooth, Silli1310, Anne82 and Tina. This one was discovered on the nice way along the desert road to Wanganui. TFTC and Greetings from Germany, Dresden, Sushisun