HRT Beware Trolls (Hauraki) Waihi, North Island, New Zealand
By vectis on 10-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4V90P

New container placed.

I should be able to get out to this one in a week or so, once I'm home again.

Hi vectisThis geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no cache maintenance logged. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.RegardsTheCoddiwompler

Not today

DNF today. Not found since Dec 2022

Had a scout around but no luck for us. Based on previous logs, we think it may have been washed away?

Away for the weekend to ride a section of the Hauraki Rail Trail from Waihi. This afforded me the opportunity to snag some caches en route. I had a good look here but subscribe to the theory that this cache succumbed to Gabrielle. Might be worth a look vectisLogged using Cachly

Has not been found since flooding of Cyclone Gabrielle. Lots of flood damage nearby may have been washed away?

Neat hidey hole - clue is in the name. Tftc

Bit of hard work for my sore back and old bones but got it.

At long last I have a working e-bike and can get out on the trail again, despite my knees being pretty awful. New log in cache.

And decided to ride on to this one and do the rest on our return ride. No trolls here today TFTC

Found whilst out on a ride with mum keylev, B4Dawn and NurseDr.

Had fun, thanks for the cache.

Apologies but completed these caches a few weeks ago and forgot to log them. Completed with Keylev.TFTC

Last rode this trail in April 2015 but with the geo-kids being quite small at the time we had to stop halfway so never got the caches at this end. This was a chance for me to tidy them up and NurseDr and B4Dawn to get them all.

Another nice quick find here and we were on our way again.

Thanks for the cache.

Nice trolls TFTC. Very pretty day out with keylev and b4dawn

We were staying at the camping area at the Waihi Railway Station with the aim of riding a portion of the Hauraki Rail Trail. This was a quick find. Cache is dry and in good order. TFTC.

A nice quick find here, and luckily it was quiet upon my return to the track. TFTC

Great to pick up a few more caches on the trail. Quickly spotted. Tftc

Its quite hard to look anything other than odd when searching in these areas. Fortunately, no one passed while i was here. Also, it was a quick find.
Thanks for setting this up for me to find

On a bike ride from Waihi to Karangahake with friends, fabulous bike ride today in early autumn, a straight-forward find, thank you.

**15,172**
In the area trying to tidy up a few caches that had eluded us previously or that we had been meaning to collect for awhile. This one took longer to find a parking spot than to locate the cache! Great to turn that frown upside down. TFTC

The Kiwiscot clan hired some bikes from Waihi and hit the rail trail. Enjoyed our cycle through the gorge and tunnel. On our return journey now. Short of time with the bikes needing to be returned before hire shop closing so glad of another reasonably quick find here. TFTC

here for a good time not a long time. tftc [8]

A great day out, and a lovely river to flow alongside.

A nice quick find, in a dark corner, thanks.

Ms_KR and I are off on a wee tour of the North Island. The weather was mostly dry today, a bonus. We cruised from Waihi Beach to Paeroa, me on the bike down the HRT trail. A really nice bike ride.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Great one for the vertically challenge. Lol. Didn't have to bend to sign. Hahaha. Tftc

Found this one today.

Littlest of the crew spotted this one

Found it

Mr P and I had the best time, biking, finding caches and just enjoying the area. Highly recommended. T4tc

Heading from Paeroa to Waihi and back again on the HRT today, we collected a few caches along the way. We found this part of the trail to be very popular, and it is not hard to see why as this is a very scenic part of the HR trail.
No trolls in sight and a quick find here, and then we were back on our bikes.

Nice and simple, I like it!!

In good tftc

Kids lived finding this cache! First one ever!!!

We found it on our ride to Waikino. Didn’t have a pen so couldn’t sign it. TFTC

Thankfully I have the kids to retrieve these ones

found while out for a very pleasant walk on the trail. So thankful to be living in New Zealand. The rest of the world is struggling.

Still some trolls during there lunch time seen. TFTC

Restrictions have been lifted so all good to go.

The Hauraki Rail Trail is closed while the Covid 19 rahui is in place. Anyone geocaching during this time is putting themselves and others at risk by handling the containers, stash and logs. So this cache is disabled until this present emergency ends. I reserve the right to disable any logs dated after the lockdown started.

Loaded the electric scooter and bike into the
chariot and off to Waihi before lockdown, to
tidy some odd caches up with ABCDF4.Thanks
to the Cos for the placements in awsome areas.

Headed over to Waihi before the COVID-19 Lock down
For the day with EyespyBen
Nice easy find

Dodd fam. No trolls today.
Thanks. Good hide

Lol yep

Like several others, I made a quick check to see if the cache was obvious, but it wasn't. I turned my GPSr into a flashlight and returned for a closer look. I found the cache well hidden in a dark corner. TFTC.

Missed it on our first pass but spotted the container on our second more thorough look. TFTC.

I wonder if the trolls knocked this one out as I found it in the wide open and only after standing on it!

Found during my third visit on HRT. This time most beautiful section. Section C: Paeroa to Waihi. This time 46km on my bike. Enjoyed so much!

Lovely autumn colors here near GZ! All good here. TFTC

Todays mission was to ride from Waihi to Waikino. We went a bit further on towards Karangahake in the end. 23.8 km return. We made many finds and a few DNF's. We replaced 1 cache with CO permission but didn't have anything else with us for the other DNF's we came across. We met up with a buddy cacher "Tramyard" at the waterfall and met again on our return journeys. Great to meet another cacher on the journey. We found the first part of the track a little challenging with the the up and down portions of the track, but after that the track became very pleasant to ride. A lovely sunny day with lots of fellow riders and walkers on the trail today. This one took ages to locate. In fact most of the bridge ones today took ages or were DNF's. SL. TFTC.

Quick find on a beautiful day.

Successfully found the troll house.

nice quick easy find the clue really worked well
Thanks.

found it TFTC

Nice quick find

Easy find while our tramping group, tramped from Waihi to Waikino Station
and get the train back to our cars at Waihi. Had a great day weather was very warm and cloudy.
Had a quick walk around mining area

Not sure if I’m just not looking right but could not find

Find #2862. Biked the HRT from Waihi to Paeroa return while on a winter holiday. Nearly back to the start. Quick find. SL TFTC

Nice and easy. Good clue. TFTC

Yay and another

One of eight caches located on our bike ride this afternoon between Waikino and Waihi. Great day for it. We were with my sister and her husband. She did the hard yards on this one and included me on the log, so I’m happy to claim this as a find. #1862. TFTC.

Ah you beauty - found it this time! Had a DNF here previously but found later that the cache had gone AWOL. Biking along here today with family and I finally claimed this smiley. TFTC

Nice ride this morning, Waihi to Paeroa and return caching along the way. TFTC!

Had gone missing last time I was here but all good this time. Didnt spot any trolls but lots of cyclists. TFTC

Staying in Waihi so why not a bit of night time caching ? Why night time some might ask, well its a more comfortable 21 degrees, there's no muggles, and I don't need to cover up with heaps of sunscreen. Its just after midnight now so dot day sorted, quick find with the torch, TFTC

Kiwis69 and myself are doing the HRT the long, yet less painful way. We have done one section previous and it was decided that it was time to tackle another chunk of the trail. We picked to cycle from Waihi - Paeroa as there was a slight time restraint, plus it was the shorter option and I was worried since it had been awhile since I had some serious seat time. All up it took us 4.5hr (which included a lot of hunting at some caches and a few breaks)

Once we had the cars sorted, and then the bikes sorted it was time to hit the trail. The weather forecast was average today and we hoped that would keep the muggles away. Well there were still quite a few muggles out and about but not as bad as it could be so we managed to time our hunting inbetween people passing by.

A quick find here in the likely spot

Thanks for the hides and giving us some welcome breather stops!

It's nearly 4 years to the day since our usual caching cronies cycled the HRT trail but without 11hpg11 & myself being part of that group. Today, its finally our turn! Thanks heaps for keeping the HRT series going. Decided to be kind to ourselves post-Xmas & New Year festivities and just focus on cycling the Waihi - Paeroa section today. Good co-ords & hint made for a nice quick find here, TFTC

Found this with my sister and nephew out from down under

I'm travelling around NZ for 7 weeks, using geocaching as my guide-book. I'm glad geocaching took me to Waihi, I wasn't planning to stay here, but driving through the Karangahake Gorge last night made me want to explore more. Today I rented a bike and biked the beautiful trail from Waihi to the gorge and back. Thank you for placing all these caches along the way, otherwise I wouldn't have tought of this. I rented a bike for half a day (5 hours), so I didn't have time to find all the caches, but I got to see a lot, and I did the windows-walk. It was a beautiful day!

About this cache:
A quick and easy find. Nice new log and container. Tftc, greetings from Norway

This one didn't survive the winter floods so a new cache and log in place.

Had a good look around but DNF

Looked everywhere for the troll but came up empty handed

A quick.check and update would be good.

Had a quick look but with previous dnfs gave up pretty quickly.

Might need to be checked.

Had a good poke around. No joy.

Despite other logs, decided to have a good look anyway. Definitely appears to have gone.

This one was not to be unfortunately

No sign

I think the flood waters got this one

This is the only one that we didn't find on our way to "Victoria Battery". The trolls were scared of us and decided to hide further in their hiding place.

Greetings from Belgium

Hunted in all the obvious places but no luck on this one

More of the HRT series of caches. Today was from Waihi to Waikino. Thanks for placing the series vectis.

Easy
Thanks
Took tb

Found on our way to Waihi, dropped off a TB. TFTC

Luckily the trolls are friendly in these parts, and were happy to share the sacred scroll with this mere mortal! Thanks for the hide, a little tricky to get back to the track, able to return safely to the bike

Out with Rustynz, Out playing on the bike with friends and Family having a fun time in the sun TFTC

Nice easy find but no TB.. TFTC.

I'm wondering if my cycling companion is getting bored at this point, as I find caches? He insists he isn't.. but still... I'm thinking only one or two more today...

Biking from Paeroa to Waihi and caching along the way. Quick and easy find here. Banged my head on a support beam as I was escaping from the trolls. Good thing I was still wearing my bike helmet. Thanks for the cache!

Started looking in every possible hiding hole, wasn't necessary. Quick easy find, cache in very good condition!
Thanks a lot

No trolls today. Tftc

Beware cross supports that got me because I didn't compensate for a bike helmet on my head. Thanks for the placement

Thanks Vectis for a great cache..cache in good condition

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... It feels like ages since the last time we were out on the hunt. The weather has been predictably wet of late..

HRT Trail: This find was not what we were expecting. But it was found high and dry, and in good condition. As the trail was busy, we considered the possibility of having to emerge from below while people were passing by. Fortunately, we timed our exit well and awkwardness was avoided. TFTC.

12.25pm - No trolls here today, they must have gone for lunch. Another one ticked off. SLTFTC

21:55
Another one found during a long 40 km walk around the Karangahake Gorge. On my way to Waihi.
TFTC

Nice place for.trolls tftc

Grabbed this one as we cycled past! TFTC

Thank you to Vistra for putting a replacement cache container and log here for me.