HRT Cabbage trees (Matamata-Piako) Te Aroha, North Island, New Zealand
By vectis on 11-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VA5H

A nice quick find whilst out cycling today. Tftc

Out with rattll on the Hauraki Rail Trail on a warm Saturday morning, me for the first time, she filling in gaps. A good day for an easy ride, stopping to find caches every so often. Thanks for keeping the series going!Pretty sure that I knew where this one would be, and there it was. All good. Signed, and returned as found. Tftc!

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Nice

Nice and easy to spot the hint item as we cycle along. Found the full log.

Log very full and wet. We managed to squeeze our name in around the side

Number 3 on our trail. TFTC

Easy find

2nd HRT #15

On the Trail.

Corbyn

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Found. Easy hide. Sun is out and a plane just flew over beautiful.

Log book is full no more space to write on

Thanks

Great little hide. TFTC

Log book is fyll

Quick find. Beautiful spot

Easy find after a nice stroll. Log book is full and wet but we squeezed our name in. The pink spray paint ring might indicate this tree isn't long for this world. TFTC!

Yay found it!!

Finally. I found one before my friend. Love cabbage trees ️

Quick and easy

Phew found quickly! Have had some bad tries looking in cabbage trees!! TFTC

Cool hiding spot, kids are having a great time.

Super cool

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are now parked up in Te Aroha … was an overcast, rainy on & off sort of day, but we decided that we needed to get out & go for a walk … decided that we would over to where the Rail Trail started & walk a little bit of that … thought we’d better grab a couple of caches while out … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,760 for us.

Quick walk to get some fresh air during my lunch break and wanting to get the souvenir for Blue Switch Day 2022. Drove to end of Stirling street for a nice bit of fresh air. Lid was off but I located and put back on. Managed to squeeze my log on but I agree with others who have found, it is full and needs replacing. Didn’t have anything on me (since I decided to go on a walk while I was at work).

Thanks for the find! I hope to get all the caches along the rail trail one day.

School holidays so biking from Paeroa to Te Aroha with x2 tweenie witches. TFTC all of them have kept them going.

Another quick find log in good condition but getting full tftc

A slow trip up to Auckland for the Mega next weekend. Stayed with friends in Te Aroha for the night. Got up early for some biking before it gets too hot. Had already done the northern end of this series so pleased to finish it off. Just one DNF that’s left for next time. The other hides were reasonably straight forward. Cache/log all fine. Thank for placing these caches and getting me out doing some exercise.

Quick find, needs a new log, unfortunately didn't have any paper on us [8]

Nice quick find on a cool ride. Log is full

Thanks for your amazing cache. Log full

We were cycling the Hauraki Rail Trail from Te Aroha to Paeroa and back (46km). MrJAG overshot this one, and continued to cycle along the trail. By the time he realised and turned back to gz, the cache had been found, signed and returned back as found. TFTC

Making my way to Paeroa on my bike finding caches along the way. Found without any difficulty. Cheers

Tftc. Way too hot

The last one of 11 located on a ride along part of the Hauraki Rail Trail today with the intention of enjoying the ride and picking up a few caches. We were almost back at Te Aroha at this point and fortunately found this one with no difficulty. #3571. TFTC.

Nice and easy

Nice quick find on the trail, weather has turned out quite well.

FOUND IT on 14 July 2020
nice easy find. Casey and Jade signed log. The ladybirds have made hiding place there home. Kids loved seeing them.
THTC

* their home in previous comment.

Cute

Good day out abit hard at first. Nice find.

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.

Mrs rattll was back on the trail this morning with the intention of riding through to Te Aroha.
Lots more people on the trail during the day time, which meant having to check carefully for oncoming muggles in both directions before starting the search.
No problems making the find here.
Thanks for putting it here to entice me along this trail

Found this Cache on our way from Matamata to Thames. TFTC

I'm caching and running the 22km to Paeroa while our son plays cricket. Thanks for the series!

Thanks.

Out with my daughter. First time on the trail. Tftc

Nice hide and a perfect spot for a cache. Tucked away nicely. TFTC.

No hint and no hint required. TFTC

Started from the Te Aroha end of the HRT to ride back to where we finished on Friday. We were watching the rain clouds gather in so tried to be as quick as we could to beat the rain. A nice spot to stop on the trail. Quick find. SL. TFTC.

Found during my second visit to Hauraki Rail Trail. This time did Section D: Paeroa to Te Aroha - 55km both ways with some extra caching in Paeroa and Te Aroha. Great hides and enjoyed my bike trip so much. Light wind on the way back but much easier than previous time.
All good at GZ.
TFTC

Nice quick find here in a very obvious spot.

Log later

out for a short ride to grab a few caches. hot morning. lots of families using the track. tftc

Found on the trip to paeroa nice way to let the kids legs have a we rest

Quick find thanks

Another quick and happy find. T4tc

It's a lovely day for bike ride so I thought I'd finish off the last few caches on the HRT. All good here but I'm a bit worried about all the wasps. TFTC.

Left no stone unturned

With the title I knew this was going to be pretty obvious where it was hidden. Lol. Arrive at gz for a quick find. Couple big black beetles attach to the camo. Glad it wasn't spiders. Lol. Tftc

Nice hide easy to spot the GZ location on approach, TFTC

NZPatoto organised the day trip in her motorhome, filled it with food and loaded bikes on the back. We set off to find 15 caches - 13 smiles and 2 DNF.  4 of 15 Found by NZPatoto. Easy find. The cows next door came to watch what we were doing TFTC

Nice day. I loaded the bikes onto the motorhome and packed food into the fridge. When Nahkins arrived, we headed off to do HRT from Te Aroha to SH26. Had a stop at Waihou(cache) then parked at back of Councils parking. Set off to find 15 of the Trail caches. Found 13 DNF 2. My turn to look. Was an easy one. Only had an audience of Bovines watching us. They were lovely. TFTC

On Tuesday 28th November I tried to intentionally find 50 caches in a day but failed achieving only 38 finds as I ran out of both charge in my device and daylight. That was two days ago and I hate losing! So yesterday I decided to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch to hatch a plan that would ultimately bring success. And so my strategy for today is to start by collecting the caches along the Pit Rim Walkway in Waihi, and then focus on the cycle ways between Te Aroha and Paeroa, Paeroa and the Karangahake Gorge, and then back on the cycleway north of Paeroa on the way to Thames simply riding until completion. Also, I took a few photos during the day and I will share some of them with this log. So the first leg of the my cycle plan was to leave Te Aroha and cycle to Paeroa. And so that is how I came to be looking for this particular cache. Now in this case I actually overshot GZ and had to turn around and come back to it. However, once I was there it was a nice straightforward find... log book signed and cache nicely back in its place. So thank you vectis for setting up this cache series. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so as you helped me to explore this area today in a way that I probably never would have otherwise. TFTC!

Out to complete the last section of this great trail..this is my last for the day thanks a lot Vectis for all the effort you have put into setting this myriad of caches really appreciate it

Last of this series and all good here. Thanks for the series vectis.

Quick find with hint. TFTC.

A lovely easy find here thanks vectis ...
Thanks for all these amazing trails you have laid in the area .
Must be a nightmare to maintain ....
We all really enjoy them thanks.

Another cabbage tree one. But which one? Soon found the right one.

On a HRT cycling adventure with Beconaze. Signed log as Gernaze. Cold now! TFTC

TFTC, found with Polargirl while exploring the Te Aroha end of the Hauraki Rail Trail. A quick search of the title object revealed the cache

This was our first time on the Hauraki Rail Trail. We'd never heard of it as we've only recently moved to the area. This was a good excuse to explore. A quick find. TFTC

Number 2

After planning a trip to the bay of plenty for easter to gather a cache or two, it changed dramatically (we thought) when we heard that cyclone cook was about to bear down on this area our hopes had dropped .
But no almost the complete opposite, so after getting bike and body sorted it was to the start we went and ride the HRT trail, we started in thames and the plan was to ride to te aroha if the body allowed.

Nice quick find here exactly where and how it should be.

Thanks for the smiley and the placement.

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

Tftc

TFTC
Cheers

Quick find tftc . Some beetles were keeping the cache company.

Today the Squirrel and I decided we would try and clear the remainder of the HRT Trail, so we walked and biked section to complete this, starting at the Te Aroha and heading to Paeroa. Once this leg was done we went to the Thames end and back to Paeroa. Caches were found fairly quickly with the hints given. We replaced 2 very wet log sheets with new ones and one where cache container was missing. Improvised and found a large piece of timber and used as log sheet, hopefully owner will replace. SLTFTC

Cycling and caching between Paeroa and Te Aroha. A beautiful sunny day to be out enjoying the countryside.
TFTC!

Saw cabbage trees from a distance and was an easy find when I got there.
Retrieved the cache, signed the log and replaced as found. On to thenext......
TYFTC

Yay!!!! My 900th find!

Cool find for a Saturday afternoon already planning to return with bikes

Went for an afternoon bike ride from Te Aroha to Paeroa and back, lots of caches found and a few DNFs. This one was a quick and easy find. Signed log, TFTC

Tftc. Last time I came through here, this was Mia. Nice quick find today.

We formulated a plan and decided today would be a very nice day to tackle some of the Rail Trail that has been on our to do list for too long. We headed to Te Aroha and the start of the trail, with the intention of getting what we could without over-doing it. We had plenty of water and a packed lunch. We also came armed with new log paper and little baggies because our research had indicated some of the logs were very wet.

This was #2 on our list and Mr S had it in hand before Mrs S even got there. lol.

Thanks vectis. One more smilie for us.

Day 2 of our cycle ride. Teamed up with vistra and 3 muggle friends to do this stage on a hot morning. the track was fairly clear with not too many other muggles which allowed for easy caching finds. With only 1 DNF on the track it was a great day. Thanks for placing all the caches, all found in good condition and hidden well.

I got today off work and decided to head to Te Aroha to cycle the rail trail to Paeroa and back on a caching mission.
The 6am start was unusual for me, hit the road before 7am.
I was enjoying the ride and snap chatting a friend, number 9 for the morning so far. It was a beautiful day and I hadn't seen anyone on the trail yet, that's why I choose to do them on a weekday.
A quick find here.
Thanks for the cache.

Joined forces with 11hpg11 to tackle the Paeroa-Te Aroha leg of the HRT series today. These caches have been on our to-do list for such a long time now, having both missed out on previous group missions to the trail. Neither of us are confident cyclists, so a section at a time plus sorting transport to enable one-way cycling seemed the best plan to us, which meant we cycled about 22km today; not in a rush and took about 3 hours all up, including all the various caching stops and breaks. Thanks heaps for setting up the trails: great excuse for some exercise on a sunny late summer Sunday & to explore somewhere new to me.

With 2 of us looking, it was another quick find here - thanks for the hide!

Finally back here again, this time to conquer the HRT once and for all. Last time I had no babysitter so helped out with transport. Which meant I was looking at doing these solo. It was a little while ago that Kiwi69 mentioned she also needed to do these and that set the ball rolling. After both sorting out our leave passes and making sure each of our cars could fit 2 bikes we set a date to conquer the first leg. As we are not cyclists we decided to divide it up into 3 'manageable' chunks to avoid being complete write offs when we get home and the next day! Today we did the Paeroa to Te Aroha section. Paeroa was quiet when we arrived but soon got a lot busier with the Street Races on, lucky we got a park nice and early! Signed logs as either our names or K11 to save room.

Soon spotted this one. So close to the car now thankfully!

Thanks for all the work in setting up these trails, great to have the caches to stop at along the way.

On a geocaching holiday around the area.
Nice quick find here. SL
Enjoying the good caches on the way.
Thanks for the fun!

***out caching for the day with Pottypete***

Tftc

tftc nice wee ride

Yes we will be in Te Aroha for something to eat and out of the hot sun

Easy find at GZ cows enjoying the catchers wandering by