HRT Nuts 'n bolts (Hauraki) Te Aroha, North Island, New Zealand
By vectis on 11-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VA63

Looked under a few candidates. Beautiful day out on our bikes. Thanks for looking after the caches.

Out on our bikes today. Found after a bit of searching around the hint item. Tftc

Container and log have been replaced

HRT Nuts 'n bolts (Hauraki) was transferred from vectis to user pomtom44

Thank you for the cache. Out on the trail with PomTom44. Hopefully someone is able to adopt the trail as will be a shame to see it archived. Great series of caches sadly we had a bike breakdown so didn't manage to complete the Paeroa - Te Aroha section of the HRT.This one took us a bit of time to find but we did it.

Day #2 of our two day adventure doing the Rail Trail with BearCache #50Total found so far: 44This one was a painLots of overgrowth made it almost impossible to searchEnded up lifting up pretty much every rock till I got the right one and found itLog was soaked, so attempted to sign but not sure it heldEither way, returned back where it was found for the next unfortunate person

Log full, squeezed our entry down the side

Another quick find- but very wet. Tried to sign as best we could

Last cache find of our HRT ride today. The weather has closed in and searching in rain is not so pleasant. TFTC

Found under the first spot tried. Beautiful trail. beautiful day

A nice quick find.here. TFTC

Quick find

Haha we had turns at choosing places & unfortunately my friend won!

Found it undre the third rock but was at the wrong angle to see it

Oh dear cache is full of water but log all good to sign! Emptied & dried but will probably be wet again later! TFTC

School holidays so biking from Paeroa to Te Aroha with x2 tweenie witches. TFTC all of them have kept them going. This one had them scratching their heads a bit.

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Quite a few rocks here.

found after a quick search [8]

From Auckland.
TFTC. Found with VinnigeVoete

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Found with BoertjieRSA.
Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for your amazing cache.

Been in Auckland visiting family. Now heading home. Stayed in Paeroa last night at the railway reserve. $5 for a camper van so well worth it. It’s right at the start of the cycle way. Got up early this morning and headed out on the bike towards Te Aroha. Made it about halfway. Found 12 caches and 2 DNF. Quick find. Cache a bit damp but could still sign it. Thanks for the smiley.

We were cycling the Hauraki Rail Trail from Te Aroha to Paeroa and back (46km). Quick find here with the hint and we were back on our bikes. TFTC

Biked past GZ, did a back track, located hint, cache found, log was quickly signed and cache placed back as found. Cheers

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. Took a brief moment to find this one. Still haven’t quite worked out the relevance of the title! #3569. 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.

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

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

Thanks again

Found it. Enjoying this series of caches but running out of time. Will have to come back another day to finish them

Great series.TFTC

Murphy's Law was working well today as the cache was found in the last possible place we could have checked.
But fortunately there weren't too many places to check so it was still a reasonably quick find. TFTC.

We were despairing over the weather today, however we decided to give it a go and see how far we got along trail. We were trying out our new suspension posts on our seats and we managed quite a way before turning back. We will do the rest of the trail from Te Aroha end another day. It turned out to be a lovely afternoon and there n back we covered 23.5 km which is not too shabby. Quick find here. 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.
As per hint on GZ.
TFTC

Great trail alright, plenty of room for a heap more caches, not that I'm volunteering!

Log later

Very wet container couldnt sign. Last one of the trail for us. Now back to the car. Tftc.

Nice quick find as Mr P and I caught some of the drizzle predicted. T4tc

Last one to grab trackside (so to speak) today. Managed to squeeze in a Baldor keyring. TFTC.
Cheers,
G.

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.  12 of 15 Found by NZPatoto. Had to have a bit of a look. A few branches have be chopped so cleared the road a bit more and finally found cache. 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. It was Nahkins turn to find but she was having trouble so I helped. I found but the log is wet. Put in a replacement inside a small plastic bag. Please seal properly. TFTC.

Got my rain coat on and the weather is behind me pushing me along. GPS beeps as I'm close and quick find, TFTC

Out in the area, starting off with some of the HRT caches, haven't been on the bike for awhile and decided to put my new bikerack to good use. Don't let the copy/paste log detract from the effort you've put in to set up this trail.

The log was wet in this one, and didn't have anything with me to replace sorry

TFTC vectis, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 2 find(s) of 7 today, making this find #1663

Quick find, TFTC.

Mmm this was a bit tricky....quite a few rocks....
But didn't take long before I picked up the right one !
Lucky !

Quick find and on our way again.

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

Something just looks wrong. Yup. There it is. TFTC.

Nice quick find here ....took time to watch some motor powered parachutes flying around the lower Kaimai range ....looked like they were really enjoying them selves ....made me want to get up there with them lol thanks Vectis another great placement

Yeah, there might be rocks on my bike seat too, by the feel of it! Getting there. Thanks for the placement Vectis

Oops rode on past it. The log was falling to pieces so we replaced. Time to turn around and head back to the Geomobile and a cup of coffee.

Thanks vectis for another smilie on the trail.

TFTC, found with Polargirl while exploring the Te Aroha end of the Hauraki Rail Trail. This cache was our turnaround point for the day.

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. We turned around here, but hope to be back another day to finish the trail. TFTC

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

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Cheers

Another find by my mum . Tftc!

Cycling and caching between Paeroa and Te Aroha. A beautiful sunny day to be out enjoying the countryside.
I startled the resident pheasant, but quickly located the cache. TFTC!

After a short search the cache was found, log signed and replaced
TYFTC

1.30pm. Three to pick up on this walk which will be over 4kms. A helicopter was back and forth overhead transporting something in a hopper. Easy find.
Thank You. David.

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

Earlier in the year, tikitour and I decided we would team up and cycle the whole Hauraki Rail Trail over the long Easter weekend and look for all the caches along the way. On Good Friday we did the Thames to Paeroa leg and today (Saturday) we are doing the Te Aroha to Paeroa leg, joined by 3 muggle friends of tikitour's. Whilst a shorter leg than yesterday it was a much hotter day, but still a nice ride. This cache was soon found along the way. TFTC!

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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.
Another quick find here but the logsheet was a mess. No chance of signing it so I tore a page from my notebook and placed it in the outer container, needs to be replaced with waterproof paper.
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.

This could have been tricky with a few hint options to consider but thankfully another nice 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.

Lucky K69 was onto it and went straight to the correct hint item!

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 for a days ride with Pottypete to clean up the area.*

Tftv

nice wee hide on a nice sunny day

Nice hide but it is wet thanks

Another quick find as we head for lunch in Te Aroha.

TFTC

Team Bernina joint effort. Introducing a couple of novices to the game

Having done the Paeroa Waihi leg some months ago, this was my opportunuty to take the next step
with the one to Te Aroha. Had the chance to try out an electric bike this time, but still took some effort.
Good weather and not many folks on the trail. Only the Thames to do now. Tftc.

Nice to see a bit of the old railway here. SL TFTC

Updating my new geo account with my old finds. Geokid has grown out of the geo adventures, but I'm still keen! Found as thebrownehornet but not logged, with keylev and team Q15 and finally logging 02 04 2024 as NurseDr.

Out with a the group of biking cachers doing the HRT series from Paeroa to Te Aroha today. most enjoyable ride and awesome to pick up all the well set out caches along the way. log signed as Q15 for the group. sorry for my late logs.

Found as part of the geocacher expedition consisting of Auckland and Tauranga cachers riding the HRT from Paeroa to Te Aroha. The log was signed Q15 as a group log.

The cache rocked.

After a successful fun day riding the Paeroa to Waihi leg of this trail we were back to tackle this part. The weather could not have been better, the company lots of fun and the scenery well it was farmland what can I say...

Thanks so much for placing this cache series and giving us an excuse to get out on our bikes. Signed as Q15 (short for Queen 2015 as its Queens Birthday weekend).

Out with a large group of cachers biking the HRT from Paeroa to Te Aroha. TFTC.

Out with a bunch of cachers today, doing the Paeroa to Te Aroha. Was a great day. All logs signed with our team name “Q15” in honour of her majesty the queen, as we did this on her birthday weekend.

Was a great easy ride. Thanks for placing these caches

Another part of the HRT trail today. A group of us had done the Paeroa to Waihi a few weeks previous and decided today to tackle to Paeroa to Te Aroha leg.

The weather was brilliant and was a great turnout with people from Auckland and Tauranga attending.

As this was the Queens Birthday weekend we signed the log as Q15 in honour of the occasion.

TFTC and placing the trail.

Found this while out on a bike ride with a group of other cachers from Tauranga and Auckland. The log was signed by our group as Q15 as we did this on Queens Birthday 2015. A good long bike ride for us, but great fun, and great company on the ride, very tired at the end. TFTC.

Wow what a day #74 caches in the end, Stating at 6.30am when TNXPro picked me up in Tauranga. We where heading to the event Paeroa to do the HRT Rail trail down to Te-Aroha. We decided to leave early and clear the Matamata caches on everything on the way. Had an awesome trip then after the ride did the Golden Cross Series, the caches around the Martha Mine and to finish of the day a night right down Waihi Beach to Bowentown clearing the new series down there, even a couple of FTF's in the mix. Thank you to all the cache owners as I might be using copy and paste a bit with logging 74 caches. Really enjoyed the day and what a mission time for some well needed rest.

We signed the logs for the trail as a group name of Q15 as it was Queens Birthday weekend.

A group planned an assault today on the Paeroa to Te Aroha rail trail after having cycled the other trail to Waihi a month ago.
This was the twelth for the day and the weather was superb.

Signed log as Q15 ( for Queen 15 due to it being Queens Birthday weekend 2015)

Thanks for placing this series of caches promoting cachers to get out and see new places.

TFTC.

#27 of 74 caches found today.
#10 of this leg of the trail.
Found and signed with a group of enthusiasts under the name Q15 for the Queens birthday weekend.
Thanks for bringing us here on a beautiful day.

Met with a group of cachers in Paeroa and we cycled down to Te Aroha (signed as Q15), I had a fabulous time and really enjoyed the cycle. Was a little concered about fitness but we kept a steady pace and only started to feel a bit sore 2/3 of the way through.

Thanks for setting the trails up they are great, and have been on my to do list for a while, glad to have completed this one.

Quick and easy find TFTC

We were out with a group of cachers today, tackling the Paeroa-Te Aroha leg of the HRT series. Never having done a bike ride this long before, we were pretty happy with our effort for the day! Thanks heaps for setting up the trails, it is so nice to get out and do caches by bicycle for a change. These have been on our to-do list for such a long time now, so with a few legs done now, we can't wait to get back and finish them off! Logs have been signed at Q-15 since there was such a large group of us, so this was to save time and log sheets.

This one was quickly spotted. Thanks for the hide!

Found must keep moving

Mike and i

This is the second day for me on the Hauraki Rail Trail. This time it is from Paeroa to Te Aroha. I decided to head South this morning before the afternoon sou'wester kicked in for my return trip to Paeroa. It was definitely the right decision.

Close enough.

Cheers for the cache.

Two of the team did the trail from Te Aroha to Paeroa this morning. Great day for a cycle ride and they only had to do one way as the mum of the team picked them up from Paeroa. Many thanks for placing these caches and apologies for the generic logs. TFTC

Wasn't entirely sure what to make of this one as I approached GZ, but after getting off the bike and having a look, everything fell into place pretty quickly.

Another nice quick find and away to the next. TFTC

Lots of rocks to look under? I had to steel my anxious hunt to find right one!

Riding the trail with friends and grabbing the caches in the way TFTC!!!

656 On my way to Paeroa for street racing tomorrow. Last year I did the Waihi trail so this year it is Te Aroha.