HRT Yet another tree (Hauraki) Tirohia, North Island, New Zealand
By vectis on 11-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VA65

Myself and Kimbathelion replaced cache with COs permission. Really enjoyed this trail.

Replaced with COs permission. Hopefully stays a bit longer this time.

Sad to say we still couldnt find this one- looked on all the obvious places but may have rolled out into paddock. So no letters and numbers for us on this one.

Replaced cache with new one in what I assume was original location

HRT Yet another tree (Hauraki) was transferred from vectis to user pomtom44

Day #2 of our two day adventure doing the Rail Trail with BearCache #48Total found so far: 42As others have said, a few places where it looks like it should have been, but no luck

no luck either muggled or fallen out where cant be seen

Searched all around but no luck for us. Could it have fallen out of reach?

Nothing to be found today despite a thorough search of tree

No luck today

Searched every notch in the tree but could not find

Sneaky little hide. Container and lig are very wet. Tried to dry as best we could. TFTC

TFTC. Good spot

Another find! Good fun. TFTC

Nice and quick

Found with the help of the hint! . TFTC

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 at Te Aroha for a few days … as the weather was supposed to be fine, we decided we’d ride part of the Hauraki Rail Trail (HRT) today, doing the Te Aroha to Paeroa Section & return … thought it would be rude not to check out some caches on the way … this one turned out to be an easy find … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,873 for us.

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

easy find once at the correct tree

We stayed in Te Aroha with the goal of finding the remaining caches on the HRT that did not have a smilie face. Quick find. TFTC.

A bit of a sticky situation getting to this one [8]

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 all fine. 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

Took a couple of minutes to find cache. As cache hasn't been found for a couple of months, it became the home of a couple of spiders, so I gently brushed them away, signed log and placed back were 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. Another reasonably quick find on the return leg. #3568. 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!

Found it ta!

It’s the end of the line.....for me! Now to return to the motorhome and find the ones I forgot to because I was enjoying the ride!!!

We had to be careful retrieving this one as it was a bit slippery underfoot due to recent rain.
A perfect hiding spot, thanks Vectis.

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.
Did not get the hint but got the hide!
TFTC

When I parked up here, 2 women passed me by on e-bikes. One of them looked very rugged! Made for this trail and serious off roading! My little thing doesn't even have big wheels! But it gets me here though. Cache an easy find as are the rest. i just waited for the women to pass by before going for the cache.

Log later

Cool. And another one signed. t4tc

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.  14 of 15 Found by NZPatoto. Log all good. 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. 2nd to last for this journey. My turn. Knowing what a crotch is was a great help. Log all okay. TFTC

Its starting to rain again, but quick find here, cheers

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.

TFTC vectis, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 6 find(s) of 7 today, making this find #1667

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. When it came to finding this one the hint was perfect and it was a nice quick find. So log book signed... cache back in its home. So thank you vectis for setting up this cache series along this cycleway. I really appreciate your efforts as you helped me to explore this area today in a way that I probably never would have otherwise. TFTC!

Quick find, TFTC.

Nice and easy thanks...no bridge here !
Thanks again....

Right where it said it should be. Signed and returned

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

That was interesting. About to log a DNF then noticed that it had been found quite recently so went back for another look. TFTC.

Well, yes another excuse for a stretch!! Are we there yet? lol.

A nice we stretch and all was revealed...great placement thanks Vectis

Who put it there???? Stretch! Strain! Poor old geriatric Mr S. Thank goodness he did not injure himself.

Thanks vectis.

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.

This one was very interesting there was a lot of water around here especially where it was hidden, I ended up reaching as far as I could and then climbing into this object ,thinking that this one had floated away for sure but no there was a hunk of wood holding it down only just so I lifted the block and retrieved the cache to find the log very dry inside so I signed the log and replaced it a bit higher out of the flood zone.

See photo attached

Doing these on our bikes from Paeroa after a lot of rain last night the day turned out fine so after breakfast we were off on our bikes many thanks for placing these caches for others to enjoy as we did

TFTC
Cheers

Nicely quick find today. Cheers

Quick find. Tftc

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

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)...

We've been wanting to complete the HRT for a while now. We've picked up parts of this trail over several visits, and now we're left with the more 'out of the way' hides. We have no choice but to bike these sections. It's going to be a long ride between caches...

We spotted the tree from metres away and also grabbed a bit of shade while waiting for a couple to pass. A quick find. TFTC.

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

On my way tp Pearoa to ride the Hauraki Rail Trail, and find some HRT caches. TFTC.

Saw the likely looking tree on approach and I wasn't wrong. Grabbed the cache, signed the log,
replaced the cache and I was on my way to the next
TYFTC

1.55pm. It is a nice day for a walk. Sunny with a cooling breeze. Another quick 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.
A quick find here with a lot of locals watching. Not that they can read or write, I think the cache will be safe from them, as long as they stay in the paddocks.
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.

Great hint so a 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.

A quick find here thanks

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!

*having a days ride along the trails with Pottypete*

thanks for the nice wee hide

First one for the day thanks

Nice hide location. Luckily a large group of cyclists went through just before we got to gz. This is our turn around point for today. Little legs have got to ride all the way back to Paeroa. Thank you for the trail. We will continue in the next few weeks to clear the rest. TFTC.

On the way to Te Aroha, a couple were stopped here having a break, so we left this one for the way back.

TFTC

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.

Really enjoyable time spent in this area. 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.

Easy find, on we go.

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. These seem to be getting farther apart. 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 tenth 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

#25 of 74 caches found today.
#9 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.

Another straightforward find. Thanks for the hide!

Found nice and quick thanks

With mike

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.

You are so right.

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

Yet another tree but I still vaguely remember it a week after visiting. Leaves, branches and a crotch - all as it should be I believe. Nice quick find here - TFTC

Had a DNF here last June when the cache went walk-about, so it was nice to finally get back and claim the smiley for this one. TFTC

Backtracking to find caches where my GPS failed to alert me and I shot past!

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

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

T4T$

Out on the trail with the geo kids to find new caches on the way to Te Aroha a great day was had by all except the geo dogs who got to stay at home