HRT SH26 Crossing (Hauraki) Tirohia, North Island, New Zealand
By vectis on 11-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VA67

Replaced with new container and logMoved to a slightly better location

HRT SH26 Crossing (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.

Day #2 of our two day adventure doing the Rail Trail with BearCache #47Total found so far: 42Took a while to find, but finally after determining it wasn't there, had a look around the area and found what originally thought was rubbish blown down into the bush may have been the cacheLong arms reached in and pulled it out, and sure enough was the cacheContainer not in a good shape, but signed, and returned in a proper place

Cycling the trail.Quick find here.

Good clue

Yay last one for the day. Turnaround point and headed back to Te Aroha. Nice late morning/ afternoon relaxed bike ride. Note: log is full. Container is brittle.tftc.

Quick easy find- even though we were biking so fast we crossed the road and had to turn back- oops TFTC

Nice quick find on the road! Thanks

Couldnt find

Nice to have a break.on the rail trail. Log is full and plastic container has split.

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So pleased to have some sunshine! TFTC

It's day twenty of this months Wheel of Challenges challenge, the streak, and today I needed to find a cache. So I found this one.

Having spent the night in Pukawa, today I was making my way north to Hamilton, and then across to Whiritoa, and then down to Tauranga. I had a handful of specific caches marked to find along the way for various reasons.

This one was on my list as the coordinates help me with a challenge cache I am trying to complete. All good here, log was signed and everything returned as it should be.

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Thanks to vectis for placing and maintaining this cache. I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this creating them and placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

[DGSc-Bulk] tagging to help me generate a list for GC30AD8 - DGSc Challenge.

Easy find. Container and paper may need changing as wet inside

Quick walk back to grab this one! TFTC

Nice find, log is wet (unable to be signed), walked out as a group of 7 riders were coming

Out and about on a wet windy day with Tobesjm. Thought we would collect a few caches on our way to Thames.

Out with my gran collecting a couple of caches on our way to Thames. The cache is a bit wet

Day 14 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today we are in the area and surrounding area of Hamilton. We also visited this tradi, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to vectis for hiding and maintaining of this cache*** ️

Cool hide. TFTC

Great find. TFTC.

Was driving past this way today, so made a slight diversion to come and amend a previous fail to find. Nice quick find, TFTC

HRT. Hormone Replacement Therapy roadside rescue.

Nice quick find on our bike ride from Te Aroha to Paeroa.

Found on way to Paeroa, not on scooters, but we will be back.

Yes good

No skimping on the container for this one! TFTC

Stopped at the wrong road and gate, but found the right one in the end

A nice quick find here and nearly back to Paeroa 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 ... #2,874 for us.

Quick and easy! TFTC

On our way home from orienteering so grabbed this along the way. Tftc

A nice straight forward find on our way back from orienteering.

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

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Quick find #2

Nice quick find out on a geoadventure tftc

Quick find while biking to Paeroa.

Sweet n Sour find, thanks [8]

Bit wet. Kids dried and put back

Yay

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 once we found the right hint item and we were back on our bikes. TFTC

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. This was another quick find. Turned around at this point to head back to Te Aroha and to look for the caches we hadn’t already collected. #3567. TFTC.

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Beautiful day on the rail trail - tftc!

Nice quick park and grab on a day trip to Paeroa on a beautiful morning.

Quick little park and grab. Finally starting the wonders of the world. Beautiful day out here today. TFTC

Without a bycicle today but got the cache box too.
TFTC

Waterproof paper for a non waterproof cache. TFTC

Up from Hastings visiting family, thought I'd do a bit of caching in this area on this bleakish day. Good quick find. Cheers

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! A few cyclist around.

With rebel98 on our way to the Coromandel for a few days

Found some nearby parking and was soon retrieving the cache. Thanks for the hide vectis, many years ago cycled this trail, but was not caching then.

Quick find with rustynz. Busy stretch of road. Al good with hide

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Quick find. Thanks for the awesome story line and education

Quick find and interesting history. Tftc

Yep

Out and about with family. Always good to in the fresh air. T4tc

Found it! Contents a little wet after recent rains but in good condition. TFTC

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

We have been progressively walking the rail trail over the past few months and headed out today to continue the Paeroa to Te Aroha section.
The weather wasn't great but we weren't going to let that stop us, in fact it gave the trail a nice mysterious feel so we saw it as a positive.
This was our first cache of the day and was a nice 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.
Found replacement left by previous Finder but half meter away. As is so light was moved away. Replaced with stone inside to help keep it as per hint.
TFTC

I wondered why the trail just didn't go straight across the road instead of having these barriers! I saw some cyclists just lift their bikes up and over rather than cycle around.

The cache obviously gone, so replaced it with a small round thing with new paper as per the hint.

Replaced cache

Nothing to be found

Replaced by Gorbygorbachov. Thanks mate.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

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.  15 of 15 Well we looked and looked at all the posts and could not find it. Z MasterNZ found it in December so it should be here but no not that we could see. 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. The other DNF. We searched for quite sometime as Z Master had found it on 17/12/17. But we couldn't find anything. We were bang on with the coordinates, Looked up website and discovered there have been a DNF on 5/1/18. Not sure what Z Master did with the cache. Was last for the day. We rode back to Te Aroha a bit gutted.

Sadly no luck here either

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. 7 find(s) of 7 today, making this find #1668

No joy for me

No sign of cache at gateposts at GZ.

Log is wet. Sorry, didn't have a spare plastic bag to use. TFTC

Again Mr Gernita had this one before anyone arrived so he had to do it all.

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

Out in the open and log very wet. Replaced log and hid better. TFTC.

We were on our way to paeroa and pasted it a few times .

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

Quick find with the VPMH team.

Quick find with Team VPMH. Regards from the USA. TFTC!!

Good hide. Inked log Team VPMH

Found today with Team VPMH traveling to Rotorua. TFTC and regards from the USA.

Pinch me I'm in NZ! Hello from AZ, USA. Signed log Team VPMH. TFTC

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Cheers

The end of our geocaching adventures for today. Time for lunch at the cafe! Tftc

Quick find with clue. Thanks

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

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

Parked near here for a short bike ride and grab a few caches on the trail.
This cache was soon in hand, but managed to get prickled !!
Signed the log and replaced cache as found
TYFTC

Up north at the annual contract bridge tournament at Hamilton, took a day off bridge for a look around the Waikato and a few caches, TFTC. Much appreciated