Motorway Madness (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By MUNTR on 19-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4X696

StreetWalker wanted to have another go at "Squelch" further down the bike path, and as we walked past this cache. decided to have a look for it as it was still in my GPSr. StreetWalker had already found it so it was a quick find (I was wondering if the CO had already uplifted it). Nice hide!
Sorry the CO has lost interest in geocaching as this cache would have taken a bit of effort to create. TFTC.

Lost interest in caching.

First decent day's caching since we arrived in Canterbury. After a false start this was a quick find once we dodged the biking muggles. TFTC!!!

found it easy. thanks for the box.

DNF

#12754. I needed a few finds today to get up to 10+ finds for July 22. I'd sussed out the nice hide earlier in the week, so it was a quick find. TFTC.

This one is awesome. very well done **found it**

Second crack at this one, last time was a year ago, but finally found, great hide, thanks

Clever little hide TFTC

Cool hide, and first find for us

A nice day out for a ride, and finally getting around to a few Christchurch caches. An oldie but a goodie. Thanks.

Nice little Cache and well hidden. Cheers

Great hide!! First of its kind I have come across but then again I'm only a newbie

This bike ride was full of innovative caches, thanks to those who placed and maintained them!

Clever hide, soon to hand. TFTC

Merry Christmas

No luck finding this

Long time dream came true and we could visit New Zealand. NZ Mega was our maingoal and we had time to find others too. We travelled together with Veke68, Katsukka and tanjuli (+husband) and had great time. We used TVVK Fin (that is tanjuli, vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka) in mostly logbooks to save space.

Thanks for the cache.

Greetings from Finland.

Day #5 geocaching in NZ in good company (=tanjuli + husband, vipema, Veke68 & Katsukka = TVVK-FIN in the logbooks, most of the time), back in Christchurch & surroundings. Had a great time despite the rain and found a lot of caches + saw so many interesting/beautiful places.

Thank you!!!!

Mega trip to NZ with vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka, day 5. We found tons of caches and had a blast. We logged as TVVKFIN to save log books. Thanks for the fun and greetings from Finland.

Caching holiday in New Zealand with Tanjuli, Vipema and Katsukka continues and now again in Christchurch.
Rainy day but still we found lot of nice caches.
We logged only TVVK-FIN to save space in the logbook.

Thanks!!

Visiting Christchurch for the MEGA, and was staying another couple of days with friends, near Halswell
Borrowed one of their bikes and headed of for the Motorway cycle path and other caches on way back.
Weather wasn't the best, but didn't get past a heavy drizzle, which cleared up around mid day.
Thank yiou everone for you cache hideing. Have enjoyed my visit, managed some of the touristy things, inbetween caching TFTC

Had an idea of were cache could be but nothing would move. Noticed something that confirmed I was in the right place but needed a TOTT that I didn't have, to help retreive the cache. In the end had to use GPSr to get a bit of force.

Nice.

Dusted of the bike for a nice ride around ChCh great way to explore before he Mega gets to busy. thanks for the cache nice hide

Out caching today with OrionJ with no particular plan. We had been waiting for one of these all day. Yay finally!.Thank you MUNTR for placing and maintaining this cache.

[green] A late start today - I had to pick up my car (all four cylinders working now, yay!) and catch up with a fellow cacher at Uni, so my second find was not till about 10:30. Despite that I still met my objective - 40 caches in one day, and all by bike! The highlight was the Back to the Future event and having a go on a hoverboard! (sort of).
Took me a while to find this. Funny thing is, it is a cache hide I had been expecting right from the beginning and have been testing this hide at a number of the other stops along the cycleway. Gets a fav from me, the only one I have awarded over the whole cycleway.

Out with THE GREEN GECKOS, caching our way from an event in the city this morning through some of the suburbs and finishing at the evening event.

Having just walked some of the cycleway here and looking for a particular type of hide but not finding it, we made this last stop before returning to the car. It turns out the hide I had been looking for all along was found here, not a bad job. Glad that we passed the guy mowing back near the walk under, or it could have been a problem here.

TFTC

A good wee hide. TFTC

Great hide found on my second look

Clever hide thanks for the extra effort

A brilliant hiding spot

Saving the best till last. Have see this hide before so it was a quick find though still enjoy it. Another favorite. TFTC

No luck 4 me

Log signed this time as another finder had assisted in the process that I couldn't expedite before

I hate losing, so I spent an hour here not giving up.

And I won. With rh

Talk about motorway madness - whilst hunting for this hide, I had the opportunity to observe the motorway habits of CHCH drivers. The habit of staying in the overtaking lane at a slow speed is something that I think needs legal attention - in about 5 mins, I saw this occur 3 times with the resulting frustration from following drivers audibly obvious! At a time when "speed" is the focus, I think the cause of the motorway madness is the slow buggers - anyway, off the soapbox. To the hide - this is logged with permission, as I supplied evidence to the CO of the find but the inability to sign the log was another frustration! Certainly a great hide and +1 even though I have come across this type before. Good fun - went off to find the dog droppings next - a cachers life is full of variety eh?

Found it with my sister! After lunch trip on a bike for a few caches. TFTC!

while visiting family over easter decided it was time to do some of the caches along side the motorway. Great cache
TFTC

Nice one. Spotted the means of attachment.

Would have been even more fun if it hadn't been so bitterly cold!! Was pretty sure where it was- but had a mission getting at it. Found an improvised tool and success! tftc

Found on the day winter seemed to arrive. Thanks

Very clever. cheers

Every day we are traveling around is same but also different. Today we had again the pleasure to visit some very beautiful spots and were also able to find nearly placed geocaches. I thank every single owner for placing it and giving us with doing this an other good reason to come here.

Mallorcatommy, con/limon and I were travelling through the southern island of New Zealand. What an amazing, breath-taking landscape! On our way we did some nice walks, enjoyed ourselves and found great geocaches. Thanks to all owners for nice hiding spots... We wouldn't have been to a few places without these little boxes!

Thank you!

Good hiding spot, was about to give up!

We have been slacking a bit this month so headed out for a bit of a walk and to start tackling the many caches placed along the motorway. Really enjoyed this cache. Good hide!

#4936

I was on my way to do the Motorway series of caches today but ended up finding 36 caches on my 25 km walk. This was the first find of the series. This type of hide is very common in Sweden so it was an obvious place to look. Not so obvious perhaps to locals.

TFTC

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Tftc, this was a lovely walk, thought we'd get a few done and despite the broiling temperatures, various hilarious injuries from general clumsiness, we had a great time before calling the chauffeur to bring us home to play in the garden sprinklers and plan our next foray.

This entry was edited by Mack n Frill on Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:41:18 UTC.

Wicked! Love these type of caches. Tyfc

Amazing hide, took me about 30 seconds to figure out. Gets a favourite point from me. TFTC

Nice quick find while on a trip down this cycle way. TFTC.

Great hide, very clever! TFTC

TFT with Emily, olie, Ava and George. Trying to get 16 today to catch up with Danks007 13 to go.

Brilliant. I was hoping one cache along the cycleway would be one of these. After cycling the route from the Lincoln Rd end... now for the long bike ride home. TFTC

A nice cache in a good location

TFTC

Quick easy find this time! Can't believe I didn't think to look here last time, must have been the baby brain. Very clever! Took the TB.

Really like this one, so left a trackable for the next one
TFTC

Clever hide. T

TFTC

Don't lean on the wrong thing.. TFTC

Very clever.tftc

We had a nice afternoon cycling around.

What a great idea.

The last of our walk down the motorway collecting the series of caches. TFTC

22nd find along the cycleway between Curletts Road and Halswell Junction Road. Great walk with Moneydork TFTC

3rd time lucky

Found after a couple of minutes trying to get a good GPS location

Great way to start the trail

Great spot tftc

Went out last night in the rain and hail and froze my fingers off looking for this we one. In the light and dry of the day, the find was easily made. Thanks for the hide.

Quick find.

#3942 @2310
A late evenings caching leading up to tonight's event. As it was a very warm, pleasant evening and still with some time to spare, I decided to go for a wander and attempt this one again. This time the GPS took me straight to a likely spot and I found the cache in the first place I looked. How I missed it last time I don't know! TFTC.

Loved this clever cache! Thanks for making me chuckle!

Thanks for giving us a reason to be out on this grey winters day.

Good to get off the motorway for a walk. TFTC

Great day caching in Canterbury, this was one of 70 or more caches found, Cool start to the day,with the odd shower but fine for most of the day my first big caching road trip in a long time. - Many thanks to all the cache placers

Thanks Bitsprayer.

Having completed a series of puzzles today that involved a lot of locasl road driving we stepped it up a gear and took on the motorway!
Thanks
erninz

Epic very cool. tftc

TFTC nice hide, second time past it first time to many people around second time found.

TFTC. Found with Lollipopcat and Spydude13

TFTC. Found with us04 and Spydude13

TFTC. Found with us04 and Lollipopcat.

Quick and easy find on a stroll in the evening. TFTC

We parked up nearby and decided to spend the afternoon knocking off as many of the cycle trail ones that we could before catching the plane back home. This was our first and thankfully one we have seen (and considered doing the same type of hide ). A great hide. TFTC.

Out for an afternoon's ride to find some caches. This was the first stop and I came away empty handed.
On my return, I had another look and still couldn't find it.

Our only DNF for the day. Looked and looked everywhere and couldn't find it. Oh well. Will be back.

A nice one to start the afternoon's bike ride, easily found. Cheers

Cache container replaced after someone obviously stole it.

2nd time looking and we found it but unfortunately it's missing something

Aparently the cache has gone missing. The hide is still there tho and if you choose to look for this cache you will know still know if you have found it or not. I'll replace cache in next few days.

This one eluded us today as we started of on our bikes to do this cycleway. stopped on the way back but still no joy.

Very clever hide, but i found it actually very fast. This was the second cache on my tour. TFTC!

Now I didn't find this one. suspect it was because I hadn't gotten into the swing of things. will have another look later.

Good hide, took a bit but eventually found. Tftc

We knew what we were looking for. Just had to find the right one. Something gave it away.

6077. Decided to finish off the motorway cycle caches this morning after starting at the Awatea/ Wigram Road entrance. Easy find after a short search, GPS was all over the place but we geocachers know where to look! Thanks, Rodney.

Damn. Between the trees and power poles my phone kept playing up. Will try again soon

I'd taken my dog for an afternoon amble as we picked up the run, scooter series and as this was only 700m further on, we carried on and picked this one up too. Initially we were distracted by some motorway accessories, and it looked like someone had been having a bit of "madness" fun. Came back and actually used the GPS device this time instead of guessing and there it was, a nicely constructed hide. No, officer, really it wasn't us...... blue and red flashing lights.... hmm.... definitely motorway madness going on today!

Surprisingly this did not take me long to find - or did I just get lucky - a clever hide TFTC

Quick easy find on my way past. Cleverly hidden.