Skindo #2 (Manawatu) Foxton, North Island, New Zealand
By Popmac on 02-Nov-14. Waypoint GC5FVJ6

Had a bit of daylight left after the Feilding Craft Market today so me and the small K9 set off to grab a few of these Mint TrailsJudging by the previous logs, this one went missing. Thanks to the CO who has obviously replaced it, as it was an easy skindo find with a new log. But it still helped me on my Lonely Cache Side Quest, as this one has been 288 days since last found. Mihi ki a koe, Popmac, mo te keteroki #424

Oh no. A DNF!

No luck today

26/12 in the area doing caches today. Had to look for a little bit until we located this one. TFTC

Just a little bit of time this afternoon after work so seeing how many in this series I can do! Many thanks for the mahi behind setting up and maintaining the trail ??

#2425. A nice warm and sometimes sunny Horowhenua afternoon, so when JustlookingOO offered her services as chauffeur and guide to help to boost my numbers for the Wheel of Challenges, I jumped at the chance. The mint tin trail and some of these others seemed perfect, as I had decided to keep going for the hard Challenge. Just 26 more finds required.

So, accompanied by JLOO and my muggle wwoofer Kristina from Hanover, Germany (who quickly got the hang of geocaching) we set off down the road.

Most of my logs were signed with (+ Kristina) to give her credit for helping the search. She may yet join the fraternity!

Tftc Popmac. Kristina found the giraffe themed bag.

It’s school holidays, so we are on a mission today to grab the chewy mint trail caches plus others. 30 - 50 caches was our target (we got 33). Junior was pretty cooked by the end.
23/33
Thanks!

Chasing volume of caches found in a day with TrinityNZ and matagouri - this series perfect for that. Team name "JMT" used in log.
A quick and easy find by TrinityNZ TFTC

Today TrinityNZ, Just_looking00, and I gathered in Foxton early in the morning to launch an assault on the Chewy Mint trail, the KAS trail, and assorted others that we happened across. Our aim for the day was 30 (absolute minimum), preferably 50. Our total for the day was 53, so more than satisfactory. We signed all logs as JMT. Most of the caches were easily found, some were a little rusty, some had wet logs. Where we could, we replaced any dodgy logs.
A repeat of Skindo #1, although TrinityNZ raced and beat me to this one Very quick find. All good, tftc!

Out and about on this fine Easter Sunday with JustLookingOO and matagouri north of Foxton to work towards some challenges, including 100 finds in April. Hoping for 50 finds today. JL and I travelled up from Waikanae, picked matagouri up in Foxton, grabbed some supplies, and headed off.

Raced matagouri to GZ to find this one. Luckily it was on my side of the car, so I had the advantage. Hidden in skindo as the name suggests.

Thanks for the cache, Popmac. Log signed as JMT.

Good find. Tftc

Work finished early and the weather was perfect so we decided to go out towards popmacs powertrail to get some of the caches we ran out of time for last time.
Name was very useful and was a quick find
I wrote in the log and concealed the cache carefully back as found, TFTCSL. Thanks Popmac for this Traditional cache Thanks for helping us get one step closer of our goal of 500 finds!

Found on 2 February 2023 at 5:53 PM

#470th find

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Another easy find and GAR not back with the car yet so keeping on walking! Thanks for placing Popmac!

An easy find when you know where Skindo usually hides the caches! TFTC.

On a weekend 'getaway', jo9ty and I wanted to pick up some caches to add to our number of finds. We saw this series and decided to give it a go. They were all quick finds and in mostly good confidtions. Raod is sealed now though. Tftc.

Today started out innocently enough, I was to make my way from Wanganui back home to Wellington. Because it's a long weekend I was in less of a rush than usual as we had another day off tomorrow (Labour Day) so I decided to find a few geocaches along the way, and then a few more, and a few more, and before the day was out I had logged 60 of them (that's a pretty good day for me). This was one of the geocaches that I found:

All good here, cache was found as described without any trouble.

Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining this geocache.

I enjoy every cache I find, and it is only with CO's placing them that this wonderful game continues.

Tftc

Tyftc.. needed mantinance. New pill bottle replaced the old log is also in new bottle and scrap paper for new log.
Fun night out with kelly0 and her daughter amba. Plenty of laughs. And i brought my gumboots

Another evening out caching with Zenla. Tonights mission was Wall Road, and a few others that caught our eye. Mostly successful finds, though several damp logs and/or damaged containers. Once again completely soaked shoes, should bring gum boots instead lol. Logs were signed as K&Z.

Found this hide easily enough however the container was completely broken. Luckily Zenla had a spare pill bottle in the car. Left the old logs although they are falling apart. Tftc

Container is broken found log on the ground has started new log but no new container so it's an old black container

Quick find, no dust

Thanks for your amazing cache.

Heading down to Foxton Beach for a couple of days and had spare time to cache. Just finished what I could of the KAS power trail and now the Mint trail. I parked up my camper van at the cemetery and got out the bike. Personally love combining caching and cycling and it sure gets rid of the parking problem on these small roads. Aim was to do the whole circuit which I did achieve. Great variety of hides and caches. Must have taken a while to put it all together. Happy to see most of the tins are protected by other containers. I recently did a series of mint tins and they were so rusty that I struggled to open them. I didn’t realise there were so many flavours of mints. All but one of the caches were signable and several had new blank logs from recent CO maintenance. Thanks Popmac for the smileys. Nice to have so many in a row.
No gravel road and probably not part of the mint series but they do come right in the middle of the others so included them.

Nice to turn the blue sad face to a yellow smiley, tried to do this series back in 2016 but parts of the side of the road was like a stream, found very quickly, tftc Skindo

Nice quick find next to a paddock of inquisitive very pregnant cows.
SL
TFTC

Found it

We did this area about a month in order to achieve the 72 cache finds in 24hrs. An achievement coin thats still out there in Geoshop land if you hunt hard enough! We were staying in Palmie for a couple of nights, so it seemed only logical to try and give it ago- we started late, and with 4 kiddos 12yrs and under, we thought- this is not going to be possible! But, despite a few DNF's at the beginning -and the negative vibe that gave us, we were determined to do it. 11.20am start, and we completed 65 of them by 5.30 at night- with a small lunch break on the side of the road and a few arguments in the car with restless kiddies- but a good haul! The last 7 were easily achieved the next morning on a morning walk along the Palmerston north River. 72 caches in 24hrs- whoop whoop.

I had been in Foxton in the morning and took the opportunity to grab a bunch of caches before heading back home to Wellington. As I was by myself I didn't want to "cache & drive" down these roads so I ended up covering about 12km on foot and grabbing a total of 23 caches on a beautiful sunny early spring afternoon.
*TFTC Popmac #878*

Quick find tftc

**12,024**
Who doesn't love a Skindo hide, quickly found - loved it. TFTC

Drove up to the Foxton area today with the aim of finding 20+ caches. This was one of 25 I notched up. 17 caches to be picked up along this road and around a couple of bends. Got them all bar one, the first Skindo cache, which I suspect has gone. A very quick find in the usual “Skindo spot”. #2729. TFTC.

Found on my trip North. Enjoying the caches in the area

More dust but what the hell, must carry on. Thanks CO for the cache.

Waitangi Day 2019 family caching adventure! TFTC.

Love these skin do ones
We had been thinking of doing this trail for some time but as we travel in a campervan we didn't know what the parking would be like and quite often time restraints meant we would put it off until now. we had the time and once we turned off SH 1 we realised the road was quite wide and the verges were flat. It was a very interesting trail and all cords were spot on many thanks popmac

Another quick find TFTC

Today was part two of my road trip home to Nelson from Auckland, after picking up my son's "new" car from Napier, taking me from Taihape to Wellington... with time to find a few caches along the way, of course. And then I found myself in the middle of a mint tin meltdown! And in the middle of that mint tin madness a mini tribute trail to Skindo! It's been a while since I've visited Skindoland but these caches brought a few memories back. TFTC, Biggles.

On our way back from the Mega with TeamBOP.
As we did the KAS trail on the way down, the area was needing a few more smiley faces.
Another smiley on the map.
Thanks for bringing me here.

Team BOP have descended upon the Wellington region for the 2018 WENZ MEGA. We have a lot of caches to get through so there wasn’t a lot of down time but it was great to meet most of the locals, CO’s and fellow cachers. My online logs are largely cut’n’pasted because my memory has started to blur many of my finds together so apologies for that. We’ve signed logs as ‘TeamBOP’ or individually depending on log space and time. Lastly a big Thank You to the Team - TNXPro, Davidsonclan, McJandals, NZFlossy, FapandGap & Squirrel Nutcase and to all the CO’s that made this a memorable trip.

Attending the Wellington MEGA, was great to visit from the sunny Bay of Plenty, my finds have been found with my team, and signed TEAM BOP, to save room on logs. We are really enjoying ourselves and its great to see so many different sights. Please excuse my generic logging in advance and there are sooo many logs to do. Many thanks to all you cache owners out there for all your hard work. Heading towards home today, so had to clear a few areas on the way. Cheers.

Stopped here on way home from Wellington Mega weekend.
Quick find here today signed teambop.

Up for the Mega for the week, headed up the coast for a couple of days on family stuff, but did get few caches in for the day. many thanks to the cache placer's - Bitsprayer

I remember when film not caches came in film canisters. Thanks for another cache

On a long trip down to the mega with Lis's crew. So for me it good for numbers and favorites caches. With several stops and a lot of caches and several souvenirs up for grabs the trip was the perfect opportunity to get my numbers up and get some challenges that I have qualified for. Great little series here with very imaginative hides. Thanks for maintaining these.

Thanks Skindo for putting so many of these caches out, to get us outside and enjoying the rural environment. Cache all dry TFTC

quick and easy find with cassandra07

On our way to Whanganui we started this little Trail. All Caches could be found.

TFTC
cassandra07

A nice and easy find on a sunny Sunday afternoon. TFTC

Early start this morning so I could get these caches before it got too warm.
Nice little series, thanks

Easy find, tftc

After spending the morning at TwigNZ’s work we headed north to do the “Chewy Mint Trail”. With a total of 40 for the day, we were pleased with ourselves, and the fact that we obliterated our past record number of caches in one day made it all the better. We started at “Where have all the golf balls gone?” and ended the day with “Manawatu Rail: Buckley’s Wharf”.
Found the cache quickly after parking at GZ, the cache is all in order but is looking a little worse for wear.
T.H.A.N.K.S F.O.R T.H.E C.A.C.H.E

What a day! My son and I decided to go hard out today to see how many caches we could do in an afternoon. We were lucky enough to be blessed with glorious weather, when the forecast had been for showers, so that definitely helped us to get a great result
I apologise in advance for the generic log, but there was no way I would have been able to write up each Cache as I went along, so am logging them now in bulk (sort of)

So we had decided in advance to hit the Chewy Mint Trail, plus a few other Caches along the way, and on the way home, to see how we got along.

The result all up was 40, of which this was the twenty sixth.

Quick and easy find. Signed the log as "T & T" for myself and my son (Thatweirdguy04).

Thanks for the Cache

Found the other day while out with turk202. TFTC

Out geocashing with sjt126. Tftc

I got very cheap flights to Wellington and back for the weekend, what a perfect excuse to come caching and find some that have been sitting on my to do list, and some more! Great day to be out and about, even though the whole area here was rather wet. TFTC!!

Oh dear, not only do I need gumboots, also need swimming costume, very wet, going to put this as a generic post on the ones, we didn't attempt cause of the water

Nice quick find. TFTC

Decided to leave Kapiti's overcast, chilly day and attempt all the caches in the Paranui Road/Wall Road area just north of Foxton. A quick find. Thanks for this cache.

Started our cache trip late. Mr RRR was being the legs as Mrs RRR had just come off crutches. A quick find then on to the next one. TFTC

Himatangi Mini Break Cache #6. Tut nearly fell in a puddle while Bott played look out. Tftc

Was out with my father in law Popmac doing a maintenance check as CO today and I quickly made the find. Thanks for the cache.

This cache was attempted as part of the Palmerston North Power Leg of our "Road to 6,000" Extravaganza for 2016.

A quick find.

#5715

Found with barefootguru as part of the 142 in 24 hour cache challenge (GC5EAAX). Sorry for the generic log. TFTC

Apologies for the generic log — Team B&D are up from Wellington to do the 142 caches in 24 hours challenge. TFTC and a great set of power trails up here!

Today, along with D6NZ, we were attempting to get ruby in a caching feat by logging 120 caches in a single day.
There were a number of trails in our area that we had already eaten into, so while we could hit the remaining pockets we had plenty of dead travelling time as we ventured to the trails a bit further away. Behind us today are the dwarfs, smurfs, and herbs on the coastal side of bulls, the Colours, Bowies, Cars, and PlanetsToday we planned on west of Bulls, north of Ohakea, skirting Halcombe and Fielding, then topping it off south of Himitangi. Now in Horowhenua we have mints and KAS ahead of us along with the occasional finds scattered amongst them.

This cache gives us our one hundredth find of the day.

Cheers.

Planned a days caching around a goal of logging 120 caches today to obtain a ruby feat. Unfortunately some of the runs available I had already eaten into during normal
caching days which meant I had to target a few trails with 50 or more minutes travelling time between them, chewing up precious daylight hours.
Left home at 6:30 got back well after 9pm. it was a long day.
I targeted three areas, Bulls, Feilding, and Himitangi.

In the Manawatu for the weekend with some caching buddies- Uncle Sam, NZTravellers, Stik-a-crane, HeMaLuDy. The goal was to find as many of the caches in the area as we could in the space of a day, and we all had a blast jumping in and out of the cars, racing each other to the caches, and laughing and joking along the way, and in we general had an awesome weekend down here.
After a while we started playing "musical cars"- and would race each other back to the cars in order to vie for prime position.... or just to pip someone else at the post..... it was rather hilarious, mainly because of the creative ways of piling into cars or sneaking in just before someone else when you knew they were aiming for that seat. One or two people may have accidently (or not so accidentally) have got sat on!!!!!
Another quick find during power trails.
Apologies for the generic logs.... with over 200 caches found in one day, it was virtually impossible to remember each individual cache!
Log signed as Team SEAC (South East Auckland Crew) in order to save log space.
TFTC!

Having flown into Palmy to meet up with fellow cachers this weekend to try for a big numbers day, and making our first find in the area just minutes after 8am we were on a roll starting this series next...

Our goal was 200 finds today...

signed in as SEAC to save logbook space.

TFTC.

Our team from Auckland wanted to do a major day of caching, so headed down to Foxton area for a massive day. We got about 205.

Very sorry for the generic logs, but when doing so many in one day very hard to make notes on each.

But a big thank you to all the cache owners for putting out all of the great caches we visited.

Logs signed as either “Team SEAC” or “SEAC” – South East Auckland Crew.

Another skindo cache for Team SEAC, a mad group from Auckland, extreme caching in the blustery Manawatu. Had a blast. Thanks for placing this cache.

We were caching today with a group of cachers that often cache together based in South and East Auckland. We call ourselves SEAC (South East Auckland Crew) to save space on log sheets. Today we were with darthcacher1, purply, NZTravellers, UncleSamNZ, Stik-a-crane and NewLynFam. We enjoyed this series and the cleverness of some of the hides. We just about lost one of our members down a bank at one of the caches - but he claimed he was just taking the quick way down. We had bumped into the CO of this series out the back of Apiti yesterday and so were even more keen to attack this series. Thanks for taking the effort to place the caches here.

Time to log our little trip to the Mega in Turangi. Enroute we detoured via Feilding for the Yumfest dinner, a night cache and a bit of puzzle gathering. Of course there were traditionals, a few multis, some earthcaches and lots of coffee stops to endure. Most found with bkj97, Edvern or the crew we stayed with in Turangi. Now of course the task of logging them all becomes a necessity. My apologies for the "cut and paste" logs. I will add favourites where I think it was particularly memorable. Thanks to all the cache owners for giving us things to do on our journey. It seemed strange to drive back to the Kapiti Coast post Mega without stopping for any caches. Happy caching. TFTCSL

Found with little blue hen on our way to yumfest event in Feilding. TFTCSL

Heading towards the Mega. Thought it would be impolite not to grab a few on the way through. Thanks all for the hides.

Sanson Day2.
After finishing the KAZ trail, we continued onto the mint tin series. We also picked up others that we passed along the way.19457 This was liking a tiki tour of the area around the farming country side.
The long grass made some of the caching today quiet difficult. I liked how the title included a hint.
Thanks for placing this cache Popmac

A quick easy find with markhnz and family. TFTC

I slightly overshot this one, so we had a short walk back before finding the cache.
Found with hayleyhnz, hannahhnz, hollyhnz and W.E.K.A.
Thanks.

Found with markhnz, hannahhnz, hollyhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Found with markhnz, hayleyhnz, hollyhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Found with markhnz, hayleyhnz, hannahhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Easy find for Selesi. TFTC

Found on a day out with UlmusLynx Cold day so very few muggles TFTC

Another quick find in the first spot we looked - tftc

Another nice quick find once the GPS settled down.
TFTC

Did this, on the way to a Phoenix match in Wellington. Nice quiet road, liked the hides and different mint tins, TFTC.

Another little series to compliment the mint tins. Thanks.

I traveled down to Palmerston North for a 3 day geocaching weekend to give my numbers a bit of a boost, as I head towards my next caching milestone. I decided to fly there and back and pick up a cheap rental car for the weekend. The weather was perfect and I had a great weekend down there.

Today I drove down to Foxton Beach for a more leisurely day of caching, with a focus more on numbers tomorrow. A quick find here while working on the Mint tin trail. TFTC!

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TFTC

Since I was back in the region for a couple of weeks I decided a big day caching was on order. Calls were made and plans were put in place and Jesso22, Stardust 718 and I set off in my new 4WD to collect a heap of caches. The first cache was collect at 7am and last one just before 7pm. The final numbers came to just of 150 so a productive day was had.

[ * * * * Thanks for the cache * * * * ]

For months we had been planning a 100+ day but the timing had just never worked out for us. Now with Christmas and all of our summer activities behind us and AtomsNZ back in town it was the perfect time! AtomsNZ arrived at my house at 6.45am with Stardust718 in tow and off we went on our mission. The day was quite successful, started with a few solved puzzles then on to the KAS trail and the mint tin trails before squeezing in as many caches around Foxton, Levin and Shannon that all three of us hadn't previously found. Final total was just over 150 (just to be on the safe side in case we made a counting error). Most caches signed as AJS (or JAS depending on who signed it) to save room in the logs as some were quite full. Thanks to all of the COs it was a great day with many great finds.

# 1021: I joined forces with AtomsNZ and Jesso22 for a 14 hour caching day. Found at 12:39:00 p.m. The main goal was the KAS trail and however many more nearby caches we could find. Our total came out at just over 150 for the day so we were all pretty happy with that. Thanks to the many CO's that made this day possible. We had a great time travelling lots of back roads.

Log signed as AJS (our team name for the day).

I havn't found one of these containers for ages. Thanks. At least all 3 of us knew what it used to be used for.

I haven't done very many Skindo caches. - - - One day. - - - Meantime I know what to expect, I remember a similar tribute cache in Marlborough. TFTH .

Was down in Wellington for a few days, and decided that I'd make an extra long weekend of it and transfer a rental car back to Auckland and cache along the way. Unfortunately for the rental agency that ment nearly tripling the km's they thought I'd put on it!

With the rental car company only giving me 48 hours to get the car to Auckland a little bit of planing was needed to maximise what I wanted to accomplish, and with only a few DNF's it turned out to be a very successful trip. So a big thanks to everyone who had placed caches along the way, and for showing me some great sight's along the way.

Day 1: Foxton through to Bulls.

All good here, thanks for the hide.

Tftc

Tyftc

Found

#1687 As i was picked up just after 4am to head to the Manawatu I realised this was not going to be a dot day. This was an attempt to get 270 caches in one day. There are a couple of great circuits in the Manawatu that will help work toward this goal so thanks to the CO's that have placed them for our enjoyment.

Thanks also to my partner in geo crime and driver for the day Yetrees. Without an able driver an attempt such as this would be impracticable so thanks for enabling it.

Thanks to all the CO's for their contribution to my smilie tally.

It is forecast to be a long day geocaching, hoping to make the 270 target. To be honest I'd be pretty happy with 200, however why not go for the Emerald badge (see project-gc.com)

#1741. Well I have been planning on having a trip to the Manawatu for some time to pick up the powertrails. With the run of great weather we have been having I booked a motel for two nights at Foxton and planned for Friday 12 February to be my "Manawatu Big Day Out". I had prepared an Excel sheet with 170 caches listed on it in a logical driving order going from Foxton through the various trails and over to Palmie and SE to Shannon and back across to Foxton. My first goal was to get enough finds to crack the 142 in 24 hr challenge, then get over the 150 barrier, and all going well see if I could exceed my current largest day of 57 caches by an extra 100 caches. Well the day dawned fine and I was on the road and at my first cache by 6.40am. I unlocked the motel door at 11pm with 158 caches under my belt. Some caches were memorable. Others just made up the numbers. Thanks so much to the CO's who put them out for me to find. Sorry for the generic log. Cheers GSEL

All good. Tftc.

Cache # 2,864 - part of a massive 13-hour day, doing a blitz around Palmerston North wider area with team WITT (Wandering Dragons, Infoferret, Taybee and TaybeeNZ), ultimately resulting in 160 caches for me. TNLNSL. TFTC!