Mint tin trail - Spearmint (Horowhenua) Foxton, North Island, New Zealand
By Popmac on 31-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5JGYX

Quick find on our drive today. All good at GZ and TFTC.

TFTC

Found It!Out on a bit of a tiki tour with the Geohound at Himatangi Beach. Decided to grab a couple wee caches on the way back to Tokomaru as we are nearly at 500 finds!TFTCCharlotteAndJordy

#387.Parked at GZ near the gates to retrieve this convenient park and grab.Sadly a cute possum was dead not far from the cache managed to move it with sticks.TFTC.

Grabbed it on an Adventuring day. TFTC

#2420. 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 seemed perfect, as I had decided to keep going for 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 the logs were signed with (+ Kristina) to give her credit for helping the search. She may yet join the fraternity! Kristina actually found this one.

Tftc Popmac.

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.
29/33
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 pine plantation in the general area. A quick and easy find - lots of rust in this one. 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.
Quick find. All good in cache, 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.

Cache found by JustLookingOO - as with many of the Eclipse tins in this series, this one is very rusty and could do with replacement. 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.

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 6:16 PM

#478th find

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Second Spearmint find today, not the same type of hide though! Thanks for adding these series of hides Popmac! How many mints do you go through? Have you built up another collection?

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. Tftc.

Thanks for the Mint Tin Trail caches! We had fun finding the ones down Wall Road. Lots of long grass to contend with had me pulling grass seeds out of my shoes and socks for ages afterwards! Haha.

A little rusty and damp but all fine here. Guardian snails keeping a watchful eye!
Many thanks

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.

Very wet could not sign the log AC

Looked all around base. And elsewhere

Whew windy as out here today & alot of water around the place.
SL
TFTC

Nice and easy

Found it, everything was wet could not sign

Thanks for your amazing cache.

Found it

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.
Didn’t find any trackable here.

Back in place, new hint.

The old cache had gone with the old fence. Last time I was there, there was no cover for a cache. Will be down that way next week.

Gone with the old fence,- I had to eat more Spearmints next week!!

Looks like a brand new fence. Cache may be gone.

nice easy find which was good as we were in a hurry

Quick find. Tftc, replace ziplock

**12,029**
Another quick find in the classic Skindo fashion. TFTC

No 2 for me today. Thanks

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 which I suspect has gone. This was a quick find. #2725. TFTC.

Quick find. Last section was tough as wind has picked up. Tftc.

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

Looking for a few more favourites so dropped by to pick this up. Tftc

Decided to try and grab some of the caches in the Mint tin power trail and this one was easily grabbed. Sorry about similar reports but lots of similar caches. Thanks CO for the series.

Waitangi Day 2019 family caching adventure! TFTC. Our 7 year old got growled at for forgetting to look both ways before crossing a road.

On our stay in Foxton picking up a few caches TFTC

Little detour to pick up a lone straddler from last time I drove through here.. yup, it's a mint tin!

Found at 11:37 - #8653 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

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! A massive mountain of minty madness - and caches too! Apologies for the cut / paste logs. And that's it for me today - time to put the pedal to the metal and head for Wellington. 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.

I only realised part way through this trail, after cursing them all being in mint tins, that the whole trail was dedicated to the rust prone, non-waterproof, bag breaking, difficult to extract, mushy logged, little buggers.

I am a big un-fan of mint tins as you can see, but the number of smiley faces are more important than my opinion about mint tins.

So on we go until the end.
Thanks.

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.

On my way to the mega with Squirrel Nutcase and Fap and Gap. Having lots of fun and enjoying the ride and the scenery. It’s what I love about caching - great company and visiting great places. Thanks to all the COs for all their caches Hopefully we see some of them at the mega this weekend TFTC

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

So far I think we've found most of the caches in this series that we looked for. I can see one dog which appears to be a tricky hide and we must have missed one somehow. An enjoyable series, thanks

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.

Cache found as part of planetary circuit challenge TFTC

quick and easy find with cassandra07

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

TFTC
cassandra07

The last of the mint trail caches for the day. Very peaceful roads. TFTC

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

Easy park and grab, 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 the container is a little wet.
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 thirty first.

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

Thanks for the Cache

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!!

Found with miow4

Last one for us, despite the wet and mud, we enjoyed this series, tftc Popmac, will have to finish the remainder another day

Got while passing. 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.

Tftc

Himatangi Mini Break Cache #1. Quick find. Lovely quiet spot. Tftc.

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

A quick find.

#5720

#12000, and another milestone ticked off. Sweet.

Another stop on the trail today. Me on the bike, and Ms KR picking me up from the other end. The tail wind was great, and the caches fun. Cheers

A day to get from Wellington to Whanganui. Time to find a few little boxes....

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

First cache in our planned 142 in 24 hour challenge (GC5EAAX). B and I have done a lot of planning and preparation for this. Are we up to the challenge? The weather's good, the car's filled with petrol, we've got plenty of food ... I think we're ready! I'm also chuffed that we're starting on Wall Road (family connection). That's a good sign.

This first cache is done. Off we go! TFTC

B&D came up here to test their relationship, our phone batteries, and the car at stopping & starting. Oh, and the 142 caches in 24 hours challenge… starting now! NZDT 2016-12-17 10:30

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.

Today, along with D6NZ, we were attempting to get ruby in the "Daily cacher" feat by logging 120 caches in a single day.
There were a number of trails in the area that we had already eaten into, so while we could hit pockets we lost precious time travelling as we ventured to each new hot spot. Today we planned on west of Bulls, north of Ohakea, skirting Halcombe and Fielding, then topping it off south of Himitangi.

This stop was our 105th find of the day.

Cheers.

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.
We really enjoyed this trail, one of the few trails that we did.... and a huge thanks to the CO for the effort gone to in some of the creative hides!
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...
The series name was very fitting.....

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.

A mad group of caching friends decided to plan a weekend drive and stay in the Manawatu to grab as many caches as possible. With 5 adults squashed in one car and a family of 4 in the other, we soon started playing musical cars with kids and adults finding a car seat at random along the way, we only left someone behind once the whole day!! We really enjoyed this series, had lots of laughs, great company and some well constructed caches with awesome camo. Thank you Popmac for placing these caches. Sorry for the cut and paste log, have awarded a fav for the series. TFTC!

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

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.19462 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 of our first Mint Tin trail cache. TFTC

A quick find on our way home from an orienteering event 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

Didn't have this one on our list but we were doing so well for time and the weather was holding off so we decided to grab a couple extra on the way home. Almost did a dukes of hazzard to grab it but stopped long enough to sign and slip back and on our way. We have lots of these tins as Mrs RRR has them in the car to take before going to see clients so she's minty fresh. Don't think she's tried spearmint yet tho'. Thanks for the hide. Chz RRR

Found with Selesi. Took TB. TFTC and the great series.

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

Our last cache of the series - thanks for placing these and showing us another part of the Horowhenua.

A nice quick find. Left a TB to continue its journey.
TFTC

Took some time away from the KAS trail to do these mint tin caches. All nicely done and well hidden. Added bonus was the easy parking. Well done on the series. 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. I worked on the Mint tin trail while in the area and made a quick find here. TFTC!

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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.

I do like specific hints. Hmmm, but which one???? We tried the wrong one first but then it was the first of it's type for the day so maybe we needed to warm the brains to the task TFTC .

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

Found

Tyftc

#1682 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)