KAS Beetle Pole (Manawatu) Glen Oroua, North Island, New Zealand
By kaŝmemoro on 10-May-15. Waypoint GC5V6WA

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New house too close to cache placement

Out and about with LL113 and TrinityNZ to ensure we all earned the Wheel of Challenges souvenir by finding 100 caches during April. Log signed as "JLT". An easy find by TrinityNZ - up a small rise.
TFTC kasmemoro

Out and about on this lovely ANZAC Day north of Foxton way with JustlookingOO and LL113, tracking down 100 caches this month for the 100 smileys in April challenge. The KAS trail is a great way to quickly find a lot of caches. This was our 14th find of this series today. A little bit of a climb to this one. Log signed as JLT for JustlookingOO, LL113 and TrinityNZ. Thanks to the cache owners for placing these caches.

The current challenge for the wheel of challenges is to find 100 caches during the month of April. So today I am out with TrinityNZ and JustlookingOO to get as many smileys as possible. (All logs signed today as JLT).

Thanks for the cache, and another smiley.

Today’s mission is to try and push ourselves over one hundred caches for the month, and fifty for the day. Targeting the KAS trail (plus whatever others we need depending on how many we find). In the end we managed 50 finds and 10 DNF’s - hard work!
Thanks!

Easter weekend, and with the paradox that only family can create, I both need to be in Wanganui and not in Wanganui at the same time. However I have a full day to get there and so a-geocaching I will go. Despite a slow start caused by traffic congestion I still managed to sign 52 logs today, and was unable to find 6 logs to sign. This was one of the ones I found.

Part of todays travels was to complete the Kas trail. No problems finding this one exactly where expected.

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

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

Quick find on our Palmy weekend. Tftc

A nice quick find here today. Tftc

Out with KingSportS exploring. Many in this series either DNFs or need maintenance.

Quick stop next to the cool as letter box

I wrote in the log and concealed it carefully back as found,
TFTCSL Thanks kaŝmemoro for this Traditional cache!


Found on 11 October 2022 5:33 PM

295th find



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Many thanks

Looking for 50 finds today for a challenge.

Looks like a good series to do it before it gets too hot.

This is number 9.

Quick find tftc

Tftc

He heard this was the beetle pole

Reward for finishing my assignment! I’m out enjoying the sun and grabbing some caches

A nice spot to sit and relax, a lovely bird sung to me.

The log was a bit fragile so added some paper

Continuing our adventure with junior on this pleasant afternoon. Thank you for this series.

Quick find at GZ. Thanks for the series kaŝmemoro! Almost at the end of the trail (apart from the ones on Banks St which are in the opposite direction and not going to be tackled today).

Thanks for your amazing cache.

A nice and easy find. TFTC!

We have wanted to do this trail for sooooooo long, but life got in the way. Finally, we decided it was now or never. Got a late start after travelling from Wangas..started about 11am...made one mad dash back to Rongotea for Mrs RRR to pee (she can't think when she has to pee LOL) and one around 3pm for another bathroom break, and snaffle some foodles, and make use of better network coverage. We tried to follow a logical course but had already done some previously so had to zig-zag a couple of times but thankfully not far. Had 10 to go in the last block, and just went all out. Finished with a DNF on the very last one, around 8.45pm...headed off to do one more on the way home, and then head for the hills for a feed and feet up. All-in-all a good day, made better by the box of sandwiches and goodies and thermos in the boot. Many thanks for this trail - we're very happy to see many more smiley faces on it. Logs signed with RachelsRiffRaff or RRR. TFTC

Found nice and easy

Easy find...TFTC

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.

Headed out for an afternoon/evening of caching. Started off in the light but by the end it was dark. The full moon was beautiful but not particularly helpful but with a good torch many of these caches were still able to be found. Having said that I had 10 DNF most of which have not been found this year. Many of the logs had replacement logs with the old damp log stuffed to the bottom. A bit of TLC would not go amiss! Thanks for the series.

Easy drive by, thank you! UPDATE: I signed this with my former name sabine44.

**12,034**
Nice beetle but a bit of a climb to access the cache - lucky Mr G is part mountain goat. TFTC

Quick easy find. Vinaka

Easy find collecting caches for the Museum quest

TFTC

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

Another quick one. Tftc.

Cool little hill

This is day nine of a ten day trip down to Dunedin and back to move my daughter there so she can get her master’s degree at Otago University. I spent the morning around Himatangi doing a series of caches, and then headed up to Turangi. I was going to stay a second night, but the weather was closing in.

I saw this series on my way back from the WENZ 2018 Mega last year and thought I have to do these one day.

After spending the night at the holiday park at Himatangi, the rain had stopped long enough for me to continue where I left off the evening before. TFTC.

Out on a bit of a random road trip for a couple of weeks.
Taumaranui, Whakatane, Foxton Beach
Out today with our latest bit of Geocaching kit - e-bikes.
Cycling around a 12k block doing the power trail.
Good easy finds as a power trail shoud be. Adding the hint to the cache name is a nice touch.
We like the aniamals attached to the otherwise boring containers.
TFTC

Tftc

Today was a numbers run for us. Lots of caches to choose from in this area so we did all but 2 of the KAS series, the mint tin series and some railway ones. 98 caches found in total and 2 DNF's something tells me we are going to have to go out again to find 2 more today. Many thanks to all the CO's of the caches we visited today, hugely appreciated and certainly love the quiet roads after Auckland.

Day 3/9 of our New Years trip up to the North Island. This was find #91/100 for the day and #160/526 of our trip.
Today was a numbers run of mostly PnG caches. We started in Palmy and set off to see if we could Spell, then headed up to Bulls and after that rounded up a few Smurfs, Herbs, Airplanes, Railway stations and anything else along the way until we came in to finish the KAS trail we started in Oct 2016. We are finally here to finish off what we started in 2016 on the way to the Mega in Turangi. As intended most were pretty quick easy finds. We left our new signature item, a Rainbow Beadtail. Thanks for the effort involved in placing and creating this series for all of us to enjoy.

One of 65 caches located in this neck of the woods today, a personal best which is never likely to be repeated! Biked along these roads from mid-morning to late afternoon, making a real day of it. Thanks to the cache owners for putting all these hides in place.
This one was a straightforward find. #1993. TFTC.

• mr and mrs are on a post 2018 WENZ Mega road trip, before going home
Today we’re in Manawatu and Horowhenua area, with some time dedicated to the KAS Series
Found caches have typically been signed MM78, although a few have been stamped mrandmrschosen1978.
Apologies for generic logs but with so many... condition of caches varied with good dry logs to wet/damp logs, we added some rite’n’rain slips to some as required
Thanks for this series, we appreciate the time and effort made in creating this series •

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

It’s Day 1 of our 2018 WENZ MEGA crusade and Team BOP are well represented by McJandals, NZFlossy, TNXPro, Davidson Clan, FapAndGap & Squirrel nutcase and myself.

We have a huge hit list for this 5 day affair so it's gonna be a little manic. We’ve signed our logs either individually or as ‘Team BOP’ depending on log space, size or condition. A special thanks to all the CO’s and those who have helped keep these caches in good order.

Cache found quickly thanks to accurate co-ords and a straight forward placement. A neat series and theme but most of the log sheets need replacing and are good examples of my we should be using waterproof paper. TFTC.

It's finally Mega weekend!
Found while travelling with TeamBOP to the Mega event in Wellington.
Thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC.


*Found with [Geooh Live](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohLive)*

My c:geo was playing up a bit today. Luckily I'd preloaded most of these caches. Not all of them seemed to show up so I don't know what went wrong. Ah well, we found a fair few of them. Thanks for the series

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. Interesting series of caches here in Palmy area. most were quick finds but some to took a bit longer. Thanks for keeping this trail going.

Nice and quick. Thanks for the cache, and thanks for the trail

39 caches so far today! This is the only power trail I ever intend doing - just for the numbers - 100 caches needed for the Hidden Creatures souvenir hunt in just a month. Thanks for placing these.

Sooo... it was 4 o clock in the morning, and I decided to get up and go for a drive to collect as many caches as possible before breakfast? Why? Cause I was down for work, and that was when I had to meet up with everyone.
Started at the southern end, so I could feel like I was working my way back to Palmy and my morning Hot Chocolate. Ohhhh starting to get hungry... wonder if this only happens cause you've gotten up earlier than normal...

Out to get as many caches on this trail as we can today. TFTC

Another one on this trail done, TFTC

Quick find. Very hard not to look suspicious. Tftc

A quick easy find of another little creature. We replaced the mushy log. TFTC

Straightforward find. TFTC

Found today with TwigNZ while heading alone the KAS Power Trail, TFTC kaŝmemoro

My son and I have been trying to get around to doing the KAS trail for quite some time now, ever since we finished getting through the nearby Chewy Mint trail.

The Planetary Pursuits event currently running, and an available free day with my son over the Easter weekend, seemed like the perfect excuse to finally hit it!

So I planned a route that also took into account some other nearby caches, such as this one, making a grand total of 84 caches to be attempted today, curious to know if we could absolutely blast our previous record (40) for the number of finds for a day. As it turned out, we had just 5 DNF's, so it was a tremendous result that propelled us almost all the way to Pluto in 1 day! I now have a very tired, but happy lad.

I apologise for the generic 'cut n paste' style of my log, but with 79 to do tonight I figured it was the only way.

This was a straightforward find. The cache and logbook are fine.
The log was signed as "T & T" to cover myself and my lad ThatWeirdGuy04.

Having just had my first placement muggled a couple of weeks ago, I am very much in appreciation of all CO's who place and maintain caches for the rest of us to find.

Found while driving around the North Island while touring around from Australia.. signed as GT2...TFTC

I had to be in Palmerston briefly this morning and with nothing else planned I decided to throw the treadly on the back of the car and spend a few hours biking round the power trail in 29 degree heat. It is ironic so many of these caches are named after bugs as I got eaten alive everytime I ventured into the long, dried grass to make a find. It's ok though, as the bites matched my hayfever welts nicely. Sorry for the generic logs, but TFTC.

Beautiful evening so decided to do this local trail
Quick easy finds, love this series
Thanks

Nice quick find and sign thanks for the series ...I do appreciate the effort that is required to set up one of these tftc

The day is warming up - can't complain though. Thanks for the placement.

TFTC, good find

This one was soaking. Difficult to sign. Emptied a black slimy worm thing from the cache, but didn't have any replacement paper. TFTC

Onto the next piece of business for the day, after completing the PMPT (popmac power trail). Apologies in advance for the cut and paste logs, I will add details where I remember, I managed the whole of remaining caches in this series, except 2 DNFs. One was definitely missing, the other may have been sheltering a little too well.

I see some of theses have lost their guardians and some others have hatched, into mint tins but the co-ordinates on all these caches were excellent, thanks for that.

A trip to the North Island for a course of a fortnight duration, and taking the car too, woo-hoo.
After setting off on the Bluebridge at dark o clock I arrived in Wellywood with a slight threat of rain. In my sights for the days entertainment were the oldest cache in NZ and another oldie out Otaki Forks road, lots of mint-tins in a power-trail, lots of wee beasties i another power trail, up to 3 Letterbox Hybrid caches to get up to 50 of that type and a few recently soled puzzles. A day of 58 finds had me arriving at my destination in the dark, but I don't get out much so should be excused!!

Found on our way to the beach, a good road for the dog to have a run down. TFTC

We decided to look for some caches before heading to Wellington to get the ferry to Picton.
These caches here were nice drive by caches.
Thank you very much

Was out with my father in law Popmac who provided transport so I could clear out this series and I quickly made the find. Thanks for the cache. Knocked off the series in just under three hours.

Himatangi Mini Break Cache #47

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.

#5757

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!

Found it. TFTC

In the Manawatu for the weekend with some caching buddies- Uncle Sam, NZTravellers, Stik-a-crane. The goal was to find as many of the local caches that we could in the space of a day. We managed to find 206, I think, in the space of 14 hours, with a few bathroom/ coffee breaks and a couple of meal breaks. We all had a blast jumping in and out of the car, racing each other to the caches, and laughing and joking along the way, and in general had an awesome weekend down here.
We really enjoyed this trail, and I particularly thought the guardians of the cache containers were pretty cool!
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!

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 quick find on our adventure around the Manawatu, coffee is starting to call though, we might need a break soon! TFTC!

I had flown into Palmy yesterday to join a group that was going for our biggest tally today, and staying in nearby Foxton Beach, we were off to a good start with is series....

Signed in as Team 'SEAC' to save logbook space.
Especially liked the cache guardians on these caches.

TFTC.

Not only a beetle in residence here but a firmly attached friendly snail also making itself at home. TFTC #9439

A glorious day to be out and about enjoying the countryside. Thanks for this wonderful trail .

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.
Today we headed out to finish the KAZ trail. 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 kasmemoro

Logged with GCDroid. Thanks for the series kasmemoro - sorry about the cut and paste but with so many there weren't so many things that were different for each one.

I got back on track here after a couple of DNFs. The cache was exactly where I thought it would be.

Enjoying a bike ride on these quiet country roads and collecting caches along the way. Like the bug theme and the way the hint is usually in the title - makes for a fast grab. No problems here, thanks KAS team.

A quick find today.
TFTC

Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
This cache posted with CacheSense for Android.
Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

Found with Blenheim Bear
Down from the naki on this cool windy day for a day out geocaching
Loving the caches in the area.
Many thanks for all the placements but sorry about the cut and paste

found while in the area for a few days caching

When we get to Taupo later today we've got to pick up our race numbers for the Cross Country running races tomorrow.

This log was a bit damp.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

Fab morning collecting caches on the way to play badminton in Feilding today - thanks so much for all the caches

Took Selesi & I a minute or two t locate this one. TFTC

Found on a day out with UlmusLynx We started this in March and thought it was time to come back and do some more TFTC

Mothers Day treat = geocaching!!...it was supposed to be without the kids but that didn't pan out but I still managed to find 21 geocaches before the kids started to lose their mind! Thanks for setting these up, it was a great drive, nice & quiet on the roads today. Still heaps to collect

Visiting Manawatu over the weekend so had to try and get some of this trail completed. Great area for a trail and thankfully the rain had stopped. TFTC

With the exeption of "Route 66" in the North of Auckland I didn't visit any powertrail on my four week trip on beautyfull North Island because NZ is such a lovely Country with also so lovely People. No time for power trails at all. But this one is very, very good in shape and so I couldn't resist to visit a part of it. So I found 31 of the Caches before I moved on northward again.

Thanks a lot for the Caches and I hope I'll be back one day to get the others, too.
dG

Off for a day to levin then Foxton market - catching a few more of these while out and about - tftc

Quick find. TFTC

I was in Palmy North on business and decided to stay an extra day and spend time driving the KAS trail Nicely put together with the added bonus that its all on a sealed road.. and with plenty of parking. Just great. The weather co-operated with sunny skies and a nice breeze. Thanks for the trail.

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 joined forces with yorkshirekiwi83 for a full day of caching before an event in the city tonight. We picked up a few caches around the city first, then drove down towards Opiki collecting caches down some of the side roads as we went, then headed across to do the KAS Power Trail, before going up to do the caches around Ohakea then headed back to Palmerston North.

At this point we worked our way through the KAS Power Trail Series - a series that YK83 started last year, but which came an abrupt end for her. Today we had no such problems and had an enjoyable time finding all of the caches on the trail - the vast majority were nice easy finds, we only had notable issues with 3 caches (which I will go into more detail about on the relevant cache logs.) Thanks for the obvious time that has been spent putting these neat containers together and for placing this trail!

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Vistra and I headed down to Manawatu as the KAS trail has been bugging me in its incomplete form, as we both needed numbers for personal goals it seemed like a good opportunity. Thanks to the cache owners for all the caches and the variety, over 2 days I found over 200 caches, so thank you for placing and maintaining them.

Most were quick easy finds, although there were some very clever ones and some well thought out. TFTC

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Tftc