KAS AnteaterPole (Manawatu) Rongotea, North Island, New Zealand
By kaŝmemoro on 10-May-15. Waypoint GC5V717

KAS Spider Pole (Manawatu) was transferred from kaŝmemoro to user woolwood9

Visited today, replaced container and log.

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).

Lots of slaters.

Thanks for the cache, and another smiley.

Out and about with LL113 and TrinityNZ to ensure we all earned the Wheel of Challenges souvenir by finding 100 caches during April.
Right next to high wooden plank fencing, wondering what stock is being farmed, deer?
A quick find by TrinityNZ - slater city at gz, they were very unhappy about being disturbed! Log signed as "JLT".
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 12th find of this series today. A lot of slaters at GZ, including on the cache. Log signed as JLT for JustlookingOO, LL113 and TrinityNZ. Thanks to the cache owners for placing these caches.

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.

Didn’t take long to find this one on our busy wkend. Tftc

Having a great weekend in Palmy. Tftc

Looks like has been run over by lawnmower. Replaced and concealed for next finder.

Container broken and found log on ground
We hav repaired and it’s now spidie rocked

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


Found on 11 October 2022 6:15 PM

298th find



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Looking for 50 finds today for a challenge.

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

This is number 14. Had to evict another spider.

On a geohunt with the family
Ruks and the teen

12

Needed some cache finds for the Reach the Peak challenge so drove out here and took my bike. A warm day with a light breeze, biking was a great way to do this trail. No problem here thanks KAS.

Wooohooo 50th found cache today what a mission

50th found cache today! What a mission

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

Nice visiting with the horses

Could do with a new container, it’s more a sleeve rather than a tin now.

Out on a drive with junior to bag a few caches. Thank you for this series

I was plonked down at GZ trying to find the cache when I looked around and saw a girl running along the road in the same direction I was walking - I hadn't seen or heard her. I didn't see her looking at me but assume she did. Wonder what she thought of that sight? Did find the cache. Thanks for placing kaŝmemoro and all the cachers that have helped maintain caches in the series - I know there are quite a few where I should have mentioned that in my logs.

Thanks for your amazing cache.

A quick and easy find. TFTC!

Nice easy find

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.

This was one of the caches specifically targeted to now complete the Wonders of the World. Thank you kasmemoro for the placement.

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.

quick find to find more of the ancients TFTC

Found on a road trip to Whanganui. TFTC Turned off for the power trail.

Easy find. Tin is rusted through so lid won't close. Replaced baggie. UPDATE: I signed this with my former name sabine44.

**12,057**
Took longer to get the logbook out than it did to find the cache. TFTC

Quick easy find. Vinaka

Out caching with ritaryanandjj after an extremely long break from geocaching. Easing back into it with nice easy finds. Sorry for the repetitive logs. TFTC

One of many today as we knocked off part of the power trail, the weather was lovely and the roads quiet except for a few tractors making it hard to be stealth at times. TFTC.

I have said it about three times before in the past that I plan to finish of these Kas caches but for some reason I never did. So yet again I going to try and complete the remaining ones
Started off with 8 to go now down to 6

This cache helps with filling in a missing dot on my calendar matrix, getting the calendar completed is going to take some time as many of the missing days are on work days making it difficult to get out and get one making thing worse there are not many left that are nearby, these ones I will save for when I can get out but have limited time as for the others they are at least 30 minutes or more to get to ground zone just to get one cache

Thanks for the Cache

Surprisingly very dry, a nice quick find. TFTC

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

Easy find here. Tftc.

found it

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.
First block completed, 30 odd caches later, feeling good so we decided to do a second block to see if we could reach 50 for the day.
Good easy finds as a power trail should be. Adding the hint to the cache name is a nice touch.
We like the animals 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.

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. #2002. 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)*

Nice find. Tftc

The road is getting busy, people pulling in driveways, so having to be careful, found it quickly, tftc and the series

With my intended route planned I’ve taken a day off work to grab as many as possible of the KAS animal trail before the weather breaks tomorrow. 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.
Another Mint tin... that’s a change.

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

TFTC

Quick find on a weekend away caching. Trying to grab as many as I can before the rain sets in! Tftc

A quick easy find of another little creature. TFTC

No problems here but difficult to open rusted container. 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

Great thanks

The grass is very high in places over 1.5 meters high ...found this one all good tftc Kas

Spider is still in residence. Thanks for the placement

Found it by mistake

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!!

Just managed to squeeze half an hour to grab some of this series. Mrs RRR gets to do the ones on the left. LOL. TFTC

Quick find this afternoon with eltee291. Signed the log and replaced as found! Visiting from BC, Canada. Drove from New Plymouth to Palmerston North today so we stopped and got some of this series en route. Thanks for the cache!

Quick find today with hingis20. We are on vacation from Victoria, BC, Canada and today we are traveling from New Plymouth to overnight in Palmerston North. Geocaching and beautiful scenery - cant't get any better. 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

Here to complete the KAS series (well most of it anyway). Roads all good, not too much traffic. Thanks.

On the way back home now, driving and biking, to Palmerston North. Time to find a few little boxes.....

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

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 #69

Quick park n grab. 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.

#5769

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

TFTC

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!

A group of us descended on this area for the weekend to gather a big number day, and with a few trails in the area it was decided this would be the area to give us the best shot.... 200 was our goal and we had been making good progress...liked the cache guardians on this series...

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 group of like minded cachers from Auckland hatched a plan to spend the weekend in the Manawatu collecting caches. We had a blast racing around the country side collecting this KAS series. Thanks for setting up this series was lots of fun. TFTC!

On my way south, the weather was kinda clear for alittle while.. so I took a detour and got a few KAS caches. not really my style though..

Found at 15:42 - #6482

TFTC

Not such a crash hot day to cache but decided to anyway. All caches in OK condition, some a little wet but no problems...thanks for setting these up...TFTC

Enjoying the thrill of the chase with Sidewaze today - caching our little socks off on a its all about the numbers type of day. Now onto another section of the great KAS trail. TFTC #9422

Man I'm like a kid in a lolly shop. Thanks for the awesome trail !!!!

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

We struck a few really bad patches where we could find any, We had a good search around but no luck at all.
Thanks

Second find along the Trail. Lots of muggles on the road. Kids love the novelty of the name left our trail behind (spongebob)

A nice quick find today.
TFTC

found while in the area for a few days caching

We were on a family trip to Taupo when we stopped to do a section of this power trail. My plan was to do 40. And I made it with this one.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

Selesi & I found while doing part of the power trail. 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

Decided to do an afternoon of caching so grabbed about half of the caches on this trail. Thanks for all the cool hides, had fun and will finish the rest another day. TFTC

Decided to go on an afternoon of caching with Helbaby7 and my children. Had a lot of fun Helbaby navigated, I drove and the kids found the caches and brought them back to the car.
Really enjoyed it and will finish the trail when time permits. my daughter loved the cool cache containers it really make her day thank you for such awesome caches it really does make it more fun to find something different.
TFTC

We had such a fun day yesterday so we decided to come back today and finish off this trail. 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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Quick find. TFTC