LOTR08 - Lord Elrond Tongariro National Park, North Island, New Zealand
By yorkshirekiwi83 on 14-May-16. Waypoint GC6J6AF

Not able to maintain them, freeing them up for other cachers to use the space, cache has been removed.

No longer able to maintain, pulling series out to make room for other people

Hiking in this area for a few days and I came back to find this one. It had gone AWOL when I originally searched for it so it was nice to turn a blue face into a yellow smiley today. TFTC

Nice walkway

Easy find on the walk tftc

Great walk of the first lot of caches in the series. I only saw another 3 people the entire time in total! TFTC!!

Found on wonderful day in summer, thank you for maintaining these amazing caches

A quick find as we continued walking this wonderful track after making a start yesterday.
TFTC

I was supposed to be hiking the Tongariro Crossing today but the weather wasn't playing ball, so I decided to do some other hikes instead. The Silica Rapids walk was nice and quiet which made searching for the caches easy. TFTC!

Enjoying walking the Silica Rapids track - beautiful scenery and bush. All the finds were quickly made thanks to good coordinates and clear hints. Thanks yorkshirekiwi83.

Quick find on the way around the Silica Rapids Track. TFTC

Cool

Missed the side track, but stopped at the twisted tree and went back.

Great clues so far.

Our first bushwalk since the Covid-19 lock down. We had held off on doing the silica rapids walk with the kids for a few years due to the length of road walking. But the kids are older now and waking along the road is no longer a worry The bush walk was great and collecting the caches was fun for the kids as usual. Had a nice picnic lunch by the rapids too. This cache was a quick find. TFTC

I dont usually do generic logs but there were so many in this series that it was difficult to describe each find separately. Great series and nice and quick to find with good coords and in a nice area. Thanks for the effort putting them in.

Quick find on a post lockdown walk. Great to be caching again! Tftc

First day of autumn: the original plan for today was to try Tongariro Alpine Crossing, but we felt it could be to much. And we were not sure about the weather as well.
So we changed plans and choosed the easier hike to Silica Rapids, which was a very good idea.

Lord Elrond was "at home" and we found the cache quickly where the hint said it would be.

Thank you for the cache!

we decided to go for a walk at the Silica Rapids. while walking I saw a perfect cache spot and it turned out ...... there was one! Unfortunately no pen with us so we could not really log it. We found a few others from this serie. One of the most beautiful spots of NZ!

Could’nt find this one, but didnt searched that long.

Was stumped here but not for long

Lord Elrond it was good to find these caches all dry and doubled containers and space on the logs for many more visitors TFTC thanks yorkshirekiwi you sold me a nz turangi geo coin years ago in Auckland

It was nice to get on with finding caches and this one was handily placed. Tftc

Found with MrsC on our travels in NZ. A fantastic walk tftc.

Found with mr c on our travels from the UK thank you

Almost too descriptive

Arrived in Whakapapa (Middel Earth) we decided to do two hiking tours.
The coordinates were exactly measured and with the hints the cans could be found well.
The values for the bonus were written down and so the bonus could be found.
They were very nice hiking trails with great views into the nature.

Thank you for this wonderful round and for hiding the cans.
Many greetings from Cologne from Pöni.

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Tftc

In the morning i did this walk, founded easily. Now it’s sunny. Thanks!

Shubprising spit for Avelyn

Quick find after I eliminated the side track option. Was just replacing the cache and a couple of muggles appeared from the side track. Phew.
Thanks for the cache.

Found it on our way with The One Ring Thanks for guiding us to this fantastic track

This was one of the few caches on the track that took a bit more effort to locate. This was only because it took my GPSr a while to make its mind up; the hint was as helpful as it needed to be.

A nice loop in a pretty nice area.

For more read LOTR02
Greets from Germany
Tftc. Danke fürs Dösle

Found on a delightful November day while wasting a day around Whakapapa. I put my hand in some dark places while doing this series, thank goodness there are no nasty venomous things in NZ. Thanks for the cache Yorshirekiwi83

just arrived at the camping area we planned an evening walkout for some middle earth caches
Thanks - team bycycle

Mit dem Lord den Lord besucht.
TFTC

After the Tama lakes and the loop, we still have some energy left. We go again at the end of the day to do this beautiful tour! wow.

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Thanks yorkshirekiwi83 for the geocache [^]
Greetings from Belgium,
Frank et Muriel travelling in New Zealand

Happy geocaching

Found number 8!

MPLC

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

After a previous dnf we made up for it by finding two caches here. Think we signed the wrong one first. Tftc.

Greetings from the Czech republic. Beautiful walking, thank you for this cache.

Quick find.

Out on a LOTR mission today with Tramper Ted. Not the nicest of days, but no rain, and the occasional spot of sun made for a pleasant temperature and day to do these. Sorry they are too much of a blur for individual logs but will add a few comments here and there.

TFTC

Time to do this series with Sp8sm8. Apologies for the repetitive logs, just to say that we enjoyed the series and some sensible hides. TFTC

Thank!

Today we make an other walk...Lotr. This is a really nice one. Thank you dear Owner for the top conditions.

On a road trip north, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from 2 Austrians  
Die_Asseln

Quick find here. Lovely river we just crossed over. Tftc. We found two caches here so we signed both just to be sure.

Found on a beautiful autumn day. Cheers!

I found two caches here...I signed them both! TFTC

Day 12 of our NZ trip. This series was one of the first things on our 'must do' list. We were not disappointed! We were able to find LOTR 1 - 33 (with the exception of the mystery cache). All of the caches were easy to find and in great shape. Thank you yorkshirekiwi83 for placing and maintaining this series for our enjoyment. Greetings from

I'm always keen to get my step count average up and this weekend with yeetrees and bkj97 was an opportunity to do so. It's been a few years (about 30) since I was in the area doing a mountain marathon so I was keen to see how the area had changed. Certainly the tracks are far more tourist friendly. Great day out and 50 caches scored. Really enjoyed the challenge so thanks for making it possible by placing the series. T4tcsl. My apologies for the generic logs.

Saw this series of caches when they were published and really haven't had the opportunity to ever look at coming up here to attempt them. When the opportunity arose that this series was up for adoption, I decided to contact the CO and sent yorkshirekiwi83 an email saying that we were happy to adopt them as we didnt want to see them being archived. Yorkshirekiwi83 was happy and willing to let me adopt them, decided that we should go and find the caches before adopting this series of caches .

A plan was to come out here and spend the weekend near the start of the track, so a plan was hatched on Christmas Day 2018, we checked out the accommodation and Mrs Yeetrees said that she had always wanted to stay at the Chateau Tongariro, as her family was a legacy visitor, but that is another story.

After the accommodation was all booked it was just a matter of planning the trip, and saving the funds [xx(], well a plan was set in motion..... and the start of the journey from there and back again.

We meet up with bkj97 and the Little Blue Hen while we out and about and had mentioned that we were going to go up the mountain attempt this series, they said that they were happy to come along as well if we didn’t mind the company, well twos company more are cachers, why not as two eyes are better than mine as I am know to be blind, so the plan was amended for a team effort [^].

Today was the day one of our two day visit on this lovely mountain and we decided that we would attempt the LOTR series, having made our way up here last night with bkj97 being our most gracious chauffeur who go us to our accommodation safely last night [^].

After finding GC6J6AC - LOTR07 - Arwen, this was the next cache we had to find as we were making our way along the Silica Rapids track and continue on our journey towards the next cache of the series. As we were making our way towards GZ, we decided to check the hint, and as we neared GZ, it only took bkj97 a few seconds to spot the hiding spot of the cache, and we soon found the cache.

Managed to retrieve the cache, signed and then we replaced the cache with a new logbook and cache container before replacing the cache back where I found it. Thanks yorkshirekiwi83 for placing this cache series here and for bringing me to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (14312).

Now it is time to make our way to the next cache in the series, the adventure and journey continues ....

Information:
Elrond (Sindarin; IPA: "Star-Dome") Half-elven, Lord of Rivendell, was one of the mighty Elf-rulers of old who lived in Middle-earth from the First Age to the beginning of the Fourth Age. He was the father of Arwen Undomiel, the eventual lover of Aragorn II Elessar.

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Birthday Friday and a drive to the Chateau arriving in the dark courtesy of Yeetrees tours unlimited. Saturday morning with wonderful weather, a substantial Chateau buffet breakfast to keep us going and off we went on our LOR quest for the day. Yeetree's organisational skills were amazing and the actual cache maintenance went without a hitch. Mrs Yeetrees and little blue hen completed the party and a thoroughly good time was had by all. This was the eighth of fifty for the day. A great series that was well worth the effort. Tftcsl. Apologies for very generic logs.

Good description. My phone was empty. I remembered the distance when my phone was did'nt work and found the cache without GPS. With patience and luck. Nice walk. Thank you!

A wonderful hiking day in Tongariro National Park for D4nielB and me. We walked the Taranaki Falls Loop, the Tama Lakes Track to the lower lake and a loop track to visit the Silica Rapids. It was awesome. On our way we also looked for some geocaches.
This one was another quick find.
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Juliane

Today Jul1ane and me used the day for a lot of hiking in Tongariro National Park, starting with Upper Taranaki Falls Track, Tama Lakes Track to Lower Tama Lake and Lower Taranaki Falls track, followed by a round trip along Lower and Upper Silica Springs Track. Of course we also used these for a big load of cache finds.

We found this cache without problems and in good shape.

With Lemmer in New Zealand at amazing caches. Thank you for showing all that beautiful places. flatrate

A great walk at Tongariro. Not himself but the silica rapids. Amazing view. The very first round in NZ with great hints and easy finds. Thank you very much. Lemmer and flatrate

Upon arrival at gz we noticed this was probably missing so as previously discussed with the CO we replaced this in the same place with a pill bottle.

Had a good look here, but as expected with three previous DNF's, we couldn't find this one. Think it's gone AWOL....

This one I could not find!

Sad not to find this one and complete the series on this trail.

At first we wanted to do the Tongariro Crossing this day, but the weather was so bad that we had to decide differently. Instead we made a hike in the surroundings of the visitor centre. We were drawn here by the trail LOTR, but also some other caches were found.
The LOTR follows a beautiful path. About halfway the weather got worse. We had a strong drizzle, with some heavy winds. The higher we got, the colder. But we kept on going and finally we stood on the Bruce Road. Unfortunately we could not find another trail to bring us back to the visitor centre, so we continued to walk on the road. We found a few other caches there, but the Bonus of this series was not one of them. We had a coordinate for the bonus, but it could not have been right. Either it is completely out of course or we did something wrong. Anyway, we were satisfied with all the caches we did find on this beautiful trail.
Thanks for placing this series, but this one we could not find!

We are on vacation in New Zealand and of course we seek some caches.
Thanks for this one!
Greetings from the Dutch.

See log for #9. This is the one we couldn't find.

We arrived today at Tongariro very early. Therefore we would like to do one of the nice rounds. This one was very nice because have seen wonderful nature. Only the way back was not beautiful...thanks for the caches!

After returning from Round the mountain walk, I still had to wait for my room. That's why the time until check-in in the chateau was used optimally and completed the second of three laps in the footsteps of the LOTR. Unfortunately, I was missing some caches, but the round was so much fun. Thanks for this idea and greetings from Germany.

TFTC says Fawkes.de

Found this one quickly on an evening stroll. Thank you very much for the cache. Greetings from Switzerland.

Tftc!

TFTC

See log for LOTR 1, TFTC

Quick find. Nice sound around.
TFTC

TFTC! Great series.
Cheers
IP

At this beautiful day we made two of the LOTR-Tracks. We visited the fellowship and the villains of the trilogy. Both of the walks are really great and we had a lot of fun to hike a little bit and go for geocaching at the same time. The caches a not so hard to find, so we had enough time to enjoy the track. On each track we didn’t find one cache, so there are still two green points between all the smileys . Sorry about the same log for all caches, we are here for holidays and had so many things to do .... but not enough time!
We enjoyed really all the caches today, because we love LOTR. Many many thanks for bringing us to this locations and the tracks and also for hiding the caches along this wonderful ways!! We leave a blue ring in the first cache of all !
Greetings from Germany!
#530

Nice spot! TFTC!

Enjoying the weekend in Whakapapa Village to get some hiking training in for my upcoming big hike of the Green Gully Track in OZ. Great weather today to be out in the area to enjoy the scenery. TFTC

Today was focused on hiking in the wunderful Whakapapa area. The weather was nearly good, only interrupted by some rainfalls. The boxes were almost easy to find, as it should be on a long powertrail.

Thanks for the caches!

Little did we know, but about now our friends who we were staying with were crossing just behind us. The stream is nice to listen to here. Thanks for the cache yorkshirekiwi83

This trail is very interesting enjoying the walk and variety thanks for the cache YK83

Spent today doing the Taranaki Fall walk then he Silica Falls walk. What a great series of caches and all with spot on coordinates. Hint she helped a lot as well. Found all the ones I looked for apart from one with a lot of dnf’s listed and another that had caused a few problems for previous cachers. Bumped into a muggle couple who we kept leapfrogging so explained what we were up to. They sounded as if they could be signing up. Greetings from Edinburgh. Tftc. Apologies for cut and paste logs but too many to do individually.

A steady drizzle and chilly wind did not spoil the pleasure we had this morning when tramping the beautiful Silica Rapids Walk. Finding all the LOTR caches along the way was great fun, too. The hints were very precise and helpful and we enjoyed that we did not have to leave the path. All caches could be easily spotted, unfortunately most of the logbooks are wet or even soaked.
Tftc! We leave a couple of FP points

Found! TFTC! (More to come..)

Later more
Today we had our second day in National Park Whakapapa and made a trip around the wonderful walks here. Special emphasis had we on the vulcanic mountains around us. On this trip we searched, found and logged many caches, too. The weather was good in the morning, sunny, but it got worse all day long, until raining at noon and later. Only sometimes then there was some sun to be seen.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had better things to do than observing two geocachers.
Thanks to yorkshirekiwi83 for showing us this location and for the fun we had at LOTR08 - Lord Elrond. The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 29. Oktober 2018 @ 13:12 Uhr @ [#12211](https://coord.info/GC6J6AF)

Found it

As preparation for the Tongariro Crossing we visited the DOC ofice and then used the spare time for a walk and some caches. As we wanted to cover some way, we only searched for every second cache.
This one took a bit time, but was found in the end.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining this trail!

We had an afternoon to go hiking and geocaching in the Tongariro National Park. For this we picked this trail. Since we wanted to cover some ground we only looked for every second Cache. Most could be found with little difficulty.

This one took a bit longer than necessary because I didn't look close enough and because it was a bit higher than expected. All fine though.

Thanks for this Cache!

#2039

It was quite cloudy this morning and so I decided to hike the short round to the Silica Rapids. I am always happy when a round is motivated by a few caches. So here too!
The containers were regularly very good to find and most in good condition.

tftc

Another nicely hidden cache! TFTC.

Found with our 2 and 5 y.o. T4TC. Great trail. Thanks!

On our Route through New Zealand we found this nice Place. Thank you for showing us!
We logged as Team EIN
Yours Slashgirl

During our stay in Chateau Tongariro we did some walking and had time to look for some caches. This is one of them. We logged as Team EIN. TftC! Greetings from Germany! - Willow

Third day here, love it! Last series to gain some smilies ...Thanks for setting them up..TFTC

Nice!

TFTC.

TFTG live from team Stockley

Lovely walk in the sun

Working my way to the Silica Rapids on a beautiful morning. Starting at the campground end and coming back down the road. Another cache within easy reach of the track, with spot on co-ordinates. Thank you for the effort and care taken with your placements. TFTC

Für wahr, wir haben uns der Gemeinschaft angeschlossen und werden zum Gelingen der Mission beitragen

Heute bei sehr schönem Wetter haben wir uns die Runde LOTR vorgenommen. Die Runde führt uns an schöne Aussichtspunkte und an tollen Wasserfällen vorbei. Alle Dosen waren gut zu finden. Vielen Dank fürs Legen.

Today in very nice weather we have made the round LOTR. The round takes us to beautiful viewpoints and great waterfalls over. All cans were good to find. Thank you for laying.