LOTR10 - Legolas Tongariro National Park, North Island, New Zealand
By yorkshirekiwi83 on 14-May-16. Waypoint GC6J6AV

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi yorkshirekiwi83

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Found obvious tree but no go.

Clearly missing in action!

This cache has likely been mugged as all in this series were easy to find. The two obvious locations that fit the hint didn't have the cache although one did have an out of place rock.

No luck here for me.

DNF

First day of autumn: the original plan for today was to try Tongariro Alpine Crossing, but we felt it could be too 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.

This cache was an DNF, which was sad, because we did not know if there was a bonus information in it.

P.S. because of the current lockdown situation we do not log a "needs maintenance" for this cache, but it would be nice if the owner could have a look when the situation allowes it.

found with ted on the mountain adventure TFTC

Oh oh. No cache again in the obvious hint item. Again, another thorough search with Juty Bug yielded no result. Replaced this with another micro container in one of two possible hiding places here.

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

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

Tftf

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!

A little bit dirty

Nice hide. The pretty blue fungus mentioned in the earlier logs has long gone.
Thanks for the cache.

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

This is another character I remember well. As with most of the earlier caches, I had no difficulty tracking this one down.

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

Auch den nächsten Gefährten könnten wir aufspüren.
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 10!

MPLC

Easy find for my favourite character.tftc.

On tour with my brother and his girlfriend. I found the cache in this amazing area. Thank you for showing and the cache. Greetings from Germany!

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

A bit disgusting with a fungus growing over it

The phone had died but as we walked by we noticed a spot that looked like a great spot for a cache. We found one and some interesting fungus too. TFTC

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

Easy find while tramping the Whakapapaiti Valley Track stopping for a break at the Whakapapaiti Hut Punaruku Falls, Silica Rapids. cach's in good order some logs hard to get out.

Momentous find!

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

Legs strted to ache by time at legolas!!
Easy find. Tftc.

Found on a beautiful autumn day. Cheers!

Found Legolas today while walking the Silica Rapids trail. 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

Ah, Legolas. 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 GC6J6AJ - LOTR09 - Lady Galadriel, 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 (14314).

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

Information:
Legolas was a Sindarin elf who was part of the Fellowship of the Ring in the Third Age. As he was the son of the Elvenking Thranduil of Mirkwood, Legolas was prince of the Woodland Realm (Mirkwood), a messenger, and a master bowman. With his keen eyesight, sensitive hearing, and excellent bowmanship, Legolas was a valuable resource to the other members of the Fellowship. He was well-known for becoming friends with the dwarf Gimli, despite their long-held differences.

It is not known whether Legolas was Thranduil's only son, or his heir. His age is unknown as well.

Disclaimer:
This disclaimer informs readers that the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author.

Otherwise, what one says may be construed as being what the entire one believes, thinks or condones, and this may be very inaccurate and damaging, or just complete fiction......

Little blue hen got all excited when she knew this was Legolas. Oh well. Just a cache.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 tenth of fifty for the day. A great series that was well worth the effort. Tftcsl. Apologies for very generic logs.

Hard to find as GPS not latching on. But Found in the end. 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

We had planned to do the Tongariro Crossing but it was cancelled due to weather so we did the Taranaki Falls and Silica Rapids tracks instead. Once we located the correct tree, the cache was quickly found, thanks

The silica trail combined with catching thanks from the Netherlands.

We went over to complete the first half of the Tongariro Crossing today - I had particular caches that I needed to do to complete a mountain challenge. However the weather had different ideas! We walked up to the Red Crater amidst rain, gusty winds and cold, but didn't manage to complete two other caches that I really wanted to pick up as the weather was really pretty ghastly! This afternoon we had free as we had planned to be over in the mountains for the whole day. We went on this picturesque walk to Silica Rapids and picked up all of the caches on this circuit apart from the one with several DNF's already. Thanks so much for this series, TFTC

Back home in Denmark again from my 4th visit to New Zealand.
Luckily I had some time for geocaching when there, so now it is time to log my findes.
Took up this trail again from last year.
This cache was found, and the logbook was signed.
TFTC

Find #3031. A day spent in the Whakapapa area hiking short trails while son #1 walked the Tongariro Crossing. Misty early on but the day soon cleared to warm sun and blue skies. Very busy in the area with the Tussock Traverse on today.
With the Taranaki Falls Track and caches completed, there was time to walk the Silica Rapids Track, starting from the lower end.
Really enjoying this walk with the bush then open spaces. SL TFTC

11209
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!

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. TFTC!

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!

We got up early in order to finish this LOTR series in order to head to Hobbiton. We got all the caches and it took us 3.5 hours for the remaining caches that we hadn't time for yesterday. We apologise for the same log for all the caches but there were simply too many. Thank you 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

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!
#532

Thanks to alpenmilch80 for doing some maintence for me

Thanks to alpenmilch80 for doing some maintence for me

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

Replaced container and log with new one, which was sponsored by CO.

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!

Disbaled until I can perform maintenence

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Feeeeeee joked "Nobody likes Legolas". And so it seemed that even Muggles hated Legolas so much that they took him away...

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Like the last couple of visitors here - no luck. Our only DNF for the day.

DNF for us. Found likely hidey hole complete with sticks and stones arranged in typical geocaching fashion but no cache to be found. We looked around to see if anyone thrown out into the bush, but again nothing found.

No sign of this, can see where it should be

TFTG live from team Stockley

TFTC.

Classic hidey hole

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

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.

Nice quick find during a very enjoyable walk in the Silica Rapids loop. This is a great series for young families as the hides are simple and the hints are excellent. Thanks for bringing us here!

Quick find

Plesant find among a lot of other well placed and maintained caches in Whakapapa area. We had lovely weekend here. Found many caches and enjoyed all of them. Accurate coordinates and helpful hints does the job! TFTC

Nice trail
Thanks.

on our journey through neeseeland we visited many beautiful places,
Here, too, we were able to log into the logbook. Thank you for the lay and the many greetings from Germany from the team stierwade

Nice hide
Happy hunting

A really nice Trail through the beautiful landscape. Thank you for hiding the cache.

Find number 3737. I had a plan today to collect a First to Find in Owhango, Complete the LOTR series and end up in Taurmarunui to have dinner with my brother. So it was out of bed at 5 am and straight on the road. I arrived at Owhango at 7.40 and achieved the First to Find. Stage 1 completed. Then arrived at Whakapapa about 8 and decided to shout myself a big breakfast before starting. I did the 3 loops in numerical order 1-19 then 20-33 and finally 34-49. I managed to find all the caches (Stage 2 completed) and a few others as well. In the end I achieved a total of 56 finds with only 1 not found and that was "Naki Splash" (too many muggles round). Total walking time was 8 hours. And still made it to dinner by 6 pm. (Stage 3 completed). Thank you for all the placements.
I am liking this trail. All the caches have been quick easy finds. As I approached GZ I spotted a hint item and sure enough I soon had the cache in hand.

Found it even without hint at the time. Good find. Cache a little damp and no code in it that I could see.

Found this cache together with my family (Sibuk and Finn). For details see the log of Sibuk.

Thanks for the cache, Lupid

During our wonderful vacation in New Zealand Lupid, me, and our little geocaching apprentice managed to find some caches.

Today we visited the Tongariro N.P. As we thought the crossing would be a little bit too much for the little one, we decided to go to the Silica Terraces, and so we did
A nice hike with a lot of caches to find. Fortunately nearly all of them were easy to find - otherwise we might have stopped searching for them as the walk and enjoying the nature were our main goal for today. But as it is, it was a nice add-on to the beautiful walk.

Thanks for the caches and greetings from Germany, Sibuk

Tftc !

We are staying at Turangi on a short holiday with muggle family members and trying to fit in a little caching when we can. Fortunately they are happy to help too.
We took the opportunity while at Whakapapa today to continue with some LOTR caches we ran out of time for last time we were here.
On the Silica Rapids walk this was the second and was quickly located. All was well here. TFTC

Found the fallen tree, actually saw where cache would be hidden way back while walking up the track. TFTC

Found while having a day off the mountain
TFTC

A quick find and a good cache.TFTC!

Checked all in the Fellowship section of the series, replaced log books, plastic bags and actual caches where needed, whole series is complete.

If anyone comes across these and the logs do need replacing or the plastic bags are missing and you are able to help out it would be most appreciated if you could. Thanks in advance

I'm from Norway, escaping the cold winter and travelling around New Zealand for 7 weeks, using geocaching as my tourguide. Today I drove from New Plymouth to Ohakune, stopping by the Tongariro-nationalpark to do some of the LOTR-series. I came here a bit later than expected (because of geocaching), so I only had 2,5 hours to play. I decided to go for the Silica Rapids-circle, returning to do some more tomorrow. Luckily the finds were all easy and quick, so the circle took me exactly 2,5 hours. The weather was cold and windy today, but I could see the mountains and the views on this trail was beautiful!! I have to say I absolutely love this series!!! All the caches were quickly found, you didn't have to step off the trail and the hints were good. Yeah, and we even get clues for a bonus-cache!! Thank you soo much for this great series, I will add favouritepoints at the bonus-caches.