G.M.B.T #34 - odd one out Belfield, South Island, New Zealand
By BrownscacheDiversBCD on 01-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6PG7B

On holiday for 2 weeks in caravan, stopped at Geraldine for couple nights and thought we would go find some caches. TFTC

Nice quick find here today Thanks for the placement and the smiley. Alot of the caches on this trail have wet logs and in bad need of new containers

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I decided to come and cycle around the tracks here and target the caches along. Unfortunately, many of them were in a sad state with wet logs, and a few missing. They would benefit from a CO maintenance run/cycle. I really enjoyed the ride!! TFTC!

Was down here a month ago and did the upper half of the tracks. Today in the drizzle and 6c temp I'll do the rest. Just one dnf today. Had to give up writing in a few as my hand got colder, wetter, and very dirty!

Found on a sunny autumn day with farmerKeith and jazzyJo.

An easier find,Tftc

TFTC

Quickly located.

We are staying at the Top 10 camp so it was nice to be able to get on our bikes and end up on this trail. Cache is all good. TFTC

Point scouts

Found. TFTC

Sorry gotta go dnf

Tidying up the last few on the way back to the car park

M had found the cache by the time I got there. I am starting to feel very weary. Just as well we are near the end of today's geocaching. I cannot believe you heard me say that.

Had trouble spotting the odd one out but still found the cache. Thanks!

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches.
Found with Fisha1288
Cheers, Cympull.

Easy find with Cympull. TFC

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC BrownscacheDiversBCD

Found with NZDi. Full log to follow.

Great cache, 10/10

Tysm

Quick find. TFTC.

Little Horrible did the honours for us today TFTH

Walking the Orari River tracks between Vance and Bennett roads, grabbing a few caches on the way. Quick find; TFTC

Nice easy find, log is a tad wet

Found it

On a roll TFTC

Found

Riding the track on a scorching day with Ice Diva and Rangit4t3
TftC

Finally found the time to bike the track and get some catches! Found with Conbat and Rangit4t3. TFTC

Good to find some because there are those we haven't been able to find. TFTC.

Found with Mporokosa. TFTC

Elephant tracks led the way. Tftc

Not sure what’s odd

Turns out I must have been able to pick it out as I found the cache. TFTC # 17,573

Found on a nice bike ride before the rain

This trip has been a long time coming! After spotting the long line of caches months and months ago on the app map we finally got here! We rushed out straight after holiday program pick up to find a few before dark. This is as far as we went today, with darkness fast approaching this was a good quick find to head back to the car. Thanks.

Out for a run the other day with Mrs abxt350 to mop up a couple of caches missed previously.cheers

Once we found the right but it was easy. Nice

Easy find this time on a nice beautiful evening walk.
TFTC

Great day easy find, just about got caught out getting this cache from bikers on the track - TFTC

A quick find after looking in the wrong place initially with Campmotherandken TFTC

So many prickles! TFTC

With tracks heading off in all directions and no topo map on the gps we had to guess as to which track to use for the next set of caches. Once we got started most fell into place. This was the second of three quick finds. tftc

No 46

In Geraldine for the weekend with BCD and it was a beautiful first day of Spring so nothing like a little Sunday stroll to get a cache or two! A lovely walk along the MTB track while the kids rode ahead. Enjoyed smelling the blossom on the trees along the way and even had to bring out the sunscreen TFTC BCD

Was a fairly quick find on my walk.

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A quick find thanks

Ice big piles of metal here ..all goid tftc

Quick find with geo trail. TFTC.

Lots of action it on the river bank quarrying stone. All good here thanks.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on our weekend trip to Geraldine. We had been eyeing up these bike trail caches for a while and finally we have brought our bikes with us. The weather was perfect (maybe a little too hot at times) and we biked the Vance Rd to the Orari Bridge section of the trail. A few DNFs, and a few not looked for, but overall a successful day.
Not sure why this one is the odd one out, but SW tracked it down. TFTC.

#16691. Couldn't work out why this was the odd one out (but now realise that the cache name reflected the original hide). Didn't take too long to locate. TFTC.

not so odd.

It was time for a wander along the G.M.B.T today starting from the southeastern end.

Nope to the odd one out.

Cheers for the cache.

Interesting log book... TFTC found with heyhaynz

Ok here

Description is now almost useless, but that does not reflect on the hide!! All the surrounds are gone and yet this was quickly spotted. In general the coords are so accurate . Thanks.

Was initially planning a trip to Geraldine tomorrow (Sunday) to bike the river trails but forecast rain made me come today (Saturday). Frosty morning but a lovely sunny day. Bit late leaving home but all good. Will see how many I can find!
Quickly cornered and signed....cheers.

I think this was the one with no log paper inside, but has a bit of paper on me that will do the trick for now. - Bitsprayer

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 5.933 E 171° 17.306

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 5.933 E 171° 17.300

Distance from original: 26.3 feet or 8.0 meters.

other side of the track now in the first one

Last one attempted today before walking back to meet the others with car. GZ chopped out only a bunch of stumps left in immediate spot. Others further up river may have similar fates.

Day 9 - of our (The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara, & myself) epic adventure leaving Oamaru for Geraldine and the cycle trail today. Tobys at SH1 , and Zara at Main North Road. We are on Jack and Jill, with pedal power to the fore.
Sighted the odd one for another quick snag and tag. Now lets get pedaling along. Cheers

Taybeedragon and I are cycling the trail and enjoying every minute of it. The weather gods turned on a nice day - an excellent day off from the rigours of heading home after a week's geofesting in Oamaru.

Up from Mosgiel on a caching binge in Geraldine. Nice easy find. Beautiful weather and a beautiful spot. TFTC

Yes, the cache was quickly found, but getting to gz was a fiiferent story. I came in from the nearby road, though the blackberry, Bad mistake! got there and back without too many spilled claret! cheers.

A nice sunny saturday. caching time to Geraldine.

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

Na! Not for me today.. I looked in all the hidey holes I could see but I could not feel or see owt. .. s secksavers here i come

That was tricky to find. It was time to do a bit of winter campervanning. Bbear44 was mad enough to join me. We took our bikes and headed into BCD country.

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Thanks. BrownscacheDiversBCD for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 4903 for me.

Out for the weekend with my buddy Nosynel bike caching on lovely winters day. Enjoyed finding all the caches we did today.....some more than others lol. Thanks so much for placing them made for a fun day.

Cache still in its new location and dry

Gave up after 20 minutes

A full log at https://coord.info/GC6PGTB - TFTC.

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 5.941 E 171° 17.314

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 5.933 E 171° 17.306

Distance from original: 59.9 feet or 18.3 meters.

gz has fallen over in the last couple of weeks and cache is well buried so have relocated to one of the very obvious hidey holes nearby cache is attached so please replace as found have updated coords accordingly

No luck today.

Looked and looked for about half an hour here. No joy unfortunately. Only dnf for the day.

Next time.......

The leave passes for Karma Reprint and myself matched up, so onto our bikes to attempt to clean up the series in one day. 42km and 12ish hours later it's mostly done. Time for the last half of the last leg of the day, time to get back to the car. Back across the dry river, just about finished and bugger, a DNF. KR and I spent half hour here looking and looking for the only DNF of the day but no luck for us. Coords all over the show and no luck. Bugger, would have loved to get the lot done in one day. No elephant tracks either, oh well, next time. Cheers

It took us quite a while to track down this cache as the coordinates were too far from the track to be of use. We initially tried the wrong oddity, but eventually spotted a geotrail leading to the correct one. Our coordinates were S44 05.932 E171 17.311. The cache is of course micro not small. TFTC

Great day for a bike ride and a new track and a good Number of finds . Perfect. TFTC

Found all safe and secure

Back on the GMBT trail today tackling the eastern end caches. Cache all good. TFTC

Staying briefly at Mt Somers for a few days . searching for Caches and the elusive summer weather. thanks for the caches. We appreciate everyone's effort to make and maintain each one.

Out on the Geraldine MTB trail picking up caches.

A quick find.

#5920

Loved it. Walking back to car now, heading to Bennett's road.

The last day with the campervan, our wunderful holidays in NZ will end. Today we had to travel from Fairlie to Christhurch. Since we had still some time we decided to run a part of the GMBT series..
Thanks for hiding and greetings from Germany!
Klostersigi

With today dawning fine it was time to get on my MTB and cyclocache my way along some of the various Geraldine MTB trails. Parked at the Western Seaward Road and first headed north up to and over (make that under) SH79 to seek 3 caches north of the SH before heading back to the cachemobile for a spot of morning tea. Once fed and watered it was time to seek out the caches south of Seaward Rd. I didn't quite make it all the way to Vance Rd as boredom and frustration with the poor poor physical state of many of the cache logs set in.

I won't be logging Needs Maintenance logs but will just mention something, where required, of the state of each cache.

Yea, a bone dry log. That sure has brightened my day. TFTC.

That's far enough for me today. I am now soaked right up to the waist thanks to the long grass. I will be back to grab some more, next time on a better day. Tftc found this one on my second spot I tried.

sunny Monday morning maintenance ride looks like the original has fallen from its perch so have replaced with another and have secured it in place

Gave this one a brief search but no luck - the rain was now bucketing down and I wasn't inclined to persist...

Zeroed in on this one pretty quickly. After a couple of dnf's in a row was pleased to find this one.

#2,529: Loggy Smiley!
Woo hoo! What a great day out! It all actually started last night, when Team_Gaters and TheWanglers were visiting me. I was looking for some way to celebrate International Geocaching Day. TG told me about all the FTFs on offer in this area, and that combined with a mountain-bike track was all it took. I arrived at noon, and started my ride, enjoying the beautiful weather, and the complete lack of other people on this fine Saturday. Twenty-six finds, 11 FTFs, and only 2 DNFs. All in all, a fine day.
SL/TFTC!

FTF found on a lovely family bike ride. TFTC

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