BS1: I'm Lichen It! (Canterbury) Arthur's Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By 8ManAfter on 01-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7FGYF

Thanks 8ManAfter for placing this cache for all of us to enjoy.TNLNSL, replaced as found, TFTC

Found it, TFTC!

T4TC

On a caching+hiking adventure.Glad to meet the CO at start of the track. This is our first find in the series. GPS was all over the place and lichen too but managed to find the cache at the end.. TFTC

Found with Gummi_Venus.

Found with Gummi_Venus.

Found but aaarrgghh I brought no pen . Took a photo for co. Tftc

The first of this lot on the way to the hut and Point 1545. A quick diversion and success. Cheers

I've been eyeing these up for ages, seeing it is Nelson anniversary weekend and the forecast is good I jumped at the chance. Nice quick find thanks 8ManAfter

#12926

We missed this one on our way up, but luckily we met angelic_kiwi, who could help us out. On the way down, we collected it, of course! Thanks!

We missed this one on the way up, but luckily we met angelic_kiwi, who could help us out with the missing color! On the way down, we collected this one as well, thanks!

GPS lead me right to it, was obvious once in the area. Had a lovely walk today, beautiful weather and views. Thanks!

Took us a bit, but finally we've found the first cache in the series. TFTC

Couldn't find this one , GPS all over the place as no connection

Nice quick find. Great view
Finished Cass Lagoon circuit yesterday so thought I'd do Bealey spur today to grab some caches

Found the first one but the kids a little tired. Will be back another day for the rest.

We stopped for lunch and turned around close to this cache. Spend the night with our camper at the Klondyke corner. Beautiful area, super weather so we went for a 4 hour hike at the Bealey spur track. Cache quickly found.

Out leading a day trip for the CUTC. Took the opportunity to try and get all the caches up a track that I don't take very often. This one took a little while as my GPS was leading me astray. Eventually spotted something suspicious. TFTC

Quick easy find found with Juju54 - TFTC

A nice little hide here with campmotherandken so many people walking this track its amazing! TFTC

A fairly quick find with plenty of hint items around, perhaps not as far from the track as our GPS indicated, as one of several groups making their way up the hill had morning tea just along the track. TFTC

This was more difficult than expected, but we found it. Both container and logbook were in good condition. We did this on our way back from the view point. Great day for a hike. Thanks for placing some caches along the way.

Tftc

Enjoying a hike with the EU crew up to Bealey Hut for the afternoon. Great views and an enjoyable walk. TFTC

Soon zeroed in on this . Thanks

We were staying nearby for a few days, so what better than a walk up Bealey Spur on a lovely winters day! Quite a few people out and about today. TFTC

Its onwards and upwards on this cold cold morning. We left the carpark just after 7am at -1deg but warmer in the trees. A little slippery in places with a few muddy and icy areas to contend with on the flats. But lovely bush to walk through. A quick find here while the sun shines upon us. Cheers..

Monday today, and first up is Bealy Spur Track for the morning, then home via Lake Brunner and Murchison later today.

Its Queens Birthday weekend and The Seagnoid, Zara and I are heading out of town for a long weekend to Arthurs Pass, via Kaikoura. Had a fantastic weekend, seeing lots of new places, limestone formations, amazing views, awesome beech forest walks, but getting nowhere fast. Bloody cold at times with -3deg frosts but thankfully the snow stayed on the top of the highest mountains.. Enjoyed driving back via Lake Brunner, Murchison. An awesome few days exploring.

When I got to this cache, Monday morning (afternoon is for driving back to Blenheim), I agreed. Yeah, I'm liking it. About an hour later I disagreed. I'M LOVING IT!!! Frankly I don't get enough tree time, but on top of that, it's frigging cold, which means the air is crystal clear, the views are amazing, it's morning so the light is awesome, and... and... and it's probably time I stopped raving about this. Brilliant blue sky going up, fully clouded over coming down. Shame these caches are micros, I'd be giving away a lot more favourites if they were bigger.

Taybeedragon and I are on a five day extended Queen's Birthday weekend. Happy birthday marm! The plan was to cache the Arthur's Pass route, from Rangiora to Lake Buller. You would think four days was enough to do the 211 kilometers, but we didn't even manage the 130 to Arthur's Pass village before we had to pull the pin Monday lunchtime for the drive back to Blenheim. But on the way we saw some amazing views, strange geology, weird amounts of ice in the puddles, ice on the inside of our windscreen - it was that cold. Caves, wonderful beech forests, rather a lot of bridge barriers and even a cache or few. And there was blisters, sliding down icy grassy hills on our bums (what fun!) and rather a lot of walking. Many thanks to all the cache owners that made this such an amazing trip.

Back in business! Keep safe, and thanks for your patience.

STAY HOME, STAY SAFE, STAY SMART!

DISABLING FOR NOW. ANY LOGS POSTED FROM NOW UNTIL THE CACHE IS ENABLED WILL BE DELETED.

STAY HOME, STAY SAFE, STAY SMART!

Heading to the Arthur’s pass area for the weekend grabbing a load of unfound caches along the way
Finally the stars have aligned to get onto this track which I have wanted to do for years
Sorry for the cut and paste but my logs have disappeared into cyber space so having to rewrite them

Gorgeous view!0

What a great view! I hear the one at the view point is better! I can't wait!

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Jessus was here with Zuzka during the honeymoon around the globe.
TFTC

Found while on walk with friends. Tftc

Lovely morning walk before it gets to hot,and hopefully this cache is one of many! Tftc.

Yay. Found the cache once I zeroed in on gz. tftc. Find 559

Quickly found on a walk up Bealey Spur with Ilmari the Red and the family. The log was totally drenched and falling to pieces. This is perhaps not surprising as the container had been placed in a hollow where once a stone had been. When snow melts, that's where it will pool. We have done some maintenance: log and plastic bag replaced, with a further small pill bottle inside the main container to add a layer of protection, and a new drainage system installed - i.e., a base of stones was added inside the hollow. Hopefully it will stay dry longer. TFTC 8Manafter!

Today Trifolia Argentea and I took ourselves for a hike up Bealey Spur. Quite a serious walk, but it felt good, and the views were certainly worth the effort. Along the way, we collected a whole string of caches - with not one missed! An excellent day in all.

TFTC!

quick found on the way up today. we had fun, rain, thunderstorm and finally sun at the end of the day.
Thanks - team bycycle

TFTC!

Helps when people put the lichen side up! Got the rock eventually.

We were today on our tour to the Bealey Spur Hut. We had a wonderful sunny day and absolut great views. With the kids we need 8 hours and had a nice rest at the hut. Thanks for the cache!

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FITW GreenMenace
Parked at the BS track carpark for the night and starting the BS track first thing in the morning. Awesome weather, no one around yet, although we met a trio from Germany right next to GZ. Thought they were geocachers as they had stopped right next to the point where you go off track to look for the cache. But they were mere muggles taking a break

GPS all over, wasn't easy to locate the right spot as I'm lichen it everywhere!

#6445

#3910 We went up the hill with our kids and we loved the surroundings and the views!Thanks for the cache, greetings from Czech Republic.

Great views from here. Tftc

Sorry for very late log

Removing Premium status.

Out and about with Rincewind3 and Not Manlyjack for a weekend walk. TFTC

The third of 11 finds today (along with 3 DNFs). The three of us stayed at Dew Drop Inn opposite the Bealey Hotel on Saturday night so we could walk up to Bealey Top Hut on Saturday and explore Castle Hill Reserve on Sunday. As writing Bo&bronnie, Rincewind3, and Not Manly Jack on the logs was tedious (& a lot didn't have room) we logged as BRN. I joked that BRN stood for "feel the BuRN!"
The first of the Bealey Spur caches. #4 was the DNF. This was an easy find once we got to GZ.
TFTC
Find # 3182

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Onward ho, only 8 more to go

Today we decided to hike to the top hut. It was higher than we thought, but it was such a lovely natur and very nice views to the river and to the mountains. We found 8 caches from 9. The bonus we solved using all our inspirations. TFTC!

I scored a free night's accommodation in Arthur's Pass for the Saturday, perfect for caching and walking!! Today I decided to head up Bealey Spur past the hut and collect the caches along the way. I was really looking forward to collecting the series! Nice spot with a view away from the main drag. TFTC!!

We stayed the night at Lake Pearson. Sunday's mission was Bealey Spur.
I am now logging these finds on the way home. I am enjoying sitting down although my entire body is aching.
JDScout and I thoroughly enjoyed the walk. Finding geocaches was a bonus.
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Thanks. 8ManAfter for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 5341 for me.

Ah ha, at last I have reached the first of the series that prompted today's cache raid on Bealey Spur. Onwards and upwards.

We have never walked this track before so a new series of caches up here spurred us on to do it. We made it all the way to the Hut and back. This cache was a quick find. TFTC.

Been a few years since I did this track so back today with the family. Bit hot when not in the shade. Made it to the top for lunch. Followed by a cold beer at the Bealey hotel afterwards.

Plans were afoot for a different Mad Monday Mission... those were dashed when CO contacted TG about these being published. I did a bit of a shuffle around with cachelet minding as Mrs TW was in Auckland. A few texts and phone calls later TG came and grabbed me at 5.15pm and we gapped it to the car park and headed up the track at 7pm on the dot. The plan was to turn around at 10pm regardless of whether we got all the caches and we'd only spend a couple of minutes finding the caches. We headed up and DNFed the first cache we came across and then found all the rest thankfully. We got to the hut at 9pm and got back to the car at 10.30 clocking up 12.5kms! We had the perfect night for it it was clear, warm and had a super moon. We even heard a morepork as we were walking back in the dark. Great fun. And back home in bed at 12.30am.
First {FTF} of the evening. TG made the find. Onwards after recording the colour.

Thanks for the cache 8ManAfter.
#5268

**FTF** 744pm with TheWanglers
Monday Night Mad Mission time with TheWanglers.. We'd already scoped out an adventure for tonight but when we saw this new series of caches published last night on the spur we quickly changed plans! A fun nights adventure. Picked up TW earlier than usual and we parked up next to the Track Head and set out bang on 7pm. DOC sign said the hut was 6km and 2.5hrs away. All told, even with stopping for caches, photo's and admiring the view we were at the hut by 9pm....then back down and at the car by 1030pm ...and home by midnight. Passed a few people walking out, and 3 camping out up the top. Cool As.
Still some heat in the day and this initial stretch was hot going.
Sweet spot to stop & make the find and sign of the first in the new series. Cool moss & lichen. Still pretty hot!

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