BS3: Gnarly! (Canterbury) Arthur's Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By 8ManAfter on 01-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7FHYW

Found it, TFTC!

T4TC

On a weekend hiking/caching trip.. This one was a bit of deviation from the track. Gps was spot on. TFTC

Found with Gummi Venus.

Nice and simple this one, I keep bunny hopping the family as I find these caches and catch up to them then they pass me - quite funny really. Cheers

Nice easy find, thanks 8ManAfter

#12929

All back in shape! Big thank you to angelic_kiwi for replacing this one!

Sonnelacht found the cache before I even had a chance to look, TFTC

Together with Telesto we picked this on up as well. Still, angelic_kiwi are in front of us and no sign of who they are yet.

Replaced this cache with permission of cache owner. Thanks 8ManAfter!

Couldn't locate this one

First I overran it, then couldn't find it. Found a great gnarly tree with fabulous hiding space underneath but no cache. GPS had me checking every tree in the locality

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. The cache was just lying on the ground so moved it a bit closer to the tree. TFTC

Great day for a walk - found with Juju54 - TFTC

Great day for walk and a few ca he's along here .. having lots of fun today TFTC

A quick easy find, with good coordinates, as we made our way slowly up the hill. TFTC

Too many hiding places

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

Great co ords so found quickly.
I feel hints would reduce crashing around for these off trail caches given they are prey small ? Great series regardless . Thanks

Onward and upward! Enjoying our walk today and the great views. Some nice hides too. TFTC

Yes these beech tree roots can be gnarly but I love beech trees. So loving this walk. Got this one tagged. 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.

Amazing how soft and springy the ground can be in a beach forest.

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

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

A little detour from walk with friends. Tftc

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Had to search a few trees before finding!

The co-ordinates for this geocache were 11 m off when I got the cache. The cache is quite obvious when I was in the right place. Find #567

Found on a walk up Bealey Spur with Ilmari the Red and the family. This took a little searching, but not too much. The hint about the level is in the title! Just follow the gnarls and you will have it. TFTC!

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.

Gnarly!: The GPS was all over the shop here... best advice I can give future cachers is to observe all trees they pass as they head towards the supposed coordinates.

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

There are quite a few gnarly trees here, height hint, might have been helpful..

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
GPS all over with this tree cover, some hint would be nice (waist-high, chest-high?) although cache is very visible when you finally stumble upon the right viewing angle.
But coords at cache site showed 8m away. And while I was logging in it moved to 18m away according to Garmin.

#6447

It took longer than it should have to find this one haha. Tftc

Sorry for very late log

Found on the walk up to the hut with students on the Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies from the University of Canterbury as part of a field training exercise. Lovely day for a gentle walk. Great to be here. Thanks for the cache.

Removing Premium status.

Thanks for all the great caches. TFTC

The sixth 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!"
Gnarly indeed! It took a bit of finding, but we got there.
TFTC
Find # 3185

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A third of the way done. Muggle hiking friends left me in the dust as this one took me a bit longer than it should’ve

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! I did not really need to get my feet wet for this one lol! 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 5343 for me.

Oh damn. Spent quite some time searching here on the way up Bealey Spur as I knew that not finding just one of the series would probably take me out of the running for the BSBonus cache. I left GZ very disappointed. I couldn't find any particularly gnarly tree with 20m of GZ. 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.
Gnarly third {FTF}.

Thanks for the cache 8ManAfter.
#5271

**FTF**804pm 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.
Nice shade in amoungst the trees. My GPS was having issues and wasn't playing 'accurate' so I over shot this GZ and was clambering all over the show when TW called out that he had it! Grrr GPS.

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