BS6: Stumpy McStump (Canterbury) Arthur's Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By 8ManAfter on 01-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7FHZV

Walked past this but soon back-tracked to find it.Beautiful winter's day for this tramp! TNLNSL TFTC

Found it, TFTC!

T4TC

This onwE was an easy find, TFTC

Trouvaille effectue durant notre voyage en Nouvelle-Zlande. Nous avons sjourn dans les villes suivantes: Auckland, National Park, Wellington, Upper Moutere, Greymouth, Franz Joseph, Wanaka, Te Anau, Queenstown et Lake Tekapo. Nous avons crois des gens sympathiques et trs serviables. La nature est formidable. Nous avons observ des paysages magnifiques. Nous en garderons un merveilleux souvenir.La trouvaille de cette cache a agrment notre parcours. Merci **8ManAfter** d'avoir plac cette cache. Salutations de la Ville de Qubec, Qubec, Canada.=====================Find made during our trip to New Zealand. We stayed in the following cities: Auckland, National Park, Wellington, Upper Moutere, Greymouth, Franz Joseph, Wanaka, Te Anau, Queenstown and Lake Tekapo. We met friendly and very helpful people. Nature is wonderful. We observed magnificent landscapes. We will keep wonderful memories of it.The find of this cache enhanced our journey. Thank you **8ManAfter** for placing this cache.Greetings from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.Archimde & Eureka!12457

Found with Gummi Venus.

One of the quicker ones in the series to find. Cheers

Another quick find, then back on the track. TFTC 8ManAfter

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Nomen est omen Quick find with sonnelacht. TFTC!

Two hikers, having a snack at that same place, where we want to look for the cache! It turns out, that we finally met angelic_kiwi! After a small chat, we realised, that we were writing down the wrong colours! And even better, she was going to replace the next two containers.
Stunning views at this place, by the way!

Made a quick find here and was sitting nearby having some lunch when two people came up and asked if I was angelic_kiwi! So lovely to meet two Austrian geocachers who were coming up the hill not far behind us and had seen my name in the logs and noticed we were stopping at all the right places! Such perfect timing since I was replacing the missing ones just before they go there too.

Located by one of the kids

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

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 coords seemed to be a bit off for this one. The title gave it away though. TFTC

Quick easy find found with Juju54 - TFTC

Another nice hide here, getting windy the higher we get but still a pleasant day TFTC

A quick easy find at the obvious location, as we made our way slowly up the hill. TFTC

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

Easy to predict this one , and sure enough! Thanks

Nice hide! Great trip up the spur today and quite a few people out and about too. TFTC

Loving this walk up to Bealey Hut through the beech forest. Another one snagged and 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.

It was at this cache that I realised that this walk up the ridge was the highlight for the whole trip. Completely spoiled by the second most crappy cachename possible (the most crappy name being Stumpy McStumpface). So, no, not a favourite here!

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

Found while on walk up spur with friends. Tftc

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

I am struggling to find caches & keep up with the rest of the group I am walking with. This one though didn't set me back far as it was a quick find. Find #563

Again another quick find on a walk up Bealey Spur with Ilmari the Red and the family on a magnificent summer's day. 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.

TFTC!

Had to avoid the muggle, but we got there, posing for a photo!

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

Quick and easy find here. The title says it all and luckily Stumpy McStump does not have a big family

#6449

Quick find. 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.

Out for a walk up this track on a lovely sunny day!

Saw this stump from miles away!

TFTC

Removing Premium status.

I am sure we have all had one of those moments when we say to our selves, I am sure I looked there. Lol. Got it in the end. TFTC

The eighth 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 best part of this? Finding the cache in the first spot Bo checked "thoroughly". He couldn't understand how he missed it.
TFTC
Find # 3187

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Title is on point

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! Quick find here, 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 5345 for me.

Out in the open once more. Boy, it is sure hot here without any cooling breeze on this blue sky day. Quick find. 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. 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.
Spotted the cache quickly another {FTF}.

Thanks for the cache 8ManAfter.
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**FTF** 834pm 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.
Cool tarns up here.....and frogs starting to tune their pipes. Stumpy McStump soon enough in sight and we were making the find and sign.....Onwards McOnwards....

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