BS7: Hog's Back (Canterbury) Arthur's Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By 8ManAfter on 01-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7FHZY

Thanks 8ManAfter for placing this cache for all of us to enjoy.??Didn't spot any hogs but there was plenty of sign of pigs rooting alongside the lower section.TNLNSL, replaced as found, TFTC ??

Made the walk to Bealeys Hut and found this on rhe Way TFTC

Found it, TFTC!

T4TC

Another quick find for us here.. 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!12458

Found with Gummi Venus.We found it in the open and replaced it at the base of the nearby tree under some bark and sticks. It appears that something has been gnawing on the container!

Well, the previous one was the quickest to find. this took second longest. Found a nice spot to hide a cache but no cache.... Hmmmm, looked around and found the container a few metres from the title - jeepers, something wanted to eat that! Then a wider search and managed to find the token (lucky!) - now inside the container. Put the cache back and a few stones around it. Cheers

I nearly missed this one, was 36 metres past it when i thought I should check the gps to see how much further so back tracked. Another quick find thanks for placing 8ManAfter

#12933

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

That one took a while due to many muggles on the path. TFTC

Found the spot that looks like the Hog's Back very quickly, replaced cache with permission of cache owner. Thanks 8ManAfter!

Found the container approx 5min after it was placed, or re-placed! Thanks for the cache!

Sorry for the delay in attending to this one! As I am currently unable to get out to check/replace this one, another cacher has offered to do so.

They hope to get out there in the next couple of weeks to perform maintenance. I have given them all the information to replace the cache with the proper hints for the series.

Couldn't find this one , think we had the correct location ,

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. Had a good root around for this but came away empty-handed. Is a shame that the CO is yet to get back to check these

Not there, needs maintenance.

We looked extensively for this one too avail

All of us had good search for this one but no luck today

Although we believe we identified the feature, and searched several hidey holes it contained, we too were unable to find this cache.

Suspect it is still there, but so far down the hole that it is unretrievable.

I plan to make a visit soon to check/replace. Sorry for the delay!

GPS was jumpy but thought I covered the area well..especially what I thought the required feature was.looked around that 3 times! Maybe I was blind!

Looked and looked and looked, both on the way up and down, but just could not find this one.

We have finally reached the Hogs back. Even with the sun there is heaps of frozen mud and water. Enjoying this beech forest walk. Another stop along the way to snag anothe cache. 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.

Just before this cache - or maybe it was just after - is a large boggy bit. And just to be different, the dragon and I walked over the boggy bit, instead of through the boggy bit. The soft mud was rock hard. The water was rock hard too. Dry boots!
By the way, we met no one on the way up, one person at the hut who spent the night further uphill. On the way down we met 25-30 people going up. The boggy bit got softer, some of the rock melted, and it was even stranger - some of the boggy bit is boggy, some of it is still rock hard, and we could not tell either way until we stepped onto it/into it. Kinda weird, and interesting trying to guess what each step would be before we stepped it.

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

Found. Tftc

Tftc

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

My dad & I went in completely different directions to find this cache. His phone lost to my G.P.S though, as I made the grab. Find # 564

Found on a walk up Bealey Spur with Ilmari the Red and the family. Spotted this one from a distance, nestled in the obvious spot. The log, while in good condition, had no plastic bag, so we added one for good measure.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!

Yeah, getting there, nearly the series

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!

10:49
FITW GreenMenace

Almost there, at the hut!
Surprisingly enough GM spotted it because of the cache title like looking site. I don't think I would have had that association though. Good to have a mind that thinks differently from yours when looking for caches with cryptic hints.

#6450

Quick find once my GPS settled down. Tftc

Sorry for very late log

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

Great view from here!

TFTC

Removing Premium status.

Took a bit of looking but got it in the end. TFTC

The nineth 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!"
Having told Bo the hint here we were initially struggling to see it eventually he piped up, "that'll be it". Sure enough...
TFTC
Find # 3188

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Quickly spotted

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 and a nice spot to take a quick food break. 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 5346 for me.

When the gps's proximity alarm sounded about 20m prior to the cache I stopped to reduce the gps range scale and 2 trampers moved past me, only to stop 10m further up the track in the shade of the beech trees. Drat. But as they seemed to be more interested in quaffing water I furtively went off track and moved past them. The hogs back was clearly visible and the cache was quickly retrieved. As I was signing the log, the 2 trampers had obviously had enough of uphill and took off back down the track. 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 and was the last one we found today. Time was getting away from us and we wanted to get to the Hut for refreshments before the return journey.
We will be back to finish this series another day. 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.
Nice quick find. These caches rule. Oh yeah, another {FTF}.

Thanks for the cache 8ManAfter.
#5275

**FTF** 8:41pm 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 light in the day so all good......Bit dubious about the CO's eyesight but we soon spotted the likely and poked it's interior until it choked up the cache..... ...onwards ho whilst there is still light in the day!

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