101 ways to type Bison #75 Rotorua Lakes District, North Island, New Zealand
By Kiwi_Does_Stuff on 16-Jun-24. Waypoint GCATAQ8

I was heading down to Rotorua to participate in an epic half-marathon trail race up two and a half mountains in the Whakarewarewa Forest. I decided to make a long weekend out of the trip and spend some time geocaching while I was on holiday. I left Auckland early to get through the city before the Friday morning rush hour traffic started to build up. However, I forgot that SH1 between Kinleith and Tokoroa was closed due to roadworks, so I ended up with a big detour through Rotorua and backtracking to start my second Bison hunt.I was closely being watched here by a herd of calves as I jumped out of the car to find this cache. They seemed quite interested in what I was doing.

Have checked on this today, it is doing perfectly fine in its current manner, and will be adjusted in the future

**22,269**Finally, we have found the time to start this series that we solved soon after publication. It was a long day (almost 8 hours) and with a fair number (10%) of DNF's or MIA's (They are to be confirmed by the owners at a later stage), but we guess that was to be expected four months down the track since placement. Lots of fun had, along with some frustration, so all in all a typical Geckoh caching day. Sorry for the cut and paste logs but we will try to brighten them up with a Dad joke or two!!Why did the bison become a mathematician? He was a horn-ius genius at numbers!

Down Got these along time ago when they were published we got some FTF. I was car sick most of the day so have put logging these on hold just got reminded by the team that I havent logged these yet. So here are my cut and paste logs

Out and about hunting Bison today. Luckily the rain has stoped but it's a bit chilly. Lots on Friday late PM traffic thank goodness bison hide on the rural roads TFTC.

Chasing the Bison Part 2. After a busy morning the geopooch and I headed out to see if we could catch a few more Bison. It was a thundery afternoon with a few downpours, hailstones and sunshine in between. We headed out to do the tail end of the bison and managed to scoop up another 20 or so. Sadly a couple of DNFs as well. The roads varied from smooth state highways to gravel back roads with some beautiful vistas thrown in to satisfy my nature loving self. Really enjoying this series and am now about half way. Many thanks to the COs for all their hard work. CheersCache may have been dislodged from its original hiding place but is still nearby. might need attention

On a solo bison hunt after recent surgery. The weather was great and the traffic light. Thanks for the effort of this adventure.

The container has separated from its holder. Now placed at ground level. Needs a stronger bonding material.

#15,036. The inner cache container came apart from its holder. Could not return as found as it would be lost forever. So placed it at GL.I was driving back to Wellington today after staying overnight at my sister's place in Rotorua. Decided to boost my Cosmic Challenge numbers by finding some of the solved bison series. I began seriously solving these only a couple of weeks ago and managed to get about 40 done prior to the trip up north. Certainly a good test of the memory and eyesight scrolling through the various (and many) options in batches of 5-10 trying to spot the differences. Today I started up in the NW section and headed southwards. Most of them were fairly quick finds although a few took a bit more searching. Encountered 3 different farmers who wondered what I was up to. All are now more enlightened about the nature of our silly game. I imagine they shook their heads and thought crazy townies. Anyway thanks Kiwi_Does_Stuff and Reschedule for setting up this awesome bit of geoart and thanks for placing out so many bisons. I obviously can't recall all of the 30 caches I found in about 3 hours of driving and looking. But it was nice to drive once more on familiar roads. I used to work on hay and silage gangs in this area in the late 1970s over the hot summer days when I was a student. Certainly more tarsealed roads now than there were 40-50 years ago. Happy Days.

As dedicated driver, nav man and committed u turner spent a lovely day with KGD and ABCDF4down country lookin at the bison series,lotsa good hides, some dnfs, but a neat seriesthanks to the Co for the placements.

After Event EyespyBen decided maybe we go down country to find some BisonNext morning up early and away we go pick up KGDThe weather was spot onWe did a group sign KEAMost of them were quick findsSome trickyAs we were in no hurryStop for lunch & ice creamHad some laughs so all and all it was a great dayThanks

On a day trip with ABCDF4 and eyespyben with intention to see how much of a herd of bison we could gather. In the end we spent about 6hrs and had ticked off over 70. All logs were signed KEA (Kaygeedee Eyespyben Abcdf4)The solves took some time but thankfully was able to get there in the end. Though I must admit there were times when I added too many crosses before getting it correct.This being the 1st for the day. Mrs ABCDF made the find. Well done. Thank you for the placement.

Oh goody. The weather is forecasted to be fine all day. A good day to brand some more bisons.I was in the right area and then spotted something a bit different.Cheers for the cache, Reschedul & Kiwi Does Stuff.

It was a beautiful, sunny winter's day, so matagouri and I headed to Rotorua to launch a second attack on the beastial bison roaming the area.This time we opted for a more discreet mode of transport, leaving the campervan behind, and taking the micro mobile, that can park in the smallest of gaps.Apart from the odd muggle issue, there weren't too many issue's making the finds.Thanks for setting up this awesome series.A fairly quick find here.

Heading away with tmann421 for a couple of days.Spent two half days up here collecting the Bison Series.Found many different hides and traveled roads varying from seal to gravel to windy to narrow.Enjoyed the seriesSigned log tm/ww NZTFTC

Found on a short trip away with woolwood9.Our first day on the ***Bison Trail*** - we started around 4-00pm and stopped for the night just before 10-00pm.No trouble here, got the find then onto the next one. Most quick easy finds, but certainly a few very tricky hides and some took a lot of looking. SL *tm/ww NZ**Thanks for the fun puzzle cache series!*

A sunny winter Saturday, an opportunity for rattll and I to make a day-trip from Hamilton in the geomobile, rather than bring the much larger campervan to stay overnight. This time we came down SH1 to Atiamuri, and approached the area from the west. Most of the caches were quickly found, one or two took a bit longer. Parking was much easier in the small geomobile. Thanks for putting out this series. After a short hunt here, we found the bison hidden in a different manner. Tftc!

I have a couple of these myself so a quick find. TFTC.

With / logged as Team BoPI was one date short of completing the Trad a Day / 365 Challenge (GCA73Q3). The 28th of June was my last gap on the calendar, and as luck would have it, fell on Matariki Friday. I had been planning a different mission with the Team, but this Bison Trail dropped conveniently overnight. Plans changed rapidly as we went into puzzling mode - One of our group worked like a machine and churned out solve after solve through the night... Our successes today are largely due to his efforts!A nice change of pace and style - Thanks KDS. TFTP and TFTC.

TeamBOP planned a long overdue mission to Waikato, but plans suddenly changed overnight when this series was published.Thanks to one member who decided sleep can wait, we had the corrected coords of the complete series ready to go in the morning, so we hit the road early to try grab as many FTF's as we could.Tftc

An interesting morning collecting bison, or bits of bison. Found a lot of them but also left quite a few for others to FTF. Might have gone longer but for some weird encounters with locals, utes following me. Will log the others when I get home. [FTF] TFTC!!!

Saw these come out and big change of plans for Team BOP Big night doing the solves and off the next day to collect the caches. Lots of fun and great to be out with fellow cachers today. Thanks from r setting this mission up much appreciated. TFTC

On a mish with the team. (Team BoP) Bern a long time since our last trip together. A great day for it and a fab way to celebrate Matariki. A quick change of plans last night after this series was published. What a team effort!!

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