HRT Unused Cattle Crossing (Matamata-Piako) Manawaru, North Island, New Zealand
By pomtom44 on 29-Sep-24. Waypoint GCAXVRK

Enjoying the scenery as we bike along. Cache is all good. TFTC

Good views of the hills at each cache

On a road trip with Jag 50. Jags keen eye saw this on approach.

A plan was made with Net61 to find the caches along the HRT trail. We have ridden the trail before, but today we were doing it with 4 wheels (car) rather than 2 (bike). The sun was out, but the day was not too hot - perfect weather for this series. A nice quick find here and we were onto the next one. TFTC

Thanks to the CO for planning and setting out this power trail. Nice to be a part of it with my own cache. Most of them are quick park and grabs but the odd one taking a bit more time. Took a trackable.

Gorby warned me about the prickly Totara here....With two of us looking, it was soon found and signed .

I had a plan to come down from Auckland with supernannny to do the HRT trail from Te Aroha to Matamata. But she had offered to drive us everywhere in her hybrid car which is soo cheap to run and which was really nice of her. It was pouring with rain when she arrived to pick me up at 7am, did some caches along the way apart from the power trail, visited a friend in Hamilton for a much needed coffee, then home about 10pm. The raincoat is useful for 2 things, keeping me wet and the most useful thing today is as a back guard against the Totara prickles. However, I checked the RH side one, and told supernannny it wasn't there, but she said it was when she checked, it had rolled away a little from the post, and I hadn't noticed that, all good that it was found though.

Didn't take too long to find. Dropped a TB.

Didnt take too long to find once we worked out best way to get to hint item. Kimbathelion dropped off a TB. Tftc

Quick find but rather unpleasant to reach. TFTC.

Travelling back down to Opotiki for work and as I had left earlier I wanted to cache on the way down to add to our numbers. I had checked and found a new addition to the HRT trail and this looked just the sort of detour that would be of interest.All the caches along this trail were in good condition and were easy to find and log. I took note of all the clues in the lids for future reference.Took me way longer than it should have to find this!Thanks for setting this trial up!

We thought for a moment that this one might be gone but after expanding the search area a bit we soon located the container which had rolled a short distance away.Once we had signed the log we made sure it was back in place before heading on our way.TFTC.

Part 2 to complete the new HRT caches, tail wind on the bike. All caches in good nick... Thanks for setting these up.

After a night in Auckland we decided to go and do the trailNice fine afternoon evening it wasSo far all off to a good startNice hide thanks

After a night in Auckland we decided to go to Te Aroha to Matamata to do the trailWhat a great trail so far some nice hides

**#21,182**Spotted these when they came out but were too busy at home with jobs needing to be dealt with, today we had a spare few hours and made light work of these, no issues here, another quick find before back on the bike to the next one.

Got a call from Boges to have an afternoon clearing this trail of caches. Able to not get attacked by the totara here while putting it back. Thank you for the placement.

It was the first day back at school for the kids so it was a peaceful afternoon with KGD to go for a country drive and get these treasures. The weather forecast was for heavy showers but they went around us. Thanks for putting this together

Day trip with McJandals collecting these new caches. Having fun catching up and discussing how we should have got our bikes Oh well next time . Thanks for putting out all these caches and giving us a good day. TFTC

On a mish with the NZ Flossy. A great day for it A nice trail to get our heads back in the game before heading to Dunedin. Many thanks.

Published

{FTF} my luck is still holding so I will move on to the next one, tftc

Plans today was work further up in the Waikato, than up to Waiuku if time was on our side caching.Arranged to meet Squirrel Nutcase at Karapiro, than got a phone call about new caches Matamata.Quick phone call and plans changed. new meeting point Tirau.quick coffee and Matamata bound.able to park near by. another easy cache find.TFTF

Had to grovel low for this onea great test of my agility as I crawled under Needless to say I delegated junior to replace after signing to log thanks pomtom44..all good here

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) Re-routing, re-routingThe original plan was to meet Gap further up the country. But the multiple pings in my email inbox this morning signalled something big The universe knows Im chasing a milestone, and this HRT add-on must be the answer to someones prayersWe didnt notice the cattle crossing so much as there was lots of vegetation to negotiate Thanks pomtom44. TFTC.

On the way back, we had to pass a tractor, then soon after he passed us. The driver probably didn't think much of us!! Cache was well tucked back. Thanks for the pomtom44

After a massive rush of emails this morning, we delayed our visit over to checkout some other things. With the weather still looking good we made a run for it. Starting to remember how frustrating ziplock bags are. TFTC and TFTPT

Having an influx of emails this morning, Kiwi Does Stuff and ourselves made our way over to complete this trail. Appreciate the caches! All were found in good condition.