Treemendous (South Canterbury) Peel Forest, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 12-Feb-06. Waypoint GCTE82

done it's dash

Another monster tree in this wonderful forest. Managed to find a gap in the steady stream of muggles to find, sign and replace. TFTC

Great spot for a cache & walk with children. TFTC.

Me and Jess found it I think my school had a field trip here

Me and Jess found it I think my school had a field trip here

Nice walk.

TFTC
easy find, love the tree

a great place to sit

TFTC

Found with some friends. TFTC!

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Found. Fantastic tree.

Quick find on a school camp. TFTC.

What a lovely walk in Peel forest. We made only a short stop on our way to Oamaru but we plan to come back for more searching and exploring. Nice cache - thanks.

Awesome!

Nice tree. Love it. Love this bush. Tftc

I do love these trees. 1,000 years is a long time to be around. Nice hide and didn't take too long to spot once I approached it from the right direction. Log book is damp and there's quite a bit of condensation in the cache although I was able to sign it. TFTC

Well worth the walk. Well labelled and easy to access. Everyone should visit. Thanks.

after a little search we found it.

Loving the big trees

after a short walk a nice tree tftc
#114, 11:23, Found it with Cachebox!

Needed the hint then it was easy

Very damp. Pens not working and log book too damp to write in

Huge tree! Bit of an uphill grunt but well worth it. TFTC

Visited tree many times but never knew there was a cache here. Good quick find and exchanged swops. Big tree had suffered some damage in recent big winds but still as impressive as ever

first of the day

Will try again. Newbies but won't give up. Will try again later this month.

Wow a big tree. Tftc. Took goecoin n left TB. SL.

This entry was edited by Magsie20 on Friday, 26 July 2013 at 07:11:53 UTC.

TFTC Lovely tramping area for families. Been here many times camping. Climbed Little Mt. Peel 18 times !! Big Peel once !! Cache was wet. Dried it as best I could.

Great contrast to the Hooker Valley hike earlier in the day. A little wet, but beautiful. Did this quick grab (with Grovduck and Jaebird's help) before heading back. TFTC!

Found

Wow, that is an impressive tree! A bit hard to be very discreet here on such a beautiful day with lots of folks coming in. TFTC.

Another beautiful day for some caching in South Canterbury. Yes a big tree! Thanks for the hide.

ZH & Blondie invade NZ 2012!

Our 51st find in NZ, 22nd of day 4

Jogged the track to make a find, top notch stuff, definately worthy of the vote given! The nearby campsite is quality too!

TFTC

Found this one while exploring the Rangitata River catchment. Wow, big tree! OK, yes they make great wakas, but how does one get it down to the river from here?

Neat history in the Canterbury Plains, dotted with tiny villages. A church, a cemetery and a community hall are all that’s needed. I love it here. Cold nights and hot days. Unending, straight, dry and dusty roads bordered by vast green fields, irrigated with snow melt water lased green with glacier dust brought in from miles away through old, porous canals. Skeletal radial sprinklers stretching a kilometre spraying life into the soil. All while rain clouds were visible rising above the high snowy peaks, but never rising across the ranges to shed their gift on the eastern slopes. TFTC Bitsprayer, and for your helping my tour of the region.

Did with CrystalFairy

Wow another awesome tree.. Makes one look so small and insignificant. Mycro Man loved the ride in the backpack to here. Did with Mycro Man on our NZ MEGA 2012 South Island Trip

I have walked this track lots of times, what a great spot and cache

Looking at these tremendous trees reminded us of the 'Lord of the Rings' movie. We were just waiting for these trees to start walking off. TFTC

great wee walk

In NZ on a Working Holiday Visa from the US. Just finished a job in Ashburton and have a week or so to check out some of Canterbury. Decided to explore Peel Forest and the surrounding area today and stopped to find a few Caches along the way. This was the only Cache I could locate on the trails today... Its tough finding these things in the NZ Bush! Find # 50... Woohoo! Thanks for a memorable 50th find!

First find for the day on a outing to south Canterbury. TFTC

Been here a couple of times before, hasn't got any smaller!
TFTC

A nice walk and it certainly was treemendous! Soon located the cache. SL TFTC

Almost foiled by a family having a picnic on the bench. Hung around for 20 min and they finally left. Just as impressive as i remember.

Love the monumental trees.

Fantastic short walk into this magnificant speciman. TFTC #2943

Loved the totara, and the signs en route. The age of the 'biggest' is almost incomprehensible, and I didn't know some waka could hold so many men. A most enjoyable walk and lesson. 4yo Bairdy remarked on this track "Fancy steps!" as we'd done the Fern track before this one. TFTC SLTN +lemur on tree trunk, seemed apt.

In between muggle visits, we made a quick grab. TFTC.

Found quickly with Mporokosa once the muggles moved on.

Found it! Quick find. Left a coke lid from the empty bottle (took the bottle). Put the cache back with a bit more natural covering. TFTC

The sound of birds flying through the trees kept me company at the beginning of this walk but further on a couple of muggles came along the track. One was taking photos of the trees, there are some fine specimens along the way to the big beast.
Thanks
erninz

Looked for this cache a few years ago, this time smarter
TFTC

Great place and some great bigh old trees

Good day out with our friends, thanks

Wow, now that is a tree! Thanks for showing us this location. TFTC.

This entry was edited by malikaal on Thursday, 17 November 2011 at 11:12:31 UTC.

#34 Quick find with help of hint TFTC

Totara are like weeds where I came from, these are beauty's

A few waka in that tree!

Still remember coming here as a Kid and thinking such huge trees, they are still just as inspiring now as they were then awesome TFTC

Nice run around the forrest here. Cache was located quickly.

tftc greetings from germany

(575) Another nice walk, and a great day for it.. TFTC

Nice area of our country, impressive tree. TFTC

That's a lot of firewood in one place! Might take a while with the splitter though so I'll settle for looking at it. TNLN Thanks

It's been a while since I visited this tree. It's a good one alright. I came the long way around and was rewarded with many other majestic Totara 's. Wonderful trees. An easy and interesting walk in, and an easy find. TFTC + Symbology geocoin

Short, easy walk with great scenery. Had to act nonchalant as 3 muggles turned up at a critical point. Took nothing, left blue poker chip. TFTC!

Another blow-out for Mrs Hotspuddie. Whew! Got there and loved the huge trees. Pity this track doesn't join up with the Fern walk track.Picked up TB. Left a marble and a safety pin! SL. TFTC.

Quick drop of TB Battle Axe, please take it on it's way back to The Netherlands!
In: TB
Out: -

Found this on a trip to see the big tree after our visit to Geraldine. TFTC (258)

Lovely walk at end of day into a favourite spot. TFTC

This was my first cache hunt for months and I couldn't find this one... then my PDA died so couldn't check the clue... then the little one starting crying louder so needed to move on - maybe next time in a few more months down the track....

Great trees! Very nice place! Took out TB. Thanks and greetings from Latvia!

Stayed at the nearby and very lovely DOC campground overnight so went by to grab it early in the morning. Definitely cool tree. I'd seen big Rimu and KAuri before, but not Totara, so that was cool. Spotted hippo TB but decided to leave it there. TFTC

What a great tree. Reminded us of our trip through the Kauri forests at the top of the Nth Is. Had to wait for a party of school children to leave before we could attempt the recovery! Dropped of Hippo#6 & Took geocoin. TFTC

What a treemendous find! A lovely walk thru the bush and an easy find today. Cache and logbook soaked-replaced logbook (left the old one), dried out the cache and put fresh silica in as well as a few trinkets and a big Geocoin. Thanks for showing us these treemendous things.

Nice walk in the bush to GZ and some ancient specimans. Should have read the previous logs first as we came without a replacement logbook. Sorry. Trust the next cacher will bring in a new logbook to replace the wet one. TFTC

Looks like we are the first to log a visit to this cache for quite a while. Entire contents (log book and a couple of pens) were completely saturated. Couldn't sign log.

TFTC. TNLN.

tftc

Nice place. And a huge tree.

TftC

Steve

Nice and easy cache on Anzac Day in NZ.
Tftc

[found it] but it was in the drain and [the inside was saturated, including logbook. managed to sign it and let it dry for 10 minutes which was no where long enough. and moved it slightly so is obviousish to geocachers (not muggles) but no longer in a place that can fill up with water]

TFTC

Very impressive, first find of the day after stopping the night at the nearby camping spot.
TFTC

Great walk into here, easy for kids of all ages.

Went to get the CCC coin and ended up at the feet of these awesome trees; a double whammy.

13:05
Nice short walk and really easy to find.
TFTC
stoepfs

These trees have a habit of making you feel rather insignificant, having been around a long time before us and likely to survive a long time after. Dropped off a geocoin. TFTC.

3727
Now that is one Treemendous specimen. Awesome spot for a cache. Found with Yeetrees. Many thanks.

TNLNSL, TFTC

Found with YuGeo4, a Treemendous spot for a cache, thanks for bringing me here. TFTC TNLNSL (1422)

Out showing a friend what this Geocaching thing is. An impressive tree, one of many around here. had to wait for all the muggle families to leave or occupy themselves taking photos. TFTC.

Enjoyed this walk plus the Acland Falls walk on my 60th birthday. We are visiting here from Canada. Thanks.

Another quick find. Great day for searching. Cool damp, and muggleless.

Found this cache with my personal travel bug Ice Age Scrat along our 3 moths trip around the whole New Zealand,
16:15
Today's 16. cache in nice caching day, TFTC, nice walk with great tree.

Auf Grund eines Team Account Splitt logge ich diesen nun mit dem eigenen Account nach.
Die Geschichte zum Log kann bei Cache.Mike nachgelesen werden.

Vielen Dank fürs Verständnis und Grüsse

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Because of a Team account split I'm logging this one with my personal account.
Please read the log of Cache.Mike to get the story about this find.

Thanks for your understanding and greetings

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what a surprise to see this huge tree around the corner WOW [^] absolut great place for a cache - thx for sharing this!

T4Tc

Great place for a cache. TFTC

Had to wait for a few muggles to leave before we got this one.TFTC.

Easy find once the people left the seat. TFTC