Logs for Greywacke
17-Jul-16
02-Jan-10
As the owner operator of the 4X4 tour company mentioned in the description of this cache I have been waiting for a customer to request a trip to find it ever since starting on Geocaching some time ago.....I got tired of waiting! .The log says no visits for along long time...so it was high time to find it!
I had a trip booked to go into this area, a Mother and her Son from Australia, and a retired couple from Christchurch. I quickly realized that these guys would be perfect to introduce to Geocaching, and what a way to do it with a trip to Helms Deep!
I do lots of tours into this valley and have a great respect for the rivers that flow through this area.....The trip to the cache involves crossing braids of the river in a couple of places and this is where the utmost caution is required, these river can be very unpredictable with ever changing conditions, and help is a long way away if you get into difficulties!
On the day we went in the river was just starting to rise and I decided that it would be to dangerous to cross ( river peaked later that night at 800 m3/sec..usually flows at 90m3/sec) so we used some of the private access track that we have organized with the Land owner to use, this involves a slight detour taking us up the side of the mountain to around 700 mtrs above the valley floor.
Having successfully arrived it was easy to teach them the use of the gps to find the cache and great excitement as the cache was discovered and opened!
We found the cache to be in very good condition, so removed nothing, added a pink pig that the group named Muldoon...
An excellent cache in a truly wonderful spot and I really enjoyed introducing some new people to the wonderful pastime of Geocaching .
I had a trip booked to go into this area, a Mother and her Son from Australia, and a retired couple from Christchurch. I quickly realized that these guys would be perfect to introduce to Geocaching, and what a way to do it with a trip to Helms Deep!
I do lots of tours into this valley and have a great respect for the rivers that flow through this area.....The trip to the cache involves crossing braids of the river in a couple of places and this is where the utmost caution is required, these river can be very unpredictable with ever changing conditions, and help is a long way away if you get into difficulties!
On the day we went in the river was just starting to rise and I decided that it would be to dangerous to cross ( river peaked later that night at 800 m3/sec..usually flows at 90m3/sec) so we used some of the private access track that we have organized with the Land owner to use, this involves a slight detour taking us up the side of the mountain to around 700 mtrs above the valley floor.
Having successfully arrived it was easy to teach them the use of the gps to find the cache and great excitement as the cache was discovered and opened!
We found the cache to be in very good condition, so removed nothing, added a pink pig that the group named Muldoon...
An excellent cache in a truly wonderful spot and I really enjoyed introducing some new people to the wonderful pastime of Geocaching .
07-Jun-09
Found on our second attempt, did this cache disappear for a while?
pretty sure we looked in the location on the 1st trip....
left a "g-stone" TFTC!
pretty sure we looked in the location on the 1st trip....
left a "g-stone" TFTC!
25-Apr-09
We had a very good hunt for this got scratched up and still didnt find...there has been alot of water through recently...maybe some will be better at finding this than us!
another nice spot, had a cup of tea and a cake after an easy find. the container was very damp inside so I gave it a quick dry out. thanks
found on our way from the coast, watched the "Grebes"! thanks
24-Apr-09
Had to search a bit , but found ok. This was only our 2nd find so still learning!
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1st find!! Our dog had a sneezing fit so he didnt help much! but we got it! added a page to the log.(paper of a pie)
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