Ab sofort kannst Du das neuste Ländersouvenir zu Deiner Sammlung hinzufügen: Litauen. Ein Land voller mittelalterlicher Schlösser, Sandstrände und, natürlich, einer Fülle an Geocaches. Bei Deinem Besuch in Litauen, solltest Du nicht die folgenden Highlights verpassen:
Geh entlang der Kurischen Nehrung spazieren. Diese lange Sanddüne trennt die Kurische Lagune von der Ostsee.
Reise durch die Städte entlang der litauischen Grenze und folge dabei dieser Geocaching-Serie.
Suche nach einem Geocache in Litauens Hauptstadt Vilnius, bekannt für ihre mittelalterliche Altstadt.
Pssst … Ländersouvenirs sind virtuelle Kunstwerke, die nach dem Fund eines Geocaches in bestimmten Ländern in Deinem Profil angezeigt werden. In den nächsten Wochen werden wir drei neue Ländersouvenirs bekannt geben.
6 verrückte Tipps für alte Geocachebehälter
Um den Findern fortlaufende Freude zu bringen, erfordern Geocaches fortlaufende Liebe, Pflege und Wartung. Für Geocache-Besitzer kann das bedeuten, dass sie das Logbuch austauschen, kleine Tauschgegenstände nachfüllen oder auch mal die Dose austauschen (Oh man!).
Doch keine Angst: Du kannst jetzt Deine alten Geocache-Behälter mit Stil in den Ruhestand schicken! Auch wenn sie nicht mehr Deine Logbücher schützen, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass Du sie nicht auf kreative Weise “upcyclen” kannst. Hier findest Du sechs Möglichkeiten, wie Du die gebräuchlichsten Geocache-Behälter wiederverwenden kannst.
Dann überprüfe doch mal, ob Dein Geocache Wartung benötigt: Niemand mag ein triefnasses Logbuch!
This geocache is the kind that brings you to a place you would probably never have otherwise heard of or visited. Set deep into a forest on Slovenia’s northern border, this multi-cache will take you on a hike in the woods past old mining artifacts, culminating in an old manganese mine dating back to the 19th century.
The mine itself is still accessible via two entrances — but use caution. And if you’re not comfortable going inside the tunnel, there’s plenty of lovely nature to explore nearby. Plus, if you find this cache, or any cache in Slovenia, you’ll earn a shiny new Slovenia country souvenir.
This cache was the first to be awarded the Geocache of the Month award by the Slovenian Geocaching Club.
What the cache owner has to say:
What sorts of things will a geocacher find while on this multi-cache tour? On the beginning of the path, you can see water slide between the two dams and an interesting springs of the stream Javornik. At the upper dam on the information board find the coordinates of the manganese mine. Do not forget to look the ore below an information board on the entry of the 200 year old manganese ore mine.
Why did you want to bring people to this location? Beautiful nature, walking in silence, without other visitors. Historic mine in which it is still possible to enter, but only a few – 10m.
What can you tell us about the history of the manganese mine? This mine was just one of many manganese mines in Slovenia. Manganese ores were processed in Jesenice ironworks. From this ore it was in Jesenice ironworks under the leadership of ing. Lambert PANTZ in 1872 that, for the first time (in the world), that blast furnace was used to produce manganese iron. The Industrial Company Kranj was awarded with the gold medal for extraordinary innovation at a global industry exhibition in Pennsylvania on the hundredth anniversary of the United States.
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Wir freuen uns sehr, Dir ein neues Länder-Souvenir anzukündigen, das Du bei Deinen Geocaching-Reisen erhalten kannst: Slowenien! Slowenien hat mehr als 7000 Km Wanderwege und ist eines der Länder dieser Welt mit der größten Biodiversität. Außerdem gibt es dort ziemlich coole Geocaches! Wenn Du nach Slowenien kommst, besuche unbedingt die folgenden Orte:
Pssst … Ländersouvenirs sind virtuelle Kunstwerke, die nach dem Fund eines Geocaches in bestimmten Ländern in Deinem Profil angezeigt werden. In den nächsten vier Wochen werden wir wöchentlich ein neues Ländersouvenir vorstellen. Lies die Geocaching-Rundschreiben, um zu erfahren, welches das nächste Ländersouvenir ist.
“Born” is a real-time adventure geocache, one of several such caches in Germany. The cache page (which is in German) sets the scene for this adventure (all a hypothetical scenario): The Federal Criminal Police Office has learned that a bombing is imminent in the city of Göttingen. Special Unit “Gänseliesel” has been summoned to begin the investigation. Chief Commissioner Schönbeck has been appointed to lead the unit. So far, the investigation has revealed that the bombs have been placed in Göttingen and are already on a countdown. The clock is ticking.
This D5/T4 geocache cannot be found alone. In fact, you’ll need 10-20 geocachers split into three teams in order to have a chance of finding it. One team stays at “Headquarters”: a location of their choosing, preferably filled with snacks. The other two teams are sent to 45 different locations around the city. At every location there’s a countdown, and all three teams are given a question/puzzle to solve.
According to the cache owners, “The teams in the city have to use the public transport to get to the locations in time and answer questions about historical or famous places in Göttingen. The team in the headquarter must deal with encryption, picture analysis, internet-research, maps and bus-timetables.”
If all three teams solve their puzzles and submit their answers before the clock runs out, they continue on to the next task. This continues until the investigation is concluded and Göttingen is saved when the bomb is diffused. In total, each team is working non-stop for five hours. The moving teams will cover about 45 km throughout the evening, and eventually reach the center of the city. The CO says, “At the end, all three teams get to know where the geocache is hidden and move together to sign the logbook. Some teams even bring a bottle of sparkling wine to celebrate the successful search.”
The T4 rating is well-earned. That’s all we’ll say here, but check out the photos below for more about this amazing cache.
What the Cache Owner has to say:
How often are the teams unable to “defuse the bomb” in time? “If your team starts the hunt for the geocache BORN, you never know if you are succsessfull. If one team is not able to reach the destination in the timelimit, the team in the headquarter cannot give the right answer. The investigation stops and the team must start another time. There ist always a tense between physical effort and moments of happiness on the one side and disappointment if you fail a task. Even though the geocache is difficult D5, some teams get it on the first attempt. Every second teams has to start a second time from a backup-point and only a few teams fail more often.”
How long did it take you to develop this cache? “The idea was created in Summer ’14. First we both made a list of locations in Göttingen that are interesting, then Hatti and I spend two days on bikes in Göttingen to visit all this places and take photos of the question-to-answer-stations. Then i took a bus map and planned two routes with basecamp that touch a lot of the interesting places. Meanwhile I develloped the homepage with all the functions you need to play this timed cache and manage teams and so on…
The biggest part of work was to invent a story to connect the 26 chapters of the cache and find 3 x 26 tasks to occupy the three groups. When all was done we two played both outside-routes in realtime to check if the calculated times are ok to get to know what the cache will look like for the teams. The last step was a beta-test with a little group of geocachers to test the complete cache. On January the first, the cache was published. I think the cache was surely over 50 hours of planning, phoning, riding in Göttingen…”
Is there anything you would like to say to the Geocaching community? “We love to invite you to come to Göttingen to find BORN or our brand-new spin-off ALERT (GC5RRQF). We want you to have a gread time and wish you that you are doing the great experience what it’s like when teamwork succeeds. We have read all the amazing logs on our geocaches and thank for every feedback. Göttingen is an interesting city and you can discover it from a completely different side, if you hurry through the streets with the ticking clock in your neck. It was a hard job to concept our two geocaches, but the feedback from the community is great.”
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You know it’s a cool cache when it has its own logo.
Unit Headquarters often look like this…
Or this…
Or this.
Find “Born” and you might end up doing this.
One of the stops along the way, perhaps?
Another stop along for the outside teams.
This team eventually found success.Smiling (and weary) faces after completing the investigation.
Those who reach this cache know ultimate geocaching success.
Continue to explore some of the most amazing geocaches around the world. Check out all of the Geocaches of the Week on the Geocaching blog. If you would like to nominate a Geocache of the Week, fill out this form.
Um den Findern fortlaufende Freude zu bringen, erfordern Geocaches fortlaufende Liebe, Pflege und Wartung. Für Geocache-Besitzer kann das bedeuten, dass sie das Logbuch austauschen, kleine Tauschgegenstände nachfüllen oder auch mal die Dose austauschen (Oh man!).
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