The cache was installed long time ago but in the meantime the owner
lost interest of maintaining it thus I adopted it on geocaching.hu
site. I tried to initiate the same procedure on geocaching.com,
however I haven't got answer any more. After the cache was archived
for this reason, I could renew the listing and add my own
description.
During the years of socialism, Hungarian leaders defended us
well against "danger" of the western civilization. The comrades
kept us "cozy and warm" under very safe conditions... This old
deserted rocket defense base is one of numerous examples. When we
were young there were soldiers, guards and the whole area was
strictly prohibited for other persons. Nowadays you can easily roam
through the base, meeting interesting rocket-carrier garages,
remnants of canteens and ruins of different other buildings.
The site can be easiest approached from Erd. Coming from
Budapest, turn down from the M7 highway at Erd's output. Leaving
the highway, turn left on the main road and go straight. You'll
reach a bus turnaround, where you have to turn right. Later the
road turns left and go through a forest (it's a bit long path,
about 2 km). Don't go off the concrete road! Finally the road turns
into a dirty one and that's the sign that you reached the base.
Finally I would like to add impressions of the day when I found
the cache. I approached it from the other side, from the village of
Biatorbagy. The reason was that the military base is 'sandwiched'
into two other nearby caches
(http://www.geocaching.hu/caches.geo?id=676 and
http://www.geocaching.hu/caches.geo?id=631) unfortunately neither
of them is listed on .com site but both well worth of visit.
At first I found the GCSzla (the first of the above two) and
enjoying the view towards the next point, it didn't not seem too
difficult to go there. I went down through the forest on a not too
steep slope and so far the walk was any easy one. Reaching the
bottom, however, the path upwards was terribly steep and I could
proceed only thanks to grasping the small trees along the path. On
a rainy day it would have been absolutely hopeless to reach the top
from this direction.
As far as the cache itself is concerned this one was the hardest
to find for me. After about a half an hour of unsuccessful search I
almost gave it up but finally I had to admit that the idea was
perfect. To tell the truth, here you don't have neither a nice view
nor cleanness of the nature only the cache-hunt is exciting.