Favoritfäladen Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

SWEdebe: Archived due to lack of interest on my behalf and because we have sold the forest.

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Hidden : 4/14/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: large (large)

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Geocache Description:

A walk in nice forest with a slightly unusal ending. Total length 800 meter back and forth. Landowner notified of cache.
En 800 meter lång promenad tur och retur i vacker natur med lite ovanlig avslutning. Markägare underrättad om cachen.

In 1905 the blacksmith in Västra Vram, Johan Friberg, feared that war would break out between Sweden and Norway. In order to feed his household of 13 people he bought a farm in nearby Sandhusen where this narrow piece of land was included. At that time the vegetation consisted mainly of juniper shrubs, grass and some scattered trees. This and the surrounding areas were used for feeding animals.

A few hundred meters up this narrow piece of land you will see two parallel stone walls crossing the land. Every morning and evening the farmers led their cattle between their farm in Västra Vram and their own piece of land up here.

War never broke out. The conflict was solved by canceling the Swedish-Norwegian union and Norway became an independent nation after 417 years of union with Denmark and 91 years of union with Sweden.

A few years later, the risk of war was once more increasing and in 1913 Gunnar, the oldest son of Johan decided to emigrate to USA to avoid being drafted as soldier. The irony of fate however played him a joke. Sweden remained outside World War I and in 1918 he sat on a warship on his way back to Europe as an American soldier. But the war ended before they arrived and the ship turned around.

Aerial photograph from 1940


Orienteering sports map from 2009 over the same area as the aerial photograph

The landowners of 1953 (Sture Friberg, the ninth and last child of Johan)

1905 befararde smeden i Västra Vram, Johan Friberg, att krig skulle bryta ut mellan Sverige och Norge. För att kunna föda sitt hushåll på 13 personer köpte han en gård i närliggande Sandhusen där även detta smala skifte ingick. På den tiden bestod vegetationen häromkring mest av enar och området användes till bete. Några hundra meter upp i skiftet kan du se ett "sträde", två stenmurar som går nära varandra tvärs över skiftet. Varje morgon och kväll drev bönderna sina kor här fram eller tillbaka mellan sitt eget skifte och gårdarna i Västra Vram.

Krig bröt aldrig ut mellan Sverige och Norge, men några år senare vädrades det åter krig. Då (1913) emigrerade Johans son Gunnar till Amerika för att slippa bli soldat. Ödets ironi spelade honom dock ett spratt. Sverige stod utanför kriget och 1918 satt han på ett krigsfartyg på väg tillbaka till Europa som amerikansk soldat. Men kriget hann ta slut innan de kom fram och fartyget vände.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Eng] Ybbx gb gur fxl naq guvf funyy yrnq lbh gb gur rnegu. [Swe] Fxåqn fxla bpu qrggn fxnyy yrqn qvt gvyy wbeqra.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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