IMPORTANT: There is nothing located at the posted coordinates! You must solve the Mystery first to obtain the final coordinates. Do NOT go inside or near the school to find this cache!
Welcome to the Geocacher Exchange series!
The theme of this series is modelled after an exchange student program, where two students from different countries study abroad at the other student's country. This series grabs some Geocachers and instead has their puzzles "study" abroad! The two countries in this series are Denmark and the United States, specifically from Copenhagen and Grand Rapids, Michigan; respectively.
In each country, three caches are placed that named after a prominent Mystery Geocacher from the other country. The goal is to capture the spirit and theme of the other Geocachers' puzzles, so we can experience new and fun Mysteries from across the sea without having to travel. Although they are very similar to existing caches from their respective Geocacher, they take inspiration rather than being straight up copied. They all have my own twist and interpretation!
Right now, only the caches placed in the USA are published. Once all the Geocaches in the series are released, you can find them in this list.
This cache is based off of Jens. I had the privilege of meeting and talking with him after the 2023 GIFF event in Copenhagen. It was fascinating to hear about the early days of caching in greater Scandinavia, as well as his work with the original Danish Geocaching radio show, which is unfortunately no longer active. In the present day, he is most famous for his "Question Mark" geoart off the coast of Amager (the large island that makes up the lower part of Copenhagen). Not only is it a nice geoart, but it consists of a variety of high quality and difficult mystery caches. If you look at the location now, you will notice that there is an additional "upside down" version of the question mark right next to it. This was created by another cacher team, consisting of caches replicating the spirit of the original geoart, just like this cache aims to do.
In several of the caches, Jens loves to use waypoints as a huge part of the task. One of the most popular of those puzzles is East End - I find it unique due to how "abstract" and fitting the solution is. There's not a single way to get to the same final coordinates! This puzzle is not as abstract (maybe a bit more difficult though...), but it still uses the waypoint system like several of the other puzzles in his geoart. Enjoy!
Note: On August 30th (while I'm testing this series to get it ready for publishing!), I received some notifications that showed a couple of the caches in Jens' question mark geoart being archived. Over 15 years since it was published, Jens is now starting to archive the entire series. For me, this meant that I quickly went out over the next few days to find the remaining caches that I had solved, but not yet found. All good things must come to an end, but I found it fitting and a little funny that it happens right before I publish this cache. Therefore, this is a tribute, celebrating a beautiful mystery geoart that helped inspire many other puzzles in greater Copenhagen over the years.
THE PUZZLE BEGINS BELOW!
Nothing in the text above is part of the actual puzzle.
Bruge referencepunkterne. Cachen ligger på:
N 42° 50.ABC W 085° 36.DEF
