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Kotipesä Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/3/2024
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Kotipesä (used to be this: GC7W7Y3)

Easy cache and a home for 9 travellers from 3 teams: 3 Reds, 3 Blacks and 3 Greens. They will be dropped somewhere in the same cache around the world and then their mission is to get back home as fast as possible.


Current competitions:

Race 1 From Switzerland to home

I dropped 3 teams of 3 geocoins to Switzerland in summer 2016 during orienteering world championships.


Race 2 From USA to home

I dropped 3 teams of 3 geotags to Grand Canyon in october 2018 during our family's roadtrip to USA.


Current scoreboard:

Team Black   13433p

Race 1

Black One       17433p

Black Two       -2000p

Black Three     -2000p

Race 2

Black One      0p

Black Two       0p

Black Three    0p

Team Red     -8000p

Race 1

Red One         -2000p

Red Two         0p

Red Three      -2000p

Race 2

Red One        0p

Red Two         -2000p

Red Three      -2000p

Team Green    -12000p - ALL ARE LOST :(

Race 1

Green One      -2000p

Green Two       -2000p

Green Three    -2000p

Race 2

Green One       -2000p

Green Two        -2000p

Green Three     -2000p


Rules for races:

  • Points are calculated invidually as well as for teams
  • Race lasts until all reach home and/or get lost (=last log is not updated during the last year)

Points from each race:

  • 10000 points for reaching home first
  • 7000 points for reaching home second
  • 5000 points for reaching home third
  • 1000 points for reaching home 4th ->
  • 10 points for each cache visited
  • 0.1 points for each 1km travelled
  • -2000 points if trackable is lost

Rules may change...

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jngpurf gur evire jvgu vgf bar rlr.

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)