"Norway in 100 years"
The cache is dedicated to Norwegian postage stamps nos. 1562 and
1563, issued on April 15th 2005 in connection with a children's
drawing competition entitled "Norge om 100 år" (Norway in 100
years). Children all over the country took part in the competition,
and the jury received more than 45000 entries. Two drawings were
selected for this stamp issue.
"Fremtidsbyen" (The futuristic city)
"Det moderne klasserom" (The modern class room)
Building for the future
For this cache I wanted to use a location that was somehow
related to the future. I chose Sleiverud in Bærum. The planning
work for this housing development was started in the early 1980s,
at which time Sleiverud consisted mainly of forest, except for the
buildings of two old "husmannsplasser". In 1985 the council
approved the hosting of a housing exhibition at Sleiverud in 1987.
The exhibition was named "Bygg for fremtiden" (Building for the
future). The idea was to give the architects free reins to design
futuristic houses. The result was a wide variety of different
designs and constructions at Sleiverud.
One of the most innovative designs is perhaps the house that has
become known as the UFO-house (location 3 of this multi). This
house was designed with the purpose of saving space. The house is
built on a narrow central column. The intention was that the house
could easily be moved to a new location. The UFO has contiguous
windows along all outside walls. The dividing walls inside the UFO
can easily be moved to change the sizes of rooms.
The Sleiverud husmannsplass (first location of this multi) was
originally in the service of Eine farm in Lommedalen, but from 1674
it served the Bærums Verk ironworks. The outhouse is partly built
from slagstones from Bærums Verk. The Mølla husmannsplass, which is
one of the next door neighbours of the UFO, has been beautifully
restored during the last few years.
The Sleiverud tour
This is a multi cache where you have to collect information from
five different locations before you can calculate the coordinates
of the final location.
Location 1: N 59 56.734 E 010 30.248
How many sets of double doors on the old outhouse = A
Location 2: N 59 56.853 E 010 30.104
How many garage doors = B
Location 3: N 59 56.878 E 010 29.964
Find the identification number (BEV number) on the lamp post with
the no parking sign on it.
The last digit in this number = C
The first digit in this number = D
Location 4: N 59 56.817 E 010 30.008
Find the identification number (BEV number) on the lamp post behind
the bench. The fourth digit in this five digit number = E
Location: 5 N 59 56.784 E 010 30.058/BR> How many
names in total (first names and surnames) in the name of the artist
who made this statue = F
The final location
The final location is
N 59 56.(B+D)F(A+F)
E 010 29.(E+D)(C+F)D
Please take care to hide the cache well as lots of children
play in this area.