Walking Werndorf

Zusammen mit Harrylime wollte ich heute... nein HAB ich heute diesen Cache gemacht.

Gestartet sind wir noch bei Tageslicht. Eigentlich war auch der Abschluss bei Tageslicht geplant... Aber....

Stationen 1-2 waren sonnenklar.
Station 3: Na da hatten wir schon unsere Probleme. Zufällig (wie sich später herausstellte) hatten wir hier die richtige Lösung.

Stage4: Wo is da ein Tier? Ach da... Ein *piep1* na schnell gerechnet und weiter gehts...

Komisch... Die Wegbeschreibung geht ja in die andere Richtung... naja vielleicht gibts da eben "Wege"...
Stage5 gesucht... Nix gefunden... Telefonjoker verbraten...

Da hilft nix... Also hab ich den Owner angerufen, und bald war klar, dass wir gaaaaaaaanz falsch waren... Weil bei Stage4, das war ja ein *piep2*... Hmpf... Aber da war (auch) ein *piep1* ;-)

Mit den richtigen Werten neu gerechnet, war dann Stage5 und der Mikro schnell gefunden.
(Um diese Zeit wollten wir schon wieder zurück beim Auto sein ;-) )

Stage6: Nix...
Owner angerufen... Noch immer nix...
Weiter gesucht... Nö...

Ohne Koords für den Final, hat uns dann der Owner eine kleine Wegbeschreibung gegeben, und uns dann vor Ort auch schon erwartet und hat GPS gespielt, somit konnten harrylime und ich doch noch loggen.

Danke an Schuhhirsch für die Unterstützung.

tftc

Schöner Spaziergang durch die Au, wo es allerdings recht unidyllisch laut zuging, denn dort wird gerade eine neue Stromautobahn durch den Wald getrieben. Was mir andererseits die Gelegenheit gab, meiner zweiten Lieblingsbeschäftigung nachzugehen: Anderen Leuten bei der Arbeit zuschauen.

Die Aufgaben waren alle relativ problemlos lösbar. Bei Stage 4 ist mir allerdings spontan der alte Witz mit dem Papagei eingefallen: "Pinguin? Na, das will ich grad nochmal durchgehen lassen..." Bei Stage 6 gabs dann noch einen kleinen Durchhänger, weil ich den im Hint bezeichneten Punkt viel weiter vom Bach entfernt gesehen hätte, als dies der Owner offenbar tut. Eine "verwachsene Schlüsselstelle" ist mir dann keine mehr begegnet (es sei denn, es sind die letzten 5m vor dem Cache gemeint).

TFTC NT

Koordinaten, Rechnung und Hint von Station 5 etwas geändert (Verschiebung ca. 12m Ost)

Coordinates, calculation and hint for stage 5 modified 

Nach dreimaligem Anlauf diesen schönen Cache doch noch gefunden.Am Anfang selbst ein wenig auf der sprichwörtlichen Leitung gestanden (man sollte nicht aus jeder Frage eine Doktorarbeit machen!!!) und mit dem Hinweis und ein wenig Cachegespür ist auch Station 5 zu finden. 

 Auch im Winter zu empfehlen und ein Fernglas sollte man für die reichlich vorhandene Tierwelt eingesteckt haben!

E., j_blue und rieglerp waren, wie nun schon so oft, meine Mitkämpfer auf der Suche nach diesem Cache.
Kalt wars und ein bisschen Schnee gabs auch. Trotzdem: sooo einfach sind die Stages auch nicht zu lösen. Und ob man den  Weg zur Cachelocation auf die vorgeschlage Art geht, sollte man sich meines persönlichen Erachtens im Winter sehr genau überlegen. Wir haben es vorgezogen einen Umweg zu gehen. Dadurch ist der Weg schon etwas länger geworden.
Und vor Ort mußten wir doch etwas länger suchen, die Dose ist gut versteckt. Danke für den Cache.

Stage 2 ist auch im Winter lösbar (das Ergebnis ist deutlich erkennbar), auch Stage 3 ist nur dann problematisch *solange* es stark schneit.
Terrain-Rating ist bei Schneelage etwas höher zu setzen (3-3.5).
Alle Stages, Micros und der Final sind in gutem Zustand.

All stages are accessible and visible even in winter, except stage 3 *during* snowfall.
Increase terrain rating a little in case of snow cover.
Stages, Micros and Final in good condition

Hallo miteinander

Heute war unser Lalex / Schuhhirsch Tag, Dnake für den schönen Nachmittag. Nicht nur dass wir ihre Caches gemacht haben, sondern wir haben uns sogar getroffen .

Für Stage 2 haben den Tipp von Cezanne befolgt. Nochmals Danke.

Die Stages waren alle schnell gelöst, nur bei Stage 5 hatten wir ein kleines Problem, da ein Fischer neben dem micro saß.

Katharina hat bis Stage 6 alles verschlafen . Scheinbar ist Papas Rücken wirklich bequem.

Danke für diesen Cache der uns sehr gut gefallen hat. Die Länge und das Terrain haben super für einen Sonntag nachmittags ausflug gepasst. Leider werden solche Caches in der letzten Zeit immer seltener.

TFTCNT

Angi, Katharina & Martin

Contrary to my original plans to delay a second visit to this cache for a longer time, I decided to revisit it today.
I have to admit that by sticking to follow the hint for Stage 6, I would not have found the micro at that Stage. I guess that without the hint that misled me, I would have found the micro already yesterday, but still after a long search as the micro is well hidden. Thanks to a comment of aj-gps in reply to a mail where I thanked him for a comment of him some days ago that made it easier for me yesterday to find a safe way back to my car, I realized that my interpretation of the hint differs from the interpretation of the hiders of the cache.

To make things more interesting, I chose today a new approach to Stage 6 which was longer than necessary, but I wanted to explore a path that was shown on the AMAP. After having arrived at Stage 6 after a nice walk, I found the micro relatively quickly. As a kind of irony of fate, I realized that the coordinates sent me to the place I had passed by accident yesterday. I even had thought of this place as a possible location for the cache and even had had a quick look at the place. Due to the fact that it seemed unlikely to me that the cache had been hidden at this place (one of the icons misled me) and due to the fact that there were other people around, my search was only half-hearted and short. I was very close to the cache already yesterday, in any case, closer than 0.5 meters. I have to admit that personally I would have preferred a different hideout, but that's certainly a matter of taste.

I suggest to either increase the difficulty rating of this cache (2* is quite low) or to provide further help (spoiler photographs for the hideouts of the micros or modified hints which restrict the number of possible hideouts) for those cachers who start this cache because they wish to go for a nice walk and who are misled by the low difficulty rating and are not prepared to lengthy searches.


Thank you for hiding this cache in a nice area. As I already wrote in my previous log, I enjoyed the part of the walk which did not lead along tarmac roads very much. With a little bit more help for finding the micros (the hint for the final cache is sufficiently helpful to speed up the search if other people are around), this cache would be ideally suited as a cache for cachers who wish to go for a nice, short walk.

I have often passed by some of the stages by bike, but have never before explored the floodplain forest part near Werndorf. Hopefully this area will not be destroyed in the future by the construction of further power stations.

No trade

PS: I feel that the "wading required icon" is misleading.

Normally I prefer to approach caches like this one by bicycle. As the weather looked quite unstable when I left and since the wading icon made me wonder how large the chances are that I would end up with wet feet, I decided to take the car.

I parked at the suggested coordinates and walked to Stage 1. There two girls were around a strange cat - they somehow attracted my attention so that I forgot to have a look for B. I realized my mistake on my way to Stage 2 (at the point where I needed to determine C which took me a while) and went back. Although I started to drizzle, I wished I would have a bike at my disposition. After my second visit I went to Stage 2. The tasks at Stages 2 up to 4 were quickly solved. I enjoyed the walk from Stage 4 to Stage 5 and further on to Stage 6. To my surprise I found the micro at Stage 5 quickly because it is hidden at a characteristic place (I am not sure, however, if the hint is fully correct, but as I did not need it, I did not care.)

At Stage 6 I searched around for quite some time. The reception was very jumpy and there were many objects that needed to be looked at. The hint did not help me and I have to admit that I was not even sure how to interpret it (apart from the fact that I would have preferred a hint telling me something about the object to be searched for). Within the radius to which my GPS-r sent me the most often, I could not a find a micro. I investigated most likely locations several times, but still failed.

After a much longer period than I normally like to spend for searching for a single stage of a multi-cache (more than 30 minutes), I finally gave up. My motivation for finding Stage 6 came from the help it would have provided to me to find a reasonable way back to the starting point. Fortunately, I was lucky and found a way that was manageable for me though a bit challenging at some point to get back into civilization.

I enjoyed the walk, but did not enjoy at all the search at Stage 6 which appeared to me like searching a needle in a haystack. This is definitely not the aspect of geocaching that I like.

14:45 CEST
Used this nice day to go for this cache. Approached via bike(high)way R2 and left the bike at stage 4, but I'd recommend to leave it at stage 3. If you are able to carry your bike for a few meters it would also be possible to take it with you for the whole cache tour.
At stage 5 I searched for a long time with quite a jumpy reception, but after calling Schuhhirsch it turned out that I was looking at the wrong (lower) object mentioned in the hint. Stage 6 was also well hidden, and the final ... well, I don't know but I think I am too stupid to locate such a box there, even though the coordinates were as accurate as possible given the hiding place. As today wasn't the best day for taking the location apart I gave Schuhhirsch another call and with some hint the box was then quickly found (and I'm sure that I already had a look there).
Thanks for this nice cache that's reachable by bike and within my usual biking distance .
TNLN.