"Der Bergkommissar" - Raub im Scheitergraben

Zusammen mit Nyaaac und Cachedog Suki losgezogen, um den Raub im Scheitergraben aufzuklären und den Bösewicht dingfest zu machen. Trotz Schneelage und Winterwetter gelang es unserem eingespielten Spürnasenteam die richtige Fährte aufzunehmen, sich von den Tieren des Waldes nicht blenden zu lassen und schlussendlich den tatsächlichen Schurken seiner Tat zu überführen! :)

Ein wirklich liebevoll gestalteter Multi mit einer netten Geschichte, der auch besonders Eltern mit wanderfreudigen Kindern zu empfehlen ist! Eine liebe durchgehende Story, schön ausgewählte Stages und am Schluss ein Ermittlungserfolg. Bei unserem Eintreffen war der Täter letztlich reuig und geständig.

Besonders möchte ich noch erwähnen, dass mir die Location des Finals sehr gut gefallen hat!

Tu4t$ sagen

Nyaaac & Suntransitus ☉

Der alte Kommissar ist wohl in Rente, sein Nachfolger hat heute seinen Dienst angetreten. Stage 1 wurde ein wenig verlegt und hat daher neue Koordinaten. Viel Spaß! M&W

Der Kommissar ruft - dem folgen wir natürlich. Schließlich will der Kommissar keine ungelösten Fälle ins neue Jahr mitnehmen.
Also auf zum Treffpunkt. Etwas irritiert war er als wir ihm unter die Jacke gucken wollten.[:o)]
Tja...dann auf und auf direktem Weg (Hilfskommissar 123-maus war ob der direkten Wegwahl etwas pikiert...aber der Kommissar weis ja wo wir hin müssen [:D]).
Die Spur ist heiß - beim 2 Zeugen gibts sogar eine Jause [:D][:I].
Die Tatwaffe - tja, jetzt müssen wir ihn doch schnappen.... noch den guten Rat der Freundin eingeholt- und schon ist er umzingelt [:D].
Der Täter zeigt sich reuig (tun aber das nicht die meisten erwischten Täter?) ..
Zum Abschluß des Falles lädt uns der Kommissar noch zu sich ein, um seinen Bericht fertigzustellen.
Puhhh...jetzt wissen wir warum er Bergkommissar ist [:D]
thx npg

Well, recently AnnaMoritz noticed that I'm close to reaching 1000
finds logged for multi caches on gc.com. Then the question arose which
multi cache should become the 1000-th. I could not offer any nice
multi cache not yet found by me within an hour driving time of my
home. AnnaMoritz was in the much better situation and provided me with
a list of potential candidates. The T-rating of this cache scared me
off a bit but the logs and the photo gallery comforted me a bit. So
finally this cache was selected to become my 1000-th multi find on
gc.com. As it as a cache by M.W. this is somehow fitting as I still
vividly recall when M.W. found their 1000-th cache on gc.com as first
Austrian cachers who achieved this number which happened at a time
when this meant an accomplishment (powertrails and large cache series
did not exist and it was not common to leave throwdowns to avoid DNFs
etc). However the cache was not selected due to this connection, but
just as AnnaMoritz and I like old style multi caches that invite for a
nice walk.

As we had been on the Harzberg before, we started out for this cache
only in the afternoon. It was quite warm so that not even AnnaMoritz
took her jacket with her and left it in the car. Close to the first
stage I was worried because the pointer of the GPS-r pointed somewhere
in the nowhere and I had expected to encounter a sign. Only at this
point I realized that we had to search for physical stages. That's the
price one has to pay for just coming along and not preparing oneself .
Anyway, after Stage 1 has been found we had an idea what to expect
from the rest of the stages. I was very glad that all stages were easy
to find and were in good condition. I do not like spending more time
with searching for stages than with walking.

Sometimes we followed large road like trails, sometimes very small
trails some of which were hardly visible and sometimes we chose a
trackless approach. All the trails were in good condition today, even
the one where recently apparently a harvester drove along. I would not
have liked to walk along there after heavy rains. On some trails many
green leaves were lying on the ground - it's quite early in the year
for falling leaves but probably this was the outcome of a heavy
thunderstorm.

In the middle part of the walk we passed tasty bramble berries which
slowed me down even further and poor AnnaMoritz had to wait in the sun
which she does not appreciate that much in Summer time (unfortunately
for her the bramble berries prefer sunny places). While the bramble
berries on the Harzberg had already dried up, the ones here were
delicious.

At some point of our walk we arrived at a slightly bizarre resting
area where we had a short break. We wondered whether it's a single
person who brings up all that stuff to this place or whether it's a
collective effort of several people.

While most of the walk was easier for me than expected due to the
T=3.5* rating, the last stage before the final and the final involved
a challenge for me. I guess the "no climbing" depends a bit
on the cachers and their physical abilities as it is often the case.
Many cachers would be very surprised to realize where I have to use my
hands and my feet and how slow a human being can move.

As we did not take the intended approach to the last stage before the
final we had to walk back a bit to this stage. Once we had obtained
the last variables we could calculate the coordinates for the final.
AnnaMoritz and myself obtained the same result in the first attempt
and so off we went.

As AnnaMoritz has already described we approached the final in a
cacher-like manner. When I saw what waited for us about 80m from the
cache, I was not happy at all. Nevertheless I started to follow
ANnaMoritz, but somehow ended up with a mental crisis - somehow
neither getting up further nor getting down seemed attractive to me
(and in particular to my knees). My legs were trembling and then I had
a rest at a place where I could stand in a more relaxed manner while
AnnaMoritz was exploring the area. I drank some water and then
recovered up to a point where I felt able to continue.
I guess most people cannot even imagine how I feel in such moments.
It's a combination of a mental issue with knowing that such terrain
brings me to my limits and that I'm not surefooted and that my steps
can be extremely clumsy.

I already had almost given up the hope to reach my 1000-th multi find
at this cache. After a while AnnaMoritz told me that she has found the
cache and a trail for getting back more easily. She then came back via
an alternative approach and then to my position and then accompanied
me to the cache. Like all stages also the final cache container and
its contents are in proper condition.

After having logged we went back via what AnnaMoritz called a trail
(it did not look like a trail to me) but was indeed easier than the
approach we took to the cache. We passed two dead hares. The last part
was quite steep and my knee tendons did not like this and my mental
condition neither. With the help of AnnaMoritz I managed however to
reach the safe ground without having to rely on the very inelegant
slide down method (which does not mean that my approach did not look
inelegantly).

The last part back to the car was then a piece of cake. At the parking
lot we encountered two women. Before we had hardly met any people at
all along our walk except at the parking lot when we started off. The
fact that the two women came back from a walk and that we also
encountered two groups of men with their bicycles made AnnaMoritz
conjecture that women are more into hiking and men more into biking.

All in all it was a nice walk in a nice area and I enjoyed it very
much except for the stress at the final. I do understand why such
locations are chosen for cache stages and finals but often I'd wish
that the finals of caches that lead along an easy walking route would
be more easily reachable for me. Today I was glad that AnnaMoritz was
with me. For me it is very difficult and strenuous to explore the
terrain to search for a cache in an unknown area with a terrain that
is difficult for me.

Thank you for very much for hiding this nice cache and for maintaining
it over the years. I appreciated that all stage infos were easy to
find and that all calculations were easy to perform without any tools.
It was a good choice by AnnaMoritz to select this cache as my 1000-th
successful multi cache hunt and the highlight of a very nice day.

No trade

Dieser Cache war extra ausgesucht, um als "was gscheits mit ansprechender Länge" Multi Nr. 1000 bei gc.com für Cezanne zu werden. Wir trudelten gemütlich am Nachmittag beim Header ein, es waren ja nur 8km Länge angesagt. :) Beim Treffpunkt war klar, wie die Geschichte so laufen wird und bald danach auch, welche Geländeelemente möglicherweise eine gewichtige Rolle haben werden.

In der Nähe einer Stage haben wir allerlei Seltsamkeiten gesehen und nach ein paar Minuten kam plötzlich die Frage auf, ob da nicht eine Kamera die Rastenden beäugt. Ein Stück gehen wohl nur noch die Bergkommissare die bereits gut überwachsenen Wege entlang. Nur in einem sehr kurzen Bereich sahen wir andere Menschen vorbeihuschen, sonst war die Strecke menschenleer.

Die Stages waren alle gut zu finden, viel leichter, als man sich bei einigen Stages im ersten Augenblick bei der Fülle der Möglichkeiten ausmalen könnte.

Die Zeugen und sonstigen Beteilgten gaben alle Information problemlos preis, so war es leicht, zur Verhaftung zu schreiten. Kurz habe ich mich gewundert, dass noch keiner der Bergkommissare oder deren kleine Helferlein versucht waren, sich an der Beute zu bedienen. :D

Vor dem Final war der erste Plan, geocachermäßig typisch möglichst lang am Weg und dann kürzeste Strecke zum Cache. Ah, so sieht das aus und wie jetzt 'Es ist nicht notwendig zu klettern'. Na gut, nicht kletten, also habe ich mich mal auf den Weg gemacht, zuerst alleine nach dem Cache Ausschau zu halten und Cezanne nicht sinnlos durch die Gegend kraxeln zu lassen. Bei der Gelegenheit machte ich auch gleich einen bequemeren Rückweg ausfindig, bevor ich nochmal mit Cezanne zum Cache zurück, äh, ging.

Dieses T3,5 hat meine Erwartung an (ein M.W.) T3,5 ziemlich gut getroffen. Wer allerdings bei T3,5 schon eher an der Grenze des Möglichen angelangt ist, sollte wissen, dass hier erst nach ein paar Kilometern wie für einen großen Teil der Geocaches (im Gegensatz zu manchen Wandercaches, wo das Final nicht schwieriger vom T ist als die Strecke und zur häufig vorkommenden Klettersteigkonzeption, wo oft gleich beim Einstieg eine schwierige Stelle alle abschrecken soll, für die spätere Schlüsselstellen zu anspruchsvoll wären) die allerletzten Meter die terrainmäßig anspruchsvollsten sein könnten.

Die Wegführung und die Stages samt ihrer echt herzigen Gestaltung haben mir sehr gut gefallen, sehr schön. Danke für den vergnüglichen Nachmittag und TFTC.