Pitcher's Delight

Heute ging es mit Cachesurfer2011 auf eine schöne Wanderung in der Gegend des Harzbergbruchs 😃
Wir hatten echt Glück mit dem schönen Wetter, Sonne, aber nicht zu heiß und die meiste Zeit sowieso im schattigen Wald unterwegs 🌳 🌲
Diesen Oldie habe ich schon sooo lange am Radar, heute war es endlich so weit mit dem Besuch 😁
Danke für's Legen und Pflegen!
TFTC

Diesen alt-ehrwürdigen Multi gingen Nyaaac und ich bereits im vergangenen Mai an. Damals wurde uns aber das Ofentürl zum Verhängnis. Allmählich brach die Dunkelheit herein und im Dickicht der sommerlichen Vegetation war es ohne Machete nicht leicht.

Heute, im kalten und kargen November, kehrten wir mit Verstärkung durch Cachedog Suki wieder, um genau an der Stelle die Fährte aufzunehmen, an der wir damals abgebrochen hatten. Wieder steuerte ich das falsche Ofentürl an. Nyaaac hatte allerdings den richtigen Blick und entdeckte das gefragte Türl samt Zahl.

Der Rest ging erstaunlich reibungslos vor sich. Station sechs, sieben und acht konnten heute einwandfrei gefunden und gemeistert werden und letztlich stand einem erfolgreichen Fund des schönen neu gewarteten Doserls nichts im Wege.

Tu4t$ sagen

Nyaaac & Suntransitus ☉

Neue Dose hinterlegt. Cachegröße entsprechend geändert. Textpassage für Stage 8 etwas angepasst (aufgrund Beschädigung)

Vor 2 Tagen sind wir zu zweit den Spuren des Pechers gefolgt, haben dann wegen des wirklich wunderbaren, frühlingshaften Wetters von Stage 3 aus den "kleinen" Umweg zum Eisernen Tor genommen und sind dann am Rückweg wieder bei Stage 4 eingestiegen. Hier gab es die erste kleine Unsicherheit, da, in unserer Wetterzone wenig überraschend, mittlerweile alle Bäume an der Nord- bzw. NW-Seite grünlichen Belag zeigten. Also haben wir mit mehreren Möglichkeiten weitergerechnet und schnell gesehen, dass da eh nur eine einzige Variante in Frage kommt. Ofen, Grube (wo uns im Augenwinkel noch jemand, der sich im Nachhinein nach einer Email-Konversation als hansi30 herausgestellt hat - viele Grüße!, aufgefallen ist, der sich dort für ein Objekt am Wegrand interessiert hatte ) und Tragödie waren dann wieder glasklar, allerdings trauten wir unseren ermittelten Finalkoordinaten nicht, da sie so gar nicht in die erwartete Richtung zeigten. Nachdem x-maliges Nachzählen bzw. Durchschauen der bei den Stages gemachten Fotos immer dasselbe Ergebnis brachte und wir zudem eh schon recht schwere Beine von vielen, vielen Höhenmetern hatten, haben wir abgebrochen. Als dann abends hansi30s Log eintrudelte, haben wir ihn mit der Bitte, unsere ermittelten Werte zu verifizieren, kontaktiert, und dabei entdeckt, dass wir uns da wirklich auf der Runde nur ganz knapp verpasst haben und noch besser, dass unsere Finalkoordinaten eh gestimmt hätten.
Heute, an meinem freien Tag, war nun neuerlich februaratypisch warmes Wetter angesagt, und so habe ich mich erneut in die Gegend des Harzberg begeben und diesmal das Doserl, dem es übrigens gut geht, problemlos entdecken können.
Vielen Dank für 2 schöne Harzbergrunden und einen feinen Multicache!

In: TB

Yesterday evening AnnaMoritz and myself agreed upon that this old style multi cache might be a good candidate for us for today in case the weather would not be too bad. Fortunately it was not raining and so we decided to head for this cache. We got started later however than intended as AnnaMoritz forgot something at home and we had to make a detour.

As we had no knowledge of the area we parked a little bit too early. Parking coordinates or a verbal comment to park near the inn would have helped us. We did not mind the extra distance however.
What we found at Stage 1 came unexpected to me as I had expected something else. We took a different approach to Stage 2 than described in the cache description as we continued to the West first. At Stage 2 I would had to guess the value of E while AnnaMoritz indeed understood the task and came up with the right value for E (as it turned out in the end). It's a nice place up there.

We then decided to take a longer approach to Stage 3 which led us end up with additional height meters which were compensated by the nicer route. The information provided at Stage 3 about pitch harvesting was very interesting and I learnt something new. The new coordinates for Stage 4 did not convince AnnaMoritz but after a check we obtained the same result and so we headed there. This time we did not take the longer way, but the short cut mentioned in the cache description. I slowed down our progress in this part considerably.

At Stage 4 we had some debates about the right tree but not about the value of w to take. It was interesting to see how these cuts looks like. It's an interesting area. I like pine forests which are not common in my home area.

At Stage 5 we first thought that something must be wrong but then AnnaMoritz spotted the bench. We did not take the best approach to Stage 6 but after a detour ended up there: another unexpected location for me. AnnaMoritz managed to decipher the required number and so we could head for the next stage.

The task at Stage 7 was easy. The coordinates for Stage 8 looked very reasonable and indeed there we found the last required variables for obtaining the final coordinates.

AnnaMoritz was surprised about the location of the final and felt a bit demotivated. Our doublecheck again led to the same coordinates.

After having had a rest and some food the motivation came back and so we headed for the final. On our way met two unicyclists (unbelievable where they can ride their unicycle - I would not be able to ride a MTB there) and a dog with attached bells.


Once in the target area, we became confident to be in the right area and so it was. After a few minutes it was finally AnnaMoritz who spotted the cache. The cache container and its contents are in good condition. I was very glad that we found the cache as I have already failed to find caches in such areas, in particular if no spoiler picture is available. The hint was not really helpful.

We ended up with considerably more than 6.5km and also with more than 350 height meters and due to my slow walking speed we were back at the starting point later than expected. So we could not go for the originally planned picture hunting multi cache in Mauer and had to select another multi cache which should have become AnnaMoritz's 500-th multi cache find on gc.com (we ended up with an epic DNF however at this replacement cache https://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1VMR9&title=voslauer-villen-spaziergang&guid=e2f27d51-41d2-4625-99d7-a90c7c68ab0b ).

I enjoyed the walk very much even though the weather was not the best. Except for a few minutes when it drizzled a bit, it stayed dry however. The terrain was fortunately cezanne-compatible and comfortable enough that I did not have issues with troublesome joints.

I really wish there existed more caches like this. Unfortunately caches where the stress is on the walk and on the locations to be visited along the way and not on special hideout constructions and/or on accumulating many finds per caching day are not any longer fashionable. Multi caches that invite for a walk/hike of decent length are becoming more and more rare - even some of the hiders of some nice multi caches from the early times have stopped to hide such caches. I do not understand why.

When being confronted with the wave of almost drive in puzzle caches and powertrail like cache series in my home area, I ask myself more and more often why I'm still into geocaching. I do not feel that the activity these people are into has anything in common with what geocaching means to me.

It only helps to go for old style caches in other areas. Despite the final frustrating DNF at the multi cache in Bad Voeslau today was a day when I enjoyed geocaching very much. Thank you for showing me locations I certainly would not have learnt to know without geocaching by only following marked hiking trails. It was a delight to visit this cache - so Cezanne's Delight at the Pitcher's Delight [:)].


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