Saturday, September 20, 2008

Race coin points us to Aachen


Noticed a race coin ( RaceCoin - Geo.Error Tracking Deer) being dropped in Lift Off. The race envolves visiting as many countries from the European Union as possible before end of 2008. And Germany wasnt on its list yet!
This gave me the idea that we should move it to Germany, which is only 60km from our place.
During the week I planned the German cache connection and today we set off.

First thing on our to do list was drop this coin of in an appropriate cache : a large enough traditional, not far from the road, very short walk and easy to find.
And this cache was our first today : Auf den Spuren des Westwalls (18) - Grenzbunker TK . A Westwall bunker cache. We had done a couple during our Luxembourg caching trip, those were in better state then the ones we visited today. But we did walk amongst a vehicle obstruction line for the first time.

First batch of 5 caches went well giving us a 5.5km walk, 3 bunker caches and a Christmas cache, the first LARGE cache we find. And one DNF (poor signal, not very usefull hint).
This forest is magnificient! If you like walking in the woods and caching we highly recommend this area. Also good for the dogs as there arent that many people walking.

left home at 11h30, back home at 20h00 / drove 120km / walked +15km / found 7 / 1 DNF
and had a great time!

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