First geocache hunt
Our team of Business Inteligence at the K.U.Leuven decide to do a geocache hunt as team event. We selected HET BED VAN NAPOLEON (HAGELAND) GCHE8G for this. This seemed to be a perfect introduction cache for us. This multi-cache doesn’t seem to a too long walk and not too difficult puzzle to solve.
A colleague borrowed a GPS unit from her friends and I did some basic preparation by looking up all available coordinates in Google Maps. You never know if we got lost.
The weather was perfect, so we started at the begin coordinate where we should find our first clue. The problem is that you don’t know what you’re looking for when it’s the first time you do such stuff. But luckily it was found reasonably fast and the other weren’t that much of a problem either.
So we could calculate the end coordinate were the stash should be found, typed them in and started looking and kept looking and didn’t find anything. First we thought that it was the GPS – it wasn’t a top notch version with the latest chip set – that couldn’t find the satellites in the wood. But the a colleague found out that I did something wrong with my calculation. A basic error that even kids from secondary school wouldn’t make.
Based on the new coordinates, a colleague found the box after a while. We ended this beatiful journey with a dinner at a Chinese-Japenese restaurant.
