This cache can be searched and found like any other traditional
cache...
...but...
...it can be the starting point for an international cooperation
as well. This cache is just one cache of a set of 30 caches named
European IMC No.1
(IMC stands for International Multi Cache).
These caches are hidden in following (15) European
countries:
Austria (A), Belgium (B), Denmark (DK), Finland (FIN), France
(F), Germany (D), Great Britain (GB), Hungary (H), Ireland (IRL),
Italy (I), Luxembourg (L), Netherlands (NL), Portugal (P), Spain
(E) and Sweden (S).
In each country there is a primary
cache like this one and a secondary cache that can only be
found with hints distributed to all primary caches. The (15)
primary caches are
named: European IMC No.1
P-X-Yyy and the
(15) secondary
caches are named: European IMC No.1 S-X-Zzz where x is the country code given
above and Yyy
and Zzz can be
any additional name.
The hints for the secondary
caches are printed on lists of hints that are inside the
primary caches. As
the primary caches
are scattered all over Europe it will either require a lot of
travelling or - and that is the intention of the
European IMC No.1 –
international cooperation.
If you want to find the secondary
cache as well, you should contact finders of other
primary
European IMC
No.1 caches and exchange the hints. And
please don't be a poor sport! Never publish
the hints
anywhere! Not in a log report or on any website. The hints
shall only be exchanged / traded between geocachers that
found the primary
caches and want to search the
secondary
caches. The European IMC No.1 team wish
you good luck!
The Kyröskoski rapids were harnessed in the 1870's, when the
families of Sumelius and Hammaren joined their forces and built a
cotton mill, Oy Kyro Ab, at the banks of the rapoids. Gradually a
village of Kyröskoski started to form around the mill. The cotton
mill was followed by a saw mill, a groundwood plant, planing mill,
power plant, and finally a pasteboard factory and a paper mill. All
this with the aid of naturally flowing water.
This cache lets you walk at the impressive scenery of Kyröskoski
rapids. If you want to see the full flow, you have to come on
special day when the rapids are released. There are only few days a
year when they do it: May 1, at Midsummer Saturday and the second
Sunday of July and August. The time is always 2pm-2:30pm.
In order to be able to find the cache box, you have to solve the
the final coordinates with the hints given on this page and in the
cache area. A little all-round education won't hurt either...
The starting coordinates given above take you to the parking
place where you will find also an information sign. Some of the
information here could be useful for you... There's also a map on
the information sign. You can see there are two viewing
platforms (näköalapaikka) in the area. Find the wooden platform,
which is further and lower than the other platform. You recognize
it from the wooden stairs leading to it, and also from the
millstones laying on the platform. How many millstones are there?
Count also the wooden stairs!
- Number of millstones = A
- Number of stairs = B
- The year when the first groundwood plant (puuhiomo) was
established = C
- The year when the first paper mill (paperitehdas) was established
= D
- The height of the rapids (putouskorkeus) in meters = E
- How many thousands of kilowatts (kW) is the capacity of
the plant = F
- The number in the chemical symbol for water = G
The coordinates to the cache container are:
N 61° 40.XXX
E023° 11.YYY
XXX = ((E + F + G) * A) + E
YYY = ((C + D) / B) + 328
The cache is a 19x19x11 cm plastic box containing initially:
- Two floating candles
- A metal mouse trap
- A toy ant
- A tool
- A magnifying glass
- Far Side comic picture
- Pack of paper handkerchiefs
- A cell phone shaped flashlight
- A Book by Nicholas Fisk: Triljoonasade (in Finnish)
- A pencil, a pencil sharpener and a logbook
This cache is of
interest of all European Geocachers. Please, log in English
too.
Kätkön väliaikainen huoltaja on nicitus.
Temporary maintainer is nicitus.