Take your dog with you. There are some meadows where you will need
a leash because of cows and sheep. Walking with a baby-carriage is
possible. The last 500 m can be very difficult, depending on the
size of the wheels and from which direction you hunt for the cache.
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 will
be provided to the founders of this GC on request (please send me
an email). The list of hints are no longer inside this
primary cache. 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 theme of the European IMC No. 1 is
WATER. We haven chosen for the struggle of the Dutch
against water. We made a walking track through a recreational area
east of Haarlem and approx. 15 km west of Amsterdam. This area lies
1.5 m below sea level and is very wet. 5200 Years ago the dutch
coast-line lies here. Nowadays you can see 2 ´fossil´ coastal
barriers, sand ridges with houses, trees and on each one a church
(Spaarnwoude and Haarlemmerliede). Those sand barriers are just 1
meters above the current sea level. Between the sand barriers there
were swamps and nowadays the water has been pumped out and you are
walking between meadows on clay and/or peat.
Preparation for the hunt
| You can
find a parking close to molen “De Veer” |
N 52 23.428
E 04 40.356
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| Take the cache
description of Forest
in the Meadow with you. You will pass this geocache within 25
meters
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N
52° 23.506
E 04° 42.039
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| Railway station
Haarlem-Spaarnwoude is less than 1 km from molen "De
Veer" |
N 52 22.971
E 04 40.275 |
The Hunt
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Go to this information panel on:
N 52
23.434
E 04 40.409
Fill in the missing
values:
A =
B =
C =
D = |
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| Walk in the
direction Halfweg |
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Find this pole on:
N 52 23.AD1
E 04 40.8B2
Fill in the missing values:
E =
F =
G = |
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Continue walking in southern
direction |
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After a while you reach the oldest railway track
in the Netherlands. The first train on this line between
Amsterdam and Haarlem drove on 20 September
1839 |
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Look for this modern signal on the oldest railway track in
the Netherlands. You can see the signal from a distance. There is
no need to go to the railway track and it is very
dangerous.
Find the signal on:
N 52 23.FE6
E 04 40.C62
What is the missing
value:
H =
H is not equal B !!!
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| Walk to the
church of Haarlemmerliede |
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Find the church on:
N 52 23.E50
E 04 41.GD8
The ´house´ number of this
church is K0.
What is the value of K
K =
On this church there is also a RD/NAP measuring point
(meetpunt). On the picture you can see it on the upper right-hand
corner.
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| Walk to a white gate
on: |
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N 52 23.EKF
E 04
41.AEH |
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| Go through the gate and follow the
path to: |
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N 52 23.DB6
E 04 41.BH3 |
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| The 3rd figure of the nr. of this
"paddestoel" |
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L = |
| The 4th figure of the nr. of this
"paddestoel" |
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M = |
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| Go to the bridge on: |
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N 52 23.KL8
E 04 41.M59 |
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| Hunt for the geocache "European IMC No. 1 P -
NL - Lievelden" |
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N 52 23.EK1
E 04 42.1MA |
This cache can be
of interest of other European Geocachers. Please, log in English
too.
Track back
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On the way back to your car go to
"paddestoel" 24091 and walk in direction
Haarlemmerliede.
Location of 24091:
N 52
23.497
E 04 41.809 |
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At the end of this path you will find paddestoel 24093
on:
N 52 23.324
E 04 41.383
Go right in the direction Penningsveer
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