Yesterday at 23:00 I discovered that the cache “The middle of somewhere” was published at 16:16, and that noone had found it, or at least had not posted any FTF (First To Find) logs on geocaching.com. This is a mystery cache, and I had to recall my old geometry skillz from school to be able to calculate the coordinates. Then I downloaded a free GPS waypoint finder program for my iPhone, plotted the coordinates in and went to bed.

This morning the first thing I did was check my mail to see if there had been any finders of this cache. It was nothing there, but I was a bit worried that one of the other regular FTF hunters I know had found it but not logged it on the website so that other FTF hunters would come rushing to the scene just to be disappointed by finding a not-so-much pristine log sheet in the container. A despicable practice, that.

However, after dropping the kid off to kindergarten and the wife off to work I went down to see if I got my calculations right. And after some detours – the iPhone GPS isn’t all that.. – I had to use the hint to start bruteforcing possible cache locations. And I found it! And it was an FTF! There was much rejoicing, and then I went to work

Wondering about the picture? Well, little Halden seems to be a dangerous town, that’s a bullet hole in a sign near the cache!