Geocaching in Aying Land III

Day 3 and 4 in Aying Land

One day in Aying-Land is far too little if you want to visit and enjoy all of this team's caches. We still have a lot planned for days 3 and 4.

In the morning we go for a little round outside the Team Aying caches. Yes, of course there are other cachers in the area who lay quite nice geocaches. Our goal was to visit all of Team Aying's caches. Nevertheless, you can also take a look... Listing all caches would of course be nonsensical. The geocacher can look at the map. But this one deserves a mention: The Lerhaz Ride, GC7WKNK. At first I was put off by the almost unpronounceable title, but in the listing you get information about what this means. Was interesting too! But even more interesting is the hint, without which we probably wouldn't have found this cache. It's no ordinary can. More or less by accident - when you have to support yourself or hold on - we found this cheeky cache. Again a smile on your face! I have many pictures and videos of this - but they are really not to show. You have to treat yourself to the fun...

I have to mention another cache - outside of the Team-Aying series. Simply because for me it was so typically Bavarian, warm....

The cache BiGaDo Hohenbrunn, GC7PM8K, once again leads the geocacher close to one beer garden. That's what BiGaDo = Biergartendose stands for. You can, but of course you don't have to, strengthen yourself here. The cache coordinates show behind the house, you are standing in the small parking lot of the beer garden. And then? You don't have much choice with the coordinates. There's a sign saying to park forward. Logically, otherwise the house wall would certainly not look so good. Fingered the sign in the old cacher way and felt something...

But not that you think now, there is something behind the sign or magnetically on it. It's not quite that simple and we didn't lose a blue heart for nothing! Really simple, but so beautifully done. We'll try to recreate that in the beautiful Palatinate!

Today we have the ASR round on the screen. Only yesterday the FdS, today ASR... What abbreviations. ASR stands for Ayinger Schlemmer Runde. Hm, is there anything to eat on the way? A hut at every station? Unfortunately we are disappointed. Feasting is only after the round! We start in the really beautiful village of Aying. We think we know our way around here quite well. It doesn't take that long for the size. But you always see new corners and with the ASR you will soon be heading into the woods around the village. A nice round with great hiding places awaits us here and when we stand at the end of the round after a while we have a few meters on our feet, but we always have a smile on our faces because of the beautiful cans we encountered. Sometimes we had to search...

Then came the highlight of the day: the Labcaches mess in the brewery. I know not everyone likes the Lab caches. But here they are thematically very nice, show a great round and end in a grandiose mystery (GC8K6P7). Admittedly, we play the Labcaches with the car as a vehicle, because for the oh so small place they are quite apart. Yes, you are shown something and the old brewery is not next to the new one...

When you have played all the lab caches, it is time to solve the mystery. You get different testimonies in a very funny way - and one of them lies... It's your job to find out who. You can ask witnesses about this. Very funny and you end up in front of a nice finale. At first we thought "here?" and "should we really go there?". But yes, of course everything has been agreed and since the final is soooo beautiful, it puts everyone in a good mood.
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After the day didn't seem to be topped anymore, we went to the Ayinger can fishing. Well, just a round of fishing in the woods…. (that's what we thought, at least I did...). Fishing isn't my favorite type of cache, but it can get boring for a group quite quickly. Here the caches to be fished were (of course) lovingly designed again and I was more and more convinced that the next purchase would be a 3D printer. What can you do...

So we fished our way through the woods - and finally we got to the bonus. Okay, I didn't expect anything special here, after all it was about the fishing trip. And suddenly fishing was completely forgotten, we dived into an absolutely amazing bonus and lost all sense of space and time here. I have permission from the owners to spoiler here on the blog. But here with this cache I just like to withhold it from you. You just have to do it...

With this great impression we ended our third day in Aying-Land.

We couldn't expect much more today than the impressions of the days before. We still had the forest dwellers and - and actually nothing more. But we had the luckiest thing on earth - we were approved for a beta test of an Aying cache. Yes, I'm a little proud of that. But slowly, first of all we went to the forest dwellers.

I had my expectations here and had the 3D printer in mind. Maybe nothing but small animals printed out with notes in their buttocks? As always, things turned out differently than expected…. We stood at the start - but it's a tradition! - in front of a large billboard in a kind of forest/pasture. Where should something be here, we asked ourselves briefly. Then looked at the board and noticed a very funny inscription. There are some strange forest dwellers here! I particularly liked the “Knaked Dürstling” – a carelessly thrown away PET bottle. Or the "potato bagger", which stands for an empty chip bag. Here again the wit of the owners was shown to a large extent - even if I believe that the board was not designed by them at all, we had found such forest dwellers elsewhere before. But not with this inner workings. That's certainly unique.

All the smiles on their faces didn't get us a log book though. So we examined the plaque more closely and found something very suspicious. No logbook or little jar yet, of course - no, just the opportunity to open the board. And then there was radio silence with us. That could not be true. So, quick find and log is not here! There were a few tasks waiting for us. Sometimes we stood on the hose for a few minutes, sometimes it was perfectly clear what had to be done, and yet the round didn't want to go into the square.... In any case, we had our fun and can only recommend bringing some time here and keeping the group small. Otherwise not everyone is having fun.

After a somewhat more complex dismantling, we still headed towards the Cachemobil with a smile on our faces. Of course we lost the blue heart….

Now we were actually finished with all the previously existing caches of the Aying team. But one highlight was still waiting for us. We get to test the cursed hut. Okay, sounds exciting, we thought. The cache is actually called "De verfluachte Hüttn", GC8NT9G. Hard to pronounce for me, but understandable. There is actually nothing to add to my log of June 26, 2020. This "thing" is just plain fun. You have a station in the forest, it's a tradition. We learned well from Team Aying that this does not predict anything about the length and effort on site. This time our task was quite modest: just laugh!!!! And we have. I really almost fell on the floor laughing when we stood in front of the hut. And we played it at least four times until everyone had calmed down a bit and also added a little film and photo... Well, you need some time for the fun after all. And it is guaranteed that you will be in a good mood as you head towards the Cachemobil. And think about how you can formulate your log entry. A slightly different cache by this team, which is worth at least one blue heart.

When we had our first visit to Aying-Land (I've been here several times in the meantime), it was a Corona replacement solution, actually we would have been far away abroad during this time. "Back then" we didn't have any designated hotspots in Germany and no hotel restrictions and the like. Even if the report tempts you a little to visit these caches - and of course the report is supposed to do that too... - look at the current situation and don't take any risks. You know, no cache in the world is worth it…. With the good care and maintenance by the owner team, you don't have to worry that the caches will no longer exist tomorrow. Of course, the treasure hunt in the forest in Bavaria is still one of the holiday options that can beautify your autumn. Have fun and stay healthy!