This cache is part of the "ClimateQuest" game that will take you around interesting places in Lithuania, show either an impact or solution to tackle climate change. To complete the "ClimateQuest" you will find six caches. And yet another 30 – in other 6 countries that are partners in the project: Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Germany. In this cache, to find physical "Train" geocashe you have to solve riddles and fill in the missing numbers in the coordintates.
STAGE 1
Your quest starts here: N 54° 37.742' , E 24° 56.266'
You are at Trakai railway station. Traveling by train instead of others means of transport is a powerful way to fight climate change. The train leaves a carbon footprint of 41 g CO2 per 1 kilometer driven, while plane – 150 grams of CO2 per 1 kilometer flown. Driving a car emits 96 g of CO2 on average. So, when it is available, choose train.
Source: ourworldindata.org
Question:
The building of Trakai railway station is beautiful, isn't it? How many columns can you count? It's a number AB. Use the formula (AB-2) and after this arithmetic action the result you get will be number „E“ – it will be needed in the final coordinates.
Now try to spot a 10-digit number ***-*******, written on the corner of the building. It's 6th and 7th numbers of this long sequence „FG“
STAGE 2
Your next stop is here: N 54° 37.754' , E 24° 56.253'
The information stand you see in front of you will provide all the necessary information about the Trakai region. On the island of the lake – beautiful Trakai castle, on the bank of it – Užutrakis manor, many paths for walking, a few mounds. One day is not enough to explore all the beauty of Trakai. But you can dedicate a few days for that... and even arrive by train!
Question:
As written above – there are many ancient buildings and cultural herritage buildings to visit in Trakai region. But there's one stunning herritage of nature too – an oak. It's place is in the square of the map on the infostand, which is marked with letter F and the number. This number stands for „H“ in the final coordinates.
You will discover number „I“ after finding a Peninsular Castle on the map's legend. Which number marks the castle?
Now fit all of the numbers you calculated into the spaces marked with letters to get final coordinates of the geocach:
N 54° 37.EFG' , E 24° 56.HIH'
This cache was created by the climate change awareness project "Klimatosūkis" as a part of international ClimateQuest game with the help of Lithuanian geocaching association (Lietuvos lobiautojų asociacija).