I just moved to Hamar, so naturally I’ve been out caching a few times. There are a lot of caches around here, which is good since I’ve found most of the caches where I used to live.

First I have to rant a bit about the state of this city. It’s a construction site. There are road blocks and construction everywhere, and that makes the roads death traps to pedestrians and bicyclists. On top of that, whoever designed the streets in this city apparently hates bicycles. The sidewalks have such ridiculously high edges that traversing them with a bike will either leave you on the ground, nose first, or with a broken bike.

That aside, there is also a above-average number of micro caches around here. That’s to be expected in a city environment, but there are some places where you could fit some larger caches. There also seem to be a lot of cheap caches; candy containers, that sort of thing. They don’t hold up, and way too many logs around here are wet. If you can’t put up something that will last, it’s going to be a nightmare to maintain it.

Still though, Hamar is a very nice city down by the lake Mjøsa, and some of the caches had a particularly nice view attached to them. The ones I have left are deeper into the center of the city, so those won’t be as nice unfortunately (and the bicycle-hating “under construction” roads will probably try to kill me ever harder near those).

Got 176 finds at the time of this writing. I’m in no hurry, so I won’t be racing out to get the rest unless I have time and the weather is good – which was the case this weekend. Actually have to read a book for Literature class on Tuesday (I just started a 1 year foundation course in English), so I was listening to that on audiobook (at double speed) today while caching – multitasking FTW. Still have a couple of hours left so if the weather is nice tomorrow I might do another trip to finish it.