big adventure lab spots

[+TeamPintenWippers]

Does anyone know of big series of adventure labs at one spot like in Assen carpoo spotl Netherlands?

Like more than 200 labs on one place?

[+HHL]

7 minutes ago, TeamPintenWippers said:

carpoo

Slightly OT:

This is absolutely the right wording for this type of AdLabs.

Edited August 13, 2024 by HHL

[Keystone]

I moved this thread from the General Geocaching Topics forum.

[+HHL]

3 hours ago, TeamPintenWippers said:

Does anyone know of big series of adventure labs at one spot like in Assen carpoo spotl Netherlands?

Yes, they might (click here) do.

[+Deepdiggingmole]

These are the worst thing to happen to ALs
I know some will say if you dont like it ignore it - but what are the point of them other than to be an overinflated number boosting exercise
HQ have put out a new blog to give 6 tips on how to create a memorable AL - and these AL saturation spots follow none of them. 
You dont get shown a specific location, you dont have to answer a question about a specific location - most if not all are Multi choice questions, so you don't get to learn anything either 

There is nothing memorable about them 

And these boost your geocaching  'find count' by hundreds sometimes thousands 

AL 'finds' should be a completely seperate stat and have nothing to do with geoaching find count - AL is on a seperate APP so keep it that way 

 

Edited October 27, 2024 by Deepdiggingmole
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[+CAVinoGal]

3 hours ago, Deepdiggingmole said:

These are the worst thing to happen to ALs
I know some will say if you dont like it ignore it - but what are the point of them other than to be an overinflated number boosting exercise
HQ have put out a new blog to give 6 tips on how to create a memorable AL - and these Al saturations spots follow none of them. 
You dont get shown a specific location, you dont have to answer a question about a specific location - most if not all are Multi choice questions, so you don't get to learn anything either 

There is nothing memorable about them 

And these boost your geocaching  'find count' by hundreds sometimes thousands 

AL 'finds' should be a completely seperate stat and have nothing to do with geoaching find count - AL is on a seperate APP so keep it that way 

 

 

While I agree with many of your points, let me say that I have done several adventure labs and they have been, for the most part, enjoyable, educational, and not guilt inducing when I get a smilie for each location.  It is what it is...we pick and choose what Adventure Labs we do and they account for about 10% of our find count.  We're not really about the numbers anyway, but it's about enjoying the experience.  For us, whether it gives us one or five or ten smilies, it really doesn't matter.  I'll admit, the couple of airport ones we've done sitting on the plane were kinda lame, and we likely won't do any others that we can do sitting in one location - our choice.  But this is veering off into another issue and is off-topic to the original question....

 

On 8/13/2024 at 6:39 AM, HHL said:

Yes, they might (click here) do.

 

Getting back to the OP's original question - thank you HHL for providing one way to find these types of AL's.  Other than searching the map in a location you plan to visit, I don't know of a way to find these

[+Deepdiggingmole]

On 10/8/2024 at 9:35 PM, CAVinoGal said:

While I agree with many of your points, let me say that I have done several adventure labs and they have been, for the most part, enjoyable, educational,

We too have done many ALs - these being the singular 5 stage ALs that take you round an area and you enjoy the sights - thats what ALs were originally intended to be for 
I am referencing the 200 ALs that you can access from a car park - you do not get taken to any other location you do not get to see any sights - you just sit there and answer hundreds of multi choice questions 

 

On 10/8/2024 at 9:35 PM, CAVinoGal said:

We're not really about the numbers anyway, but it's about enjoying the experience.

Absolutlely - but these saturation ALs ARE all about the numbers and there is no experience to enjoy !!!

[+HHL]

On 10/27/2024 at 2:23 PM, Deepdiggingmole said:

but these saturation ALs ARE all about the numbers and there is no experience to enjoy !!!

Please have in mind that you're not the world's center. Other people might prefer another kind of enjoyment.

[+geodarts]

On 11/8/2024 at 12:13 AM, HHL said:

Please have in mind that you're not the world's center. Other people might prefer another kind of enjoyment.

There has always been that tension in the Groundspeak games.  I enjoyed the old style original type of locationless — one find and the location is taken. Then the old virtuals were my favorite until they were banned.  I liked the challenges that weren’t dependent on caching numbers — the thematic ones that are no longer allowed. Perhaps some people also enjoyed the other caching category that briefly appeared — the take a picture doing something silly ones.

 

All of these were eliminated to one degree of the other.  The only thing that did not get restricted were the limitations on repetitive caches that make it harder to notice caches I might enjoy.   

I used to play another location based game but it became swamped with people going for the lowest common denominator, snapping a picture of anything without finding the existing locations.  I was the highest rated player so I must have enjoyed it to some extent (or at least wanted something to do during lunch breaks); but some of us wanted the developers to narrow the games focus and put less emphasis on adding locations.  The developers were trying to figure out a balance when the start up money ran out.

 

I see ALs moving in the kinds of directions that have been (or should be) otherwise discouraged. When everything can be a lab, without much limitation other than the lack of cell coverage, there is no adventure.  

 

 

Edited November 11, 2024 by geodarts

[+HHL]

On 8/13/2024 at 11:44 AM, TeamPintenWippers said:

Like more than 200 labs on one place?

Yes. The Oslo Lab Trail (click here)      currently consists of 103 Adventure Labs (that is: 515 LabCaches) with numbers increasing daily.

The Harstad AL Trail (click here) consists of 144 Adventure Labs (that is: 720 LabCaches).

There are some more smaller AL trails in Sweden . However, they are all located in a gentle landscape that invites you to take a pleasant walk.

You might search for AL trails with a specific GSAK macro (click here) :

 

 

Hans

Edited November 12, 2024 by HHL

[+HHL]

Here's another one. About 40 miles south of Oslo.

 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2024 by HHL
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[+Deepdiggingmole]

On 11/8/2024 at 8:13 AM, HHL said:

Please have in mind that you're not the world's center. Other people might prefer another kind of enjoyment.

Dont get me wrong - I am not disagreeing with the above sentiment - my main point is that however these two 'games' should be kept apart - geocaching is one thing - Adventure Labbing is another - their stats should be separated
You work hard to get 150 geocaches in a day - you also work hard to get 2000 AL stages completed in a day 
But these two efforts can not be alikened and you should never say I have achieved 2000 smilies in one day on the geocaching stats page when you have only done that by completing 2000 AL stages