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Unknown CacheCalifornia DeLorme Challenge (Southern & Central)

A cache by Moose Mob & Associates     Hidden: 1/31/2008

Size: Size: Regular (Regular)     Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5     Terrain: 2.5 out of 5 (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)


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In California, United States

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The goal... to find a cache from each page in the Southern and Central California DeLorme book. One hundred and ten map pages that cover Santa Cruz to the Mexican Border in DeLorme's Southern and Central California Atlas and Gazetteer.

The DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer is published for all 50 states. These maps are a favorite among travelers and outdoors-men and are available at many locations, including online directly from DeLorme. The goal of this cache is simple (ha!): to find a cache on each and every page of the Southern and Central California DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer. The final cache coordinates can be obtained by successfully finding a cache in each page of the Atlas.

In order to claim this cache, you must first send me a file containing the list of caches, one per DeLorme Book page, of all of your finds. (.GPX is highly preferred, although .LOC format is a close second). If you send your file in non-GPX format, then please filter out your non-California, locationless, event and CITO caches ahead of time for me.) I will review and verify the list. Once everything checks out, I will then send you the correct coordinates for the final cache! The find cannot be logged until the physical container is found and the logbook inside signed.

Based on feedback from and incidents seen with DeLorme Challenges in other states, some guidelines need to be laid out:

° As mentioned above, the posted coordinates are not the actual coordinates for the cache. The actual cache may actually be quite some distance from these coordinates!

° Generally accepted rules, guidelines and conditions for logging a cache find apply. These must be bona fide caches listed on Geocaching.com that you have personally (physically) found and logged.

° Placement of a cache on a DeLorme Atlas page does not count as finding a cache. Caches found and logged online prior to the publication of this cache do count towards pages found.

° All cache types count as finds or hides for the DeLorme Challenge with the exception of events (CITO included) and locationless caches.

° If a Southern and Central California DeLorme Atlas page includes space not located in California, only caches in the California portion count. We will go off of the posted coordinates for a cache when determining in which state or page a given cache falls.

° Exempt Pages:
- Page 54: Death Valley National Park and Fort Irwin on the south.
- Page 120: These Channel Islands are all either Military or National Park. Although there have been Earthcaches placed this cache was published, we will keep it exempt.
Note: Page 58 now has 3 active caches and is part of the requirements.
° While the various editions and versions of the DeLorme Atlas do not seem to gave changed much in terms of page boundaries, the image above derived from the information in the cache owner's copy will be considered definitive.

° While you may have others with you when you find the final cache, only those who have fulfilled ALL criteria for this cache will be allowed to log it as a find. Find logs by other cachers will be deleted.

° When in doubt ask—we can discuss it or even seek guidance from others, but the final decision rests with the cache owner.

° Remember that this is a game and is supposed to be fun!

Again, many thanks go out to Haicoole for the original idea for this cache and to the other cache owners who have taken the idea and run with it for their own states.

Please note: The final cache is somewhere in the Castle Mountains, several miles from the posted coordinates. Also, do not believe the Yahoo map, this mountain range is not within the boundaries of the Mojave National Preserve.
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 November 28, 2009 by boysnbarrie (1943 found)
Woah! This was quite an experience for me. I'm not sure how many pages I have completed for this challenge ... I've never given the idea of tackling it much thought. After spending the last few days picking up pages with the kwvers! I think I want to give this challenge more of my attention. Coming to this site was an adventure I will never forget. Congratulations on finishing the challenge! What an honor it was to be with you; thanks for bringing me along.

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 November 28, 2009 by kwvers! (14785 found)
Challenge Completed! The Fat Cats suggested that we give this challenge a try over a year ago. Habu completed this challenge just as we began to formulate a plan of attack. After purchasing the map and downloading the Delorme macro into gsak, we began to take weekend trips visiting each page at a time. One trip took us from San Diego to Cambria then across hwy 58 to Barstow and Fort Irving road. Another trip had us heading to El Cento to Needles across hwy 40 and beyond...This month we traveled to the Lone Pine area and this weekend we went to Death Valley..Whew!!! Today was the day! Final Time..Everything was going smoothly until we noticed a storm in the horizon..Just as we were within a mile of gz..The snow,sleet and hail began..Our dirt road became white and the wind was howling...What should of been an easy ride up turned into a harrowing experience! We would of loved to hang out at gz for awhile but it was 32 degrees and we were not looking forward to the drive down...

What an awesome challenge! Thanks for the fun! We left an unactivated geocoin. (visit link)

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Photo At the Final!
Photo Boysnbarrie and Mrs. K at the final
Photo signing the log!
Photo Let's go, it's snowing,hailing and raining!
Photo The View

 March 28, 2009 by bthomas (14541 found)
Slightly ironic that the first Delorme Challenge I'd complete would be for the other half of my state. I've cached 57 of the 58 counties, and down south, I needed just 14 new Delorme maps.

A huge trip with Motorbug would do it: 8 daze, 2600 miles, 8 counties revisited, 100+ caches, the 14 maps. Cached with Geobrowns, DavidT21 & Fisherwoman, TeamPerks, and Fishpoet. In years past, cached other Delormes with TeamAlamo, Ranboze, and the great SoCal4x4geocachers crew. Thanks one and all.

This trip, did a SoCal4x4geocachers jeep run up Last Chance Cyn and went underground for 0.4 mile at Burro Schmidt Tunnel. Did my third run on the Bradshaw Trail. Was below sea level twice, at Badwater and Salton Sea. Padded more Fizzy combos: 4/4.5, 2.5/5, 4/5. Did some Golden State Delormes. Got the dreaded Yuma corner, for me, the far side of the moon.

Memorable cache locations... Mt Whitney, Teakettle Junction, Badwater, Barker Ranch Goler Wash, D is for Desert Phone Booth, Mojave Road, Amboy (because I absolutely had to get two that dark night), Dangling Wooley at Joshua Tree (cuz it was dumb to twilight rock climb), Pushwalla Trail, PeeWee Desert Lawn Jockey, the dinosaurs at Basement of the Alamo, John Bull Trail at Big Bear, Ranboze's C-119 wreck hike in the Angeles, the wreck hike at Townes Peak Death Vly, flying into Waypoint Cafe at Camarillo, F is for Faultline, James Dean, and of course caches along I-5.

Thanks MooseMob!!!

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Photo PeeWee 2006
Photo 282 Below
Photo Virt at Death Valley
Photo Titus Cyn for Leadfield
Photo Directions to Delorme maps
Photo More Jeeps
Photo Our rides
Photo Motorbug at Final

 March 28, 2009 by MotorBug (7943 found)
I told my caching buddies who have seen me toting around the socal atlas around for months that I was NOT working it. I just wanted to pick up a cache on each page I happen to be traveling through, just in case SOME DAY ever came. Well I guess it came when I took my first dedicated socal DeLorme page gathering trip last December.

The journey is the adventure of course. While I am very happy to be done, at the same time there are probably a hundred places I would like to visit again and some really great memories of people, places, things and events that I will always cherish. I remain amazed at the beauty and size of this state, and in particular the open land available to the public in the south.

Most recently I've taken trips with bthomas, DT21&FW and GeoBrowns as we wheeled around and grabbed pages. Not without their company and encouragement would I be claiming this. And so many of the caches I found had the same signature before I was there-- retiredprof.

Really an incredible time and journey filled with wonderful memories. Even if you think you will never do this challenge, tote that atlas around. You never know. TFTC!

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 February 10, 2009 by RoadRunner (86 found)
** Coordinates Changed From **
N 32° 39.535 W 117° 04.230
Distance From Old: 1447034.3 feet
Let's see who is interested in some real caching adventures!

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Current Time: 2/9/2010 7:43:11 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (3:43 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 12/2/2009 7:41:50 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (3:41 AM GMT)
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum


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