This may be the lowest rated challenge you'll face. It's easy to
do--if you have a patient and forgiving family, significant other
or pet--don't traditionally celebrate holidays or other memorable
events--or do nothing but seek caches!
Very often, we read about cachers enjoying the
holidays...caching! They prefer a nice trail to celebrate the first
day of the year, relax with a cache instead of a football game,
make room for Thanksgiving dinner...in many ways, they celebrate
significant days while doing something different. Hence this
different type of challenge cache.
To log this challenge as a find, you must find a separate cache
on each of the following holidays and meaningful earth days:
New Years Day (January 1st)
Valentines Day (February 14th)
Vernal Equinox (March 20th)
Earth Day (April 22nd) 2010 = 40th anniversary of Earth Day!
Mother's Day (May 10th, 2009 / May 9th, 2010)
Father's Day (June 21st, 2009 / June 20th, 2010)
Summer Solstice (June 21st)
Independence Day (July 4th)
Autumnal Equinox (September 22nd)
Halloween (October 31st)
Thanksgiving (November 26, 2009 / November 25th, 2010)
Winter Solstice (December 21st)
Christmas (December 25th)
The starting date for this challenge was January 1st, 2008.
Therefore, the earliest date it could be found was December 25th,
2008. The challenge then became (and remains) progressive so that
you can log it as found in any 12 month period. For example, if
your beginning qualifying day was July 4, 2009, you would need to
log a cache on all the days listed above between July, 2009 and
June, 2010. You could then complete this challenge on the 2010
Summer Solstice.
Our only "rule" is that the qualifying caches must be physically
found. That is, "armchair" virtuals don't qualify. Sorry to add
this. We would asssume this is a given.
For clarification: In 2009, Fathers Day and the Summer Solstice
occurred on the same date. We were asked if it's necessary to find
two caches that day. Our preference would be yes, but we don't want
to add more qualifiers, so if you choose to use one cache for both
events, that's OK.
Your found log must include a list of the qualifying days (with
year), cache name and GC number. We would also enjoy pictures of
you enjoying these special days.
The cache is a cammoed tupperware container.
NEW for 2010: As an optional challenge for 2010, why not
take it upon yourself to be the first to log the "Day" Challenge
using ONLY my placed caches. As of December, 2009 there are 75
active caches throughout El Dorado County you can choose from.
The 2010 Option: Some of the first finishers of the Day
Challenge asked if they could do it again in 2010, with a different
final cache to log their accomplishment. For those "over achievers"
I placed that final on Mt. Murphy.
It's called
The 2010 Option, GC242XH.
Parking: Because of the ongoing construction of the
Folsom Day spillway, a common question is how to access the cache.
The closest parking is on Briggs Ranch Road, near the corner of
East Natomas Street. From there, the shortest access to the cache
is to cross East Natomas and enter the State Park area on foot. Due
to the construction road that cuts through the park, you must
access the cache from a southerly direction to avoid being cutoff
by chain link fences.