Requirements for the Challenge:
To meet this challenge you must complete the following:
- Find and log 75 benchmarks.
Although all are not required, good benchmark logs include the following:
- Coordinates on your GPS, phone, or other device.
- Elevation reading.
- Close-up photo of the disk, rod, or other bench mark type.
- A second photo from a few feet away showing the mark and the general surroundings/location.
Additional Information:
- Any posted "Found It" logs that do not meet the requirements of this challenge will be deleted.
- If you have not met the requirements of this challenge, you may visit this cache, sign the log book and post a note on this page. When you have met the requirements of this challenge, you may then post a "Found It" log without revisiting the cache.
- FTF Honors go to the first person (or team) to Qualify and Sign; if multiple people signed at the same time and qualify, Co-FTF is acceptable
- Note: The D/T reflects the time, effort, distances travelled or walked, as well as the research to decide where to look for the benchmark due changes in terrain, landscaping, and town plats over time. This requires significant effort to locate 75 benchmarks, many of which were placed >60 years ago.
- Some benchmarks are easier to find than others. Please stay safe and legal. Honor "no trespassing" and "private property" signs and other laws.
Using your GPS unit and/or written directions provided by NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS), you can seek out survey markers and other items that have been marked in the USA. Although there are survey markers and geodetic discs in other countries, the database to log on geocaching.com is limited to the United States.
The cache name is based on the amateur radio operator phonetic alphabet, continuing a theme for this series of caches.
--... ...-- and Happy Caching!
BYOP!