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Map of California's 58 Counties
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 January 24 by kablooey (10701 found)
After more than nine years of caching, I have finally found a cache in all 58 counties (the last one was Inyo, more than a year and a half after the 57th one).1)Alameda Geo-Ca$h-C 8-15-01 / GC5E7
2)Alpine bailys micro 4-C 7-4-06 / GCQQN3
3)Amador Mosquito's Cache-C 8-31-03 / GC12C1
4)Butte Stop, Look and Listen-M 9-3-05 / GCN2J6
5)Calaveras Where two lines meet-C 9-27-07 / GC1558Q
6)Colusa WAY FROM LOCATABLE-C 8-25-05 / GCJH1R
7)Contra Costa Back Atcha, Looney Tunes!-C 10-1-01 / GC18AB
8)Del Norte Gadgets-A-Plenty-C 2-19-06 / GCP2H1
9)El Dorado Pan for Cache-C 8-16-02 / GC108E
10)Fresno I Hate I-5 II-C 11-24-01 / GCFF9
11)Glenn Wired-C 9-5-05 / GCPVM9
12)Humboldt Al's Hole-in-One-C 2-18-06 / GCPHD2
13)Imperial Jeep Parking-C 10-21-06 / GCTRJF
14)Inyo Mamaloo's Mammoth Run - Pearsonville-C 01-24-10 / GCV255
15)Kern BRAIN FREEZE BUCKETT-C 12-11-01 / GC2384
16)Kings Lemoore'On-C 12-11-01 / GC2C27
17)Lake Sentry Market-C 5-10-08 / GCWHXD
18)Lassen Light My Fire-C 9-3-05 / GCK28D
19)Los Angeles Barrington Line Drive-C 11-26-01 / GC1728
20)Madera On the Wings of a Cache-C 8-12-05 / GCPHT9
21)Marin Island 1: Santa Margarita Island-C 8-20-01 / GC1026
22)Mariposa Timber!!!-C 10-14-05 / GCHA30
23)Mendocino Cockamamie Cousin: Ukiah-C 5-10-08 / GC14HPB
24)Merced San Luis Lookout-C 12-11-01 / GC2B9F
25)Modoc Gateway-C 9-3-05 / GCP1MX
26)Mono RidgeTop Views-C 7-4-06 / GC60B7
27)Monterey Walk in the Park-M 11-6-01 / GC25E3
28)Napa South-Of-Target-C 5-26-06 / GCMYK6
29)Nevada I-80 Summit-C 6-28-03 / GC1F35
30)Orange Turtle Rock-C 11-25-01 / GC2528
31)Placer Christmas Cache-C 1-16-02 / GC28A6
32)Plumas Feather Balls-C 9-3-05 / GCN13B
33)Riverside Challen Hill Cache-C 6-8-03 / GC2502
34)Sacramento Off Track-C 1-16-02 / GC269B
35)San Benito 'C' Is For Cave Dwellers-V 11-11-01 / GC4B9
36)San Bernandino Are We Still NOT There-C 9-14-03 / GCCB58
37)San Diego Alvarado Crossing-C 8-17-02 / GC4426
38)San Francisco SF Hill Cache -- Bernal Hill-C 9-12-01 / GCB27
39)San Joaquin Orange Crush-C 1-16-02 / GC2CA0
40)San Luis Obispo Margo View Virtual-V 10-22-04 / GC9A3
41)San Mateo Doggie Do-M 2-15-02 / GCD2
42)Santa Barbara Cobalt Blue-C 6-8-03 / GC43F0
43)Santa Clara 'A' Is For Alum-C 8-12-01 / GC207
44)Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Geocache Turkey Bash-Ev 11-4-01 / GC211C
45)Shasta DOPEY-C 8-25-05 / GCGR9W
46)Sierra I-80 Flume Cache-C 1-16-06 / GC3818
47)Siskiyou I-5 Valley of Rest-C 8-25-05 / GCHZNZ
48)Solano Got Milk!!!-C 1-11-04 / GCC745
49)Sonoma Berlin Wall-C 6-15-02 / GC54E8
50)Stanislaus Especially for Ron-C 8-16-03 / GCG150
51)Sutter Walt and Nora #2-Mys 9-2-05 / GCMQNJ
52)Tehama Road Rage-C 8-25-03 / GCNW8E
53)Trinity Grass Valley Creek Motorcycle Cache-C 5-27-06 / GCN0JN
54)Tulare Dove Weed-C 8-12-05 / GCJXZM
55)Tuolomne Old Crimea-V 5-4-06 / GCB2FB
56)Ventura Big Green-C 6-8-03 / GCG6Z8
57)Yolo J.I., C13N-C 1-11-04 / GCH7PA
58)Yuba joe and ernie-Mys 9-3-05 / GCN61E
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 January 15 by ChipnDonna (1405 found)
It seems many of those who have completed the "Discovering & Logging California's 58 Counties" challenge have added a bit of personal history of how they got started on this challenge. I will do the same since this is a very special challenge and accomplishment for those of us who have pursued it. For me it began in June of 2009. Since Aug. 2004, I had geocached in 14 countries, 15 states and 17 counties of CA, and I was looking for a little summer adventure. Prior to June 2009 my use of computer technology had been limited to Bookmarking a group of caches I would go after on a given day, double column formatting the cache information including the 5 latest logs using Mac OS app Pages, printing it out to carry, and then generating a loc file of coordinates to download to my Garmin 60Cx. When I decided on my quest to "Cache the CA Counties" I knew I needed a paperless approach. I began using Pocket Queries and generating a "Find Caches Along a Route" GPX query. I had no smart phone, but I had a 4-year old 3rd Gen clickwheel iPod for storage of cache information and I found the MacCaching application that allowed me to transfer GPX files to the iPod as notes. I was now paperless and good to go! During July I made a one-day 450 mile sweep of counties close to home from San Francisco to just above Sacramento. Then a week later I drove 760 mi. and cached the central valley counties down as far as the northern tip of Ventura County before returning home. It was during this trip that I read a log by CKayaks that made me aware of this mystery cache challenge Discovering & Logging California's 58 Counties and I decided that I would also pursue it. In early Aug. my wife and I visited the north coast redwoods, Crater Lake, and Calaveras Sequoias and cached all the remaining northern CA counties. I wrote to Team Geo-Rangers to say we had completed all but 5 southern CA counties and we would be down in Jan 2010. But, as I put my excel county list together to post a note of my progress to this GCQ2VC cache site, I realized that I had missed Amador county! I couldn't believe it since we had been within 10 mi of the county line on our 1500 mi. Aug. trip. ARRGH! We celebrated my wife's birthday with a cache find in Amador County, a nice dinner at the Amador City hotel, and another 300 mi. trip. By now I had bought a 3rd gen iPod Touch and I was using the Groundspeak Geocaching App which is fantastic as long as I continue to use my Garmin GPSr to actually find the caches. We set out on Jan. 9 to combine caching with a visit to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, a visit with friends in Vegas, and my wife's attendance at the "Road to California" Quilt Show in Ontario. That put me in striking range of the 5 remaining CA County caches which I finished on Thursday Jan. 14. The morning of Jan. 15 I was happy to find the e-mail from Team Geo-Rangers giving me the coordinates of the mystery cache and we drove south from Ontario to make the grab. I had read all the previous logs so I was prepared. I approached from the north walking from a small park. I used my pair of walking sticks to maneuver across rocks, water, and reeds. Surprisingly I saw no nettles - It might be the time of year and the route I took. The cache was about 25 feet west of my gz so it took a little while before I expanding my search, found the cache and logged my find. Saturday we completed our 1400 mi January journey and returned home. Like many challenges go, the accomplishment gives a sense of satisfaction, but also a sense of disappointment because the challenge is over and now I will have to find a new one. Was the quest worth the total travel of 4400 mi and 2 1/2 weeks? In the immortal words of Sarah Palin, "You bet'cha!" Thank you, Team Geo-Ranger, for inspiring me and all the others who preceded me and those who will surely follow in our footsteps and tire tracks. [This entry was edited by ChipnDonna on Sunday, January 17,
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January 3 by two bison (8634 found)
Road Trip Day 7 at 10:11 a.m.
We found a cache in our 58th California County (Orange) on December 6, 2007 and posted a note with our qualifying list of finds on the 7th. For us, the hardest part of this cache was getting back down to this area to seek the final. We had driven nearby coming from Anza Borrego and going to a Mr & Mrs Wisearse (now the Cache Liberation Front) monthly event in Riverside the day before we made our final county find and now, 729 days later, we finally got back down here.Thanks for the cache.
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November 8, 2009 by patnanz (5220 found)
We first found out about this cache 2 years ago,we said it would be fun to try this someday.We found caches in the last county in March '08. After returned home before we could get the coordinates to this cache.
jkruegel who we cache with often and is a good friend got all the counties after we did and said he would not go for this cache till we did.....We went for this caches together.
It took a little time to work out how to get to the cache,read past logs,checked satellite photos,drove around the area of the caches. We tried one way and turned back and came at it a different way. Thank you for placing this cache and thank you jkruegel for for waiting for us to find this cache.(he passed by this cache 2 times waiting for a time that we could get it at the same time) This was our 5000th Cache
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November 7, 2009 by jkruegel (1697 found)
Well after about a 1 1/2 years of chasing this one, it is finally over. I feel a deep sense of pride and accompleshment when we found the final cache. I am also sad to see it done, but I have moved on and am trying to complete several of the Delorme Challeges. I am thankful to you for doing this challenge and to Patnanz for starting me in this fun adventure. They also kept me going when time and money was tight. I was very happy to pick up this cache with them and it felt only right that I waited for them. Thanks again for the adventure and hope to run into you and anyone else who continues to challlenge the Geocaching community.
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Last Updated: 1/27/2010 11:16:55 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (7:16 AM GMT)
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