The cache is at the above coordinates. I have chosen a rather worthless (to Geocachers) location in Bond Lake Park, a triangular piece of land between Black Nose Springs and Lower Mountain Roads. No sense in taking up prime real estate in the park for a challenge cache very few will qualify for. You have to walk along, and cross Black Nose Springs Road, please be careful. The cache is located on the side of the Niagara Escarpment, but not in a particularly steep spot.
You must meet the requirements for this challenge cache to log a find! Any non-qualifying find logs will be deleted. Don't make me be the bad guy, as MickEMT would say.
The Jasmer Challenge requires you to find at least one cache placed every month since Geocaching was invented, in May 2000. That's kinda crazy, and very few qualify. Many cachers across North America have created "mini Jasmer challenges" which require you to only find one cache placed during each month of a specific year, and that is what we have here. You must have found a cache placed during each month of the year 2001.
For a cache to qualify for the challenge, you must have completed the logging requirements for that cache. There are no geographic restrictions, the cache can be anywhere in the world. There is no time restriction on when you made the find, previous finds count. The only condition is that the cache must have been placed in one of the months of 2001.
How do I know if I qualify?
You'll probably want to be a premium member, and use a "my finds" pocket query. There is a program called Geocaching Swiss Army Knife, commonly known as GSAK Then there is a third party macro, i.e. plug-in, for the Jasmer Challenge found here There are examples uploaded to this cache page below.
Easier way? You can download the much simpler program CacheStats This will organize your data nicely, but it's not something you'll be able to upload to the cache page, you'll have to make a bookmark list, or typed list of your qualifying finds. There is an example of a portion of my 2001 finds below. Also, the free web-based service MyGeocachingProfile.com offers Jasmer Challenge support. Simply upload your My finds Pocket Query to that website. You can take a screen shot of a grid to upload here.
The cache owner would prefer a nice GSAK screen shot, or the stats conveniently located in your profile via GSAK. Next best is creating a bookmark list. Or you could just list your qualifying caches as text with your find log. Please note all these "third party" methods are optional, not mandatory. They sure make things easier though.
2001: When caches were caches, and parking lots were for parking.
- George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd President of The United States
- Wikipedia.com was launched
- Apple introduced the IPOD
- Bigwheel, probably the longest tenured active local cacher, joined Geocaching.com
- And of course, the horrible events of September 11th occurred. Let us never forget them
The cache owner does not qualify for his own challenge, needing January and March 2001 to qualify. Which brings up a Special Note: The cache owner will accept finds for a very rare January 2001 placed cache for ancient lake near Toledo, Ohio, even though he, and some other self-proclaimed Geo-historians, are 100% convinced there is a typo in the date placed field, and the cache was actually placed 11 months later in December 2001. But it's cache page says what it does (1/23/01), and far be it from me to disqualify a cache people have driven hundreds of miles out of their way for to qualify for challenges.