Geocaching

Cachers who have completed the
Pennsylvania All Counties Challenge:

Cacher	Page Completion Date	Cache Logged Date
carels	May 20, 2007	May 25, 2007
CCCooperAgency	July 6, 2007	July 6, 2007
geofun2007	August 10, 2007	August 22, 2007
captainmath	August 25, 2007	October 6, 2007
andGuest	September 2, 2007	September 22, 2007
Geometeacher	September 15, 2007	September 30, 2007
Angrist	October 15, 2007	November 24, 2007
2 Guys Named Moe	April 6, 2008	May 26, 2008
TEAM COPYCAT	June 22, 2008	February 8, 2009
Megplant	August 31, 2008	October 28, 2008
Gosffo	September 18, 2008	June 28, 2009
Slandgsmith	September 24, 2008	September 2, 2010
Furious Shepherd	November 1, 2008	November 14, 2008
m_and_w	???	December 8, 2008
scoof	February 12, 2009	July 1, 2009
UnNamed	May 18, 2009	October 27, 2009
dlfenster	May 29, 2009	June 13, 2009
Run Amok	June 4, 2009	September 2, 2009
r.e.s.t.seekers	July 19, 2009	November 24, 2009
brub2	August 26, 2009	October 23, 2009
yurtles	September 2, 2009	October 18, 2009
rhelt100	September 8, 2009	???
miatabug	September 24, 2009	October 18, 2009
"T" and Inga	November 22, 2009	December 6, 2009
Sammydogs	November 22, 2009	March 27, 2010
pamap	April 1, 2010	???
e-r-h	January 20, 2010	April 24, 2010
reignbird	June 20, 2010	July 24, 2010
ecfackler	July 5, 2010	July 10, 2010
Union41Proud	July 7, 2010	August 14, 2010
walnut-tripper	July 31, 2010	August 28, 2010
Zooming Boomers	August 13, 2010	August 15, 2010
HowerPower	August 17, 2010	August 28, 2010

What is the All Counties Challenge?

The Challenge is simple. The image above shows a map of all 67 counties in Pennsylvania. The final cache coordinates can be obtained by successfully finding a cache in each County. THAT is the hard part!

This cache is owned jointly by Keystone, OReviewer, skeetsurfer, Mr. Ollivander, Tom Bombadil, and our special emeritus reviewer, MissPlaced. In order to claim a find, you must first let us know which caches you found to meet the requirements. See details below.

Here are some specific guidelines for this Challenge:

1. As mentioned above, the posted coordinates are not the actual coordinates for the cache. The physical cache is in the same county, but may be quite some distance from these coordinates! It was hidden sometime in the spring of 2007 by one of the volunteer cache reviewers. The terrain rating and attributes apply to the final cache location, and more details will be provided when you become eligible to seek the final cache.
   
   
2. 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. You may include caches found prior to the creation of the Pennsylvania All Counties Challenge so long as they meet all other Challenge requirements. Your qualifying caches may be active, disabled or archived.
   
   
3. [Previous guidance about initial trade item contents has now been deleted.]
   
   
4. All cache types count as finds for the All Counties Challenge with the exception of events (CITO included) and locationless caches. Also, temporary event caches and grandfathered "moving caches" are not eligible.
   
   
5. When you log your find in Allegheny County, you must leave a live hamster as a trade item. If you mentioned a hamster in your prior log, you are all set. If you did not trade a hamster, you will need to return to this county to log a find with the correct trade item. Please do not do this if the air temperature is below 32°, or if you are logging a microcache.
   
   
6. We will go off of the posted coordinates for a cache (including multicaches and puzzles) when determining in which County a given cache falls. So, for example, if stage one of a multicache is in Ohio and the final cache is in Pennsylvania, it's not eligible, or if the bogus coordinates for a puzzle cache are on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River but the true solution coordinates are in Pennsylvania, it's not eligible.
   
   
7. If you have found or are working on the Pennsylvania DeLorme Challenge, you may not use any of the same caches to qualify for the All Counties Challenge. You must have at least one other reported find in a County in addition to the one you claimed to meet the requirements for the DeLorme Challenge. And, if you've completed the Pennsylvania DeLorme Challenge, you cannot use that cache to fulfill the requirement for the County where the random posted coordinates are located!
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
9. The final cache is located on public land where geocaching is permitted. For those who are nervous after reading the death march logs on the DeLorme Challenge, this one was designed to be easier. The cache is a half mile (as the crow flies) from parking, and is easily accessible from major north-south and east-west routes. You can find a few other caches from the same parking lot and the total elevation gain is less than 250 feet. The hike is on established trails until a bushwack/deer trail for the last few hundred feet.
   
   
10. If a Pennsylvania Volunteer Cache Reviewer chooses to complete the Challenge under their personal account, he or she must return to the cache location and sign the logbook after meeting the same eligibility rules that apply to everyone else.
    
    
11. When in doubt, ask — we can discuss it or even seek guidance from others, but the final decision rests with the cache owners.
    
    
12. All but one of the PA Reviewers are "just kidding" about Rule #5. And the majority rules.
    
    
13. Remember that this is a game and is supposed to be fun!
    
    

Send us an e-mail at PA.Reviewers@gmail.com to alert us that you've completed all the counties. Either link us to a shared bookmark list containing all your claimed finds and specifying which county each cache is in, or attach a file (such as an Excel spreadsheet or Microsoft Word table) listing the following information for each of the 67 required caches: County Name, Cache Name, Cache "GC Number", and the date of your "found it" log. Do NOT send us GPX files using the proprietary Groundspeak extensions to the GPX namespace, or otherwise relying on pocket query data obtained from Geocaching.com.

Review Process: Once we hear from you by e-mail, we will review your submitted list of finds in order to verify compliance with the cache requirements. Please allow up to one week for the verification process -- remember we are busy reviewing all the new caches! Finds will be verified in the order received. Once everything checks out, we will send you an e-mail with instructions, including the correct coordinates to take you to the final cache, and some background information about the cache location. The find cannot be logged until the physical container is found and the logbook inside is signed.

Those accepting the All Counties Challenge are encouraged to post notes here on the cache page to let everyone know they are working on it, and to keep us informed of their progress. GOOD LUCK, AND HAVE FUN!