Geocaching

How well-rounded is your geocaching?

This cache IS at the given coordinates, HOWEVER TO QUALIFY TO LOG THIS AS A FIND: you'll need to COMPLETE the CHECKLIST below.

Using only caches that you found after this cache was first activated on 25 August 2008, you may count this one as a find if it can be easily verified that you have each of the following tasks completed (one cache per task please):

• One cache of each of the 9 different difficulty levels.
• One cache of each of the 9 different terrain levels.
• One cache of each of the 6 type-groups listed here: (1) a traditional, (2) a multi, (3) a mystery/unknown, (4) a grandfathered type (this includes virtuals, webcams, and traveling caches - locationless caches are archived so no luck there), (5) an event (or CITO or mega-event), (6) an earth cache.
• One micro or smaller cache container.
• One regular or larger cache container.
• One cache that is younger than 5 weeks when you found it.
• One cache that is older than 5 years when you found it.
• One cache that is more than 100 miles away from these coordinates.
• One more cache whose rule you get to make up. Be as creative as you'd like - just make sure to share.

That's a total of 30 caches that need to be found (no cache counts towards multiple goals here), in addition to this one.

In order to verify your checklist, what can you do?

1. Use a bookmark list, if you'd like. The caution here, however, is that some folks don't like having their caches littered with other people's bookmark lists. Though I am not of that opinion, I disclose this information and am offering alternatives.
2. Use a spreadsheet from the following template: GC19A60.xls. Each of the 30 items will be listed: all you have to do is enter in the cache name, date found, and GC number; it'll generate the hyperlinks for us. When complete, make the .xls file available online.
3. Similiar to the previous method, use whatever software product you'd like to make a .GPX file that includes only your 30 caches with user notes for how each of the 30 relate to your checklist. Make that available .GPX file available online.
4. Log a note to this cache an organized chart of the same info: cache name, date found, GC number).
5. Email me, through my profile, this information. Honestly, though, I think that geocaching.com really frowns against this technique (see guidelines for listing a cache). As such, please consider this a last resort. (However, I honestly don't mind if this is how you have to do it.)

If you are confident that you have indeed met all 30 requirements of the checklist, then so long as you have sent along the required verification information, you need not wait for verification to hunt this cache and hopefully find it and log it. You're on the honor system here. However, if you would prefer to wait for my verification, that's fine too.

If, in the process of verification, I discover any shortcomings, I'll post a note (as well as contact you via your profile) about what needs to be done. You'll have 3 months to complete the checklist OR accept that I will delete the "find" status for the time being.