This is another of my VT 100 challenges, which follow this scenic route from near the MA state line to near the Canadian border. To qualify, you will always need to have found at least 100 of something, plus some VT caching. In this case, you need to have found at least 50 Vermont caches of any type and at least 100 "traditional" (green ammo can icon) caches. The traditionals can be from anywhere.
"Traditional Geocache: This is the original type of geocache and the most straightforward. These geocaches will be a container at the given coordinates. The size may vary, but at minimum, all of these geocaches will have a logbook. Larger containers may contain items for trade and trackables."
This is meant to be a challenge almost everyone who caches in VT can qualify for. When I began this series, I considered the traditional cache to be the default, and didn't include it in the challenges, because I didn't consider it challenging. But over a few years fielding the responses I get from this challenge series, I have come to realize that at any one time, we have new cachers, who don't yet get the differences among the types of caches. They should have a challenge they can attain easily, that may be a springboard to more diversified caching for them.
Here follows some info that will be helpful to people who are new to challenges. Unlike traditionals, which you find, sign, and log online, challenges have an extra step. You have to qualify first. Each challenge has its own requirements. Some, like this, are fairly simple. Others may take you years to qualify for. (These are much more satisfying too.) They are at the stated coordinates, and while sometimes you can sign the physical log before you qualify, you may not log as a find online until you do. You can write a note that you signed, and that you will log when you do qualify.
All challenges now require a checker. If you find a challenge that doesn't have a checker, it is an older type of challenge, usually much harder to prove. Proof of qualification is easy now, with the checker. But you have to show that you qualify in your log. You don't just say you do. There are various ways to do it, but I think the easiest is to copy and paste the pertinent output from the checker. Why must you do this? Because the CO can delete your find if there is no proof provided. The CO is not required to provide the proof for you. Make your response clear and helpful.
Challenges and puzzles are two different things, even though they both share the same Mystery or Unknown icon. Challenges have the word "Challenge" in the title. The CO of a challenge must qualify for the challenge. This wasn't true before, and you will still find challenges from before that almost noone has attained, including the CO. They want challenges to be possible.
You MUST use the Project GC checker here to confirm and quote the # of qualifiers in your response:
Do not log this as a find until you qualify. Please do not leave a note that you qualify until after the FTF.
The container is a large pill bottle, with some room for trackables. It is starting off with a Disney pop and FTF trackable geocoin to keep in play: FTF can take either. I challenge whoever gets the FTF coin to create a new hide and award it as a FTF prize. I also have a rock in the cache. It is not a prize. It is to keep the container in place. Please leave it there. Note there is poison ivy in the area.
Congrats to mwein for FTF!