Bay Area Quadrangle Challenge
A
cache
by mjp303
Hidden:
11/6/2006
Size:
 (Regular)
Difficulty: 
Terrain: 
(1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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Have you ever wished you had the time or resources to sytematically
explore the Bay Area? I sure have! So here’s your motivation and
opportunity:
The Bay Area Quadrangle Challenge
The objective of this challenge is to find a cache in each of 70
USGS 7.5 minute topographical map quadrangles surrounding San
Francisco Bay.
This challenge will take you to the far reaches (…and everywhere
in-between!) of one of the most spectacular places I know.
Detailed rules follow, but the one major difference from similar
navigational challenges is that you MAY NOT take credit for
finds made prior to the creation of the Bay Area Quadrangle
Challenge.
Everything starts from this point forward!
In order to complete this challenge and find the final cache,
you must
- Find a cache in each quadrangle shown in the attached
grid.
- Send me a bookmark list of the caches you’ve found in each
quadrangle. (The bookmark is much preferred, but at a minimum I
will need a list containing cache name, waypoint, and
coordinates.)
- Once you send me a list of caches, I will acknowledge receiving
it as soon as possible, but in all cases within 24 hours.
- Following that, I will review and verify the list. The review
process will not take more than 72 hours.
- Once everything checks out, I will then send you the correct
coordinates for the final cache!
- The find cannot be logged on-line until the physical container
is found and the logbook inside signed.
If I cannot temporarily meet the 24 hour notification or 72 hour
verification commitments then I will post a note on the cache page
to let everyone know what's going on.
Please note that the San Francisco South and Montara Mountain
quadrangles have a non-standard shape.
In both these quadrangles there are strips of land along the coast
(...containing caches!) that are west of W 122° 30.000. You may log
these caches as part of those respective quadrangles.
Getting to the final cache:
As of April 2009, the cache is located in a scenic spot in a local
park about 0.1 mile from the nearest parking. If you want to hike
to the cache from further away, that is certainly possible.
The guidelines:
- The posted coordinates are not the actual coordinates for the
cache. The actual cache may actually be quite some distance from
these coordinates!
- 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.
- In order to level the playing field (and perhaps even handicap
things for cachers who have lots of finds all around the Bay Area),
you may not include caches found prior to the creation of the Bay
Area Quadrangle Challenge.
- If you have found all the caches in a particular quadrangle
map, then you are allowed to revisit one of your previous finds in
order to complete that quadrangle. Please bear in mind that the
determination of whether or not you have visited all of the caches
in a quadrangle will be as of the day you submit your cache list
for verification.
- All cache types count as finds with the exception of events
(CITO included) and locationless caches.
- For the purposes of this challenge, the coordinates listed on
the cache page will determine which quadrangle puzzle and multi
caches are located in, and not the coordinates of the actual
physical cache.
- The boundary of each quadrangle in the challenge is determined
by the coordinates listed on the USGS quadrangle map of the same
name. Please see the attached grids which can be used as a
reference.
- If for any reason it becomes impossible to find a cache in a
particular quadrangle, that quadrangle will be dropped from the
challenge.
- 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.
- Remember that this is a game and is supposed to be
fun!
Additional Hints (
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(Decrypted Hints)
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 Map Grid
Quadrangle Grid
This image shows the names and boundary coordinates of the 70 quadrangles in the challenge.
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 November 1 by Wildbun (1832 found)
Stopped by today to drop off a benchmark geocoin that I picked up in Kailua, Hawaii last week. I was chatting with Nazgul about it yesterday wondering where a safe place would be to drop it, and he suggested this cache. It was a perfect day to be here; clear and warm.
[view this log] |  July 11 by Blanston12 (5183 found)
1:30 pm: I came by here a month or so ago but was turned away by the closed gate leading up to the final cache site. But today I was more determined and was planning on hiking up to the site. However when I drove into the parks parking area across the street I saw the road leading back under the highway and leading up to hill, so I followed it and was able to get up to the top of the hill, from there it was a quick hike out to the cache. Found after a quick search, thanks for a great adventure that took me all over the bay area and to places I never would have gone to otherwise. Left Steve Martin Button #2086, Find #5000. TFTC.
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| June 20 by mjp303 (4069 found)
Congratulations to Driver Carries Cache for meeting the requirements of the BAQC!
[view this log] | June 17 by Driver Carries Cache (1048 found)
   Woo Hoo... Find #1000
Wow... Finally... the Quad Challenge is completed. I had so much fun with this, and the fact that I was able to come and log the final with such a great group of folks makes it even more special. I gathered the majority of the quads with Sargenv. And even though I grew up here in the Bay Area the challenge has sent me to many interesting and wonderful locations that I had never visited. I was treated to the beauty of Uvas Canyon County Park, the dramatically gorgeous beach in Davenport on hwy 1, the amazing view from the top of Mt. Hamilton, the fog-shrouded coastline of Inverness and Bolinas, the Lighthouse at Pt. Bonita and the view from Pt. Cavallo, the big trees at Big Basin and my final quad... the Clayton Quad, where I got to visit the "Tallest Thing in the Neighborhood" virtual, which sadly, has since been destroyed and the cache archived. Which brings me here to the final, on a super windy, foggy, cold day here in the beautiful Bay Area, to claim this cache along with Sargenv, Smilin' Dawg, Binky Del Mar and ByeTheWay. I'd like to thank mjp303 for the challenge... to tour the area where I was born and raised and of which, sadly I was mostly oblivious. Now, it's time for lunch and a beer (or 2) and some more caching! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
[view this log] | June 17 by Smilin' Dawg (1800 found)
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Current time: 11/22/2009 9:09:50 AM
Last Updated: 11/2/2009 2:08:44 AM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
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