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The Bay Area Quadrangle Challenge

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

1. Find a cache in each quadrangle shown in the attached grid.
2. 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.)
3. Once you send me a list of caches, I will acknowledge receiving it as soon as possible, but in all cases within 24 hours.
4. Following that, I will review and verify the list. The review process will not take more than 72 hours.
5. Once everything checks out, I will then send you the correct coordinates for the final cache!
6. The find cannot be logged on-line until the physical container is found and the logbook inside signed.

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!