Been There. Done That. Sask GeoTourist Challenge Mystery Cache
Been There. Done That. Sask GeoTourist Challenge
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So you have been Geocaching for a while. You have tackled puzzles, a multi or two and some challenges. You are getting bored. After all, you have exhausted Saskatchewan geocaching.
Have you? Have you really? Or do you just think that you have?
Well, This is your chance to PROVE IT!
This Challenge requires you to find and log a cache in twenty-six different urban municipalities in the province of Saskatchewan. To complete this Challenge You must:
1) Successfully find and log a cache in 26 different urban municipalities in the province of Saskatchewan, whose name begins with each letter of the alphabet. The letter must be the first letter of the urban municipality.
Examples:
• R = Regina (incorporated town – 1884, city – 1903) you are allowed only one cache out of the 200+ caches within the city limits. Go to (visit link)
• C = Canora (incorporated village-1905) It's here, isn’t it? (GC126B7) is okay. Keiko's Cache II (GCXTW0) is too far away!) Look up canoraqx.sasktelwebhosting.com.
2) Caches logged since January 1, 2000 in the province of Saskatchewan may be used for this challenge. Events do not count.
September 17, 2009 update - The cache's physical log must be signed and also an on-line log posted on www.geocaching.com.
3) New Caches found after this date may be used. For example:
• How could a certain experienced cacher with thousands of finds complete this challenge when we could only find one “X” community and it didn’t have a cache! In the spirit of Geocaching and fair play we planted one there. If you find another “X” village, please let us know.
4) Logging finds on caches that you own will NOT be allowed. If a community only has one Geocache there, please think about placing another one there so that the owner of the cache is able to complete this challenge.
5) For further guidance - definition of a municipality:
• 1 : a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government
• 2 : the governing body of a municipality
6) In Saskatchewan, cities, towns, villages and resort villages are all defined as urban municipalities. You have an abundance of choices. For listings see the Municipal Directory in the Government of Saskatchewan website:
• Of the 790 Saskatchewan municipalities, 469 are considered urban. These include: 13 cities; 147 towns; 269 villages; and 40 resort villages.
• There are also 172 unincorporated organized hamlets.
• In the north, there are 25 incorporated municipalities: 2 towns; 11 villages; 12 hamlets and 10 northern settlements.
7) Your urban municipality will need to be currently or have been incorporated as a city, town, village, resort village, hamlet or northern settlement. There are many hamlets & villages that have been turned over to rural municipalities. De-commissioned urban municipalities may be included as long as they were incorporated at some point in their history or are an unincorporated organized hamlets or northern settlement. Just a grain elevator with a name on it will not do. For Example:
• B = Bents = Bents View (GC1GFCA). The photo in www.ghosttownscanada.ca that states that Bents was a hamlet in 1937. This urban municipality is now a ghost town and would count.
8) You will need to find your cache within the city, town, village or hamlet limits. You can use the Topo Map feature to verify the perimeters. If the first stage of a multi is within the urban municipality limits, then you could use that multi for this challenge. The only exception is a cache planted near the highway that now bypasses the community. For Example:
• Southeast Loop #8 (GC1DR74) in Wauchope (incorporated 1906), is within the village while Red Coat Trail 'Wauchope' (GC1HFA4) is outside the limits, however, it is close to the Father Gaire Monument which is on the highway so we will allow either cache to be used. See www.wauchope.ca
9) If in doubt, please contact us for a “ruling”. Once made, our ruling is final and we will update this information page.
10) You will need to create a public bookmark, named Geocacher XXX Has “Been There, Done That Saskatchewan GeoTourist Challenge”, that will include twenty-seven cache names – one for the final cache and one each for each of the twenty-six cache that you found. On each of the twenty-six listings, please put the letter of the alphabet that is at the beginning of the urban municipality, the urban municipality, the name of the cache and the date of the find.
11) Or you may also post a note with all twenty-seven caches with the GC ##s and cache name and links if you prefer not to use the "bookmark list”. One of the benefits of becoming a premium member is the ability to create bookmark lists.
12) Logs without completing the Challenge requirements or without a bookmarked list will be sadly deleted.
13) Once you complete your list, post a note and your bookmarks to this cache page for final approval. Then we will email you the coordinates for the final cache. The posted coordinates are not correct and are nowhere near the cache site.
14) Please keep this bookmark public for a minimum of six months after completing the challenge.
15) Caches bookmarked under this challenge may also be used in other Challenge Caches.
16) We are relying on the GeoCachers’ honour system but we will spot check finds. If we find a problem, CharlieDog will sniff you out and make you play fetch until you cry uncle!
17) The most IMPORTANT RULE is have fun exploring our great province and be safe!
FTF Prize is a camoed lock n lock filled with swag, logbook, pencils and sharpener = ready to go geocache!
STF and TFT Prizes are new Saskatchewan GeoCoins!
Fourth to Find – Corner Gas Mug
After that - trade fair – cache is loaded with an assortment of Saskatchewan items including books, cards, key holders, patches, magnets pins, potash etc.
P.s. As native and proud Saskatchewanians, we thought that we had cached all over Saskatchewan but when we created a bookmark, we found that we are in fact short eight communities. That is why we created this challenge: to inspire ourselves and other GeoCachers to explore our beautiful province beyond their own city limits!
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Congratulations to Olemaz for the FTF! You can now claim the title of FIRST Saskatchewan GeoTourist!
Congratuation to Trillium03 who is the Second Saskatchewan GeoTourist!
Also Thank you for your generosity in placing caches so that others can complete this challenge.
Now who will be Third to Find - 4 experienced caches have the coordinates or will it be a dark horse?
Scatch1(M) was the Third to Find! and the driver of his team: bennykidd (R), Novy and SNSGKrieger (S) ! It is great to see friends caching together.
Hurleyanne is Seventh to Find - four months later.
And Eighth and Ninth to Find are navyguider and navcomm. Congratulations to navyguider on completing your First Challenge. May you enjoy many more!
Tenth to Find is 3pollyc - October 17, 2009.
Eleventh to Find is j s e a - April 4, 2010.
Twelfth to Find is LaDeBA - December 17, 2011.
Thirteenth to Find is stormcrow50 who persevered and came back again to find this lonely challenge! - October 6, 2013.
Now who will be the 2014 challengers?
Fourteenth to Find is freddycougar - August 19, 2014.
Fifteenth to Find is Derivative - September 18, 2014, our first Out-Of-Province finder - Manitoba!
And finally one year later, the 2015 Challengers are:
Sixteenth to Find is sir_dumil - September 10, 2015
Seventeenth to Find is AlsT1910a - September 21, 2015.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth to Find is dreadpirateboog and Flyboypiper - February 11, 2016.
Twentieth to Find is SaskAcadie - April 20, 2016.
Twenty-First to Find is bandladventures - May 27, 2016.
Twenty-Second to Find is okeeffek - July 23, 2016. First Out of Province (Manitoba) to complete and find both !
And who will visit in 2017?
Additional Hints
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