The container is a 30 caliber ammo box. Use the parking
coordinates! Trees will make your GPSr go googleywonk. The distance
between the main trail and the cache is 40' (using an industrial
tape measure, not my GPSr).
I am typically not a fan of creating caches just so that they
qualify for a challenge, but I am going over to the dark side just
for this one cache. Below are a bunch of challenges that this cache
will qualify for, however do not take my word for anything. The
cache owner is ALWAYS the final word on if and how a cache
qualifies for a challenge.
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GC1D80J - ABC Challenge
Find 26 caches, the names of which begin with each letter of the
alphabet. X seems to be the rarest letter, so that's what this
cache starts with.
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GC1NBFV - Cache the Rainbow Challenge
Find 25 caches with the name of a color in the title. Chartreuse is
the color precisely halfway between green and yellow (it's 50%
green and 50% yellow). There aren't any caches outside of France
with this in their name.
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GC19WNJ - The Critter Cache
Find 25 caches with the name of a critter in the title. A xeme is
an arctic fork-tailed gull (Xema Sabinii). There aren't any caches
in the world with this word in their name and there aren't any in
the United States with this as part of a longer word.
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GC2199J - The Animal Alphabet
Find 26 caches with the name of an animal somewhere in the title,
each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. This is
sort of a cross between "the Critter Cache" and the "ABC Cache".
Again, Xeme qualifies for this cache.
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GCR9XY - Counting Counties in Oregon
Find a cache in each county in Oregon. This one is in Washington
county.
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GCQKKE - Oregon DeLorme Challenge
Find a cache in each of the sections of the Oregon DeLorme book.
This one is in section 60 (using my ancient 1996 edition of the
atlas).
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GC19RXB - The Portland "Thomas Map" Challenge
Find a cache in each page of the Portland Thomas Guide. This one is
on page 685L of the 2008 edition of the guide.
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GC1PA00 - Walk the Walk -- The OREGON Anti-Micro
Challenge
Find 20 straight non-micro or unknown size caches before finding
the final. This is a regular, so it qualifies.
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GC18RVM - Oregon's "Well Rounded Cacher" aka Oregon's
Fizzy
Find at least one of each Difficulty/Terrain combination. This
cache will qualify for your 3.0/3.0 cell. Any traditional cache
qualifies for something, but the higher the rating, the more
precious it is going to be. This is in a cell that is empty for
many people, but is not so hard that it will be unreasonable for
someone to get who only cares about one of the easier challenges,
such as the ABC Challenge.
