The Fizzy (Difficuty/Terrain Combination) Challenge Cache!
There's a reason this cache is rated at a difficulty 5. It's probably the most insanely difficult Challenge cache I could imagine, and the majority of geocachers may never qualify for the smiley. To earn the coveted smiley for this cache, you have to have found every possible difficulty/terrain combination. Past, present and future geocaches are all fair game, though you cannot use your own cache hides and we ask that you not try to "invent" with friends geocaches which artificially create the levels you need. I know that, when I first published this challenge, I did NOT yet qualify for it...the Gamer family had found 66 of the combinations, but we still had 15 to go. Happily, we finally achieved the goal...but it -- took -- WORK!
You may find the cache and sign the log at any time...it IS at the posted coordinates and is a ridiculously-easy-though-muggley-eyes-threatening magnetic guard rail hide...and you can post a note to the cache page if you would like. However, you cannot officially log a Found It online and claim that coveted smiley until the day you have achieved your 81st (and final) combination. We will have to delete any Found It logs for cachers who do not qualify.
To determine which combinations you have already achieved and which you have yet to obtain, check your www.geocaching.com "statistics" page...there is a grid that indicates difficulty/terrain combinations each geocacher has obtained. You will no doubt have to travel quite a distance to find some of the rarer combinations (I've noted to myself that, in various states, there are "365-Day Challenge" caches that will fill three or four of the combinations the Gamer Family is missing). To locate specific combinations that will fill in the holes in your profile, you can do a pocket query for specific difficulties and terrains by using the pocket query function on geocaching.com (I'm not sure whether or not these types of pocket queries require that you become at least a temporary premium member).
When you log your accomplishment with a Found It, please either post a public bookmark list of your qualifying caches, list them in your log, or simply make sure that your "statistics" are publicly accessible, so others can have SOME way to marvel at your Supreme Awesomeness. Also, if you would, please post a description of your favorite caches used in the making of this achievement.
We're really looking forward to see who has the committment and drive to do this! Good luck with the challenge...and Cache On!
Congratulations to Alabama geocachers XPTWO for the FTF on this cache!