You may find the challenge incredibly easy - in fact you may have already qualified without knowing it - or rather difficult.
The challenge conditions are as follows:
1. Find 20 geocaches in 1 calendar month i.e. the caches must be found between the first and last date of a given month.
2. The caches must have been placed by 10 different cachers i.e. 2 caches per cache owner.
3. The caches can be found anywhere in the North Island of New Zealand. Caches outside of the North Island of New Zealand will not be accepted.
4. Caches claimed as found must be active at the time of claiming.
5. There must be at least 1 earthcache in the list of 20 caches.
6. There must be at least 1 multi cache in the list of 20 caches.
7. There must be at least 1 puzzle / unknown caches in the list of 20 caches (not this one).
8. There must be at least 1 cache with difficulty of 2.5 or greater.
9. There must be at least 1 cache with terrain of 2.5 or greater.
10. The above 5 caches must be separate caches.
11. You may not find your own caches in this list.
12. The remaining caches can be of any valid / active kind
To claim the right to find this cache you need to provide details of your cache find list i.e. Cache 'GC' code and date found. You can do this in one of several ways:
1. By posting a note on this cache listing with the details required, or
2. Use the link to access an Excel .xls file.
3. Send me your list via email in text, gpc or loc format.
If your list passes the criteria above go for it and find the cache. The difficulty and terrain retain reflect the challenge. The cache itself is more of a 2 / 2 cache.
Oh, I mentioned that you might have already qualified for the challenge... How does that work? Well, I'll accept finds made in any month as far back as December 2010.
The cache? Its a camo painted 2 litre bucket located at the coordinates listed above with log, pen, and a few small swaps. PLEASE REPLACE THE LID FIRMLY UNTIL IT CLICKS INTO PLACE.
WARNING!! Stealth is required as you will have to walk past a Playcentre (recommend that you do this cache after hours) and a few houses.
NB - Any finds logged by persons that have not met the challenge will be deleted.
Clarification of some of the requirements:
1. To meet the challenge you must find (or have found) 2*10 caches within 1 calendar month - that is 2 caches each placed by 10 different cachers.
2. This does NOT preclude you from exceeding this target in any way. I'm not here to stop you caching to your hearts content, merely setting up a minimum target 'condition' to qualify for this cache. Exceeding the mark is fine for your own personal caching but has nothing to do with this challenge.
3. As noted in the listing - you may find this challenge easy AND you may have already qualified. That is if you have met the criteria stated in any of the calendar months from December 2010 (inclusive) to date, then you may assert your qualified status and go and find / log the cache. So experienced cachers may not need to fret over having to travel long distances as they may have already qualified, newer cachers may need to plan how they go and find caches in the future but can probably find the necessary mix without too much travel.
4. I would appreciate it if people did not go off and try and find the cache until their claim has been verified and acknowledged by me. I will treat claims in a FIFO fashion. That is, I will respond to and acknowledge claims in the order that they are received.
5. Where more than one cacher is credited with a cache placement, in the context of this challenge, only the 'owner / publisher' of the cache will be considered.
Enjoy...
Thanks to BigglesNZ and beltfamily.