Thanks to Keenan Crew for the inspiration for this challenge!
The goal of this challenge is to get cachers out looking for caches in "B"ackwoods and "F"armcountry "E"nvironments, or "remote" areas that are outside of the large clusters of urban caches that reside in most cities. Some of my favorite cache finds have been in BFE and sometimes they don't get the number of visits they deserve.
The requirements to be met in order to find and log this cache are not very difficult and any cacher can likely qualify with a little effort.
The requirement is this: You must find and log at least 5 "remote" caches of any type before you log this challenge.
No finds prior to 6/15/11 count for this challenge. Otherwise there would be no "challenge" part of it for many of you since you'd already qualify. When you log your find here, list in your log the GC numbers of the five qualifying caches that you found along with the date of each find.
Now here are the qualifications for a "remote" cache as defined for this challenge: A remote cache is a cache that has no other cache listed within 3 miles of its posted coordinates. If you find a "remote" cache and then sometime later a cache is placed within 3 miles, you can still use your find to qualify for this cache. It was "remote" when you found it, so it counts. For the purposes of this challenge, only posted coordinates are used. So puzzles and multis are considered to be at their posted coordinates when comparing distances.
Finding qualifying caches There is an easy way to find out if a cache qualifies. When viewing the cache listing, there is a link at the bottom of the cache description to view "...all nearby caches". If you click that link, it shows a page with the nearest caches sorted by distance. If the nearest cache shows "3.0mi" or further, it qualifies.
CONGRATS TO XXXSPARKMANXXX ON THE FTF!! :)