Oldies But Goodies 100 Century Challenge
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Cache IS at listed coordinates, but you need to qualify first.
There are a lot of Century/100 challenges out there. I have enjoyed them, but I have wanted to do something unique with one for a while. Some are repeated across various states, some are unique to just the folks who create them. Here are some examples of ones I have seen. They range from cache types (traditional, mystery, earth cache, letterbox, virtual, benchmark) to size (micro, small) to oddball types (virtual challenges, FTFs, DNFs, owned hides) to statistics (100/day, 100/week, 100/month, 100 streak, 100 owned by 1) to 100 different types of caches based on name (numbers, food, welcome to, cities, etc etc). See my bookmark list for examples if you care to.
Lately I have been on a tear finding old caches, whether for the Jasmer challenge, or the Washington History challenge and thought, how could I make a unique challenge out of them for myself. So, the idea sprung, 100 old caches, 2001 or older.
Why are old caches worth it? They have stood the test of time. They are often in very cool remote areas. You will almost never find a cache at a bus stop, a lamp post, a power box, a picnic table, a rock wall, these are usually regular size and in cool places.
Your challenge. Find 100 caches either from the year 2000 or 2001. I have made a bookmark list of all the active (or recently archived) caches in Oregon, Washington and states/provinces near them to help. There are over 100 in Washington alone. You can use any past finds and you can use archived caches. You can use caches you found in Kansas (ie Mingo), or in Australia, wherever. The 5 or so 2001 locationless caches will qualify if you are one of the fortunate who got the chance to find them.
The only things I will not allow. 1. Event caches. I will not allow those finds. 2. No caches that obviously have hide dates that do not match the publication date. There are some caches that were published after 2001 but the owner has put a 2000 or 2001 date on them. Those will be excluded and hopefully should be few and far between. Rule of thumb. If a cache number has 7 digits, its not okay. If its 6 digits and does not start with GC1 or GC2 its probably not okay.
This challenge is obviously easier for the old time cachers, they were in some cases around when these old ones got created and there were many to choose from but I hope it will be appealing to the newer cachers. There are more than 15 cachers in Washington State who already qualify and can armchair this challenge including the late Puppers.
How do you know how many you have? Its quite easy and in fact, you can look up anyone in a matter of seconds. Go to your public profile. Click on the geocaches tab. Click on all geocache finds. Now click on placed. Now click it again. It should show all your caches in order of the placed date. 20 per page. I have 100 or 101 as of this cache listing depending if it gets published before or after the Block Party. I had about 40-50 when I started this cache idea.
Think you can't qualify? Only 5 of my qualifying cache finds are archived and am sure I could 5 find more, in fact, I will be doing so. Thus you could start caching today and qualify. There are well over 100 in Washington, in fact, my bookmark list of active caches 2001 or older either in Washington or Oregon or nearby in one of the bordering states is over 300 caches. You can qualify for this challenge without ever climbing a mountain or without swimming or boating to a remote island (though am sure its fun). Traveling across the country will help you, but you do not need to.
So, there you have it. No bookmark lists. No pocket queries. No macros. Easy to figure out and hopefully you will enjoy every cache you find in this challenge, should you consider doing it.
As far as the cache goes, its just into Forest Park. Access it from the road, not the trail above which is clearly marked closed.
Feel free to sign the challenge if you are in the area, but you cannot log it unless you have completed the challenge. This challenge would not be possible if not folks like Bufford, Cache Cow, Crag Seeker, EraSeek, G&D Creations, logscaler, Moun10bike, Plantman, Seth!, The Jester, and others who have created these caches, maintained them, or allowed their caches to be adopted by other cachers to keep them going.
there will be a special coin you can discover as part of this cache listing if you successfully log it. It might not be in the cache page in time, its being ordered from Europe.
Additional Hints
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