To complete this Challenge cache you must first:
1/ Find, and log caches with the 9 (NINE) different Difficulty ratings in NSW, and submit their codes and date found (one each of 1, 1½, 2, 2½, 3, 3½, 4, 4½, 5). That’s NINE different caches. (From the start of the Geocaching School Year 2013, ie., 29th January, 2013)
2/ Find, and log caches with the 9 (NINE) different Terrain ratings, in NSW, and submit their codes, and date found (one each of 1, 1½, 2, 2½, 3, 3½, 4, 4½, 5). That’s NINE different caches. (From 29th January, 2013)
3/ Find, and log 8 (EIGHT) different Types of caches, in NSW, from the 29th January, 2013; or any other continuous 2 year period!. (You choose which 8 you find, i.e., CITO, Earthcache, any of the Events, Letterbox, Locationless, Multi, Traditional, Unknown, Virtual, Webcam, and Wherigo). It just needs a different icon as displayed in your Stats in the “Cache Types I’ve Found” section. (Or for Freemium members, go to your Profile, and under Geocaches, All Geocache Finds, will show which types of geocaches you have found.
Fine Print
• Only caches listed on Groundspeak’s geocaching.com web site can count for this challenge.
• You can only count an individual cache ONCE for this Challenge cache (ie, as its Difficulty rating, or as its Terrain rating, or as its cache Type).
• ALSO, you may not claim any cache against this Challenge cache that you have claimed against another Challenge cache of mine, including, any of the Certificate level Challenges (South Bro), Well-Travelled Cacher(s), or Moneydork’s "Schoolies Challenge" in SA.
• Caches found before the publication of this cache were definitely allowed, so long as they are in NSW, ie., before those school 'Terms' were having to be "Repeated".
• Once this cache is Found by you, you will have an exemption of having to list/log all the appropriate caches from TWO (of the five) Subjects, of your choice, from the South Brother Certified Unknown cache. (If you have to use this exemption please state in your log which South Bro Subjects you are dropping the listing of caches from.)
How hard can it be? Find just 26 caches, in NSW, which meet the above requirements, and you’ve met the requirements for leaving NSW's Geocaching School.
For those who have already got a list together before the current (ie., 2014) school year has started, you may use any 24 consecutive months from FROM 27/1/2012.
If you are 'having to' use 24 months from the start of the 2011 GeoSchool year, then please make it plain in your log entry that you have "Had to REPEAT a YEAR".
Well, the hard part may be getting the cache, and then replacing it the same way! A working knowledge of KNOTS will help.
You have THREE options: 1/ The preferred would be, you need to know how to release a "trapped larks head", or, 2/ at the very least know how to undo and retie a Tape Knot, or 3/ Tree climb. (Good luck with that one, as it would be Terrain 4½ or 5)
The internet has many useful sites, and it may surprise you what you find!