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Know Your Local Cachers - Oregon Challenge Mystery Cache

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Oringo: I am archiving this cache as I find myself with little time to keep up the maintenance on it. Thanks for all that took the time to find it.

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Hidden : 8/26/2012
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Congratulations to jndchance for "FTF"!

You will be looking for a silver bison tube. The coordinates at the top of the page are correct for this cache. They will take you to the cache, but do not attempt to find it before completing the requirements: You must complete the challenge and post your bookmark list and post a note to this cache page that you are done. Then go out and find the cache.

Any logged finds without the proper requirements will be deleted.


Your goal is to find 3 different kinds of caches hidden by 10 different cachers:

  • You will need to find a total of 30 caches to complete this challenge, plus finding 1 additional cache for the final.
  • Note that the caches MUST be in Oregon
  • All caches found in Oregon and logged on Geocaching.com count towards this challenge
  • You will need to find caches hidden by your choice of 10 different cachers.
  • You will need to find 3 different types of caches hidden by each of the 10 cachers. Size, Difficulty and Terrain are unimportant.
  • You may vary your type of find per cacher.

ALLOWED CACHE TYPES

NOT ALLOWED CACHE TYPES

Traditional Event Earthcache Benchmarks
Multi Unknown Wherigo Waymarks
Virtual Project Ape Mega-Event TemporaryCaches
Letterbox Hybrid Webcam CITO GPS Adventures Maze Exhibits

EXAMPLES OF ALLOWED COMBINATIONS

Cache Owner 1st Find 2nd Find 3rd Find
djbach 1 Event 1 Multi 1 Unknown
bostonmangum 1 Traditional 1 CITO 1 Earthcache

Post your 30 found caches in a clearly labeled Public Bookmark List.
Make sure you annotate each Bookmark with who the cache was hidden by and when you found it.



THE FINE PRINT
  • All cache finds count provided they are/were located in the state of Oregon.
  • No adopted caches - Must be the original cache placer's hide only. Neither the original placer nor the adopter can be counted on an adopted cache.
  • No temporary cache finds allowed. Only actual event or CITO attendance is acceptable to claim the event category.
  • No finding your own caches.
  • The "real" cache placer's name is the only one that counts, not aliases.
  • Note that the difficulty rating of 4.5 and terrain of 4 is based upon having to find 30 other caches first. The difficulty of actually finding this cache is more like a difficulty of 1 and terrain of 1.5.

Inspiration for this cache goes to the many others who have placed the same cache in other states.

Additional Resources:

GSAK Macro:
For those that use GSAK there is a great macro that you can use to check your progress on completing the challenge. You can download the macro file here: LocalCacher.gsk. Versions 3.0.3 or higher have this challenge included.

Here are my qualifications:


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Statistics generated on 09/01/2012
Using GSAK Database Default

Different type finds on or after 12/13/2008 by Cache Owner
(Click on any column heading to sort)
Count Owner Type and GC Numbers
5 Mr. & Mrs. Kensquach 2009-05-09: GC1CWYC-Spouting Horns
2009-08-14: GC16NZW-Cache in Peace
2009-12-17: GCQMW1-Geolite's "Meditation-Ville"Puzzle Cache
2012-02-06: GC3C2H0-The bird's the word
2012-06-26: GC1333H-A picture is worth a thousand words
4 djbach 2011-01-01: GC2K3PA-Albany Sculpture Tour
2012-02-14: GC2P1XT-Bridge View
2012-02-29: GC38YB6-Year of the Frog Celebration
2012-06-09: GC3N09P-DJBACH CHALLENGE: 34 on 34
4 step2626 2011-12-02: GC2N0GB-Not a Pit Stop
2012-05-05: GC1AA46-Pathological
2012-05-22: GC1K91Z-Great Area for a New Puzzle
2012-06-09: GC3M31X-WWFM IX: Graduation Day in Corvallis
4 PNWWizard 2009-01-18: GC10H56-Double Dog Dare
2010-01-24: GC22FRK-Corvallis Meet & Greet Event
2010-02-27: GCQW7D-Peckerview Cache
2012-05-26: GC1KQ3B-Don't Even Think Of Caching Here!
4 McGeesters 2010-09-25: GC2FCKN-Oregon's Natural Resources
2011-10-12: GC231BJ-Erosion: A Constant Force of Change
2012-04-24: GC2WX6H-Remember The Pioneers - 5219
2012-05-05: GC2RJ52-Salem Thomas Guide Challenge
4 tobe4evr1 2009-05-24: GC1HW39-Sea Caves to Devil's Punch Bowl
2010-06-19: GC1D61E-Stamp Your Right Foot Here!
2012-01-02: GC1KQZA-Oregon's Century Plus One Challenge
2012-04-20: GC2NAV3-bletcherous
4 amygems 2010-07-13: GC2A9TK-Canby Vietnam War Memorial
2010-10-18: GC1RYG6-A Letter To Austin
2011-10-27: GC2ZDJ0-Fun Center Fun!
2011-10-27: GC2CMQ4-What's That You Say?
4 whispertim 2010-02-24: GC2143T-S.E.R.E.
2010-03-10: GC1YYK4-I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for _____.
2010-10-09: GC27960-Stamp Your Passport
2011-09-10: GC33NXJ-Kayak Down the River Adventure 1
4 tgjamin 2010-08-17: GC28TG8-The Columbia
2010-08-17: GC1QRRD-A Walk in Alderbrook
2010-08-18: GC25K50-Warrenton History Mystery Cache
2011-07-26: GC2GZ4W-A Tribute to Orange Crash
4 bostonmangum 2009-05-09: GC13TVH-To The Beach!
2009-05-23: GC1PM3X-Historic Newport Bayfront Earthcache
2010-09-25: GC2F5FB-CITO The Capital
2011-04-09: GC2PGYE-Lincoln City Trial and (Maybe) More

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va n ubyr ba gur cbfg

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)