Rules of this challenge
- In order to claim this cache, you need to find and log a geocache on each available page of the 1st Edition Island, Skagit & Whatcom Counties guide, for just Skagit County. Those pages are: 69 70 71 72 73 74 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169
- Pages 66, 67, 68, 82 and 157 are empty or on private islands and are excluded from this challenge.
- FYI, pages 74, 112, 128, 161, 165, 166, 167 and 168 are empty for active caches. Grid 83 and 84 both do have active caches as of August 2019, see my bookmark list if any confusion.
- Grid 139 is excluded from this challenge so long as Split Rock MD is the only active cache in that grid. Feel free to find that one but its a long long long walk in ATV country and may not be safe to hike to .
- Your finds can be any time in your caching history.
- The caches you use can be active, inactive, or archived finds.
- You can use any caches you have owned provided they were published before May 2013 and found at least once. If the only cache in a grid is one you own, that grid does not count against you.
- You can use any type of cache type minus events and locationless. Note the exception rule below for grids 162 to 169 to possibly prevent any tough hikes in those grids after publication.
- All cache finds must be in Skagit County (ie no Snohomish County ones in grid 163).
- You need not worry about a grid unless it has an active cache in it.
- If the only active caches seem to not be findable, email me and we can exclude that grid for you if its the only grid you are missing at the time of your qualification.
- If you had your qualifications approved before finding the final and another grid appears, that does not matter. If you are qualified at a given moment in time, you cannot get unqualified later.
- Sign the cache any time you like if you are in the area, but you can only log it if you have signed AND have the qualifications done.
- To prevent any new puzzles popping up in the tough hike grids which could have listed coordinates in the tough area and final coordinates 2 miles away on a road outside the grid, you must use traditionals or caches with listed coordinates for grids 162 through 169
List your qualifications any way you see fit. Include your qualifying finds in a log entry if you like. A bookmark list would be the preferred way but am not going to require it as that would make it a premium member only cache. Lamoracke has created a bookmark list of possible caches for each grid if you do not want to use the book or macro for possible cache ideas for each grid. These specific caches are not required (though a cache may be if its the only findable one in a grid), but it shows you a possible list you could do.
Not required, but the WinterTrio has graciously updated his Thomas Guide macro in GSAK to help figure out which cache is in which grid. Its called WaTG_Poly_to_Userdata.gsk and can be downloaded/installed in the macro section.
If you want help figuring out if any cache qualifies, please let me know. The macros will be the deciding tiebreaker if any cache is on the border line.
Cache was located in on the trail on to the only cache for grid 158, GCY4YJ, Walking the Dike at Big Ditch Version but now that cache is gone and access to that trail is gone. Its now on another dike like trail but its down a small path to the river and just after you go down there will be a big but hard to notice stump on your left.