Challenge of a Century: Easy Dedicated Cacher Mystery Cache
Hidden : 6/30/2013
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

CACHE IS AT POSTED COORDINATES, BUT YOU MUST QUALIFY FOR THE CHALLENGE IN ORDER TO POST A FOUND IT LOG.

You’ll need to be a dedicated cacher in order to qualify for this challenge, but you won’t be able to do it without the help of many other dedicated cachers-dedicated cachers who have been, well, dedicated.

To qualify for this challenge you must find “Tribute” or “Dedication” caches representing 100,000 cache finds. To qualify as a valid cache, the cache:

1. Must have been placed by someone other than the honoree. For example, if I were to put out a cache called “Rosebud55112 Finds 1000 Caches” in honor of myself having done so, that would not be considered a valid tribute cache. That’s just bragging, and we don’t do that kind of stuff here in Minnesota.
2. Must have been placed in honor of someone finding (not hiding!) 1000 or more caches. The cache title should say who the honoree is, and at what level of finds the cache recognizes. Around here that means that there is a good chance the cache was a silver-colored ammo box, but that is neither required nor sufficient to qualify.
3. May be of any type —including events. The attached bookmark list contains Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Event, and Letterbox caches. See (visit link)
4. May be anywhere in the world, as long as you can show that the purpose was to recognize another cacher’s find count, and may have been found at any time.
5. May be one set out in your honor, if you are lucky enough to have had someone put one out for you that you found (I hope you got FTF on it!)
6. Many cache titles use this character: ! That is an exclamation point, not a factorial symbol. Don’t try any of your Jedi mathematician tricks on me.

Limits: Please use no more than 3 such caches for any one honoree. This is an attempt to recognize lots of dedicated cachers, rather than one cacher many times. Also, please note that a cache placed in tribute to another cacher does not automatically qualify. It must also be dedicated to his/her find count, which should be noted in the cache title and not updated as the cacher finds more caches.

Unlike many “Challenge of a Century” caches, you do not need to find 100 qualifying caches, merely enough qualifying caches to represent 100,000 finds. For example, finding 16 caches dedicated to the 5000th find of cachers and 20 caches dedicated to the 1000th find works. You may even use more than one cache per cacher (see paragraph above). A cache which honors more than one geocaching account (ex: GC4DRZV) counts as a single cache, may be counted only once, and may only count one of the cachers so honored (so GC4DRZV is worth 2000 or 3000, not 10,000).

The cache is located at the posted coordinates, although it is not a silver ammo box.

Caches you have placed in honor of another cacher may not be counted unless you have recorded a find on that cache as well. You determine if you think finding your own cache is cheesy.

You do not need to have 1000 or more finds to your credit, nor do you need to have a cache set out in your honor. Anyone who has found enough such caches may qualify.

I have attached a booklist of over 130 qualifying caches. While some of these caches have been archived, most are still active, with nearly 90% of them within 50 miles of this cache. I expect that this bookmark will grow as more such caches are placed, and finders inform me of other caches I have missed. These 130+ qualifying caches represent over 240,000 finds.

If you qualify for this cache, then you have made some progress toward qualifying for GC442560: Challenge of a Century-Hard Dedicated Cachers. That one does require you to have found 100 such caches.

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