The Geocaching Nick-Name by County Challenge Mystery Cache
Tom.dog: Archiving this one - thanks to all who found it! If you have previously signed the log and are still needing to find a geocache in certain counties to log the find, please feel free to log a post-archival find once you’ve met the challenge requirements.
The Geocaching Nick-Name by County Challenge
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This is the sequel to GC2QZBM, a challenge with a similar idea.
The Challenge: For every letter in your geocaching nick-name, find a cache in a county that starts with those same letters.
The rules:
-You must have at least one cache find in any county that starts with a letter of your online geocaching nick-name, for all letters within your nick-name.
-No repeat counties. For example, if you have 2 letter O's in your nick-name, you must find a cache in two separate "O" counties. I used Orange County, FL and Osage County, OK for my qualifying counties.
-The only exception to the above rule is if you have a "Z" or a "Q" in your profile name. Due to the extreme shortage of counties that start with "Z" (3 counties total) and "Q" (5 counties total) you only need to find a cache in one "Z" or "Q" county to qualify for multiples of these letters in your name. So, if you have 3 "z" letters in you name, you need to find one cache in one "Z" county and will have satisfied requirements for all "z" letters in your name.
-You may use "Independent City" to fill for any letter "i" within your name. An Independent City does not belong to any county (an example is St. Louis, MO). If you have multiples of letter "i" in your name, please use a different Independent City for each (Thanks to sassydil for this info).
-If you have the letter "x" in your name, you don't need any qualifying counties, since there are no counties in the U.S. that start with "x."
-Your cache finds can be from any time since you started geocaching, and from any state in the U.S.
-You may use any geocache type in your qualifying caches.
-There is no need for any documentation of numbers or punctuation marks in your nick-name, but please have qualified for all letters.
-You may sign the log in the cache at any time, but may not log a "found it" until you qualify. Please post a note on the cache page if you have signed the log but do not yet qualify.
Here are my qualifying counties and caches. Please make you qualifiers look the same, so that your nick-name can be read in the first vertical column of letters.
Teller County, CO / Welcome to the Jungle / GC1DWJH / Found 03-21-09
Orange County, FL / SeaWorld Serpent / GCB3AB / Found 01-12-11
McPherson County, KS / Chef’s New Clothes / GC348A / Found 06-27-10
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Douglas County, CO / 66ateway to 66reenland / GC167R6 / Found 05-31-10
Osage County, OK / farrier / GC1VC3H / Found 06-03-11
Grand County, UT / The Windows Section: Arches National Park / GCZD8X / Found 07-17-11
Please rehide the cache as you found it. You can pull off on Stagecoach Road to the South for parking. The container is larger than a micro, and can possibly hold some small, flat trading items.
Have fun and good luck!
Additional Hints
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