What I’m asking for this challenge is for finders to spell out their entire caching name using the first letter/number/symbol of the name of caches they have found. For example my official caching name that is listed on my profile page is I can never remember and even though I often sign ICNR on logs to save space (and my wrist) I would have to use all of the letters in my entire caching name in order to qualify for this challenge. I cannot include it as a requirement for completing the challenge but I really want to encourage finders to explain in their ‘found it’ log how it is their caching name came to be.
I realize that for some cachers this is an easy challenge-heck, many of you may already qualify without even trying. For those who thought $$$B,o;b**2947**3-2~9.Smith%^#)@QxQxQXZZZ would be a really awesome caching name, all I can say is “I hope you got yourself a stamp for signing logs and good luck with this challenge because for you it will be a difficulty 4½.”
I don’t have a ton of requirements for logging this cache-just the basics really.
1. Don’t change/shorten/simplify your caching name just for the sake of logging this challenge. That’s kind of like cheating and no one likes a cheater.
2. You have to have actually found and logged a find on the cache pages of those caches you elect to use to spell out your name. I am going to check so please don’t cheat (reference rule #1 if you are unsure as to why it is you shouldn’t cheat).
3. Each individual letter/number/symbol in your geocaching name must be represented by its own individual found cache in your qualifying list. For example, my name has five E's in it so my list of qualifying caches contains five different found caches that begin with the letter E. I'm not concerned about upper/lower case here-just that you list the corresponding number of finds for each character present in your caching name.
4. Spaces between words don’t count but underscores and dashes do.
5. Post your qualifying caches any way you see fit. A public bookmark list or including them in your log would be fine. Just be sure that I can easily verify your list.
6. Go ahead and use any cache types you want. For my qualifying list (see below) I chose to include those caches that were memorable to me for one reason or another.
As for me, here is how my geocaching name came about…
When I was first learning about geocaching I could not come up with anything catchy, fun, or unique for a geocaching name but in order to read any details about caches and learn more I had to come up with something so I did. Several times. You see, every time I would go back to GC.com I could never remember (wink, wink) the caching name that I had come up with the time before so I’d just create a new one. After about four or five new caching names I finally gave up and created a new (and final) caching name that I knew I wouldn’t forget. Since then I have been known as I can never remember.
My qualifying caches (even though I can’t get a smilie for this AWESOME challenge):
I – I’m Super! Thanks for Asking GC3PNJ8 Found: 8/29/13
C – Crazy Horse Rocks! GC2C5RG Found: 8/14/13
A – Ash Fork GC69F0 Found: 8/6/13
N – Nightmare… Not on Elm Street GC40G42 Found: 7/27/13
N – No Place for Muggles: The Trans-Malapais GC3MHEB Found: 8/4/13
E – Eleven Pipers Piping GC4W5X4 Found: 5/8/14
V – Vernon Hills View GC28B79 Found: 5/4/14
E – Emotional Soup-That’s Amore GC2GG64 Found: 8/17/13
R – Rosemary’s Baby GC4QMG4 Found: 11/3/13
R – Russell Earl O’Dey’s Big Day GCGH9C Found: 11/29/13
E – Elk Grove Cemetery NOT A LAMPSKIRT GCQ2GP Found: 4/10/14
M – Michahoo’s Tricky Cache GC3HZ6K Found: 9/27/13
E – ET GC1DM2Z Found: 8/29/13
M – Merkle Cabin GC2APEQ Found: 6/28/10
B – Buffalo Pie-Badlands National Park GC10RRP Found: 8/15/13
E – Ecider Park Multi- Puzzle GC4KNYG Found: 3/27/14
R – Rainbow-Bridges GC47V0D Found: 5/2/14
Congratulations to AKiteFlier and Wheels00 for their quick co-FTF!
Special congrats to Badlands for being first to post his qualifications-only an hour after publication!