Presidential Initials - Challenge Mystery Cache
Presidential Initials - Challenge
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1. There are have only been 44 Presidents with Grover Cleveland serving as the 22nd and the 24th president of the United States. Cleveland was the only two-term president who didn't serve consecutive terms. You must have logged a find for 30 caches whose GC code contains Presidential initials.
2. Since there are letters that are not used in GC codes, in order to make this challenge work here are the substitutions you should use:
• Number 0 (zero) = Letter O
• Number 1 = Letter I
• Number 5 = Letter S
• Letter V = Letter U (so you can use V for both U and V)
• Number 7 = Letter L
• Number 2 = Letter Z
• NOTE: Reminder, 7=L and 1=I. They are not interchangeable!
3. The "GC" prefix that is part of every geocache code does NOT count as part of any Presidential initials, meaning you cannot use the "C" in GC for any of the initials.
4. Any cache found at any time anywhere in the world is valid. So you may already qualify for this challenge.
5. Each cache can only be used for a single president. For example, GC19JMM can be used for James Madison (JM) or James Monroe (JM), but not both.
6. The initials letters must be next to each other and cannot be separated by another letter or number. For example, GC19JMM is valid for James Monroe (JM), but GC19J1M is not.
7. Fourteen of the Presidents used their middle initials. GC codes with the needed three letters together are harder to find so I am not requiring them in order to qualify for this challenge.
8. You must list your qualifying caches in either a log entry with the GC code and President used, or as a bookmark list attached to this cache. Feel free to sign the log at any time and log a "note" on the cache page when you do so. But you may not log a find online until you have completed the requirements.
9. This cache does NOT count towards 1 of the 43.
10. Here is a link to a GSAK you can use to check your found caches to see if you qualify.
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The following is our qualifying list of required Presidential initials.
President
George Washington (1789-1797) GW GCQHGW /12-25-13
John Adams (1797-1801) JA GCJAZG / 01-31-13
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) TJ GC2ATJ/ 03-26-14
James Madison (1809-1817) JM GC2JDJM /01-18-14
James Monroe (1817-1825) JM GC19JMM /12-23-13
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) JQA Not required to log cache
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) AJ GC4DAJ9 /06-15-2014
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) MVB GC4MVBR /03-06-14
William Henry Harrison (1841) WHH Not required to log cache
John Tyler (1841-1845) JT GC2MJT1 /01-20-14
James K. Polk (1845-1849) JKP Not required to log cache
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) ZT GC42T7E /03-16-14
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) MF GC2N9MF / 11-04-13
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) FP GC4QFPT /10-29-13
James Buchanan (1857-1861) JB GC1KJBH /0120-14
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) AL GC413A7 /01-18-14
Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) AJ GC19AJY/06-18-2014
Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) USG Not required to log cache
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) RBH Not required to log cache
James A. Garfield (1881) JAG Not required to log cache
Chester Arthur (1881-1885) CA GC4DCA2 /12-27-13
Grover Cleveland (1885-89)(1893-97) GC GC1BGCD /01-02-14
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) BH GC13BHZ /02-06-14
Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) GC GC2BMGC /03-26-14
William McKinley (1897-1901) WM GC12QWM /04-15-14
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) TR GC2ZETR /04-20-14
William Howard Taft (1909-1913) WHT Not required to log cache
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) WW GC1H6WW /03-15-14
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) WGH Not required to log cache
Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) CC GC24BCC /02-05-14
Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) HH GC3M8HH /03-16-14
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) FDR Not required to log cache
Harry S Truman (1945-1953) HST Not required to log cache
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) DDE Not required to log cache
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) JFk Not required to log cache
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) LBJ Not required to log cache
Richard Nixon (1969-1974) RN GC11CRN / 02-13-14
Gerald Ford (1974-1977) GF GC3GF3A /03-30-14
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) JC GC1JC3R /04-20-14
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) RR GC1RRE5 / 12-14-13
George Bush (1989-1993) GB GC44TGB /06-22-14
Bill Clinton (1993-2001) BC GCBC74 /01-18-14
George W. Bush (2001-2009) GWB Not required to log cache
Barack Obama (2009-present) BO GC4FMB0 /01-30-14
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