This challenge cache is a way to get geocachers to go out and find those early Carroll County geocaches that are still active. The requirements for completing this challenge is as follows:
Note: Even though this Challenge cache was published before the moratorium of Challenges, the Challenge checker has been updated to correspond with current rules for Historical Challenges, the rules to this Challenge Cache have been modified.
1) Find 15 of the 20 earliest active geocaches in Carroll County
1) Find 15 caches that were published before the 20th earliest active geocache in Carroll County. This may include archived caches.
2) In your list of 15 Carroll County geocaches, you must have found the earliest active Carroll County Geocache. This rules no longer applies.
A couple of notes:
1) If any of the geocachers are owned by you, you can claim them on your list.
2) If any cache on the list is archived, then the next active earliest cache will be included.
3) Once a cache is archived, it is removed from the Carroll County 1st 20 list, and can not be included on your list. (This makes it easier for me to keep track and should not be a problem since this is a 'find 15 out of 20', instead of a 'find 20 out of 20 challenge',)
3) Once a cache is archived, there will be a new 20th oldest active cache that will be used for the basis of the Challenge Checker. Any archived caches will still be allowed to be included on your list of 15 caches to qualify.
4) You can give your proof of completing this challenge by either submitting a bookmark list or providing your list in the find it log. Please include the date you found each geocache.
4) The only proof needed is from running the Challenge Checker. If you wish to include your list of caches so that no archived caches are listed, you may do that.
5) If you have not completed this challenge, you may still find the geocache, but you cannot log it as a find until you have successfully completed the challenge. Any find it logs without completing the challenge will be deleted.
Here is the Carroll County 1st 20 List. Even though under the new rules allow archived caches to qualify, I will keep this list updated so you can see which caches are still active.
- GC5C6 - Cat Cache Placed 04/01/2001
- GC10BA - Liberty Reservoir #1 Placed 07/15/2001
- GC40C9 - Mayeski Cache Placed 03/09/2002
- GC40D1 - Morgan Run - Tadpole Pond Placed 03/09/2002
- GCBB2D - Raven's Hill Placed 12/20/2002
- GCC957 - Mount Airy Remembers Placed 01/24/2003
- GCGB62 - Gillis Falls 2 Placed 06/22/2003
- GCGMB9 - Tunnel Vision Placed 08/10/2003
- GCGNA6 - Forgotten History Placed 08/16/2003
- GCH8ZA - The WILD Side of Piney Run Placed 11/23/2003
- GCH8ZE - Piney Run Post Card Mailbox Placed 11/23/2003
- GCHDGE - Getting Your Bearing Placed 01/10/2004
- GCP0YF - Baust Church Cache Placed 05/22/2005
- GCPMV1 - Lost Within Placed 07/09/2005
- GCPMV8 - Adams Poker Face Placed 07/09/2005
- GCTBY0 - Whiz Stumper -- Not another guard rail !!!! Placed 02/07/2006
- GCTMHY - POINK! (Ret.) Placed 02/26/2006
- GCTVK0 - Hoof it to the Point (Udder Madness) Placed 03/11/2006
- GCVECH - Beware of the Basillisk Placed 04/15/2006
- GCW9DB - Cranbearry Sauce Placed 05/28/2006
Though the hike to this challenge cache is not the distance many of the earlier geocaches were, the hide is typical of some of the early geocache. The path to the hide is deer trails with lots of thorns and can be muddy after a good rain. The container is a regular sized lock-n-lock. Parking coordinates have been provided for the geocache, and the geocache should only be searched for in daylight hours. Dogs are allowed in this area, but must be kept on a leash. The difficulty is for the completion of the challenge, the terrain is for this hide. The terrain is as high as is it due to the amount of thorns encountered placing this cache even in November. If there were no thorns, I would rate the terrain 1.5. I have included a spoiler photo of the hide in case you need it.
The goal is to have an Historic Caches Challenge for each county in the state of Maryland. The following Historic County Challenges have also been created:
In addition, the following Historical County Challenges has been created in Pennsylvania:
