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Challenge: Would You Like to be a Lumberjack? Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/26/2014
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

I retired at the end of 2013, and started caching in earnest in January 2014, just in time for the winter of '14.  I did not let that stop me from caching as much as possible.  As the winter abated, I took a survey of my finds and discovered that I often posted the first log for that cache in 2014.  Given the horrible winter we had, that seemed like quite an accomplishment, hence the requirements to log this cache.  


This cache IS at the posted coordinates.  However, you must read and meet the requirements below in order to log a find:

1.  Record at least 75 finds where you were the first logger that year, where the cache was active before the beginning of the year.  Past and present first loggers will count.

2.  A first logger is ANYONE who finds the cache on the first day that cache was found that year.

3.  Note that a first to find (FTF) does not count, unless the cache was placed in a previous calendar year and found for the first time in a new calendar year.  In that case however, anyone who finds the cache on that day qualifies as a first logger for that cache.

Examples:

Cache was placed December 27, 2014.  FTF on December 28, 2014.  Three people find this cache on January 3, 2015.  The FTF of December 28 does not count as a first logger in 2014, but the three finds on January 3, 2015 all count as first loggers.

Cache was placed December 27, 2014.  FTF on January 3, 2015.  Three other people find the cache that day.  All four people can count that find as a first logger.

Cache was placed on January 3, 2010.  FTF on January 4, 2010.  Three other people find the cache that day.  Two more people find the cache a year later, on January 4, 2011, another on January 5, 2011, and another on January 3, 2012.  The only people who qualify as a first logger are the two that found the cache on January 4, 2011, and the one who found the cache on January 3, 2012.

I have been told there is no way to create a checker for this precise challenge. However, you can use the checker below which requires 75 caches that are lonely for one year, which is far more rigorous than the requirements for this cache, as an easy way to prove you qualify. Otherwise you need to do it by hand, sadly.

PGC Checker

The Rules:

1.  You must sign the log book of the cache container hidden at the posted coordinates AND meet the requirements of the challenge in order to log this as a find.

2.  You are welcome to find the cache before meeting the requirements of the challenge.  If you do, just sign the log and post a note on the cache page.  Then, after you have completed the challenge you can come back and log it as a find.

3.  Logged finds that do not qualify will be deleted.

4.  Event caches (Events, CITO, Mega, Giga, etc.) do not qualify for this challenge.

5.  You cannot use this cache to meet the challenge itself (not that there would be much opportunity).

6.  Please post your qualifying cache GC codes and found dates when you log this cache as a find.

Please bring your own pen. 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgnaqvat Ubyybj.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)