This Challenge cache is intended to be sort of a reward challenge for those geocachers who have gone to the great expense and effort to be able to meet these challenge qualifications.
I wouldn’t post a challenge that I hadn’t already completed, so I can tell you the adventure seeking caches in each of these states is a lot of fun. Oh, the places you can see! Plus you get to experience more regional Geocaching creativity.
To claim the smiley for this challenge, you must have found a cache in each of the Lower 48 States, Contiguous 48 States, All 50 States, minus Alaska and Hawaii, PLUS the District of Columbia.
To prove that you have meet the Challenge requirements is very simple if you permit the public to view your statistics map (As Shown Above) on your Geocaching.com profile page, or use MyGeocachingProfile, Project GC, or other profile software that shows the States where you have geocached, then I can easily verify your log. Noting this in your found log will be helpful.
If your Geocaching profile does not allow any of the above methods for verifying you have found geocaches in the Lower 48 and DC, you must list the 49 qualifying geocaches finds in your log. For each cache find, you must list the State, GC number, cache name and date you found it.
I have rated this challenge cache 5.0 Difficulty and 5.0 Terrain due to the extreme difficulty and travel required to accomplish this challenge. The container with the log is a magnetic key holder hidden at the coordinates and has a D/T rating more like a 2/2. There is no need to trespass onto the water treatment plant property. The cache is hidden on the public right of way.
Congratulations to Helix19 for the FTF!