1. This CARW2018 cache will be published about 6pm on Thurs, March 1st.
2. Please remember that caches CANNOT be hunted until 9AM SATURDAY March 3rd.
3. Should you hunt and find this cache prior, it will not count for the event, and FTF points are only valid as of 9AM March 3rd.
C is for Challenge
which is a type of geocache that requires seekers to find an associated physical cache, and to find an additional set of geocaches as defined by the challenge owner. Challenge caches encourage geocachers to set and achieve fun goals. Examples of challenge caches: find a cache every day of the calendar year, or find one for every Difficulty/Terrain combination.
The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. The cache is at the waypoint listed below.
To log this Challenge Cache you will need to find a cache by 26 geocachers, with each geocacher's profile name beginning with a different letter. Logs that do not meet the requirements of this challenge will be deleted. This challenge is the same as the one used for (GC469EJ - The UBC ABC Geocachers Challenge).
Challenge rules:
- It is the geocacher's profile name that counts only, not the name they used when placing the cache. In some cases, to match the theme of the cache, geocachers list a fake name. You cannot use those.
- If a cache was adopted by another user, only the current owner's profile name counts.
- If a geocacher's profile name begins with a number or a symbol (eg ! . _ etc) you cannot use their profile name for this challenge.
- Caches found can be any types, in any country
- Previous finds count
- The finds can be in any order
Check if you meet the requirements
Some of great challenges that have been completed are:
The Ascent of Mount Everest
As the highest mountain in the world with a peak at 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea level, Mount Everest attracts many climbers, some of them highly experienced mountaineers. There are two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the southeast in Nepal (known as the "standard route") and the other from the north in Tibet. While not posing substantial technical climbing challenges on the standard route, Everest presents dangers such as altitude sickness, weather, and wind, as well as significant hazards from avalanches and the Khumbu Icefall. As of 2017, nearly 300 people have died on Everest, many of whose bodies remain on the mountain.
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first official ascent of Everest in what year.
- 1953: N53 29.759
- 1958: N53 28.833
- 1960: N53 29.956
Travel to the Moon
The Apollo program was to meet American President John F. Kennedy's challenge of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress in May 1961. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on July 20, 1969 when the astronauts in the Lunar Module of the Apollo 11 mission landed on the lunar surface. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon.
Which of the following astronauts did not land on the moon:
- Edgar Mitchell: W113 21.401
- Charles Duke: W113 22.141
- Steve MacLean: W113 22.177