Meet and greet IowaBeaver as he travels through town. Meet at the Courtyard from 8:00 – 8:30 PM in the lobby. As an optional exercise to spice up the event come prepared with a point total from the challenges shown below. A geocoin to be adopted will be given to the geocacher with the highest total at the event (IowaBeaver excluded). The geocoin will come with a special travelling proxy with special tags for three of the challenges listed. This proxy will be dropped in a cache and three other geocachers will have an opportunity to earn an IowaBeaver Geocoin!
You may use caches throughout your entire caching career up to the event date.
Complete as many of the following challenges as you can:
1. Find two caches on the same day in the same state. You get Z points for the distance between the two where Z = (Distance between caches in miles)*0.118.
2. Find two caches at different heights. You get Y points for the change in elevation where Y = (Difference in elevation in feet)*0.005.
3. How many icons have you found? You get 2 points per icon!
4. How many different US states have you found a caches in? You get two points per state!
5. Find two caches on different sides of a river. The caches must be within one mile of the river. You get X points for the distance between the two!
6. Attend an event in each month during the summer! You get 10 points for each event in a different month! If you attend two or more events in one month you still only get ten points.
7. In a single day, between 0:00 and 23:59, find two caches. You get W points for the distance between the two where X = (Distance between caches in miles)*0.05!
8. Be First To Find on any two caches. You get V points for the elevation difference where V = (Difference in elevation in feet)*0.005.
9. Find a really old cache, 50 points for a 2000; 35 points for a 2001; 25 points for a 2002; 15 points for a 2003 cache.
10. Find twelve caches in one day. Add up the difficulty and terrain stars and divide by 2.4.
11. Complete a portion of a Geo-Tour to you earn a prize. For example you could complete The Butler County Donut GeoTour and earn the geocoin or you could complete the Utah GeoTour for one county and earn the patch for that county. You must show you won a prize. You will earn 25 points for this task!
12. Complete a Road Trip - In 72 hours cover at least five states, with a minimum of two cache finds in each state and a minimum of two different icons in each state for 50 points!
Here’s what Iowa beaver has done:
1. Two caches/Same day/Same state
On 4/5/2014 I found the following two caches in Nebraska
GC478QF - Redhead: Bear Essentials - 284.53
GCN3GB - McToys I found in my Other Caches 702.48
Z = 417.95 miles *0.118 = 49 points
2. Two caches at different heights
On Christmas 2015 I found GC5X6V9, Death Valley Borates, elevation -249 feet
On 9 July 2004 I found GC797B, Huffer Hill, elevation 11941
Y = 12190 feet * 0.005 = 60 points
3. Icons
I found 17 icons for 34 points
4. Different US states
I found caches in all 50 states for 100 points
5. Caches on different sides of a river
I found GCD7CB, From Distant Shores on 12/27/2017 on the east side of the Mississippi River
I found GCNDF0, Apple Blossum Overlook on 4/9/2005 on the west side of the Mississippi River
X = 966.48 * 0.05 = 48 points
6. Attend an event in each month during the summer! You get 10 points for each event in a different month! If you attend two or more events in one month you still only get ten points.
I attended
7. Single day caches
On 16 July 2013
I found "Halloween 17: Ride?", GC354P5 and "-TwoCs- Whaling Wall - New Millennium", GC39F6G; 4110 miles between caches!
W = 4110 * 0.018 = 73 points
8. FTF caches
On 30 June 2006 I was FTF for GCWWNZ, Love-Love at 783 feet.
On 15 July 2016 I was FTF for GC6NA6K, Buttercup K at 9671 feet.
V = 8888 * 0.005 = 44 points
9. Old cache
I found GC30, Mingo (Hidden: 5/11/2000) on 5/24/2013 for 50 points!
10. Twelve caches
On 17 March I found the following 12 caches:
1. Indee Mustangs #23 - EVEN revolving can be ODD 5 5
2. Indee Mustangs #36 - You've got a friend in me 4.5 5
3. Indee Mustangs #34 - Promoted to climber 4.5 5
4. Indee Mustangs #33 - The Gif of the Magi 4.5 5
5. Indee Mustangs #10 - Going the DISTANCE 4.5 4.5
6. Indee Mustangs #41 - What is the Word 4 5
7. Indee Mustangs #97 - Just seven little words 4.5 4
8. Indee Mustangs #3 - Sudoku 4 4.5
9. Indee Mustangs #88 - Chess anyone 5 3
10. Indee Mustangs #48 - Just your AVERAGE Joe 5 2.5
11. Indee Mustangs #22 - 1968 Ford Mustang 4.5 3
12. Indee Mustangs #118 - Keep moving. 4 3.5
104/2.4 = 43 points
11. Geo-Tour
I found GC66ETX, Utah GeoTour-Sanpete-Spring City Multi #1 GC66W41, Utah GeoTour-Sanpete-Manti Pioneer Garden GC66CMY, Utah GeoTour-Sanpete-Ephraim Co-op & Granary And earned the Sanpete County Patch for 25 points!
12. Road Trip
For 50 points: On 17-19 March 2014 I found
1. In Tennessee: GCNBHK, Webcam Cache, This Bud's For You and GC4EN0J, Earthcache, Woodless Wonder! Petrified Wood Earthcache
2. In Missouri: GC17RKJ, Multicache, Airport Park (Veteran's Park) and GC1T965, Unknown Cache, Well Rounded MO Cacher (Fizzy Challenge)
3. In Mississippi: GC3NFQA, Earthcache, The Mississippi Delta and GC3PYC5, Traditional Cache, Mississippi Blues Trail: Son House
4. In Kentucky: GC1JMHX, Earthcache, Four Rivers and GC4H101, Letterbox Hybrid, Welcome to Lone Oak
5. In Illinois GC3ME0W, Earthcache, Kimball's Granite Sphere & Xenoliths and GC41BQB, Traditional Cache, Bird Man