A Cache For Every Month - Jasmer Challenge (Auck) Mystery Cache

Welcome to Auckland, New Zealand's version of "The Jasmer Challenge". You must have logged at least one cache that was placed in every month back to the start of Geocaching (May 2000).

The Jasmer Challenge

The Jasmer Challenge is one of the game of geocaching's oldest and most popular challenge cache types. It originated in Northern California with geocache GC1GBC1 placed by a geocacher called jasmerb (hence the name of the challenge) and it required geocachers to have ventured out and found at least one geocache that was hidden in each and every month from when geocaching began, in May 2000.

This was never an easy challenge for any geocacher, with caches hidden in some of the rarer months hidden all over the world. Even within the US, such caches were spread far and wide and would take some effort to make finds for all required months.

Over time, this challenge does potentially get harder: With every new month, there is an additional cache to find in order to complete the challenge, and over time older geocaches may be archived making it more difficult to locate geocaches hidden in earlier months. For some months, there are very few geocaches available - for example for August 2000 there are only 4 geocaches available, 3 of them in the US and 1 in Sweden.

This Challenge

While there exist localised versions of Jasmer challenges, including one in Hamilton, that require finds from every available month in a localised region, this challenge is for worldwide geocaches and all months are in play since May 2000, including months where there are no geocaches available in New Zealand.

The available caches worldwide for the first eight months (which are basically the rarest) are currently as follows:

Month	Countries/Caches	Total Available
May 2000	x 5, x 1, x 1	7
June 2000	x 9, x 1, x 1, x 1	12
July 2000	x 6, x 1	7
August 2000	x 3, x 1	4
September 2000	x 10, x 1, x 1	12
October 2000	x 21, x 2	23
November 2000	x 12, x 4, x 3, x 1	20
December 2000	x 24, x 1, x 1, x 1	27

This is a difficult challenge cache, and will require a great deal of effort and travel to complete. It is understandable that this challenge will not be everyone's cup of tea. It's not intended to belittle anyone's geocaching style, nor is it meant to offend - we all cache differently, have different caching goals, and we all get something different and unique out of the game. So with all that in mind, it's totally ok to put a cache on the ignore list if you never intend to complete it and don't want to see it on your map.

At the time of publishing this challenge cache, the cache owner has completed the challenge and has reached triple Jasmer, with at least 3 finds on caches hidden in every month since geocaching began in May 2000.

Challenge Requirements

In order to log a "Found It" on this challenge geocache, you must have fulfilled the challenge criteria, and physically signed the logsheet in the geocache located at the published coordinates. You can do these in either order (meet the challenge then sign the log, or sign the log and then finish the challenge) but you can only log a "Found It" on the cache page when you have done both. If you sign the physical log before finishing the challenge, please post a "Write Note" stating that you have done this, to assist with maintenance of the cache and cache page.

The challenge criteria, as explained above in the description of the Jasmer Challenge, is that you must have found and logged at least one geocache hidden in every single month since geocaching began in May 2000.

When you log the cache, it is requested that you list one (or more) geocache find for each of the first 20 months (that's from May 2000 through to December 2001) to demonstrate you have completed the challenge. If you use the challenge checker below then it will generate this list for you. You don't need to list all the months from January 2002 onwards, but you can if you like. When listing these caches, please list the GC code, Geocache name, and the date of your find log.

Please also include in your log, if you can, the date that you met the Jasmer Challenge requirements - ie. the date you made a find that gave you at least one geocache find for all "hidden months" up to that date.

You may also include a screen shot of your "Jasmer Grid" - your profile page on Project GC has a good one - but this does not replace the request to include in your log the list of cache finds as described above as this makes for more interesting reading for others viewing the cache page.

For optional bragging rights, feel free to add further notes as you complete double, triple and finally quadruple Jasmer, and include those dates too. The CO intends to keep the following tables up to date to show who has completed this challenge and to what level:

Please Note

The Mutukaroa Regional Park is operated as a farm and has livestock, which means there's also the poop of livestock. Dogs are allowed but must be on a leash at all time, so if your beloved pet might be prone to aggressiveness towards the livestock maybe leave them at home, and otherwise be aware of the aforementioned poop. Please also be aware of Kauri Dieback disease: There are footwear cleaning stations in various places throughout the park - if you pass by one, please make use of it.

Special thanks to the Seagnoid for building a new challenge checker for this challenge cache.