This challenge geocache has been placed to celebrate 20 years of geocaching
On 3rd May 2000 Dave Ulmer placed a five gallon bucket and what would be later known as the first geocache at co-ordinates N 45° 17.460 W 122° 24.800 in Oregon, U.S.A. The first geocache placed in England was, the now archived, GC4E England's First back in June 2000.
This challenge requires the geocacher to find one cache placed between 2nd May 2000 and 1st May 2001. The challenge of required find caches increase as the number of years increases.
Expressing the challenge in another way
1 cache find for a cache placed between 2nd May 2000 and 1st May 2001
2 cache finds for caches placed between 2nd May 2001 and 1st May 2002
3 cache finds for caches placed between 2nd May 2002 and 1st May 2003
4 cache finds for caches placed between 2nd May 2003 and 1st May 2004
and so on until
19 cache finds for caches placed between 2nd May 2018 and 1st May 2019
and finally
20 cache finds for caches placed between 2nd May 2019 and 1st May 2020
All types of geocache are elligible as finds, even the ones that are now grandfathered.
Everyone can visit the stated co-ordinates, find the geocache and sign the logbook but to claim a find and write a 'Found It' log you must have completed the challenge. You can check whether or not you have successfully completed the challenge using this Project GC Challenge checker. Please post your qualifying statistics as part of 'Found It' log.
TrainSPLOTer has used Project GC to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.
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User has 20 finds (1 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2000-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2001-05-01)
User has 66 finds (2 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2001-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2002-05-01)
User has 115 finds (3 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2002-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2003-05-01)
User has 96 finds (4 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2003-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2004-05-01)
User has 153 finds (5 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2004-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2005-05-01)
User has 208 finds (6 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2005-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2006-05-01)
User has 350 finds (7 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2006-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2007-05-01)
User has 634 finds (8 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2007-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2008-05-01)
User has 1230 finds (9 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2008-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2009-05-01)
User has 905 finds (10 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2009-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2010-05-01)
User has 963 finds (11 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2010-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2011-05-01)
User has 1346 finds (12 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2011-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2012-05-01)
User has 1100 finds (13 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2012-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2013-05-01)
User has 711 finds (14 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2013-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2014-05-01)
User has 861 finds (15 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2014-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2015-05-01)
User has 521 finds (16 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2015-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2016-05-01)
User has 366 finds (17 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2016-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2017-05-01)
User has 326 finds (18 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2017-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2018-05-01)
User has 350 finds (19 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2018-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2019-05-01)
User has 93 finds (20 needed).Filters:( minHiddenDate:2019-05-02 , maxHiddenDate:2020-05-01) }
A quick way to find the location of a cache / caches you maybe missing to complete the challenge is by using the Project GC's Map - Hidden Month tool. Enter your geocaching name in the first box and use the drop down filters in the other boxes to select a country, regions, counties and date ranges.