This challenge celebrates the wonderful variety of people, activities, terrain, and caching in Santa Cruz County. If you live or cache here, you already know about all the amazing things Santa Cruz County has to offer. If not, I invite you to come explore! This challenge has 12 requirements. The requirements can be met at any time. (Even in a single day if you are highly motivated!)
All requirements must be met by your finds in Santa Cruz County. A single cache can satisfy more than requirement (e.g. one of the D/T requirements and the non-traditional requirement,) but your own hides do not qualify.
| Feature of Santa Cruz County |
Challenge Requirement |
| Interesting, creative, and quirky people |
12 Non-traditional cache finds* |
| Tough hiking and biking for serious athletes |
11 caches with a combined D/T ≥ 5.5 |
| Beaches and parks for lazy days |
10 caches with a combined D/T ≤ 2.5 |
| Santa Cruz mountains |
9 caches at an elevation ≥ 1,800 feet |
| Monterey Bay coastline |
8 caches at an elevation ≤ 100 feet |
| Amazing views |
7 Scenic view attribute |
| Mountain biking and bike trails |
6 Bicycles allowed attribute |
| State parks |
5 Not available 24/7 attribute |
| Wide range of caches |
4 Cache types** |
| Cougars, coyotes, and banana slugs |
3 Dangerous animals attribute |
| Excellent caches |
2 Caches with a minimum of 12 favorite points |
| Social events with other cachers |
1 Event attended |
*Non-traditional cache types include Mystery, Multi-cache, Earthcache, Virtual, Letterbox, Webcam, Wherigo, Event, and all other non-traditional cache types that may appear in Santa Cruz County in the future (e.g., Mega Event, Block Party, etc.) Excludes Adventure Labs and benchmarks.
**Cache types include all of the above plus Traditional.
To see if you qualify, use the checker:
You're looking for a small container hanging within 3' of the trail. The cache requires a short climb (1 step up) to reach. Henry Cowell State Park hours are sunrise to sunset daily. Happy hunting!
Congrats to MapperX on the FTF!