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Caching with KIDS!: A Beginner's Challenge Trail Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/15/2023
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache IS hidden at the posted coordinates!

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During the summer of 2023, I was fortunate enough to go on a geocaching road trip with my son, daughter-in-law and grandson all the way from Missouri to Pennsylvania. We found a lot of wonderful caches along the way; oldies, lab caches, virtuals and even some letterboxes.  But there were a whole bunch that I wasn't eligible to log: Challenge Caches. You see, I don't have a lot of caching finds. I am working on it though ;-) Still, I kept hoping that there'd be challenges that a beginner like me would be able to log. So with the encouragement and help from my grandson, we decided to hide some along the wonderful Harrisburg Greenbelt. With the permission from the Susquehanna Twp. Parks Department, of course.

In order to hide a Challenge Cache you yourself have to qualify, so I'm hoping that cachers of all experience levels will be able to log these finds. The Difficulty level reflects the challenge difficulty (and find difficulty if you choose to use the attached spoiler picture) while the Terrain level is indicative of the physical challenge you'll be facing.

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This is a Challenge Cache; you must meet the requirements in order to log a find. There's probably a 99% chance that you do but there's a checker way below just in case. OK, now how do you qualify for this challenge? 

If you've ever read any of my logs (and there aren't a lot of them out there) you would know that I do 99% of my caching with my grandson. And before I started geocaching I was a kindergarten teacher in the Susquehanna Twp. School District. The background picture my is grandson, family and me finding the Tom Sawyer cache -- named after one of American literature's most famous kids -- in Kentucky.

So to qualify you need to have found just 33 geocaches with a KID-FRIENDLY attribute. Of my 93 finds at the time of cache publication I have EXACTLY 33 kid-friendly caches. You probably have a lot more. This find should be simple to get to but you will probably encounter thorns. My grandson helped me with this hide and that's him in the spoiler pic. 

 

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