Leap Day Load Up | A Leap Day Event Event Cache

📍 Location: Harmon's Bistro
📅 Date: 29 February 2024
🕗 Time: 8:00 A.M. - 8:30 A.M.

Leap day is like a bonus day we add to the calendar every four years because the Earth takes a bit longer than 365 days to go around the sun. It falls on February 29th and is a special day for fun and celebration! It's also an extra day for geocaching!

Come load up on supplies for your Leap Day Adventures and discuss plans before heading out and racking up some finds. 

If you are a stats hound like I am then this day is very special. Project GC has Leap Day addons for several of their badges. If your badge level is gemstone level then you can earn addons for finding the following on leap day;

• The Achiever: Find at least one challenge cache on leap day.
• The Adventurous Cacher: Find at least one 5/5 cache on a leap day.
• The All Around Cacher: Fill all 360 sectors with finds on leap day.
• The Attribute Cacher: Log geocaches with all 108 relevant attributes on leap day.
• The Brainiac: Find at least one Difficulty 5 Geocache on leap day.
• The Busy Cacher: Log the amount required for Diamond (400 caches), on a single leap day.
• The Diverse Cacher: Log the amount of unique Geocache types required for Diamond on a single leap day.
• The Earth Cacher: Log an Earth cache on leap day.
• The Environmental Cacher: Attend a CITO event on leap day.
• The Event Host: Host any event on leap day.
• The FTF Addict: Log a First to Find on leap day.
• The Giga Social Cacher: Attend a Giga event on leap day.
• The GPS Maze Cacher: Log a GPS Maze event on leap day.
• The High Altitude Cacher: Log a Geocache, on leap day, at the height of at least 4,500 meters above sea level.
• The Lab Cacher: Log a lab cache on leap day.
• The Large Cacher: Log a Large cache on leap day.
• The Letterboxer: Log a Letterbox cache on leap day.
• The Long-Distance Cacher: Log a Geocache on leap day, at a distance from home that fulfills the Diamond requirement (10,000 km).
• The Low Altitude Cacher: Log a Geocache, on leap day, at the depth required by Diamond (100m below sea level).
• The Matrix Cacher: Log all of the 81 unique D/T ratings on leap days.
• The Mega Social Cacher: Attend a Mega event on leap day.
• The Micro Cacher: Log a Micro cache on leap day.
• The Multi Cacher: Log a Multi-cache on leap day.
• The Mysterious Cacher: Log a mystery cache on leap day.
• The Odd-sized Cacher: Log a cache with a size of "other" or "unknown" on leap day.
• The Photogenic Cacher: Log a Webcam cache on leap day.
• The Regular Cacher: Log a regular cache on leap day.
• The Rugged Cacher: Log a Terrain 5 cache on leap day.
• The Small Cacher: Log a small cache on leap day.
• The Social Cacher: Attend any event on leap day.
• The Traditional Cacher: Log a Traditional cache on leap day.
• The Traveling Cacher: Log a Geocache on leap day in at least two different countries.
• The Virtual Cacher: Log a Virtual cache on leap day.
• The Wherigo Cacher: Log a Wherigo cache on leap day.

Even if you are not at gemstone level you may want to consider finding as many of these as you can because it will be another four years until leap day comes around again. 

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I was listening to the Challenge Talk podcast (Episode 42) and they mentioned a set of tools that aren't easy to find on the project-gc.com website (https://project-gc.com/w/Tools_in_the_checker_system). It lists a bunch of checkers that are not used for challenge caches but are helpful if you are into stats like me.

My favorite so far is - Size/type/D/T-calendar - This shows a different visual interpretation of the calendar grid for each of the available sizes, cache types (with rarer events grouped into one), difficulties, and terrains. -- https://project-gc.com/Challenges//80315

I thought this checker was great to show what you have and haven't found for February 29th which will be coming around next year.