2024 is the Year of the Dragon, always a Leap Year with 366 days. "In Chinese culture, the Dragon holds a significant place as an auspicious and extraordinary mythological creature, unparalleled in talent and excellence. It symbolizes power, nobility, honor, luck, and success. Consequently, 2024 is forecasted to bring about opportunities, changes, and CHALLENGES."
Other CHALLENGES in this 2024 Year of the Dragon series: 1) GCAPTZX 2024 Dragon Challenge:150 Souvenirs; 2) GCAJV7Z 2024 Dragon Challenge: 366 Earthcaches; 3) GCAJZPN 2024 Dragon Challenge: 366 Virtuals.
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it." Alexandre Dumas of The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45).
At the corner of 4th Ave. S. & S. Jackson St., a Green Dragon, aka Azure Dragon, aka Bluegreen Dragon of the East, looms skyward. (Posted Coordinates are here, but the geocache is not here.) In Chinese mythology, the Green Dragon symbolizes nature, harmony, health, growth, and spring. The color green can represent wealth. Farmers pray to Green Dragons, considered gods of the weather controlling water and rain, for good harvests and a well-fed life. The building on the left is the 38-story 462-feet Smith Tower built in 1914, at one time, the first and tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi River.
To qualify for this Challenge, you needed to have found and logged a Letterbox on at least 96 different Calendar Days, no matter what month or year, during your time as a registered geocacher. Why "96"? Because in 366 Leap Year days, "3+6 = 9", then "6", so "96". You may log a Write Note when you find the physical cache but are not yet qualified.
Congratulations to Annie Organ for FTF.