Arizona Benchmark Challenge-Obsessed Mystery Cache
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Arizona Benchmark Challenge-Obsessed
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A bit of a puzzle, and an obsessive challenge.
The cache is NOT at the listed co-ordinates, and you must meet the challenge to log a find.
There are many benchmark challenge caches around the country, so I thought Arizona should have one.
BUT, is one enough?
In my view, there are four levels of benchmark hunting:
Casual
Serious
Dedicated
Obsessed
This is the last in the series, and the most obsessive of the lot.
The difficulty rating is based mostly on the challenge of recovering the required number of benchmarks, not entirely the difficulty in finding the cache itself.
The obsessed Benchmark Hunter lives and breathes for hunting benchmarks. Old marks that have never been recovered make his palms sweat. If they are at the top of a remote mountain, so much the better.
The obsessed Benchmark Hunter will make every effort to recover all the reference marks (if any), including the azimuth mark for a triangulation station.
In order to log a 'Found It' for this cache, visitors must have AT LEAST 500 Benchmark recoveries (on Geocaching.com) to their credit.
The recoveries need not be in Arizona to qualify.
Each of the recoveries must have a clear photograph of the benchmark with the designation (the stampings on the disk) plainly visible, and your GPSr MUST be in the photo. I MAY allow finds for those who have not included their GPSr in recovery photos taken before the publication date of this cache, but all photos for recoveries after the date of publication of this cache MUST include the finder's GPSr in those photos.
Intersection stations (water tanks, radio and TV antennae, etc.) are not allowed.
All cachers are welcome to drop and pick-up TBs, and post notes regarding their visit. Found logs that do not meet the requirements (or without a corresponding signature in the physical log) will be deleted with extreme prejudice.
Cachers may find the cache, post a note regarding the visit, acquire the requisite number of Benchmark recoveries, and then post a 'Found It' log without revisiting the cache site.
There is no need to create a list of recoveries that you think should qualify, unless you want to point out your 500 most memorable.
For more information on Benchmark hunting, please see the 'Find a Benchmark' page at Geocaching.com.
The folks that frequent the benchmarking section of the forums on Geocaching.com are always friendly and willing to help, and I will answer any questions I can if you contact me directly.
For quite some time I have had my eye on North Butte. For somewhat less a time I have had my eye on the North Butte Triangulation Station Benchmark. Today I assembled a crack team of benchmark recoverists, and back-country hikers to help place this, the most challenging of the Arizona Benchmark Challenge caches.
As stated above, THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE LISTED CO-ORDINATES.
The cache is about eight feet east-northeast of the North Butte Azimuth Mark.
Kudos and many thanks to southpawaz for the suggestion to make this a true benchmarking puzzle.
Happy Benchmarking!
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