ABC City Challenge Mystery Cache
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You asked for it -- here it is! Find an A-city/B-city/C-city cache--in ANY order--on the same day.
This camo'd tin IS at the posted coordinates. This challenge may motivate you to add that extra touch of planning to your caching adventures. Heading to Berkeley? Maybe that should be Albany, Berkeley, and Concord. Crockett? The next day, maybe Davis, Elk Grove, and Florin.
Folks have really enjoyed my other city-based challenge--thanks for all the kind feedback--so here's another one. The idea here is to find in the same day, a city beginning with "A," one beginning "B," and one beginning with a "C." That's it! Any order is A-OK! Just three at a time! Some folks will then want to go for the whole alphabet -- and they can! -- but each three-cache piece of the alphabet must be found on a separate day to count for this challenge. So, this cache can be found up to 8 times.
Some might ask about a different country, so yes, if you find yourself caching in Agassiz, Bridal Falls, and Chilliwack, that would be just fine. May I suggest Bridal Falls Adventure? It looks like fun. Does BCD count? Sorry! No good. How about DEF? Possibly. Only if you have completed and logged an ABC first.
Now for a few words from the Promotion of Clarity Department:
You must find 3 caches to complete this challenge.
The caches may be of any cache type.
Past finds DO NOT qualify. The caches must be found on or after July 24, 2010.
Just remember the telephone keypad. You may log this cache up to eight times if you find eight different trios of cities. After ABC, you would go for DEF next, and so on. After you have five finds, your sixth one can be based upon any three letters from PQRS, in any order. Keeping with the style of the telephone keypad, your eighth and final find can be any three of WXYZ, in any order. Consecutive letters that are not together on the telephone keypad, such as BCD, NOP, or STU, do NOT qualify. For bonus karma, claim cities with all 26 initial letters, in order. Sure, why not? You do not need to revisit the physical cache for each time you log it. (But you are welcome to!)
Multiple finds? Then multiple days. Although you may log this as found more than once, each set of qualifying finds must take place on a separate day.
About place names: cities, towns, unincorporated communities, and CDPs are all legitimate. Folks have pointed out to me that places like Orangevale, Granite Bay, and El Dorado Hills are actually designated as CDPs, or Census Designated Places. They are fine for this challenge even though they are neither cities nor towns.
More about place names: cities and towns that no longer exist ("historical towns") ARE OK. For example, GCHZYE is a virtual that talks about the historical town of Pleasant Valley, Utah. You could use this cache as a letter-P cache. For another example, GC2MMMQ is located in the ghost town of Farad, California. You could use this cache as a letter-F cache.
In addition, if a place is listed on www.hometownlocator.com, it will count for this challenge.
In the event that the posted coordinates and the final cache are in different cities (hey, it can happen), the posted coordinates are what counts for this challenge.
In your "found it" log, indicate the qualifying caches' names, GC numbers, the date when you found all three, and city names.
You must sign the log of the physical cache; you may sign the log before completing the challenge.
Have fun! (Sorry to say that dogs are not allowed here.)
Additional Hints
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onfr bs gerr