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Ohio City Name Challenge Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 6/21/2009
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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**** THIS CACHE HAS SPECIAL LOGGING REQUIREMENTS ****

**** NO LOGGING OF FINDS WITHOUT FULFILLING REQUIREMENTS ****

After discussing some challenge ideas with a friend of mine recently, he came up with this excellent idea. The Ohio City Name Challenge. (If this has already been done, I apologize and I'll archive this one..But I hadn't seen anything like this out there before)


In order to log this cache as a find, you must first find and log a cache that was hidden in an Ohio city whose name begins with each of the 26 letters of the alphabet A through Z (with the exception of Q). Only the first character of the city name counts, examples are as follows:

Ashland - Counts as letter A
Avon Lake - Counts as letter A, not L or anything else.
East Liverpool - Counts as letter E. Cardinal directions count.

List of Acceptable Ohio Cities


Documentation Requirements:
To document your progress and your completion of the challenge, you must create a shared bookmark list that includes each of the qualifying caches, along with this cache. It must show the Cache Owner Name and Cache Name and the Date you found the cache. Make the Bookmark list Public, so that it appears on this cache page. Once this is done, please post a note on the cache page, or email me so that I can verify your 25 finds and give you the REAL coordinates for this cache. Found logs without this documentation will regrettably have to be deleted.

Please remember to filter your finds down to finds in Ohio only. If you don't create a bookmark list, send us a list of your claimed eligible finds in a Word or Excel document. Be sure to include the same information we requested for a bookmark list. This option is for geocachers who are not premium members, or for anyone having difficulty with managing a bookmark list.

Rules:
This is meant to be fun for all cachers, so we're not going to make a lot of
rules, but there are a few.

1. You may not count a cache that you have hidden or have ever owned.
2. All previous cache finds count.
3. ONLY Ohio Caches can be included in your list.
4. All cache types count EXCEPT Events (including Megas and CITO) and Locationless Caches

5. In order to be a cache that counts for a specific city, the cache location must be within the corporation limit of the city.

Note: Because there is no city in Ohio that starts with the letter Q (someone correct me if i'm wrong, please.) The requirements are reduced to finding the other 25 letters.

This should create quite an interesting and fun little challenge. All 26 letters of the alphabet are used by city names except for Q. We're hoping that this challenge will give you another reason to expand your normal caching range to find the needed caches.

Once you complete your bookmark list, be sure to notify me via email or a note on the cache page so I can verify your 25 finds.

NOTE: I have not yet attempted to complete this challenge myself. Upon doing so, or upon another cacher attempting to complete this, if ANYONE notices any falters in the plan, such as no caches existing in a city to get that letter, or not finding the corporation limits or anything like that, PLEASE LET ME KNOW and I'll correct the cache page as soon as possible to keep it accurate. Thanks.

FTF - July 10, 2009 by SerenityNow


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