Historic Caches of Grand Traverse County Challenge Mystery Cache
Historic Caches of Grand Traverse County Challenge
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In an effort to build geocacher awareness of the historic geocaches in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, this challenge has been issued.
THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE GIVEN COORDINATES. PLEASE READ THE CACHE PAGE TO SEE LOGGING REQUIREMENTS.
The difficulty and terrain rating are for the challenge; the rating for the actual geocache is 1.5/2.0. The attributes listed are for the actual geocache. The path is well marked and easy, minor bushwhacking as cache is just off the trail a little ways. The park is open from sunrise to sunset. Parking is provided.
In order to claim a find on this challenge, you must find and log five of the current seven oldest existing geocaches in Grand Traverse County. Once the five geocaches have been found and logged, you may find and log this geocache. The seven current oldest existing geocaches in Grand Traverse County are:
GC35 Power Island
GC110D Brown Bridge Pond Peek-a-Boo Cache
GC2E53 Jack's Old Mission Fox Trot
GC41D6 NGS Zoo Benchmark
GC5F74 Roughin' it at Reffitt
GC647E Quiet Area Cache
GC7430 Cass Pond Cache
Here is a list of other old caches that have been archived in Grand Traverse county. You can substitute one of these caches for one of the caches above and only one. This means you can actually do 4 active caches listed above and one of the archived caches listed below. If you feel I have missed a old cache in this county please let me know and if I agree it will be added. Note GCN5GX is NOT a older cache as it actually was placed in 2005.
GC171C The Michigan Frog
GC3CFA Bramble's Run #1
GC4977 Whispering Pines
GC4CA8 The Boardman Fox Den
GC5B7A V.S.T.T. Cache
GC636B The Vasa Woods
I have removed GCN5GX comics and figures
from the required caches because it really was not placed until 3/20/2005 even thou the caches claims 3/20/03. All finds on or before today 6/27/2011 do not have to be changed do to this change.
You may prove you have met the challenge by posting your finds to a public bookmark or by listing your finds in the body of your log on this geocache. Either way, be sure to give the waypoint, geocache name, and date found. This must be done at the time the "Found" log is submitted. Prior finds do count. This geocache was stocked with a good amount of trade items. Please trade fairly for other geocachers. Travel bugs and geocoins are welcome.
Don't forget Cache In Trash Out.
Cache is located at N 44 43.553 W085 37.855
Here is a bookmark list of other counties in Michigan. Historic Caches of Michigan Counties
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