White Belt of Geocaching Challenge Mystery Cache
White Belt of Geocaching Challenge
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Difficulty:
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Terrain:
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Size:  (small)
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The cache IS at the posted coordinates.
A sort of easy challenge. This is for those of us that don't
expect to accomplish
BW's Black Belt or even
L(NN)'s Green Belt Challenge in one lifetime.
What you need to do is to find (or to have found) an elementary
variety of caches as specified below:
In particular,
- D/T (Difficulty/Terrain) requirement: Find at least
fifteen 1.5/1.5 caches. (The D/T ratings of your finds can be
easily obtained from your public profile page.)
- Propinquity: Find at least one cache in each of the
counties that are adjacent to your home county. Note that's
counties, not countries.
- Diversity:
- a) Puzzle Find a puzzle cache. This must be a cache in
which you actually needed to solve a puzzle in order to locate the
cache. You must have personally solved the puzzle, not merely
tagged along with the actual solver.
- b) Multi Find a multi-cache with at least three stages.
(including the initial and final stage.)
- c) Letterbox Organized letterboxing predated geocaching
by about 150 years.
Naturally, gps coordinates were not involved. Typically one follows
a series of (often confusing) written directions to a hidden box
which contains a log and a stamp, with which you make an impression
in a pretty little book you carry with you. You also have a stamp
which you stamp in their log book. And you write a cordial note in
their book describing your pleasurable experience. You DO NOT
remove their stamp. Geocaching.com tries to incorporate this
wonderful activity by allowing a cache to be called a LetterBox
Hybrid (LBH) if it contains a stamp.
Requirement: Find an LBH and DO NOT remove the stamp.
- d) CITO Satisfy the requirements for a CITO cache, which
usually involves filling up a bag with trash. Note that this can be
done at any time and any place. This activity helps to ameliorate
the guilt feelings we have about leaving trash in the woods for
others to find. For example please see
GC8D14.
- Misc Do any two of the following:
- a) Abstinence You found zero caches over some 30-day
period since you began geocaching.
- b) FTF ratio The ratio of your FTFs to your finds must
be less than 0.10, i.e. fewer than 10% of your finds should be
FTFs.
- c) Oops. You DNFed a cache only to learn later that the
next cacher found it.
- d) Maintenance Assistance replace a log or container in
someone else's cache.
Verification: See the sample log below.
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)