Come ye, brave and daring cachers! Come ye, one
and all, and hear the proclamation spoken today! For today a new
quest has been presented before you. A Quest of Difficulty. Who
will meet the challenge?
A geocaching cache can be rated at any one of 9
different difficulty ratings, ranging from a very easy 1 up to a
very difficult 5. The challenge set before you is simple yet
daunting:
In one single day (12:00am to 11:59pm), find and log a
cache at each of the nine levels of difficulty (1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3,
3.5, 4, 4.5, 5).
Big Things
- Cache types do not matter, however each cache must have a
physical log for signing (traditional, mystery, mulitcache,
letterbox, event, CITO). Caches without physical logs such as
virtual caches cannot be used in this challenge.
- The terrain ratings of the nine caches do not matter at all.
Just the difficulty rating.
- Caches can be anywhere in the world. You are not limited to
Minnesota caches.
- Previous finds do NOT count. All caches must be logged on one
day after 5/25/11.
- You need not find this cache on the same day you find your nine
caches. You may find your nine caches on one day, then come find
this cache at a later date.
- This cache can NOT be used for your 5-difficulty cache. The
difficulty rating on this cache is for the difficulty of the
challenge. The actual cache rating is a 1.5/1.5.
- You may find as many other caches as you like on your difficult
day.
Little Things
- The cache ratings of your nine caches on the day you found them
are the ones that matter. If you find a cache at a particular
rating, and that cache's rating is subsequently changed before you
find and log this cache, please make a note of it. Questionable
circumstances may lead to log deletions, though, so please keep the
spirit of the challenge in mind.
- Caches that have their difficulty ratings changed for the sake
of helping people circumvent the spirit of the challenge or easy
caches purposely published at higher difficulities to circumvent
the challenge may not be used to qualify for this challenge. I
reserve final judgment in such cases. If you're not sure about a
particular cache, please feel free to contact me beforehand.
- You get bonus points if you can do this challenge "Ymir Style":
no extra hints or coattail rides on any puzzles involved; no phone
a friend or pre-hints on the finds, etc. Feel free to make a note
of that accomplishment if you can achieve it.
Logging
Certify your qualifications by including in your
log the date you completed the challenge and the difficulty rating,
GC number, and name for each of your nine caches. Alternatively,
feel free to make a bookmark list for this challenge and keep it
active for three months after you log it. Here is a sample
certifying section of a log:
On May 20, 2011, I found the following nine
caches to qualify for this challenge:
- 1.0 - GC2VGT0: Micromania #29 (II) Country Roads (cont.)
- 1.5 - GC2WHVQ: Sykes the Limit
- 2.0 - GC2T3KV: Salty Nano
- 2.5 - GC2WA8N: Choose Wisely
- 3.0 - GC2QFKF: mnwild11 FTF: aaaaaHaaaaa
- 3.5 - GC2QY6E: mnwild11 FTF & Better Than Coffee
- 4.0 - GCJF2F: Takin a Trip?
- 4.5 - GC2VJ1D: Itsy Bitsy in a Hollow
- 5.0 - GC2T23M: Characters
A Last Word
The goal of the challenge is to have fun and try
something challenging. Please keep the spirit of the cache in mind
as you seek to qualify. I wish everyone good luck!