Do you get excited when you find a cache that hasn't been found in quite some time? It might be a long hike, it might be a tough puzzle, or it might be a cache that people have just plain forgotten about. This challenge cache encourages you to find those forgotten caches.
Here are the requirements of this Forgotten Cache Challenge:
- Find 12 forgotten caches as follows:
- 1) Find a cache that has gone unfound for a month month*.
- 2) Find a cache that has gone unfound for two months*.
- and so on, until...
- 12) You have found a cache that has gone unfound for 12 months*.
- You can find these 12 caches in any order.
- Finds prior to the publication of this Forgotten Cache Challenge do count.
- Don't worry about the date of the month when deciding if your finds qualify. For example:
- On June 30th, you find a cache that, before June, was last found on March 1st of the same year. That counts for your 3 month cache, since March to June is 3 months.
- On September 1st, you find a cache that was last found the previous day, August 31st. That counts for your 1 month cache, since August to September is 1 month.
- If you are First To Find on a cache, you may count the months since the date the cache was hidden.
- If you find a cache with a group, you may count the months since the find just before your group find.
- Non-physical caches, such as EarthCaches, Virtual Caches, and Webcam Caches do qualify for this Forgotten Cache Challenge.
- In your "found it" log, describe how you qualify for this challenge in any way that will convince me you have met the requirements. (I will verify that you have properly qualified for this challenge and will send you a note if I don't think you have qualified.)
- In your log, feel free to note any of the following special accomplishments, and I'll note them on this cache page:
- The person with the longest consecutive streak of forgotten caches (remember, 1 through 12 is required).
- The person where the greatest number of months had passed between the previous find and when they found the cache (I wont include myself in this category, how many caches have gone more then 73 months without a find?).
- Sign the logsheet of the physical cache at the posted coordinates of this Forgotten Cache Challenge.
* This challenge is not a competition to see who can log the forgotten caches first, rather it is an incentive to go out and specifically seek the caches that don't see as much traffic. Because of which, Unlike most of the Forgotten Challenges, you can count a cache that someone else has found before you in the same month. For example, if you find a cache on the 22nd of April and someone else found it on the 8th of April, but it went unfound before that since September, that cache counts for 7 months.
My finds that qualify me for this challenge.
| MONTHS |
CACHE |
PREVIOUS FIND |
MY FIND |
| 1 |
Breakable Rocks GC12P5F |
1/9/2013 |
2/10/2013 |
| 2 |
Do You Hear What I Hear GC42NYC |
12/30/2012 |
2/6/2013 |
| 3 |
Rock Row GC12MRH |
11/22/2012 |
2/10/2013 |
| 4 |
Memory Ln. - "Lunch @ Monkey Suit Park" GC3EXRH |
10/19/2012 |
2/9/2013 |
| 5 |
GeoRally IV: Snake Hole GC1NH3T |
8/26/2012 |
1/27/2013 |
| 6 |
The Radioactive Boyscout GCP1BK |
8/18/2012 |
2/3/2013 |
| 7 |
Keller Peak GC38ZBW |
6/30/2012 |
1/30/2013 |
| 8 |
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly GC2GQEA |
3/26/2011 |
11/26/2011 |
| 9 |
Springtime In The Desert GC2VK4W |
4/14/2012 |
1/20/2013 |
| 10 |
Our Way GC1FVDD |
2/20/2012 |
12/17/2012 |
| 11 |
Double Butte View GCTYN4 |
3/28/2012 |
2/10/2013 |
| 12 |
Final Approach Fix, Harrison Hills GCCCE1 |
11/6/2011 |
11/25/2012 |
| NOTABLES |
| 35 |
Damn Lies, There! GCWMZ6 |
12/19/2009 |
11/12/2012 |
| 37 |
A Salute To Tails GCYG6K |
11/21/2009 |
12/3/2012 |
| 37 |
Acme Cache Company GCYGH3 |
11/21/2009 |
12/3/2012 |
| 37 |
First Mate Coco Loco & Stolen Treasure GCYGCP |
11/21/2009 |
12/3/2012 |
| 37 |
Fetch GCYG70 |
11/21/2009 |
12/3/2012 |
| 18 |
I-15 Proximity |
7/5/2010 |
1/5/2013 |
| 73 |
Non Four Wheelin' Adventure GCYC1M |
1/7/2007 |
2/2/2013 |