Cache Across Idaho Mystery Cache
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Very Simple: Find (or place) and log a cache in each county in the
Gem State, then go find the final cache. Out of fairness to those
completing the challenge, logs not accompanied by completion lists
will be deleted. You can go find the cache, but you will be unable
to claim it as found on the site until I receive your completion
list. These should include the GC of the cache, and the name of the
respective county.
I got this idea from County Highpointing. The object of that
activity being to reach the highest point in a given county. Some
highpointers have visited the highest point in all the counties of
all 50 states. Others have done the Western US.
This is a somewhat more pedestrian version of county highpointing,
depending how you choose to approach it. Visit a cache in each of
Idaho's 44 counties. Any cache, of any type and size is good, as
long as it is physically (or in the case of virtual caches, if the
designated location is within the county. The point is that you
must visit all the counties. And yes, you can count caches you have
already visited, even before this cache was published. (I am not
interested in making anyone waste gas to revisit places they have
already been.) And just because I am not really a HUGE fan of
random micro caches, let's say that all cache hides placed to claim
counties must be at least "small" sized. Micros are ok to count as
finds, of course, as well as Virtual caches, Earth Caches, and
others. I would probably stay away from the event caches for this
one, but I am not going to delete a log over it. There are 44
counties, so 44 caches are required. Border caches count as one.
I did this challenge cache for Utah in 2003, and it has been a lot
of fun for all of us in Utah. I am an Idaho Native, and was stunned
that Idaho did not already have one of these. I am going to be
getting together a finders pin for those who complete this, but
that is still in the works, presently. I really hope this will get
everyone out there exploring a state that I greatly enjoy, and am
proud to call home.
A much easier way to track
your progress is to upload your "My Finds" pocket query to
www.itsnotaboutthenumbers.com and let it generate your stats
for you. It will also build maps showing which countries,
states, and counties in which you have found caches, and the
statistical breakdown for those data. If you aren't a premium
member of gc.com, then you are on your own! There is some
discussion of this challenge on the IGO boards, as well. That
thread can be found here:
http://www.idahogeocachers.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=3866&page=1#pid56604
Additional Hints
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