One of the great things about Geocaching are the people we meet along the way. We have had the pleasure of meeting great cachers across the country and around the world. One of the best ways to meet other cachers is at events, and if the event is away from home we always meet more new Caching Friends. We saw a challenge listing in Arkansas (GC546WZ by IronHorse4) which required attending events in 3 different adjacent counties, and wondered what if we took that concept to a more challenging level.
The challenge is to Attend Events in at least 10 adjacent (contiguous) Counties in continental US. All Event Types count (Event, CITO, Mega, etc.). You may document this by using output from Challenge Checker, GSAK, posting a bookmark, or other way we can confirm your accomplishment.
For purposed of this Challenge (Consistent with our other Contiguous County Challenges):
- Adjacent counties are those, which share a land border with the next county in your string.
- Counties, which meet solely corner to corner, are NOT adjacent. (However if there is some stretch of common border they are adjacent even if there is not a road along that stretch.)
- Counties separated by a river are considered adjacent, even though there is not a bridge across the river between the counties.(i.e. Counties in Ohio are considered adjacent to the corresponding counties directly across the river in Kentucky)
- Counties separated by a Great Lake, Ocean Inlets, Gulfs, major Bays, Sounds, etc are NOT considered adjacent.For example the counties of Wisconsin are not adjacent to the counties of lower Michigan (separated by Lake Michigan).Similarly Connecticut counties are not adjacent to Long Island NY (separated by Long Island Sound). Another example would be Huron County on the thumb of Michigan, is not adjacent to Arenac County on the mitten (Separated by Saginaw Bay).
- An exception to the above rule would be Emmet County MI in the lower peninsula IS considered adjacent to Mackinac County MI in the upper peninsula. (Connected across the straits of Mackinac by the Mackinaw Bridge.), Similarly San Francisco County IS considered adjacent to Alameda County and Marin Counties (Connected by the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges.
- Hawaii counties are NOT adjacent to ANYTHING, even each other, so don’t even ask!
The difficulty for this cache is based on the Challenge to accomplish it.
For those who wonder about such things, we have accomplished the requirements of this challenge. At the time we placed the cache, we have attended events in 27 adjacent counties
We don’t want anyone to strike out and DNF on the final after accomplishing the challenge. If you contact us when you are coming to attempt final, we can verify cache is present and maybe even join you to celebrate completing this difficult challenge.
If you like this Challenge, you might like some of our other challenges:
GC1A30D – ABCDERIAN Challenge:
GC1A30H – Ada to Zion Great Lakes Alphabet Cities Challenge :
GC2V3ZG – MaxB’s Caching Bingo Challenge:
GC2T5JW – Challenge of the Century - Travel Bug Hotels:
GC2QN4X – MaxB’s Multi-State County Challenge:
GC31HP5 – 50 State Challenge – “See the USA in Your…”:
GC31HNC – MaxB’s Continental Breakfast Challenge Cache:
GC31HNC – MaxB’s Continental Breakfast Challenge Cache:
GC3N7V4 - MaxB's 1000 Finds the Hard Way Challenge:
GC3N7TA - MaxB's 150 US Counties Challenge:
GC3N7WF - MaxB's Cache Icon Challenge:
GC3Q46R - Historical Caches of St Joseph County
GC3QY8Y - Historical Caches of Berrien County
GC43JRX – MaxB’s Contiguous County Challenge – 5 States
GC43JTD - MaxB’s Contiguous County Challenge – 10 States
GC43JTY – MaxB’s Contiguous County Challenge – 15 States
GC4DEQN – MaxB’s Contiguous County Challenge – 20 States
GC4DER7 – MaxB’s Contiguous County Challenge – 25 States
GC5D8QZ – MaxB’s Contiguous County Challenge – 30 States
GC5D90M – MaxB’s Contiguous County Challenge – 35 States
GC4DXYY – Caching the World – A Stay-cation Challenge
GC59498 – MaxB’s 1000 Finds the REALLY hard way
GC5948T – MaxB’s NAFTA Contiguous County Challenge
GC59480 – MaxB’s Golden Spike Contiguous County Challenge
GC5G30K – MaxB’s All the Presidents Men – County Challenge
GC6KDEF - MaxB's MEGA Event States Challenge
GC6KDD - MaxB's Event Road Warrior Challenge
GC6R421 - MaxB's A Favorite Challenge for Beginning Cachers
GC6R432 - MaxB's Favorite Caches State Challenge
GC6WAKA - MaxB's Mysterious Traveller Challenge
GC6WF9X - MaxB's 730 US Counties Challenge
GC7054Y - MaxB's Spanning the World Challenge
GC70AB6 - MaxB's Events in Adjacent Counties Challenge