Challenge Caches

Tonight was the monthly get together (Meetup) (Mashup) (Event) called "Pizza and Beer",tonight was themed Challenge Caches. Unfortunately, Ricki's Restaurant in Northhill Shopping Centre, Calgary, our usual haunt was renovating and although they expected to be ready for us they weren't and an emergency plan to move to a nearby Denny's Restaurant was put into effect.  All went well thanks to our Host OBA ( One Bad Ant), who is the unexpected author of this blog post since I have utilized some of her material.  

Challenge Caches, have requirements that have to be met before you can log the cache as found; we have a number of them in Calgary, Alberta.

99-day challenge - Calgary, Alberta
Alberta Alphanumeric Title Challenge
Alberta Alphanumeric Hider Challenge
100 Alberta Cachers Challenge
Alberta Lonely Cache Challenge
The Bingo! Challenge
The "Cache Every Day of the Year" Challenge
Unknown Baker's Dozen Challenge
2010 Monthly Challenge

Here's a bookmark of other types Challenge caches, there are as many types as there are creative cachers! Email me your favorites and I'll update the list.Challenge Cache Examples

So ...
Do you love them or hate them? Do they go on your ignore list?
Do they add to or detract from your caching experience?
What strategies have you found to meet the challenges?

How can we help each other meet the challenges?

By: One Bad Ant and B&CJones

Keep on Cachin'

My Journey To Jurassic Bush

Started my trek to Jurassic Bush from what seemed to be a normal paved road even though it seemed at bit muddy.  When my GPSr indicated an easterly direction, I dismounted my sturdy ride Murano and headed down a dirt road toward a large mountain to my right. Along the road I noticed large clumps of what I considered to be clumps of mud off some 4x4 or was this the giant feces of a long lost creature?  

To my left was a fence area, I could not see inside and there seemed to be occasional loud noises of unknown origin coming from within. I was starting to get a bit spooked!   When at the end of the fence I was almost over come, by one of the foulest odours, akin to Natural Gas.  I forged on through the thicket of briar and bush, thinking I was getting close keeping  one looking for denizens of the Jurassic era, I commenced to turning things over and looking under things and checking things above my head to no avail.  I travelled further onward when I came upon some strange tracks it the mud.  With mixed emotions I followed these tracks, as I came down a hill and around a corner I found to my dismay, a great orange Dinosaur.  In awe an aprehension I approached carefully and managed to maneuver around unseen to my goal the Cache.  Quietly I opened the cache, signed the log then replaced it in the exact position it had been found.  I slowly backed away and scrambled through the mud, wood and briars to the safey of my trusty ride which waited patiently for my arrival.
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Keep on Cachin'

GEOCACHING WHAT THE..... ?

Are you just getting started in the activity of Geocaching? Perhaps you've just heard about Geocaching and have decided to do some research before getting involved.  You are probably like most of us when we first heard about Geocaching, we thought what a strange thing to do look for little containers of stuff.  I mean really, how many of these Cache things could possibly be out there anyway, the quick answer is over 1.4million according to Geocaching.com the Official Global GPS Cache Hunt site.  Another comment by the non-initiated is, "It can't be very popular because I have never heard of Geocaching".

Geocaching is probably one of the worlds biggest secrets, even though nobody is trying to keep the secret.  At the time of the writing of this post Geocaching.com reports have over 5 Million registered Geocachers worldwide, that's a lot of people busy at a secret activity.  

Can you just imagine how many caches that many people could log as found each month? I will again use numbers from Geocaching.com; for example in the last 30 days 5,578,529 have been logged.  I'm sure you are with me, when I say that it's amazing that 1.4 million people hunting around neighborhood parks, wilderness areas and even in the centers of some of our biggest cities go unnoticed.

If you have already found your first cache, then welcome to your new obsession!  If you just doing you initial research on the subject of Geocaching then here are some links explaining Geocaching.  

http://www.geocaching.com/guide/default.aspx

http://www.geocaching.com/videos/default.aspx

I look forward to seeing you out caching soon.  

Happy Caching

  Bill

    B&CJones