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Challenge Caches

Don't be fooled. Challenge caches are not the same as Groundspeak challenges introduced in August 2011 and retired in 2012. Challenges are considered by many to be a replacement for virtuals as all premium members may issue a challenge where perhaps it is not wise to place a physical container.

A challenge cache requires that geocachers meet a geocaching-related qualification or series of tasks before the challenge cache can be logged. Additional Logging Requirements were banned from geocaching as there were many silly requirements. Challenge caches are a controlled compromise providing an even more addictive element than caching for smilies.

Challenge Caches I've found

Re-Awakening (a challenge cache)
You must find a cache that has not been found for at least a year.

29 Feb 2012 - I claimed this challenge with GCV08D - Stop; Look; Listen! (Bucks) which I found with Heff and my brother in-law.
When Were They Hidden? (a challenge cache)
To satisfy this challenge you must have found at least one cache that was hidden in each year from 2001 to 2012 inclusive.

Claiming caches on 29 Feb 2012:

2000 GC43 - Europe's first
2001 GC171 - View from Coombe Hill
2002 GC37E8 - Meridian of Gellérthegy
2003 GCD658 - HM3 - The Village Green (Herts)
2004 GCHEQ5 - Dun Eochla View
2005 GCMD9F - Winter Hill III
2006 GCTC4N - Keep Diamond Hill Sparkling part 1
2007 GC10K49 - "You cannot be serious!"
2008 GC1860V - WTF: Magnets? None of those here!
2009 GC1KJ7J - The "M" Club
2010 GC232GP - Coral reefs - Rás Muhammad
2011 GC37WGC - CBN 050 - Zoo @ Colchester
2012 GC3CHVW - Badgemore's Box
Did You Log It? (a challenge cache)
You must have logged at least 100 Did Not Finds (DNF’s) on geocaching.com.

As of 29 Feb 2012:
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Perseverance (a challenge cache)
You must have logged three DNFs on the same cache and then demonstrated perseverance by finding the cache.

Claimed on 29 Feb 2012 with GC369B8 – Parking

DNF 1 – search with no info as to where it was.
DNF 2 – popped away for a couple of nearby caches and then were driving past so a quick look.
DNF 3 – Parked up here to have a go at the nearby series
DNF 4 – Completed the series so of course had another look (that’s four DNFs in the same day)
Found – Night time visit to find a couple searching. Only for me to put my headlights on the problem and a very QEF by me. Wish it had been the first time.

Hidden By Me

GC3CZ5H
The Well Travelled Cacher GB - find a cache in each 5-mile interval within a distance of 250 miles.
GC3CZKJ
A Large Leap of Caching Numbers - find one cache on a given day; two caches on another day; three caches on still yet another day and so forth all the way up to finding twenty nine caches on a single day.
GC3CZKR
Do You Know Other Cachers - find three different kinds of caches hidden by 10 different cachers.
GC3CZM1
Fantasy Favorites - find 25 caches with at least 25 Favorite Points each, with a mixture of 8 icons
GC42ARE
100 club abroad solo - find 100 caches on your own within one calendar day abroad
GC42ART
icon collecting - find 11 caches each with a unique icon
GC42AQK
Christmas vocabulary - 12 caches that include a Christmassy word in the title

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