- You have a goal to find caches of special type, location or distance.
2.What do you not like about challenge caches?
- Bookkeeping system. Sometimes you need a paid application like GSAK or GC-Project to collect your evidence, otherwise to collect your evidence is a hell of a job.
- Privacy. A lot of challenge caches needs evidence that has a relation of your home-location.
- Relation with other caches. Some challenge caches has a strong relation with other caches or events. Example: A trail with 100 mystery caches and a challenge cache “100 mysteries in one day”
- Ridiculous requirements. Examples 10 x Fizzy 81, 15 countries/states in one day, 250 caches in one day. Example: 10 times Fizzy 81 means that you have to travel over 500 miles
- Not equivalent for everybody. Example: “Found all caches within 10 miles from your home-coordinates”. For some cachers is this a piece of cake, because they lives on an island, for others means this to find 1000 caches. Other example: Your found D/T rating is 2.5/2.5 or higher, this is for someone with 1000 founds easier to correct than for someone with 10.000 founds (in The Netherlands is the average D/T score 1,75/1,75)
- Location. The most challenge caches are on the given coordinates, but a lot of challenge caches has a puzzle-item. This is not always clear.
- A challenge cache isn’t nice to log if you are with other cachers.
- Too much requirements for one challenge. Example: found 100 caches (1) in one day (2) in country …. (3) where 5 caches are D/T … (4) and 5 caches are cache type … (5) etc etc…
3.What would you like to see changed about challenge caches?
- A special icon and/or attribute
- A challenge cache is always on the given coordinates.
- No relationship with other caches like a trail or event.
- Realistic requirements, without relations of time and great distance.
- For everybody equivalent, regardless the home coordinates or historic founds (like your average of D/T of % of cache types)
- Challenge must be done in your own region within a radius of 100 miles of the challenge.
- For evidence you can use the default statics page on GC.com or the Co must gives you the tool.
- There’s no relationship with your home location (privacy).
- At least 10% of the local cachers satisfy the requirements on publication date of the challenge.
- Not more than 3 requirements for one challenge
- Using grandfathered geocaches, experimental caches (eq labcaches) and/or event caches in a challenge. Example: found 12 cache-types on one day. For this example you need in the Netherlands or Belgium a mega- or giga event.
4.If you could describe your favorite challenge cache type, what would it be?
- Find at least 1 cache in every county of your state
- Find 250 geocaches of the size “regular”.
- Alphabet challenge (caches with different names from A to Z)
5.What types of challenge caches do you avoid?
- Challenges with extreme requirements
- Challenges with extreme traveling (outside the region)
Challenge Caches
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1.What do you like most about challenge caches?
- You have a goal to find caches of special type, location or distance.
2.What do you not like about challenge caches?
- Bookkeeping system. Sometimes you need a paid application like GSAK or GC-Project to collect your evidence, otherwise to collect your evidence is a hell of a job.
- Privacy. A lot of challenge caches needs evidence that has a relation of your home-location.
- Relation with other caches. Some challenge caches has a strong relation with other caches or events. Example: A trail with 100 mystery caches and a challenge cache “100 mysteries in one day”
- Ridiculous requirements. Examples 10 x Fizzy 81, 15 countries/states in one day, 250 caches in one day. Example: 10 times Fizzy 81 means that you have to travel over 500 miles
- Not equivalent for everybody. Example: “Found all caches within 10 miles from your home-coordinates”. For some cachers is this a piece of cake, because they lives on an island, for others means this to find 1000 caches. Other example: Your found D/T rating is 2.5/2.5 or higher, this is for someone with 1000 founds easier to correct than for someone with 10.000 founds (in The Netherlands is the average D/T score 1,75/1,75)
- Location. The most challenge caches are on the given coordinates, but a lot of challenge caches has a puzzle-item. This is not always clear.
- A challenge cache isn’t nice to log if you are with other cachers.
- Too much requirements for one challenge. Example: found 100 caches (1) in one day (2) in country …. (3) where 5 caches are D/T … (4) and 5 caches are cache type … (5) etc etc…
3.What would you like to see changed about challenge caches?
- A special icon and/or attribute
- A challenge cache is always on the given coordinates.
- No relationship with other caches like a trail or event.
- Realistic requirements, without relations of time and great distance.
- For everybody equivalent, regardless the home coordinates or historic founds (like your average of D/T of % of cache types)
- Challenge must be done in your own region within a radius of 100 miles of the challenge.
- For evidence you can use the default statics page on GC.com or the Co must gives you the tool.
- There’s no relationship with your home location (privacy).
- At least 10% of the local cachers satisfy the requirements on publication date of the challenge.
- Not more than 3 requirements for one challenge
- Using grandfathered geocaches, experimental caches (eq labcaches) and/or event caches in a challenge. Example: found 12 cache-types on one day. For this example you need in the Netherlands or Belgium a mega- or giga event.
4.If you could describe your favorite challenge cache type, what would it be?
- Find at least 1 cache in every county of your state
- Find 250 geocaches of the size “regular”.
- Alphabet challenge (caches with different names from A to Z)
5.What types of challenge caches do you avoid?
- Challenges with extreme requirements
- Challenges with extreme traveling (outside the region)
- Challenges with extreme bookkeeping