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Going For Gold - a challenge to you all!

I registered my intent on 25th May 2013

Blue Ring

Get wet

56 Miles and 4 Days on 10th August 2013.

DNF 3 caches

Monkey Mayhem 2 - Barbary Macaque on 1st August 2013.
Monkey Mayhem 12 – Dusky Titi on 1st August 2013.
Church Micro 2031…Westoning on 2nd August 2013.

Have to replace your own cache

Church Micro 1545...Fetcham-Holy Spirit on 25th June 2013.

Perform maintenance on the same cache twice

Church Micro 318...Ockley on 24th June 2013 and 18th July 2013.

Have an animal encounter

Here's two, both on 19th June 2013, both documented in WhiteFriar's logs. (I was guilty of cut and paste logs that day - well we did find rather a lot of caches!)

Church Micro 785...North Cadbury. My log. WhiteFriar's log.
Church Micro 521...Priddy. My log. WhiteFriar's log.

 

Black Ring

Find caches to complete one row or one column on the D/T grid

I have the whole grid!

Find caches by 5 different people in one day

Managed 12 on 19th June 2013.

  Log Cache name Owner
View Church Micro (not) #752 Limington Achaos
View Church Micro 3266…Blagdon Ade3
View Church Micro 1182…Weston Bampfylde darapotter
View Church Micro 934...Bratton Seymour Hitchabike
View Church Micro 3135…Charlton Musgrove-St Stephens little-leggs
View Church Micro 2927 ...... Somerton Ma John
View Church Micro 3093... Wedmore St Marys poshrule
View Church Micro 783 - Blackford (revisited) Spacebat
View Church Micro 1615...East Pennard... coming home SwirleyScott&Bean
View Church Micro 1695...Sutton Montis turnstones
View Church Micro 301....Prestleigh and New Wine Whitelaw's
View Church Micro 762, St. Michael's, Pen Selwood. Witches Cat & Timelord

Find a Wherigo cache

Here's just one out of more than a dozen since registering:-

Philomath Maze on 13th August 2013.

Find 4 cache types in one day

Managed 6 on 26th June 2013.

  Log Cache name
View Church Micro 3319...Rowlands Castle
View Church Micro 3359...Hascombe
View The Day of Hell Challenge
View Church Micro 3245...North Marden
View Trundle One (West Sussex)
View Surrey Mid-Week Event #43 - Farnham

Find 4 container types in one day

Managed 5 on 11th June 2013.

  Log Size Cache name
View Micro Church Micro 3660…Ditton
View Small Church Micro 3701…Woodlands
View Regular I hear the train a coming - Shoreham
View Large Hippo Milk
View Other Church Micro 3772...Orpington Baptist

 

Red Ring

CITO

Epsom Priest Hill Clean up on 28th July 2013.

Celebrate a geocaching 'milestone'

Should reach 8000 sometime in 2013.

Host an event

Surrey Mid-Week Meet #45 on 22nd August 2013.

 

Yellow Ring

Climb for a cache

  Log Cache name
05/06/2013 View Dizzy Heights - AA8
26/06/2013 View The Hurtwood - Extreme
26/06/2013 View Sweet Colossos

Find a cache in the dark

Church Micro 3076... Coleford on 19th July 2013.

 

Green Ring

Find a cache that has 50+ favorite points

  Log Cache name
20/06/2013 View Ye Ole Survey Monuments
20/06/2013 View Cheddar Gorge
20/06/2013 View Gorgeous

Find one cache in 5 counties

  Date County Find
20/06/2013 View Avon Church Micro 3779…Yatton
19/06/2013 View Dorset Church Micro 596 Silton
11/06/2013 View Greater London Church Micro 3772...Orpington Baptist
04/06/2013 View Hampshire Church Micro 2143 - St Andrew's Church, Timsbury
11/06/2013 View Kent Church Micro 799…East Malling
19/06/2013 View Somerset Church Micro 2883... Baltonsborough
26/06/2013 View Surrey Church Micro 1728...Dunsfold
26/06/2013 View West Sussex Church Micro 3245…North Marden
19/06/2013 View Wiltshire Church Micro 1195 St. Michael the Archangel, MERE

Find 5 caches from a national series

Here's 5 of the 31 Church Micros found on 4th June 2013.

  Log Cache name
View Church Micro 3611...Chilton Candover
View Church Micro 3544...Beech - Alton Abbey
View Church Micro 3542...Preston Candover St Mary's Old
View Church Micro 3612...Brown Candover
View Church Micro 3543...Preston Candover St Mary's New

Attend 3 event caches

  Log Cache name
03/08/2013 View The Eleventh Icon Flash Mob
15/08/2013 View Clatmandu's RailCaching Adventure M&G Portland
16/08/2013 View Clay4 & whtwolfden's Meet & Greet Mixer

Get 5 FTF's

  Log Cache name
13/07/2013 View Chestnut hollows
14/07/2013 View Dalziel's Delight
21/07/2013 View Dalziel's Deceiver
21/08/2013 View A Touch of Farming - Log Stack
21/08/2013 View A Touch of Farming - Rabbit Warren

Complete 3 Earthcaches

  Log Cache name
18/06/2013 View Wookey Hole
18/06/2013 View Chalice Well
20/06/2013 View Light at the end of the tunnel
20/06/2013 View Dolebury Warren Earthcache

Attend a Mega event

UK Mega 2013 - West Midlands Region on 3rd August 2013.

Complete 3 Virtuals

  Log Cache name
04/06/2013 View Luminous Motion (Hampshire)
04/06/2013 View Sweet Fanny Adams
18/06/2013 View Ham-Hill (Somerset)