GC3MJX8 animjason's "Mile High Club" Challenge
Type: Mystery | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: animjason @ | Hide Date: 06/06/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 16.975 W105° 07.797 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
           

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Are you a member of the Mile High Club?

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Now that the giggles are over and your mind is out of the gutter...
This is a Challenge Cache and the cache IS at the posted coordinates.
Neither "Mile High Club" cache may be used for this challenge.

The qualification for this challenge will be very easy for Colorado cachers; not so much for "flat landers". The terrain rating for this cache is based on the actual placement and not for the "challenge".
"I'm not only the owner of this Club; I'm also a member." ~ animjason

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To qualify, you must find the following NINE CACHE TYPES that each have an elevation equal to or greater than ONE MILE (5,280ft) above sea level. (Traditional, Multi (posted coordinates), Mystery/Challenge (posted coordinates), Letterbox Hybrid, Virtual, Webcam, Earthcache, Event and either CITO OR Wherigo). They do not need to be found on the same day. Then, do the simple math to obtain the average elevation of these nine caches. It may look intimidating, but remember, practically every cache in Colorado is already over one mile above sea level! You may use the Geocaching.com TOPO/Terrain maps or GSAK to get the elevations and post which caches you found and when, along with their elevation and their combined average elevation.

My list for Example:
1. Traditional: GC141NQ The Highest Cache in Colorado on 8-26-10 at 14422.6ft
2. Multi: GC1RMF3 Dillon Nature Preserve on 10-9-13 at 9133.9ft
3. Mystery/Challenge: GC2FGAV Solitude above Cirque on 8-17-11 at 13116.8ft
4. Letterbox Hybrid: GC1RMXN Pineheli Benchmark Hybrid on 1-21-12 at 8540.0ft
5. Virtual: GC7C07 Top Of The World on 6-27-12 at 14252.0ft
6. Webcam: GCQB9V Woodland Park Webcam Cache on 4-22-11 at 8372.7ft
7. Earthcache: GC3P9RH Pikes Peak Granite on 8-2-14 at 14091.2ft
8. Event: GC4D9Z1 Mt Elbert Flash Mob on 8-31-13 at 14422.6ft
9. CITO (OR) Wherigo: GC52H8C Third Annual Columbine Open Space Clean-up (2014) on 5-3-14 at 6528.9ft (OR) GC1WB69 The Wayward Dogs on 4-3-13 at 7224.4ft
Average Elevation: 11,508.5ft

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HALL OF FAME
1. kenyansherpa: 15,047'
2. ernie66: 12,838'
3. WingsAndTales: 12,516.8'

Don't forget to grab my other Mile High Club Challenge!

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There is a Travel Checkers Rug Game for the FTF along with some random SWAG. You may sign this cache before qualifying, but please don't take the prize. Ground Zero can be very dangerous, so I gave it a higher terrain rating. I'll post spoiler photos if needed, but for now I will only provide a hint.

Special thanks to sassydil for providing the ammo can and doing the hike with me to place this!

First Member of the Club: sleuthers

Logo designed by animjason. ©2012 WinderWorks. Use with permission only, please.

Added Sept 2016:

09/09/2018 By tripman1
Well after finding MHC#1 it was a quick hike across the ridge. Great view today. Now I am looking back at what I need to cross to get back to the car. Yuck.

tripman1 has used Project-GC to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

gccode elevation type visit date name
GC2C5RG 1814 Earthcache 2010-08-22 Crazy Horse Rocks!
GC21MQH 1774 Event Cache 2010-02-13 Rocky Mountain Geocaching Academy 2010
GC1YT5J 1733 Letterbox Hybrid 2010-03-28 Here Be Dragons! ~ Intl. Talk Like A Pirate Day
GC1771Z 1783 Multi-cache 2010-01-27 Recipe for a Great Cache
GC1QEX3 1831 Traditional Cache 2009-12-17 Goofy Gazebo
GC1R9WG 1780 Unknown Cache 2010-03-04 Add to the Confucius
GCA612 1787 Virtual Cache 2010-03-30 Douglas #3 20-Mile House
GCPGPF 1852 Webcam Cache 2015-06-04 Wham, Bam, You're on Tiger Cam!!!
GC26AQ5 2079 Wherigo Cache 2016-09-03 Charleston RR
Average elevation = 6001 feet

05/19/2018 By Team Chili Fries
Here are our qualifications will change to found when we sign
Gc7dbb 14078
Gc230bw 11772
GC1FM71 9596
GC7B3D1 9583
GCGGC7 9442
GC789YT 8483
GC4T2Q0 8314
GC5Z9AC 6199
GC4994 5366

05/06/2018 By irid3sc3nt
I signed this back on 7/13/16 but was finally able to find the webcam at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo this weekend.

Cache In Trash Out Event - GC5MZQP / Cleaning Up After The Camel / 2015-04-26 / 1720
Earthcache - GC1MJ0D / Which Way is Up? / 2014-08-18 / 1962
Event Cache - GC5ABXF / We survived the first week of school! / 2014-08-23 / 1757
Letterbox Hybrid - GC42RQ6 / DPL Series: Knock Knock. Who's There? Rita. / 2014-08-13 / 1684
Multi-cache - GC2ZBN8 / There and back again / 2014-08-14 / 1792
Traditional Cache - GC46807 / Technology is the Way / 2014-07-28 / 1724
Unknown Cache - GC37643 / Do you know DEWEY ? / 2014-08-03 / 1727
Virtual Cache - GCAD0C / Douglas #14 Catholic Church / 2014-09-28 / 1891
Wherigo Cache - GC5910H / DPL Series: Pilot's License / 2015-07-11 / 1645
Webcam Cache - GCPTF0 / Giraffe Cam / 2018-05-06 /

12/03/2017 By FWIA
Qualify with an average of 11589.7

08/11/2017 By GoMRT
According to Project-GC checker, I, now, know I qualify for this one:

GC462RC 5,923.68ft Cache In Trash Out Event 2013-04-20 Earth Day CITO - Pikes Peak Parkway
GC1WHF5 6,507.52ft Earthcache 2013-01-08 Clifford and his Friends // Palmer Park
GC3X2Q9 6,727.28ft Event Cache 2012-10-20 2nd Annual Cool Science Event at WMMI
GC41ETT 6,596.08ft Letterbox Hybrid 2013-01-08 Brennan7's Sophomore IB Project -- Letterbox
GC335G9 6,632.16ft Multi-cache 2011-10-15 BA: "CSI: COS"
GC2DWZD 6,687.92ft Traditional Cache 2010-10-30 Megan's Champion
GC2K18A 6,779.76ft Unknown Cache 2011-02-26 Nothing Here
GC9181 6,100.8ft Virtual Cache 2012-08-18 Log House Virtual
GCPGPF 6,074.56ft Webcam Cache 2013-01-08 Wham, Bam, You're on Tiger Cam!!!

Avg = 6,447.75ft

07/19/2017 By Denali41
Yesterday I found animjason's wherigo cache on Bierstadt, so I finally qualify for this nice challenge. I don't know when I will get to and sign the field cache but hope to do so this summer.

My nine qualifying caches are listed in the attached image. The average elevation for the nine caches is 15,252 feet.