GC5A6TY Cache Owner Gnames 502 Challenge
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: GoMRT @ | Hide Date: 08/03/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 09.684 W104° 54.870 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                           

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As with anything that deals with minimums and maximums, there are numbers usually associated with them.  In Geocaching, there are numbers, titles and owner names.   This challenge cache has a minimum # of CO names you need to qualify for the yellow smiling face! Therefore.....

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Thanks to Geocaching HQ, who had the idea to chase various size containers using a satellite constellation as a direction finder, and President Reagan, who opened up GPS signals for civilian use, we have a little fun game/sport/hobby/obession (for some) that makes many people question others and their sanity.

In motorsports, you have, for example, the 24 Hours of Le Mans (maximum of 24 racing hours), the Daytona 500 (minimum travel of 500 miles) or Bristol Motor Speedway racing (minimum of 500 laps on the bullring of a track). 500 is such a round number that it'd be too easy to do a cache requiring 500 cache owner names. 501 is usually associated with Levi jeans; therefore, I am going with 502!

So..... WELCOME ladies and gentlemen to the Cache Owner Gnames 502 brought to you by all geocachers alike!! You will need to prove by posting in your log or attached to your log you have found a minimum of 502 different cache owner caches! (Disclaimer - I had this idea and then found a similar cache in the Midwest of the same ilk for 500 & 1,000, so it is not a tribute; however......imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.)

This is a grandfathered challenge cache; therefore, project-gc.com is not required to be used to check your qualification. A simple screenshot of your overall number of COs (502 minimum) attached to your log of this data would suffice for the requirement from those sources. Please see my 4 examples of acceptable verification screenshots through the following links that you can get the overall number of COs (502 minimum) for posting:

My Geocaching Profile will look like this:

GSAK Find Stats Macro will look like this:

GSAK Cache Owner Macro will look like this:

Project-GC will look like this when you using the Challenge checker:

(WARNING: A link in your log to project-gc.com verification will not be accepted. I will not chase your profile to see if you qualify since I put the cache out there. It should not be hard to post or attach the data requested. If you chose not to post what is required, then I can chose to delete your log. This is a 50/50 arrangement and one you agreed to when you signed up for GC.)

You won't need to remove the cache container from the spot.  Please respect GZ and the surrounding area.  The cap is on finger tight and should be recapped the same way.  The log can be removed and replaced in the cap easily enough, so please put it there and not stuffed into the container to ruin it for others. Please maintain the spot a bit if it begins to look disheveled and out of place so others may enjoy it also.  Of course, any enhancements you have in mind to extend the lifespan while at GZ are also welcome, including any coord suggestions since I used my Magellan and Samsung to get numbers as close as possible to actual GZ.

CONGRATS to WingsAndTales for the FTF with ngrrfan and hiking_fool for STF! Let the caching begin!!  Start your cachemobile or cachecycle!

There is no room for trackables and coins in the container.

Watch for wildlife and respect their domain.

Caching can be dangerous. There are inherent risks involved which you take upon yourself when you are caching.

Please be careful and remember rule #13 - HAVE FUN!

07/05/2019 By GhostlyImage
Such a cute gcache! We are working on the challenge north of here that requires its finder to have found/solved 1000 puzzle caches, so each one helps (this makes 662, so we're not there by a long shot). SL. Thanks for the fun challenge! See our log below for our qualifications. Favorite point awarded for this hide's creativity and adorable cache minder.

07/05/2019 By GhostlyImage
What a fun challenge! Can't wait to find it! Thanks, CVA64.

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

07/04/2019 By R&B CO
Signed log 1/27/19 and now able to log as a find.

R&B CO](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=R%26B%20CO) has used Project-GC to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

Thanks for the fun challenge and the clever cache container GoMRT.

06/19/2019 By Strudelnudel
I love challenge caches. Wrote my name in the log - hope to be completed with the challenge by the end of summer

01/05/2019 By ladditude
Out on a beautiful Colorado winter day enjoying our favorite outdoor activity, geocaching! The snow was mostly gone so it wasn't difficult to reach it's hiding spot. Thanks for this challenge cache and clever hide! Another favorite point for you! We've actually found caches by 1478 different owners... many thanks to them all!

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ladditude fulfills challenge Cache Owner Gnames 502 Challenge (GC5A6TY) according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5A6TY/7632

09/09/2018 By Kerewin0430
I was early for today's hike, so took a little detour to sign a few caches up a parallel road. Thanks for the challenge!!

03/21/2018 By gdsdizz

Hope this works as I'm not a computer smart person. Thanks for putting this out.

gdsdizz fulfills challenge Cache Owner Gnames 502 Challenge (GC5A6TY) according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5A6TY/7632

03/10/2018 By hartsdale
Grabbed this one on the way back home after finding a few others this morning with YG and BCH.
I was kindof of surprised when I got the check mark on qualifying.

Very cute container!

Thanks for the challenge cache!

HD

01/05/2018 By ColoradoSmith
TFTC!! Signed logged over two years ago, but I can finally log this as a smiley.

10/27/2017 By JordsAU
Greetings from Sydney, Australia! Found with NYWanderer. While I had the opportunity, I wanted to finish off my Jasmer Challenge (which is impossible to do without international travel, for us Aussies). I only had four combinations remaining (June 2000, July 2000, August 2000 and September 2000), so I hatched a plan and roped in NYWanderer for great company. I flew into Salt Lake City from New York and met NYWanderer at the airport, where we collected the hire car to start our road trip. We had some specific caches mapped out, in addition to the Jasmer caches, including a number of Challenge Caches we had qualified for. We spent the night in Salt Lake City, then headed south towards the incredible Arches National Park, ticking off ‘Potters Pond’ (August 2000) on the way, and staying overnight in Moab. The next day we continued towards Colorado Springs, getting a First To Find at ‘Cache by the Falls’, as well as ‘Tarryall’ (July 2000) in subzero temperatures while the snow blanketed us and the landscape. First thing in the morning of day four, we scaled Mays Peak to find ‘Paul Barclay Stash’ (September 2000) and a First To Find at ‘My first hide’. It was at this point we realised one of the tyres on the hire car had been punctured and it was losing pressure quickly. Oh no! At least we were parked in a quiet enough spot to easily swap out the flat with the spare tyre. This had thrown a spanner in the works and we now needed to go hunting for a place to get it fixed, instead of hunting for more caches. But, it could have been worse. We made it to Denver, where we spent the afternoon, and once the tyre was fixed, we continued north to Cheyenne for the night. We had a big drive across Nebraska the next day, picking up three First To Finds at ‘St. Mary's Cemetery-Oconto’, ‘Jewell Cemetery’ and ‘St. Patrick's Cemetery’, and spent the night in Grand Island. Heading south the next day, we picked up a First To Find at ‘The Other Scranton Cemetary’ and stopped by the geo-graphical centre of the contiguous United States, before tracking east towards Kansas City, where I was lucky enough to complete my main goal for the road trip, the Jasmer Challenge, by finding ‘Missouri's First - Watts Mill’ (June 2000). It was a very memorable road trip and I am very grateful I was able to explore some more places in this amazingly diverse country. Thanks to NYWanderer for the great company and Thanks For The Caches to the respective Cache Owners, and for showing us some awesome spots. On to the next big challenge! “JordsAU

JordsAU fulfils challenge Cache Owner Gnames 502 Challenge (GC5A6TY), according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5A6TY/7632