mortonfox | First State Challenge 2012

Saturday was the launch day of First State Challenge 2012, an annual state-wide geocaching challenge. 30 geocaches were published early Saturday morning. Geocachers who log 8 geocaches in each of the 3 counties will get a completion certificate and a special pathtag. This year's challenge is a little different from previous years because we only needed to find 24 out of 30 caches instead of all of them. However, in two days, I did find them all anyway. Also this year, I thought I'd save a bit of driving by tackling the northern geocaches first but that didn't quite work. By the end of Saturday, I was already down in Sussex County when it got dark. So I had to go to Sussex County again on Sunday. Even though this state is small, it took a lot of driving around down in the south end where the state is wider.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun. I ran into other geocachers numerous times along the way; we were apparently all obsessed with completing the challenge quickly even though the challenge lasts five weeks! I took the opportunity to find some non-challenge geocaches along the southern edge of the state, like "Line Church" and "A Fallen Hero", since I don't go down there very often. There were a few neat geocaches: the frog geocache and the winery geocache. And I saw the cat waiter, an unexpected piece of furry art in Delmar.

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