"Sweetie, Can we do the Delorme Challenge for North Carolina?"
"I dunno, what is that?"
"It is a geocaching challenge where we have to explore every part of the state of North Carolina."
"OK!"
That night I ordered the North Carolina Delorme paper atlas.
Since then we have gone on many adventures, many of which are documented here. We have driven from the highest points of the North Carolina mountains near the Tennessee line to the very edge of the Atlantic ocean, and all parts in between.
We have driven many many miles to accomplish this goal, in fact we have been to every corner of the state (and the state has a lot of corners) and all the middle parts too. We've been everywhere, as attested by this map:
View North Carolina Delorme Challenge Done in a larger map
We tried to attempt this two weeks ago but the weather up in the mountains was unfavourable. So we planned for today. As is typical in such cases we got a snow fall last night, so our journey today was in doubt, but we decided to take the chance anyway. As it turns out it is a good thing we did as today was sunny, warm, and an all round beautiful day for caching.
Bonus points for spotting the wife. |
When we arrived at GZ (ground zero) we started looking for the cache, even Zeke got involved in the process. It took a few minutes, but soon we had the final in hand.
We took the requisite celebratory photos, signed the log book, and eventually decided to head back down the trail to the car.
The North Carolina Delorme Challenge was an epic adventure, and it forced us to explore the state that we now call home. I am very glad that I took on this challenge, and went on an adventure that I will not soon forget.
I'll leave you with some more pics from our final journey for the North Carolina Delorme Challenge:
Mission Accomplished! |
6 comments:
awesome work dear!
Congrats!!! I'd like to try doing the Illinois challenge one of these days.
Congrats! Awesome to know that they didn't cheap out on the cache container either.
Sadly Delorme doesn't have a map book for Ontario. So I'm in the process of tracking down the one I'd like to do.
But my first challenge may be the Oldest Caches in Ontario Bingo game.
Awesome! CONGRATULATIONS to the whole team, I mean you had everyone out there searching, even the dog! The quest has been challenging for many and only a few complete it each year! You are one of them my friend, great job. AND awesome pictures!
Now, you know I plan to post the whole Delorme series that you have written at CacheCrazy.Com, right? It was all so exciting reading about your quest.
Great post and congratulations to you and the family on your achievement. North Carolina is one state that I have visited through work, Mooresville was my base. Was taken out to visit Love Valley and also Chimney Rock, loved the area but unfortunately was geocaching at the time.
Great job to the whole team. Loved reading about it and I also loved all of the pictures. I think maybe this is something my wife and I need to do for PA.
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