We have released 12 more of our site owned locationless type challenge caches, for a total of 42 at this time. You can expect more in the future as well. Several of them are named “Variety Show”, and pertain to hiding some or all of the 14 different types of caches available on our site. Tentative plans call for about 30 more, and it should be obvious Variety Show challenges that pertain to finding some or all of the the 14 different types will be among them.  The 12 newly released caches also include seasonal finding challenges, and FTF challenges. They are all linked to below, along with a short explanation of their requirements.

• OCNA Challenge Cache – First To Find Hound (Level 1) – OU0935 (Be the FTF on 10 OCNA caches.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – First To Find Hound (Level 2) – OU0936 (Be the FTF on 20 OCNA caches.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Seasonal Cacher (Winter) – OU0937 (Find OCNA listed caches hidden in the months of December, January, and February.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Seasonal Cacher (Spring) – OU0938 (Find OCNA listed caches hidden in the months of March, April, and May.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Seasonal Cacher (Summer) – OU0939 (Find OCNA listed caches hidden in the months of June, July and August.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Seasonal Cacher (Fall) – OU093A (Find OCNA listed caches hidden in the months of September, October and November.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Ultimate Monthly Cacher – OU093B (Find a OCNA listed cache a month for 12 months.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Variety Show Hider (Level 1) – OU093C (Hide 4 different cache types.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Variety Show Hider (Level 2) – OU093D (Hide 8 different cache types.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Variety Show Hider (Level 3) – OU093E (Hide 12 different cache types.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Variety Show Hider (Level 4) – OU093F (Hide all 14 different cache types.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Variety Show Extravaganza – OU0940 (Hide and find all 14 different cache types.)

On April 28th, 2015, one week to the day after the most popular Geocaching website in the world imposed a one year moratoriam on new challenge caches, we at OpenCaching North America introduced our own. As the banner above says, they are Locationless, so to speak. If you qualify, you can log it. They are owned by a special Admin account, OCNAChallenges, and are all Unknown (?) type caches. They are presented as Geo Art in the Gulf of Mexico. We released 12 on that day, April 28th, 2015, and released 8 more on May 6th, 2015.  And then, nothing. We are a small, all volunteer organization, we got busy! We hosted an After GeoWoodstock event in Maryland. We planned, ran, and handed out prizes for a contest on our site. We had to get our 5th anniversary Pathtags finalized, as well as a free back anyone can use for their own Pathtags. We endured an almost month long Denial of Service attack. Yes, that one really happened, although we never publicized it. 🙂 We could go on, but won’t.

Only the lonely (Know the way I feel) was a smash hit for Roy Orbison in 1960, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard charts. If you’re a little younger than that, a totally different song titled Only the lonely by The Motels peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard chart in 1982. What does this have to do with us, or our challenge caches? Well, on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015, we released 10 more challenge caches (the letter N in The Gulf of Mexico), and they all pertain to lonely caches! Only the lonely, get it? Find caches that haven’t been found on our site in over 1 year, over 2 years, or over 3 years to be eligible to log some of these challenge caches.  The 10 caches are listed below, along with a short explanation of the requirements for each. This blog post is a couple days behind, so most have been logged by some of our more observant players who have noticed these new listings. And a heads up, we plan on releasing 12 more challenge caches in the near future. We’re certainly not planning another 5 1/2 month gap between them!

• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 1 – OU0853 (Find a cache that has not been for at least one full year.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 2 – OU0854 (Find a cache that has not been found for at least 2 years.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 3 – OU0855 (Find a cache that has not been found for at least 3 years.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 1.3 – OU0856 (Find 3 caches that have not been for at least one full year.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 1.5 – OU0926 (Find 3 caches that have not been for at least one full year.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 2.3 – OU0928 (Find 3 caches that have not been for at least 2 years.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 2.5 – OU0927 (Find 5 caches that have not been for at least 2 years.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 3.3 – OU0929 (Find 3 caches that have not been for at least 3 years.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Level 3.5 – OU092A (Find 5 caches that have not been for at least 3 years.)
• OCNA Challenge Cache – Lonely Cache Combination – OU092B (Find 3 caches that have not been found in 1 year, 2 caches that have not been found in 2 years, and 1 cache that has not been found in 3 years.)