/ Andrew Baldwin

PhoneBooth — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC87WW6
by CacheDweeb
Difficulty:
4
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Massachusetts
N 42° 03.046 W 071° 52.758

This Geocache of the Week makes that hotline bling (but not late at night, there are time restrictions with this one). 

PhoneBooth (GC87WW6) is never going to let you down if you need to phone a friend – it has a phone book full of them! CacheDweeb constructed this gadget cache out of a phone booth in Massachusetts. To the untrained eye it may look like an ancient artifact from a forgotten time, but to others it’s a high tech piece of equipment.

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2021 Geocaching HQ souvenir moments

Planning is just one of the many skills one builds as a geocacher and we wouldn’t want you to be out of practice right when we enter a new year! So, we’re outlining the confirmed Geocaching HQ souvenir moments for the remainder of the year! We’ve still got a few souvenir surprises in store though, but for those, you’ll just have to wait and see, but you may not have to wait very long! 

Are your calendars ready? The confirmed souvenir moments for 2021 are:

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Three things to do outdoors this week

Outdoor activities are always near the top of our list of favorite things to do. One of the best ways to recharge from the day is by spending time outside. After all, doctors list happiness, better sleep, and improved mental state as benefits of being outdoors! Not sure where to begin? Here are three things to do outdoors this week.

Remember to follow the guidance of your local health officials when participating in outdoor activities to help keep everyone safe!

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/ Megan Twamley

Medieval View — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC26C
by The Rhine Knight
Difficulty:
1.5
Terrain:
2.5
Location:
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
S N 50° 12.381 E 007° 20.010

Have you ever wanted to travel back to medieval times? You could be a dashing knight or perhaps a keeper of secrets wandering the castle halls. Wish no longer! With more than 3,300 Favorite points, our Geocache of the Week, Medieval View (GC26C) hidden by The Rhine Knight, is the oldest active geocache in Germany and is ready to bring you back in time. 

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2020 in the rearview ✌…we mean, year in review.

What a year it has been! For many of us, geocaching may have been the one thing that didn’t change in a year full of uncertainty. Sure, we had our fair share of postponed plans (lookin’ at you 20th Anniversary Celebration) and our times of lockdown leaving us to dream of future cache outings. But always ready and waiting for our return are the three million-plus geocaches, the hundreds of thousands of cache owners, the hundreds of community volunteers, and of course, geocachers all over the world. In a year full of disruption, we sure came together.

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