Year: 2012

/ Eric Schudiske

Shop Geocaching April 2012 Newsletter

Cachin’s the Fashion!

We like a good joke here at Groundspeak and we were excited to present a fun video to help enhance your April Fool’s Day this year.  In doing so, our production artist Roxxy came up with what we think is an awesome t-shirt design.  We think all of you will love the design as much as we do, so we’ve added the new ‘Cachin’s the Fashion’ design in the shop.  Order yours today! (US only – See International Distributors here)

Make your own trackables!

Have you considered making your own trackable geocoins or other unique trackables?  We work with a number of manufacturers that can help you through the entire process of creating your own trackable geocoins or tags.  You also have the option of ordering tracking codes directly from Groundspeak for unique projects such as a personal swag item that you already leave in geocaches.  To learn more about the process or to see pricing and minimums, please check out our tracking code policy.  If you’re working on a smaller project that doesn’t meet our minimum order requirements, consider purchasing a Travel Bug and adding the unique tracking code onto the item you want to make trackable (just remember not to send out the tags as well to avoid confusion in the game).

Cache In Trash Out (CITO)

Just a reminder that the official CITO weekend is coming up soon!  We have a variety of official CITO merchandise including trackables and trash bags that can help enhance any CITO event!   The 10th annual Cache In Trash Out weekend will be held April 21st and 22nd.  View the CITO event calendar to see what events will be in your area!  Starting in mid-April, the free sticker of the month will feature the CITO logo.  One sticker is included for free with every order (while supplies last).

What’s New!

As usual, we’re always busy adding new items to the shop to keep the selection fresh.  This past month has seen the addition of several new trackables.  These include the first five in a series of trackable State Medallions (Washington, Oregon, Kansas, Illinois and California).  A fun Treasure Hunt board game, new Farmtagz and the GeoSoftie Signal Travel Tags have all been added to the mix.  Check these out and more in our What’s New section!

 

 

 

 

For orders outside the United States, please visit our International Distributors list.  They feature many of the same listings in our shop as well as unique geocaching items of their own.

If you have any questions or suggestions on products for the website, please send us an email to shop@geocaching.com.

/ Eric Schudiske

Citygarden Tour GC2AX7Q GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – April 2, 2012

Sculpture located at "Citygarden Tour"

Urban Multi-Caches can reveal take geocaching a  park, new vantage point, or hidden gem in a city geocachers never expected. “Citygarden Tour” (GC2AX7Q) delivers adventurers to a sculpture park in the middle of an American city better know for blues music and barbeque than public art.

St. Louis geocachers tracking down the answers for this difficulty three, terrain two Multi-Cache walk away discovering a slice of St.Louis culture.

The cache requires adventures to answer six questions they unlock by exploring the park. The questions ask people to find the birth year of artists, count wind chimes, and more. The answers are then plugged into a formula that is found on the cache page. The results complete a set of coordinates which lead geocachers to the cache.

Sculpture located in "Citygarden Tour"

Strider hid the micro cache in  2010. It’s accumulated more than 30 Favorite Points. Cache who logged the “Citygarden Tour” write, “This was a totally awesome cache. We thoroughly enjoyed taking in all the features in the park… Thanks for bringing us here, and for an imaginative cache.”

Have you ever completed an Urban Multi-Cache that helped you explore a city?

Continue to explore some of the most engaging geocaches around the globe. Check out all the Geocaches of the Week on the Latitude 47 blog or view the Bookmark List on Geocaching.com.

If you’ d like to nominate a Geocache of the Week, send an email with your name, comments, the name of the geocache, and the GC code to pr@groundspeak.com.

 

/ Eric Schudiske /

Geocaching.com Presents: Cachers of Steel

Cachers of Steel: Cachin’s the Fashion

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This April 1st begins a new day in your geocaching life. Unlock new geocaching moves that will dramatically increase your find count, give you a leg up on FTFs, and have you signing more TFTCs. From the makers of the (not very) popular Geocaching.com Hamster videos, watch Cachers of Steel: Cachin’s the Fashion.

Discover the all-new fitness craze that’s inspired by the world’s favorite outdoor hobby. You’ll learn new tricks of the trade with Cachers of Steel that include Ammo Can Deadlifts and Muggle Ducking, even watch an exclusive interview with Signal! This workout is guaranteed to have you FTFing, TFTCing, using your TOTTs like a pro—you’ll never forget to BYOP again!

Order at Shop Geocaching NOW!

/ Adela B /

Groundspeak Weekly Newsletter – March 28, 2012

Geocache Maintenance

 

Sometimes nature takes a bite out of geocaches. Cache containers end up battered by weather or broken from regular use. Does one of your geocaches need a new logbook, is the container cracked, or did the pen or pencil in the cache disappear? The changing of the seasons is a perfectly timed reminder to check your caches.

And geocache maintenance is not just for geocache owners. Courteous geocachers often help with cache maintenance, which helps increase the quality of the game for all. It’s easy. You simply bring additional supplies such as an extra geocache container, swag, logbooks, and pens on your geocaching adventures. That way you’re prepared to help out another geocacher by fixing a cache that needs maintenance on the spot.

 

If you go geocaching on the spur of the moment and don’t have supplies to fix up a cache that needs maintenance, visit Geocaching.com and report a ‘Needs Maintenance‘ log on the cache page.

If you are a geocache owner here are three ways to help make geocache maintenance a breeze:

1. Place a cache that is durable and requires little or no upkeep
2. Periodically check on your cache both in person and via the cache page to see if there are any issues
3. If you see a ‘Needs Maintenance’ log on the cache page, fix the cache and post an ‘Owner Maintenance’ log

/ Eric Schudiske /

Announcing the February Featured Geocacher of the Month

Many people know February’s Featured Geocacher of the Month for his ability to entertain as a Comedy Magician. To Vancouver geocachers, as well as many other geocachers, magicman65 is recognized for his ability to engage the geocaching community with creativity, commitment, involvement, stewardship, and encouragement.

Congratulations to magicman65 for pulling in a magical 65 votes to be nominated as the February Featured Geocacher of the Month. We greatly appreciate your positive contribution to the geocaching community.

February Featured Geocacher of the Month, magicman65

Magicman65 is the Vice President of the BC Geocaching Association as well as an active member of the Mid Island Geocaching Association and the Vancouver Island Geocaching Association. In addition, Magicman65 teaches geocaching and hides many creative caches.

According to one geocacher, “magicman65 sets an example to other cachers- he carries a knapsack with him filled with logbooks, plastic baggies, and swag.  When he comes across a cache that needs maintenance, he will fix it right there on the spot and then he will send a private message to the cache owner informing him/her that the cache is fixed, saving others a trip.”

Magicman65 will receive a collector’s edition Featured Geocacher of the Month Geocoin, along with a Geocacher of the Month hat and certificate acknowledging his contributions signed by two of the founders of Geocaching.com. Those nominees not chosen as the featured Geocacher of the Month receive a gift of appreciation from Groundspeak. See a list of all the featured Geocachers of the Month here. The geocaching community is encouraged to renominate those who have yet to be honored as featured Geocacher of the Month.

If you know an outstanding geocacher who should be considered for Geocacher of the Month, send an email to geocacherofthemonth@groundspeak.com.

Featured Geocacher of the Month Geocoin

Every nomination must meet the following requirements: Please include your name, the name of your nominee, their username, at least one picture of the nominee and description (in 500 or fewer words) explaining why he or she deserves to be the Geocacher of the Month. Please inform your nominee that you’ve submitted them for the award. Nominations for the March featured Geocacher of the Month must be received by April 1oth.

Once we have received all of the nominations, we will choose the top candidates and post them on the Latitude 47 blog. You will then get a chance to champion your favorite. Our goal is to involve the entire geocaching community in this process so we might learn from each other.