Chronicle Your Road Trip with #Geocaching15 Photos!

 

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Tag Your Geocaching Road Trip ’15 Photos with #Geocaching15

This summer, geocachers around the globe will embark on the Geocaching Road Trip ‘15 to celebrate 15 years of adventure and exploration. Nowadays, no road trip is complete without photographic evidence! Tag your posts on Instagram with #Geocaching15 for the chance to have your photos become geocaching famous.

Over the next few months, we’ll feature our favorite photos tagged with #Geocaching15. Sign up for the Geocaching Co-Pilot mailing list to see if your photos are featured.

At the end of Geocaching Road Trip ‘15, we’ll select the best of the best and feature them in our weekly newsletter (reaching over 6 million geocachers around the world!) and on social media. Here are some of our favorite photos to get your wheels turning:

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Unique destination. Photo by @5montreals.
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Scenic view. Photo by @chrrich80.
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Selfie stick shot! Photo by @jo.si.
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GoPro! Photo by @tenchy.
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Extreme geocaching. Photo by @headhouze.
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Geocaching Founders Jeremy, Bryan, and Elias back in the day!
Road trip! Photo by @kylejamesburgess.
Road trip! Photo by @kylejamesburgess.

Need inspiration? Check out Geocaching on Instagram.

Brush up on your math skills. — Pythagoras (GC4DAY7) — Geocache of the Week

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Did you bring a calculator? Photo from the Geocaching  Pinterest page.
Did you bring a calculator? Photo from the Geocaching Pinterest page.

Geocache Name:

Pythagoras (GC4DAY7)

Difficulty/Terrain Rating:

3/3.5

Why this is the Geocache of the Week:

Raise your hand if in middle-school math class you said, “I’ll never use this stuff!” Don’t worry, my hand is raised, too. And now here we are, remembering back to our algebra teacher’s lessons so we can earn another smiley.

Excellent journeys and even better puzzles go hand-in-hand. This geocache combines the two and adds in a fantastic geocache container to create a story-worthy moment. All you have to do is figure out the numbers, remember how to use the Pythagorean theorem to solve the puzzle and unlock the lock. Simple!

What the geocache creator,  Kerry_1, has to say:

About the geocache:
In our geocaching area we have found a beautiful place in triangle shape, so we got the idea to use the Pythagoras’ Theorem for guessing the coordinates. We transfered the triangle much bigger into the map and at the tops we took a photos. After we just had to find some places to hide coordinates.
Producing of the box was pretty simple, even with design it took few hours only. There is a little stumper about getting inside. But if cachers gave attention at school, it will be easy to open it.
Regarding Favorite Points and positive logs:
We always get pleased, if people like our cache and somehow all of our caches are made by the same method. We enjoy making up new projects and we are happy if it pleases those, who will find them.
To the geocaching community:
Try to make caches, which will surprise people. So they will also have a nice memories to take, not the count only.

Photos:

Geo-pup needs a break! Photo by chris444
Geo-pup needs a break! Photo by chris444
Geocachers on the way to the find. Photo by geocacher chris444
Geocachers on the way to the find. Photo by geocacher chris444
Pythagoras himself.
Pythagoras himself.

What was the last geocache that really made you think? Tell your story and post photos in the comments.

Continue to explore some of the most engaging geocaches around the globe. Check out all the Geocaches of the Week on the Geocaching blog. If you would like to nominate a Geocache of the Week, just fill out this form. Thanks!

 

 

Assemble your Geocaching Road Trip ‘15 Team

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Invite your friends to join the adventure

Doing a happy dance by yourself after making a find is fun, but nowhere near as much fun as doing a happy dance with a bunch of your friends. No, really—see for yourself.

The Geocaching Road Trip ‘15, celebrating 15 years of Geocaching, is kicking off in a little under two weeks. Now is the time to get your friends to join you on the adventure. It’s easy. Just use our Refer a Friend page to post an invite on Facebook or Twitter, or to send an invite email. It’ll have all the details your friends need to join Geocaching. Plus, you’ll have the chance to earn a few more stats.

Begin assembling your Geocaching Road Trip ‘15 team now! Visit the Refer a Friend page.

A Logbook Apart – The 6 Coolest Logbooks You’ve Ever Seen

Middle Earth Log BookWe all know the online log is where the meat of your geocaching story goes after a successful find.

There’s one constant with your traditional geocaching experience. You find the geocache and you sign the log book. Usually the geocache logbook get nothing more than a signature and a quick smiley-face. But some geocache owners have taken their maker madness to the next level, crafting such elegant and clever logbooks you’ll wish you had more to say.

As with this Tolkien-inspired logbook by Mr Derek M, some geocache owners decide to fit the logbook to the theme of the geocache. Lord of the Rings fans may find themselves scrambling for good Gandalf quotes after they’ve made this find. Might we suggest, “Not all who wander are lost…”?

 

 

 

 

 

There are logbooks that take things literally. And when we say literally, we really mean literally.

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Just because it’s a nano, doesn’t mean it can’t have a cool logbook!

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The Geocaching HQ Geocache logbook is one example of a non-traditional logbook. Visitors to Geocaching HQ take their silly photos in a photo-booth, and paste one of the resulting photo-strips in the photo-logbook.

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In a similar vein, this Hong Kong geocache has finders take selfies with a Polaroid, which they can place in the log on the spot.

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Amidst all this creativity, practicality has a role to play as well. As a geocache owner, you may simply not want to have to replace the logbook very frequently. The solution? Giant logbook.

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Of course, it’s really at Event-Caches where you can take your logbook creativity to the next level.

So tell us: which logbooks have made you laugh out loud?