In the global geocaching community, we are fortunate to have so many interesting people with very extraordinary stories. Richard Garriott, better known as LordBritish among geocachers, is someone who tests the limits of what is possible for geocache placement. With legendary geocaches such as International Space Station and the Deep Sea Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents, Richard Garriott, along with expedition partner Michael Dubno (Dubnium), tested those limits once again by placing an EarthCache at Challenger Deep of the Marianas Trench 10,925 meters (10.9 kilometers, 6.8 miles) beneath the surface of the water.
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Andrew the Manager of Community Engagement at Geocaching HQ. He is typically laughing at his own jokes, getting into mischief with Signal, or looking for the next adventure.
PhoneBooth — Geocache of the Week
- Traditional
- GC87WW6
- by CacheDweeb
- 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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A Meme in Review
This year we laughed and we cried and we continued in that cycle for a variety of reasons. There are always pockets of sunshine when things seem dim, and for some of us it comes in the form of a meme.
Here are 5 memes HQ shared in 2020 that we can all relate to:
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TB Hotel Naish1967 — Geocache of the Week
Every now and again you come across a geocache so cool, so great, so surprising that you have to give it a Favorite point to applaud the cache owner. Eight years after hiding this clever cache in their front yard, naish1967’s geocache TB Hotel Naish1967 (GC3QXFJ) has a total of 507 Favorite points and 1300+ Found it logs. But what makes it so special? It comes out of nowhere!
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Best of: GIFF!
Lights, Camera, Geocache! Best of: GIFF (Full length video)
From 2013 – 2019 hundreds of filmmakers from around the world submitted their videos to the Geocaching International Film Festival. We saw special effects, expert editing, and amazing creative execution.
We put together a full length “Best of: GIFF” compilation from every year including honorable mentions and winners.
If you cannot view the video above select this link to view on YouTube:
Best of: Giff
