Author: Eric Schudiske

/ Eric Schudiske

Groundspeak Weekly Newsletter – September 30, 2010

Save the Date – Groundspeak Block Party

Signal and geocachers at the Lost & Found Celebration

The Groundspeak Lackeys had such a great time meeting our fellow geocachers at the Lost & Found Celebration this past 4th of July that we’ve decided to do it again! The Groundspeak Block Party is planned for August 20, 2011. Geocachers will once again take over the streets outside of Groundspeak HQ in Seattle, WA. Next year’s celebration promises new activities, new prizes and repeat performances at the dunk tank.

We hope to see those of you who didn’t make it this year, as well as reconnect with those whom we had the pleasure of meeting before.

The event page is now available and can be found here. So, arrange your travel schedule, log a “will attend” on the geocache detail page, and don’t miss this event!

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/ Eric Schudiske /

Geocaching Caption Contest 13 – Win a Barely Coveted Prize

Winning Caption: If you hold it to your ear you can hear all the screams from the frustrated FTFs.- Oakfire

Your vote helps decide who takes home the barely coveted prize.  Read the captions.  “Like” the one you think should win.  If you think your caption should win, tell (bribe) friends and strangers to vote for you.  Lackeys will then vote on the top captions to crown the winner of this Geocaching Caption Contest.

This is the thirteenth installment of our Geocaching Caption Contest.   The photo captures the joy (and more likely frustration) of finding a micro cache.  What caption would you write? “Does the snail get the FTF?.” You can do better than that.

The winner receives a barely coveted prize of a single Cache In Trash Out pin.

Barely coveted prize

Good luck!

Please include your geocaching username in all entries.

Click here to see winning caption from last contest

21 Lackeys voted to award the winner of the twelfth Geocaching Caption Contest a barely coveted prize.

Click on the picture to the right to see who won a barely coveted prize.

Explore the wit and wisdom of geocachers by checking out all the Geocaching Caption Contests.

/ Eric Schudiske /

“Riddarhuset” GC18T59 GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – September 27, 2010

35mm geocache canister for Riddarhuset
35mm geocache canister for Riddarhuset

“Riddarhuset” (GC18t59) is one of the most popular geocaches in Sweden.  More than 1500 geocachers have logged  a smiley on the geocache.

That’s an average of nearly two finds a day since the geocache was placed by Librex back in January of 2008.

The geocache sits in the shadow of what Librex describes as the “foremost monument of Sweden’s Age of Greatness.”

Riddarhuset

Riddarhuset translates into English as “The House of Nobility” and was the palace where the Swedish aristocracy met for sessions of Parliament.  It’s still used by Swedish nobility today.

The “Riddarhuset” micro-cache is listed as a terrain one, difficulty one.   Geocachers traveling to Stockholm often thank the cache owner for enriching their trip by showcasing Riddarhuset.

Continue your discovery of the some of the most engaging geocaches from around the world.  Explore all the Geocaches of the Week on our blog or view the Bookmark List on Geocaching.com.

/ Eric Schudiske /

Geocachers climb Mt. Fuji to Cache In Trash Out (CITO)

Mt. Fuji, outside of Toyko Japan, reaches 3,776 m (12,388 ft.) into the sky, but is still not immune from the trash found at lower elevations.  Geocacher atstgm helped organize an ascent of Mt. Fuji to complete a grueling Cache In Trash Out (CITO) tour.

Mt. Fuji CITO

Armed with garbage bags more than a dozen geocachers started hiking up the tallest mountain in Japan at 11:00am on September 3rd.

They stayed over night at a staging area, then began hiking again in the predawn darkness at 1:30am on the 4th.

Mt. Fuji CITO Logbook

The group reached the summit of Mt. Fuji around 5am and began the CITO event by picking up bags full of trash.  They also searched for the five geocaches along the route and at the summit.  Watch this raw video of the ambition climb.

Check out the events calender to see if there’s a CITO event near you.

/ Eric Schudiske /

“Kayak Geocaching” A Geocaching.com Lost & Found Video

It’s not always your feet that do the work of taking you to a geocache.  Sometimes geocachers paddle a kayak or canoe through pristine waters to hunt down a cache. Follow geocacher Claire Delavigne, known by the geocaching name Planet. She navigates through a Connecticut nature preserve and combines kayaking and geocaching. True to the world of geocaching, her adventure doesn’t go as planned.

Explore even more geocaching adventures in the Geocaching.com Lost & Found video gallery.  You can go along on a heart racing five terrain/five difficulty geocache, see the geocache on the International Space Station or find out why a U.S. Army bomb disposal technician says geocaching kept him safer in Iraq.