Midwest Geobash 2024: A Wild Weekend of Geocaching

Geocaching HQ Lackeys attend dozens of Mega and Giga-Events around the world, shaking hands, sharing stories of adventure, and of course, geocaching! MusikMaker is a Senior QA Engineer at Geocaching HQ. He recently traveled to Ohio to attend the Midwest Geobash 2024 – 20th Year! (GCAA9KK). Here is his trip summary.

From July 25-28, I immersed myself in the heart(land) of the geocaching community at the Midwest Geobash 2024 – 20th Year! (GCAA9KK) in Wauseon, Ohio. As a Lackey, I was thrilled to represent the company at this epic gathering of fellow geocaching enthusiasts. Continue reading →

Where are the cosmic cachers now?

With less than two weeks of Cosmic Quest remaining, we need 4,946,954 units of fuel to reach our goal. It’s time to up those find counts! After sending their last postcard from GC1G4XZ in Iceland, our cosmic friends jetted off to another location pictured in the postcard above to find more geocaches. Which geocache is this most recent postcard from? Share your guess in the comments below and then head out to find some geocaches to help fuel our friends’ spaceship.

A postcard from our friends at the halfway point of Cosmic Quest

We’re halfway through Cosmic Quest and so far the global geocaching community has generated over 7,500,000 units of fuel! That is impressive! However, to reach the goal of 15 million units of fuel, we’ve got to keep caching. Let’s fill these last weeks of August with as many geocache finds as we can so we can fuel up the spaceship! Our friends are also busy geocaching this month and we just received this postcard they sent from a recent geocache location. Continue reading →