Martin (SnowstormMK) ist seit 2,5 Jahren Lackey im Geocaching HQ in Seattle und unterstützt unter anderem die deutsche Community der Ehrenamtlichen in seiner Position als Community Volunteer Special Programs Manager. Dieses Jahr hat er sich in die deutsche Hauptstadt aufgemacht, um an seinem ersten Giga-Event: Berlin – Hauptstadt der Spione (GC7QQQQ) teilzunehmen. Er berichtet von seinen Erlebnissen, wie ein banal wirkender Stein zum Highlight wurde und wie er unfreiwillig inkognito blieb.
Author: Martin Kerstein
Martin works as a Community Volunteer Special Programs Manager at Geocaching HQ. If he is not out caching he is probably trying to teach new moves to his two cats.
Ystradfellte: Porth yr Ogof – Geocache of the Week
- Traditional
- GC19GM6
- by Ezitis (adopted by Moley13)
- Location:
- South Wales
- N 51° 48.015′ W 003° 33.352′
You’ve perfected your urban caching and have conquered every local park. You left no stone unturned, no tree unclimbed, and no micro unfound.
Sitting on a bench, staring into the setting sun, you ponder what new geocaching opportunities might be out there. That’s when it hits you, an email notification for a cache you’ve never found. It speaks of a cave of horses and a treasure needing your signature to claim.
Maastricht:Wandelen op en langs de stadsmuren – Geocache of the Week
Some geocaches take you to remote mountains peaks, some require you to solve puzzles before you find them, and some teach you about history, like our Geocache of the Week. This ten-stage Multi-Cache takes you on a tour around the historic sites of the beautiful city of Maastricht, which has 1,677 national heritage sites (Rijksmonumenten), the second highest number in the Netherlands after Amsterdam.
Voss Margarine – Geocache of the Week
- Location:
- Hamburg, Germany
- N 53° 35.501′ E 010° 03.297′
Voss Margarine, our Geocache of the Week, is currently the third most Favorited geocache in the world. Since it was hidden in 2008, it has accumulated an astonishing 6,345 Favorite points; 83% of Premium member logs awarded a Favorite point. It is also a prime example of how creative and exciting urban caching can be.
Geocaching country souvenir: the United States of America
The United States of America — the birthplace of geocaching.
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2) of diverse geography, the United States has the most ecoregions out of any country in the world, making it an amazing playground for geocaching.
From the Atlantic seaboard, across the prairies of the Great Plains, to the Cascade mountain range in the Pacific Northwest, there are lots of unique geocaching adventures to discover.
While it is true that the United States is home to some of the oldest active geocaches that are still around, such as the oldest Traditional, Multi-Cache, as well as the oldest still existing cache with a three-digit GC code, there are plenty of other amazing caching adventures waiting for you from sea to shining sea.
