Author: Nikki

Nikki is a Community Volunteer Support Specialist at Geocaching HQ. Her specialties include making cheesy puns, talking endlessly about coffee, and being the only Californian who enjoys rain. She is passionate about geocaching and loves that it brings communities together.
/ Nikki

Komm, wir gehen cachen!—Anleitungen für das Finden von echten Geocaches

Du tust Dir schwer damit, die Geocaches dort draußen zu finden? Hast Du jemals das Geocache-Listing wieder und wieder studiert, die letzten Logs der anderen Geocacher und den Hinweis gelesen, und trotzdem war die Suche nicht erfolgreich und endete mit einem DNF? Keine Sorge—wir kennen das alle.

Deshalb haben wir unsere besten “Finde einen Cache mit mir”-Anleitungsvideos zusammengestellt, damit Du besser verstehst, wo Du suchen musst. So wirst Du bald ein paar echte Geocache-Funde auf Deinem Konto verbuchen können! Continue reading →

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Cache Hiding Themes—January: books and libraries

You shared, and we listened!

We received a library’s-worth of submissions for 2024’s first cache hiding theme. We asked you to share your favorite book and library-themed caches for January, and you showed up with some “novel” hides!

Though we’d love to share all the submissions, we’d end up with an entire book instead of a blog post, and our editors said the world wasn’t ready for that yet. So instead, we picked a few of our favorites!

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/ Nikki

Gorgons Schatz oder So’n Ding …—Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC75DP8
by Gorgon17112003
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
N 54° 04.782 E 012° 15.581

To some, geocaching is an adventure straight out of a fairytale: a hero overcoming obstacles and defeating all odds to reach victory.

While we may not be saving any damsels in distress over here, we do occasionally come up against a “guardian” of a geocache. Join us as we meet a new friend and maybe just convince him to let us sign the log with our Geocache of the Week, Gorgons Schatz oder So’n Ding … (in English, “Gorgons treasure, or something like that…”) (GC75DP8).

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/ Nikki

Cache Hiding Themes 2024

2024 is finally here, and we have our planners open and ready for all the exciting plans the year will bring. One thing that we’re sure of as we look to the new year: we’re ready for something different.

We’d love to highlight all the memorable geocaches featured in the geocaching communities around the world—the question is, where to start?

That’s why we’re introducing our monthly geocache hiding themes, for all those cache owners who don’t know where to begin when it comes to their newest cache creation.

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