Author: Sarah

Sarah is a French-speaking Marketing Coordinator at Geocaching HQ. She likes cats and musicals, but only separately. In her spare time you can find her knitting, snuggling her cat, and waiting impatiently for the next season of Cosmos.
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Back to School with Geocaching

The air is crisp and clean, the leaves are turning golden, the scent of pumpkin spice wafts through the streets, and school is officially in session. Looking for ways to include geocaching into your back to school lesson plans? Check out our GeocachingEdu page where parents, teachers, and educators can find handy resources on incorporating geocaching in the classroom. 

As added inspiration, we’re highlighting six unique ways you can get back to school—geocaching style. Let’s get ready to make mistakes, get messy, and go geocaching!

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Chalking The Horse: It’s the Neigh-borly Thing to Do — Interview With CITO Host The Wombles

Cache In Trash Out® (CITO) is an environmental initiative supported by the geocaching community. Since 2002, CITO helps preserve the natural beauty of cache-friendly spaces. In that time, more than 363,000 people have volunteered at 18,000 events.

Lots of cachers think of CITO as a chance to pick up trash—which it definitely is. But the events are not limited to this—it’s also a chance to preserve the integrity of cache-friendly places in other outside-of-the-box ways!

The Wombles is a British geocacher who has taken improving mother earth to a whole new level. He hosts regular CITOs, among them a recurring crowd favorite—Wombling free – Chalking the Horse—meaning that, if you’re in the UK, you can attend!

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Wombling free – Chalking the Horse — Geocache of the Week

Cache In Trash Out Event
GC87M05
by The Wombles
Difficulty:
1
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Southern England, United Kingdom
N 51° 34.630′ W 001° 34.005′

Cache In Trash Out® (CITO) is an environmental initiative supported by the geocaching community. Since 2002, CITO Events help preserve the natural beauty of cache-friendly spaces. In that time, more than 363,000 people have volunteered at 18,000 events.

Lots of cachers think of CITO as a chance to pick up trash—which it definitely is. But it’s also a chance to preserve the integrity of cache-friendly places in other ways!

Hosted by cache owner The Wombles, Wombling free – Chalking the Horse brings cachers together to restore a prehistoric chalked horse figure in Uffington. While it isn’t unusual for CITOs to be limited to one occurrence, this particular CITO recurs twice annually. This means that, if you’re in the UK, you have multiple opportunities to participate—making it a perfect candidate for our Geocache of the Week! 

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GCC#134 Little Red Riding Hood — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC7CDQ9
by Tupper T. Turtle
Difficulty:
1.5
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Ontario, Canada
N 45° 01.101′ W 078° 12.047′

Once upon a time there was a girl who was called ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ because her mother had made her a beautiful, red riding cloak. One day, her grandmother fell ill, so the girl set off on a walk through the forest to bring her granny some food. But, when Little Red got to her grandmother’s house in the woods, instead of her sweet granny asleep in bed, she found a geocache!

Not the ending you were expecting? Well then you clearly weren’t thinking of the story of GCC#134 Little Red Riding Hood, our Geocache of the Week!

Grandmother!? Image by Trekker3.
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New country souvenir, Cuba, with Geocache of the Week: Virtual Reward – Fusterlandia

Virtual
GC7B7RA
by Winterwolfe
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Cuba
N 23° 05.367′ W 082° 28.983′

Today, we release a new country/regional souvenir for Republic of Cuba! If you have found a geocache in Cuba, you automatically receive the souvenir on your profile.

The Republic of Cuba sparkles at the intersection of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean. It is comprised of the island of Cuba (from which it draws its name), Isla de la Juventud, and several other exquisite archipelagos. From the urban pastels of Havana, to the dramatic mountains and rocky outcrops of the Viñales Valley and more than 300 dazzling beaches, Cuba is a dream destination for the discerning geocacher.

This heart is in Havana. Image by cactuslover.
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