Category: Community

Geocaching is delightful because of the people who play it — adventure-seekers, makers, parents, astronauts and (sometimes) celebrities. Read their stories.

/ Annika

Featured CITO events that are sure to inspire

Cache in Trash Out® (CITO) Events originated in an attempt to help preserve the natural beauty of cache-friendly spaces. To date there have been 24,342 CITO Events worldwide attended by 466,538 geocachers, volunteering to make a difference in their home zone.

Did you know it’s CITO Season 2? There is still plenty of time for you to make a positive impact to your geocaching playground. You can even earn a souvenir when attending a CITO Event now through Saturday, November 30, 2019. And if that is not enough to inspire you to roll up your sleeves, here are three recent CITO Events we noticed.

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/ Yara Scholtis

Cathedral Cavern Cache — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC2CQB7
by Hattlebags
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
3
Location:
North West England, United Kingdom
N 54° 25.006 W 003° 03.519′

Finding a geocache after a long search can feel like there’s a “light at the end of the tunnel.” This saying becomes quite literal when it comes to this week’s Geocache of the Week — Cathedral Cavern Cache, GC2CQB7.

In the Lake District of North West England lies the valley of Little Langdale which, for the past several hundred years, was mined and quarried extensively for copper and slate. One of the disused inter-linked tunnel systems, Cathedral Quarries, is now open to the public and makes for a magical cache outing.

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