Category: Community

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

/ Sarah

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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/ Guest Writer

12 Tips for Hosting a Geocaching Event

Who doesn’t love a good party with great geocaching friends? Answer: No one.

Geocaching Events are a great way to meet the local geocaching community where everyone is oddly enough, just like you. Geocachers will designate a time and location to meet and discuss their favorite hobby. Geocaching events are fun, so always expect a good time!

Anyone can plan and host an event. Here are 12 tips and tricks to get you started on planning the best geo-bash around.

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/ Sarah

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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/ Andrew Baldwin

Walensee 8° — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC2B614
by tuxracer
Difficulty:
5
Terrain:
4
Location:
St. Gallen, Switzerland
N 47° 07.814 E 009° 17.210

Grab your helmets, headlamps, and a spelunking friend for a cave diving adventure in the Swiss Alps for this Geocache of the Week. With high peaks and the beautiful Walensee it’s easy to see why people come to this location, but cache owner, tuxracer, had their eyes set on something else. Deep below the skyscraping mountains and glimmering alpine lake is a vast underground cave formerly used for mining. A perfect opportunity for an ambitious D5/T4 geocache with an Indiana Jones feel. 

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