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Ten tips to help you maintain your geocaching streak
/ Janelle

Ten tips to help maintain your geocaching streak

  1. Ten tips to help you maintain your geocaching streak
      Ten tips to help you maintain your geocaching streak

Let’s talk about geocaching streaks. A streak is when you log a geocache or attend an Event Cache every day for an extended period of time. Some geocachers have maintained them for a month, a year, or even longer — several streak freaks have even maintained them for YEARS.

You can track your streak on your profile statistics. But what if the weather is terrible? What about that thing called “your life?” What if you just want to binge watch movies from your couch with your four cats and a pint of ice cream?

These ten tips will help you plan ahead, stay motivated, and become a streak freak!* Continue reading →

A geocaching crew goes for 13 different icons in one day
/ Guest Writer

Geocache Icon Run: find the most cache types in one day

A geocaching crew goes for 13 different icons in one day
A geocaching crew goes for 13 different icons in one day

This blog post was written by geocaching superwoman and Geocaching HQ employee, Annie Love.

If you are an obsessed geocacher, then you probably like to build your Geocaching profile stats such as “Most caches found in a single day”, “Highest altitude geocache”, or “Farthest away from home”. One statistic that can be trickier is an “Icon Run”, which is logging as many different cache types in one day as possible. But most geocachers, with a just little guidance and a full tank of gas, can bulk up their icon stats. Here’s how!

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/ Martin Kerstein

520 Bellevue TB hotel – Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC6ZR1H
by Bounce,bounce
Difficulty:
2.5
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Bellevue, WA
N 47° 37.734′ W 122° 08.874′

There are two things that are beloved by many geocachers: gadget caches and trackable hotels. So what’s even better? A gadget cache that’s also a trackable hotel! If you are a connoisseur of well-designed caches then our Geocache of the Week is a great fit for you.

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Geocaching on the water
/ Chris

Paddle your way to a T5 geocache

After attending the MOGA 2014 Mega-Event in Ohio, my wife and I were driving through Kentucky on our way home. I opened the Geocaching® app to search for caches along our route when I caught sight of a ton of T5 caches. I mean a boatload of them (pun intended because they were the kind that required a boat to find). They were on creeks, rivers, and lakes. So many of them! I’d never seen anything like it. Alas, I had no boat. No kayak. No canoe. No watercraft of any kind.

I pondered the boat idea upon returning home. Impulsive as I may be when it comes to geocaching, I know enough not to immediately drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on a watercraft. So, I dipped my toe into water caching by tagging along on a lake outing with a friend who owns an extra hardshell kayak. I loved it. Still, I wasn’t quite ready to make a huge investment. Instead, I purchased an inflatable kayak for around $75.

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Virtual Cache in Paris: GC7B6KT
/ Janelle

Virtual Rewards: The world is your oyster!

Virtual Cache in Paris: GC7B6KT
One of many Virtual Rewards around the world

Virtual Caches are about discovering locations rather than containers. Since August 2017, close to 1,300 new Virtuals have been published in almost 70 countries around the world. We’ve gathered ten of the most iconic, remote, and/or downright quirky Virtual Caches for you to discover.

Have you found one of the new Virtual Rewards?

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