Category: Community

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

/ Yara Scholtis

Siegfrieds Schwert — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC70YWG
by die Helden und werner 54
Difficulty:
2.5
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Hesse, Germany
N 49° 38.956 E 008° 30.668

A lost treasure, a dangerous dragon, and a fabled sword? This week’s Geocache of the Week, Siegfrieds Schwert (GC70YWG), brings a medieval epic back to life and lets you be the legend of this quest.

Image by BlackTempler.

The famous “Nibelungenlied” tells the tale of Siegfried, who slew the dragon Fafnir with his trusty sword “Balmung,” and bathed in the beast’s blood which rendered him invincible –  except for a single spot on his back where a leaf from a linden tree had fallen on him. Tragically, Siegfried dies in the course of the story and his sword “Balmung” is lost. Centuries later, in 2017 to be exact, a group of knightly cache owners created a geocache that challenges other cachers to find the fabled sword in a lush forest in southern Hesse, Germany.

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/ Brigitte

Five sculptures you didn’t know had geocaches nearby

Geocaching can take you to some unknown places and hidden gems, but that doesn’t mean geocachers shy away from famous sites. From the United Kingdom, to France, Japan, and the United States, explore a giant pumpkin, an angel with a wingspan of 54 meters, and a marble installation originally designed to conceal ventilation shafts. Here are five famous sculptures you didn’t know had geocaches nearby.

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/ Brigitte

Our favorite Geocaches of the Week

You won’t find GOTW in any “normal” dictionary, just like you won’t find TFTC or BYOP. But we geocachers speak our own language of adventure. GOTW is what you need to stay on top of the latest hiding and finding trends and to see the adventurers who are shaping our growing geocaching community. GOTW stands for “Geocache of the Week.”

Every Wednesday the Community Engagement team at Geocaching HQ publishes a new GOTW article, so we asked them what their favorites have been.

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/ Brigitte

The most Favorited Virtual Caches on each continent

These are the most Favorited Virtual Caches on each continent. A Virtual Cache is about discovering a location rather than a container. The requirements for logging a Virtual Cache vary. Once at the coordinates, you may be required to answer a question about the location, take a picture, or complete a task, in order to log a Virtual Cache.

This is the third in a series about the most Favorited geocaches on each continent. Stay tuned next month for our next installment, and be sure to check out the previous versions of the most Favorited EarthCaches and Multi-Caches. Ready to go on a virtual trip around the world?

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