Category: Lost & Found Stories

/ Eric Schudiske /

Geocaching.com Presents – EarthCaches

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EarthCaches draw geocachers to wonders of the natural world – often hiding in plain sight. Gary Lewis, Geoaware, and the Director of Education for the Geological Society of America created of the very first Earthcache in 2004.

Mt. Yasur on the island of Tanna

An EarthCache delivers adventurers to a location found at specific coordinates. But rather than discovering a container and signing a logbook you earn a smiley by undertaking an educational task and learning about the natural environment.

Watch this video to go along with Terry Baker,  TerryDad2, who has set up more than 250 EarthCaches in six states and two countries. TerryDad2 takes you on a tour of West Sulphur Mountain Oil Spring (GC1A5E2) in Ojai, California, where oil is naturally seeping from the ground.

TerryDad2 exploring an EarthCache

EarthCaches started with one in Australia and three in the U.S. state of Colorado in 2004 and now there are over 11,000 published EarthCaches. There is at least one on every continent.

Examples of educational tasks are answering questions about the site: how far something has eroded down, the size of a waterfall, or, in the case of the Oil Spring, the affect the oil has on the adjacent plant life.

Have you found an EarthCache? Tell us your favorite EarthCaching experience.

Near EarthCache in the Valley of Fire, Nevada

 

/ Eric Schudiske /

Snowshoe Geocaching – A Geocaching.com Video

White fields of deep, powdery snow can’t stop geocachers from embarking on a high-tech treasure hunt. They simply adapt. Watch this Geocaching.com video to follow along as geocacher Greg McCaddon, Totemlake, leads a group of eight on a snowshoe geocaching adventure in the postcard-perfect mountains of Washington State.

Snowshoe geocaching

Geocachers say snowshoe caching is like preparing for any winter sport. It’s recommended you dress in layers, bring water, food, survival gear and (of course) your GPS receiver loaded with nearby caches.

Totemlake hosts a Hike of the Month for local geocachers. Watch the video to see the unique token that each participant receives and what goes into the cache on each Hike of the Month.

Explore more than 30 Geocaching.com videos in our gallery.  Share a video on “Basics of Hiding a Geocache,” watch a Travel Bug® move from cache to cache around the world and visit the highest and lowest geocaches in existence.

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“The Geocaching Year in Review” A Geocaching.com Lost & Found Video

2010 goes into the record books as a banner year for geocaching. The treasure hunting activity turned 10 years old. Geocaching is now  enjoyed by over five million people around the world and there are more than 1.2 million geocaches listed on Geocaching.com.

But it’s not all about the numbers. There were geocaching adventures shared by friends and precious memories created on the geo-trail with family. Watch “The Geocaching Year in Review” to see what made 2010 a memorable for geocachers around the world and what milestones were reached by Geocaching.com. Groundspeak CEO/President/Co-Founder Jeremy Irish guides you through 2010 and shares a little but about what’s ahead for geocaching in 2011.

2010: A year of personal bests

Explore more than 30 Geocaching.com Lost & Found videos in our gallery.  Share a video on “Basics of Hiding a Geocache,” watch a Travel Bug® move from cache to cache around the world and visit the highest and lowest geocaches in existence.

/ Eric Schudiske /

“Basics of Hiding a Geocache” A Geocaching.com Lost & Found Video

There are more than 1.2 million geocaches listed on Geocaching.com. Every geocache, from a micro-cache in the city to ammo can in the woods, started as a simple idea. Someone wanted to hide a geocache and challenge others to find it. Watch “Basics of Hiding a Geocache,” a Geocaching.com Lost & Found Video to learn the basics about hiding a geocache. Hear from Volunteer Reviewers around the world who’ve published tens of thousands of  geocaches.

Whether you’ve hidden geocaches for years or are thinking of hiding your first cache, their advice and tips can save you time and increase the quality of your geocache.

You should explore all the available information before submitting a cache.

Basics of hiding a geocache

Check out these three links:

Cache Listing Requirements

Review Process: Hiding a Geocache

Cache Ownership: A Long-Term Relationship

Feeling inspired? See the Geocaching.com video that reveals some of the secrets of Creative Geocaches.

Explore all the Geocaching.com Lost & Found videos in our gallery.  Share a video on “Newbie Geocaching 101,” watch a Travel Bug® move from cache to cache around the world and visit the highest and lowest geocaches in existence.

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“Creative Geocaches” A Geocaching.com Lost & Found Video

WARNING: This video and blog contain spoilers.

Peter Gaylord has a reputation in the geocaching community. He’s know for his jaw-dropping creative hides. Peter goes by the Geocaching.com username Dayspring. He says it best: “Creative geocachers literally think outside the ammo can.”

Unlocking the creative caches may require figuring out how to “make your GPS device go blank” or following the sounds of a phantom doorbell.

Watch as Dayspring and other geocachers like Trez* and goblindust, show you the secrets of creative caches. There are spoilers in the Geocaching.com Lost & Found Video. But the geocachers hope the spoilers inspire other geocachers to think outside the ammo can too.

These pictures of creative geocaching hides to your right are from the Geocaching.com Facebook page. Upload your pics and video of your favorite creative caches to the Geocaching.com Facebook page. Please make sure to ask the cache owner for permission.

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