The journey of geocaching becomes a metaphor for love stories and a vehicle for marriage proposals. See the couples who have fallen in love while treasure hunting and popped the question at a geocache.
Geocaching Love Stories
Geocaching.com introduces you to two such couples, with proposal and wedding snapshots from many more.
Some couples even decide to use geocaching as the theme of their wedding.
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The adventure of geocaching goes four-wheeling. Geocachers with four-wheel drive vehicles seem resolved not to let little things like mountains and deserts and large expanses of razor-sharp shrubs deter them from finding caches.
Off-roading and geocaching
The roots of 4×4 geocaching run deep into the decade long history of geocaching. Thousands of geocaches with “off-road” attributes now span the globe from Albania to Zambia and almost everywhere in between.
Watch geocachers from Team Red Rubicon explore the wilds of Colorado, USA in search of geocaches.
Explore all the Lost & Found videos, including a geocache in space, here.
This video follows Ohio, USA geocachers Keith Lemons (keithlemons) and Nancy Steyer (27jack) as they visit the three caches required to complete the Triad. Beware, the video containers spoilers.
The Triad is one of the crowning achievements of geocaching. Geocachers must log three specific geocaches: the APE Cache Mission 9: Tunnel of Light, Groundspeak Headquarters and the Original Stash Cache. Each find is rich in geocaching tradition. The geocaches do not need to be logged in any particular order.
The Original Stash Tribute Plaque hides outside of Portland, Oregon. The plaque there commemorates the placement of the first geocache in 2000.
Project APE cache
Geocachers must also log The Mission 9: Tunnel of Light Project APE Cache, hidden outside of Seattle, WA. Twelve APE caches were originally placed around the world in 2001 to generate publicity for the remake of the movie Planet of the Apes. Mission 9: Tunnel of Light is one of only two APE caches still active in the world. The other, Mission 4: Southern Bowl is in Brazil.
The geocache at Groundspeak HQ
Geocachers need to also visit the geocache at Groundspeak Headquarters. Groundspeak HQ is also known as the Lily Pad. It is home to the offices of Geocaching.com.
Geocachers who complete The Triad says the accomplishment not only earns them personal satisfaction and but also bragging rights.
Have you ever completed The Triad? Do you have plans to do so?
Geocaching pioneer and video game designer Richard Garriott, aka Lord British, pushes the envelope again with the creation of the Mystery Cache Necropolis of Britannia Manor III (GC2B034).
A resident at Necropolis of Britannia Manor III
The journey leads geocachers through what Lord British describes as eight chapters on “The Guardian’s Quest.”
Part of the graveyard at Necropolis of Britannia Manor III
The first seven chapters are waypoints or benchmarks. The chapters are a twisted maze of cryptic clues and mind-bending puzzles. Solving each chapter provides a clues to find and unlock the geocache at the end of the final chapter.
The treasure hunters that reach the final chapter will find a geocache with all too realistic professional movie props and haunted house techniques. It took months to plan and build.
Garriott holds the record for the highest and lowest geocaches in existence. Garriott rode aboard a Russian rocket to place a geocache aboard the International Space Station (GC1BE91) in 2008. He also placed a geocache, Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents (GCG822), 2300 meters below the surface of the ocean far off the coast of Portugal in 2002. You can view a Lost & Found video about Lord British’s highest and lowest geocaches.
Lost & Found videos explore the fascinating adventure geocaching. View more than a dozen stories, including one about an Army Sgt. who credits geocaching with helping keep him safe.
Sgt. Kent "Doc" Byrd in IraqSgt. Kent "Doc" Byrd in Iraq
Kent “Doc” Byrd is known as JrByrdMan162 in the geocaching world. In the United States Army he’s know as Sergeant Byrd.
He’s a member of an Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit. He defused bombs, including improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as part of the Army bomb squad. He just returned from a one year tour of duty in Iraq.
Sgt. Byrd has been geocaching since 2005. He says the skills that geocaching instills — situational awareness, an eye for the unusual and quick detective work — help keep him safe when he’s finding and defusing bombs. Sgt. Byrd believes that other members of the bomb disposal community can learn to sharpen their awareness and stay safer through geocaching.
See his story above. Click here to watch more Lost & Found videos highlighting unique geocachers and the worldwide adventure of geocaching.
