Category: Learn

Whether you’re about to find your first geocache or your ten-thousandth, you’ve come to the right place to learn more about the game.

/ Brigitte

The evolution of geocaches

For most, the evolution of the geocache container begins with the iconic metal ammo can. But in nearly two decades of geocaching, the geocache family tree has branched off into dozens of directions.

Each branch embodies the spirit of evolution. Geocaches now blend more and more into their natural environment. Say you place a cache on the outskirts of an estuary? There’s a bird geocache for that. Or perhaps you’re considering an urban cache on a park bench? There’s a magnetic Micro cache disguised as chewing gum for that.

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/ Annika

The ghost of caches past

Nothing is spookier than coming across an unloved geocache. Its soggy logbook gives you goosebumps, the broken container allows a look at its rotting insides. Terrifying!

If you’re a cache owner and don’t want to be haunted by the ghost of your caches past, here are some tips for you. Here’s how to decide when a geocache is ready for the cache cemetery and how to deal with the cache remains.

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