Who doesn’t love a good party with great geocaching friends? Answer: No one.
Geocaching Events are a great way to meet the local geocaching community where everyone is oddly enough, just like you. Geocachers will designate a time and location to meet and discuss their favorite hobby. Geocaching events are fun, so always expect a good time!
Anyone can plan and host an event. Here are 12 tips and tricks to get you started on planning the best geo-bash around.
Near the top of Europe (GC2BVRY)
5/5
Beginning tomorrow, you can earn your Let’s Get Extreme Geocaching Road Trip ’15 souvenir by finding a D5 or a T5 geocache. Or, if you want to get SUPER EXTREME, you could find a 5/5 geocache like this one. This geocache is located on Mont Blanc, the highest point in Europe and one of the most popular alpine climbs on the continent.
[translated from German] “A super cache up here, great views safe is our highest cache and I’m pretty proud to have done it! thanks for hiding!” – D Gniesser
“It was our first find after the climbing Mont Blanc (summit). We have decided to look for the caches along the route on our way down. This cache was really great and I liked it very much. I also guess it´s my highest placed cache I´ve ever found. Merci!” – -Iti-
“My 6-th time on MontBlanc and 5-th successful time on the summit! And just first time remember to look for a cache 🙂 It wasnt easy – still a lot of snow, ice. Was looking around, turning rocks for ~15 mins while found it 🙂 Also placed small lithuanian flag to container. Thank you for cache in amazing place!” – Pilypas.lt
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Are you ready to push yourself to the limits? To earn this next Geocaching Road Trip ’15 souvenir, you’ll need to find a D5 or T5 geocache by September 2. And of course, here’s your sneak peek at the glory that awaits you:
Some people find much more than just cache containers when they’re introduced to geocaching. Geocachers may discover parks they never knew existed, the hidden history of their community or even the sting of stepping in poison ivy. But some geocachers wander into something else. They’re lucky enough to find the person they’ll spend the rest of their lives with.
It happens. It happened to one of the founders of Geocaching.com. Bryan Roth attended a geocaching event fourteen years ago. Fellow founder Jeremy Irish encouraged Bryan to attend.
Bryan says, “This was the first of [88] total geocaching events that I’ve attended so far. Jeremy had suggested that I attend and I figured it’d be a great opportunity to meet some members of the local geocaching community. I really didn’t know what to expect but, of course, that day has changed my life forever.”
What happened next may have been one of the very first cases of geo-love. The event’s name was innocent enough. It was called Washington Geocaching Potluck & Quilting Bee.
Bryan’s “will attend” log read, “I will be there (with chocolates).” Bryan says he wasn’t fishing for love with those chocolates, “Not at all. At the time, I don’t think I was even looking for a date. I was only thinking about meeting geocachers and getting more involved with the local community.”
But Bryan says he soon met a geocacher named Hydee and her son Dylan. He remembers his first thought, “Yeah [my first thought was]—she looks like trouble. I was right, of course. ;)”
She later told Bryan the chocolates helped cement her intuitions that he was the right person for her. She loves chocolate.
Jon Stanley, Moun10Bike, hosted the event where Hydee and Bryan first met. Jon says, “That event is actually where I first met Bryan. I didn’t know that the spark had been lit at that time, but I soon found out. Hydee and her friend CameraThyme kept referring to “AFM,” which stood for “Action Figure Man.” After a while I discovered that this was their code name for Bryan. Then, all became clear!”
Hydee’s friend CameraThyme also played a key role. Bryan says, “Thanks to CameraThyme for letting me know that Hydee was single.”
Bryan and Hydee were eventually married. They’ll be celebrating their 15th anniversary of meeting in November 2016.
Jon says Bryan and Hydee are lucky, geo-love can be a rare commodity, “I attend a fair amount of events, though, and while I’ve heard of people meeting through them, Bryan and Hydee are the only ones I personally can name who linked up as the result of an event!”
But you never know. Attend a geocaching event before September 2nd this year, and you might come away with more than just your Meet Your Road Trip Crew souvenir—you could meet your own Geo-Love.
Can’t get enough geocaching love? Check out these sweet videos from the 2014 Geocaching International Film Festival.
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Jetzt wird’s extrem!
Das dritte Souvenir ist jetzt beim Geocaching Road Trip ‘15 freigeschaltet. Um dieses zu bekommen, ist etwas Einsatz nötig: Man muss dafür einen Geocache mit der Schwierigkeits- oder Geländewertung “5” finden. “Schwierigkeit 5” bedeutet, dass man sich geistig richtig anstrengen muss; “Gelände 5” ist etwas für die Adrenalin-Junkies, wobei eine Spezialausrüstung wie ein Boot oder Klettergurte erforderlich sein werden.
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