June 8, 2015 / Annika

Hoch hinaus fürs Geocaching – Interview mit dem GCTransAlps-Team

Drei mutige Geocacher machen sich vom 8. bis 16. Juni auf zu einem besonderen Abenteuer. Geplant ist die Überquerung der Alpen zu Fuß – einem Weg folgend, der mit Geocaches gesäumt ist.

Eine Zusammenfassung des folgenden Interviews kannst Du hier lesen.

Das Team “GCTransAlps” alias Alexander Monsky (Berufsgeocacher), Tim Krüger (psycho_vm) und Benjamin Gorentschitz (MudMen_GER) hat sich zu einem Gespräch mit uns zur Verfügung gestellt.

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June 8, 2015 / Alex /

What’s Your Geocaching Road Trip ’15 Vehicle?

June 4, 2015 / Paige Edmiston /

Chronicle Your Road Trip with #Geocaching15 Photos!

Tag Your Geocaching Road Trip ’15 Photos with #Geocaching15

This summer, geocachers around the globe will embark on the Geocaching Road Trip ‘15 to celebrate 15 years of adventure and exploration. Nowadays, no road trip is complete without photographic evidence! Tag your posts on Instagram with #Geocaching15 for the chance to have your photos become geocaching famous.

Over the next few months, we’ll feature our favorite photos tagged with #Geocaching15. Sign up for the Geocaching Co-Pilot mailing list to see if your photos are featured.

At the end of Geocaching Road Trip ‘15, we’ll select the best of the best and feature them in our weekly newsletter (reaching over 6 million geocachers around the world!) and on social media. Here are some of our favorite photos to get your wheels turning:

Unique destination. Photo by @5montreals.

Extreme geocaching. Photo by @headhouze.

Throwback_First_Groundpeak_Office_vFINAL_040815 — Geocaching Founders Jeremy, Bryan, and Elias back in the day!

Need inspiration? Check out Geocaching on Instagram.

June 4, 2015 / Derek H

Brush up on your math skills. — Pythagoras (GC4DAY7) — Geocache of the Week

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Did you bring a calculator? Photo from the Geocaching Pinterest page.

Geocache Name:

Pythagoras (GC4DAY7)

Difficulty/Terrain Rating:

3/3.5

Why this is the Geocache of the Week:

Raise your hand if in middle-school math class you said, “I’ll never use this stuff!” Don’t worry, my hand is raised, too. And now here we are, remembering back to our algebra teacher’s lessons so we can earn another smiley.

Excellent journeys and even better puzzles go hand-in-hand. This geocache combines the two and adds in a fantastic geocache container to create a story-worthy moment. All you have to do is figure out the numbers, remember how to use the Pythagorean theorem to solve the puzzle and unlock the lock. Simple!

What the geocache creator, Kerry_1, has to say:

About the geocache:

In our geocaching area we have found a beautiful place in triangle shape, so we got the idea to use the Pythagoras’ Theorem for guessing the coordinates. We transfered the triangle much bigger into the map and at the tops we took a photos. After we just had to find some places to hide coordinates.

Producing of the box was pretty simple, even with design it took few hours only. There is a little stumper about getting inside. But if cachers gave attention at school, it will be easy to open it.

Regarding Favorite Points and positive logs:

We always get pleased, if people like our cache and somehow all of our caches are made by the same method. We enjoy making up new projects and we are happy if it pleases those, who will find them.

To the geocaching community:

Try to make caches, which will surprise people. So they will also have a nice memories to take, not the count only.

Photos:

Geo-pup needs a break! Photo by chris444

Geocachers on the way to the find. Photo by geocacher chris444

What was the last geocache that really made you think? Tell your story and post photos in the comments.

Continue to explore some of the most engaging geocaches around the globe. Check out all the Geocaches of the Week on the Geocaching blog. If you would like to nominate a Geocache of the Week, just fill out this form. Thanks!