/ Eric Schudiske /

Geocaching.com Caption Contest 27 – Win a Barely Coveted Prize

WINNING CAPTION - "TKLAB= took kangaroo, left angry boy. "- andrabrewer

Share your genius for witty captions in the 27th installment of our Geocaching.com Caption Contest. You could earn a barely coveted prize. What caption would you write for the picture snapped at this year’s Geocaching Block Party? It shows the Groundspeak mascot Signal with a kangaroo brought to Seattle, Washington USA by a group of Australian geocachers.

Coveted Prize

Submit your caption by clicking on “Comments” below. Please include your geocaching username in all entries. Then, explore the captions other geocachers have posted.

You can even influence the voting process. “Like” the caption that you think should win.  If you think your caption should win, convince your fellow geocachers, your friends and family to “like” your caption. Lackeys vote from the top finalists to decide the winner of the contest.

The winner receives this coveted, ‘barely coveted prize.’ It’s a Trackable from the Geocaching Block Party. Join us next year at Groundspeak HQ for the Geocaching Block Party on August 18, 2012.

24 Lackeys voted to award the winner of the 26th Geocaching.com Caption Contest a barely coveted prize. Click on the image on the right to discover the winning caption from the 26th Geocaching.com Caption Contest.

Click on the image to see the winner of this Geocaching.com Caption Contest

Explore all the past winning captions by checking out all the Geocaching.com Caption Contests.

/ Eric Schudiske /

Groundspeak Weekly Newsletter – August 31, 2011

Get Out the Door and on the Trail Faster

Pocket Queries make preparing for your geocaching adventure a simple 2-step process.

Step 1: Create a Pocket Query for the area that you want to go geocaching. You can select which cache types to receive in the results, specify your range of difficulty and terrain levels, choose cache attributes and more. Want to see only traditional caches within 25 miles of your home that are above a difficulty 3 and require a long hike? This step lets you do so. When you’re done, you’ll receive an email containing a file with the Pocket Query results.

Step 2: Plug your GPS into your computer. Either drag and drop the emailed Pocket Query file onto the device or use third-party software to load the file (the process for loading files depends on your GPS device). You can find a list of your Pocket Query files that are ready for download under the tab “Pocket Queries Ready for Download” here.

That’s it! You now have the complete Pocket Query (up to 1000 cache listings) including cache coordinates, descriptions, hints and recent logs on your device, so whether you decide to go geocaching right outside your house or miles away, you’re ready to go.

Users can even look up caches when away from home! When you create a Pocket Query, just set it to run on one or more days of the week. The query will run on the specified day(s) and can be saved for later use, set to run automatically each week or deleted.

Pocket Queries are a Premium Member feature. Premium Members can run up to 5 queries per day with up to 1000 caches per query. Premium Membership is only US $30 per year or US $10 for 3 months and it’s well worth it for the amount of time (and paper) you’ll save. Don’t believe us? See what other Premium Members have to say about the benefits of Premium Membership.
/ Eric Schudiske /

Groundspeak Headquarters is on the Move

Moving day at Groundspeak

Right now, about sixty Groundspeak Lackeys are in the process of packing up desks and loading up boxes. Groundspeak Headquarters, affectionately known as “The Lily Pad,” is moving… about two blocks. We’ll still reside in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA.

The move will not affect performance on Geocaching.com. Our new offices allow the team to grow so that we can enhance your geocaching experiences.

Groundspeak Headquarters cache

We’d love for you to visit the new HQ. The Groundspeak Headquarters cache (GCK25B) will make the move too. The coordinates will be updated soon. Visitors to the new office should check out the cache page for instructions on visiting.

The move will only take a day. We’ll be back at work in the new offices tomorrow.

/ Eric Schudiske /

Punta de N’ Amer – Cova de ses Crestes GC17QRE GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – August 29, 2011

View from near the cache location

Punta de N´Amer – Cova de ses Crestes (GC17QRE)  takes geocachers thousands of years back into human history. Punta de n’Amer is a peninsula on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The difficulty three, terrain three traditional cache placed on the peninsula leads geocachers to caves with an ancient past. They were inhabited by early residents of the island around 1500 B.C.

Coast line near the cache location

chrismaxx hid the cache in 2008. It’s accumulated more than 120 Favorite Points to date. The cache owner encourages geocachers to be prepared; bring good shoes and caving equipment like a headlamp.  Since the site is part of a nature preserve cachers are reminded, “Please note that this is a fragile place. Please do not throw garbage. So: Cache in – Trash out!!!”

The cache is large enough for Trackables

One geocacher who logged the cache wrote, “This cache was pure nature. To experience places like this is why I cache. A place you would not have found in a million years on your own. So to all who are thinking about doing this cache. Do it.”

Continue your exploration of some of the most engaging geocaches from around the world. Explore all the Geocaches of the Week on the Latitude 47 blog or view the Bookmark List on Geocaching.com.

/ Eric Schudiske /

Geocaching.com Presents: The Geocaching Block Party 2011

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Watch this video to take a step inside the 2011 Geocaching Block Party. Nearly two thousand geocachers traveled from around the world to attend the event. Sunshine welcomed fans of the high-tech GPS-based treasure hunt to a plaza outside the future Groundspeak Headquarters.

Attendees earned this special souvenir

Block Party  attendees explored the neighborhood around Groundspeak Headquarters by completing “Fremont Challenges”, socialized while filling out their Geocacher Bingo sheets, plunged Groundspeak Lackeys and Reviewers into a dunk tank, and pinned the antenna on signal. Geocachers could also test their skill at beginner, intermediate and advanced geocaching courses.

Come visit us next year for even more surprises! The best advice is to plan ahead. The Geocaching Block Party 2012 occurs on International Geocaching Day each year. It’s the third Saturday of August. Next year all the Lackeys would love to see you at the Geocaching Block Party on August 18, 2012.