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April 4, 2022 / Mackenzie

New souvenir: Blue Switch Day 2022!

We rely on the GPS (Global Positioning System) more than we think, it has transformed the way we live and the world around us. Our lives would be very different if we didn’t have the GPS technology we know and use daily; even geocaching falls into this category. This is all possible because of one bright day on May 2, 2000—or as geocachers call it—Blue Switch Day.

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🏙️ Urban caching takes a different approach 🏙️

🧑‍🏫 Pro tip: they’re usually smaller and magnetic to blend in with their environment 🧑‍🏫 

Video: Quick shots of an urban environment, “I can’t go geocaching, I live in the city.” A compilation of sneaky urban caches, “look closer.”

#geocaching #geocache #urbanexplorers #urbanadventures #outdooractivities
💚 Geocache of the Week 💚 🧲 Navigate a to 💚 Geocache of the Week 💚

🧲 Navigate a towering labyrinth cache 🌀

This Geocache of the Week (GCAKPKF) rewards patience with a clever labyrinth challenge.

Images by:
RayoKirah (1)
DeborahVanDerLinden (2, 3)
GC Rogier (4)

Images: The first shows a geocacher carefully guiding a metal ball through the large wall-mounted maze using a magnetic wand. The second image shows the cache owner standing beside the large white labyrinth geocache mounted on a brick wall. In the third image, the cache owner drills into the maze panel as she builds the gadget cache in her workshop. The final image shows a hand holding the preform container with the logbook inside, with the labyrinth cache blurred in the background.

#geocaching #geocache #explore #outdooradventure #fun
🤣 Sometimes geocaching is the scenic route—so 🤣 Sometimes geocaching is the scenic route—sometimes the dirty one. 🤣

🤠 Tag someone who’d 100% end up crawling through mud for a geocache. 🤠

Video by mitchandbecca3.

Video: A geocacher stands in a muddy river with an uncertain look on their face. The following shots show their journey to finding the hidden cache. The end shows the geocacher having a dance party to celebrate the find.

#geocaching #geocache #explore #adventure #getoutside
🪨 It’s not a rock 🪨 🚴 Do you plan your 🪨 It’s not a rock 🪨

🚴 Do you plan your route around caches or grab the ones you’re already passing? 🚴

Video: A rock on the side of a trail, then a bike tire screeches into the foreground, and a geocacher grabs the rock. A bike route with caches along it is shown, with the text, “This isn’t a rock… it’s your next stop.”

#geocaching #geocache #cycling #bike #adventure
✊ Knock knock, who’s there? ✊ 🤪 Geocache ✊ Knock knock, who’s there? ✊

🤪 Geocache! 🤪

Video by Spire67 and Scuba2.

Video: Video: A lion-shaped metal door knocker on a brick wall hides a clever geocache. A geocacher presses a button, knocks four times, then seven, triggering flashing lights and releasing a petling with a log sheet into a cup below. 

#geocaching #geocache #nature #adventure #explore
👀 Don’t miss a smiley! 👀 🗺️ How many 👀 Don’t miss a smiley! 👀

🗺️ How many times a day do you check the map? 🗺️

Video: “How many geocaches do you walk past every day?” A fire hydrant in the foreground with a person walking past in the background. A hand reaches in and grabs a nano cache that was hidden among the fire hydrant’s bolts. “More than you think.” A smiley appears above the hiding spot.

#geocaching #geocache #hidden #urban #adventure
👀 Quick! Spot the correct log hiding the geocac 👀 Quick! Spot the correct log hiding the geocache before time runs out! 👀

⤵️ Did you find it? Let us know in the comments! ⤵️

Video: Two wooden logs rest against a tree trunk, with a 5-second timer displayed in the middle. After the timer runs out, the video pans to the log on the left, and a hand reaches in to inspect the log more closely. The geocacher determines the cache is not there and moves to the log on the right, quickly finding where the log separates. They lift the wooden lid to reveal the bison container neatly lodged inside.

#geocaching #geocache #explore #challenge #game

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