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February 14, 2024 / Mackenzie

Show your cache some love with maintenance

Geocaching is for lovers: nature lovers, lovers of exploration, discovery, and more. Show your geocache some love this Valentine’s Day with geocache maintenance! Whether it’s a new logbook, fresh SWAG, or even a new container, this is the perfect time to spread the love.

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Community, Learn cache maintenance, Valentine's Day
December 7, 2021 / Mackenzie

What to do when a cache needs maintenance

Have you ever found a geocache that is in rough shape? Have you wanted to report that a geocache needs maintenance but you are unsure how to alert the cache owner? 

We have an easy way to help you decide which log to use to report a geocache for maintenance. 

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Community, Learn cache maintenance, maintenance
November 2, 2021 / Mackenzie

Tips and tricks for cache owner maintenance

You’ve hidden your first geocache and you’re thinking to yourself, now what? One of the most important parts of owning your own geocache is properly maintaining it. To help keep your geocache alive and well after publication here are six tips and tricks to best maintain your geocache. 

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Community, Learn cache maintenance, maintenance
February 21, 2020 / Sarah

Extreme Maintainers: Geocaching Edition

Any cache owner knows that owning a cache requires a lot of maintenance. This might include carrying a maintenance kit when going caching, having a regular “cache maintenance schedule,” or something totally unique to you!

We asked geocachers how they go above and beyond for cache maintenance. Here are some of their inspiring responses:

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Community cache maintenance, cache ownership, geocaching, maintenance

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🐠 If you’re having trouble finding a geocache 🐠 If you’re having trouble finding a geocache, remember: just keep swimming! 🐠

What’s your geocaching motto?

Video by rock_chalk. 

Video: A geocacher approaches a vertical pipe attached to a fencepost. The pipe has two outlets, one at the very top and one that sticks out diagonally from the middle of the pipe. The geocacher first removes the lid from the diagonal pipe, but there is nothing inside. They remove the lid from the top and find a magnet tool on a rope. They use the magnet on the diagonal pipe and pull out a Dory toy with a bison tube attached.

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🚀 Catch it if you cache! 🚀 Pull the spring 🚀 Catch it if you cache! 🚀

Pull the spring and watch the cache container fly. This geocacher needed 3 takes to catch it. How many would you need? 👀

Video by @hullsome_.

Video: A geocacher examines a vertical PVC pipe mounted between a tree and a building. They pull the spring-loaded mechanism at the bottom, causing the cache container to shoot out of the top. After missing it during the first two takes, the geocacher successfully catches the geocache on the third.

#geocaching #geocache #explore #adventure #nature
💚 Home is where the cache is 💚 🛠️ Whic 💚 Home is where the cache is 💚

🛠️ Which everyday household item would make the best geocache hiding spot?

Video by @personaladventure1.

Video: The video shows a small wooden house attached to the second-story balcony of a real house. The geocacher uses a pole with a hook on the end to grab a metal loop on the underside of the miniature house. They use the pole to pull down, and a wooden box attached to seven retractable tape measures comes into view. The wooden box contains a plastic geocache container.

#geocaching #geocache #netherlands #explore #summer
🧗When outdoor hobbies overlap, you get extreme 🧗When outdoor hobbies overlap, you get extreme geocaching 🧗

In geocaching, T5 refers to Terrain 5, the highest terrain rating, indicating a cache that requires specialized equipment or advanced skills to reach. These caches may involve climbing, boating, swimming, or technical rope work.

Images by @harsas_geocaching. 

Images: A seamless carousel shows geocachers finding T5 caches by rope climbing, suspending from objects, and caving.

#geocaching #geocache #explore #extreme #climbing
💚 Geocache of the Week 💚 🐝 A hive full o 💚 Geocache of the Week 💚

🐝 A hive full of geocaching surprises! 🐝 

Open De bijen van PenH (GC8TEQH) to discover fascinating bee facts, a detailed miniature display, the logbook, and room for trackables. There’s so much to explore inside this carefully crafted cache! 🍯

Video by @creativecache.

Video: The video opens on a large, bright yellow, beehive-shaped geocache decorated with hexagons. A geocacher opens the doors, revealing bee facts, educational displays, rows of bundled tubes, and a detailed miniature scene of beekeepers tending their hives. After exploring the interior, the geocacher retrieves the logbook from a lower compartment.

#geocaching #geocache #explore #nature #adventure
🧲🪄 The magnet trick 🪄🧲 Are you team b 🧲🪄 The magnet trick 🪄🧲

Are you team bench cache, team magnet cache, or both? 👀

Video by @oet_pekel.gc 

Video: A tube is hidden under a wooden bench. At the end of the tube is a cork. A geocacher pulls the cork out of the tube, revealing a small magnet attached to it. They place the magnet along the side of the tube and slide it carefully. As the magnet moves over the tube, a geocache container inside the tube slides out and is fully revealed.

#geocaching #geocache #explore #nature #adventure
🦇 Only one crawl away from adventure! 🦇

🕷️ What’s the wildest thing you’ve done for a geocache? 🕷️

Video: A geocacher crawls through a dark cave to find a cache, picks up litter, and squeezes through tight spaces to get out.

#geocaching #geocache #cave #extreme #adventure

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