Tag: Events

/ Eric Schudiske /

Earn New Souvenirs — Celebrate 15 Years of Geocaching

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Unlock Your 2015 Geocaching Mission on May 2 and 3

This May 2nd and 3rd, celebrate the history of geocaching by unlocking your mission for 2015. May 2nd and 3rd signal the beginning of geocaching, some 15 years ago. On May 2, 2000, GPS signals were descrambled, increasing the accuracy of GPS devices worldwide by ten times. The following day, what would become known as the first geocache was hidden.

Celebrate 15 Years of Geocaching on May 2nd and 3rd by finding any geocache or attending any geocaching event. You’ll earn a new digital souvenir for your geocaching profile.

Unlock details of your 2015 geocaching mission by reading the souvenir’s description. Join the conversation with your fellow geocachers on social media by tagging #Geocaching15 in your posts.

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Thank You for a Deliciously Successful Pi Day!

On March 14, 2015, aka 3/14/15, geocachers around the world celebrated Pi Day by finding a Mystery Cache or attending a Pi Day event and earning two souvenirs. In case you missed it, there was another puzzle hidden within the souvenirs.

Take a look at the two Pi Day souvenirs. Notice the numbers and letters around the rim? Combine those to find the page for GC31415, which contains a very special message from one of the co-founders of Geocaching.com and a few delicious pi(e) recipes.

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/ Alex /

3.14 Things to Make Your Pi Day Event Epic

The first 2015 Pi Day Events are already happening. Find #GeocachingPi Day events near you. Here are 3.14 slices of wisdom to make your Pi Day event delicious.

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1 – Eat Pie.

Apple pie, pizza pie, shepherd’s pie, it does not matter. All things delicious and pie like are always appreciated – especially at Pi Day events.

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2 – Pi is an irrational number – so this is a good time to do something irrational (ok, maybe just different) with your event.

Think creatively about how you can have fun around geocaching and what activities you can have at your event to create that fun. Is it a pie eating contest or a competition to solve a math puzzle and open a geocache container the quickest? The ideas and opportunities are, much like the decimals in pi, endless.

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3.14 – Share the event outside of the geocaching community.

Break out of your “algorithm” for inviting only your closest geocaching friends and think about others that we know that would enjoy geocaching (and pie) as much as we do. You can even invite them to invite their friends too (does that count as the .14?)

 

Don’t forget — you can earn TWO new souvenirs on Pi Day: One, by attending an event. The second, by logging a find on a Mystery cache. Use the new search tool to find Mystery Caches near you now.

/ Eric Schudiske

The Next Two Giga-Events!

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Geocaching HQ announces the next two Giga-Events

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Mainz Gutenberg 2015 (GC50FTF) – May 16, 2015 in Mainz, Germany

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Project GeoXantike (GC56APX) – June 6, 2015 in Xanten, Germany

And you thought Mega-Events were huge! Giga-Events are the largest event type and are attended by over 5,000 geocachers. For those who attend, you’ll earn the rare Giga icon in your statistics, plus you’ll get the opportunity to meet tons of geocachers from around the world.

Learn more about Giga-Events here.

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/ Eric Schudiske

Attend the Last Geocaching Block Party

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Geocaching Block Party 2015: The Final Episode

Geocaching Block PartyAfter years of celebrating all things Geocaching at HQ in Seattle, it’s time for a change. Join us this August to celebrate 15 Years of Geocaching at the last Block Party event.

Mark your ‘Will Attend’ now on the Geocaching Block Party 2015 geocache page. And while you’re there, make sure to mark your ‘Will Attend’ for the 2015 Geocaching International Film Festival, too.

And don’t forget: CITO weekend is April 25 and 26, so get ready to join thousands of geocachers as they clean up, plant trees or remove invasive species in local geocaching hot spots. Earn a special digital CITO souvenir for your Geocaching profile for attending a CITO Event April 25 or 26.

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/ Alex /

You Decide Who Wins the Global GIFF Audience Award

Last summer, 16 films about anything and everything geocaching were selected to premier at the Geocaching International Film Festival 2014. These films have been making the rounds at select Mega-Events around the world, and now it’s finally time for them to make their ultimate international debut: on your computer screen.

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That’s right! If you have an hour to spare, you can watch all sixteen finalists right now. That’s about as long as it takes to do a 5-stage Multi-Cache in a park. After you’ve watched the videos, vote for the one you think should be recognized above the rest. Then share the post with your friends and family. Here’s how:

1. Visit this page

2. Watch the 16 GIFF finalists

3. Vote for the winner of the Global Audience Award

 

We’re not kidding…it’s that easy.

The winner of the GIFF Global Audience Award will be mailed a prize package from Geocaching HQ, and will receive a specially awarded badge for their profile page. Want to learn more about the making of these films? Check out our interviews with the filmmakers: https://www.geocaching.com/blog/

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Voting for the Global GIFF Audience Award will close Sunday, February 22nd at 9pm PST.