Geocache Picker 101 — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC8R2RA
by Trycacheus
Difficulty:
3.5
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
North Dakota, United States
N 48° 08.503 W 097° 30.923

Are you ready to unlock a whole new level of fun? We hope you don’t have a favorite geocache in mind because it’s time to pick your favorite one! This cache comes with some cool Tools of the Trade (TOTT) that will be your key to success.

Unlike the geocache description suggests, we aren’t picking the nose of our friends, but rather picking the nose of this Geocache of the Week, Geocache Picker 101 (GC8R2RA).
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Cache and Release — Geocache of the Week

Mystery Cache
GC8HG04
by BrettandBekah
Difficulty:
4
Terrain:
2.5
Location:
Virginia
N 37° 30.842′ W 077° 28.859”

“Cache and Release” (GC8HG04) is a dynamic D4/T2.5 Mystery Cache with many fun layers. Published just outside of Richmond, Virginia, this Geocache of the Week will surprise and delight any cacher who stumbles upon it. We were lucky enough to receive permission from geocache owners BrettandBekah to share the cache experience, and see the stages first-hand from the creators themselves. Of course, if you ever find it, you’ll still have to figure it out on your own. 

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Speden Spelit Nopeustesti — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC5FD0B
by tiuhto
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
2
Location:
Finland
N 60° 12.962′ E 025° 00.688′

“Simon Says” is a challenging game of reaction and memory. Speden Spelit Nopeustesti is a geocache that emulates this fun and sometimes frustrating game with multi-colored lights. It won’t be hard to find, but it will be difficult to get to the logbook if you cannot follow the pattern of lights perfectly.   

Image by Jorppa Lane 
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From flying planes to finding caches — Interview with cache owner Cliptwings

For cache owner ‘Cliptwings’ geocaching isn’t just a hobby, it’s a new opportunity to realize that even if he can’t fly anymore, the wings of passion prevent him from being cooped up. A former Airforce and commercial airline pilot turned creative gadget cache engineer. Travelling the world on planes Cliptwings says there wasn’t a place that didn’t have a cache nearby. 

First introduced to the game by his wife, Princess Pooh Pooh, who thought of him when a geocacher explained the game to her. They went out to find a cache in a park and got hooked. To him, it felt powerful to have GPS technology in his hand because airlines still used ground-based navigation at the time. 

Since then Cliptwings has hidden a number of amazing caches that take some time and creative juice to create. 

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