Tintern Abbey Church Micro 10000

The world’s largest geocache series: Church Micros

Written by Sarah Murphy aka The Geocaching Junkie

Church Micro 10000 Tintern Abbey GC6PWBD
Church Micro 10000 Tintern Abbey GC6PWBD

If you’ve ever gone geocaching in Great Britain, you’ve probably come across a Church Micro cache. Church Micros are geocaches near interesting churches, church ruins, or chapels to highlight beautiful architecture or fascinating history. Contrary to the name, the container itself does not need to be a micro; in fact, it can be any size or even a Virtual Cache. While the series is predominated by Traditional and Multi-Caches, there are also Mysteries, EarthCaches, Wherigos, and Letterbox Hybrids. Even some of the new Virtual Rewards are Church Micros.

The series was created 10 years ago by sadexploration (Steve) and exploded in popularity since then. There are now more than 11,000 Church Micros, making it the largest cache series anywhere in the world.

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The Dosenfischer — The final curtain

The Dosenfischer have been an integral part of the German geocaching community for 10 years, with fans all over Europe. Over the years their podcast and geocaching-themed songs have been the delight of many geocachers. But all good things must come to an end. On August 26 2017 aba, sandmann, Stotco, DimiB, and Seasack played their last gig at the MEGA Switzerland – Meeting Friends 2017.

Geocaching HQ had the opportunity to talk with the band after the concert.

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Die Dosenfischer – der letzte Vorhang

Die Dosenfischer – seit 10 Jahren eine Institution in der deutschen, wenn nicht sogar europäischen, Geocaching Community. Über die Jahre haben sie unzählige Geocacher mit ihrem Podcast und ihren Liedern, die sich thematisch mit Geocaching beschäftigen, erfreut. Doch alles Gute hat ein Ende (bekanntlich hat nur die Wurst zwei), und so gaben aba, sandmann, stotco, DimiB und Seasack anlässlich des MEGA Switzerland – Meeting Friends 2017 ihr letztes Konzert.

Geocaching HQ hatte die Gelegenheit nach dem Auftritt mit der Band zu sprechen.

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The Sword In The Stone — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC27N0W
by Diehard50248
Difficulty:
2.5
Terrain:
2.5
Location:
Minnesota, United States
N 44° 56.058′ W 092° 58.861′

According to legend, cache owner Diehard50248 used his magical powers to place the sword in the stone and boldly stated, “Who so pulleth out this sword of this stone is rightwise ‘born to cache.’

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