Tag: GOTW

/ Janelle

Y2EL’s Bugs, Bugs, Octopus – ‘Much Ado’ — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC6FQ4K
by Y2EL and Pipesy
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
2
Location:
East Midlands, United Kingdom
N 53° 08.308 W 000° 47.426
We like big caches and we can not lie

We like big caches and we can not lie

Y2EL’s Bugs, Bugs, Octopus – ‘Much Ado’ is a big cache. How big? Well, big enough to fit most of your body inside. In fact, this may be one of the larger caches in the United Kingdom. The journey to the cache may be challenging due to the nettles and thistles in the area, but the reward is worth it.

The cache can be found after a decent hike alongside the River Trent in the East Midlands region of the Uk. The container forces you to climb inside all the way to the very back in order to log the cache.

This cache will make you feel silly. This cache will make you laugh. This cache will give your friends and families plenty of embarrassing photos to share with the world.

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/ Andrew Baldwin /

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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/ Natalie /

Masca – Los Gigantes – Masca – a real adventure — Geocache of the Week

Multi-Cache
GC10A3T
by lacruz18
Difficulty:
4
Terrain:
5
Location:
Islas Canarias, Spain
N 28° 18.089′ W 016° 50.411′
The Masca Gorge is a Nature Conservation Zone

Some Multi-Caches are quick grabs that you can find during your lunch break, while others are much more labor intensive, taking you through multiple neighborhoods, around winding forests, or even requiring a drive to a different city. This T5 Multi-Cache, located in Spain’s Canary Islands, will send you on a three-hour long trek through a basaltic ravine to an isolated beach.

The journey begins in Masca, a small mountain village on the island of Tenerife. Home to only 90 inhabitants, the village is situated 650 meters (2130 feet) above sea level in the Macizo de Teno mountains.

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/ Andrew Baldwin /

Östanbyn — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC2ZWXF
by Forsbom
Difficulty:
1.5
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Dalarna, Sweden
N 60° 10.155′ E 016° 13.829′

For some, home away from home is being in the great outdoors en route to a cache. On a popular bike route in central Sweden there is a cache that made many geocachers feel at home because they are literally in a home once they arrive at the cache. 275 of them to be precise. That’s how many geocachers have logged a smiley at Östanbyn — and of them over 70% awarded this cache a Favorite point.

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From inside one of the passenger cars
/ Janelle /

Ring of Fire — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GCJYHZ
by ironman114
Difficulty:
3.5
Terrain:
5
Location:
Washington State, USA
N 47° 19.785 W 123° 38.595

MINUTE by MINUTE… MILE by MILE… The RING OF FIRE closed… on INNOCENT and GUILTY alike!

Ring of Fire movie poster
Ring of Fire movie poster

That’s the tagline for the 1961 Hollywood film titled Ring of Fire. The movie follows a small-town sheriff in Oregon who arrests a trio of robbers (two men and one woman). The tables turn, the robbers take the sheriff hostage, a forest fire rages out of control, and calamity ensues.

In the final scene, a burning railroad trestle collapses during an attempted crossing (forward to 14:00 for the “good part”). Although most of the movie takes place and was filmed in Oregon, this key scene was filmed along the Wynoochee River, in Washington State. The bridge and trestle were blown up, sending two passenger cars and a 60-ton steam engine to crash and burn in the river below.

The gorge was deemed too deep and the train too heavy to remove, so the passenger cars were cut in two and moved to the river’s edge. Almost 60 years later the wreckage remains, making this already beautiful hike even more epic. The movie may be a trainwreck, but this epic T5 geocache is definitely worth the effort! 

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