OMG! OMG! OMG! Signal's Island is 1 WEEK AWAY!
There's nothing worse than inviting the WORLD to San Diego and all they find is full, wet, or missing logs, broken caches, or missing containers!
This is a call to arms! This is a Maintnance Madness event to prepare for a great experience for our visitors.
Do you remember the fun you had when you found your first well-maintained caches? You've spent time creating and placing caches, and hopefully they've withstood the elements - why not give them a visit and get them ready for the swarm of visitors?
What you'll get at this Signal's Island Block Party week kickoff event:
- Peer motivation!
- Cache maintenance supplies
- Snacks
- Guidelines for maintaining geocaches
- An event smilie
- Bring your own cache maintenance supplies, like replacement logs and containers, pens, gloves, rags, swag, baggies, plant clippers and extraction tools, CITO bags, GPS receiver, hand sanitizer.
- We WELCOME additional supplies you may have collecting dust like containers, pens, logsheets, etc.
Then what do I do?
- Go forth into San Diego and perform cache maintenance! (see checklist below)
What if I don't own any geocaches?
- There's plenty you can do to help maintain geocaches you do not own. You can dry the container, add swag and replace baggies, add an additional log sheet or a pen, and CITO the area. Just be sure not to move or replace the container without the cache owner's permission. If someone else's cache needs to be moved or replaced, send an email or geocaching.com message to the cache owner, and/or log a "Needs Maintenance" on the cache page.
We know you cannot visit all of your caches today, but even if you only visit a few, your fellow cachers will have a much better time visiting them after they are spruced up! And don't forget CITO!! No one wants to walk over trash to find your cache!
Cache maintenance checklist (be prepared!):
- Cracked lids
- Rusted containers
- No swag
- Inappropriate swag
- Full or soaking wet logs
- Torn baggies
- Wet containers
- Wet contents
- Caches where the cache owner needs to check that the location is correct or still appropriate, or that the container is still there (non-cache-owners should simply log a "needs maintenance" on these, stating the reason)
- Bison tubes that need new o-rings
- Sites that desperately need cleanup
- Containers in need of glue or magnets
Community Celebration Events - 2025
This Event is part of a limited release of Community Celebration Events to celebrate 25 years of geocaching. Geocachers hosted events between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Learn more about Community Celebration Events on the Geocaching Blog.