CARW2025 HIDERS’ WRAP-UP EVENT & AWARDS DETAILS:
Join us for the grand finale of CARW2025 as we Celebrate 25 in style at the the Hiders' Wrap-Up and Awards Ceremony! It's time to toast the creative hides, applaud the adventurous finds, and honour the community spirit that makes CARW a caching tradition.
From epic puzzles to cleverly camouflaged containers, we'll be celebrating the best of this year's event with awards that caching dreams are made of! Come share your stories, laugh at the DNF bloopers, and enjoy an afternoon filled with geocaching camaraderie.
Whether you hid, found, or cheered from the sidelines, this event is for everyone to Celebrate 25. Don’t miss this memorable wrap-up to our CARW2025 season!
Please be sure to cast your votes for your favourite CARW caches this year. Voting will close at noon on Saturday, March 8.
ABOUT CARW2025
Welcome to CARW2025! Join us from February 27 to March 9, 2025, as we celebrate 25 years of geocaching with themed events, creative caches, and community gatherings in the greater Edmonton area. Many have been awarded Community Celebration Events (CCEs) this year, so let’s get out there and enjoy them!
CARW (Cache and Release Winter) is Northern Alberta’s premier geocaching celebration and ranks among Canada’s longest-running geocaching events. Now in its 19th year, CARW2025 continues its tradition of emphasizing quality caching experiences for geocachers of all skill levels. This year’s theme is Celebrate 25, commemorating the 25th anniversary of geocaching, adding an extra layer of excitement to the celebrations.
For more details, please visit the dedicated CARW website: https://carw.ca/
CARW2025 kicks off with cache publications starting at 6:00pm on February 27, setting the stage for days filled with geocaching adventures, puzzle-solving events and other community gatherings. (boomark list here)
- Thursday, February 20, 2025 Cache submission deadline.
- LOCATION: 25km radius from N 53 27.598 W113 36.936.
- Theme: Celebrate 25!
- Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 6:00pm – Cache Publication Time!
- Thursday, February 27, 2025 – Kick-off Event 6:00pm – 8:00pm BP’s Mayfield. GCAYND8
- Friday, February 28, 2025 – Puzzle Solving Event 6:00pm – 8:00pm Stanley A Milner Library. GCAVZ50
- Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 9:00am – Cache finding begins. Caches found before this will not count for any stats purposes.
- Sunday, March 2, 2025 – Finders’ Wrap-up Event 3:00pm – 6:00pm Uncle Glenn’s Eatery. GCAW114
- Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 6:00pm – online voting closes (link TBA)
- Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Hiders’ Wrap-up Event 2:00pm – 4:00pm Laurier Heights Community League. GCAVZA4 – THIS EVENT
Community Satellite Events! Note: some of the events below may be outside of the CARW2025 radius
- Friday, February 28, 2025 – Camrose Puzzle Solving Event 12:00pm – 1:00pm GCAYZHB
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.