The cache is at the above coordinates!
Cache Across Southern California 2026
Greetings gamers! Are you ready to explore video games through the ages? Find and locate one of the roughly 50 CASC geocaches across all 10 Southern California counties. As you find geocaches, you may stamp your passport to track your progress and turn it in at Signal's Island in San Diego to redeem your prize(s)!
Do not remove the stamp from the container, it is part of this geocache!
How do I use the CASC Passport?
Use the stamp in each CASC geocache and stamp any of the 25 small game tokens on the front page of the passport. At the bottom of each coin, write the GC code of the geocache that corresponds to the stamp provided. Then on the reverse side, circle or highlight the caches you found from the list. Doing these steps will increase efficiency and line management at Signal's Island.
CASC Prize Redemption
To qualify for prize redemption you must bring your completed passport to Signal's Island Goes M*A*S*H (GCBGC72) in San Diego on Saturday, October 3rd 2026. There are two award packages being offered: Silver and Gold. For the SILVER award, you must find at least 10 CASC geocaches in 3 counties. To qualify for the GOLD award, you must find at least 25 CASC geocaches in all 10 counties. Silver award includes a small geocaching goodie bag, but Gold award includes a complimentary CASC 2026 geocoin + the silver award prize. Only one prize package per qualifying account. Prize distribution will be on a first come first served basis.
Sharing your progress
Feel free to share and post your progress on the official CASC Facebook group. Important announcements will be periodically added here as well.
I want to hide a CASC Geocache!
Interested in becoming a CASC sponsor for next year? Join the official CASC Facebook group and watch for an interest post sometime in Fall 2026.
Desert Bus
Desert Bus is a single player game in which you, the bus driver, pilot a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada, a distance of 360 miles. The bus goes 45 mph and pulls slightly to the right, so you have to steer it. No stops or pausing the game are allowed, so the game goes on for 8 hours. Very little happens, except for a bug splat on the windshield at one point, and the occasional stops for passengers. You can open the doors to let people on or off, but no one ever appears. If you finish, you get a single point, and the option to turn around and go back to Tucson for another point. But if you manage to drive it off the road, the bus gets stuck in the sand and must be towed back to the start, in real time.
Originally developed by magic duo Penn & Teller back in 1995, the game was one of six mini-games to be released as Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors on the Sega CD platform by Absolute Entertainment. Unfortunately, that company ceased to exist by the time the game was ready for release, but a few review copies made it into the hands of video game journalists. A copy was found and retrieved in 2005, and by 2007 a charity event began where the game was live streamed. It still happens annually, and last year they "bussed" for over 6 days and raised over one million dollars.
This cache was hidden in preparation for Signal's Island.