Geocaching.com Souvenirs | Milestones
More than 70,000 geocachers from around the world celebrated Leap Day by stepping outside for a GPS-powered treasure hunt. Their motivation was an opportunity that comes once every four years — going geocaching on February 29. They joined friends and family to explore the world around them, exercise, and earn a digital reward. The Leap Day goal was ambitious. Geocachers rallied to double the number of accounts – 36,696 – that logged geocaches last Leap Day in 2008. Here are the latest numbers: Current Accounts w/Logged Caches: 83,516! GOAL: 73,392 Updated: 2:30 pm PST – March 7, 2012 Share [...]
Eric Schudiske on February 28, 2012, 4:15 pm
Over the past several weeks, Geocaching.com has been releasing souvenirs for the U.S. and German states, special souvenirs and Mega-Event souvenirs to the geocaching community. More than 30 souvenirs are already available to geocachers. We’re scheduled to release six souvenirs each week into early 2011. Vote in the Souvenirs UserVoice forum to let Groundspeak know which souvenirs you’d like to see. We’re currently only accepting country suggestions. However, we are producing individual regions for several countries such as Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The most popular souvenir suggestions in UserVoice will be produced and two will be released [...]
Eric Schudiske on December 9, 2010, 4:47 pm
Souvenirs such as the Bayern, Germany souvenir pictured at left, are virtual pieces of art that you can discover and display on your profile page, as well as in the Geocaching.com iPhone and Android apps. Souvenirs are most often awarded for logging a geocache in a specific geographical location. Groundspeak artists have produced more than 85 souvenirs so far: including one for every German and U.S. state along with each Canadian province. There are souvenirs for a half dozen other counties, Mega-Events and even special souvenirs. But we’re not done. The Groundspeak technical team is beginning the process of retooling [...]
Eric Schudiske on November 28, 2010, 4:21 pm
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