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Geocaching.com Teams Up with Tomb Raider®

Geocaching.com is excited to be teaming up with the action-packed experience of Tomb Raider.  Crystal Dynamics™, a Square Enix™ studio produces the video game series. The worldwide phenomenon launched in the mid-1990′s and has since been portrayed in Hollywood blockbusters. Geocaching.com is a natural fit to join forces with the video game featuring world explorer Lara Croft™. A new campaign of treasure-hunting adventure will preview the upcoming release of Tomb Raider. Through a variety of initiatives this year, Crystal Dynamics and Geocaching.com will create a series of unique location-based adventures. The experiences embody the spirit of Tomb Raider and Lara [...]

“Trouble in Tinseltown” – Insider Tips to Hosting a Geocaching Event

Molly Shock, aka mshock, teaches the basics of hosting a successful and fun geocaching event. It’s part party-planning and all logistics. Find out how to make the event something to remember, how much time you’ll need to prepare and other insider tips. Watch the video below for a three-minute tutorial from Molly on tips for making your own themed geocaching event a success. Molly’s marque event to date has been Trouble in Tinseltown – A Puzzle Rally Event (GC2993W). An Event Cache is where local geocachers or geocaching organizations decide a time and location to meet and discuss all things [...]

“Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scene 21″ GCP439 GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – February 28, 2011

A killer rabbit, the Holy Grenade of Antioch and Monty Python’s search for the Holy Grail all intersected at one precise location in 1975. This Scotland location is  Tomnadashan Mine, but for fans of the British comedy troop Monty Python, and the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the location is best known as the lair of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. The geocache “Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scene 21″ (GCP439) has brought more than 100 adventurers to the location since it was hidden in 2005.  Some geocachers even add their own makeshift props adapted from the [...]

“Travel Bugs” A Geocaching.com Video

Travel Bugs® are Trackables that move from geocache to geocache.  They are attached to “hitchhikers” that take many forms — everything from action figures to toy cars to cinder blocks.  Travel Bugs are explorers and ambassadors that crisscross the world, gaining stories on each step of their trek. This  Lost & Found video showcases the journey of a Travel Bug around the world.  Geocacher Devbrain launched Coaster Coast in 2006. The Travel Bug ended up back in his hands after traveling more than 23,000 miles around the globe. Watch as he launches another Travel Bug, Coaster Coaster Coast, in an [...]

Geocaching Evolution – The Themed Multi-Cache

The geocaching spectrum runs from the ease of drive-up light pole caches all the way into the dark world of mind-bending themed Multi-Caches.  The geocaches like the “Forbidden Zone Geocaches” (FBZ) around San Diego, California push geocachers to their mental and physical extremes. It took two years for Jim Epler (SGTF) to create the complex and conspiracy-laden series of seven geocaches. Jim says FBZ draws inspiration from the Project A.P.E. caches. Seven caches are hidden in and around San Diego.  The story line for the FBZ geocaches has players assume the role of an agent investigating a link between extraterrestrials [...]


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