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Category Archives: Lost & Found Stories

Save the Date for Geocaching: 12-12-12

Join thousands of geocachers on December 12, 2012. It’s a celebration of numbers and all those who count themselves as geocachers. The calendar will align for the last time this century. Enjoy 12-12-12 by joining friends for a geocaching adventure or attending a geocaching Event Cache.  All those caching to shake off the winter chill in the Northern Hemisphere or embracing a summer cache run in the Southern Hemisphere will earn an exclusive 12-12-12 Souvenir. Simply log a “Found it” for a cache or an “Attended” for an Event Cache on 12-12-12. Hundreds of geocaching Event Caches are already scheduled [...]

This is My Hobby – Geocaching at Night (Night Caching)

Geocaching doesn’t stop when the sun goes down. Watch this video to see a geocache that could not be found by the light of day. Geocachers use clever clues to navigator through this Multi-Cache in the dark. If they’re skilled and a little lucky, they discover a local difficult 2, terrain 2 favorite called Wait Until DARK!! All the buildings used as stages  are non-residential and gave permission to be part of this geocache. Check out other hides by the cache owner – goblindust. He has more than 1000 Favorite Points for his geocaches. There are thousands of night caches around [...]

Geocaching.com Spoiler Alert: Odyssey at Juanita Beach

[This video was shot with cache owner permission] Watch this Geocaching.com Spoiler Alert video to unlock creative geocache ideas. Odyssey at Jaunita Beach (GC3AQR4) at difficulty 5, terrain 1.5 requires no tools, but does require a unique perspective. Cachers logging this find also discover local wildlife like Blue Heron.  One cacher who found ‘Odyssey at Jaunita Beach’ logged, “Awesome!! 20 minutes into our first shot at it, we hit the jackpot. The credit goes to Tami, who took a ‘hands-off, take everything in’ approach and used her logic to narrow it down and make the find. This is one of the top five, [...]

Geocaching.com Presents: Premium Membership

[Click CC for Closed Captioning in English, German, French, Norwegian, and Bulgarian] Spend less time planning and more time playing! Explore the 10 reasons to become a Premium Member on Geocaching.com. It costs as little as a cup of coffee a month and supports the activity you love. Premium Members unlock a suite of features like advanced search (Pocket Queries), have VIP access to Premium Member only caches, and even receive instant notifications of new cache placements. Subscribe to the Official Geocaching.com YouTube channel for the latest tips and tricks in geocaching. Watch the more than 100 videos produced by Geocaching.com [...]

GC77 Germany’s First Geocache – A Geocaching.com Presentation

[Click CC for Closed Captioning - Klicke auf CC für Untertitel] Watch this video to see the story behind the first geocache in Germany. It started a craze that’s led to a quarter million active geocaches. Back on October 2, 2000 the owner of a brand new GPS device decided to try an experiment. He hid a geocache. Ferenc loaded the coordinates and a description onto Geocaching.com. He wondered if anyone might have heard of this new GPS-powered treasure-hunt. Days and weeks passes. Ferenc says he lost interest in geocaching. Years passed, and eventually he wondered if anyone had ever [...]


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