Everyone who found at least one cache during the challenge was awarded a souvenir today. Was anyone following the 'Cosmic Quest' souvenir challenge? Do you feel like it led you to cache more, or did you mostly ignore it?
https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2024/09/we-have-achieved-lift-off/
I was running my fingers along this metal ledge trying to find a magnetic nano cache. Came across something quite different instead - yikes! Luckily I wasn't stung, but got out of there in a hurry and left that one unfound
Only worth about $1 USD, but a pretty cool find -- in Canada and nowhere near its country of origin
This took us three attempts to finally find
Cute! Was the cache inside on of the little houses?
Got to get them hooked early on!
I found a nano cache inside of a padlock once. The part where the key would go was drilled out, and replaced with a tiny cache container. Took me ages, awesome find.
I've gotten Tim Hortons gift cards for FTF before, that was pretty nice. Pins are also always cool to find
I'm ashamed to say it still took me 10 minutes to find this one
Spent over an hour looking for this cache recently. Very subtle under the moss!
Taken around 11:30 Friday night, although the picture sure doesn't do the real thing justice
This impressive pile was all collected in one day in my neighborhood
A batch of ginger & citrus marmalade I made today, plus some ginger tea as a byproduct!
That's a shame! Do you ever go to geocaching events? I find they get the most logs there, although I have spotted the odd one out in the wild
Hey, that's awesome! Hope your kid will enjoy it
If I happen to have a spare container with me, usually I'll replace a damaged one. IMO if you found the original and know where it was, that's not the same as putting out a random throwdown for a missing cache.
If it's a specially made container, I'd probably just log Needs Maintenance, but if you're just replacing a pill bottle with something similar I would think it's fair game. In any case definitely mention it in your log
Even if you don't pay have the subscription, you can look premium caches up on the website using a direct link, e.g. coord.info/GC7B6F0. You need to have the geocode ("GC7B6F0") for that, though. Not sure about logging, but I think you should even be able to do that.
Personally, I've paid for it the last few years. But Geocaching is my main hobby, so it's easily a worthwhile investment.
I get being against subscriptions out of principle though. I cached for years without paying for it. In my area only about 1/3 of caches are premium only, but that might be completely different in another part of the world
Not stupid at all! This is a log sheet from a geocache.
Geocaching is a worldwide scavenger hunt game. People hide containers -- think tupperwares, or smaller -- anywhere outdoors, then pin the location on an online map, and anyone can go out and find them. Every geocache contains a log book or sheet where you can sign your name once you find it. This particular log sheet if from a brand new geocache, showing my own signature as the first person to find it -- often a sought-after achievement that comes with bragging rights in the community
I did not know they offered free trials -- that's awesome, glad you are enjoying it so far!