Geocaching with Woo

Today, a little bit more information about the 2019 summer campaign was released. Another news video has been posted, as well as a FAQs page . The campaign starts July 11 and lasts through August 11, and there are four souvenirs to be earned: Briefed on the case . One cache had to be found with the detective asset. Evidence collected . Find six caches with clue assets (two each of fingerprints, footprints and shadows). Jewels recovered . Find fifteen caches with jewel assets (three each of sapphire, ruby, diamond, emerald and topaz). Case closed . A bonus challenge where you will unlock the vault and return the missing jewels. The souvenirs have to be found in order, so finding a jewel asset before you've found a detective asset will not get you the souvenirs quicker. Something that stood out to me in the video was that the thieves spent 81 minutes in the museum, and the FAQs state that every event has a detective asset, so my new working theory is that the caches are dif

Tom and I went to Martinsburg in Berkeley County, West Virginia in order to earn the Smart Caches of Berkeley County (SCBC) geocoin, as well as the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour (BGG) geocoin. We focused on caches that counted for both the SCBC and the BGG, but this was not one of them. Either way, I really wanted to do it, so even though we had enough caches to qualify for the geocoin, we stopped here for one more cache. I loved it! Please forgive me though, this is the first video I've ever taken of myself at a geocache, and I wasn't sure exactly how to do it. When I put it together in iMovie, I added a few pictures I took while there, and voila!

Earlier this week, Tom mentioned that he'd like to go to Kent Island this Saturday to do a little geocaching, and I mentioned that we should schedule a trip to West Virginia in the not-to-distant future, because the number of geocoins remaining for the Smart Caches of Berkeley County and the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour were slowly dwindling. He decided that we would scrap the initial plans and head back to West Virginia for an overnight stay, since the GeoTour includes three night caches. The Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour consists of 50 caches, which include 18 newly published caches (BGG), a selection of caches from three previous GeoTrails (GBC, MCBC and SCBC ) and a handful of other caches the have been put out by WVTim. In order to qualify for the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour geocoin, we had to find 16 of the 18 BGG caches. I'm happy to say that we found 17 of them! We're well on our way to earning the souvenir, too. Our past two trips have netted us 42 of the 50 required

While Tom and I were in Berkeley County, West Virginia to work on the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour , we ended up finding all but two of the Smart Caches of Berkeley County (SCBC). In order to earn the SCBC geocoin, we had to find eleven of the fourteen remaining SCBC caches, which gave us the ability to pick and choose which ones to find. The hard part in choosing was that three of them are not on the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour, so do we go with GeoTour caches exclusively, or do we find the ones that are near other caches? We ended up finding the three non-GeoTour caches, and leaving two GeoTour caches for a future trip. These caches were varied and fun to complete. My favorite was "SCBC 7 Bike Trail," where I had to travel about 400 feet down a corrugated pipe to end up in the middle of an expressway. The most difficult one for me was "SCBC 12 Illuminating," but only because the flashlight that I was using wasn't strong enough to trigger the sensors. "SC

Have you seen the newest teaser from Geocaching? Check it out here . It looks like we have to wait two weeks to find out what's up. My current theory is that we will pursue the jewel thief through the museum, and in each section of the museum, we'll have to find a certain type of cache. For instance, in the geological section we'll have to find an EarthCache. It's just an initial theory - I've seen better posted on Twitter by @CacheTheLine.

Launched in 2016, this GeoTrail started out with 24 caches hidden in and around Hanover, Pennsylvania. Eighteen of those caches had to be found and the codes on those caches recorded on the passport , to qualify for the commemorative coin. Through a quick e-mail where I learned that there were still coins left, and some follow up phone calls from Tom, it was agreed that since the office was closed on weekends, we could send a self-addressed stamped envelope in order to receive our coin. With all that framework put in place, we headed to Hanover. Overall, the GeoTrail was enjoyable. We were able to find all 18 of the active caches is a day, and the caches brought us to interesting and historic locations as well as places that, if we'd had more time, I would have liked to have stayed and patronized. The caches themselves were varied: some were cleverly hidden, some were typical hides, a couple had hosts that had fallen into disrepair and one was just down right disappointing.