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GC7MY4Q - FYC - Trap Pond State Park #2

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This was a fun cache - FYC - Trap Pond State Park #2 . I took a few videos with my iPhone while Tom and I were on our way there and searching for it. This is my first attempt at putting video clips together, I hope you enjoy it.

Streak Week: August 2019

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What is going on? This is short notice for me, but Geocaching has just announced a new souvenir that can be earned - for Streak Week: August 2019 . In order to earn the souvenir, we have to find and log a cache every day in the last week of August (from 25 August to 31 August). Unfortunately, meeting that goal might be difficult for me, since I'm heading out of town for the week. Wish me luck!

International Geocaching Day 2019

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Happy International Geocaching Day! International Geocaching Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in August every year, so celebrate the day by finding a geocache or attending an event, and earning a souvenir in the process.

AAR: Mystery at the Museum

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Now that the 2019 summer campaign has come to a close, I guess it's about time I had an opinion about it. My initial thoughts were about how cool the theme was. I thoroughly enjoyed the teasers and all of my speculations were for naught - for a change. After earning, and looking at, the "Briefed on the Case" souvenir, I immediately knew how to figure out what the lock combination was. It took some planning, but after learning what caches would count towards the "Evidence Collected" souvenir, it was only logical that any other caches with an unknown clue type would go towards the "Jewels Recovered" souvenir. But which ones? I found an area where there were plenty of caches that had Jewel clues, then cached my way through Evidence clues until I got there. Luckily, I didn't have to venture too far away from that area to recover all of the jewels. But then, I hit a snag. Instead of being able to enter the lock combination at that point, I had