Geocaching with Woo

Two months worth of treasures has been announced on the official blog ! Here's a list of what you need to know: Fast food erasers - 4 treasures to be released February 17 Type: Not-Event caches Difficulty: 2 to 2.5 Favorite Points: 1 minimum Toy dinosaurs - 5 treasures to be released February 17 Type: Multi, Mystery, Earth Cat figurines - 9 treasures to be released March 17 Type: Traditional, Mystery, Multi Difficulty: 1-3 Geomobiles - 5 treasures to be released March 17 Attribute: Park and Grab The Treasures page on the website has also been changed out, the Priority Collections are in a column on the left, and Available Collections have been moved from below the Priority Collections to the column on the right, which can be toggled with Completed Collections. The blog post states that the App has changed as well, but I haven't interfaced with that enough to know what has changed - bad Woo :-(

Who doesn't love pie, so let's celebrate Pi Day with three new souvenirs! We need to find Mystery caches from March 13-15 to earn the following souvenirs: Coconut Cream Pi - 1 mystery cache Cherry Pi - 3 mystery caches Blueberry Pi - 14 mystery caches So, to sum it all up, find and log 14 mystery caches to earn all three souvenirs - I'm going to get solving! Read more about it on the official blog post .

It's time to start planning for Cache In, Trash Out Season 1! From March 1 to May 31, 2026, you can earn a souvenir by attending any CITO event. The official announcement can be found on the Geocaching blog post .

Finding treasures just became more rewarding! There are now souvenirs available for reaching certain milestones, such as how many overall have been found and how many collections have been completed. According to the official blog post , six souvenirs are available for the following achievements: Collect 100 treasures Collect 200 treasures Collect 300 treasures Complete 10 collections Complete 25 collections Complete 50 collections A new treasure collection was also released today, called Seashells. The six treasures in this collection have the following criteria: Type: Any non-event geocache (excluding Adventure labs) Size: Micro Favorite Points: 1 minimum I'm looking forward to the new year and what's coming up next!

It's time for my yearly geocaching review! I don't feel like I accomplished much, but maybe I did? I found less than 200 caches, but still more than the previous year. I missed out on two official souvenirs, the International Geocaching Day Hider and the GIFF 2026. I overthink putting out caches, so in my desire to put out a quality cache, I missed the window. I actually never put the cache out at all, so I even missed qualifying for the next round of Virtual Rewards. And then, I was on a cruise for the entire period of the Geocaching International Film Festival. I did, however, complete nine treasure collections, two of which had souvenirs, so I decided to make homemade souvenirs for the other seven. I'd have to say that my favorite part of last year was attending GeoWoodstock in West Virginia and completing the Country Roads Challenge and enough of the Middle of Everything GeoTour to qualify for the geocoin. We visited some really interesting places and I really...