Geocaching with Woo

This year celebrates the 10th anniversary of International Geocaching Day! It's celebrated on the third Saturday of August, and in order to earn your souvenir, log a find on any geocache or Adventure Lab on August 21 or 22, 2021.

The newest off-planet trackable will be available for logging towards the end of 2021! WISA Plywood will be launching the world's first wooden satellite Travel Bug, WISA Woodsat . The nanosatellite will be testing the viability of wood products, such as WISA Plywood, in space vehicles, by exposing it to extreme space conditions, such as heat, cold, vacuum and radiation. The satellite's suite of sensors will measure changes in the wood material. A camera mounted to a selfie-style stick will also help monitor these changes, but it will also capture the tracking code in images which can be found in the image gallery at wisawoodsat.space . After it's launch, keep track of it on WISA Plywood's social media ( Facebook , Instagram or Twitter ) or add TB9GB8G to your watchlist.

Have you requested your Wild Basin trackable yet? Wild Basin wants you the "Find Your Wild!" and take the road less traveled with Wild Basin Hard Seltzer. By finding or activating a Wild Basin trackable, you could become part of a community that takes chances, seeks adventure at every turn, and wants to “get lost” somewhere wild. For 15 lucky adventurers, finding your wild could mean winning big. Among the caches are 15 special Wild Basin cans, all together worth $15,000. How can you win? Here's how: Step One is to fill out the request form for a chance to win one of 1,500 trackables. Step Two is to share your Wild Basin + Geocaching experience on social media using #WildBasinGetLost and #Sweepstakes. By doing so, you'll also be entered to win a Wild Basin hammock! Start off by following @wildbasinhardseltzer on Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram, then take a picture of yourself with the trackable and post it with the tags #WildBasinGetLost and #Sweepstakes....

Woo hoo! Geocaching has just announced a new campaign - " Reach the Peak ." This campaign begins August 2, 2021 and ends March 6, 2022. Each month, there will be the ability to earn 2 souvenirs based on a featured mountain peak on each continent - the Basecamp and the Summit. If you earn all 14, you'll also earn a final, meta-souvenir (Peak Performer). To earn the souvenirs, we have to earn enough points, and the point values for different types of finds will change monthly. The new point values will be shared by Geocaching on the last Tuesday of each month - before the leaderboard refreshes on the first Monday of the next month. At that point, there will be a new mountain peak with new point values and goals for the next set of souvenirs. August's souvenirs start with the continent of Oceania and the mountain peak Puncak Jaya. The first two souvenirs of this campaign are: Reach the Peak: Puncak Jaya Basecamp - 325 points Reach the Peak: Puncak Jaya Summit ...

Yesterday, Tom and I returned from New Jersey and a brutal six days working on the American Revolution GeoTrail . I first learned about it last year, while looking up information for 2020's Metro Gathering , which was being held in conjunction with the kick-off of the GeoTrail. Well, the event didn't happen, due to COVID, but the GeoTrail launch did. 77 caches were placed throughout the northern half of New Jersey, at locations significant to the American Revolution. The first 100 geocachers to find a minimum of 50 of these caches - 27 of which are required - will be awarded a geocoin. Unfortunately, one of the required caches is inside the Ford Mansion (Washington's Headquarters), which has been closed to the public ever since the COVID epidemic. We'll have to go back when it re-opens in order to earn our geocoin. For the most part, we really enjoyed our time visiting the historic locations and learning the stories about the people that helped form our nation. ...

Blue Switch Day is on May 2, but you can earn the souvenir for 2021 by logging a find on a geocacheor Adventure Lab or attending an event. Read a little more about Blue Switch Day 2021 here .

Geocaching's latest souvenir campaign, the Science of Discovery, begins April 12, 2021 and ends July 11, 2021. We can earn up to four souvenirs by collecting points, with a focus on Adventure Lab locations. The points can be earned by finding (and logging) the following: Adventure Lab Cache (Adventure location) - 10 pts A cache with 10+ favorite points - 9 pts An EarthCache - 8 pts A Mystery cache - 7 pts A Multi Cache - 6 pts Any other cache type - 5 pts The four souvenirs that you can earn are: Rocket Science - 50 points Geology - 100 points Environmental Science - 200 points Futurology - 300 points Read more about this campaign on the blog post , and don't forget to track your progress on your Leaderboard