Geocaching with Woo

The latest souvenir campaign has been announced on the Geocaching blog ! It makes use of the Leaderboard , which hasn't been used for a campaign in a while. It's also a global participation thing, like with the Cosmic Quest's Lift Off souvenir. So, here's how I understand it - between July 21 and August 17, all of the geocachers in the world have the opportunity to fill up Signal's 25th anniversary scrapbook - 25 million pages worth! Using the Leaderboard, we can keep track of how many pages of the scrapbook we fill, as well as how many pages have been filled up globally. Our individual actions will fill up pages like this: Log a Found it on any cache, except Webcams - 1 page Attend an event - 3 pages Receive a Favorite Point on an owned geocache - 3 pages Find an Adventure Lab location - 1 page Find a geocache with 5+ Favorite Points - 3 pages Collect a Making Memories treasure - 5 pages There will be three souvenirs available to earn: Crafty Cacher - earn t...

International Geocaching Day 2025 is on August 16, 2025, and in order to celebrate 25 years of Geocaching, there will be TWO souvenirs available this year! The International Geocaching Day 2025 Finder souvenir can be earned by finding a geocache or attending an event from August 15-17 and the International Geocaching Day 2025 Hider souvenir can be earned by having a geocache published between July 15 and August 25! So much to do, so little time! My plans to create a new multiple cache in my area, which have been brewing for some time, are finally going to have to be finalized! Read more about our latest souvenir opportunity on the official blog post .

The next month's worth of treasures has been revealed, and they are: Tools of the trade - these six treasures will be available starting on July 8, but only if you've already completed the Egg hunt collection. Log Traditional, Mystery, Multiple or Letterbox caches that have the Special Tool Required attribute and have a difficulty rating of 3 or higher. Making memories - start earning these seven treasures on July 21 by first completing the Geocaching origins collection, then logging events or finding caches sized micro, small or regular with a difficulty rating of 1.5 through 4. Completing this collection will earn you the Memory Maker souvenir. The official blog post has all of the information you need to learn more.

The Geocaching website and app went live on May 29 with teasers about the newest collections of Treasures, to be released on June 10, but the official announcement was made today: Event mementos - after completing the Classic trackables collection, you can these earn 5 treasures Planets - unlock this collection of eight by completing the Mystery books collection I have completed the Classic trackables collection, so I'll find out the criteria for the Event mementos on June 10, but I have yet to complete the Navigational tools collection, the prerequisite for the Mystery books collection, so it might take a little bit before I learn what is needed to earn the Planets collection. You can read the latest announcement on the official blog post . UPDATE 06/10/25: These are the criteria for the five treasures in the Event memento collection: Type: Traditional, Multiple, Letterbox, Mystery, Webcam, Wherigo Size: Micro, Small, Other Favorites Points: minimum of 3 OR any event Whew! ...

June Solstice is coming and we're celebrating with another souvenir! From June 20-22, log a found it on any geocache, attend an event or complete an Adventure Lab location to earn it. The official announcement can be found on the official blog post .

The Middle of Everywhere GeoTour kicked off on May 3, 2025, and was on my list of tings to do while in West Virginia for GeoWoodstock XXI . A couple of years ago (around 2022), I heard about the Marion County Murals Geocaching Trail, and had hoped to travel there to complete it. Marion County had sponsored GeoTrails in the past, but that was the first one I had heard of. The Middle of Everywhere GeoTour (MOE-GT) incorporated some of the same locations, and added more, maybe from previous GeoTrails. The caches were divided into four different categories, each being a specific cache type, and at least four caches out of each category had to be found in order to be eligible for the geocoin. Finding all twenty would give you the souvenir. After attending GeoWoodstock through lunch, we left Mylan Park and headed south, hoping to find the required 16 out of 20 caches needed to earn the geocoin. We heard from multiple sources that it would take eight to ten hours, so we were on a time...

The Country Roads Challenge was released on May 22, 2025, as a side event for GeoWoodstock XXI . It included ten locations, with an approximate drive time of 1.5 hours, from beginning to end. These locations were intended to bring geocachers to venues that were off the beaten path, but still worth a visit. An Adventure Lab was also co-located with eight of the ten stops, with an additional two along way. These caches were well placed for us. While travelling to West Virginia for GeoWoodstock via I-68, the caches fell in line with our travel plans and the whole challenge took us about 3½ hours to complete. Our final destination, before retiring for the evening, was Woodstock on the Wharf , and the last cache left us close to that location. The caches were easy to find, and the code words for the Adventure Labs well placed, especially for venues that happened to be closed. Retrieval of the trackable geocoin was easy, too. Just bring the completed passport to the Visit Mo...