Geocaching with Woo

The Hidden Creatures campaign begins today, June 27, and runs through July 25, 2018. For four weeks, we have the opportunity to earn thirteen mythical creature souvenirs for our profiles by doing what we enjoy doing - finding geocaches. In order to earn all thirteen souvenirs, we must find one hundred geocaches. Each cache found or event attended will earn a point, each souvenir has a point value, and the cumulative number of finds and/or events attended will earn us the souvenirs. The souvenirs and associated point values are as follows: I'm excited about the campaign, I love earning souvenirs. Tom's idea was to get this done in one fell swoop - so we're going to attempt it this weekend in Delaware. Learn more about the campaign here or follow your progress here .

The "Find Your Chesapeake" GeoTour launched June 9, 2018 with an kick-off event at the Zimmerman Center for Heritage in Pennsylvania. In order to receive the "Find Your Chesapeake" geocoin, you must find twenty of the 61 caches scattered throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, record the code word in the cache and send the GeoTour passport in. The only catch is that you must be within the first 350 (according to the passport) or 400 (according to the cache descriptions) cachers to fulfill the requirements. There is also a GeoTour souvenir available if you find all 61 caches. We live in northern Maryland, so over the course of the week after the GeoTour launched, we were able to find the four caches in our area and around Baltimore. Then we split up the remaining sixteen caches for the following weekend. Saturday, we went north and found the eight caches in Pennsylvania, Sunday, we started with the five caches on Kent Island, then headed s...

Groundspeak had announced last month that souvenirs were being awarded for GeoTours, as long as all of the caches in the GeoTour were found (minus any archived ones), not just the number required to complete the GeoTour. At that time, they were unsure about archived GeoTours. Imagine my surprise when the souvenir for the archived Smithsonian NMNH GeoTour popped up on my profile page. The Smithsonian NMNH GeoTour was filled with unexpected, yet pleasant, surprises from the very beginning. When I started geocaching in 2015, I came across the Smithsonian NMNH GeoTour. It seemed like something I could do, being a new cacher with two jobs - one full-time, the other almost full-time, and one other really time consuming hobby. It consisted of nine caches, six of which were in Washington, D.C., and the other three were each a reasonable drive away. The reward for completion of the GeoTour would be a badge for my profile page. So, in September 2015, after doing some Internet researc...