Geocaching with Woo

The first challenge in the "You Might Be a Geocacher If..." campaign is "You Might Be an Adrenaline Junkie If..." This Geocaching Personality souvenir can be earned between September 3 and October 1 by earning 50 points. Keeping track of points is easy, just check the Friend League, but here's how they're earned: Log a Found It - 5 Difficulty Rating - x2 Terrain Rating - x2 Find a geocache with 10 or more favorite points - 10 Difficulty Rating - x2 Terrain Rating - x2 Attend an Event - 5 Drop a Trackable - 3 In true "Adrenaline Junkie" style, double the points are earned for difficulty and terrain ratings. So far, it appears that most of my predictions about the campaign are correct: the first souvenir is related to the difficulty/terrain of caches, a certain number of points needs to be earned, only one of the souvenirs is being offered this month and the Friend League is being used to keep track of how many points are scored.

Woohoo! Geocaching has announced it's latest campaign, "You Might Be a Geocacher If..." Here's what's known: We will receive "Geocaching Personality Souvenirs" - examples given were Adrenaline Junkie, Social Butterfly, Trackable Lover and Caching Connoisseur It takes place from September through December It utilizes the Friend League If you collect them all, you're the ultimate geocacher This is my speculation: The souvenirs will be related to the difficulty/terrain of caches found (Adrenaline Junkie), attending events (Social Butterfly), dropping off trackables (Trackable Lover) and number of caches found with ten or more favorite points (Caching Connoisseur). A certain number of points will have to be earned in relation to each of these in order to receive the souvenir. Each month, a different souvenir will be offered. The announcement implies this by saying that September's challenge will be announced next week. The Friend League is be...

In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Trails System Act and showcase what America's trails have to offer, Geocaching HQ is partnering up with the U.S. Forest Service and the Ad Council in their Discover the Forest campaign for their latest trackable promotion. 1,500 randomly chosen people from the United States will receive a Discover the Forest trackable. The U.S. Trails System Act established a national network of trails, and this year celebrates their 50th anniversary. The "Discover the Forest" campaign encourages people to explore nearby trails and parks, and all they have to offer. Visit their website to learn more. They recommend activities, give advice on how to plan your trip and will even help you find parks in your area. Personally, I'm interested in trying out the "Agents of Discovery" mobile game, which seems to incorporate some augmented reality challenges. After experiencing the augmented reality lab caches at GeoWood...

Every year, the third Saturday in August is International Geocaching Day. In order to commemorate this special day, Geocaching Headquarters is awarding a souvenir for finding a geocache or attending an event on that date. So, hurry up and don't delay, this only lasts for a day! Log your "Found It" or "Attended" on August 18, 2018.

Tom and I had planned on going to the Outer Banks for a vacation this year, and as is my way, while planning the trip, I looked for geocaches that were available in the area. As I scanned up and down the coast, I found the shape of a duck in Duck, the Duck-Walk Geo-Art. In comparison to other geo-arts I've worked on, this one was easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy. How much do you need to know? One word: Duck. No, you don't need to know anything about the quaint little town of Duck, you just need to know the word. Really. Each of the geo-art's cache pages has a Certitude link where you enter the word "Duck" and it will tell you the cache coordinates. Oops, did I forget to mention "Spoiler Alert!"? Never mind, you would have figured it out anyway. The Duck-Walk covered about 4½ miles, and went all through town, so we rented bicycles from an establishment in town that offered day rentals. The terrain was mostly flat, with some hills here and there, and ...