Geocaching with Woo

The second challenge in the "You Might Be a Geocacher If..." campaign is "You Might Be a Caching Connoisseur If..." This Geocaching Personality souvenir can be earned between October 1 and October 29 by earning 60 points. These points can be earned in the following manner: Log a Found It - 5 Log a found it on a geocache with 10 or more favorite points - 15 Attend an Event - 5 Drop a Trackable - 1 As a "Caching Connoisseur," extra points are earned for finding caches with 10 or more favorite points. Don't forget to keep track of your points on the Friend League.

2018's Fall CITO Week begins today - are you excited? In addition to doing good for the areas that we geocache in, we can also earn a souvenir by attending a CITO event between September 15 and September 23. Even though CITO is heavily promoted two times a year, in April and September, CITO (Cache In-Trash Out) is good to practice any time of year. Picking up trash on our way to, or around, geocaches leaves the area cleaner, and even possibly safer, for the next geocacher that comes along. Trails that are blazed or bridges that are built could eventually lead us to new areas to geocache in. Trees that are planted could grow up to be new hiding places. The possibilities are limitless. Help make this world a better place and attend a CITO event this week!

Well, we did it. My parents and I now qualify as "Adrenaline Junkies." Altogether, I scored 146 points, 91 of them from difficulty/terrain points. I guess I could have waited, and spread everything out over the course of the month, but my parents were visiting for the Labor Day weekend, and, as is our way, we cached over the weekend. Now, I don't have to feel the pressure of getting the required number of points by October 1.