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GC8NEAT - A New Locationless Cache

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Today, a new Locationless cache was published. Let's improve the outdoors - Locationless Cache can be logged between February 6, 2021 and December 31, 2021, by posting a picture of you, or a personal item, with your results from improving the outdoors. In addition to earning a locationless cache icon, a souvenir will be awarded to your profile when you log this one, so go out and plant a tree, improve a park or just clean up some trash in your neighborhood - it's CITO on a completely different scale! Read more about it here . FYI - the end date for the locationless cache - Find Signal the Frog® - Locationless in 2020 - has been extended to December 31, 2021, with an archival date of January 1, 2022. Update 03/02/21 - GC8FR0G has now been extended yet another year, and the 20th Anniversary Celebration, GeoWoodstock in Abbottsford, Canada and Going Ape are being pushed back to July/August 2022. Read more on the Geocaching blog post .

2020 - A Geocacher's Year in Review

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Wow! This past year did not turn out the way I expected. Despite all of my well laid-out plans, things just did not work out. I had made travel arrangements for an epic trip to Washington state for different activities, but they were all cancelled due to the pandemic. Despite all of that, I was able to accomplish the things illustrated in the graphic below: I was able to earn all but two of the souvenirs that came out this year - due to COVID-19, there were no CITO events in my area. Some had been planned, but they were cancelled. If I lived further West, I probably could have earned them, I'm disappointed to miss out on them. We went to New York, a new state for us to cache in, and found enough caches to earn the Experience Tioga County GeoTour geocoin. My 2500 find achievement was published in FTF Geocacher magazine. I completed the "Walk the Camino de Santiago with the FTF Guy," put out an Adventure Lab and completed the virtual "Lost Places World Tour....