Geocaching with Woo

Well, did you get your Hider souvenir in 2022? Well, if not, you'll get your chance to get a similar souvenir for your profile in 2023. In order to earn the 2023 Hider souvenir, all you have to do is hide a geocache or host an event in 2023. That's it. Easy, right? Well, if it was that easy, there would be many more geocaches to find and events to attend, but for me, I overthink things, so it's a little bit more difficult. But, I have plenty of ideas, so I'll try to throw at least one of them out there - but not until after the beginning of next year :-) Read the official blog post to learn a little bit more.

It's time for the next challenge - an old, stone Castle! Beginning December 5, start earning points to earn your souvenirs, 50 points to enter the castle and 500 points to escape it. The point values for each cache type are as follows: Found an Adventure Lab Cache (Adventure Location) - 10 points Attended an Event - 35 points Found a Mystery Cache - 30 points Found a Multi-Cache - 30 points Found a Letterbox Hybrid - 25 points Found a cache with 10+ Favorite points - 20 points Found a Signal’s Labyrinth item (lantern) - 50 points Found it* - 15 points Keep track of your progress on your leaderboard and learn more about the next labyrinth in the blog post .

In a partnership with Cache Crate™, and to celebrate of thousands of Cache Crate™ subscribers, Geocaching HQ will release 3,500 limited-edition Cache Crate™ Cachekinz trackables across the United States. Will you be lucky enough to receive one? Request a Cache Crate™ Cachekinz trackable and learn more about how to get exclusive geocaching gear shipped to you every month at this link .

As another year comes to an end, there are two new souvenirs to keep an eye out for. Earn Drop Anchor 2022 by finding any geocache, attending an Event, or completing an Adventure Lab® Location from December 24–31, and earn Full Sail 2023 by finding any geocache, attending an Event, or completing an Adventure Lab® Location from January 1–8. Learn more on the blog post .

Celebrate International EarthCache Day this weekend and earn a souvenir by finding an EarthCache on October 8 or 9! Read the blog post to learn a little bit more about these great caches that teach us about the environment that we live in.

I'm ready for the next labyrinth, are you? The hedge maze opens up on October 3, when we can start earning points to enter it. Once again, to enter the hedge maze we must earn 50 points, and 500 points to escape it. The points can be earned in the following manner: Find an Adventure Lab location - 10 points Find a Mystery cache - 35 points Find a Multi-cache - 30 points Find an EarthCache - 30 points Attend an Event - 20 points Find a cache with 10+ favorite points - 20 points Find a Signal's Labyrinth item - 50 points Find any other cache - 15 points Check out your Leaderboard to keep up on your progress and learn more about this stage in the blog post .

Season 2 of Cache In, Trash Out for 2022 starts tomorrow and ends November 30, 2022. Don't forget to help do your part to help clean up this game's playing board!

Are you ready for the next labyrinth? Beginning August 1, we can start earning points to enter, and escape, the Cave. Once again, to enter the mysterious cave we must earn 50 points, but to escape it, we must earn 500 points. The points can be earned in the following manner: Find an Adventure Lab location - 10 points Find a cache with 10+ favorite points - 30 points Attend an Event - 30 points Find an EarthCache - 30 points Find a Multi-cache - 20 points Find a Mystery cache - 20 points Find a Signal's Labyrinth item - 50 points Find any other cache - 15 points Check out your Leaderboard to keep up on your progress and learn more about this stage in the blog post .

Geocaching wants to beat their previous world record of the most explorers out caching in one day! In order to make that happen, and earn a souvenir in the process (if we can accomplish this monumental feat), they've chosen August 20, 2022 (that's right, International Geocaching Day and the date of the Geocaching 20 th Anniversary Celebration Event) to be the target date. The previous world record for most cachers exploring in one day was on August 11, 2013, with 126,833 geocachers logging finds or attending events, and surely we can beat it. In order to help accomplish this goal, log a "Found It" on a cache, complete an Adventure location or post an "Attended" on an event on August 20, 2022. Don't forget - put it on your calendar if it helps - and help prove how the Geocaching community can come together and achieve something truly phenominal! Read more about it on their blog post .

Earlier this week, I received this trackable in the mail. I'll be releasing it soon at a nearby cache with the goal of visiting Bigfoot/Sasquatch hot spots or caches that honor this elusive creature. I hope it travels far and wide, and is maybe photographed with Bigfoot! JLG47R Don't forget, if you find this or any of the other Jack Link's Sasquatch tags, upload photos to your social media using #jacklinksquest and #sweepstakes or tagging @jacklinksjerky.

International Geocaching Day is fast approaching and is being celebrated on August 20, 2022. Earn a souvenir by logging a find, attending an event or finding an Adventure Lab location.

It's time for a new trackable giveaway! Request a Sasquatch trackable from Jack Link's here up until June 28. 5,000 trackables will be given away to legal residents of the United States over the age of 18. There's also a sweepstakes for a year's worth of beef jerky! Read more about it on the Geocaching blog post here . Once you get/find one of these trackables, share a photo on social media with #JackLinksQuest, or tag @jacklinksjerky.

Have you made your way out of the forest, yet? The next step in the journey is the Swamp! From June 6 throught July 31, we can start making our way through the murky swamp shrouded in mist. In order to start wading through the swamp, you'll need to earn 50 points and 500 points are needed to escape. The points can be earned in the following manner: Find an Advenure Lab cache - 5 points Find a cache with 10+ Favorite Points - 25 points Find a Letterbox Hybrid - 30 points Find a Mystery cache - 25 points Attend any event - 20 points Find a Signal's Labyrinth item (magic potion) - 50 points Find any other cache type - 15 points Keep track of your progress on the Leaderboard and get more information from the official blog post .

Blue Switch Day is May 2, and Geocaching is celebrating it by offering a souvenir if you log a find on a cache, an Adventure location or attend an event from April 30 to May 2. Read more about it here .

The latest campaign from Geocaching is Signal's Labyrinth . Signal is lost in a labyrinth, and we need to help him find his way back to HQ! Every two months for the next twelve months, we will help him escape a different labyrinth. Two souvenirs can be earned in each labyrinth, and if we are able to earn all twelve souvenirs, we will earn a Meta-souvenir. The first labyrinth is the Enchanted Forest, and the first souvenir (Signal's Labyrinth: the forest) will be earned by getting 50 points and the second souvenir (Signal's Labyrinth: You escaped the forest) will be earned by getting 500 points. You can earn points in the Enchanted Forest in the following manner: Found an Adventure Lab cache - 10 points Found a cache with 10+ favorite points - 20 points Found a Multi-cache - 25 points Found a Mystery cache - 25 points Found a Signal's Labyrinth item - 65 points Log a found it on any other cache type - 15 points Point values will change in each labyrinth. The Sign...

Earlier this year, Geocaching announced that this is the Year of the Hide. They've provided great advice on their blog about maintaining old caches and placing new ones. Well, a new announcement has proclaimed that if you get a new geocache published between March 1 and December 31 of this year, you'll earn a souvenir! You'll earn the souvenir for geocaches and events, but not for Adventure Locations. This is giving me some incentive to break out the ideas that I've come up with for mystery caches and to get cracking on the items I've collected to make cache containers from. I'm disappointed that my Adventure Lab credits won't count, but I can always work a bonus cache in!

CITO 2022, Season 1 begins March 1 and extends through May 31. This is our chance to improve the playing field for this game we love, and earn a souvenir while doing it!

Did you see the latest announcement from Geocaching? Yes, they're rolling out another batch of Virtual rewards! The application page opens today and closes February 26, 2022, and 4,000 randomly chosen geocachers, who meet the following requirements, will be given a Virtual Reward: Virtual Reward: You did not receive a previous Virtual Reward. Ownership: You must own at least two active non-Event geocaches. Hidden: You must own at least one geocache or Event published within the past four years (February 8, 2018 to February 8, 2022). Activity: You must have posted a log on a geocache within the past six months. Quality: Your owned geocaches must have at least 20 total Favorite points. If you meet the requirements, put in your request here . Do you want more information before signing up? Check out the blog post here . You'll find out on March 1, 2022 whether or not you've been randomly selected for the prize - good luck!

Boy, am I late this year! For the first week of January, I was on a cruise and had no internet access and I feel like I'm lucky to have finished my graphic today. Unfortunately, this year I did not complete a single goal that I made last year. Blame it on the pandemic. So, without any further interuption, this was my geocaching year in all it's glory! So, as is evidenced by the above graphic, I earned all of the souvenirs offered by Geocaching this year. In addition to all of those, a new country souvenir was created for Jamaica, where I've found a cache several years ago and I "found" my first locationless cache, GC8NEAT . We participated in the 2021 Cache Across Maryland as well as completed enough of the American Revolution GeoTrail in New Jersey to earn the geocoin. I've been sending in submissions for the "I Found Sparticus" contest in FTF Geocacher magazine for some time, and I finally won an I Found Sparticus Pathtag in the random d...

There's one peak left, and it's Everest ! The journey to the Basecamp (425 points) and Summit (8849 points) begins February 7, and each souvenir can be earned by accumulating points in the following manner: Complete an Adventure - 975 points Find a Mystery cache - 900 points Find a Multi cache - 850 points Find a cache with 15+ Favorite Points - 700 points Find an EarthCache - 650 points Find a Letterbox Hybrid - 550 points Log a find it (not an Event or a Webcam) - 425 points Find an Adventure Location - 125 points As an added bonus, if you've been keeping up with acquiring all of the previous Reach the Peak souvenirs, upon reaching the Summit of Everest, you should receive your Peak Performer souvenir. Read more about this month's challenge here .

The latest trackable giveawy is from Nickelodeon and they are Kamp Koral Badge trackables! These trackables advertise a new television show on Paramount+ - "Kamp Koral - SpongeBob's Under Years." There will be 7000 Kamp Koral character badge trackables - 1000 for each of seven characters (SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward, Plankton, Mr. Krabs and Gary) - and the giveaway is only open to those who are 18 years or older. Fill out the form here to request a trackable, or read more about the giveaway here .

What's this? A new souvenir opportunity? I'm on it like white on rice! In order to earn this souvenir, two caches or events must be logged (or any combination of the two) on Twos-day, February 22, 2022. Check out the blog post for more information.