Geocaching with Woo

As part of Geocaching's 25th year celebration, they've released a new Locationless Cache - Where's 25? It will be available to log from January 25 - December 31, 2025 and all you need to do is find an existing 25 - numerical, spelled out, whatever - and post a photo of it with you or a signature item in you log. Sound easy? The hardest part for me will be remebering this cache and noticing a 25! Read more about the latest opportunity to find this rare type of geocache on the official blog post .

A souvenir that was confirmed by this blog post was the 2025 Community Celebration Event souvenir. Attending any Community Celebration Event in 2025 will qualify you for the souvenir, so be on the lookout for these events to be held at a location near you!

Well, my geocaching year was pretty uneventful. I ended up finding less than 200 geocaches - to include Adventure Labs - but I was able to earn every souvenir available this year. I think my best (and proudest) achievements were finding a few geocaches in Asia, when I went on a short trip to Vietnam to visit family. I found some Adventure Labs at the airport in Tokyo, and was unable to locate one, so I tried to guess where the bonus cache would be. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it, and came close to missing my connecting flight. The Adventure Labs didn't earn me a souvenir for Japan, so I created my own, and if I'm ever passing though the airport in Tokyo again, I know exactly where to go to earn the actual souvenir. I found both Adventure Labs and physical caches in Vietnam, as well as attended an event, so I earned a souvenir there. The airport in Korea didn't have anything easy to grab, so I missed out on that country. My next best achievement was being ask...