Geocaching with Woo

The latest souvenir campaign has been announced on the Geocaching blog ! It makes use of the Leaderboard , which hasn't been used for a campaign in a while. It's also a global participation thing, like with the Cosmic Quest's Lift Off souvenir. So, here's how I understand it - between July 21 and August 17, all of the geocachers in the world have the opportunity to fill up Signal's 25th anniversary scrapbook - 25 million pages worth! Using the Leaderboard, we can keep track of how many pages of the scrapbook we fill, as well as how many pages have been filled up globally. Our individual actions will fill up pages like this: Log a Found it on any cache, except Webcams - 1 page Attend an event - 3 pages Receive a Favorite Point on an owned geocache - 3 pages Find an Adventure Lab location - 1 page Find a geocache with 5+ Favorite Points - 3 pages Collect a Making Memories treasure - 5 pages There will be three souvenirs available to earn: Crafty Cacher - earn t...

Updates on the Cosmic Quest summer souvenir campaign have been released! Between July 22 and September 1, the geocaching community will be trying to help our intergalactic friends by generating enough fuel for them to continue their stellar journey. Fuel is earned by completing the following tasks, with each task earning a certain number of units of fuel: Activate a trackable - 1 unit Attend an event - 3 units Receive a favorite point on an owned geocache - 2 units Find an EarthCache - 5 units Find any other cache type, excluding Webcams - 1 unit There will be three souvenirs available: Super Fuel - earn 20 units of fuel individually Ultra Fuel - earn 100 units of fuel individually Lift Off - earn 15 million units of fuel globally So, even though rewarding a cache a favorite point doesn't help you out as an individual in the short term, it helps someone else individually, and adds to the global units earned in the long run. It's great to think of helping our fellow geocac...

Geocaching just announced something, maybe a new souvenir campaign. The blog post had an image of message that we were supposed to decipher. After taking a little bit of time to decypher it, I came up with: Hello Earthlings. We have come across a reference to geocaching.com on a metal creature roving the planet of Mars. It seems this geocaching is an activity meant to further exploration and community. We would like to better understand this interesting human activity and we are traveling to Earth to learn more. We only hope we will have enough fuel in our spaceship to keep exploring I'm excited to see what they're coming up with.

It's time for the final challenge from the Wheel of Challenges! This one is called Teamwork Makes the Dream Work, and two souvenirs can be earned from September 4 - October 1 by earning points in the following manner: Attend an Event - 75 points Attend a CITO - 75 points Find a cache with 10+ Favorite Points - 50 points Receive a Favorite Point on an owned cache - 50 points Log a Found It on any other cache type - 25 points The Easy souvenir can be earned by getting 100 points, while the Hard souvenir can be earned by getting 1000 points. Keep track of your points on the Leaderboard and good luck out there!

The next challenge on the Wheel of Challenges is Iconic Cacher ! Between August 7 and September 3, two souvenirs can be earned by logging different cache types: Easy - three cache types - Traditional, Adventure Lab, Event Hard - eight cache types - Traditional, Adventure Lab, Event, Virtual, EarthCache, Multiple, Mystery, Letterbox This challenge seems so much easier then in previous months, quality vs. quantity? There are still some that might be a little bit more difficult to get, but I'm up for the challenge :-) Read more about the challenge on the official blog post .

Oh boy! Our next challenge has been announced , and it's Streak Star! There are three souvenirs available this month (from July 3 through August 6), and they can be earned the following ways: Easy: Complete a two day streak Medium: Complete a seven day streak Hard: Complete a 28 day streak I've been looking forward to, and dreading, this one! I have purposely been staying away from newer caches in my area so that on the four days a week that I work at both of my jobs, I can pop out at lunchtime for one, and on the other three days I won't have too far to go each day. And luckily, since the time period to earn the souvenirs is 35 days long, if I mess up early on, I still have a few days to make up for my mistakes. Good luck of becoming a Streak Star!

The Wheel of Challenges has spoken for a third time, and the next challenge is - Out and About! Between June 5 and July 2, go out and find caches on individual days. The souvenirs are earned in this way: Easy - log a find on five (5) different days Medium - log a find on ten (10) different days Hard - log a find on twenty (20) different days This challenge came from the car icon, so I guess that my Road Trip idea wasn't quite right. Good luck out there!

The next challenge chosen by the Wheel of Challenges is Favorite Fan! Points can be earned from May 1 - June 4 in the following manner: Find a cache with 10+ favorite points - 20 points Receive a favorite point on an owned cache - 50 points Log a found it on any other cache, including Adventure Lab locations - 10 points 100 points are needed to get the Easy souvenir, while the Hard souvenir needs 1000 points - keep track of points earned in this challenge on the Leaderboard . Good luck!

Geocaching has spun the Wheel of Challenges and for the month of April, the challenge is Seeking Smileys. From April 3 through April 30, three souvenirs of differing difficulty levels can be earned by logging finds: Easy - 5 finds Medium - 10 finds Hard - 100 finds You can watch the video of the wheel spin here . Now it's time for some speculation. The icons shown on the wheel are making me think about what the challenges might be. There's a Star, a Question Mark, a Heart, a Smiley Face, a Car and People. We now know that the Smiley Face represents finding caches, any caches. The Heart probably represents highly favorited caches - so finding caches with 10+ favorite points or cumulative favorite points on caches found. The Question Mark might be finding Mystery (Unknown) caches and the People could be attending Events. More than likely, the Star is a streak of some duration. The hardest to figure out is the Car. I'm thinking that it might mean the distance of c...

The next geocaching campaign has been introduced - the Wheel of Challenges! Beginning on the first Monday of the month for the next six months (April 3, May 1, June 5, July 3, August 7, and September 4), a new challenge will be introduced. The Tuesday before the official start of each monthly challenge, Geocaching will "spin the wheel of challenges" and announce the next challenge in a blog post. Each challenge will have either two or three souvenirs available to earn; one presumably for an easy version of the challenge and one for completing the whole challenge, then maybe one for a mid-point for the more difficult challenges. This is pure conjecture, of course, but it seems logical. I'm always up for a good souvenir campaign, but I'm just hoping that certain challenges, like the streak challenge, don't occur in May, August or September, when I'll be spending a week of vacation in places that have limited to no access to caches (on a cruise ship in the ...

Signal's final challenge is upon us - the lair of a hungry, fire-breathing dragon! Beginning February 6, earn 50 points to enter the dragon's lair 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 Found a Multi-Cache - 35 points Found a Mystery Cache - 30 points Attended an Event - 25 points Found a cache with 10+ Favorite points - 20 points Found a Signal’s Labyrinth item (ham) - 50 points Found it - 15 points We have until April 3 to complete this challenge, and if you've earned all of the Signal's Labyrinth souvenirs to date, completion of this challenge will earn you the "You brought Signal back to HQ" meta-souvenir. Keep track of your progress on your leaderboard and learn more about the next labyrinth in the blog post .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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...

Hopefully everyone has been climbing their peaks every month because the next challenge begins January 3. This month, the South American peak of Aconcagua will be our focus. For the Basecamp souvenir, a total of 350 points must be accumulated, and for the Summit souvenir, we'll need 6960 points. The points can be earned in the following manner: Find a Multi-cache: 775 points Find a Mystery cache: 750 points Find a cache with 15+ favorite points: 725 points Find an EarthCache: 700 points Find a Letterbox Hybrid: 550 points Find an Adventure location: 450 points Any other cache (excluding events and webcams): 350 points Read more about this month's souvenir challenge on Geocaching's blog post .

How are you doing climbing those mountains? Starting December 6, at 8 a.m., we get to start climbing a new one - Denali ! You only need 350 points in order to get the Basecamp souvenir, but the Summit souvenir needs 6190 points this time. Here's how you earn the points: Find a Multi-Cache - 750 points Find a Cache with 10+ Favorite Points - 700 points Find an EarthCache - 600 points Find a Mystery Cache - 550 points Find a Letterbox Hybrid - 500 points Find an Adventure Location - 425 points Find any other non-event or Webcam cache - 350 points Don't forget that you can earn Fin 2021/Once Upon a Time 2022 souvenirs during this time period, so if you want to maximize your caching efforts, don't forget to figure those caches into the equation!

The opportunity to reach the peak of Elbrus is rapidly coming to an end, but a new challenge begins at noon on November 1. To earn the Basecamp souvenir, you need 325 points, and 5895 points are needed for the Summit souvenir. The following list shows how to earn your points: Found a Mystery Cache - 700 points Found a Multi-Cache - 600 points Found an EarthCache - 500 points Found a Letterbox Hybrid - 450 points Found an Adventure Location - 400 points Found it - 325 points Don't give up, you're almost half way to earning your Peak Performer souvenir!

It's time to set our sights on the next set of Reach the Peak souvenirs - Mount Elbrus ! 325 points are needed in order to earn the Elbrus Basecamp souvenir and 5642 points are needed for the Elbrus Summit souvenir. Start earning points at noon UTC - that's 8:00 a.m. Eastern - in the following manner: Find an EarthCache - 750 points Find a Mystery cache - 600 points Find a Letterbox Hybrid - 550 points Find a Multi-Cache - 450 points Find a cache with 10+ favorite points - 450 points Find an Adventure Lab Cache - 350 points Any other found it - 325 points Read more about the Elbrus souvenirs here , and don't forget to get the most souvenir bang for your buck by logging an EarthCache on International EarthCache Day Weekend (October 9 and 10) !