Geocaching with Woo

The Middle of Everywhere GeoTour kicked off on May 3, 2025, and was on my list of tings to do while in West Virginia for GeoWoodstock XXI . A couple of years ago (around 2022), I heard about the Marion County Murals Geocaching Trail, and had hoped to travel there to complete it. Marion County had sponsored GeoTrails in the past, but that was the first one I had heard of. The Middle of Everywhere GeoTour (MOE-GT) incorporated some of the same locations, and added more, maybe from previous GeoTrails. The caches were divided into four different categories, each being a specific cache type, and at least four caches out of each category had to be found in order to be eligible for the geocoin. Finding all twenty would give you the souvenir. After attending GeoWoodstock through lunch, we left Mylan Park and headed south, hoping to find the required 16 out of 20 caches needed to earn the geocoin. We heard from multiple sources that it would take eight to ten hours, so we were on a time...

The Country Roads Challenge was released on May 22, 2025, as a side event for GeoWoodstock XXI . It included ten locations, with an approximate drive time of 1.5 hours, from beginning to end. These locations were intended to bring geocachers to venues that were off the beaten path, but still worth a visit. An Adventure Lab was also co-located with eight of the ten stops, with an additional two along way. These caches were well placed for us. While travelling to West Virginia for GeoWoodstock via I-68, the caches fell in line with our travel plans and the whole challenge took us about 3½ hours to complete. Our final destination, before retiring for the evening, was Woodstock on the Wharf , and the last cache left us close to that location. The caches were easy to find, and the code words for the Adventure Labs well placed, especially for venues that happened to be closed. Retrieval of the trackable geocoin was easy, too. Just bring the completed passport to the Visit Mo...

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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.

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.

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 .

A few days ago, I received this trackable in the mail. I decided to release it at an event that we attended today, and luckily it was picked up. I hope it travels far and wide. ZWG45D

To celebrate the release of World of Warcraft®: Wrath of the Lich King – A Pandemic System Board Game, Geocaching has teamed up with Z-Man Games and Blizzard to release 4,200 limited-edition trackables of Jaina Proudmoore, Lady Liadrin, Muradin Bronzebeard, Tirion Fordring, Sylvanas Windrunner, Thrall, and Varian Wrynn around the world. Help these heroes complete essential quests as they make their way towards Icecrown Citadel for a final confrontation with the Lich King by moving these trackables from cache to cache across the globe. Find all seven heroes and share your WoW findings on social media using #WoWCache and tag @ZManGames_ (Instagram and Twitter) and @ZManGames (Facebook)! As these trackables continue to be moved along, they will complete mileage quests which in turn will allow players to receive print and play bonus content for the board game. Visit this link to request your free trackable! UPDATE (10/23/21): Woo hoo! I just received an e-mail saying I've been r...

The newest off-planet trackable will be available for logging towards the end of 2021! WISA Plywood will be launching the world's first wooden satellite Travel Bug, WISA Woodsat . The nanosatellite will be testing the viability of wood products, such as WISA Plywood, in space vehicles, by exposing it to extreme space conditions, such as heat, cold, vacuum and radiation. The satellite's suite of sensors will measure changes in the wood material. A camera mounted to a selfie-style stick will also help monitor these changes, but it will also capture the tracking code in images which can be found in the image gallery at wisawoodsat.space . After it's launch, keep track of it on WISA Plywood's social media ( Facebook , Instagram or Twitter ) or add TB9GB8G to your watchlist.

Have you requested your Wild Basin trackable yet? Wild Basin wants you the "Find Your Wild!" and take the road less traveled with Wild Basin Hard Seltzer. By finding or activating a Wild Basin trackable, you could become part of a community that takes chances, seeks adventure at every turn, and wants to “get lost” somewhere wild. For 15 lucky adventurers, finding your wild could mean winning big. Among the caches are 15 special Wild Basin cans, all together worth $15,000. How can you win? Here's how: Step One is to fill out the request form for a chance to win one of 1,500 trackables. Step Two is to share your Wild Basin + Geocaching experience on social media using #WildBasinGetLost and #Sweepstakes. By doing so, you'll also be entered to win a Wild Basin hammock! Start off by following @wildbasinhardseltzer on Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram, then take a picture of yourself with the trackable and post it with the tags #WildBasinGetLost and #Sweepstakes....

Right on time, NASA's Perseverance rover has landed on Mars! Don't forget that the rover is trackable, and pretty soon it will take a picture of the trackable code, found on the calibration target, and send that picture back to Earth. Raw images from the rover can be found here , and hopefully the image of the trackable code will be posted there. If that doesn't work, check out the trackable's page periodically for the opportunity to log it.

The Mars probe , Perseverance , is scheduled to launch on July 30 and arrive on Mars on February 18, 2021. Geocaching, along with their friends at NASA, have made the probe trackable! A trackable code has been emblazoned on the calibration unit of the SHERLOC, and will be seen when images are transmitted back to Earth. You can read a little bit more about the calibration unit at this link .

Another trackable promotion has been announced featuring Nickelodeon's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This promotion celebrates the 35th Anniversary of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with a give-away of an additional 1,000 limited edition Total Turtle Power group trackables across the globe. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to "help these half-shell heroes discover new adventures and hidden locations around the world by moving them from cache to cache. Find all four Turtles + the bonus Total Turtle Power trackable and share your TMNT finds on social using #TMNTcache and tag @TMNT!" Request your free trackable here !

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a white envelope from one, Xavier! After a couple of months of back-and-forth e-mails between myself and the Small Parks Specialist in charge of the Eight Wards of Washington, DC GeoTrail , I received an awesome geocoin in the mail. My parents, DragonSoldier45 and DragonLadyHue, Tom and I completed all but one of the caches on the Eight Wards of Washington, DC GeoTrail back in March. Since then, I've been watching the DNF'ed cache, to see if someone else finds it, so I could swoop down and find it, too. Unfortunately, the cache was archived in August. I continued to keep an eye on it, just in case it was unarchived, and some time in September, I decided to reach out and learn more about the status of the cache. Xavier, the Small Parks Specialist, said that he still had coins left and that even though we hadn't found the one cache, he was willing to award us the geocoin. My first passport must have got lost in the ...

After returning home from the " 2019 Metro Gathering ~ Pirates of Port Royale ," I opened my mail and found out that I won a free trackable from the FTF Geocacher magazine's puzzle contest. It's so cool! I've been entering the contests in the magazines as often as I can, and it finally paid off. My geo-nick will be published, too, so look for it in the FTF Geocacher magazine, Volume 10, Issue 2.

A new trackable promotion was just announced for Nickelodeon's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! To celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Geocaching has teamed up with Nickelodeon and The Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and is giving away 4,000 trackables featuring Leonardo (Leo), Michelangelo (Mickey), Donatello (Donnie) and Raphael (Raph). To enter for your chance to win a free trackable, fill in the form here . A map of events where TMNT trackables are being given away is on the same page as the entry form. Once you get your trackable, don't forget to photograph it's adventures and tag it with #TMNTcache or @TMNT. Good luck!

Earlier this week, Tom mentioned that he'd like to go to Kent Island this Saturday to do a little geocaching, and I mentioned that we should schedule a trip to West Virginia in the not-to-distant future, because the number of geocoins remaining for the Smart Caches of Berkeley County and the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour were slowly dwindling. He decided that we would scrap the initial plans and head back to West Virginia for an overnight stay, since the GeoTour includes three night caches. The Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour consists of 50 caches, which include 18 newly published caches (BGG), a selection of caches from three previous GeoTrails (GBC, MCBC and SCBC ) and a handful of other caches the have been put out by WVTim. In order to qualify for the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour geocoin, we had to find 16 of the 18 BGG caches. I'm happy to say that we found 17 of them! We're well on our way to earning the souvenir, too. Our past two trips have netted us 42 of the 50 required ...

While Tom and I were in Berkeley County, West Virginia to work on the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour , we ended up finding all but two of the Smart Caches of Berkeley County (SCBC). In order to earn the SCBC geocoin, we had to find eleven of the fourteen remaining SCBC caches, which gave us the ability to pick and choose which ones to find. The hard part in choosing was that three of them are not on the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour, so do we go with GeoTour caches exclusively, or do we find the ones that are near other caches? We ended up finding the three non-GeoTour caches, and leaving two GeoTour caches for a future trip. These caches were varied and fun to complete. My favorite was "SCBC 7 Bike Trail," where I had to travel about 400 feet down a corrugated pipe to end up in the middle of an expressway. The most difficult one for me was "SCBC 12 Illuminating," but only because the flashlight that I was using wasn't strong enough to trigger the sensors. "SC...

The Woodbooger GeoTour launched in 2018, and when I first learned about it, I thought it would be right up Tom's alley, with it's Woodbooger (Bigfoot) implications. We were fortunate enough to have a few days of favorable weather this weekend, so Tom contacted sewwatt, one of the GeoTour organizers, and learned that the geocoins were dwindling in number. She confirmed that we could complete the GeoTour in a day, so we tacked a trip down to Norton, Virginia onto the end of our trip to Berkeley County, West Virginia. We enjoyed the GeoTour, and were able to find all 25 caches, earning the geocoin and the souvenir. The majority of the caches were birdhouse hosts with a container inside, a few of those were field puzzles. There were a few gadget caches, several Letterbox caches and even an EarthCache. The Flag Rock Recreation Area was a beautiful sight to see, and even though we didn't see a Woodbooger, we enjoyed our time in Norton.  

Today, Tom and I traveled to Martinsburg, West Virginia in order to do the Mystery Caches of Berkeley County (MCBC). I had recently started a list of trips that Tom and I could take to use up my vacation time at work, and the GeoTrails in Berkeley County were on the list. In researching them, I learned that the MCBC cache pages had been updated in January 2019 to state that there were only 60 geocoins left and that only 11 of the remaining 14 caches were needed to qualify for them, instead of the initial 13 out of 15. Then, we saw in the latest issue of FTF Magazine that a new GeoTour would be launching in Berkeley County at the beginning of June, and I figured that with the possibility of people pouring in for the new, official GeoTour, that the remaining geocoins would be snatched up in no time. Tom made a phone call and learned that there were only "about 20" geocoins left. He also learned that the MCBC would be deactivated before the newest GeoTour published - we had...