Geocaching with Woo

The Solstice is approaching, so it's time for another souvenir! In order to earn the December Solstice 2025 souvenir, we must find a geocache, attend an event or log an Adventure Lab location from December 19-21, 2025. Read the official announcement here .

Three new treasure collections were released today - here's what you need to know: Dog figurines - This is a collection of nine treasures any non-event geocache, except Adventure lab locations Size: micro Attribute: dog friendly Origami animals - This collection has fourteen treasures Traditional geocaches Size: small Favorite Points: 4 minimum Snow globes - There are seven treasures in this collection Traditional, Multi-cache, Mystery Size: regular, large, other Favorite Points: 2 minimum Check your Treasures page to stay updated on your progress and new collections!

2025 is coming to a close, so it's time to wrap up this year, and start the new one, with souvenirs! Each can be earned by finding a geocache, attending any event or logging an Adventure Lab location. Get the Closing 2025 souvenir from December 24-31, 2025, and the Unboxing 2026 souvenir from January 1-8, 2026. Read a little more about it in the official blog post .

Guess what just came in under my radar. Yup, a new treasure collection. Released on October 21, 2025, the Plush bird watching treasure collection has 21 treasures, earned by finding Traditional and Letterbox geocaches with a minimum of one favorite point and the Scenic View attribute. It'll be a while before I complete this collection!

Oooo look, new treasures! We've got two new treasure collections coming down the pike, and they look interesting. The way I read it, the first requires Premium Membership. Kind of crazy, I know, but I decided years ago that although I hate having to pay for anything that could be free, I wanted to support Geocaching and all that they do to create this hobby that I enjoy so much. I can't even imagine all the work that goes into it, and to support millions of people - so yeah, I bit the bullet and started paying for a Premium Membership. Anyway, the River expedition puzzle collection is just that, a puzzle, and it's laid out like a difficulty/terrain grid, from 1 to 2.5 in either direction. So, sixteen treasures, one of each difficulty/terrain combination, all geocache types, except events and Adventure Lab locations. As an added bonus, you get a souvenir upon completion, pretty cool! More information about this collection can be found on the official blog post . I ...

This weekend, Tom and I started - and completed - the Heart of the Civil War US 250th GeoTour . This GeoTour was released on September 19, 2025, and it brings geocachers to the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, three counties in Maryland where there is a lot of history from that time. We had completed the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area GeoTrail several years ago, and while we visited several of the same sites this time, the GeoTour focused more on the general history of some locations, rather than their relationship to the Civil War. This GeoTour consisted of 21 geocaches of all types that needed to be found or completed to earn the souvenir, but 15 physical caches had to be found, and the code words inside recorded, to be eligible for the geocoin. As a "bonus," for three of the mystery caches, Adventure Labs had to be completed in order to receive the coordinates. There were also two GeoTour-related events (Kick-Off and Coin Redemption events), as well as a...

September treasures have just been announced , as well as a new user interface having been introduced . The new user interface will apparently allow you to choose a priority for the treasures received on caches that you find, which will, in my case, decrease the need to plan out the order that caches are found in, maximizing any geocaching outing. I was trying to be very careful in planning which caches to attempt based on the criteria for each treasure, and trying to make sure that these wouldn't overlap, I believe that this will negate some of that. Prerequisites, except for the Geocaching Origins collection, have been done away with - I personally didn't mind those, as long as they weren't too difficult - and you can choose to have one to three collections active at any time. The number is based on your membership level - one for Basic, up to three for Premium. Read up on the changes on the official blog post and check out the new interface on your Treasures page ...