Geocaching HQ has decided to dedicate this year to the Year of the Hide. After all, if people don’t hide and maintain geocaches, there is no geocaching. So, to reward people for hiding caches, anyone who hides a cache between March 1 and December 31 gets a souvenir. I hid a multi in early March …
Tag Archives: Reach the Peak
Time for an EarthCache
I write this today, Oct. 8, the day before this year’s International EarthCache day. A year ago, I wrote about it and how I find EarthCaches a bit intimidating. Besides tomorrow being International EarthCache Day, Geocaching HQ has put an extra emphasis on EarthCaches for this month’s Reach the Peak challenge, with 750 points given …
End of September! Already?
Well, here we are at the end of September. Where has the summer gone? For me, summer really began in May when our family went to the Indiana Geocaching Spring Picnic at Charlestown State Park in Clark County. We followed that weekend trip to Southern Indiana with a week in Illinois. It was our family …
Mountaineering
Geocaching HQ started a new souvenir promotion this month called Reach the Peak. It will last several months, with a new peak each month. This month’s peak is Puncak Jaya, the highest peak in Oceania. Geocachers are awarded points for each cach found, and the goal is to get 4,884 points. A Multicache is worth …
