Month: May 2025

News & New Caches 188

If you are a Premium Member there are more new Earthcaches and a very interesting D5/T5 Traditional.

GCB7Z5C Abersoch first hide by JGibson16062012 Traditional D1/T1.5

Premium Member Only
GBB80GB Sunken Treasure by Squaddie101 Traditional D5/T5
I think we might have to have an event here… a lovely location to explore followed by a beach picnic!
Earthcaches
GCB7YHK Porthmadog Ooids by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T1.5
GCB7XTJ Bizarre Breccia by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T1
GCB7V5A Volcano Land by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2/T2
GCB7PTJ The Llanberis Volcanic Group by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4/T2
GCB7P9Z Beddgelert🐶 by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2/T1.5

Event
GCB6T20 The After Bryn Event by martin&lindabryn Event D1/T2
When: Saturday 5th July 2025
Where: Moss Road, Gwersyllt, Nr. Wrexham
Time: 5pm to 7pm or when the last person leave
Parking: Disabled Parking only at venue. Parking N 53° 03.892 W 003° 01.760 follow instructions on the cache page.
This is Martin & Linda’s first event since retiring from The Bryn. They are hosting a BBQ in their garden of their new abode. All geocachers welcome.

Event Reminder
GCB7484 9 Usual Suspects – Nosh & Natter 78 by 9 Usual Suspects
When: Thursday 29th May, 2025
Where: Parc Snowdonia, Waunfawr, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 4AQ
Time: 7pm to 9pm or when the last person leaves

Yes, it’s tonight!

June Solstice Souvenir

To earn your June Solstice souvenir find and log any geocache, Event, or Adventure Lab® Location from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd June.

News & New Caches 187

Again another good week for anyone that likes Earthcaches and is a Premium Member:

GCB7F9E In the Middle by hryaaw Traditional D1/T1.5
GCB7RW4 Lakeside Snowdonia Business Park by DaveHGeoCach Traditonal D3/T2

Premium Member Only
GCB7A77 Memorial Stone. by Bess’s Friends Mystery D3/T3.5

GCB7PRV Beddgelert Beach by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T2
GCB7RAB Gyrn Ddu by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T4
GCB7QAM Tin Man by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4/T3.5
GCB7Q7X Porthmadog Park by MrsMagnaDefender Earthcache D2/T1.5
GCB7PQK Little Bridges # 3143 Beddgelert by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T1.5
GCB7MMR Pwllheli Minerals by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D1.5/T1.5
GCB7MJT Pwllheli Contact by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T2.5
GCB7KWA Bangor Metasomatism by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4.5/T1
GCB7MJ2 Pwllheli Glaciation by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T3.5
GCB7M98 Bangor Palaeocurrents by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2/T1
GCB7GG1 Pistyll Cwn by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4.5/T4.5
GCB7E45 YOSM #1249 Mynydd Cilan by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T3

The End of Another Heritage Cache

GC9472 Nant-y-Gamar by ldbooth & stonemasons Traditional D2/T3.5 Hidden 28.9.2002

Sadly, even though in place and in excellent condition, this 2002 cache has been archived. Why? Because the cache owner did not respond to a Reviewers 30 day notice. The current owners of the cache only found 61 caches and have not visited Geocaching.com since 29.12.2014. We tried to adopt the cache but were, unsurprisingly, unable to trace ldbooth+EJ the owners, therefore unable to transfer the cache ownership.

Our reviewer advised us to contact Geocaching HQ to see if they would allow us to take on the responsibility and maintain the cache. Disappointingly we had no response from Geocaching HQ. After the cache had been archived I complained that my message had not been acknowledged and received the following:
“Geocaches are considered property of the cache owner. It is for this reason that we cannot allow any transferring of ownership without the owner’s permission – or any exceptions.“
The cache is now geo-litter. Is geocaching HQ ignoring the problem of maintaining and keeping alive these old heritage caches?

While attending the Giga Event in Prague we spoke to a HQ Lackey about the problem of old caches being archived and the difficulty of tracing cache owners who no longer geocache making adoption impossible. He was very sympathetic, promised to raise the problem at HQ but didn’t think that there was much chance in changing the current policy. He did point out that even if a cache is archived it can still be logged as a find unless locked by HQ. He also suggested that owners of heritage caches should put a note on their geocaching profile page saying that if for any reason they had not visited Geocaching.com for 12 months that they give their permission for adoption of their owned caches.

Personally I think it is time for a change of HQ policy with any cache over, say, 20 years being allowed to be adopted or at least maintained by another geocacher. What do you think?

News & New Caches 186

Something for everyone this week, for those that enjoy Earthcaches an especially good week! Please note all the new caches are Premium Member Only.

GCB76DH Porth Ceiriad – A look into the Quaternary by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4/T2
GCB76FY Porth Ceiriad – Fantastic Folds by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D1/T3.5
GCB769Z Port Bach – Strata by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2/T3
GCB76EY Porth Ceiriad – Bouma Sequence by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4/T2.5
GCB7A9M St Tudwal’s Islands by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4/T5
GCB79P3 Natural Concrete by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T2.5
GCB79NA YOSM – Penychain by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T3
GCB78QT Peridotite Perambulation by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.3/T2.5
GCB7834 Longshore Drift at Abersoch by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T2
GCB78NX Porth Ceiriad – Unconformity by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T3.5
GCB78MM Into the Ordovician by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2/T4
GCB78JB YOSM – Mynydd Penarfynydd by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4.5/T3
GCB78Q4 Pwllheli Fracture by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T2
GCB7AA9 YOSM – Mynydd Tîr-y-cwmwd by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D4/T4

GCB766M St Mair’s Church – Y Felinheli by ECOBAKE Multi D2/T1.5
GCB5RVZ Steller Droid 97 by sdharding Traditional D1.5/T3.5

Event
GCB7484 9 Usual Suspects – Nosh & Natter 78 by 9 Usual Suspects
When: Thursday 29th May, 2025
Where: Parc Snowdonia, Waunfawr, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 4AQ
Time: 7pm to 9pm or when the last person leaves

We are back again at Snowdonia Parc for this months N&N.

UK Mega 2026?

It looks like there will be a UK Mega in 2026:

We are looking out for the announcements….

News & New Caches 185

We apologise for the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks, but hopefully, we are back to normal. We have 7 new caches to report:

GCB6XG5 Cache cyflym yn y gogledd by NonCompassMentis Traditional D2/T2
GCB6VG5 Stroll to the Beach by hryaaw Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCB6RG1 Cultural Milestone by Clueles_Goose Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCB5NN7 REALLY SideTracked – Y Groeslon by Clueless_Goose Multi D2.5/T1/5
GCB6ECB REALLY SideTracked – Pant Glas by Clueless_Goose Traditional D2/1.5
GCB6EBR REALLY SideTracked – Llanwnda by Clueless_Goose Traditional D2/1.5
GCB62TN A llonydd gorffenedig yw llonydd Lôn Goed by cartinlloyd_x D2/T2

Celebrating 25 years of Geocaching

May 3rd 2025 saw the 25th birthday of Geocaching, to celebrate there was many events, large and small, held all over the world plus there was the Blue Switch Day souvenir to be earned. Did you experience difficulties with Ad labs? All the extra celebratory logging of Ad Labs caused the Geocaching server to became overloaded affecting the logging and display of stages and in some cases shutting down the app. With many celebratory LAB’s only being available for a limited time this caused a lot of frustration. In Prague the initial reaction was to blame local internet connectivity before later in the day admitting the problem was global and the fault being with Geocaching servers.

The following statement was issued by the Prague Giga Team:

🌐 Geocaching HQ server issues
We’re sorry about the technical difficulties on Saturday that affected logging and displaying LAB caches. These were not local connection issues – the problems originated from the Geocaching HQ servers.

Is this the Best Ever Cache?

While in Prague for the giga event we found this brilliant traditional cache in a quiet back street. A superb piece of urban camouflage for this large well stocked cache in the topbox of a moped.

GCAY4V9 Motocyklová by chorchoj Traditional D2.5/T1 Premium Member Only Favourite points 2326