We have 3 new traditional caches and some new events to report since our last post:
GCB9QT2 Nice and Easy by Bess’s Friends Traditional D1/T1.5
GCB9Y2G Ffawydden by Tiriondavies Traditional D2/T2
GCBA4FR BST 7 – Pont y Trên by Clueless_Goose Traditional D2.5/T1.5
Event Reminder
GCB8G4G 9 Usual Suspects – Nosh & Natter 80 by 9 Usual Suspects
When: Wednesday 24th, July 2025
Where: Parc Snowdonia, Waunfawr, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 4AQ
Time: 7pm to 9pm or when the last person leaves
Please note this is Wednesday night (tomorrow) and a week earlier than normal due to several of the regulars attending the UK Mega events.
Events
GCBA6JY Come and Join Us at Criccieth by The Creepy Crawlies Event D1/T1
Where: The Lion Hotel, Criccieth
When: Wednesday 6th August, 2025
Time: 6pm-7pm
The Creepy Crawlies will be travelling around Wales for a week on holiday. They would like to meet both local and not so local Geocachers to discuss our fascinating hobby. Also they are fully supporting the UK Mega 2026 Committee and are keen to discuss this event.
9US Birthday Party
GCAW0G4 9 US Celebrate International Geocaching Day by 9 Usual Suspects
Where: Plas Gwernoer, Nantlle
When: Saturday 16th August, 2025
Time: 2pm-6pm (the bar will remain open until the last person leaves!)
Games Start Time: 2.30pm
BBQ: 5pm
Trackable Raffle Draw: 5.30pm
9 Usual Suspects invite you to join them in the beautiful Nantlle Valley to celebrate their 10th Birthday, 25 years of Geocaching and International Geocaching Day, the theme for this years event is ‘An Afternoon of Birthday Fun Games’. Please log will attends so that we have a rough idea on numbers for catering and prizes.
GIFF 2025
There is just 2 weeks to submit your short film for a chance to be featured in the 2025 Geocaching International Film Festival (GIFF)!
🗓 Submission deadline: August 1, 2025
📏 Film length: 1–5 minutes
📬 How to submit: Read the rules and submit your film online at geocachingfilmfestival.com
We are planning to host our GIFF event on Sunday 9th November.
Treasures, Making Memories
This collection has 6 Treasures to collects. Find and log any geocache that meets these criteria:
- Any non-Event geocache type except Adventure Lab®
- Size is Micro, Regular, or Small
- Difficulty rating between 1.5 and 4.0
- OR
- Any Event Cache
Leader Board Challenge, Making Memories
This challenge is to celebrate International Geocaching Day and 25 years of geocaching will run from Monday 21st July to Sunday 17th August. Help Signal fill his scrapbook by finding caches, attending Events, and collecting Treasure. To fill the scrapbook the geocaching community need to earn 25 million points, see table below:
| Found it* | 1 |
| Attended an Event | 3 |
| Received a Favourite point on an owned geocache | 3 |
| Found an Adventure Location | 1 |
| Found a geocache with 5+ Favorite points | 3 |
| Collect a Making Memories Treasure | 5 |
*Logged a Found it on any other cache type, excluding Webcam Caches.
There is the opportunity to earn 3 souvenirs:
Crafty Cacher: earn this souvenir by completing the Making Memories Treasure collection.
Memory Maker: earn this souvenir by individually contributing 40 pages (40 points)to Signal’s scrapbook.
Signal’s Scrapbook: If the global community fills 25,000,000 pages before Making Memories ends, all participants will receive this souvenir on Monday 18th August.
A Favourite Cache
While traveling to Piratemania Germany we found just one brilliant cache in the Netherlands:
GC4Z1XM Stokrozen Cache by Onnorvid Traditional D1.5/T1.7
At the time of writing this cache has 741 well deserved favourite points which I’m sure will only increase.
