Month: December 2025

News & New Caches 210

We have four new caches to report since our last post and have a couple of event reminders:

GCBGG5Y Lon Eifion, Frosty… by 9 Usual Suspects Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCBGG67 Lon Eifion, Rocking Around the….. by 9 Usual Suspects Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCBGG6M Lon Eifion, Chimney Pot John by 9 Usual Suspects Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCBGPDH Penrhos Link by Clueless_Goose Traditional D1.5/T2.5

Event Reminders

GCBF9M0 9 Usual Suspects Say Goodbye to 2025 by 9 Usual Suspects Event D1/T1
When: 31st December, 2025
Where: Airport Cafe, Dinas Dinlle, Caernarfon LL54 5TP
Time: 11am-12pm
Our last event of 2025 and a chance for a quick catch up before the New Year Celebrations begin. There is no better way to start your New Year celebrations than meeting up with your geocaching friends!
This event marks the end of our TB race, will any TB’s make it back?
We have 3 tables booked in the Conservatory, last orders for breakfast is 11.30am.

GCBF9MF 9 Usual Suspects UnBoxing 2026 by 9 Usual Suspects Event D1/T1.5
When: 1st January, 2026
Where: Bangor LL57 3YH
Time: 1pm-1.30pm
Our first event of 2026! Why not join us at Traeth Lafan Nature Reserve? After the event 9 Usual Suspects invite all attendees to join them on exploring the Coastal Path and can confirm there will be a few new caches to find.
We can assure everyone that there is not the mud like our previous adventures here!

Closing of 2025 Beginning of 2026 Souvenirs

As 2025 comes to a close two new souvenirs will be available, Closing 2025 and Unboxing 2026.
Earn Closing 2025 by finding any geocache, attending any Event, or completing an Adventure Lab® Location between December 24th to 31st, 2025.
Earn Unboxing 2026 by finding any geocache, attending any Event, or completing an Adventure Lab® Location from January 1st to 8th, 2026.

Locationless Cache, Last Chance to Log

GCA2025 Where’s 25? – Locationless Cache by Geocaching HQ D1/T1.5

As part of Geocachings 25th anniversary celebrations HQ released this Locationless cache. The cache is available until 31st December 2025, claim by posting a picture of a ’25’ found somewhere in the real world.
Here are the logging requirements:

  • Include one (1) photo of yourself or a personal item next to an already-existing 25. Ideally, the 25 should be something that others may visit if they know the location coordinates.
  • The 25 can stand on its own or not. It can be a numeral or spelled out. It can be in any language or ancient numbering systems. Get creative!
  • In the spirit of the original Locationless Caches, you are encouraged to include the coordinates where you found the 25 in your online log.

Logs that do not include a photo will be deleted. The cache page will be archived and locked on January 1st, 2026

Lôn Eifion Cycle Path Closure UpDate

The path is securely closed

Lôn Eifion Cycle Path remains closed from Penygroes to Inigo Jones roundabout. We have no date for when this stretch will reopen.

And Finally…

We would like to Thank everyone for their support through the ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ of the last year and would like to wish you all a very Happy & Fun filled 2026 with plenty of Geocaching adventures.

News & New Caches 209

We have no new caches or events to report but we do have a new Treasure Collection.

Latest Treasure Update

After listening to geocachers comments on ‘Treasures’ Geocaching HQ have made some improvements. It is now easier to switch between collections and to see if a cache qualifies for a Treasure.

All collections are now active by default for Premium members. Setting “Priority collections” is optional, you can choose up to five collections to prioritise. When you log a cache that qualifies for more than one collection, you’ll collect Treasure from the highest-ranked priority collection. If a cache doesn’t match any of your priority collections, but does qualify for another collection that’s not in your priority collections, you’ll collect that Treasure. If you don’t set any priority collections, you’ll continue to collect Treasure from any collection that matches your finds.

Viewing Treasure on cache pages on Geocaching.com

Premium members can now see which collections a cache qualifies for directly on the cache page on Geocaching.com. This makes it easier to plan your next outing.

To see what collections a cache qualifies for directly from a cache page, go to a cache page on Geocaching.com and click on “View Treasures” in the list menu on the right hand of the page below the “Log geocache” button. A window will appear that shows which collections the geocache qualifies for.

New Treasure Collection

Classic toys collection was released on the 19th December and consisting of 6 treasures.
To collect find and log: Any non-Event geocache type except Adventure Lab®, any size, with the Recommended for kids attribute OR any Event Cache.

December Souvenir

The December Solstice Souvenir is available from Friday 19th to Monday 22nd December, to earn find and log any geocache, Event, or Adventure Lab® Location.

And finally….

Another bad Christmas joke…
Why do reindeer wear bells? 
Because their horns don’t work!

Lôn Eifion Cycle Path Closure

We have disabled our caches, until further notice, along Lôn Eifion from Penygroes to Inigo Jones roundabout Groeslon due to the cycle path closure caused by a landslide.

From the council:
“The Lôn Eifion path remains closed following the damage caused during the recent severe weather.
The path is closed between the Inigo Jones roundabout in the Groeslon and Penygroes area to protect the public. Barriers have been put in place to ensure this section of the path is not used, and we ask the public to respect the warnings signs that the path is closed at present.
We apologise for the temporary inconvenience.”

News & New Caches 208

A couple of new caches and an event have been published since our last post:

GCBFP48 Lon Eifion, No Sign by 9 Usual Suspects Traditional D1/T2
GCBFTRA Lon Las Ogwen – a cache by a tree by ShadowTheNinjaWolf Traditional D1.5/T1.5

Events

GCBFR57 Piratemania On Tour #1 by Piratemania Crew Event D1/T1.5
When: Saturday 31st January 2026
Where: Parc Snowdonia, Waunfawr, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 4AQ
Time: 2.30pm to 5pm

A chance to meet and support the Piratemania Crew as they promote Piratemania 18 [2026]. Never been to Piratemania? Come along and find out what you have been missing. There will be a raffle and other merchandise on sale with all proceeds going to fund Piratemania 18 Mega event.

When: Friday 24th July to Wednesday 29th July
Where: Kelmarsh Hall & Gardens, Main Road, Kelmarsh, Northampton NN6 9LY

GIFF Results

The votes have been counted, and we are excited to present this year’s film festival awards: the Signal Award (chosen by community volunteers) and the People’s Choice Award (voted for by geocachers). This year, an interesting phenomenon occurred, volunteers and geocachers chose the same winner.

HARD WORK by Harogs Team
(harogs, geocachingclown, and commge)

This clever Swiss made film took a unique look at the workings of a gadget cache, but only came 2nd in the vote held at our GIFF event. If you missed the films or would like to watch them again: find them here: GIFF 2025 finalist films.

  • There were 61 filmmakers from 21 countries who submitted a film for consideration this year.
  • 20 films from 10 countries were selected as finalists.
  • The final films were viewed at 634 Events across 92 countries, territories, and regions.
  • Just under 10,000 geocachers voted for the People’s Choice Award
  • Event attendees earned 16,335 GIFF 2025 souvenirs.

The Geocaching International Film Festival will return in 2027.

December Souvenir

The December Solstice Souvenir is available from Friday 19th to Monday 22nd December, to earn find and log any geocache, Event, or Adventure Lab® Location.

Event Reviews

GCBDKZD Christmas Dinner – Nosh & Natter 84 by 9 Usual Suspects
Our Christmas Dinner event is always a popular event and a great way to start the festive season. This year was no exception, an evening full of fun and laughter. Big Thank You’s to Mike & Gail for the quiz and prizes, Gra for the lovely dragon magnets, the Secret Santa and of course the staff of The Goat for the lovely food and looking after us.

GCBERY8 9 Usual Suspects: Escape Room. by 9 Usual Suspects
Bess’s Friends, Julie, assisted by Ray crafted a fantastic geocache event in the form of an escape room set in a pub. It was a radical shift from our normal events and required teams to solve a series of cleverly designed clues to ‘break out’ of the pub before closing time. The pressure was on as our local PanIQ escape room owner and their partner attended joining one of the teams. Solving the clues required a combination of teamwork, observation, deduction and lateral thinking only when these were combined, escape was possible. A great afternoon which everyone enjoyed and appreciated the work involved by Julie & Ray to make this event possible. We are hoping that there will be a repeat event… 

And finally….

It’s nearly Christmas, the season of bad jokes…
What never eats Christmas dinner?
The turkey, it’s stuffed!