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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.

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Another quiet week for new caches……….

Event Reminder GIFF 2023

Only a week to go!

GCAED06 GIFF 2023, Geocaching International Film Festival by 9 usual Suspects Event D1/T1
Where: Talysarn Community Centre, Station Road, Talysarn, Caernarfon LL54 6HL
Date: Sunday 19th November 2023
Doors open: 2.00pm
Film showing starts: 2.45pm approx, duration approx 1 hour.
Venue closes: 5.00pm

We are in the process of finalising our plans for next Sundays event. Refreshments will be available through out the afternoon.

As in previous GIFF events we will be asking attendees to rate all films from 1-10, it will be interesting to see how this compares with Geocaching HQ’s worldwide vote for GIFF People’s Choice Film.

How to vote for GIFF People’s Choice Film:
1. Attend an official GIFF Event November 9 – 19, 2023.
2. After watching the films, go to surveymonkey.com/r/GIFF2023 OR scan the QR code at the end of the film.
3. Vote for your favourite film.
One vote per Geocaching.com player account. Voting closes Thursday 23rd November.

If intending to be joining us please log a ‘will attend’ as this helps us to plan seating, refreshments and souvenirs!

Christmas Dinner

GCAFM95 Christmas Dinner – Nosh & Natter 63 by 9 Usual Suspects

Where: Tafarn Yr Afr/Goat Inn, Glandwyfach, Porthmadog LL51 9LJ
When: Saturday 25th November
Time: 7.30-9.30pm or when the last person leaves
Dress Code: Anything Christmas

Please log ‘will attends’ asap as we need to confirm numbers. We are also now taking food orders, last day for menu choices is Sunday 19th November. For menu please see our last post.

9US Halloween Event

GCAEFH4 Trick or Treat with 9 Usual Suspects by 9 Usual Suspects Event D1/T1.5

Do you recognise your caching friends?

Thanks everyone for attending, a fun, spooky evening with all the usual banter and geo chat. Shame the weather leading up to the event was so wet and windy that we had to leave setting up to the last minute. What didn’t appear this year we will keep for our next years Halloween event. Yes, it looks like there will be one next year. As always Pete did a great job on the BBQ and impressed us all with his cocktail mixing skills!
Gail should have let us know it was her birthday……. it’s now in the diary!

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One traditional cache and 2 events have been published since our last post:

GCAEG8R Church Micro 14937…Aberffraw by Glaslyn1 Traditional (Premium Member Only) D2/T1.5

Events

GCAEFH4 Trick or Treat with 9 Usual Suspects by 9 Usual Suspects Event D1/T1.5

When: Friday 3rd November
Where: Plas Gwernoer, Nantlle LL54 6BB
Party Starts: 6pm
Party Ends: 9pm or when the last person leaves
Attire: Optional Halloween Fancy dress

This event is still very much work in progress there for we will publish more details nearer the day.

GCAED06 GIFF 2023, Geocaching International Film Festival by 9 usual Suspects Event D1/T1

Where: Talysarn Community Centre, Station Road, Talysarn, Caernarfon LL54 6HL
Date: Sunday 19th November 2023
Doors open: 2.00pm
Film showing starts: 2.45pm approx, duration approx 1 hour.
Venue closes: 5.00pm

The GIFF 2023 souvenir will be awarded to all attendees of this event.

GIFF a Brief History

The Geocaching International Film Festival (GIFF) began in 2013 and was a part of the ‘Geocaching Block Party 2013’ held at Geocaching HQ, in Seattle. The finalist films were screened in a park near HQ and it was a huge success. There was another GIFF in 2014 with the same format.

In 2015 all of the finalist films were ready to go but there was a torrential rain storm. The GIFF team were forced to cancel the event in the park and came up with an alternative plan. Geocachers across the world were invited to host events to show the films in their local communities. This was a great success and this has been the format ever since. 9 Usual Suspect have hosted every GIFF event since 2015.

GIFF Stats

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Two new caches and an Adventure Lab have been published just in time for the Easter break.

GCA6MZR Saron: Rest & Reflect by Clueless_Goose Traditional D2/T1.5

Premium Member Only

GCA6J8X Mackenzie Pier by Glaslyn1 Multi D2.5/T2

Adventure Lab
Ynys Llanddwyn/Llanddwyn Island created by RichieBlod 5 locations nonsequential

This Adventure Lab is based upon the legend of Saint Dwynwen, the Welsh patron saint of lovers and a little history of the beautiful isle.

Event Reminder

GCA5MYF CITO 2023 Season 1, Let’s Make Spaces for Wildlife by 9 Usual Suspects
When: Friday 7^th April, 2023 (Good Friday)
Where: Plas Gwernoer, Nantlle, Caernarfon LL54 6BB
Time: 2.00-4.00pm

GIFF Returns in 2023

This year sees the 10 anniversary of Geocaching International Film Festival (GIFF), it began in 2013 as part of the annual Geocaching Block Party held at Geocaching HQ, in Seattle. The finalist films were screened in a park near HQ and it was a huge success. This event was successfully repeated again in 2014, but in 2015 awful wet weather forced the outdoor event to be cancelled. With the finalist films ready to be shown an alternative plan was made and the film festival was released to geocachers across the world to be shown at GIFF events. This was very popular with geocaching community with 449 GIFF events hosted in 46 different countries, one of those events was hosted by 9 Usual Suspects at Witch’s Brew, Pwllheli. Since then GIFF has become an annual event in 9US’s calendar.

There was no film festival in 2022 due to HQ focusing on the 20th anniversary celebrations that had to be deferred from 2020 due to Covid 19.

To mark this special anniversary year gold has been chosen for the colour of GIFF 2023. The GIFF 2023 Souvenir will be available to anyone attending an official GIFF Event from Thursday, November 9th to Sunday, November 19th. 9 Usual Suspects will be hosting their event on Sunday 19th, venue yet to be confirmed.

Have you ever fancied making a film? GIFF 2023 may be the time to make your red carpet debut……
The deadline for submitting a film for this years GIFF is August 3rd.

GCAED06 GIFF 2023, Geocaching International Film Festival

News & New Caches

Only one new cache and one new event published this week. The event is a bit out of our area but for anyone wanting to visit a beautiful beach on New Years Day this event by Pink icing should be considered.

GC9KBDP Happy New Year at the seaside by Pink icing Event D1/T1.5

GC9JT53 Promenade Across The Causeway by Clueless_Goose Multi D2/T1.5

A lovely multi cache which takes you along Belgian Promenade that can be combined with this Adventure Lab Gateway to Ynys Mon – Exploring Menai Bridge created by escapefromwork.

GIFF Results

This year’s Signal Award winner is…

First hide – Geocaching Documentary from Finland

“Braija returns with “First hide – Geocaching Documentary from Finland.” This year, he’s a Community Volunteer Reviewer here to help a cacher with his first geocache hide. He shares tips and tricks which can help every new cache hider!” Geocaching HQ Blog

This year’s People’s Choice winner is…

Signal Academy – Froggy’s Dream

“Signal Academy – Froggy’s Dream shows a day in the life at Signal Academy – a school for cute miniature Signal the Frogs! From Dr. Professor Signalus’ lessons to Outdoor Recreation class, there’s lots going on at Signal Academy.” Geocaching HQ Blog

I’m not sure if we all agree with the peoples choice vote result. There were 61 film submissions from 15 different countries, 17 of which made the cut for this years film show. The next GIFF will be in 2 years time, 2023, due to Geocaching HQ 20th anniversary celebrations. Could we do better?

Other Stuff

A big Thank You to everyone who attended last nights online party and Pete for sorting out all the technical stuff etc. Let us hope that next year we will all be meeting up in person and not online events.

Another elf dance from last year, take it away Pink icing and Jude100………

And as it is not quite Christmas here’s another cracker joke…….

Who says “Oh, oh, oh!”? Santa Claus walking backwards

Time	Type	Height
07:33	low	1.2m
13:01	high	4.78m
19:43	low	1.36m

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