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!
Treasures were a digital feature introduced in March 2025 as part of Geocachings 25th birthday celebrations. Geocachers can collect these digital items by finding and logging caches that meet a specific criteria set by HQ, different for each Treasure Collection. The amount of Treasures in a Collection also varies. A souvenir is available for the completion of special Collections.
How do I collect Treasure? You can collect Treasure by finding and logging caches that meet specific criteria set by HQ. The Geocaching Origins Collection has to be completed before unlocking all current available Treasure Collections. Below are the criteria for the first collection: Collection 1: Geocaching origins You can collect these Treasures by finding and logging Traditional Caches.
Are Treasure available for All members? Treasure is available to both Premium and Basic members, though some collections are Premium member only. Premium members can use Advanced search to find caches that fit collection criteria.
How do I choose which collection I want to collect Treasures from? On the Treasures page, there are spaces for the collections you want to collect Treasure from. Premium members have spaces for five Active collections, and Basic members have a space for one Active collection. For Premium members, the top space has first priority, the second has second priority, and the third has third priority etc
To choose your collections:
Go to the “Collections” section near the bottom of the page.
Drag a collection card to any space in the “Active collections” section near the top of the page.
Or, select “Activate” on a collection card, then choose a space to move it to.
All collections are active by default for Premium members. When you log a cache that qualifies for more than one collection you will 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 see which collections a cache qualifies for directly on the cache page on Geocaching.com. This makes it easier to plan your next caching adventure. 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.
How do I turn off the notification when I collect Treasure? To turn off the notification, toggle the setting next to “Notify me when I find Treasure in the Geocaching® mobile app” on the Treasures page. Players who turn off notifications will still collect Treasure.
Collections
Geocaching Origins
The Geocaching Origins collection consists of 4 Treasures. This collection has to be completed to unlock current available collections. To collect find and log: Any Traditional geocache of any size.
Celebrating 25 years
The Celebrating 25 Years collection consists of 5 Treasures. To collect find and log: Any non-Event geocache type except Adventure Lab®, any size, difficulty rating of 1.5 or lower OR any Event Cache. By completing this Collection you will earn a souvenir.
Egg hunt
The Egg Hunt collection consists of 7 Treasures with different criteria for each treasure. To collect find and log: An Earthcache, attend a regular Event, a Letterbox Hybrid any size with difficulty rating of 2.0 or higher, a Multi cache any size with difficulty rating of 2.0 or higher, a Mystery any sizedifficulty rating of 2.0 or higher, a Traditional any size difficulty rating of 2.0 or higher, any Virtual cache. By completing this collection you will earn a souvenir.
Navigational Tools
The Navigational Tools collection consists of 5 Treasures. To collect find and log: A Traditional any size difficulty rating of 2.0 or higher and a terrain rating of 1.5 or lower.
Classic Trackables
The Classic Trackables collection consists of 5 Treasures. To collect find and log: A Traditional any size OR Any Event Cache
Mystery Books
The Mystery Books collection consists of 5 Treasures. To collect find and log: A Multi-Cache, Virtual, Letterbox Hybrid, Mystery, Earthcache, or Wherigo, any size with a difficulty rating of 2.00 or higher
Event Mementos
The Event Mementos collection consists of 5 Treasures. To collect find and log: A Traditional, Multi-Cache, Letterbox Hybrid, Mystery, or Wherigo, size Micro, Other, or Small with a minimum of 3 Favourite points OR any Event Cache
Planets
The Planets collection consists of 8 Treasures. To collect find and log: A Traditional, Multi-Cache, Letterbox Hybrid, Mystery, or Wherigo, size Regular or Large, with a difficulty rating of 2.0 or higher.
Tools of the Trade
The Tools of the Trade collection consists of 6 treasures. To collect find and log: Any Traditional, Multi-Cache, Letterbox Hybrid, or Mystery cache, any size with a difficulty rating of 3.0 or higher with the Special Tool required attribute.
Making Memories
The Making Memories collection consists of 6 treasures. To collect find and log: Any non-Event geocache type except Adventure Lab®,size a Micro, Regular, or Small, difficulty rating between 1.5 and 4.0 OR any Event Cache.
GIFF Gnomes
The GIFF Gnome collection consists of 5 treasures. To collect find and log: Any Mystery cache, any size with the Available 24/7 attribute.
Celebrating GIFF
The Celebrating GIFF collection consists of 8 treasures. To collect find and log: Any Event Cache.
Fossils
The Fossils collection consists of 6 treasures. To collect find and log: Any Earthcache.
River expedition puzzle
The River Expedition Puzzle collection consists of 16 treasures and is Premium Member only. Each piece of the the puzzle has a different D/T rating from D1/T1 to D2.5/T2.5. To collect find and log: Any geocache except events and Adventure Lab®, any size with the correct D/T rating for the individual puzzle pieces. By completing this collection you will earn a souvenir.
Plush Bird Watching
The Plush Bird Watching collection consists of 6 treasures. To collect find and log: Traditional or Letterbox Hybrid cache, any size with a minimum of 1 favourite point with the Scenic View attribute.
Snow Globes
The Snow globes collect consists of 7 treasures. To collect find and log: Any Traditional, Multi-Cache, or Mystery, any size except Micro, Small, or Virtual with a minimum of 2 Favourite points.
Origami Animals
The Origami animals collection consists of 14 treasures. To collect find and log: Small sized Traditional caches with a minimum of 4 favourite points.
Dog Figurines
The Dog Figurines collection consists of 9 treasures. To collect find and log: Any Micro cache with the Dog friendly attribute.
Classic Toys
Classic toys collection was released on the 19th December and consists 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.
We have just two new traditional caches to report since our last post:
GCBF3MQYnys Môn view by ShadowTheNinjaWolf & kiethchaos Traditional D1.5/T1.5 GCBCJP3TFTC by Clueless_Goose Traditional D5/T1.5
Treasures
Three new Treasure collections have been introduced: Snow globes, Origami animals and Dog figurines.
The Snow globes collect consists of 7 treasures. To collect find: Any Traditional, Multi-Cache, or Mystery, any size except Micro, Small, or Virtual with a minimum of 2 Favourite points
The Origami animals collection consists of 14 treasures. To collect find: Small sized Traditional caches with a minimum of 4 favourite points.
The Dog figurines collection consists of 9 treasures. To collect find: Any Micro cache with the Dog friendly attribute.
End of Year 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.
TB Race Update
We have just 7 weeks left in our TB race, here is the current leader board: 1) I Met Signal Tag owner ECOBAKE 43.605.5 km 2) Golden Goose owner Clueless_Goose 32,484.8 km 3) Racing Pirate owner Ann@Birdbrook 22,904.7 km 4) GraPeS The Bear owner Bess’s Friends 22,719 km 5) Lackey Tag owner Mossfamilymacc 21,241.3 km 6) DJ’s Dolphin Adventure owner Cwm DJ 20,426.7 km 7) Leap Year Devon Mega 2017 owner FfiLli 16,113.9 km 8) Incy owner sionyn68 16,040.8 km 9) 2025 New Adventure Racing Hummingbird owner wendy2000 16,000.9 km 10) 9 Ususal Suspects Race 2025 Go For It owner escapefromwork 15,911.9 km 11) Compass Winnie owner Bess’s Friends 14,591.4 km 12) 74jen Signal Race Tag owner 74jen 13,233.6 km 13) BONUSTOWN I’M IN A RACE Tag owner lostnwet 5,985.7 km 14) WanderBug the World Traveler owner naturesbyte 4,939.4 km 15) RACING KINGFISHER owner YnysMonBirders 4,481.2 km 16) Travel Sun Geocoin owner WelshDisneyMum80 1,184.6 km 17) Stitch Lackey owner Geojade2013 1,184.6 km 18) Mardi Gras 2015 owner Mossfamilymacc 583.4 km 19) Piratemania Chorley Chuckle owner jude100 194 km 20) Clogging all over the world owner Team Marzipan 0 Km
The total distance traveled by all TB’s, 273,827.4 km. 30 Countries have been visited: Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Falkland Islands, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA, Uruguay
Event Review
GCBC20QGIFF 2025, Geocaching International Film Festival by 9 Usual Suspects Event D1/T1
This was the 8th GIFF we have hosted our first being at Witch’s Brew, Pwllheli way back in 2015. For a history of GIFF and to take a look at all previous qualifying films visit Geocaching HQ GIFF.
Watching the GIFF films with geocaching friends was a great way to spend a wet miserable Sunday afternoon. As well as the films we enjoyed popcorn, sweets, flapjack, cake and soft drinks. A big thank you goes to everyone for helping set up, Julie for manning the shop & raffle, Jen for the flapjack and making the tea, Pete for manning the projector and tech, and all who helped clear up at the end of the afternoon.
I think we were all in agreement that the films this year were of a higher standard than we have had in previous years.
Here are the results of our voting: 1st Place The Bison Buddy 5000 by Skimbosh 171 2nd Place Hard Work by Harogs team 155 3rd Place If You Hide It… by Team Vlogger aka geocachingvlogger and Seemyshell 144 Joint 4th Place David CachinBro – First Lamp Post by DNF Hound 139 Never a Straight Path by Justcarlo 139 5th Place The Island by Blackcoconut 127 Joint 6th Place Geocaching is a Journey by Defoz 125 Dogeza by nokos team 125 7th Place Gadget Cacher by PerGremlin team 121 Joint 8th Place Tree-m Work by GeoBeeps 114 Here’s My Card by Ptowngirl229 114 Flavors of Stealth by CheekyBrit team 114 9th Place GIFF Planning by Barucci 112 10th Place Return of the Cache Napper Trailer by ZippyZipperZoo 111 11th Place 2000 by lpoded 109 12th Place Super Cacher Maintainer by Team Kuropi 107 13th Place Little Apple Tree by Rassis on tour 101 14th Place The Inheritance by Maxagri60 team 100 15th Place The Best Finds Are Other Geocachers by Owlfly 95 16th Place Orthoceras by Breizh Geocacheurs team 65
Premium Member Only GCB7RZB Church Micro 15411…Rhoscolyn by Glaslyn1 Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCB871KCriccieth Veins by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T2 GCB855JDixie by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T1.5 GCB817WMachroes…Fault by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T2 GCB8185Machroes…Ironstone by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T2.5 GCB81FTMachroes…Tessellation by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T2.5 GCB8189Machroes…Cliff Spiral by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T2.5 GCB8183Machroes…Slickensides by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T2.5 GCB8180Machroes…Fold by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D1.5/T2.5 GCB8181Machroes…Lamination by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T1.5 GCB807APorthmadog Stylolites by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T1.5
Event Reminder
GCAZVXE2025 Community Celebration Event by Bess’s Friends Community Event D1/T1 When: Saturday 7th June 2025 Where: Rocklands, Cymyran Road, Caergeiliog, Anglesey LL65 3HN Time: 1pm to 6pm Join Bess’s Friends for a BBQ followed by an afternoon of fun and games to celebrate 25 years of geocaching. If you have a favourite board game they ask you to bring it along.
New Treasures
Tuesday 10th June sees the release of two new Treasure Collections, Event mementos and Planets. To start collecting Treasures in Event mementos, geocachers must first complete Classic trackables. To start collecting Treasures in Planets, geocachers must first complete Mystery books.
Back in October we hosted a CITO that instead of picking up litter looked at trees and their contribution to our local environment. We asked attendees to gather tree seeds while out geocaching and to bring them along to the event which we then planted. The response of our attendees was incredible….
Gathered Seeds
We supplied all necessary pots, containers etc.
Busy planting….
Planted seeds…
We can now report that some were a success and others a dismal failure. Sadly the Squirrels and Jays had a feast on the acorns but one has survived, the biggest success is the beech trees followed by the horse chestnuts. The Hawthorns are still germinating.
Just a few of the Horse Chestnut, Beech, Oak & Holly sapplings.
If you have space for a tree and would like any of the trees please contact us.
GCB34NR9 Usual Suspects – Nosh & Natter 75 by 9 Usual Suspects When: Thursday 27th February, 2025 Where: Parc Snowdonia, Waunfawr, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 4AQ Time: 7pm to 9pm or when the last person leaves
GCB34PFCITO, A487 North, Another Quick Pick by 9 Usual Suspects CITO D1/T4.5 When: Wednesday 5th March 2025 Where: A487North Lay by Time: 11am to 12pm
GCB34QKCITO 2025 Season 1 by 9 Usual Suspects CITO D1/T3 When: Saturday 8th March 2025 Where: The Old Bridge, Morfa Parc, Caernarfon Time: 2pm – 3.30pm
GCB34RZ9 Usual Suspects Cake and a Brew by 9 Usual Suspects Event D1/T1 When: Saturday 8th March 20254 Where: Old Bridge,Parc Dre, Caernarfon Time: 3.30pm to 4pm
75th Nosh and Natter!
This months Nosh & Natter is our 75th! Our first N&N was on Monday 9th May, 2015, at the Antelope Inn, Bangor with 9 attendees. Who then would have dreamt that 10 years later we would still be meeting up once a month. Over the years we have had 66 different geocaching accounts log an attended from all corners of the world. We can’t find any photos of the first event but I have found one from our first Christmas Dinner:
CITO Season 1, 2025
CITO Season 1, 2025 souvenir will be available from Saturday 1st March through to Saturday 31st May, 2025. We have 2 CITO events published for the beginning of March that by attending will earn the souvenir. We are planning more CITO’s later in the season.
Treasure Collections Update
This new feature starts on Monday 17th March. Collection 1: Geocaching origins In this collection there are four Treasures inspired by the beginnings of geocaching. To find, simply find and log Traditional Caches. We are still unsure if there will be a Treasure in every Traditional cache or only hidden in a selected few. Also will the Treasure be visible prior to finding the cache or only revealed on logging.
Collection 2: Celebrating 25 years To unlock Collection 2, Collection 1 must be completed. This collection has five Treasures that can be found by logging any cache that has a difficulty rating of 1.5 or lower.
The Treasures feature will be available in the Geocaching® app and on Geocaching.com starting 17th March at 17:00 UTC. If you log caches using third-party or Geocaching API partner applications, you will still collect Treasure but it will not be visible in the app. and you will not receive in-app notifications when a Treasure is found. Progress can be viewed on the Geocaching® app and on Geocaching.com.
Event Review
GCB22FR 9US & Severn UK Mega Team present Ski Saturday by 9 Usual Suspects D1/T2
Firstly I must say very big Thank You to mutchie from the Severn UK Mega Team for visiting us, answering all our questions and concerns regarding this years Mega. Our Wii skiing event has become an annual fixture in the 9US calendar. This years event was the downhill, which I thought was one of the easier disciplines but the course proved to be a lot trickier than I remembered. As always the activity on the slopes was very competitive giving rise to lots of banter and laughter. Big thanks to Pete for being time keeper, making sure the technology behaved itself, printing the souvenirs and medals.
It’s a very quiet time for geocaching here in North Wales, no new caches or events to report since our last post.
HQ Announce ‘Treasures’ a New Feature
Starting in March 2025, ‘Treasures’ will be a new collectible game feature. The digital treasures will be like previous challenges, Mystery at the Museum and the magic items in Signal’s Labyrinth. Unlike those challenges when digital treasures were temporary and disappeared when the promotion ended, these ‘Treasures’ will be a permanent feature. Geocachers can collect these digital items by finding and logging caches that meet specific criteria set by HQ to form a ‘Treasure Collection’. The amount of treasures needed to complete a collection will vary. The treasures will placed in caches with certain D/T ratings or cache types or a combination of both making some collections easy to complete while others will be very difficult.
Not all completed Treasure collections will receive a souvenir.
As the release date approaches HQ will be announcing more details.
2024 Statstics
At the beginning of every year Geocaching HQ release stats on the previous years geocaching. As Geocaching is a global game I’m always surprised to see how few active participants there are, with a world population of just over 8 billion, only 1,846,540 geocachers found at least one cache and less than 60,000 geocachers hid a cache in 2024! Are Adventure Labs taking over?
