Tag: Treasures

News & New Caches 206

We have just two new traditional caches to report since our last post:

GCBF3MQ Ynys Môn view by ShadowTheNinjaWolf & kiethchaos Traditional D1.5/T1.5
GCBCJP3 TFTC 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

GCBC20Q GIFF 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.

To vote in the worldwide GIFF People’s Choice Award, go to Official Voting Survey

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

Here are a few pictures from the afternoon:

Event Cake
Log Book
TB’s & Log Book Table
Moseley Girls with event souvenirs
Log Book and TB
Enjoying the films
GIFF Planning…
Drawing the raffle
Log Book Signatures

News & New Caches 189

Another good week for Premium Member Earthcache fans…

GCB82ZM Benllech Multi by hryaaw Multi D2/T2

Premium Member Only
GCB7RZB Church Micro 15411…Rhoscolyn by Glaslyn1 Traditional D1.5/T1.5

GCB871K Criccieth Veins by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T2
GCB855J Dixie by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T1.5
GCB817W Machroes…Fault by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T2
GCB8185 Machroes…Ironstone by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T2.5
GCB81FT Machroes…Tessellation by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T2.5
GCB8189 Machroes…Cliff Spiral by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3.5/T2.5
GCB8183 Machroes…Slickensides by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T2.5
GCB8180 Machroes…Fold by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D1.5/T2.5
GCB8181 Machroes…Lamination by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D2.5/T1.5
GCB807A Porthmadog Stylolites by MrMagnaDefender Earthcache D3/T1.5

Event Reminder

GCAZVXE 2025 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.

CITO Tree planting Update

GCAXW19 CITO 2024 Season 2, Let’s Plant Trees!

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.

News & New Caches 173

We have 4 new events for your diaries:

GCB34NR 9 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

GCB34PF CITO, 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

GCB34QK CITO 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

GCB34RZ 9 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.

Highlights of our day:

News & New Caches 170

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?

Maybe we ought to do 9US stats….