If you've got a great geocaching story to tell, or just a memorable experience/day out, why not use up a few hours of your time at home to write it up?

If you do, you can enter it into the GAGB's story competition

Email your story as an attachment to stories@gagb.org.uk by July 31st to be in with a chance of winning! 

More info: https://www.gagb.org.uk/story-competition.php

Is anyone planning to attend? It's quite a popular event, and I've heard good things about it:

GC8CVNR, this Saturday (Nov 30th), from 11am.

Thought I'd start a thread to get the ball rolling.

Any ideas?

Six souvenirs are up for grabs from today until April 14th.

To earn the first five, you’ve got to accumulate points on your leaderboard (previously Friend League). You get more points for finding caches with a high number of favourite points.

There are also 25 points up for grabs if you receive a favourite point on one of your own caches.

The sixth souvenir can be earnt by attending an official Creation Celebrations event.

More info and FAQs here

What do you think about this souvenir challenge? I think it’s a good idea as it promotes quality and creative caches above standard film pots and bisons.

Feel free to share your progress here as the Carnival progresses.

I thought I’d post this here given that we aren’t running a TB race this year 

The Geocaching Association of Great Britain (GAGB) are running a trackable race throughout 2019.

The theme is ‘Racing Hounds’, and there are four breeds to choose from. All tags are entered into the main race, in which the tag that travels the furthest wins (much like our CW races).

However, each breed has its own goal. So your breed is also competing with others of its breed to be crowned ‘Best of Breed’:

• Retriever: the prize for the dog tag that is picked up the most times.
• Pointer: the dog tag that has the most ‘discover’ logs.
• Setter: the dog tag that clocks up the most mileage without leaving the British Isles.
• Boxer: The TB that is dropped off or visits the most caches that are ‘small', 'regular' or 'large'.

Tags cost £5.50 each and part of the profit will be donated to upcoming UK Mega events!

The race begins on January 12th, and will launch at GAGB’s ‘Start the Year’ event in Keyworth (GC7X2V9), where the tags will also be on sale. They’re also available to order online now! You can join at any time  - doesn’t have to be this weekend.

It should be a lot of fun and a good substitute for our CW race until it hopefully returns next year - and the money goes towards a good cause, supporting the UK Mega’s!

* Buy your tag here (others on page 2): https://www.gagb.org.uk/prestashop/13-trackables
* Race information and standings (updated weekly): http://gagb.org.uk/trackable-race.php

CacheWalker is officially 10 today! 

Thanks to the founder members: Bikermel76, Schnarff, Wrighty, Mrs Wrighty and JimJinks.

Additional thanks to Wrighty for placing so many caches over the years on fantastic walks for CacheWalker events.

Thanks to walk tall and tarmacjohn for supporting and contributing so much to CacheWalker as well.

Thanks to Gackt and Willow Wisps for also organising CacheWalker events in the past.

Lastly, thanks to who've attended our events and posted on our forum over the years. We've had over 600 'Attended' logs on our events; the headcount is probably over 1000 (as there are often several people per caching account). So CacheWalker's essentially gone Mega - twice 

Here's to the next 10 years! 

Post your birthday wishes here...

Link to updated guidelines

So, you can now bury caches if you have permission 
Not something I think should be done!

Some interesting changes/additions here.