Geocaching Road Trip 2015

July 4, 2015

Post all of your questions, comments, and answers about the Geocaching Road Trip 2015 here. Feel free to post here as many times as you want to, but please stay on topic! If you have a question or comment about other geocaching souvenirs in 2015, please post it at this forum topic, not this one.

Edited July 4, 2015 by The Two Stooges

July 5, 2015

Fun With Favorites

To earn this souvenir, find a geocache with 10+ Favorite Points between June 19th and Sept 2nd. Any geocache, anywhere—as long as it has 10 or more Favorite Points.

Edited July 5, 2015 by The Two Stooges

July 5, 2015

Meet Your Road Trip Crew

From July 3rd to September 2nd, you can earn a souvenir by attending any Geocaching Event (excluding CITO events).

7.3k · July 5, 2015

:blink:

I really don't understand what you are trying to do with this new thread.

B.

Edited July 5, 2015 by Pup Patrol

July 5, 2015

I really don't understand what you are trying to do with this new thread.

B.

I am using it as a place where geocachers can discuss the Geocaching Road Trip 2015.

7.4k · July 5, 2015

I really don't understand what you are trying to do with this new thread.

B.

I am using it as a place where geocachers can discuss the Geocaching Road Trip 2015.

Discuss it how?

July 5, 2015

I really don't understand what you are trying to do with this new thread.

B.

I am using it as a place where geocachers can discuss the Geocaching Road Trip 2015.

Discuss it how?

Ask questions about it, answer questions about it, and talk about it.

5.9k · July 5, 2015

Ask questions about it, answer questions about it, and talk about it.

Please avoid placing duplicate topics... it's bad etiquette and against the forum guidelines.

7.4k · July 5, 2015

I really don't understand what you are trying to do with this new thread.

B.

I am using it as a place where geocachers can discuss the Geocaching Road Trip 2015.

Discuss it how?

Ask questions about it, answer questions about it, and talk about it.

There are already other posts about it, and I can read Groundspeak's materials about it on the website. Why is this post necessary?

July 11, 2015

I have a question -- what does this summer's promotion specifically have to do with a "road trip"? The quests (Find a geocache with 10 or more Favorite Points, Attend an Event, Mega-Event or Giga-Event, Find a T5 geocache, Find an EarthCache or attend a CITO, Find a Mystery Cache) hardly seem to have any special connection to requiring a road trip to find them, or at least no more of a road trip than normal geocaching would require at any time, depending on how many unfound caches there are in proximity to where you live. Maybe the event one, but only if you happen to live somewhere other than where the event is taking place.

I am planning a road trip later this month and I would think things like "Find a geocache in 20 different counties"... "Find a T5 geocache in three different states" ... "Find x amount of interstate road-side / rest stop caches" would be more specifically tailored to a "Road Trip" theme than these quests which just seem like "geocaching". This just seems to be a contrived thing come up with simply for the sake of coming up with something for people to do to earn a souvenir.

What is special about merely finding a Mystery Cache during a specific week that is worthy of a souvenir?

3.6k · July 11, 2015

Guess they are saying they want you to get out and explore and have an adventure finding ones that qualify.

2k · July 12, 2015

Well, I'm going on a roadtrip, or rather a plane trip to find a cache with at least 10 favourites. There are just two available in the whole country, and we found them ages ago already. So I'm using a conveniently placed business trip to pick up such cache in the UK.

10.1k · July 12, 2015

Well, I'm going on a roadtrip, or rather a plane trip to find a cache with at least 10 favourites. There are just two available in the whole country, and we found them ages ago already. So I'm using a conveniently placed business trip to pick up such cache in the UK.

This is, of course, why we do not go hunting for the local EarthCaches. We have to save them for upcoming souvenirs. And there are so few around.

July 12, 2015

This thread is exactly what I was looking for. Last week (July 5, 2015) I logged a virtual find in Utah. I'm back home in Indiana and I don't know how to get credit for this one for the "favorites" challenge section. The previous posts seem to suggest one finds all the sections of the challenge and then logs them. Straighten me out..kindly, I hope.

Silverschucker

7.3k · July 12, 2015

This thread is exactly what I was looking for. Last week (July 5, 2015) I logged a virtual find in Utah. I'm back home in Indiana and I don't know how to get credit for this one for the "favorites" challenge section. The previous posts seem to suggest one finds all the sections of the challenge and then logs them. Straighten me out..kindly, I hope.

Silverschucker

You should have received the "Fun with Favorites" souvenir for that Virtual with 64 favorite points. If GS didn't want Virtuals to count, they should perhaps state that very clearly.

I would contact Groundspeak and ask why it's not in your profile.

The Road Trip 2015 is a souvenir promotion, like the previous years. It's not a "challenge". Each special souvenir has a "start date" and the promotion ends on September 2nd.

http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/05/join-the-geocaching-road-trip-15-earn-6-souvenirs/

https://www.geocaching.com/play/promo/roadtrip

B.

Edited July 12, 2015 by Pup Patrol

July 15, 2015

Getting ready for the D5/T5 souvenir release this week ...

... gosh, it's going to be so nice not to worry about that because of the nearby D5 challenge caches for which I qualify.

Oh, wait, challenge caches are evil, right?

3.1k · July 15, 2015

This thread is exactly what I was looking for. Last week (July 5, 2015) I logged a virtual find in Utah. I'm back home in Indiana and I don't know how to get credit for this one for the "favorites" challenge section. The previous posts seem to suggest one finds all the sections of the challenge and then logs them. Straighten me out..kindly, I hope.

Silverschucker

How odd. If you logged your much-favorited Utah virtual last week, then it doesn't look like you were awarded the souvenir for that one. But if you logged your much-favorited Colorado virtual on the day you posted this comment (July 12), then you were awarded the souvenir for that one. Anyway, you now have the Fun With Favorites souvenir.

7.8k · July 15, 2015

There's been some strange behaviour with these Road Trip souvenirs. When I logged my first 10+ FP cache, I did not see the message that I had been awarded the souvenir on the log confirmation page. However, when I went to check my list of souvenirs, it was there, so it was just on the confirmation page that it didn't show up. This past weekend, I logged a couple more 10+ FP caches, and both times it said on the log confirmation page that I had been awarded the Fun with Favorites souvenir, even though I already got it a few weeks ago.

If you log a cache that should result in a souvenir being awarded and it doesn't say you got it, go check your souvenir page to see if it's there or not. It could be that it did get awarded and it just didn't tell you.

July 17, 2015

I'm trying to do this road trip thing, but I have to say that the new web page really makes it impossible. I can't express how much I HATE the new search...trying to find events is a nightmare, there's nothing within 30 miles. I know someone posted in these forums a better link for finding events but I can't locate it just now, I no longer have the computer where I saved it as a favorite.

7.3k · July 17, 2015

I'm trying to do this road trip thing, but I have to say that the new web page really makes it impossible. I can't express how much I HATE the new search...trying to find events is a nightmare, there's nothing within 30 miles. I know someone posted in these forums a better link for finding events but I can't locate it just now, I no longer have the computer where I saved it as a favorite.

Two things you might want to make bookmarks for on the new computer:

1.) Road Trip 2015 page here: https://www.geocaching.com/play/promo/roadtrip

For each souvenir in the promotion that you have not earned, there will be suggested caches/events.

2.) If you are looking for events in Michigan, you can use the old search page:

https://www.geocaching.com/seek/

Events will be listed first, then the newest published caches.

3.) Another search option is in the United States subforum:

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=50

Under "Midwest", "Michigan"...

http://www.geocaching.com/local/default.aspx?state_id=23

If you still can't find an event for the souvenir, you could host one yourself. It needs to be in time for the September 2, 2015 promotion completion date.

B.

Edited July 17, 2015 by Pup Patrol

July 17, 2015

Here's a questions some friends of mine and I were wondering about. Is it possible to get two souvenirs for one cache/event? Let's say a D5 Event? Thoughts?

7.8k · July 17, 2015

Here's a questions some friends of mine and I were wondering about. Is it possible to get two souvenirs for one cache/event? Let's say a D5 Event? Thoughts?

In theory, yes. I haven't actually done it myself, but I don't see why it shouldn't happen. There are many valid scenarios where a single log would qualify you for many souvenirs. For example, you could log a cache under the following scenario on August 14th and get 5 souvenirs:

Mystery cache (15 Years of Geocaching - Put on Your Thinking Cap)
Has more than 10 Favourite Points (15 Years of Geocaching - Fun with Favorites)
Has a D or T of 5 (15 Years of Geocaching - Let’s get EXTREME!)
Is your first find in that state/province/country (Whatever state/province/country souvenir)
Have already attended an event after July 3rd and logged an EarthCache or CITO after July 31st (15 Years of Geocaching - Road Trip Hero)

5.7k · July 19, 2015

I have a question -- what does this summer's promotion specifically have to do with a "road trip"? The quests (Find a geocache with 10 or more Favorite Points, Attend an Event, Mega-Event or Giga-Event, Find a T5 geocache, Find an EarthCache or attend a CITO, Find a Mystery Cache) hardly seem to have any special connection to requiring a road trip to find them, or at least no more of a road trip than normal geocaching would require at any time, depending on how many unfound caches there are in proximity to where you live. Maybe the event one, but only if you happen to live somewhere other than where the event is taking place.

I am planning a road trip later this month and I would think things like "Find a geocache in 20 different counties"... "Find a T5 geocache in three different states" ... "Find x amount of interstate road-side / rest stop caches" would be more specifically tailored to a "Road Trip" theme than these quests which just seem like "geocaching". This just seems to be a contrived thing come up with simply for the sake of coming up with something for people to do to earn a souvenir.

What is special about merely finding a Mystery Cache during a specific week that is worthy of a souvenir?

For cachers who have been caching for a while in the same area and want the souvenirs, it might necessitate travel, as they may have cleaned out any local caches that qualify. But really I think it's just the theme they came up with, something different than last year's 7 Souvenirs of August or the year prior's 31 Souvenirs of August.

Since August can be an uncomfortably hot time to go hunting for caches in the last three places we've lived (southern Alabama, southest Oklahoma, and now El Paso), I'm glad this one is stretched out some more so I can go hunting without fear of heat stroke.

This thread is exactly what I was looking for. Last week (July 5, 2015) I logged a virtual find in Utah. I'm back home in Indiana and I don't know how to get credit for this one for the "favorites" challenge section. The previous posts seem to suggest one finds all the sections of the challenge and then logs them. Straighten me out..kindly, I hope.

Silverschucker

I'm assuming you know this by now, but your souvenir appeared on your page on July 12th, so all's well that ends well.

4.1k · July 19, 2015

In the process of hiding the 5 star terrain or difficulty souvenir On my profile I noticed the Groundspeak playlist. A road trip song list without Roadrunner (either the Modern Lovers or Joan Jett version)? In any event, since we are planning a T5 Earthcache over Labor Day, I also noticed that the Road Trip ended before that. Hmmm. At least in this Country, where Labor Day is held on a day other than May 1, I thought it was the traditional time to hit the open road. But it will still be summer and the road never ends.

Edited July 19, 2015 by geodarts

7.3k · July 20, 2015

In the process of hiding the 5 star terrain or difficulty souvenir On my profile I noticed the Groundspeak playlist. A road trip song list without Roadrunner (either the Modern Lovers or Joan Jett version)? In any event, since we are planning a T5 Earthcache over Labor Day, I also noticed that the Road Trip ended before that. Hmmm. At least in this Country, where Labor Day is held on a day other than May 1, I thought it was the traditional time to hit the open road. But it will still be summer and the road never ends.

Life IS a highway.

10.1k · July 20, 2015

Here's a questions some friends of mine and I were wondering about. Is it possible to get two souvenirs for one cache/event? Let's say a D5 Event? Thoughts?

In theory, yes. I haven't actually done it myself, but I don't see why it shouldn't happen. There are many valid scenarios where a single log would qualify you for many souvenirs. For example, you could log a cache under the following scenario on August 14th and get 5 souvenirs:

Mystery cache (15 Years of Geocaching - Put on Your Thinking Cap)

Has more than 10 Favourite Points (15 Years of Geocaching - Fun with Favorites)

Has a D or T of 5 (15 Years of Geocaching - Let’s get EXTREME!)

Is your first find in that state/province/country (Whatever state/province/country souvenir)

Have already attended an event after July 3rd and logged an EarthCache or CITO after July 31st (15 Years of Geocaching - Road Trip Hero)

Sorry. Don't see that one listed in the souvenirs list: Is your first find in that state/province/country

Not planning a trip to Manitoba or Missouri for that one!

14k · July 21, 2015

Here's a questions some friends of mine and I were wondering about. Is it possible to get two souvenirs for one cache/event? Let's say a D5 Event? Thoughts?

In theory, yes. I haven't actually done it myself, but I don't see why it shouldn't happen. There are many valid scenarios where a single log would qualify you for many souvenirs. For example, you could log a cache under the following scenario on August 14th and get 5 souvenirs:

Mystery cache (15 Years of Geocaching - Put on Your Thinking Cap)

Has more than 10 Favourite Points (15 Years of Geocaching - Fun with Favorites)

Has a D or T of 5 (15 Years of Geocaching - Let's get EXTREME!)

Is your first find in that state/province/country (Whatever state/province/country souvenir)

Have already attended an event after July 3rd and logged an EarthCache or CITO after July 31st (15 Years of Geocaching - Road Trip Hero)

Sorry. Don't see that one listed in the souvenirs list: Is your first find in that state/province/country

Not planning a trip to Manitoba or Missouri for that one!

It's not on the Road Trip 2015 list but a first find in a state, province, or one of the countries for which a souvenir has been created will produce a souvenir.

3.7k · July 21, 2015

Here's a questions some friends of mine and I were wondering about. Is it possible to get two souvenirs for one cache/event? Let's say a D5 Event? Thoughts?

In theory, yes. I haven't actually done it myself, but I don't see why it shouldn't happen. There are many valid scenarios where a single log would qualify you for many souvenirs. For example, you could log a cache under the following scenario on August 14th and get 5 souvenirs:

Mystery cache (15 Years of Geocaching - Put on Your Thinking Cap)

Has more than 10 Favourite Points (15 Years of Geocaching - Fun with Favorites)

Has a D or T of 5 (15 Years of Geocaching - Lets get EXTREME!)

Is your first find in that state/province/country (Whatever state/province/country souvenir)

Have already attended an event after July 3rd and logged an EarthCache or CITO after July 31st (15 Years of Geocaching - Road Trip Hero)

Maybe even six if it's done on 'International Geocaching Day 2015' and a unique souvenir is offered for that.

So...just find a D5 (or T5), highly-favorited mystery cache in a new state on August 15, 2015 after having already logged both an event and an earth cache in the Road Trip promotion! Easy!

Edited July 21, 2015 by J Grouchy

7.8k · July 21, 2015

Maybe even six if it's done on 'International Geocaching Day 2015' and a unique souvenir is offered for that.

Good point. I haven't heard any rumblings about an IGD2015 souvenir, and it's only a few weeks away. Usually Groundspeak gives plenty of notice when a souvenir will be available, so I wonder if there won't be one this year.

7.4k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

3.7k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Just got my first T5 cache a couple days ago...on the way in to work.

It's a virtual at the Atlanta Airport. I guess it's rated a T5 because you need a car to get there...?

July 29, 2015

As a new geocacher, I am stressing over the Difficulty 5 roadtrip souvenir. I'm going to try one this weekend and hope I get it. I want to get all the souvenirs this summer. I don't have a boat (which are some of the T5s in this area) and I'm not looking forward to a terrain 5 hike as the heat index is around 110 in south Arkansas on some days. I'm going for a difficulty 5 and hope I find it.

July 29, 2015

I have a question -- what does this summer's promotion specifically have to do with a "road trip"? The quests (Find a geocache with 10 or more Favorite Points, Attend an Event, Mega-Event or Giga-Event, Find a T5 geocache, Find an EarthCache or attend a CITO, Find a Mystery Cache) hardly seem to have any special connection to requiring a road trip to find them, or at least no more of a road trip than normal geocaching would require at any time, depending on how many unfound caches there are in proximity to where you live. Maybe the event one, but only if you happen to live somewhere other than where the event is taking place.

I am planning a road trip later this month and I would think things like "Find a geocache in 20 different counties"... "Find a T5 geocache in three different states" ... "Find x amount of interstate road-side / rest stop caches" would be more specifically tailored to a "Road Trip" theme than these quests which just seem like "geocaching". This just seems to be a contrived thing come up with simply for the sake of coming up with something for people to do to earn a souvenir.

What is special about merely finding a Mystery Cache during a specific week that is worthy of a souvenir?

We picked up the event souvenir in Copenhagen (4,000 miles from home) I think you could call that a road (bicycle) trip!

Shout out to the great folks in Denmark!

14k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Just got my first T5 cache a couple days ago...on the way in to work.

It's a virtual at the Atlanta Airport. I guess it's rated a T5 because you need a car to get there...?

Although I obtained the first road trip souvenir without trying it (I didn't realize that I got one until I logged the find) I haven't been actively trying to acquire any of them. I am curious how people feel about obtaining a souvenir for a T5 or D5 cache when it's obvious that the rating is not legitimate. Personally, if I'm going to make a claim (by showing the souvenir on my profile) for doing something that is *supposed* to be very difficult, I wouldn't want to do so on a technicality.

7.3k · July 29, 2015

As a new geocacher, I am stressing over the Difficulty 5 roadtrip souvenir. I'm going to try one this weekend and hope I get it. I want to get all the souvenirs this summer. I don't have a boat (which are some of the T5s in this area) and I'm not looking forward to a terrain 5 hike as the heat index is around 110 in south Arkansas on some days. I'm going for a difficulty 5 and hope I find it.

There are options:

1.) renting a boat/canoe/kayak

2.) reach out to other cachers. Perhaps one of them owns a boat/canoe/kayak.

Right now, I'm hoping to get a T5 "water access only" cache.

Here in Central Ontario, Canada, we are in the third day of an unusual heat wave.

Currently, the temperature outside is 93.8*F. Thankfully, the humidity is low, 41%.

B.

Edited July 29, 2015 by Pup Patrol

13.7k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Just got my first T5 cache a couple days ago...on the way in to work.

It's a virtual at the Atlanta Airport. I guess it's rated a T5 because you need a car to get there...?

Although I obtained the first road trip souvenir without trying it (I didn't realize that I got one until I logged the find) I haven't been actively trying to acquire any of them. I am curious how people feel about obtaining a souvenir for a T5 or D5 cache when it's obvious that the rating is not legitimate. Personally, if I'm going to make a claim (by showing the souvenir on my profile) for doing something that is *supposed* to be very difficult, I wouldn't want to do so on a technicality.

Yeah...

When (for us) a "T5" could mean quite some time just in preparation (watercraft or rope) before we're even close to accessing a cache, we'd skip by that one, thinking it lame.

7.3k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Stats so far for the currently available souvenirs:

Fun with favorites: 303,047

Meet your road crew: 39,716

Let's get extreme: 35,702

Quite the drop from the "favorites" one to the "events" one.

Maybe people are pacing themselves?

B.

3.7k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Just got my first T5 cache a couple days ago...on the way in to work.

It's a virtual at the Atlanta Airport. I guess it's rated a T5 because you need a car to get there...?

Although I obtained the first road trip souvenir without trying it (I didn't realize that I got one until I logged the find) I haven't been actively trying to acquire any of them. I am curious how people feel about obtaining a souvenir for a T5 or D5 cache when it's obvious that the rating is not legitimate. Personally, if I'm going to make a claim (by showing the souvenir on my profile) for doing something that is *supposed* to be very difficult, I wouldn't want to do so on a technicality.

Well, to be fair, the cache I mentioned has always been rated T5. I didn't notice the rating until I'd already completed it, but others I asked about it confirmed it. Being on airport property, the only way to get there without being picked up by law enforcement is by car...so I figure it's fair under the rules of needing specialized or specific equipment to reach it. It could probably be argued either way.

15.3k · July 29, 2015

I am curious how people feel about obtaining a souvenir for a T5 or D5 cache when it's obvious that the rating is not legitimate.

I have a general concern that this particular souvenir continues to push difficulty and terrain ratings as something to be earned by finders, rather than something to be used for (accurately) communicating the general nature of the geocache experience to potential seekers. But the Fizzy Challenge and other difficulty/terrain grid challenges have already done that.

But I've got legitimate D5 caches on my "solved unfound puzzles" bookmark list. (Thanks, Venona!) If I wait a couple weeks, I can use one of those to get the "Put on Your Thinking Cap" souvenir at the same time.

14k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Just got my first T5 cache a couple days ago...on the way in to work.

It's a virtual at the Atlanta Airport. I guess it's rated a T5 because you need a car to get there...?

Although I obtained the first road trip souvenir without trying it (I didn't realize that I got one until I logged the find) I haven't been actively trying to acquire any of them. I am curious how people feel about obtaining a souvenir for a T5 or D5 cache when it's obvious that the rating is not legitimate. Personally, if I'm going to make a claim (by showing the souvenir on my profile) for doing something that is *supposed* to be very difficult, I wouldn't want to do so on a technicality.

Well, to be fair, the cache I mentioned has always been rated T5. I didn't notice the rating until I'd already completed it, but others I asked about it confirmed it. Being on airport property, the only way to get there without being picked up by law enforcement is by car...so I figure it's fair under the rules of needing specialized or specific equipment to reach it. It could probably be argued either way.

Agreed and I'm not trying to start any arguments but a motor vehicle kinda stretches the definition of "specialized equipment". I see it as a cart before the horse issue. The CO wanted to create a T5 rated cache and has found a loophole that lets them do that, rather than create a cache then then rate it appropriately. I suspect a *lot* of 5/5 caches have those ratings for the same reason.

7.4k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Stats so far for the currently available souvenirs:

Fun with favorites: 303,047

Meet your road crew: 39,716

Let's get extreme: 35,702

Quite the drop from the "favorites" one to the "events" one.

Maybe people are pacing themselves?

B.

I think it's a matter of availability.

3.7k · July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

Just got my first T5 cache a couple days ago...on the way in to work.

It's a virtual at the Atlanta Airport. I guess it's rated a T5 because you need a car to get there...?

Although I obtained the first road trip souvenir without trying it (I didn't realize that I got one until I logged the find) I haven't been actively trying to acquire any of them. I am curious how people feel about obtaining a souvenir for a T5 or D5 cache when it's obvious that the rating is not legitimate. Personally, if I'm going to make a claim (by showing the souvenir on my profile) for doing something that is *supposed* to be very difficult, I wouldn't want to do so on a technicality.

Well, to be fair, the cache I mentioned has always been rated T5. I didn't notice the rating until I'd already completed it, but others I asked about it confirmed it. Being on airport property, the only way to get there without being picked up by law enforcement is by car...so I figure it's fair under the rules of needing specialized or specific equipment to reach it. It could probably be argued either way.

Agreed and I'm not trying to start any arguments but a motor vehicle kinda stretches the definition of "specialized equipment". I see it as a cart before the horse issue. The CO wanted to create a T5 rated cache and has found a loophole that lets them do that, rather than create a cache then then rate it appropriately. I suspect a *lot* of 5/5 caches have those ratings for the same reason.

Well...I kind of doubt that was how he though about it back in September of 2001 when he created it.

6.8k · July 29, 2015

Stats so far for the currently available souvenirs:

Fun with favorites: 303,047

Meet your road crew: 39,716

Let's get extreme: 35,702

Quite the drop from the "favorites" one to the "events" one.

Maybe people are pacing themselves?

I think it's a matter of availability.

I agree. Without any special intention I have found 25 caches with 10 or more favourites since this souvenir started to exists. The number of events and T=5 or D=5 caches is far lower than the number of caches with 10+ FPs (which means almost nothing in many areas of Europe).

July 29, 2015

At the outset of this, I really didn't think the event souvenir would be the hardest one for me to get. I've found a dozen terrain 5 caches this month.

I feel the same way; I have all the caches I want to find with my college roomate (and fellow cacher) when I go back to campus in mid-August but I've already managed to pick up most the souvenirs without meaning to.

However there doesn't seem to be any events with-in a 1-2 hours radius of the two of us. Hopefully one will pop up, or we'll have to make a real road trip out of it. :anibad:

Then again; we could always try to host our own event for the community.

9.1k · July 30, 2015

I like challenging myself to do the summertime souvenir promotions full-out. For the "31 Days of August" promotion, I started a one-year streak. For the cache types promotion last summer, I found most of them during a roadtrip on the other side of the USA.

For this year's souvenirs (thus far), I earned all three during a 1300 mile roadtrip this past weekend. On Saturday, I attended the Midwest GeoBash, earning the "Meet Your Road Trip Crew" souvenir. I met lots of old friends and made some new ones while finding more than 30 caches that day, leading up to logging the event as my 6000th find.

On Sunday, I trekked north to Traverse Bay, Michigan, where I joined five other geocachers to charter a boat so that we could find the Power Island cache, hidden back in July 2000. Some of the other caches on the island are properly rated five stars for terrain, if you believe that "boat required" equals "five stars." That scored me the "Let's Get Extreme" souvenir. One of these was a terrain five earthcache, so it's too bad I missed that due to the timing. I'll find another one!

Then I went on to find Geocache 612, a fun trip down sandy roads where I appreciated having four-wheel drive. This was the last "hard" month I needed for the Jasmer Challenge, that I've been working on for many years!

In the course of the weekend, I found around 20 caches with ten or more favorite points, including 273 for "Geocache 612" and 210 for "Power Island" - the second and third most favorited caches in the state. (I found Michigan's most-favorited cache many years ago.) So, I earned the "Fun with Favorites" souvenir many times over.

I had a great roadtrip to Northwest Ohio and Michigan last weekend. I hope to earn the remaining Road Trip souvenirs next month when I attend the Block Party and Going APE events in Washington.

Edited July 30, 2015 by The Leprechauns

14k · July 30, 2015

I like challenging myself to do the summertime souvenir promotions full-out. For the "31 Days of August" promotion, I started a one-year streak. For the cache types promotion last summer, I found most of them during a roadtrip on the other side of the USA.

For this year's souvenirs (thus far), I earned all three during a 1300 mile roadtrip this past weekend. On Saturday, I attended the Midwest GeoBash, earning the "Meet Your Road Trip Crew" souvenir. I met lots of old friends and made some new ones while finding more than 30 caches that day, leading up to logging the event as my 6000th find.

On Sunday, I trekked north to Traverse Bay, Michigan, where I joined five other geocachers to charter a boat so that we could find the Power Island cache, hidden back in July 2000. Some of the other caches on the island are properly rated five stars for terrain, if you believe that "boat required" equals "five stars." That scored me the "Let's Get Extreme" souvenir. One of these was a terrain five earthcache, so it's too bad I missed that due to the timing. I'll find another one!

Then I went on to find Geocache 612, a fun trip down sandy roads where I appreciated having four-wheel drive. This was the last "hard" month I needed for the Jasmer Challenge, that I've been working on for many years!

In the course of the weekend, I found around 20 caches with ten or more favorite points, including 273 for "Geocache 612" and 210 for "Power Island" - the second and third most favorited caches in the state. (I found Michigan's most-favorited cache many years ago.) So, I earned the "Fun with Favorites" souvenir many times over.

I had a great roadtrip to Northwest Ohio and Michigan last weekend. I hope to earn the remaining Road Trip souvenirs next month when I attend the Block Party and Going APE events in Washington.

I found a total of 6 caches this month. One of them, an earth cache in Rome, qualified me for the "favorites" even though I wasn't actively trying obtain it. I may, or may not grab a few caches in Boston next month but don't plan on doing anything special for a souvenir. I hope to find a few when I travel to Paris in September and hope to have a few hours free when I go to Beijing in November. That's the extent of my geocaching plans for the rest of the year. We all can play the game in our own way.

9.1k · July 30, 2015

We all can play the game in our own way.

Amen to that!

My roadtrip last weekend, and my trip to the Middle East in May, have been my only significant geo-adventures so far this year. The next big one is Block Party.

Your plans sound terrific! I'd rather find a handful of caches in a far-off location than to clean out every parking lot micro within 25 miles of my house, but that's just me.

I like it how this year's summer souvenir promotion is staggered over a long period of time, rather than forcing everyone to find a particular type of cache on a precise date or narrow window of time. It allowed me to plan a big road trip, with earning the souvenirs being a nice part of the many rewards I derived (seeing friends, traveling to new places, finishing challenge caches, etc.).

10.1k · July 30, 2015

I found a total of 6 caches this month. One of them, an earth cache in Rome, qualified me for the "favorites" even though I wasn't actively trying obtain it. I may, or may not grab a few caches in Boston next month but don't plan on doing anything special for a souvenir. I hope to find a few when I travel to Paris in September and hope to have a few hours free when I go to Beijing in November. That's the extent of my geocaching plans for the rest of the year. We all can play the game in our own way.

I've done 15 caches/events this year. Six this month. Of those six, three were for souvenirs. Two were for possible FTFs within walking distance of the Dolphinarium. (One FTF!) The sixth was in the parking lot of the event. (And earlier event was for Pi Day.)

I have my mystery planned out. The EarthCache will be trickier. Not that there aren't some around. But my weekends are spent visiting my caching partner in hospice care.

Yup. We all play our own way. Whatever works better for us.

2.7k · July 30, 2015

I'm going to visit Michigan for a conference next week. I hope to grab caches for three of the souvenirs while there, schedule permitting. Maybe a trip to the Gulf Coast for the balance of them in late August.

7.3k · July 30, 2015

I like it how this year's summer souvenir promotion is staggered over a long period of time, rather than forcing everyone to find a particular type of cache on a precise date or narrow window of time.

I think that's the best part of this year's souvenir promotion.

Good thinking, Groundspeak.

B.

Geocaching Road Trip 2015

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