https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/fieldexp/EarthCache/guidelines/home.aspx 1. EarthCaches must provide an earth science lesson. 2. EarthCaches must be educational. They should provide accurate but non-technical explanations of what visitors will experience at the site. The cache page, including the description and logging tasks, must assume only a basic knowledge of geology. 3. EarthCaches must highlight a unique feature. EarthCaches that duplicate existing EarthCaches or related sites may be rejected. EarthCaches must ...
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WInter Geocaching
Attributes communicate what to expect at a cache location. Cache owners may identify attributes before submitting a cache listing for review. Identified attributes will appear on the right side of a cache listing page. Premium Members can use the Pocket Query feature to search for caches with particular attributes. Geocaching > Getting Started with Geocaching > Attributes One attribute you ...
Read More »Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trackable Giveaway!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trackable Giveaway! Lackeys Shmellis and Mamabear from the Partnerships and Promotions team are visiting NYC from Geocaching HQ for the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles partnership. Pick up a lackey tag, a Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trackable AND free pizza. This event is sponsored by Nickelodeon. Cowabunga! The legendary half-shell heroes have ...
Read More »Are you ready for streak week? Log a geocache, an Adventure lab, or attend an Event Cache every day for 7 days from Sunday, August 25, 2019 through Saturday, August 31, 2019 to earn a souvenir.
Read More »Treasure – Movie
Popular party girl Erica gets a dose of reality when she’s forced to do community service at a soup kitchen. She hates it, believing she is being unfairly punished. A new friendship based on a mutual love for geocaching and the realization that the patrons of the soup kitchen are worse off than she could’ve imagined leads Erica to ask ...
Read More »2016 NYC Geocaching Award Winners
Thank you to everyone that voted. The winners of the NYC Geocaching awards are: Cache of the Year GC5TD8V NYPL: Patience and Fortitude by New Market Mallers Best 2016 cache of the Bronx GC6K8QF Take Me Out To The Ball Game – NY Edition! by jdawg87 Best cache of 2016 in Brooklyn We have a tie! GC6FYBR Japanese House by ...
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Nominations for the 2016 NYC geocache awards are now open! 2016 NYC Geocache Awards
Read More »Pi Day Raffle
Pi Day Raffle! As part of the Staten Island Pi Day event 3,141xy6 (GC6C4DF) Ikpipper will be running an Instagram photo contest! Simply post a NYC Geocaching photo to Instagram and hashtag it #NYCGeocaching and#NYCGeocaching314 Photos can be posted anytime from Leap Day, 2-29-16 to (8pm) Pi Day 3-14-16. This is open to all geocachers anywhere! A NYC Geocaching Photo ...
Read More »First giveaway of 2016!
This is our first giveaway of 2016 Join our mailing list on the right side of this page and you will be entered for a chance to win a copy of Sean and Friends Go Geocaching (Coloring Book) by Cully Long (Author), Sandy Portacio (Contributor) There will be 3 winners this month. One winner will be picked on each date. January 1, ...
Read More »How To Puzzle Cache
How To Puzzle Cache http://tinyurl.com/HowToPuzzleCache Written by a NYC Geocacher (Cully Long) is now on sale at Amazon. This would make a great Christmas present for any Geocaching
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