GAGB Geocaching Awards 2025 - Reasons for Shortlisting

Nominator: My nomination as he provides such great entertainment for all us cachers! For the 4th year running he has put on an event once a month focusing on a subject within Derbyshire. Year 1 was Stone Circles, Year 2 Pinfolds, Year 3 Market Crosses and this year, Punishment. Following each event a cache is published. Year 1 they were all Trads, Year 2 they were all Multis, Year 3 Letterboxes and Year 4 so far have been Mysteries. Each year there has also been a bonus cache after the 12th cache has been published. Some of the caches have been themed but I don't want to put any spoilers out there. Year 3 Letterboxes were the standout caches for us, as for each one once at the coordinates, you had to find some numbers to make a bearing and the number of metres away the final location was. This taught us all how to make these calculations and what technology was available. As the year went on we all got better at protecting the waypoints. Year 4 is proving interesting as Jan & Feb were Jigidi puzzles! Trying to do these on mobiles is fun but cachers haven't been beat yet! WHyvNa is providing the caching community with an event, and a cache every month plus a bonus and he also has numerous other caches - some of which are beyond our puzzle solving abilities. To me this is what caching is all about, events and caching. WHyvNa certainly puts his heart and soul into making this such a great pastime. We are more than happy to make sometimes over a 100mile round trip as we don't live in Derbyshire to one of his events plus cache, which sums up our enthusiasm for his caching efforts.

Nominator: BlitzMar2010 is a fantastic cacher from Cornwall, who regularly placed caches. She is very responsive when help is required, and I believe she deserves this award for the sheer amount of caches they place.

Nominator: The mother/daughter team have taken on our region's best single-day event because the original CO couldn't do it any more. They have taken on other people's caches when they've moved or had to give up for some reason. They and the rest of their family always have a smile, are always helpful, hardly ever place an 'ordinary' cache and are very welcoming to newbies. In 2024 they organised a day-long event that allowed us to meet and greet as well as collecting several different cache types in one day, including - with a bit of imagination! - a webcam that's monitored by the local council.

Nominators: He constantly contributes to the geocaching community by putting out and maintaining new series, including puzzle caches, traditional caches and geoart. He has set up an adventure lab series and helped the participants with the content, to honour Paul Wilkinson aka Poshrule who sadly died last year... for their contribution to the geocaching community, helping others and placing great geocaching trails... for the shear volume of quality caches he's put out and maintains. He's so famous in UK we talk about his home area as RYO-Land

Nominator: This cacher started caching on 3rd November 2024. She is the partner of a current experienced cacher (the close family), so it's - no surprise she would join. She does nice little logs (for a newbie) too.

Nominator: she only started finding caches in 2024. She’s a quick learner, has attended a few events, has cached in different countries and has a few trackables of her own which she has released into the wild. She has nearly found 500 and is planning to hide her own ones this year. I’m impressed with how she has taken to her new hobby and is very dedicated. It is getting her out of the house and meeting new people. Getting her through a difficult time in her life - a divorce after being married for 35 ish years. She isn’t afraid to go caching alone. She has persuaded her best friend to also start geocaching..

badstagram started geocaching in 2024.

Nominator: Cornishrose holds events where she gets involved.

Nominator: Oscar & Isaac are part of the family of 4 geocaching team TeaMOJI. They are often referred to as 'Big', and 'Small' depending who found the cache. They are very sociable children, and enjoy outings/events with their Parents (the 'M' & J' of the team name).

Nominator: Mini Me likes to go to meet and greets, attend CITO, and most local caching people know her. She comes up with fantastic ideas and helps RTM1974 with the caches they hide and own. Being a creative youngster she really thinks out of the box. My reason for nomination is … she had been learning about Kenning Poems and from what she learned she applied this knowledge when I got a cast iron frog key hider for Christmas. She turned it into a new cache GCB2CNA. I’d never heard of this type of poem before and most people who find it comment that they had learnt something also. She wrote the whole poem with no help from an adult. She knows how to use the geo app (sometimes better than me). For this cache she has attached a trackable which doesn’t move and she wrote a story all out Signal meeting the black Cumbrian tree frog. I feel the effort she put into this she deserves to win. Other ways showing how keen she is about the geocaching game is … she is hosting her first event in Tenerife GCB2M88, closely followed by her London event GCB41BO. She has a geocaching lanyard (which she found in an ammo can) and is very proud of all her pin badges and milestones on it. At the bottom she has attached her trackable which she won from Geocaching Scotland. When we come to a milestone she looks at the map and decides which heart one she wants to get. She is very passionate about Geocaching, takes the game very seriously and enjoys it. She understands it and is getting her friends interested also in it. A fantastic ambassador for the game and for this I feel she deserves to win.

Nominator: This young geocacher only started geocaching in 2024 but has already hosted two events including an amazing Community Celebration Event on 8 February 2025. He brought all sorts of games for us to do and completely raised the standard of our local (South Lakeland) events . You can read the attendee reviews. He is very keen. He has lots of geocaching badges sewn to his top . It's a delight to see such a young person being so keen.

Nominator: Very enthusiastic young cacher, attends events, has held his first event recently, he loves collecting and showing his trackables for others to discover and has placed over 80 caches in the last year including a few TB hotels.