Matrix Challenge Ave
Palarunca
Belgium
21 points
No. 866
With owner
A very pleasant walk along the canal, many simple but enjoyable tree climbs, and a few slightly more challenging placements 🙂.
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Inver River Waterfall
sgtzara
Ireland
20 points
No. 870
With owner
Gorgeous location, challenging hide!
Rothenburger Spitalhof
benitodecastro
Germany
20 points
No. 176
No response
On our drive to Austria for ski-ing we paused in Rothenburg to find a TerraCache. The TerraCache was gone, but instead we found this lovely clean and tidy cache in a stunning location.
Ischgl VIP Cache
sandvika
Austria
20 points
No. 178
With owner
Awesome location, highly original hunt and excellent container.
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PD Challenge Trail
Pointerdogg
Ireland
20 points
No. 871
With owner
A lovely walk or cycle beside the Lagan through Lisburn. Some fun challenges and a few tricky hides 🙂.
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Karraba
rsanthill
Malta
19 points
No. 357
With owner
One of the most challenging caches we have done for some time! Quite different from any I've done in the UK.
Project 81 (Challenge)
spottersteam
Luxembourg
19 points
No. 629
No response
A beautiful and peaceful location, and a tall, majestic specimen to climb.
~Serenity - still serene~
AbbeyAckbar
Ireland
19 points
No. 473
No response
A gorgeous location with fantastic views, that we were fortunate enough to do on a lovely sunny spring morning 🙂.
Les pendues du Bois Des Vallées
JéTomCha
Belgium
19 points
No. 855
With owner
Wow, a series of "fishing" night multi caches - what an unusual combination 🙂. And we did them in six inches of snow!
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Melnais Starkis
doubleddaina
Latvia
19 points
No. 668
No response
Walking around Riga and arrived at the last cache on our list - to be met with a cache the like of which we had never seen before 🙂.
Bird Box (T5)
TIMTIM.
Germany
18 points
No. 330
No response
The tallest tree we climbed in Germany, to a good cache box. Great location.
Ratzi -T5-
Team Rabbits
Germany
18 points
No. 327
No response
A fun tree climb, in a great location, and with an excellent twist in the tail 🙂.
Les canards perchés
Stefalien
Belgium
18 points
No. 856
No response
A lovely walk with dizzygirl for some "fishing" caches, tricker than it might have been due to 6 inches of snow, but most enjoyable.
MDC41 CHALLENGES
MiTus57 & Lyspaul41
France
18 points
No. 865
With owner
Some very neatly presented caches in beautiful forest.
Paleozoic Challenge
Rikitan
Slovakia
17 points
No. 626
With owner
A simply beautiful location beside the Danube.
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X marks the spot
Captain Gore-tex
Malta
17 points
No. 359
No response
A wonderful final location, interesting in itself, and spectacular views.
Taken from the drone - acknowledgements to Ken Spooner (wesleyken). Click the image to expand it.
Birguma Caves
evilc88
Malta
17 points
No. 360
No response
A great walk, leading to a very challenging cache placement that required great teamwork and still resulted in scuffed shins 🙂.
Kippers in the Jungle (Denmark's first)
lysthoej
Denmark
17 points
No. 489
No response
Lovely big box, well presented, in a nice location.
Challenge Forest - T5 Traveler
bejcci, Modrak, taxoft
Czechia
17 points
No. 622
With owner
Just one example cache from a large series, I had to pick one of them 😉. Great forest setting.
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Karpatsky kostelik
angels77
Czechia
17 points
No. 623
With owner
This wooden church was so unexpected, I only found it because I decided to walk up to the Panorama instead of taking the funicular. Very unusual and a delight to see 🙂.
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Years of Geocaching Challenge
geoPetros
Slovakia
17 points
No. 625
With owner
A simple climb, I just needed an etrier to get started, to a most unusual and attractive cache container.
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Steps and Ladders
Mghaffeg
Malta
17 points
No. 356
No response
Challenge: 50 virtuelle Caches
Final
Switzerland
17 points
No. 628
With owner
A great location and a lovely touch of humour with cache 🙂.
Autour de Grandglise
matteoanneTEAM
Belgium
17 points
No. 854
No response
An excellent "fishing" series with dizzygirl.
Une bonne Gaule pour pécho 1 Suédoise
LES MOMOS & LaMissOTalons
France
17 points
No. 836
No response
A series of "fishing" caches in a beautiful forest setting.
Traditional Matrix Challenge
geoPetros
Slovakia
17 points
No. 624
With owner
A nice walk, great views, a tree climb and a field puzzle 😉.
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Mannen Komen Van Mars
GMGCA_Men
Belgium
17 points
No. 832
With owner
A series of roped tree climbs beside the canal, high in the trees but quite straightforward to set up and climb.
Muinta
Pagu&Toso &Toso
Italy
17 points
No. 627
With owner
A wonderful location, one of the highlights of the whole tour, the only disappointment was that I couldn't find the cache.
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The Jasmer Challenge
geonauten
Belgium
16 points
No. 619
With owner
A lovely walk to an excellent cache.
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Eulenflug am Heidehimmel
Zwei lustige Drei
Germany
16 points
No. 830
No response
"Fishing" for a somewhat different style of container to the usual 🙂. Another lovely forest trail with some great views.
Fishing 4 Compliments
Krawatschelchen
Germany
16 points
No. 829
No response
A lovely forest walk, with "fishing" caches that were well balanced and easy to spot.
L'Île au trésor (Treasure Island)
Tankomane
Malta
16 points
No. 361
No response
We visited this location nearly every morning and evening, but the conditions weren't quite right - until the final morning of our holiday, we went for it 🙂.
The three of us on the island - and an aerial view from the drone. Acknowledgements to Ken Spooner (wesleyken) for the drone photo. Click the images to expand them.
Des perches pour Laotseu62
OlivierTMO
France
16 points
No. 825
With owner
A lovely walk, fun caches and a very helpful c/o 🙂.
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Piep...piep!!
onkel_patrick
Belgium
16 points
No. 257
No response
A good tree climb to an excellent container 🙂.
Reverse WIG Angelcache
Eiliger
Germany
16 points
No. 621
No response
A whole series of "fishing" caches, set on a lovely forest walk.
Silvretta Ski Magic
sandvika
Austria
16 points
No. 179
With owner
A marathon trek around the Austrian and Swiss mountains solving an original puzzle.
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SWEDISH SEN
dudule53 & mounette56
France
16 points
No. 837
With owner
A series of "fishing" caches in a beautiful forest setting.
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Les challenges de Marco
Fred et Mu
Belgium
16 points
No. 826
With owner
A circuit of tree climbs of varying difficulty - we did only the small circuit of rope climbs.
Escondite Reloaded
moses mountain
Germany
15 points
No. 329
No response
The centrepiece of our trip to Germany - both my 10,000th cache find and 100th D5/T5 🙂.
A very difficult puzzle led to a nicely presented cache 🙂.
Lecker Pfädchen
clödy
Germany
15 points
No. 827
No response
Often wayward co-ordinates did not detract from what was a really beautiful circular walk, with some fun caches.
Brühler 7m Angel Cache
webjeck
Germany
15 points
No. 831
With owner
A short but very pleasant forest walk "fishing" in the trees.
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Challenges
clödy
Germany
15 points
No. 828
No response
A lovely forest walk over good tracks, with a series of interesting challenges of variable difficulty.
Royal Marine Commando Training #02 Problem Solving
sgtzara
Ireland
15 points
No. 634
With owner
Awarded largely for originality, a commodity that is hard to come by now 🙂.
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Brack as in Bread.
Pointerdogg
Ireland
15 points
No. 633
With owner
What tough going, relieved to have found my way down again in one piece 😉.
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The Highest Accessible Cache in Western Europe
Cache U Nutter
France
15 points
No. 66
With owner
A short spring break saw us at Brevent practising our off-piste ski-ing in preparation for the Vallee Blanche.
A glorious spring afternoon afforded amazing views of Chamonix directly below us.
O'Hallorans Castle
W.S.P
Ireland
15 points
No. 632
No response
Just stopped for a random cache as we were driving up the Northern Ireland north-east coast road, and it turned out to be a really fun one 🙂.
Tomb Raider
kennsche
Malta
15 points
No. 358
With owner
A really interesting location, and a nice walk to get there.
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Thingstätte
cgoeltl
Germany
14 points
No. 328
With owner
An awesome location that most people would not find without local knowledge. We were the only people here, in the early morning with the low winter sun, the silence contrasting with what it must have been like when in use.
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Buitenbieb
Anicha-
Netherlands
14 points
No. 620
With owner
An unexpected and beautifully presented cache.
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