Events

Every year we like to host a geocaching challenge across the Indiana University Bloomington campus for GIS Day. This event is open to the general public of all ages. We will have a few caches and a final cache for those that find all the others. For more information, here is a link to IU's GIS Day event.

We're going on a pirate journey! This canoe trip will be at Lake Monroe and the islands northeast from there. All specific details (what to bring / wear, etc.) are in the link provided. PLEASE RSVP by the 27th at 5pm. We do ask for you to pay in advance so we can rent the canoes. Prices are $6 per person, and you can pay online HERE. This is always a blast and we really hope everyone can make it out. You can look at what it was like from our video two years ago.

There will be a cool night caching adventure! The carpool will meet at 5:45pm at the circle drive in front of the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU). Be sure to fill out this form to sign up! Make sure to bring food, shoes, a flashlight, and bug spray.

The IU Geocaching Club is hosting its annual "Welcome to Geocaching" Event. Officers of the club will lead groups of new geocachers to various caches on and around campus to show them what caching is all about. Meet at the Herman B. Wells statue in the library's main lobby. If it rains the event will be postponed to a later date.

Geocachers from all over the U.S. and other countries come together once a year. This year will be the 10th GeoWoodstock located near where the first one took place (Louisville, KY). A few officers of the club went to GeoWoodstock IX in Warren, PA last year over the July 4th weekend and had a great time. This year we hope to see a lot more members from the club because it is less than 2 hours to drive to Sellersburg from IU.

We're going to walk the B-Line Trail in downtown Bloomington where we'll spend 1-3 hours finding geocaches in the dark. It's an urban trail, so we won't have to deal with mud, bushes, etc. It's entirely paved. Bring a flashlight or team up with someone else that has one! We'll have a few extra GPS units and flashlights. You can bring friends! It should be a very fun event for those people new to geocaching and others that aren't. The carpool will meet at 5:50pm at the circle drive in front of the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU).
Send an e-mail to iugeocaching[at]gmail[dot]edu if you would like a ride, so we'll know how many cars we'll need!
If you'd like to meet us there, you can park near the giant statue of a dining table near City Hall at 401 N. Morton St.

We want to show YOU how to geocache. We'll be doing a short 1 hour intro to geocaching session by showing you how to use a GPS and taking you to find 3 geocaches on campus. Following the introduction, if you're interested in continuing (feel free to leave at this point or come just for this), we will be taking a group to find Bucket 'O Fun, an epic adventure geocache on campus. It will take approximately 4-5 hours to complete with our team, as it is a difficult 5 stage geocache, meaning we have to find one stage that will give us information to go to the next stage. This is one of the most fun and epic geocaches within 30 miles of Bloomington, so it's definitely worth coming. Make sure to wear clothes and shoes that can get a little dirty! This will be one of the most memorable events of your schoolyear! More information about the cache and our facebook event page.

This event will be an extrememly short race from the Sample Gates to Dunn Meadow. After the race we will all meet in the bowling alley at the Union. Five dollars will get you unlimited bowling for two hours including shoe rental. The main point of this event is that Groundspeak would like to break a record on this day and everyone who logs a cache (like a quick flash mob for example) will help contribute.

As the title suggests this is a flash mob so timing and planning are very important. Please check the cache page for the schedule breakdown and register ahead of time so we can have an official running number for you if you plan to attend. This is going to be a quick fun event and we hope to see you there. If the weather is bad we may just meet at the bowling alley and skip the race. Check the cache page to learn if we need to cancel the race.

The event will be a pub quiz with 5 rounds of questions and 10 questions per round. The categories are: Science, Geography, History, Geocaching, and Literature & Arts. You can play alone or in a team of up to 3 people. The winner or winning team will receive a prize with lots of geocaching goodies. You do not need to be 21 to enter the upstairs room where the event will be held. Please RSVP on the cache page well before the event to help with planning.

It's "year one" of this geocaching event, so we're going to begin with a Challenge that will take you on a tour of every public recreation area on Lake Monroe (plus a couple of less well-known spots). All cachers who complete the entire Challenge by 4 p.m. will be entered into a drawing to win a 2012 Annual Entrance Pass for Indiana State Parks & Reservoirs.

Who doesn't LOVE COOKIES!? This event is a holiday cookie exchange event. Please bring a dozen cookies or more to be swapped. The more you bring, the more you can swap for! You'll start out with just your own, but should go home with a plethora of different types of cookies. This is a good way to take a quick break from studying and returning with enough sugar to last you through finals week.

The Geocaching Club at IU hosted a Geocaching Challenge across the Indiana University Bloomington campus for GIS Day. This event was open to the general public of all ages. There was a monetary prize donated by our friends at 39 Degrees North.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the event. Please check your email to see if you won the prize.

Learn more about geocaching and meet some Geocaching Club at IU members as well as members of the community wide Bloomington Geocachers group at our display at the GIS festivities in Wells Library on Wednesday November 16th. If you need some hints on the GIS Day Geocaching Challenge, this would be a good opportunity to gain some insights from experienced geocachers. Stop by at any point during the day! Learn more about GIS Day.

After participating in IU's Nearly Naked Mile the club will be hosting our own Nearly Naked Nightcache, where members will adventure around campus in the dark to find the 5 stage multicache: Drawn to the Light.

We will be hiking and canoeing to caches in the Paynetown Recreational Area. We will provide canoes for a small fee. After the caching there will be dinner and a live band.

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The IU Geocaching Club is once again hosting it's annual "Welcome to Geocaching" Event. Experienced Geocachers will lead groups of new Geocachers to various Geocaches on and around campus to show them what Geocaching is all about. Meet at the sample gates.

Saturday's Fall Picnic will be an entire day and evening of fun, socializing and events. All details are on the cache page, there is also an event the day before (listed above) to help kick off the weekend.

There will be a pitch-in nacho bar and then a night cache adventure.

Come meet Geocaching Club leaders, learn about the club and sign up to hear about upcoming events.

We will have a booth setup during Game Night to advertise geocaching to new students on campus. We will also take students outside with flashlights to find a few geocaches and a special event only nightcache every half hour.

We'll be hosting weekly "Caching After Class" events that will be short 1 hour sessions where you can learn how to geocache while giving it a try. No boring lectures, just grab a GPS and go learn by doing! We'll find some geocaches on campus for about an hour and you're free to leave or continue at any point in time. Everyone is welcome. There is no commitment to join the club or come to any other events, we just want anyone who is interested in trying this hobby, to join us for a fun hour of finding some geocaches. You do not need to own a GPS unit because we have enough to share!

Dates include:

• Tuesday April 5th 4:00pm - 5:00pm
• Wednesday April 13th 4:00pm - 5:00pm
• Wednesday April 20th 5:00pm - 6:00pm
• Tuesday April 26th 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Come and celebrate the end of the year and blow off some steam before finals! We're going to take a group to the B-Line Trail in downtown Bloomington where we'll spend a few hours finding geocaches in the dark. Bring a flashlight or team up with someone else that has one! If you need a ride or can provide a ride, please let us know here. Check out more details on Facebook.

During ICSAs(Informatics and Computing Student Assocation) Game Day BBQ at the Informatics building the Geocaching club led some small geocaching adventures. It was an opportunity to introduce ICSA members and new people to geocaching. Everyone socialized, played games and enjoyed snacks with each other. The food was delicious. Unfortunately the weather was not cooperating so we found a cache close by that is very well hidden.

More than 30 geocachers from around the state gathered for this event. More than 30 caches were found along this 4 mile trail. The trail is rated about a 3 star terrain and is a loop, so it started and finished near the parking lot. Towards the end, the trail brought us to High King Hill, where we could see the entire lake and miles and miles of the forest. It was a great view. Even the rain didn't stop us from going on this TrailMix. We met on campus at 9:30am to carpool over to Yellowwood State Forest, which is 7 miles east of Bloomington.

KiraLira and ErWenn hosted an event cache at Scenic View to celebrate Mickey4jes's 100th day of her 100 Days of Geocaching Streak (See http://coord.info/GC1601V for more information on this challenge). It was also Mickey4Jes's 2000th geocache find!

This annual event was kicked off by the Springing for Breakfast in Bloomington Vol. 2 where we ate at the local restaraunt, Runcible Spoon. After charging up we split into two teams of 4 and headed for the park. We arrived right on time despite bad weather. The theme this year was big trees. The challenge was finding eight caches, reading an information sheet about a tree type and writing down any numbers concealed within the information text. After getting all the numbers teams had to add all the numbers and then use these numbers to decode the answer to a question. After approximately three hours most teams had completed the challenge. The two IU teams took first and second place in the event. Winning is always good, but we had a lot of fun regardless of where we placed. Afterwards some of the members decided two events was hardly enough and went on to find 17 more caches! Now that is a full day of geocaching. Looking forward to next year.

We'll be hiking the Pate Hollow Trail that is north of Lake Monroe off of 446. There's already 19 caches on the trail and MonsterCatAmbush said that he might go hide some more before the event. EVERYONE is welcome! There will be so many people there with GPS units, you probably won't even need one. Families and friends are welcome! The trail is 7.7 miles long but there are multiple loops in the trail you can take, so the hike can be shorter depending on how far we want to go. I'm sure that people will be leaving at different times depending on interest. Please e-mail if you have any questions!

Please RSVP for the carpool so we can arrange rides! We will leave from the IMU circle drive (by the hotel lobby) at 11:30am.

A 15 minute flashmob event featuring a cookie exchange and geocaching chat!

Participants who found 6 geocaches on IU campus during the first 3 weeks of November had a chance to win a $50 gift certificate.

GIS Day Interactive Workshop

From 12-1pm, the Geocaching Club at IU lead an interactive introduction to geocaching workshop. Participants met in the southeast corner of the Wells Library lobby promptly at 12pm and went outside in groups to learn about geocaching while finding a few geocaches that were nearby.

GIS Day Geocaching Booth

This was a chance to learn more about geocaching and meet some Geocaching Club at IU members as well as members of the communitywide Bloomington Geocachers group at our display at the GIS festivities in Wells Library. Hints on the GIS Day Geocaching Challenge were provided and it was a good opportunity to gain some insights from experienced geocachers. Anyone who stopped by during the day could claim the IU GIS Day Geocaching Exhibit and Event Cache.

This was a great time meet some geocachers from our two local groups (Bloomington Geocachers and the Geocaching Club at IU), hear about upcoming geocaching events and find some geocaches that were specifically placed for the event! While there, people had the opportunity to see a few displays about other GPS and GIS technologies that are being used by members of the Bloomington community and some of the departments at IU. It gave people the opportunity to learn about other ways they could use their GPS unit besides geocaching. Check out the GIS Day at IU website to learn more about the many exciting activities and displays that went on for GIS Day.

The Geocaching Club had a team participate in IU's Nearly Naked Mile. Afterwards, we hosted our own Nearly Naked Nightcache, where 10 members adventured around campus in the dark to find the 5 stage multicache: Drawn to the Light.

Our club members were among 78,000 geocachers worldwide finding a geocache on 10/10/10 as part of an attempt to break the record for number of geocachers caching (and logging) geocaches in a single day. Our club was featured in Geocaching.com's video tribute to the event: A Record Breaking 10-10-10 for Geocachers

20 members of the Geocaching Club at IU joined the Bloomington Geocachers and many other geocachers from across the state for a pirate themed geocaching canoe trip. 13 of our members that came were new, so they hadn't found more than 5 caches before the event. We found 13 geocaches that afternoon. Check out the YouTube Video that DJ Hobby made of our adventure!

An event held to introduce new geocachers at IU to geocaching while we found 3-5 geocaches each on campus.

We had a booth setup during Game Night to advertise geocaching to new students on campus. We also took students outside with flashlights to find a few geocaches and a special event only nightcache.

Saturday's Fall Picnic will be an entire day and evening of fun, socializing and events. All details are on the cache page, there is also an event the day before to help kick off the weekend. (GC23QB2)

Saturday’s Fall Picnic will be an entire day and evening of fun, socializing and events. All details are on the cache page, there is also an event the day before to help kick off the weekend. (GC23QB2)

Happy Birthday Geocaching! May 3rd celebrates the 10th anniversary of geocaching. So we're celebrating with a lovely dinner at The View Restaurant.

"Geocaching is 10 years old this month. Come join me for TrailMix 19 and we will stand around and talk about our favorite caching moments. This is the second TrailMix this month. This is also much easier than TrailMix 18."

Galac-Brick Empire and the Bloomington Geocachers are hosting an event south of Bloomington at the Fairfax State Recreation Center. There will be six caches total containing various pieces of lego mini-figs. The first team to find all 6 caches and build their mini-fig will walk away with the first-ever March Mini-fig Championship and some prizes.

There will also be a dessert social. Drinks will be provided. Bring your favorite dessert!

The Geocaching Club at IU would like to invite you and your friends to attend a night time geocaching event. We'll be meeting outside the lobby of the Bloomington Convention Center.

The Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC) Conference is going on in Bloomington this week and their attendees spend all day working with GPS coordinates in their GIS work, but many have not have the privilege of participating in geocaching. Members of the Geocaching Club at IU and the Bloomington Geocachers will be on hand to show those new to the hobby the ropes of geocaching.

For our February event we will be having a breakfast at the Runcible Spoon Cafe. After our breakfast we will be carpooling south to Spring Mill for the 4th Annual Geocache Challenge.

Combined IU/Bloomington Geocache group event with a Poker Hand Run giveaway. Congratulations to Mickey4jes for winning the Poker run and receiving a premium mebership to geocaching.com

Sign up for one of our e-mail lists (right side of this page)to hear more details as to the location!

Event held at IU's GIS day to help spread the word about IU Geocaching.

Caching event that was held on IU's campus at night. It had a great turn out and plenty of caches were found!

We'll be carpooling to Yellowwood State Forest, about 30 minutes east of Bloomington, where we'll be hiking around the lake and finding about 20 geocaches. TrailMixes are a great opportunity for people of varying hiking experiences to come together for a fun geocaching hike. Everyone is welcome!