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From today's blog post:

Confirmed souvenir moments in 2025

 

With 2024 quickly coming to an end, it’s time to start making plans for 2025. This means setting geocaching goals, picking out caches for future weekend outings, and, of course, marking dates for geocaching souvenirs in our 2025 calendars!

 

Here are the confirmed souvenir moments for 2025:

 

Discovering 2025: January 1-8

Cache In Trash Out®, Season 1: March 1–May 31

Pi-Day: March 14

March Equinox: March 20-23

Pajama Day: April 16

Blue Switch Day: May 2-4

June Solstice: June 20-22

International Geocaching Day: August 16

Cache In Trash Out®, Season 2: September 1-November 30

World Postcard Day: October 1

International EarthCache Day: October 10-12

Adventure Day: October 17-19

Geocaching International Film Festival (GIFF): November 6-16

Farewell 2025: December 24-31

These souvenirs are available year-round:

 

2025 hider souvenir

2025 Community Celebration Event

Stay tuned for more details on upcoming opportunities to earn new souvenirs!

 

What souvenirs and geocaching moments are you most excited for in 2025?

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From today's blog post:

Get ready for a sweet new souvenir!! Pi Day 2025

 

In 2025, geocachers can earn the Pi Day souvenir by finding and logging any Mystery Cache between Friday, March 14 and Sunday, March 16. To make this holiday extra sweet, all non-Premium Mystery Caches are open to everyone throughout the weekend on the Geocaching® app from 11:00:00 UTC on Friday, March 14 until 10:00:00 UTC on Monday, March 17, 2025.

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The best Pi day geocaching event was 2015.  We had our event on March 14, 2015 at 9:26am in honor of the digits, at a Pie shop in Nyack NY.  It was my largest non-GIFF event with 42 attendees, all packed into this tiny little shop.  

 

I get that the US uses MM/DD/YYYY date format while other countries do not, but it worked out well for us.

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From today's blog post:

 

Get ready for Geocaching in Your Pajamas Day: The coziest day of the year!

 

Who says pajamas are just for bedtime? Pull out your fluffiest slippers, break out your coziest onesie, and join us for the cache outing of your dreams!

 

Everyone is invited to log any geocache, Adventure Lab® Location, or Event on April 16, 2025, to earn the souvenir.

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18 minutes ago, Viajero Perdido said:

No, they actually want you to go outside in PJs.  Nope, not doing that.

 

I haven't worn PJs since I was a teenager, so attending an event in my night attire probably wouldn't be appreciated by the other attendees.

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I thought it could be fun to have a PJ 'flash mob' event this day.  

 

Given what people wear these days, caching in PJs is no big deal.

 

Back when FTF was more of a thing, I could imagine someone running out in their PJs.

 

 

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On 2/25/2025 at 5:07 PM, Viajero Perdido said:

No, they actually want you to go outside in PJs.  Nope, not doing that.

 

Two Halloweens ago I decided to go into work dressed as a "work from home engineer", wearing flannel pajama pants, an undershirt and robe, socks and slippers, and a coffee cup of course.  My coworkers got a kick out of it and now I can cross "going to work in my PJs" off my to-do list.  :-)

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Re Pajama Day: April 16 

 

I thought for a moment that they were officially promoting armchair logging!

 

Frankly, if people would leave their PJs at home, that would be fine. Can’t believe I’m seeing flannels and bunny slippers in restaurants now -- and I'm not talking Golden Corral.  Saw a pair of Hello Kitty PJ bottoms and slippers on a 20-something in a restaurant where the entrees run to about $50 pp.

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I saw a whole family dressed in PJs ... in the security line at an airport.  They stood out.

 

I don't even own any street-legal PJs, and the boxers I do sleep in certainly aren't warm enough for April around here, so maybe I'll just avoid caching on April 16 ... or hide the badge like all the others.

 

But...  points for creativity.

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On 2/27/2025 at 11:23 AM, Viajero Perdido said:

I don't even own any street-legal PJs...

It's getting harder and harder to find them with both head/tail lights and a working horn.

 

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6 hours ago, Old River Runner said:

I had a new geocache published the other day, my first hide in this year.  I expected to get the 2025 Hider souvenir, but I have not received it.  Has anyone else had this problem?

 


I just had my first caches of 2025 publish this week, and I didn't see a souvenir yet, either. 

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10 hours ago, theotherguy said:

I just had my first caches of 2025 publish this week, and I didn't see a souvenir yet, either. 

 

Well, you are the second one I have heard of who has had this problem.  I attended an event last evening and all others I talked with, who had hidden caches this year, had received the souvenir.

 

Maybe it is isolated to new geocaches published last week?  I those I talked with last evening had their caches published earlier in the year.

 

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On 3/1/2025 at 9:40 PM, Old River Runner said:

I had a new geocache published the other day, my first hide in this year.  I expected to get the 2025 Hider souvenir, but I have not received it.  Has anyone else had this problem?

 

Same problem here - 3 published so far, all last week, but no souvenir!  I did mention this to HQ but no joy so far!

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From today's blog post: 

 

A new season and a new souvenir!

 

Welcome the arrival of the equinox in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres with a unique souvenir! Geocaching HQ has a special new March equinox souvenir just for you.

From March 20-23, 2025, find one geocache, Event Cache, or Adventure Lab® Location to earn your souvenir.

This year, we celebrate the changing of the seasons with souvenir artwork inspired by crowned cranes from each hemisphere. Cranes represent migratory patterns and seasonal change.

Northern Hemisphere:

  • The Red-crowned crane represents harmony and the balance of life.

Southern Hemisphere:

  • The Grey crowned crane represents change and a renewal of life.

Whatever changes this season brings, we hope you find peace in the transition and joy in your next geocache find. How will you celebrate the equinox?

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On 3/4/2025 at 10:44 AM, Bleausardv2 said:

Same problem here - 3 published so far, all last week, but no souvenir!  I did mention this to HQ but no joy so far!

I received mine today, within seconds after it was logged as found!

Edit: I see that you have received your 2025 hider souvenir.

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To celebrate 25 years of geocaching, there are two new souvenirs to earn for Blue Switch Day 2025!

 

Blue Switch Day 2025 finder:

 

To earn this souvenir, geocachers must find and log one geocache, attend an Event, or complete an Adventure Lab® Location between May 2 and 4, 2025.

 

Blue Switch Day 2025 hider:

 

To earn this souvenir, geocachers must have a non-Event geocache published between May 1 and 31, 2025.

Any non-Event geocache type (excluding Adventure Lab) counts, as long as it is published between May 1 and May 31.

Remember that review times may vary! A geocaching community volunteer will typically begin the review of your geocache within 7 days. We recommend submitting your cache for publication at least a week before the deadline. Learn more about the cache review process in our Help Center.

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This popped up in my geocaching notifications. I assumed that clicking on View Souvenirs would show me the upcoming souvenirs, not the ones I've already earned. Or at least both. 

I thought it would be best to attach this to the souvenir discussion rather than the app thread. 

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