Some time ago Groundspeak published and locked the first Locationless (Reverse) cache in a very long time. GC9FAVE “Discovered while geocaching – Locationless Cache” was unlocked this morning, and will remain available until the end of 2024. Unless Groundspeak gets into the habit of publishing more, this icon in my stats will likely forever have a “1” beside it.

I’d just picked up three more new stats icons – Giga Event, Community Celebration Event, and GPS Adventures Exhibit – a few days before at GeoWoodstock XVIII, so this was beginning to feel a bit like a long train of icons!

The idea with this cache is to choose a favourite location that you discovered while geocaching, that you wouldn’t have found without caching!

Mine was a makeshift bench made of driftwood above the beach at McMicking Point in Oak Bay, BC. Underneath it is a traditional cache. Peaceful, quiet, devoid of fellow humans for the most part, very scenic and best of all right in town! I imagine many a marriage proposal has happened on this spot. I found it while searching for GC54QYE “Trial Island View” way back in 2014 when I had less than 300 finds but was audaciously shooting for a 365 day streak. It got a favourite point and I think it was a great choice for this Locationless!

This cache was heavily promoted by Groundspeak in social media, so awareness was high and as you can imagine there were hundreds of “Found” logs within minutes of unlocking, over 1,100 logs 12 hours later, and incredibly, one DNF. How do you DNF a locationless???