Geocaching November 2025

The month started with the first Monday morning coffee cache. Later that day, I found Pee Time, Snack Time, Drink Time, Gas Time at a gas station and I finally took credit for the Zero to Ten Challenge Cache from Pennsylvania, having finished the last requirement on Halloween. Later in the week I found MD Cluedo 10 of 10, and a bunch of Cache Across Maryland caches from 2023--CAM 2023 - Fran Uhler Natural Area, CAM 2023 - Bonus: Birdwatcher, and CAM 2023 - Bonus: Trainspotter. The last three were along a trail along a railroad track next to Bowie State University, making for a fun hike with the occasional commuter train whizzing by.

Finding some info for the CAM caches on campus

The obelisk had an eternal flame on top!

Cool fraternity coat of arms

In the Fran Uhler Natural Area

Trail maintenance ended with the end of the big power lines

After the next Monday morning coffee, I found the mystery Playfair Geography, the multi Guilford Quarry Cemetery, and the regular Take A Dip. That week the local library hosted one of the GIFF events, which is the Geocaching International Film Festival. Geocachers make short films and submit them to The Powers That Be, who select twenty or so to be presented in November. I took my eleven-year old and he enjoyed it. We loved the commercial about the bison tube opening device. I have no links to offer but I am sure it will show up online (there's a bunch of previous years' festivals here). 

Another classic hiding spot

Stage one of the cemetery cache

One of the ladies from the Monday morning coffee hosted a Community Celebration Event (a bunch of geocachers were given them to celebrate the 25th anniversary of geocaching). It was near the oldest cache in Maryland, Jusef's Cache, so I found that after a fun time with other cachers.

Jusef's was by some railroad tracks

Cache and cacher

The rocky outcropping

The train tunnel again

Remains of a dam across the Patapsco River

The next day I took credit for Circle BWI Once, a mystery cache that involves biking around the airport. CBSN, another Monday Morning Coffee fellow, was the second to sign. I was amazed at what good shape the twenty-year old log was in!

I signed much further down

After another Monday Morning Coffee Event, I spent Tuesday qualifying for a treasure hunt involving dog-friendly caches (at least, they have the "dog-friendly" attribute). In about an hour, I found AT THE END..., Have a Blast..., The Gold and Black Cache..., Red Top..., The Leopard..., Near the End..., Blue Top - White Bottom..., The Small Rock Cache..., and You Can't See It From Here. A different cache owner hid the last one, so no ellipses there. 

I went over to Virginia for my brother's doctor appointment and squeezed in a bunch of caches. Colvin Run Mill Virtual is near the historic Colvin Run Mill. Also in the area, I found CCT 7 Day Streak, CCT Earthcache Classification Non-Challenge, and Backyard Stash, originally hidden in January 2001!

The Run runs through the tunnel back on the left

Backyard Stash is the 3rd oldest in Virginia!

On a recycling run to my county's landfill, I went the extra mile (or two) to find Bon Secours Labyrinth, a multi-cache that is part of a labyrinth series.

The labyrinth and me

Observing the Chicken Fanatics is near a Chick-fil-A northeast of Baltimore. We were in the neighborhood for a homeschool production of The Sound of Music and made a stop for a treat afterward.

My wife and I did some caching in Charles County after visiting the relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux. The area has some sort of zombie fan bigger than me--we found Zombie Land-B3, Zombie Land-B4, Zombie Land-D3, Zombie Land-I3, Zombie Land-O4, and Zombie Land-Z3. There are a lot of other caches in the series (they are all simple trivia puzzles based on zombie media), so I may come back to get more.

Near one of the caches--an appropriate spot

O4 got busted when I pulled it from its spot, I made a replacement

After the final Coffee Event, my family headed out to the eastern shore of Maryland and found some caches and celebrated Thanksgiving there too! Brrr Bear was in Kent County, a spot I need for a challenge cache. We also drove south and picked up Rallod in Somerset County outside a Dollar Store (the kids commented on how many other Dollar Stores we passed on the way). We stayed in Cambridge (Dorchester County), which is the heartland of Harriet Tubman's activities on the Underground Railroad (she was also born here). 

In Salisbury, I found the earthcache Sugaring the Marble about the erosion that is happening to a marble memorial of the town's World War II casualties.

By the memorial

The Beacon of Hope is a virtual cache in front of Dorchester County Courthouse. In 2022, a statue of Harriet Tubman was permanently installed in celebration of her 200th birthday.

Beacon of Hope and me

Also in Cambridge, I found Cambridge GRM #1 and Movie Time Fun in a shopping mall parking lot.

On Thanksgiving Day, I went on a big journey to get more counties and more types. I drove across Dover Bridge into Caroline County. The original swing bridge was replaced in 2018 by an overpass bridge. The cache is named Dover Bridge. 

The old road

Two bridges

Then I drove across Talbot County to the Chesapeake Bay shore for Before the Bridge virtual cache and CAM 2023 Claiborne Landing regular cache. Before the Bay Bridge, ferries came to this spot taking people back and forth from the Eastern and Western shores.

No bridge or wharf

View looking the other way

I drove to the bottom of Talbot County to Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park for an earthcache, a CAM mystery cache, and a CAM regular cache. These CAM (Cache Across Maryland) are actually 2025 CAM caches, the first time I've found one the same year as the release of the cache. Of course, the idea was to finish finding CAM caches before the summer picnic, so I am late.

The earthcache is about erosion!

Not a safe trail

I also found two Adventure Labs for a mural series and a church series in Cambridge. The bonus caches for the Adventure Labs were Chelsea the Church Mouse Lab Adventure Bonus and Adventure Lab Bonus - Finding Freedom. The last find for the month was The Great Marsh, in a park near our rental house.

The month ended with 72 finds and a grand total of 2212. Can I break the 2300 barrier in December?