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    blazerfan's geocaching adventures

  • Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

    2 Nov 2009 | 12:45 pm
    Found my first cache of NovemberABC ChallengeThis challenge required you to find a cache starting with each letter of the alphabet. It took me a while to collect all 26. Q, X, and Z are not super popular. Eventually all of them popped up in the local area for me to find. The final is in Albany. I was up there visiting my friend Dave and going to the Oregon State game. Made for a good excuse to stop for the cache.

  • All the way to Butte Falls

    26 Oct 2009 | 11:00 am
    Saturday was the Come On Up To Butte Falls!! event.Butte Falls is a small community in Jackson County known for having a lot of geocaches because it is the home of Lazyboy & Mitey Mite. Of course he was too lazy to show up.Great turnout for an event so far up in the hills. Met a few new people and a bunch of old ones.Found a handful of caches on the dayNO OVERNIGHT CAMPING!ROCKY SIENNA"I used to climb these!""1 HOT TREE"Lady Of The RiverIOOF Cemetery...and crackersLittle Pinelazyboy guardrailWILD FLOWERSShampooDiscover Butte FallsGlad You Visited Butte Falls, Now Go HomelandingHey Another…

  • The ODC

    14 Oct 2009 | 10:22 am
    On this day 3 years ago SallyC and I completed the Oregon DeLorme Challenge.My how time flies. That was a lot of fun. Perhaps I need to find a new challenge cache to make things interesting again.

  • Finds by date

    5 Oct 2009 | 9:12 pm
    I was reading popop's blog today and say his post for a new challenge cache.Days of the Year ChallengeMike had nearly 90% I only have 64%... at least I do have a February 29 so I won't have to wait till 2012, but with the way I do things it will probably take even longer then that. I do have enough local caches saved up that I could potentially complete this, but the soonest would be October 2, 2010. Here is my chart.

  • Another challenge complete

    3 Oct 2009 | 9:37 pm
    So I went and found a few caches todayOLD STUMPZigzagone moreZ TrailTeelVery Near ByThe first 4 were all in Cathedral Hills. There are a ton more there for me to find, but I went with my sister and her little dog and didn't want to drag them over every trail. I'll probably make multiple trips to get the rest. Teel is near where my parents live and is actually in the exact spot my sister had a cache hidden before. I decided to grab Very Near By later in the day so that I could complete the ABC Challenge. To complete this challenge you need to have found a cache whose name begins with each…
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  • Show 243.0: WWFM VI - WorldWide Flash Mobs

    podcacher@gmail.com (www.podcacher.com)
    15 Nov 2009 | 8:42 pm
    Listen To The Show (45:50) On our geocaching podcast today, we’ll share the final segments of our cruise caching adventures to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and we’ll have some of the first reports from flash mobs around the world. Also, the prize give-a-way for the recent Great PodCacher Tweet-Out, for those of you who follow us on Twitter and DARPA announces a challenge competition that’s PERFECT for geocachers. We Recommend… CoinsAndPins.com - a great resource for high-quality geocoins Hop on over to the PodCacher Forums to discuss the show! Images mentioned in the show:…

  • Show 242.1: PMM - Project 365

    podcacher@gmail.com (www.podcacher.com)
    11 Nov 2009 | 5:51 pm
    Listen To The Show (13:43) On this geocaching nano-show Sonny chats about the WWFM, a cookie recipe and a photo project. WWFM VI Bookmark List - 152 events in 21 countries Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe The hundred push ups training program Project 365 from 2007 Project 365 from 2008 (partial) Some photography related items you can get via our Amazon store: Gorillapod Flexible Tripod Canon PowerShot G11 10MP Digital Camera (Sonny’s camera) Nikon Coolpix L18 8MP Digital Camera Kodak EasyShare C813 8.2MP Digital Camera Vivitar Vivicam 5.1MP Digital Camera Chat about the show in the…

  • Show 242.0: Cruise-caching to Mexico

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    8 Nov 2009 | 7:20 pm
    Listen To The Show (53:26) On our geocaching podcast today, we’re going to take you on a virtual cruise caching adventure as we share some of the audio we recorded on our cruise. We’ll also chat about geocaching in Duckburg - the home of Donald Duck, share a few more milestone stories, kick off the next set of Geo-Achievement Find contests and tell you about some of the latest updates on the geocaching.com website. We Recommend… CoinsAndPins.com - a great resource for high-quality geocoins Hop on over to the PodCacher Forums to discuss the show! Images mentioned in the show:…

  • Show 241.0: Happy Halloween!

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    1 Nov 2009 | 6:40 pm
    Listen To The Show (50:04) On our geocaching podcast today, we have a few more scary stories from our RING contest, an interesting set of articles on misuses of GPS technology, some audio from a Halloween first-to-find attempt, a very cool reverse-geocache puzzle and The Boy Scouts of America get serious about geocaching! We Recommend… CoinsAndPins.com - a great resource for high-quality geocoins Hop on over to the PodCacher Forums to discuss the show! Images mentioned in the show: Go to the Flickr set Thank-you for Helping Support PodCacher Become a PodCacher Member and receive the…

  • Show 240.0: Scary Stories

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    25 Oct 2009 | 9:39 pm
    Listen To The Show (54:24) On our geocaching podcast today, we have lots of scary stories from our ONE RING contest just in time for Halloween. Also, an update on the WWFM VI, a news item from Minnesota related to geocaching and Halloween and some audio from the cacher who actually found and reported the drug paraphernalia near the geocache in Oklahoma. We Recommend… CoinsAndPins.com - a great resource for high-quality geocoins Hop on over to the PodCacher Forums to discuss the show! Images mentioned in the show: Go to the Flickr set Thank-you for Helping Support PodCacher Become a…
 
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  • Peak placement season seems to be over

    21 Nov 2009 | 8:36 am
    It was a busy summer for new geocache placements in Iowa. Now that the leaves are nearly all down and the temperatures have dipped, the pace has definitely slowed, which it does every year about this time. Instead of opening my browser and seeing a queue of 20 to 40 new caches on weekend mornings, this morning there were only four... so far. However, if this year follows form, there will be a mini-spike of new caches just after the holidays when new GPSRs are doled out as Christmas gifts. By the way, my wife was at Garmin headquarters near Kansas City this past week (on business) and…

  • "Team" finds or "ghost" logs? What do you think?

    22 Oct 2009 | 5:36 pm
    This week two different cache owners wrote to me to ask my advice/opinion about how to respond when a geocacher posts a "find" on their cache page but did not sign the log. The first situation (messages are posted below with permission from the cache owner; names changed to protect identities) involves members of a geocaching "team" who all log a find even though only one of them is present at the cache. Here's the message I received:Hello Ken,You have been a wealth of information to me lately and because of that, I have a semi-hypothetical question for a real-life situation and how our…

  • Stats a lot of caches!

    2 Oct 2009 | 1:20 pm
    It's time once again for some stats about geocaches.I reviewed 3,053 new geocaches during the past year -- roughly from September 2008 through August 2009. All of these were in Iowa. That comes to an average of 8.36 caches reviewed per day. Worldwide, 391,742 new geocaches were reviewed during the past year. In the United States, 193,054 new geocaches were reviewed during the past year.Iowa now has 7,949 active geocaches (including event caches but not including EarthCaches) listed on geocaching.com. Worldwide, there are now 912,967 active geocaches. What's your guess for the exact date that…

  • Cemetery caches - what's the policy?

    28 Aug 2009 | 7:30 am
    If you're a regular reader of the forums at geocaching.com, you may have noticed discussion about an update to the guidelines that mentions caches hidden in cemeteries. The discussion from Groundspeak is summarized in this posting from MissJenn. In a nutshell, the guidelines now include cemeteries as areas where geocaches might not be allowed. Quoting from the guidelines: "Caches placed in areas which are highly sensitive to the extra traffic that would be caused by vehicles and humans (examples may include archaeological or historic sites or cemeteries)." (Boldface added by me.) MissJenn's…

  • Submitting caches in advance for an event

    27 Jul 2009 | 7:29 am
    Here's a recent question that has been asked of me at different times by different geocachers.Ken,Just a question regarding our upcoming event. For last years event,you allowed us to submit caches "pre-approval" before the event and thenpublished them a few days after the event. We are already scoping outplaces for this year's event and were hoping to do the same thing. A fewof the containers we make for a specific spot. How much extra workis it for you to pre-approve these caches and then sit on them? Do you have a separate database of caches that have been approvedbut are not yet published?
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  • Finishing up the Fizzy Challenge

    Elin Carlson
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:07 pm
    Well Rounded Cacher (The Fizzy Challenge) My grid for this challenge is now, at long last, complete: Note: this was generated by http://www.mygeocachingprofile.com, which I only just discovered today. Well, hey! It looks like I didn’t need to do this last cache after all! Ha! I’m sure glad I made this oversight, though, as it was a spectacular day on Refugio Beach, and I otherwise might never have gotten out here! Wow. So – what I thought was the final cache for me to find was a 1.5 difficulty, 5 terrain, and the only one active near where I live is just west of Santa…

  • The Fizzy Challenge and the Enigmatic Otis Pug

    Elin Carlson
    12 Nov 2009 | 8:31 am
    Before I get in to the main subjects this week, here are a couple of newsy items. ****************************** Author and technology journalist Paul Gillen and his wife Dana are avid geocachers and are about to publish a book on the how to. It’s called “Joy of Geocaching,” and I have a link to the Amazon page already on the Geocaching Stuff to Buy tab here for your convenience. I’ll let y’all know when it’s out. Meanwhile, they did a super job interviewing Steve of the Ventura Kids about our record-setting 413 cache day! Listen to the interview…

  • A Geocaching Trifecta, Of Sorts

    Elin Carlson
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am
    As I write this, I’m riding back with f0t0m0m somewhere on the west side of the Salton Sea after a long day of caching with three goals on our list: one more high terrain cache for the Well-Rounded Cacher challenge cache, Well Rounded Cacher (The Fizzy Challenge) 10 pages of the Delorme Map challenge cache, California DeLorme Challenge (Southern & Central) and a token find in Mexico. We accomplished it all! The day began at 6am at my house in Northridge, and our first errand was a bit unusual. My 6-month-old kitten had just gone into heat for the first time, and I needed to take the…

  • Trail of Terror? Haunted House Event? Mad Scientists?

    Elin Carlson
    31 Oct 2009 | 3:39 pm
    It must be Halloween!! What a fun week of caching! It started out last Sunday with the 6th annual Trail of Terror at the Anza Narrows Park in Riverside. Yes, this is the sixth time that the “Late Dr. HazzMatt” has hosted the event and placed 30-odd caches along the adjacent bike trail with evil and devilish themes. I know that to most locals, this is a humdrum, paved, flat exercise course along the sandy, mostly dry riverbed, but for me… it’s the creepiest place around! I’ve only ever been along it to find these spooky caches, so all I have in mind as I walk here…

  • A Peak Geocaching Experience

    Elin Carlson
    23 Oct 2009 | 1:12 pm
    A couple of days after my big birthday and the record run, I was recovered enough to summit my third 14er – that’s a mountain over 14,000 feet tall. The first was White Mountain back in ‘07, and that was a 10-hour hike after two nights of sleeping at elevation. The second was Mt. Shasta last summer, a grueling, exhilarating 14-hour day after about a week of acclimation in the Eastern Sierras and on the mountain itself. This one took, um, about an hour. Pike’s Peak has a road to the top! It also has a lovely cog train that ascends from Manitou Springs, just outside of…
 
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  • Best of the Bluegrass 2009

    Please visit the link below to rate the caches nominated for the Best of the Bluegrass of 2009. Survey Online voting will be available until December 10.

  • Create a Route

    Just a quick article to point out the wonderful new "Create a Route" feature that is located off of your premium member profile page on Geocaching.com.  This is an excellent update to the "Caches Along a Route" feature that was introduced by Groundspeak 3 years ago.

  • Adopt a Highway Volunteer Needed

    Desperately seeking a geocacher to volunteer to take over the hosting of the Geocachers of Kentucky Adopt a Highway events.  If we do not get a volunteer our contract will not be renewed and we will not be able to keep our stretch of highway in front of Masterson Station Park.  All it takes to coordinate a pickup is a simple phone call to the transportation garage - then a stop by to pick up the signage, vests & trash bags. The pickups are held 1-3 times per year. We have had successful pickups on various days of the week and times of the day.  Reply to: sun-moon-starz…

  • 2nd Annual Trail of Caches

    Old Mulkey MeetingHouse State Historic Site will host the 2nd Annual Trail of Caches May 1-2, 2009.   Read on for details...

  • Use your phone SMS to find & log your caches on the fly

    This is in beta from Groundspeak: http://coord.info/textmark.aspThis may be helpful for those times when the PDA battery dies or you want to log immediately.
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  • 2010 Core Officer Nominations

    Shady
    2 Nov 2009 | 11:11 am
    It is that time of year to begin the selection process for our Core Officers for 2010.  If you would like to run, please feel free to nominate yourself in the forum thread.  Be sure to include what position you would like to run for!  If you would like to nominate someone else, please get their permission first, as they may not be willing to do so. The list of positions are: President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Public Relations The complete list of nominees will be published December 1st, when we will start the formal voting.  Please see this thread regarding the 2010 Core Officer…

  • Third Annual MGS Holiday Swap Meet

    Shady
    20 Oct 2009 | 6:12 am
    Oh, you better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I’m telling you why… The “Third Annual MGS Holiday Swap Meet” is coming to town. Hosted again this year by Trainbug, this festive holiday event promises to be a lot of  fun for both young and old alike.  The event will take place on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the Arbutus Community Town Hall in Arbutus, MD.  Bring a wrapped gift, a dish to share, and join us for a cup of holiday cheer.  Check out the event cache page for all the details.  Happy Holidays!

  • 2010 CAM Committee Appointed

    Administrator
    5 Oct 2009 | 1:01 pm
    The Maryland Geocaching Society announces the formation of its 2010 Cache Across Maryland committee.  This year’s seven committee members are: CoupleoCachers, DudleyGrunt, EagleBlazer, Shady, WVKiwi, Team Yinyang, and WeTheMillers.  The committee is responsible for planning and executing every aspect of what has become the Maryland Geocaching Society’s most popular event. “America in Minature” The brainchild of Laura & Joe Tinker (Outsid4evr), the ‘Cache Across Maryland’ is a six-week long event that showcases the history and natural beauty of…

  • 2009 MGS Fall Meet & Greet at Rocky Gap State Park

    Shady
    20 Sep 2009 | 4:11 pm
    Fall is upon us once again, and with it comes cooler temperatures, changing colors, and the MGS Fall Meet & Greet.   This year’s event will be held at Rocky Gap State Park in Western Maryland and will be hosted by Tom&Shelley. Activities planned for this year’s event include a 50/50 drawing, door prizes and Ammo Can Toss with prizes for the winners of each division.  There will also be several new caches placed in the park for the event including some water-based caches for which kayaks will also be provided.  Special activities are planned for the kids as well. …

  • 2009 MGS Summer Picnic

    woodysix8
    23 Jul 2009 | 9:21 am
    Things are coming together for our annual summer gathering. Hides are in place and have been reviewed. Pavillion has been rented. Raffle inventory is growing as well as the item count for the silent auction. As you await August 2nd…. you have time to vote on you favorite cache hides as well as hiders. Links to the nominees can be found in the announcements of each thread. Please go ahead and let us know who you think should be awarded in each category
 
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