Well its the last day of 2011. Its been an interesting year, and my slowest to date geocaching wise. Honestly I have lost some of the "fire" that geocaching use to spark in me. When I started you could find amazing places and cool caches. Today it seems you just find micros along the road where there is no place to park. I still like to cache in groups, events, finding a few on a road trip, and hiking to find good caches. I just don't do it as often...Highlights for the year include:Completed the Discover Roseburg challengeFound 42 caches on 7/30/11 with Biggieet_alThe Great Amazing Cache…
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Show 355.0: Kid’s Geocaching Accounts
PodCacher: Geocaching Goodness22 Jan 2012 | 6:19 pmOn our geocaching podcast today, we’ll be chatting about children’s geocaching accounts, and how different people have handled that decision. We also have a tip for those of you who may want to grab a cache during a layover, some feedback on muggles helping geocachers find a cache, a listener question about smart phone caching alerts, another cool cache series and more. Listen To The Show (48:50) Show Discussion: PodCacher Forums AND Facebook Fan Page Show Images: Go to the Flickr set Sign up to become a PodCacher Supporting Member and enjoy the Member Appreciation Premium Perk (MAPP)… -
Geocaching presents the year in review
IowaAdmin's Geocaching Blog1 Jan 2012 | 9:28 pmIf you've already seen this video, did you notice Iowa's own Busterbabes signing a poster at the 2011 Lost & Found event at Groundspeak headquarters? It's at the 2:23 into the video. -
Two Odd Objects
Geocaching with EMC of Northridge, CA26 Jan 2012 | 10:00 amMy caching activity has been largely pre-empted by work and meetings, but I did have time for a couple of interesting little adventures. I took a drive out to Pasadena to see a new version of an unusual work of art: a fork in the road. Now That's A "Real" Fork In The Road Too This appeals to me as a gastronome and as a lover of puns. As a bonus, the cache was expertly concealed as part of the installation. The cache hide at this telephone pole near my house was standard, yet effective. I almost overlooked it. The most curious thing to me was the curve of the wood within the… -
Welcome to the 2012 Core Officers!
Maryland Geocaching Society31 Dec 2011 | 11:01 pmThe votes are in and tallied, let’s all welcome the 2012 MGS Core! lpyankeefan, Corfmania, WVKiwi, Trainbug and spikep You can find the forum discussion here.
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Last Day of 2011
31 Dec 2011 | 7:37 pmWell its the last day of 2011. Its been an interesting year, and my slowest to date geocaching wise. Honestly I have lost some of the "fire" that geocaching use to spark in me. When I started you could find amazing places and cool caches. Today it seems you just find micros along the road where there is no place to park. I still like to cache in groups, events, finding a few on a road trip, and hiking to find good caches. I just don't do it as often...Highlights for the year include:Completed the Discover Roseburg challengeFound 42 caches on 7/30/11 with Biggieet_alThe Great Amazing Cache… -
Tom Pierce Trail
27 Dec 2011 | 12:59 amDecided I needed a few more caches today so I could hit the 2222 find milestone. Sadly I guess I only needed 6 and now sit at 2223. I swear it said 2215 last night. Anyway it doesn't matter I'd have to pass it up someday.Just to bring up old times 2223 caches ties me with the famous Rooster- for finds. Of course he quit caching a long time ago.Today's finds includedT.P. Startermillview#1T. P. Trail #1T. P. Trail #2T. P. Trail #3T. P. Trail #4T. P. Trail #5These were all on the newer Tom Pierce bike trail. Someday this should be the start of the greenway bike path all the way to Ashland. I… -
Merry Christmas!
25 Dec 2011 | 10:58 pmHope all of you out there had a very Merry Christmas.As I've done in the past I went out to find a geocache today. Just one this holiday. Probably could have squeezed in a couple more. Wasn't as cold today but it did sprinkle a little as we found it.Reflections 1 Depending on how cold it is tomorrow I might try to find a few. -
One more year
22 Dec 2011 | 5:12 pmWell its very well know that the world will probably end December 21, 2012So I compiled a small list of "Bucket List" cachesBombsite CachePyramid Rock Mt. Elijah Cache3 Corners (SE Oregon Hatrick) Alice's Rabbit HoleDR. Who. The Government Duck Ramblin' Rogue aka Whoopee Tyee! Five Bar Hot Cache I'm sure there are many more. Like any of the ones needed for The Oregon History Challenge!. If anyone local thinks they would like to try completing this challenge let me know. -
All slow on the geocache front
21 Dec 2011 | 12:44 pmIts been rather cold around her for the last several weeks. Colder then usual I'd say, but dry and sunny for the most part. The sun might warm it up to the high 30's but that's about it. I have no problem with saying I am a fair weather geocacher."Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night..."Bull$#!^ the postal service can have it... all of that stops me from geocaching on most occasions :)With that said I have not found anything but an event in several weeks. I'll find at least one cache on Christmas day to keep with tradition, but that might be the last for 2011. The event was…
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PodCacher: Geocaching Goodness
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Show 355.0: Kid’s Geocaching Accounts
22 Jan 2012 | 6:19 pmOn our geocaching podcast today, we’ll be chatting about children’s geocaching accounts, and how different people have handled that decision. We also have a tip for those of you who may want to grab a cache during a layover, some feedback on muggles helping geocachers find a cache, a listener question about smart phone caching alerts, another cool cache series and more. Listen To The Show (48:50) Show Discussion: PodCacher Forums AND Facebook Fan Page Show Images: Go to the Flickr set Sign up to become a PodCacher Supporting Member and enjoy the Member Appreciation Premium Perk (MAPP)… -
Show 354.0: Tombs and Trains
15 Jan 2012 | 7:04 pmOn our geocaching podcast today, we have a lunch-time chat update from Groundspeak on several topics of interest. We also have a listener story from cold South Dakota, a funny LPC story, some adventurous geocachers heading out on a truly amazing journey, a question for you to consider – regarding geocaching accounts for kids, an exciting announcement about the next WWFM and more. Listen To The Show (51:28) Show Discussion: PodCacher Forums AND Facebook Fan Page Show Images: Go to the Flickr set Sign up to become a PodCacher Supporting Member and enjoy the Member Appreciation Premium Perk… -
Show 353.0: To log or not to log?
8 Jan 2012 | 10:14 pmOn our geocaching podcast today, we’ll discuss the question we posed recently – about whether or not to log a find if you can’t open the container. We also have a geocaching adventure called into our hotline, feedback on geocaching goals, an intriguing series of puzzles up in the San Francisco Bay area and a new geocaching iPad specific app coming soon. Listen To The Show (47:22) Show Discussion: PodCacher Forums AND Facebook Fan Page Show Images: Go to the Flickr set Sign up to become a PodCacher Supporting Member and enjoy the Member Appreciation Premium Perk (MAPP) shows as a… -
Show 352.0: Welcome 2012
1 Jan 2012 | 10:04 pmOn our geocaching podcast today, we have many listener responses about their 2011 accomplishments and 2012 goals. We also share our 2011 caching goal results, some feedback on how NOT to hide a cache, another Top 10 list – of New Year’s Resolutions, and “Getting back on the horse”, a milestone story. Listen To The Show (51:46) Show Discussion: PodCacher Forums AND Facebook Fan Page Show Images: Go to the Flickr set Sign up to become a PodCacher Supporting Member and enjoy the Member Appreciation Premium Perk (MAPP) shows as a thank-you! Links mentioned in the show Geocache… -
Show 351.0: Merry Christmas!
25 Dec 2011 | 11:45 pmOn our geocaching podcast today, we have a short Christmas special show for you, including a Holiday song from all three of us. We also share about a photography contest ending soon, an amazing Christmas display, some audio of Sandy and Sean caching together, and the iTunes Contest giveaway that we mentioned on the last show. Listen To The Show (27:01) Show Discussion: PodCacher Forums AND Facebook Fan Page Show Images: Go to the Flickr set Sign up to become a PodCacher Supporting Member and enjoy the Member Appreciation Premium Perk (MAPP) shows as a thank-you! Links mentioned in the show…
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IowaAdmin's Geocaching Blog
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Geocaching presents the year in review
1 Jan 2012 | 9:28 pmIf you've already seen this video, did you notice Iowa's own Busterbabes signing a poster at the 2011 Lost & Found event at Groundspeak headquarters? It's at the 2:23 into the video. -
Garmin vs. Groundspeak
9 Dec 2011 | 5:56 pmIn case you missed it, there's been something of a Goliath vs. David business battle going on between Groundspeak, the small Seattle-based company that owns and manages Geocaching.com, and Garmin, the large company that makes the best (in my opinion) consumer GPS devices and has attempted to get its own geocaching listing service -- OpenCaching.com -- off the ground. One of my fellow reviewers, Nick Brown, who is a reviewer in France, wrote this very insightful article about the whole mess. It's worth a read. What do you think? Have you used OpenCaching.com? -
What about specific publication times and dates?
11 Nov 2011 | 7:39 pmI had a nice email conversation with a geocacher last week who was asking about getting several different cache published at specific (but different) times and dates. I'd like to share my response with you here so you can see how I like to handle these situations. Keep in mind this may not be the way other reviewers prefer to handle things. ------------------------Here's how the review process normally works: When you create a new geocache page, please don't "enable" it until the cache is in place and ready to be published. That way I can publish new geocaches in the order they were… -
Clowning around with the big guy
1 Nov 2011 | 10:13 pmThat's me with Jeremy Irish (right), president and one of the founders of geocaching.com. -
New caches are not "enabled" by default
26 Oct 2011 | 11:29 amIn case you missed the recent change to the online cache submittal form, when you submit a new cache, it is no longer enabled by default. In the past, when you submitted a new cache, there was a check box at the top of the form to enable the submission. By default it was checked. Now the same check box is farther down on the page below the coordinate entry box and it is NOT checked by default. Until you check this box, your new cache submittal will not show up in the reviewer's list of new caches to review. So far, I have seen postings or received emails from a handful of geocachers who were…
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Geocaching with EMC of Northridge, CA
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Two Odd Objects
26 Jan 2012 | 10:00 amMy caching activity has been largely pre-empted by work and meetings, but I did have time for a couple of interesting little adventures. I took a drive out to Pasadena to see a new version of an unusual work of art: a fork in the road. Now That's A "Real" Fork In The Road Too This appeals to me as a gastronome and as a lover of puns. As a bonus, the cache was expertly concealed as part of the installation. The cache hide at this telephone pole near my house was standard, yet effective. I almost overlooked it. The most curious thing to me was the curve of the wood within the… -
SART
19 Jan 2012 | 10:00 amSanta Ana River Trail Where is the SART? SART Parking SART #1 through SART #50 f0t0m0m and I took two cars, left one at the northeast end of the trail in Colton, then drove to Riverside and walked the 6 miles back to the first car. map Yes, beauty is where you find it, but sometimes you have to look REALLY hard. The caches, 50 of them in this section, were mostly down off the bike trail (with the view) and in this gully area by the fences. The river bed is mostly dry. This is one of the actually scenic spots. In the distance to the east, we could still see some snow on the mountains. Well,… -
Lake Balboa Walkabout
12 Jan 2012 | 10:00 amI’d been staring at this cache for a while, wondering how to access it: Dragonfly in K9Sport's Kalifornia TB Hotel The overhead maps are inconclusive, since there has been construction in the area, and things are different than they look. I could see that the cache is near the busway, but there are fences along that, and no way to walk down it. I finally decided to just go over there and walk around until I could find how to get it. I met up with Spoondoggie and Doc Sylvia (her first geocaching experience!), … and we wandered down Balboa Boulevard from the park and ride. Sure… -
Mt. McCoy and the Reagan Library
5 Jan 2012 | 10:00 amThis area in Simi Valley is one of my favorites, for its consistently spectacular views and peaceful surroundings. It was too crowded over the holiday weekend to enjoy a tour of the Reagan Library, but I’m looking forward to getting back to see the new displays. I took advantage of the street parking over there instead to walk across the hills to Mt. McCoy to grab a couple of caches that have been tempting me for a long time. Politics and Religious Icon Cache Peace Be With You Too 2 Library entrance Flags in the wind View of the library – Air Force One is behind the giant windows… -
Dunsmore Canyon
29 Dec 2011 | 10:00 amWinter’s wind and rain yield to warm days with sparkling clear skies, making December and January the perfect months for hiking in Southern California. I took advantage of this with f0t0m0m this week as we set out to explore a new park for both of us. We did a loop, more or less, up Dunsmore Canyon, which is part of the Deukmejian Wilderness Park, located north of Glendale in the mountains above La Crescenta. It was only a 3-mile jaunt, but turned out to be enjoyably complex with ascents, descents, a side canyon, broad vistas, and bubbling seasonal creeks. We started with the obligatory…
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Maryland Geocaching Society
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Welcome to the 2012 Core Officers!
31 Dec 2011 | 11:01 pmThe votes are in and tallied, let’s all welcome the 2012 MGS Core! lpyankeefan, Corfmania, WVKiwi, Trainbug and spikep You can find the forum discussion here. -
2012 MGS Core Officer Elections
1 Dec 2011 | 4:44 amElection time is underway! Be sure to visit the voting thread in the forums for instructions on how to cast your vote. Good luck to everyone participating this year! -
Maryland Geocaching Society Holiday Swap 2011
14 Oct 2011 | 8:43 pmIt’s hard to believe we’re already in the last quarter of the year, as the amount of daylight dwindles and the leaves begin to cover our lawns, it’s a reminder the end of the year is close-by. Soon the goblins and ghouls will be visiting to get their fill of sugar coated goodies and Tom [...] -
Maryland Geocaching Society Fall Picnic 2011
11 Sep 2011 | 11:41 amThe hot summer temperatures are beginning to subside and the trees will soon begin to transform into a plethora of colors. It’s the time of year to pack the camping gear and head westward to the Maryland Geocaching Society Fall Picnic. This year it will be held on October 8th at New Germany State Park [...] -
Maryland Geocaching Society CITO 2011
6 Aug 2011 | 8:16 pmCome join the Maryland Geocaching Society in an effort to give back a little to the environment and parks in which we enjoy our hobby of geocaching. The Maryland Geocaching Society CITO 2011 event will be held this year on September 10th at Pocomoke River State Park Shad Landing in Snow Hill, Maryland. The MGS [...]
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GeoCache: I'm NOT Obsessed... Right?
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Meet the Alibaba.com Robot at CES2012
26 Jan 2012 | 9:01 pmHere is some Back Channel CES2012 goodness shot by yours truly. Enjoy a few moments with the Alibaba.com Robot See all the great CES 2012 coverage, interviews and back channel video at TPN.tv Sponsor Links: GoToMyPC.com Free for 30 Days GoDaddy.com 4GH Web Hosting Deals Right Now! ------------------------------------------------------- GeoCache: I'm NOT Obsessed... Right? http://headhardhat-geocache.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- Twitter me at @headhardhat Friend me at Facebook http://www.facebook.com/HeadHardHat/ Google+… -
So What Happened To HeadHardHat?
24 Jan 2012 | 1:58 pmLive at the TPN.tv Booth I have been getting some email inquiries as to where I have been hiding the past couple of weeks and thought I should surface and let you know what has been going on. Here is the short story. I had an absolute blast at CES2012 in Las Vegas this year. I want to state that right off the bat because it really was one heck of an adventure. The first three quarters of it were just fine. Flew in on Saturday and worked all the way to Day Three of Five with nothing more than some sore feet and a blister or two. On Day Four which would be that Thursday I came down with a… -
RVNN.TV now in the Roku Channel Store!
20 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pmRVNN.TV now in the Roku Channel Store! What was the coolest announcement during the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2012? The official acceptance of RVNN.TV into the Roku Channel store. RVNN.TV significantly boosts distribution and reach of its recreational vehicle focused internet television network with release of a dedicated RVNN.TV channel on the Roku streaming video player. The Roku displays internet-delivered television and games such as Angry Birds on consumer flat screen TV’s, and is the #1 selling Internet Television set-top box. Viewers in over three million homes that own… -
Jeffrey and HeadHardhat at the Live TPN.tv broadcast.
12 Jan 2012 | 7:38 pmSee all our Geocaching Tutorial Videos at HTTP://www.GeoSnippits.com -
Day Three at CES 2012. The TechPodcast Network aka TPN.tv #CES #CES2012
12 Jan 2012 | 1:55 pmBehind the scenes with views from production. See all our Geocaching Tutorial Videos at HTTP://www.GeoSnippits.com
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January Featured Geocacher of the Month Nominees – Add Your Comments
27 Jan 2012 | 1:44 pmJanuary’s featured nominees are fabulous examples of uniquely talented geocachers. Though many other qualified candidates were nominated, Groundspeak Lackeys selected these three helpful, innovative, and creative nominees. Now it’s your turn to help select one of them as January’s featured “Geocacher of the Month.” AbbeyAckbar, December Featured Geocacher of the Month Write a comment on this blog post about which of these three geocachers you feel should be the featured “Geocacher of the Month.” Those whose nominees were not recognized here are encouraged to submit their… -
Groundspeak Weekly Newsletter – January 26, 2012
26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 amFlex Your Geocaching Creativity There’s at least one extraordinary geocache you remember. It’s the geocache that made you say a big old “WOW.” Your magical “aha” moment may have been caused by a mind-bending Puzzle Cache, a creative cache container, or the journey to a new, breath-taking location. Whatever the cause, remember this cache when you decide to hide one of your own. Think about what made it so enjoyable and then add your own twist. Anyone interested in placing a creative geocache should find as many different types and sizes of geocaches as… -
Geocaching is (literally) a Piece of Cake (sometimes)
25 Jan 2012 | 7:53 pmSusan Currence Here’s a question you don’t often hear, “Did you find that geocache on the cake?” Well… look at the masterful geocaching cake by Susan Currence to your left. Can you find the geocache? Could the geocache be hidden in the pretzel stick palm trees? Might it be in the frosting river? Keep reading to find out. Susan and others uploaded pictures of geocaching themed cakes after a Geocaching.com Facebook post. The post read, “Geocaching is about community. Community is about events. And when you have an event: You. Bring. A. Themed. Cake. Share… -
TNT : Donjons & Mountains GCJPN4 GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – January 23, 2012
23 Jan 2012 | 5:49 pmAttempting "Donjons & Mountains" TNT : Donjons & Mountains (GCJPN4) earns its difficulty 5, terrain 5 rating. It also earns a “wow” from the geocaching community. The Multi-Cache has tallied more than 90 Favorite Points so far. Geocachers spend a day tracking down clues throughout rural Belgium and France. The clues help crack the codes on the cache page. Once geocachers find the answers they discover coordinates for the final cache. Through it all gecoachers follow their GPS to encounter donjons (fortified towers) seemingly sprouting in the deep forest. They… -
Geocaching.com Presents: CITO – Hamburg to Prague
19 Jan 2012 | 10:48 am[Editor's note: This video is spoken in German and Czech. Click the CC button for English, German or Czech subtitles.] Watch the latest Geocaching.com Presents video: CITO: Hamburg to Prague. See how geocachers from two countries unite to cleanup the environment. Dozens of geocachers from Germany and the Czech Republic attended the Hamburg to Prague CITO Event in June of 2011. They cleared trash from a Prague park, including tires, discarded cables, and bags full of litter. CITO stands for Cache In Trash Out . It’s a Geocaching.com volunteer environmental effort repeated over and over…
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Winter caching adventures in Kent, Northamptonshire, and Essex
18 Jan 2012 | 1:07 pmHill climbing in Trosley Country Park I’d been a very busy puzzle-solving Geocacher over the past few weeks and had cracked 18 puzzles around a country park in Kent. Although the puzzle locations were quite spread out they could be combined with an existing series, plus other caches to form a couple of circular walks of about 6 miles and 8 miles. It looked like a lovely area to explore with a lot of the caches showing as being in a woods. I’d noted that the walks may be a little hilly in places, however may have slightly underestimated the elevation as it was a bit higher than we… -
The first caching adventures of 2012
8 Jan 2012 | 3:58 pmMonday 2nd January Our first caching day of 2012 was 2nd January. We have a selection of stickers that we place in logbooks when we find caches and I had designed a new selection for 2012 so I was very eager to go and put them in some logbooks! 2012 cassandy stickers We headed north east towards Mildenhall, for a series placed in the Forestry Commission owned Mildenhall Woods. There were 3 short series plus a night cache in there and the plan was to get the timings right so that we finished the 3rd series just as it got dark so that we could do the night cache… On the way to the series… -
Our Top 10 Geocaching moments of 2011
5 Jan 2012 | 4:24 pmWe had such fun Geocaching in 2011, and it seems that we did pretty well with our 2011 caching statistics, finishing with 3541 finds for the year. Out of those 3500 caches there have been some real gems so I thought I’d share some of our top 10 favourite caches and caching moments of the year… 10. Shipbourne Stroll pt2, Kent A Q&A cache When we headed to do the Shipbourne Stroll series we were under the impression that it was your usual geocaching series, but we were totally blown away by the creativity of the caches that we came across. It was very clear from the quality of… -
The UK’s First “Power trail” – The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation Series
4 Dec 2011 | 7:39 amThe 1st December 2011, 12pm will go down in caching history as the time that the UK’s first “Power trail” was published. A lot of cache series have been accused of being powertrail before, however the definition of one is “a trail with many closely spaced caches, each placed as close to its neighbors as the cache saturation guidelines allow” [Source] None of the large cache series that we have done match this, and none of them have admitted to being Power trails. This series is loud and proud “I am a power trail, and if you don’t like it then… -
GAGB Committee Elections now on
24 Nov 2011 | 10:10 amEDIT: Thank you to all who voted for me. I’m now a GAGB Committee Member. Just a little nudge to any of my blog readers who are GAGB (Geocaching Association of Great Britain) members that the Committee Elections are on until Saturday and I am standing for election. There are 8 places available and 13 candidates so I would really appreciate your vote. The Geocaching Association of Great Britain (GAGB) is the leading UK Geocaching body, recognised by and acting on behalf of cachers. The association was established in 2004 to provide a voice for its members in the United Kingdom with the…
