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.
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blazerfan's geocaching adventures
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All the way to Butte Falls
26 Oct 2009 | 11:00 amSaturday 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 amOn 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 pmI 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 pmSo 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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PodCacher
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Show 241.0: Happy Halloween!
1 Nov 2009 | 6:40 pmListen 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
25 Oct 2009 | 9:39 pmListen 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… -
Show 239.0: Mystery Sound and Milestone Stories
18 Oct 2009 | 9:54 pmListen To The Show (55:33) On our geocaching podcast today, we have some milestone stories from the Geo-Achievement contest, AND the announcement of the next winners in that contest, AS WELL AS the revelation of the mystery animal sound from the last show! We also have an “LPC corner”, some articles you may be interested in and information on new regulations that may kill GPS signal. 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… -
MAPP Show #6
14 Oct 2009 | 11:05 pmShow Length: 38:31 If you’re a PodCacher Supporting Member, check your email for the link to the audio file, show notes, and exclusive photos. This is our “Members Appreciation Premium Perk Show”, released as a special THANK YOU to all of our financial supporting members. In this full featured show, you’ll hear * exciting audio from our adventure to find our 1000th cache in Yosemite earlier this summer * a geocaching gadget that will light up your world * a secret miniature world enjoyed by cachers and other hikers * and devices to locate lost children Hop on over to… -
Show 238.0: What’s in Your Trunk?
11 Oct 2009 | 9:53 pmListen To The Show (47:52) On our geocaching podcast today, we have a discussion of “what’s in your trunk?”, a caching story from Hong Kong, news about Garmin custom maps, some listener rants and raves, a news item that mentions drugs and geocaching in the same sentence and TWO brand new contests. 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 MAPP…
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IowaAdmin's Geocaching Blog
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"Team" finds or "ghost" logs? What do you think?
22 Oct 2009 | 5:36 pmThis 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 pmIt'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 amIf 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 amHere'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? -
Get out there and get 'em
26 May 2009 | 6:42 pmI was at Okoboji at a family gathering this past weekend, so even though I logged on to approve a few caches a couple of times overe the weekend, I didn't want to spend much time reviewing caches while I was with the family. So, I just finished publishing about 50 new geocaches this evening -- catching up on those that were submitted over the weekend.Those are in addition to the 90 or so I published after last weekend. If you don't have a new geocache near you... well, maybe you haven't checked geocaching.com lately. :-) Here's a little video of fun on the water while at Okoboji...
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Geocaching with EMC of Northridge, CA
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A Geocaching Trifecta, Of Sorts
5 Nov 2009 | 9:26 amAs 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?
31 Oct 2009 | 3:39 pmIt 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
23 Oct 2009 | 1:12 pmA 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… -
Fall Season Geocaching: In- and Outdoors
15 Oct 2009 | 9:40 amIt’s raining this week here in Southern California. I have gone caching in the rain, and it can be fun, but it is largely a disincentive to get out in the traffic and mud and wet bushes. Earlier this week I did have a couple of adventures I’ll discuss in a moment, but first I’d like to share a couple of links I stumbled upon while surfing the web (sort of indoor geocaching with no smilies?) yesterday on a site called EZine Articles. This site has thousands of short pieces on every subject imaginable written by experts on their respective subjects. Most of the articles on… -
Geocaches Just Around the Corner
8 Oct 2009 | 11:03 amI’ll get to the caches around the world later, meanwhile, I headed out earlier this week for an afternoon of caches near my house. I’ve had a goal for a long time to clear out a 10 mile radius, but I’ve never gotten that completely done. I do manage to keep about an 8 mile circle clear, though. This baker’s dozen had sprung up fairly recently, including some nicely designed ones by a newer cacher, Minifish. I took notes and photos as I went, to give you an idea what a “normal” caching experience is like. (ha!) Take the Cannoli behind a honeysuckle bush near…
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Geocachers of Kentucky
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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. -
GeoWoodstock VII announced
The location for GeoWoodstock VII in 2009 has been announced and it is just a short drive for those of us in Kentucky. The event, will be held over the 2009 Memorial Day weekend south of Nashville, TN in Bell Buckle.Here is a link to the mega event cache page.http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1CG5G
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Maryland Geocaching Society
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2010 Core Officer Nominations
2 Nov 2009 | 11:11 amIt 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
20 Oct 2009 | 6:12 amOh, 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
5 Oct 2009 | 1:01 pmThe 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
20 Sep 2009 | 4:11 pmFall 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
23 Jul 2009 | 9:21 amThings 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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St. Louis Area Geocachers Association (SLAGA)
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SLAGA Officer Meeting Minutes
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Pictures from Cachin’, Eatin’ and Chewin’ the Fat in the Kingdom
6 Oct 2009 | 4:21 pmDate Event Location Desc Type Photographer Links 2009/09/26 Cachin’, Eatin’ and Chewin’ the Fat in the Kingdom Veteran's Park, Fulton, MO Meet-n-greet with cachers from all over central Missouri, including Poker Run, hotdogs and burgers. Trillian (39) Flickr -
Top 10 - SLAGA Fall Picnic
5 Oct 2009 | 4:25 pmTOP TEN Reasons to Attend the SLAGA Fall Picnic 10. You can check out all us crazy geocachers before you decide to sign up for a SLAGA membership! 9. Get your kicks at a park on Route 66 8. Check out the new SLAGA equipment trailer 7. Meet the new SLAGA officers 6. You have nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon 5. Pika’s Watergate salad 4. Try your hand at the Poker Run 3. Play Geocachers Bingo 2. See who gets a shiny new Milestone Award 1. Rocksusan’s cookies! The 2009 SLAGA Fall Picnic is this Sunday, October 11, starting at 11:00 am. See GC1XTFQ for more details. -
Help Scouts "Get in the Game"
28 Sep 2009 | 8:16 pmGet in the Game! with Geocaching For their 100th Anniversary Celebration, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is tapping into the outdoor fun and excitement of geocaching and inviting you along for the adventure! Through Get in the Game! geocaching events, Scouts and non-Scouts alike will search for prizes in this fast-paced, outdoor quest. It's a great way to share interesting and useful Scouting skills — and outdoor adventure — with today's tech savvy kids. Get in the Game! Activities The BSA has developed five geocaching activities for the Get in the Game! program. Pillars of Scouting —… -
Geocaching 101
28 Sep 2009 | 1:15 pmGeocaching 101 October 3, 2009 This program will be held Saturday, October 3rd 2009, 10AM - 3PM, at Queeny County Park in the Greensfelder Recreation Complex, located at 550 Wideman Rd in Ballwin, MO 63011. The program is scheduled to start at 10 AM. SLAGA will have a PowerPoint presentation, along with sample caches, contents, logbooks, etc, and other geocaching items to display. After the indoor session, we will go outside where we can break up into small groups to learn about using a GPS for geocaching, locating caches, and other related questions. Laptops will be provided to transfer…
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WGA | News
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2010 WGA Geo-Campout To Be Held May 14-16 At Bong
23 Oct 2009 | 9:56 pmThe Board recently voted to hold the 2010 WGA Geo-Campout at Richard Bong State Recreation Area on the weekend of May 14 - 16. Richard Bong State Recreation Area is located in Kenosha County in SE Wisconsin. -
Save The Date: 2010 WGA Winter Event On February 27th
23 Oct 2009 | 9:55 pmThe WGA Board of Directors is in the process of finalizing details for the first WGA winter event to be held on February 27, 2010. Unfortunately several potential venues in south central Wisconsin have fallen through recently so we are still debating where to hold this event. So keep February 27th open on your calendar and check back here in a few weeks for more details. -
Fall Geocaching In Wisconsin
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2009 Geo-Picnic Registration Open
9 Jul 2009 | 4:31 pmThe 2009 Geo-Picnic will be held September 19th at Lake Wissota State Park. You can register on the event page on the WGA site: 2009 Geo-Picnic Event Page Click on the "Add Registration" link. Registrations will be accepted through September 12th. -
WGA Pancakes and PJs in West Bend
9 Jul 2009 | 4:28 pmThe WGA will be hosting a pancake breakfast event on the Sunday following the West Bend Cache Ba$h (August 16). For a small fee, you can enjoy an all-you-can eat breakfast. Everyone is encouraged to show up in their PJs, and prizes will be awarded to those with the most interesting or outrageous sleepwear. We will also have a number of activities, including a GPS turkey shoot where you can win a Garmin Oregon. Get the full details and post your will attend log on the event cache page: GC1RWV6
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aj-gps.net NewCache Feed
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Hochosterwitz (GC204NA; Earthcache)
6 Nov 2009 | 8:54 amN46°45.310 E014°27.190, elevation approx. 624mhidden by silverray on 2009-10-21Container "Not chosen"Difficulty 2.0, Terrain 1.0 -
MÖNCHSBERG (GC20P38; Traditional Cache)
6 Nov 2009 | 4:43 amN47°47.835 E013°02.400, elevation approx. 499mhidden by gera60 on 2009-11-06Container "Regular"Difficulty 2.0, Terrain 2.5 -
Waterside (GC20FDN; Multi-cache)
6 Nov 2009 | 4:25 amN48°14.768 E016°23.684, elevation approx. 166mhidden by Trapper Z on 2009-10-31Container "Regular"Difficulty 2.0, Terrain 1.5 -
Ant Z MMMMM (GC20HA5; Traditional Cache)
6 Nov 2009 | 4:04 amN48°20.282 E014°20.431, elevation approx. 339mhidden by walzi71, coffeegirl70, katrin99 on 2009-11-05Container "Not chosen"Difficulty 1.5, Terrain 2.0 -
5. Kårnt'ner Geocacher Stammtisch in KLU (GC20N5G; Event Cache)
6 Nov 2009 | 3:05 amN46°37.406 E014°18.503, elevation approx. 451mhidden by eolruin on 2009-11-19Container "Regular"Difficulty 1.0, Terrain 1.0
