Here’s something that sounds like a lot of fun - Cacheapalooza! It’s a fun-filled weekend of mostly ‘old-school’ Geocaching in the beautiful Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Florida. For more information drop by here.

We’re continually picking up snippets of information related to the Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail. Apparently this trail is being created to promote the cities and towns of Maryland with a Geocaching connection. It certainly sounds like a big undertaking and also a worthwhile one. Here’s a bit more info. Here’s one of the latest towns to come on board. We’ll be keeping our eye on this one!

There’s new Geocaching software coming for the iPhone that looks and sounds like a winner. You can find out more here.

Cachers in the news this week included George and Andrea from Pasadena and are featured here.

Teri Steele organized a Geocaching learning session with students at Green Valley school on Indiana. You can read more here.

Mark Neely and Katrina Ables are featured caching in the Jennings State Forest of Florida in this article here.

Geocachers Vernon Wright and Steve Allen are featured in this article about the Jesse James Cache Bash which was held this past weekend in at Messick Park in Savannah, Mo.

And finally, what can be better than Geocaching? Geocaching with donuts, of course! And not just any donuts either! Three new Krispy Kreme donut franchises are opening in Phoenix and to celebrate they are holding a ‘Glazed Treasure Hunt’. Yep, you heard right. Geocaching with Krispy Kreme donuts… ahh… heaven… Click here for more.

And that’s the way we saw this week in Geocaching! Seriously, these were a few interesting Geocaching related news articles that we came across this week that we wanted to share.

Oh, btw, you can always find more weekly Geocaching news here and here.

Keep on cachin’!

Wow! Another great week for Geocachers in the news!

Here’s a great article (and photo) about Tim Eubanks of Natchez, Mississippi.

Several cachers are featured in this article about the fourth annual Valencia County Fun Days Geocaching event in New Mexico

Bill Bashaw, Teri Ligon and Bea Vandenberg from Nevada are featured in this article telling why they enjoy Geocaching.

You can also read about Greg McDaniel and Alaina Williams, members of the Pee Dee Cachers in South Carolina, in this article about a recent park cleanup they attended.

We found an interesting topic in the GC forums this week regarding a suggestion that was made to have a ‘Cache Maintenance Week’. You can read more about this here.

Apparently there was another cache blown up because of a bomb scare in Carson City, Nevada last week. You can read more here.

And finally, from the realm of Cool Caches comes this story. We won’t say much other than to say read this and this. Make sure you check out the photos!

And that’s the way we saw this week in Geocaching! Seriously, these were a few interesting Geocaching related news articles that we came across this week that we wanted to share.

Oh, btw, you can always find more weekly Geocaching news here and here.

Keep on cachin’!

Last week I (go_man) had the good fortune to visit Fredericksburg, Virginia. This gave me the chance to get together with a local Geocacher and to get out and do some caching in Virginia!

The Fredericksburg area of Virginia is steeped in history and gives you the opportunity to walk where American Presidents and famous Generals once walked. It was near here that the first president of the United States, George Washington, once roamed as a young boy. It was also near here that the North and South armies of the American Civil War came face to face in battle. This area, which is located about halfway between Washington D.C., which was the capital of the Union, and Richmond, which was the capital of the Confederacy, was the major site of five Civil War battles.

Downtown Fredericksburg still retains that small town feel. You can enjoy a leisurely stroll through it’s tree line streets. As you walk along you are sure to be tempted by the many restaurants and specialty shops.

Prior to visiting Fredericksburg I contacted the Fredericksburg Geocachers asking if there were any local cachers interested in going Geocaching with me. I received quick replies from several of the members and through the course of messaging back and forth with them “smarple” and I worked out our schedules to meet up and go caching on Wednesday night.

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The ‘Mardi Gras - Cachers Gone Wild’ event in Wellington, Ohio brought Geocachers from 10 states and 2 foreign counties. You can read about several of them here.

The Mills family from Alexandria, VA were Geocaching in Washington state when ‘The Penninsula Gateway’ caught up with them. You can read more here.

William Lakus is mentioned in this article here about the Trek Ten Trails event in Florida’s Polk County. The Geocaching part of this event brought participants from 71 Florida cities in 29 counties as well as visitors from 30 states, four Canadian provinces, England and Ireland.

There was a new Geocaching blog released this week that give homage to those crafty cachers that create those cool caches. It’s called HeadHardHat’s Ingenious Cache Inventor (yep, the same HeadHardHat from ‘I’m Not Obsessed’) and it is located here.

The West Whiteland township of Pennsylvania has approved a policy to allow Geocaches to be placed in their parks. They join several other townships, including Pennsbury, Warwick and New Garden, that participate in Geocaching. There’s more on this here.

Concerns over roadside caches in Wyoming was brought to our attention in this article here.

And that’s the way we saw this week in Geocaching! Seriously, these were a few interesting Geocaching related news articles that we came across this week that we wanted to share.

Oh, btw, you can always find more weekly Geocaching news here and here.

Keep on cachin’!

Several GeoCachers were in the news again this week. John Jurasek, Larry von Kleeck, Mark Kusick and Christine Toth attended a Geocaching event at Tallman Mountain State Park, New York, as well as first-time cacher Laura Nugent. Read about the event here.

The Geocaching Podcast Show has a new broadcast time. You can read the announcement here and as always, you can listen to their show here.

Remember when we did a post a few months back about the missing Travel Bugs? Well, we guess that the same holds true for GeoCoins too. Click here for a recent survey of missing coins on the GC forums.

Here’s something that sounds like a lot of fun, and for a good cause too! The Technology Access Foundation (TAF), in an effort to raise funds to support TAF Programs, are putting on the TAF Annual Geocache Cup. For more information click here.

Will GPS and online directions make paper maps obsolete? A good question! Check out this article by Toledo Blade writer, Kirk Baird here, the answer may surprise you.

And that’s the way we saw this week in Geocaching! Seriously, these were a few interesting Geocaching related news articles that we came across this week that we wanted to share.

Oh, btw, you can always find more weekly Geocaching news here and here.

Keep on cachin’!

Last weekend, on Sunday August 31st, there was another local Geocaching event but unfortunately we were not able to attend it. We were thrilled when stagunner contacted us and sent in this great article and allowed us to post it here:

Recently, several cachers had the opportunity to explore Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia. This large island is located just off the coast of Cape Breton near the fishing village of Main A’Deiu. The island is now Scatarie Island Provincial Wildlife Management Area and hosts several species of animals and birds. It is about 10 kilometers long (6 miles), fairly level and has some spectacular scenery. The Island is also the largest island not connected to the mainland and has the most easterly point of the province at the far end.

It has lighthouses on each end and has several empty houses and other buildings. It was one inhabited by several families but now they only come over for camping and other special visits.

The event was hosted by Hershey1 and MineRP and involved a 30 minute crossing in the Kenny’s Pride, a local fisherman’s boat. The event was planned earlier in the summer as MineRP and hershey1 brainstormed the idea while caching one day. After researching the plan and getting together the boat and crew they managed to place 20 caches out on the Island. Now it was the cachers turn to gather on the day and get ready to grab the goodies.

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