Sally Davis, president of the Middle Tennessee Geocachers Club is mentioned in this great article about more city and town locations that are offering Geocaching incentives to visit. You can read more here.

The Waynesboro, Pennsylvania police are still looking for the Geocacher who left the ‘suspicious device’ that we told you about last week. You’ll find the continuing story here.

A mysterious item stashed in the base of a light pole in Urbana, Ohio caused the Wright-Patterson Bomb Squad to be called in. On investigation it proved to be a cache. More here.

The city of Aberdeen joins the Maryland state trail that continues to gain momentum as more cities and towns join in. A short mention is made here.

And speaking of the Maryland state trail, the official launch is this coming Thursday, New Year’s Day. The Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail includes 78 towns and cities across the state! For more info about this great project please go here.

A big WOW! Is all we can say for the latest update to the HooHaa GeoChallenge Race. Gunny’s Electric Bug has taken a big leap to 1st place with 6517.7 miles! TripCyclone drops to 2nd with 3848.3 miles, in 3rd place is the Geocats Racer with 669.4 miles, in 4th is Just A Nut with 256.9 miles, in 5th is EMC’s Cookie with 139.2 miles, in 6th is the Champion Quilt with 123.2 miles, in 7th is GoGo T. Urtle with 38.9 miles, followed close in 8th place by Peace, Luv and TB’s with 31. 1 miles, and in 9th is the yet to be placed Hick’s World.

Btw – You can keep updated on the race positions at anytime by visiting GeoCache: I’m NOT Obsessed… Right? and scrolling down the right-hand menu.

And that’s the way we saw this week, or so, 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’!

Here’s one about a great hide! Police in Ventura County, California respond to a ‘suspicious activity’ call and suspect it’s related to Geocaching but can’t find the cache! After checking GC they confirmed this was so. It’s a great story that leads to several members of the force to become Geocachers! Read more here.

A bomb scare in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania resulted in a cache being blown up. Apparently the incident occupied police, fire and emergency management personnel for about four hours. You can read more here.

Here’s a new twist to an all too common problem. GPS chips are now being used in Nativity scenes to thwart would-be thieves. You can read more here.

Dan Henke and Benjamin Cook of Rolla, Missouri are featured in this article that likens a GPS to Captain Jack Sparrow’s magical compass! You can read more here.

Angel Legros and her son Jacob, Amy Seck and her daughter Brayden, Greg Bergman and his fiancee, Christy Noll, and his son, Cody, Amy Seck and her two children, Brayden and Kyler, as well as Jerry Angelo from Pittsburgh are all featured in this article here.

A Travel Bug has been created by Kathy DeLorme and Patty Allison in memory of Zak Lukas and Jason Lewis who passed away six years ago after an unfortunate accident. You can read this great article here.

The latest race results for the HooHaa GeoChallenge Race are as follows: After a slow start TripCyclone tales a big lead with 3848.3 miles, in 2nd place is the Geocats Racer with 669.4 miles, in 3rd is Just A Nut with 212 miles, in 4th is EMC’s Cookie with 139.2 miles, in 5th is the Champion Quilt with 123.2 miles, in 6th is GoGo T. Urtle with 38.9 miles, followed close in 7th place by Peace, Luv and TB’s with 31. 1 miles, and in 8th place is the Electric Bug with 2.8 miles, and bringing up the rear, but finally on the move, is Hick’s World!

And that’s the way we saw this week, or so, 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’!

It was a slow time in the world of Geocaching this past week or so, at least in the news world. It must be the time of the season! We guess that like us, Geocachers everywhere are extremely busy getting ready for the holidays, making their list and checking it twice, visiting friends and family and generally preparing for a bit of holiday fun and fare (we can’t wait!).

There were a couple of cachers in the news though that makes for some entertaining reading:

Geocachers Robert and Meggin Mayben of Alabama are featured in this article form the Demopolis Times here.

Justin Ellis, Greg and Jan Putnam of Yankton, South Dakota share some stories and info about their Geocaching adventures here.

erycka & wichie from Cape Cod are mentioned in this article about the Green Monster Series of 23 caches. You can read more here.

Follow along as Firestar and his 14 year-old grandson, OHBuckeye from Northwest Ohio take you on a Geocaching outing in this article here.

And speaking of the holidays Geocaching becomes a part of the Christmas season celebrations here in Holly, Michigan with a ‘scavenger hunt’!

Things got pretty exciting in the HooHaa GeoChallenge Race when it looked like HeadHardHat’s ‘Just A Nut’ went missing. Heavy debate went on whether or not a replacement TB would, or could, be brought in to continue the race and the rules surrounding such. However, at the 11th hour the cacher who was just moving the TB posted to the log! Whewww! This was a close one.

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’!