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You're Kidding Right? 20 March 2010, 12:39 pm
Don't you just hate bloggers that start a post with, I know it's been a long time since I posted. . . So I won't start with that.
But I thought a new post was appropriate to answer a comment left on
The Best Geocache in Minnesota - Confiscated by the Cops An anonymous reply reads:
You all really think this is a good idea? Burying a full sized coffin in a state park? That's about as stupid as your 'adventures' that involve digging around on private property. I suggest you research y...
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The Best Geocache in Minnesota - Confiscated by the Cops 26 May 2009, 10:07 pm
You may remember all the time and effort that we put into finding the 2008 Halloween geocache series? I wrote at length about them. The purpose was to find and collect clues from 12 Halloween themed geocaches, and use those clues to find the bonus cache - a full sized toe-pincher coffin, complete with skeleton and traditional ammo can. Last February it was voted as the Minnesota Cache of the Month by member of the Minnesota Geocaching Association. Here's some comments from the cache listing: ...
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Springtime Geocaching 22 March 2009, 12:28 pm
Ah, spring! A time when hope flows eternal. A time for renewal and re-growth. A time for geocaching without ticks, spiders, and mosquitoes. Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Minnesota. The temperature peaked at near 70 degrees, and the snow that fell last November is almost gone. We decided on one of the nearby regional parks, and like last week, the trails were ice packed and slippery. The ice had melted In places where the sun was able to shine through the trees, leaving slippery mud ins...
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Massive Geocache Beacon 9 March 2009, 11:02 pm
Here in the upper-midwest, geocaches are often hidden in, what is known as, a beacon. Beacon: [bee-kuhn] a fire lit on the top of a hill as a signal Okay, maybe a geocache beacon is not a fire, but in geocaching terms, certainly a signal. If you see the beacon, you should be able to find the geocache. We recently found a geocache in the beacon shown below. If you were the hider, where would you put the geocache in this beacon? ...
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More Island Geocaching 1 March 2009, 1:17 pm
Well, it wasn't like this. And it certainly wasn't like this. But we did some island geocaching yesterday. The difference, this time we walked to the island. I admit, that concept might confuse our faithful California readers. But around here, walking on water isn't an exercise reserved only for the Faithful. The water looked something more like this. This is a shot of Lola's Lakehouse back on dry land. And here's an aerial view of the lake. Lola's was our starting point, directly south...
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Picking up Archived Geocaches 1 February 2009, 1:25 pm
A few weeks back, one of our local geocachers passed away. He had over 20 hides, several of which we had found. The rules at geocaching.com forbid anyone from adopting the caches, and the family didn't want continued emails when finds were logged on these caches. So the listings were all archived. Now the containers are basically, litter. We decided to go pick a couple up. I figured it was a nice thing to do, plus, those are good containers that can be recycled into new geocaches. We kn...
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Geocaching and the Present Day Penny 18 January 2009, 8:54 pm
When wayfarer and I get to the woods we like to "really get away". That is, to reach a time and space where our experience is not interrupted by road noise or jet planes. Where just the slightest hint of imagination could suggest that we've been transported. The forest is ancient, and the trail, timeless. We still have those pesky satellites guiding us to the cache, but you get the point. We almost achieved it today. Our journey started in a very busy section of a close-by regional park. H...
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Top 10 Reasons to be a Geocacher in Minnesota 8 January 2009, 9:04 pm
10. You get to use those cool Winter Friendly attributes on your cache listing page. 9. Geocaching in muck-lucks is very fashionable. 8. Where else can you go ice fishing and geocaching in the same day? 7. Sled dogs make great caching buddies. 6. You can ski right up to most geocaches. 5. After geocaching, you can warm up to a nice warm plate of lutefisk. 4. You can geocache all 4 seasons: Almost winter. Winter. Still Winter. And construction. 3.&...
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Now This is a Geocache 6 January 2009, 3:43 pm
Warning!!! This post contains descriptions and photographs of specific geocaches and may be considered a spoilers If you geocache in the Eagan/Apple Valley/Rosemount area, you are hereby warned: do not read this post until you have completed the Halloween 2008 series by bflentje. Being surprised on your own is just too sweet! And if you've not read our previous two posts about the Halloween 2008 series, you may want to get caught up by reading this post and this post. Now, on with the post. ...
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Google Reader for Geocaching 21 December 2008, 12:20 pm
With snow up to the window sill, all those well laid plans of geocaching will lie as dormant as everything else around here. (And our faithful readers in Southern California will continue to push their numbers up without us.)You may recall this post from about this same time last year. There's nothing to do here but practice geocaching by on-line proxy. That includes reading everyone else's geo-adventures posted on their blogs. I was using My Yahoo home page for keeping track of all the ...
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Happy Thanksgiving 27 November 2008, 1:15 pm
Hello out there.Just wanted to put out a holiday message. I've been very busy lately and not active with blogger. I have been reading my favorite blogs. (That means yours)I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. And for those readers in Canada, (You know who you are) Happy Thursday.Here's a dumb YouTube video. Try not singing this while cooking today.Later, Jive Turkeys....
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Geocaching on Hick's Power Trail 8 November 2008, 12:11 pm
Some geocachers do not like power trails. Well, I do. So I made one. Don't judge me, it's how I play my game. I like to store containers that would make nice geocache containers. Since I like to go to the gym and I like to take supplements, I had a few containers that needed to get out into the wild. I had some empty protein, creatine and fiber containers. A little flat black spray paint and we've got some geocaches on our hands. I had seen an old tree that was just begging to have a geocache pl...
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My First International Geocaches 31 October 2008, 8:25 pm
My travels recently took me to Alberta, Canada. I stayed in a city called Grande Prairie. This part of the country looks a lot like The Midwest of the US. It was very flat and all that was missing were the water towers announcing the town's name.I had a bit of trouble with customs while I was trying to enter the country. They actually sent me into the immigration office to have me better explain my reasons for visiting Canada. The immigration officer was looking me up in whatever database and as...
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Miramar Airshow in San Diego 6 October 2008, 10:08 pm
On Sunday, The Boy and I went to the Miramar Airshow in San Diego. We got there pretty early and had no problem with traffic or getting on the Marine base. Rather than wait in line for a shuttle bus to drive us the mile and a half to the tarmac, we got a pedi cab. Brody thought riding on the back of that three wheeled bike was one if the most fun things he's ever done. (Funny, we were just at Disney last week)Once on the tarmac, there were tons of things to do and see. There were also plent...
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My New Geocaching Style 4 October 2008, 2:53 pm
When I first started geocaching I wanted to try and get as many geocaches as possible every time I went out. I've settled into a new style of geocaching that I think works better for me. I kind of figured this out during my recent trip to Massachusetts. Instead of loading a ton of geocaches in an area and focusing on finding them all, I like to find a couple of caches in an area that I'm visiting and focus on the area rather than the caches. This worked out nicely last weekend when my brother c...
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My First "Out Of State" Geocache Finds 30 September 2008, 8:23 pm
As many of you know, My new position at work allows me to do a bit of traveling. I recently spent two weeks in Eastern Massachusetts. I was working at Smith College in a town called Northampthon. This was an old college town, (Old to me, my English Co-worker kept laughing at me for thinking the buildings were "old") I was certain that most of the places I saw had to be haunted.I didn't have a ton of free time but I did manage to squeeze in a few geocaches. The first one was about a half mile fro...
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Geocaching In San Francisco 31 August 2008, 3:01 pm
Here's a nice video I ran across this morning. Doug McConnell of OpenRoad.TV joins TeamAlamo in the Bay Area for some geocaching. (TeamAlamo currently has over 29,000 cache finds)I like this video because it shows a variety of caches from a memorable urban cache at Lombard Street, to some out of the way caches with some of the finest vistas San Francisco has to offer. This video also does a pretty good job of showing what the game is about and gives a nice intro for those looking to learn about ...
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The Boy Turns 7 Today 30 August 2008, 7:40 pm
Today is The Boy's birthday. We went to Ruby's for breakfast and then went bowling. We are having some friends over for cake. It's been a great day.The highlight of this birthday has to be the card from my Grandma Decker. Grandma Decker is the sweetest woman I've ever met in my life. If you met her you would love her instantly. Grandma Decker sent The Boy a birthday card and he opened it and read the cute little message inside. Her notes always end with "XOXOXOXOXOXOX." Awww, we love you grandm...
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Bogus Logs On Geocaches 23 August 2008, 2:58 pm
I have a watch on Chomolangma. It's a 5/5 geocache on Mount Everest. It is labeled as "The Highest Geocache In The World", and has yet to be found.This morning I was surprised to see a "Found It" log in my E-mail for this cache. It was a bogus log. The people responsible for the posting have since deleted the find so I won't out them. I will, however, share their log entry. It reads as follows:Log Date: 8/22/2008Visited via Google Earth on a windy friday afternoon with my Son Matthew, it was qu...
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Nice Article On Geocaching 21 August 2008, 10:32 pm
As I've said before, I subscribe to a lot of blogs. One that I really like is call Wise Bread. They have several authors that all write about ways to be frugal. I noticed an article in my reader today about Geocaching.I like the idea she mentions about leaving American type swag when geocaching outside the US. I think I'll look for some "California" swag to leave on my travels. It also mentions Letterboxing and Orienteering. Here is the bit about Geocaching. You can read the entire article here....
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The Project 365 is tough! 2 September 2010, 2:13 pm
I have to say that this is probably the toughest photo project I’ve ever done. I personally feel I’ve gotten to a point where it becomes tougher and tougher to find something to take photos of on days when I don’t have something going on. Days off are easy as I can go out for a drive and find things, but the days where I wake up, do a few things then have to go to work are harder and harder.
I’m not giving up. I’ve come too far, that’s for sure. Yesterday was ...
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Sign of the times? 18 August 2010, 12:54 pm
I was flipping through the paper while eating this morning and was checking out the car ads, as I usually do.
I came across this:
2009 Lexus GS350 AWD.
$40,000
$659 per month
That’s for 72 months! That comes out to $47,448 when all said and done!
Now, I realize that people who would actually purchase this car could afford a $40,000 car. But $659 per month?? For 72 months?? In this economy and job market, I couldn’t imagine that it would be wise to get into something like this, jus...
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HooHaa TB Race: Quarter Two 16 August 2010, 12:53 pm
The results are in for the second quarter of the HooHaa TB Race 2.
Remember, we give one prize per quarter for the TB that travels the most miles during that quarter. People can’t win a quarterly prize more than once, so bhouston21’s TB is not eligible after he won the first quarter.
Drumroll please…
The winner of the second quarter mileage is Trip Cyclone’s Winner By Force, which jumped 5,575.2 miles to take the overall lead with 6328.7 miles.
Second for the quarter was ...
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Ireland: the recap 13 August 2010, 11:12 pm
It struck me that I hadn’t written about Ireland on here. I wanted to share some things with the trip and such with everyone, so I’ll do a shorter version of what I wrote as a Lifestyles feature for the paper.
In fact, I’m going to just number a few things that I did in Ireland to highlight.
One thing if for sure, if anyone ever gets the chance to visit Ireland, I would highly recommend doing it. I had an absolute blast and look forward to doing it again one day. Though I&...
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HooHaa TB race update upcoming… 8 August 2010, 12:17 am
The second quarter is in the books!
I’ve put down on the mileage and over the next week, I’ll do the math to see who won the second quarter and post the up-to-date results.
Then it’s on to quarter No. 3!
Some of the travelers are stagnant right now, but I thought mine had disappeared last year and it made a late-run to make it a close race at the end — so don’t lose hope!
More later!
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Adding states and other fun things 5 August 2010, 2:18 pm
I have a week off from work next week.
Unfortunately, it’s without pay, but such is the life of a company-mandated furlough. That being said, it’s a good week to have it as I have some things to catch up on and have some short travel plans I’d like to do.
One thing is for sure — I plan on taking at least one day to write up the syllabus for classes this spring and get it up to the school’s printer so I have them when classes start in a few weeks. But enough of the w...
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Life as it should be 23 July 2010, 2:09 am
Maine is the winner.
After much research and everything else, I’ve decided I’m going to go to Maine in the fall. My goal is to leave on a Thursday afternoon (I would leave early, but with teaching classes…) and drive/cache my way to Portland, Maine and spend a night there.
The next day, I’ll cache my way to Bar Harbor, hopefully arriving mid-afternoon.
That will give me two full days in Bar Harbor/Acadia National Park. I don’t plan on sleeping in, either, so I’...
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Which way to go…? 20 July 2010, 1:32 am
When I arrived back from Ireland and my first day back to work, I had to re-submit a timecard I had submitted before I went on vacation. While there, I asked about remaining vacation time so I knew for sure what was left.
Turns out I have an extra week (not even a furlough!) of paid vacation this year.
So, I’m going to try and find a weekend in October where I don’t have any games to cover and I can take off from a Thursday to a Tuesday. The goal will be to leave Thursday after class...
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Things… 11 July 2010, 1:56 pm
OK, I’ve not had an update in a while.
First, the winners of the contests.
The winner of the geocache guess — which she got perfect with 40 — was SudsyMaggie. Congrats on that pathtag!
The winner of the Pubs guess — again with a perfect guess of 18 — was Geonarcissa!
Congrats to each of you. Shoot me an e-mail with your address (if you haven’t already) so I can send you out your tag.
For those who didn’t win, check back in a day or so — I have a ...
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A ‘lil HooHaa: Contest 1 21 June 2010, 12:55 pm
Wanna win something? How about my new Ireland pathtag?
Here’s what it looks like:
Pretty sweet tag, eh?
This is a simple contest — and my first one! This will run just about a week, so you have a little time to come up with an educated guess as to the answer.
But wait! There’s more! You can win ANOTHER pathtag! Actually, two people can win, depending on how good your guesses are. Because I don’t know how many responses I will get with my first contest, here̵...
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The Fifth Annual Spring Kickoff 2010 28 March 2010, 10:05 am
Well, they did it again. The Fifth Annual Spring Kickoff to Geocaching was a huge, no, a HUGE, success! There were 175 Geocachers that attended the event from 112 Geocaching teams! It’s getting bigger every year!
Canuck and Finn were kept very busy at the registration table getting everyone logged in:
It was a great time as we mingled about, chatted, laughed and relaxed with friends old and new. Stories were swapped, tales were told and plans were made for the upcoming months. The atmosph...
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A Shubie Sunday Five For Five 8 February 2010, 11:10 am
The past several weeks of cold weather broke and our schedule was as clear as the azure blue sky above us. We took the opportunity to finally get back out Geocaching after a five month hiatus and it felt great! Really great!
We decided to go to Shubie Park since there had been some new caches placed since we were there last. Shubie is one of our favorite local parks with lots of intertwined trails.
We started our trek near the camping area and then down through the lock system, into the no-leas...
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It’s Official! Maritime Mega Is A Go! 29 January 2010, 8:21 am
The Maritime Mega Event is now officially a go!
Groundspeak has just posted the official event page and we are ecstatic!
The event will be held in Dayspring, just an hour or so away from Nova Scotia’s capital city of Halifax on July 10th, 2010 and it is being held in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Geocaching in Canada.
On June 28, 2000 the first Geocache in Canada was placed in East River, Nova Scotia, just miles from the event site! GCBBA is still active and attracts many Geocac...
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Caching At Blomidon Provincial Park 26 August 2009, 4:55 pm
Prior to having to leave the Blomidon Provincial Park because of Hurricane Bill we had the chance to do some caching along the Jodrey, Woodland and Bordon Brook trails. These trails lead to and meet at the Look Off Trail which, once at the end, offers a fantastic view of the Minas Basin.
Our hike took us up the Jodrey Trail, then out on to the Look-off Trail and then we came back down the Woodlands Trail and then on to Borden Brook Trail.
The Look-off Trail is a short trail, only 1.6 km (1 mi....
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Atlantic Geofest 2009 And Hurricane Bill 24 August 2009, 7:15 pm
The old adage about ‘short and sweet’ was never more true than this year’s GeoFest. With the impending arrival of Hurricane Bill the festivities were cut a bit short BUT a great time was still had by all!
As with Geofests of the past Atlantic GeoFest 2009 was held at Blomidon, a Provincial Park located on the cliffs of the North Mountain, overlooking the Minas Basin, here in Nova Scotia. With over 1800 acres of natural attractions, majestic trees, trails and wildlife the park ...
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Cape Breton Highlands Park Event 21 July 2009, 9:22 am
We had a wonderful time this past weekend at the Cape Breton Highlands Park Event that was held in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park here in Nova Scotia.
The 950 square kilometer (590 sq mi) Cape Breton Highlands National Park with its spectacular highlands and ocean scenery is located on Cape Breton Island, on the northeast tip of Nova Scotia, Canada. The world-famous scenic highway, the Cabot Trail, runs through the park.
The event was part of the park’s First Annual Geocaching We...
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Geocaching In Beautiful Santa Fe, NM 9 July 2009, 8:58 am
On our trip to New Mexico last month we also got a chance to spend a day Geocaching in beautiful Santa Fe.
Santa Fe is New Mexico’s state capital and the fourth largest city in the state.
It’s about an hour’s drive North of Albuquerque by car but since we didn’t have a car we hopped aboard the Rail Runner Express at the Alvarado Transportation Center on 1st Street and Central Avenue in Albuquerque.
This turned out to be one of the best values that we had ever got, anywh...
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Geocaching At Sandia Mountain, NM 6 July 2009, 2:34 pm
In addition to going to the Geocaching Event that we told you about in our previous post we also got out to do a bit of caching while in Albuqueurque.
One of the places that we wanted to visit while we were in New Mexico was the Sandia Mountains via the Sandia Peak Tramway.
The Sandia Peak Tramway is the world’s longest passenger aerial tramway. It also has the world’s third longest single span. It stretches from the Northeast edge of the city of Albuquerque to the crestline of the ...
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The NM Geocachers Are Awesome! 2 July 2009, 9:37 am
We just returned home from a fantastic week in New Mexico and during our trip we were able to meet up with an awesome bunch of local Geocachers at a Meet and Greet event in Albuquerque.
The New Mexico Geocachers are so hospitable and accommodating that we’re still talking about it!
Here’s how it all began…
A couple of months ago we made plans to visit New Mexico, in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe area. One of the first things we did after our flight and hotel arrangements were ma...
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Geocaching At The Halifax Dingle 11 June 2009, 11:39 am
Recently we had a chance to do a bit of Geocaching at the Dingle. Now, although the word ‘dingle’ means “a small wooded valley, a shady dell, a narrow cleft between hills”, here in Halifax it refers to the Sir Sandford Fleming Park, or simply, Fleming Park.
Locally, the term ‘Dingle’ is also synonymous with the Dingle Tower, the landmark ten-story tower located in the park, which serves as a memorial to the development of parliamentary institutions in the Bri...
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Ojai Road 2 September 2010, 10:15 pm
Heading north from Ventura, you go through the quaint town of Ojai, then on to a lovely curving highway that winds gently up and over the mountains and eventually into the western San Joaquin Valley. As it heads on through the valley, this highway, 33, is a secluded alternative to I-5, and I like to take it when I can to avoid truck traffic. The section just north of Ojai was somewhat recently caked with caches, and I finally took the opportunity to go get ‘em on two separate days over t...
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Big Bear Escape 27 August 2010, 12:22 am
She took a deep breath, slowly exhaling, and willing the tension out of her back and shoulders. The hot mug of coffee felt comforting in her hands. She took a careful sip, and relished it’s smoky aftertaste. A siren broke the silence, so she said a quick prayer for the intrepid group that was racing off somewhere to the rescue. It was odd to hear that sound in this quiet, small town. In a few seconds, the normal peaceful sounds of birds and wind in the pines were once more the dominant mus...
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Revisiting a Favorite: Towsley Canyon 19 August 2010, 12:37 pm
This park is about 10 miles north of where I live and lies between the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys. The air is always crystal clear, as the coastal fog and inland inversion layer never get to this particular canyon. There are a variety of trails to follow, some strenuous, some not so hard, so I can easily design my workout for each excursion. Last week, I took a shorter, mostly flat hike along the path that heads south from the parking lot and went about a half mile to one of my fa...
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Unusual Structures in Glendale 12 August 2010, 12:28 pm
I like to keep an eye out for uniqueness in any given area, and Glendale yielded three special buildings to my lens as I cache around the city with f0t0m0m and OLdweeb. The first was this lovely mission/adobe style train station, a modern expression of classic California architecture:
Pardon Me Boys…
We got there just in time to see the Metrorail train come and go:
This “temporary” building has housed a church in the middle of a giant parking lot for several years now:
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Big Number, Big Birds 6 August 2010, 12:09 am
The Ventura Kids found their 23,000th cache last weekend at this cache – 126 on 126:#111: View of the highway, and I was there to document the momentous occasion:
15 seconds later:
There’s never a dull moment when caching with these guys. Why is f0t0m0m laughing? Did Sandy just drop the cache down the pole? OOOPSie….
Yes, we replaced it, of course! As a fellow klutz, I like the design of this cache, as it can’t fall down in a pole:
Just today, I had a great time ...
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Vegas, Baby! 29 July 2010, 12:30 pm
I spent 9 days in Vegas learning about real estate investing and how to be a successful enterpreneur. In between the smorgasbord of information and networking, I grabbed a few caches near the hotel. All of them were nicely hidden:
It’s not easy being Green in Vegas
"Say Goodnight, Gracie…"
The Gates that won’t close
One Tree on The Planet
Vegas is fun at night:
… but it’s also quite striking on a quiet Monday morning:
I capped off my geocaching wee...
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Tools Of The Trade 23 July 2010, 11:55 am
Also known at TOTTs, we each use some standard ones to access caches and the logs, such as tweezers, nut on a string, water, grabber, magnet, screwdriver, flashlight, etc. This week, I’m featuring some of the more truly unusual equipment that I and my caching compadres use.
JAMES BOND DYNAMIC SUPER SPY EXPANDO LADDER
David T and Fisherwoman has one:
SWISS ARMY CARD
f0t0m0m keeps at least one of these in his pocket:
INDISPENSIBLE HEAVY DUTY BENDY WIRE
AgouraCharger found this on the grou...
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Can I Break the Habit? … er, Streak? 15 July 2010, 12:55 pm
Today would be Day 115, and I still have not broken the cache-a-day streak! I do expect that eventually the streak would be broken by life’s scheduling and circumstances, so I’m thinking that I should break it deliberately and with a bit of a flourish instead.
Last night I attended our monthly event in Woodland Hills after finding 40 of the closest caches to my house. This effectively clears out the easy ones that I’ve been relying on to maintain my streak. If I can resist t...
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How to Go Caching With Me 8 July 2010, 11:50 am
Just get something at Cafepress with my logo on it!
Here are some samples:
I tried to pick the products that work best with my logo; please let me know how they look on whatever you order.
I still have plenty of my 2006 geocoins for sale as well.
Bronze = $5
Silver = $10
Gold = $20
I even have some sets of the silver and gold! Each set of four includes one each of mine, Team Alamo, Ventura Kids, and dgreno, the ORIGINAL 4 of the top obsessed geocachers.
You can get those from me personally R...
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The Welcome Road Home 6 July 2010, 1:15 am
Wow – the week is already up and this is the last long day of my road trip to Seattle. I’m relaxed and exhausted at the same time. Perhaps it’s because I took a detour to Pluto this afternoon:
Vgr1 – Pluto
Can you find the cache?
The best part about that planet are the fresh apricots!
Aaahhh… time to get back home and back to the kitties! Time to get back to the regular weekly blog installments, too… Onward in to the summer!
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More Numbers 28 August 2010, 12:39 pm
(Image via Wikipedia)Groundspeak is encouraging all able-bodied cachers to get out there and cache on Sunday, October 10th, to celebrate 10-10-10 and 10 years of geocaching. The following item was taken from the weekly Groundspeak newsletter:
Plan to Go Geocaching on 10-10-10
We want to see how many geocachers can go geocaching on a single day! We've chosen 10-10-10, since the date represents 10 years of geocaching and 10 years of Groundspeak in 2010. Bring your friends, br...
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Getting Out 21 August 2010, 1:52 pm
I'm afraid I don't have any good techno tips this week, so instead, I decided just to share my recent cache outing in Anthony Chabot Regional Park, which is nestled away in the hills of Oakland, California. This park is chock full of caches, and it has the added bonus of being very mountain bike friendly. So I packed up my bike and my GPSr, and off I went.
Hard to believe you are smack-dab in the middle of a densely populated urban region of more than 7 million people when you are in this ...
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Challenges Galore 14 August 2010, 5:48 pm
A while ago, I posted an overview of Challenge Caches, and listed some of the old standbys like the USGS Quadrangle Challenges, DeLorme Challenges, County Challenges, and the Fizzy Challenge. These were, and still are, the hallmarks of Challenge Caches, which may be one reason they continue to be so popular and enduring.
Recently, however, I've started noticing new types of Challenge Caches emerging that are more geographically confined than those listed above, and some that even incorpo...
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GSAK, The Next Generation 7 August 2010, 3:20 pm
Image via WikipediaA new version of the Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) program was released this week. While version 7.7.2 includes some minor enhancements and bug fixes, it isn't necessarily a major update of the software. What is interesting about this version, is that it requires existing registered GSAK owners to use a newly-assigned serial number, as the old unique registration number we've always had will no longer be valid. So if you are a current GSAK user, make sure you refer back t...
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Thank You, Oh Mighty v4.0.1 31 July 2010, 1:17 pm
You may have caught one of my recent rants about problems with loading pocket queries on the Geocaching iPhone application after the release of version 4.0. In short, any time I tried to load a PQ containing more than 500 cache listings, the application crashed.
Well either I really frightened Groundspeak, or plenty of other people were having the same problem (more likely, the latter), but this issue seems to have been fixed with the release of version 4.0.1 this week. There are abo...
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New Park, New Caches 24 July 2010, 3:15 pm
With over 100,000 acres of parks, trails, and open space land all within a two-county area in the densely populated San Francisco Bay Area, the East Bay Regional Park District has created a true oasis for hikers, bikers, equestrians, and of course, geocachers. Since 1934, the Park District has been acquiring and preserving publicly-accessible, recreational land for residents of and visitors to Alameda and Contra Costa counties in northern California. Keeping true to their mission, they just...
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Muggle Cards 18 July 2010, 1:57 pm
Annoying muggles got you down? Tired of being bombarded with inane questions like, "what are you looking for?", or, "what's that thing in your hand?", or, "how come you keep tying your shoe?"?
Well, Scrivner might have what you need: Geocaching Muggle Cards. Instead of hopelessly trying to explain to your standard muggle the finer points of geocaching, just hand them one of these, and then politely tell them to get lost so you can get on with your business.
Cache On!...
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It's Not You, It's Me, version 4.0 10 July 2010, 4:44 pm
I'm sure you are all aware that Groundspeak released version 4.0 of their popular Geocaching iPhone application this week. This major upgrade adds a number of user-requested features including a functionally redesigned user interface and Google Maps integration. Users can also take photos with the iPhone camera and submit them with their logs. Geocachers can also submit logs for trackable items now. There's also an online/offline indicator, and a GPS acquisition status display. Yo...
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GeoWoodstock VIII, Live 3 July 2010, 12:49 pm
If you are one of the unlucky ones like me who is unable to attend GeoWoodstock VIII in Carnation, Washington today, you can attend virtually by following some of these geocachers on Twitter as they post updates throughout the day:
First, search the hashtag, #GW8
And then, follow some of these folks today:
@SudsyMaggie
@mo11ymonkey
@webscouter
@NevadaWolf
@NetworkCacher
@darrylw4
@TripCyclone
@GaryPaulson
@AnthonyFloyd
@CacheAdvance
@iJenQ
@geezfools
@TheBadCop
@podcacher
And finall...
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Get Off My Lawn 27 June 2010, 3:31 pm
Don't get me wrong, I'm generally a pretty laid back, easy-going guy. But as I get older, I'm finding that the grumpy old man stereotype and I have a lot more in common. My latest gripe: the amount of time it takes to locate a geocache on Groundspeak's Geocaching iPhone Application.
Sure, I understand that one of the primary features of the app. is the ability to use a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi positioning and cell towers to determine your approximate location, and then tell you which geo...
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The Hard Part Begins 28 August 2010, 5:38 pm
In the past, I've always tried to have some kind of goals for my hobby. If I don't have goals, I don't seem to have as much enjoyment at it. This year, one of my goals started later in the year. I had been looking at some challenge caches and thought about some of the goals I could set for myself to get those challenge caches.A personal goal for me was to "fill" the calendar, that is, find a cache on any date where I hadn't found a cache before. I figured it wouldn't be t...
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Prescribed burns 25 August 2010, 8:50 pm
I think I'm rather fortunate at this point in time to be back at school. Working in an air conditioned building right now is a good thing when the outside temperature is around 104˚. The heat always gets me thinking about fires since this is also our "fire" season. This wouldn't necessarily be the case if we didn't have nutcases who get a thrill out of starting fires and if we'd had a better fire management system in place over the past 100 years or so.When we visited Lassen l...
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Better late than never? 21 August 2010, 5:30 pm
As usual, Wile E. Coyote showed up a little late and looking a little worse for wear. My wife came home from work yesterday and saw this guy taking a snooze in the grass directly across the street from our house. The only reason it got up was because our neighbor had just walked out into the driveway and gotten in his car.I was able to get a couple of pictures taken before this one went around the vegetation to the right in the picture and disappeared. When I went over to investigate, it eith...
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Meep! Meep! 17 August 2010, 11:20 pm
I came home this afternoon from work to a very nice surprise in my front yard. I'd actually taken a different route home, since I was low on gas. I'd stopped at my nearby gas station and came toward from my house from the south as opposed to the north from the freeway. I think if I'd come from the north, I might have scared the bird away. Anyway, as I approached my house, I saw a rather large animal walking across my front yard and then saw it stop on the sidewalk in fron...
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The Sundial Bridge 15 August 2010, 6:42 pm
The Turtle Bay Museum in Redding, CA had a lot of nifty features about it that make it stand out as a high quality museum, one that a person would want to come back to often. The Tadpole and I explored a large quantity of the museum, but didn't even scratch the surface of the arboretum which was north of the museum, across the Sacramento River.The arboretum is connected to the museum by way of a bridge. However, this bridge isn't just any bridge, but a sundial as well. Yes, you...
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Surprises in the mail 11 August 2010, 11:21 pm
Most of the mail we get these days are bills. Email has become so prevalent, that we rarely get any written correspondence from anyone, so when something does come in the mail, we usually are surprised. Most of what I get in written correspondence are postcards. I belong to a website called Postcrossing. The premise is pretty simple - send a postcard, receive a postcard from somewhere in the world a little bit later on. The more you send, the more you receive. I've ...
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Duck, Duck, Goose 7 August 2010, 6:22 pm
When we're camping, every so often, the Tadpole and I take time out from Geocaching, just to enjoy what's near us. In the case of Lassen, it was Manzanita Lake, a gorgeous body of water right next door to the campground where we were camped. One of the days we were there, we decided to hike around the lake, a 1.8 mile loop, plus walk to and from our campsite, probably put it close to two and a half miles.Since we were walking around a like, the terrain, for the most part was very fla...
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A "Maze" ing 4 August 2010, 8:35 pm
Long before we'd planned our summer camping trip, we knew the GPS Maze exhibit was going to be in Redding throughout this summer. After I pointed this out to the Tadpole early in the springtime, he stated he wanted to visit it, so I started planning our vacation around Redding. With Lassen National Park, just an hour or so to the east, it was a no brainer to figure out where we were going to camp, and at that point, things started to fall into place.Later one, I found out that Chaosm...
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Lava Beds 2 August 2010, 8:05 pm
As noted in my last post, a straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points. That could not be more apparent than the route we took to get from Lassen Volcanic National Park up to Lava Beds National Monument. Although the monument is almost exactly due north from Lassen, the route to get there takes you northwest, then northeast, then northwest again. That's just the way the roads go up there. Finally, there's that little decision about which entrance to ta...
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Straight Line Caching 30 July 2010, 8:50 pm
Every now and then, you run across a cache where you think you're smarter than the cache owner. I've had that happen on one of my caches, where I wanted cache finders to come in one way, but they came in another way. To be perfectly honest, I hadn't even explored that possibility when I hide the cache. I've gone in both ways and they both are adventures, although adventures of a different kind. One is a nice trail, the other requires more bushwhacking.The Tadpole and I ra...
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Next Season of GeoSnippits on Michigan Magazine TV Starts This September 27 August 2010, 4:17 pm
To say that I am excited about filming the next season of GeoSnippits for Michigan Magazine TV is a complete understatement. I am down right geeked about it. It is so cool to be part of the Michigan Magazine TV family and having the ability to reach out to geocachers in all 50 states is a real working pleasure. Last season we made 26 episodes and expect to make at least that this year as well. I want to thank MMTV's host and co-creator Barry Stutesman for the opportunity to spread the word. Enjo...
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Bulgaria Geocaching Commercial - That's some funny right there... 25 August 2010, 8:52 am
This You Tube video was sent to me by Ivelin Mollov and is a geocaching commercial for Bulgaria. You have to see it to believe...Here is the link if the viewer is not above:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcLczyK1hUGeoCache: I'm NOT Obsessed... Right?http://headhardhat-geocache.blogspot.com/-------------------------------------------------------Twitter me at@headhardhatPlease don't forget to visit our GeoSnippits Geocaching Tutorial Videos Website athttp://www.geosnippits.comSee all our Geocachi...
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Travel Bug Wolfgang Von PitterPat is now in Europe 25 August 2010, 8:06 am
On an April day in 2008. I believe the sun was shining and the air smelled of honeysuckle. My then 11 year old daughter looked at me with her crystal blue eyes and said, "Daddy, Wolfgang Von PitterPat is going to be okay, right?"I smiled at my child and said, "Why sure darling, this little travel bug will see the world and go places you might want to visit some day. It will be just fine." So we took little Wolfgang (a Chinstrap Penguin) to it's first drop off point which was one of my nearby geo...
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GeoSnippits: Making Your Own Emergency Geocaching Repair Kit - EGRK 24 August 2010, 3:15 pm
It happens in geocaching, when you walk up to a geocache and find it in need of repair. If you are like me you hate to see swag, log books, travel bugs and geocoins getting damaged because the geocache they reside in is allowing the elements to get in. Wouldn't it be great to have a self made kit that contains items where you could fix the geocache until the owner could come out and replace it? The GeoSnippits video below shows you just how you can do that.If you cannot see the viewer above, cl...
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Too Cute For Words - Micah Makes An HHH Fire Hydrant Geocache 24 August 2010, 11:39 am
This is just too cute. If you have ever listened to the Geocaching Podcast with host XpunkX and Darrylw4 you will hear much and many valuable insights about geocaching. Yesterday XpunkX sent me this 20 second video of his son Micah just after making one of my Fire Hydrant geocaches. I smiled ear to ear when I saw this. Just click the link below to see it.Micah Fire Hydrant Geocache Video LinkBe sure to stop on by the Geocaching Podcast for some great geocaching insights - http://geocachingpodcas...
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Adding Some New Geocoins To My Collection 2 August 2010, 5:04 pm
I do not get the chance all that often to add to my ever growing geocoin collection. Yet when I do I am a kid in a candy store. To date I have over one hundred geocoins and growing. Today in the mail I have now added four more and put one extra into my unregistered pile for trading or possible swag. These particular geocoins were purchased from the Geocoin Store and the Geocoin Club (GCC) of which I am a member.Wanna see? Well of course you do. Geocoins are one of the points of interest that ...
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Geocaching Wales: Read About Our Fellow UK Geocachers on the Other Side of the Pond 26 July 2010, 10:58 am
I get a lot of requests to add or swap links with fellow geocachers all around the world. Some are quite good and some not so much. Because of that I am a bit picky as to what I add to my blog list. The blog I am going to show you now is very much in the good read category and it comes from some of our fellow geocachers in the UK. It's called Geocaching Wales and even though the geocacher who created it (Dayle Rees) is relatively new to the game he already has two writing contributors Nitroglys...
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Walking Up to a Trashed Geocache 22 July 2010, 2:09 pm
It is sad when walking up to a geocache that has been trashed or worse. It's easy to blame muggles but other factors can cause it. For example the weather, including wind and flooding. Snow and ice have been known to move or crush a geocache. Then there are the animals who just love getting into or carting off a container. Many times a flimsy or poor quality container can become easy pickings. As in this case a cheaper Glad container was used and what looks like a squirrel knocked it out of it's...
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Geocoin Proxies: Some Things Need To Be The Real Thing 21 July 2010, 3:20 pm
What I really enjoy about geocaching in general is the creativity of our fellow geocachers. The way many of us strive to make the game, sport and obsession better through subtle adaptations. I heartily agree with most of them but not necessarily about this. I am talking about Proxy Geocoins. What are those you may ask? Geocoin proxies are cheap representations of an original geocoin that is sent out into the wild to represent the geocoin itself. A carbon copy if you will, except many times not e...
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West Virginia Rest Area Park and Grab. 18 July 2010, 1:04 pm
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27 August 2010, 9:15 am
Mary and I have been counting down the days until vacation time, and now that time is just about here. Tomorrow we leave for a kayaking trip in the Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin on Lake Superior. If you're a long-time reader of this blog, you may recall we kayaked the Apostles three years ago. On that trip, wifi hot spots were more rare than they are now. Nonetheless, I will be getting some help during the week from a fellow volunteer reviewer, so Iowa geocachers, don't be surprised...
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Churning 19 August 2010, 5:46 pm
If you haven't checked out the brouhaha going on in the Groundspeak forums about a pair of geocaches that I reviewed, you should take a look. Apparently a friend of the cache owner objects to the fact that I wouldn't publish two caches that his friend submitted. The caches were not new. They were simply renamed versions of his existing caches, which he had recently archived so he could resubmit them. When stock brokers buy and sell a client's portfolio simply to inflate their commission, it's ca...
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Appreciation Event 23 July 2010, 11:17 am
Mary and I had a great time at the IowaAdmin appreciation event last Saturday. As I told Bucknuts, the event organizer, I'm having a hard time getting my hats to fit my head as a result of all the attention. Geocachers are the ones who make this hobby so much fun. I'm just glad to have a role that lets me be so involved with the activity and which gives me the opportunity to correspond and meet so many fun people. Here's a video from Team Gamsci (I didn't realize how boring a speaker I can be.)h...
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23 July 2010, 11:07 am
I received the following email this week:Hiya,I can't find a contact button on your blog, go figure.I was wondering if you could post some photos on your blog of what the "reviewer interface" looks like and what all that cache reviewers do from when they get the cache to when they click the publish button. And here's my response: Thanks for your inquiry. Unfortunately, I can't share the type of information you're asking for. Groundspeak does not want its volunteer reviewers to r...
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Iowa geocacher busterbabes in Groundspeak video 13 July 2010, 10:35 pm
Congratulations to Iowa geocacher busterbabes for her appearance in Groundspeak's Lost & Found Celebration video at Groundspeak headquarters in Seattle. Very nicely done. It looks like it was a great event. Did any other Iowa geocachers make the trip out there?...
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Door prizes 12 July 2010, 9:27 am
To encourage some of you who may be sitting on the fence about attending the geocaching get-together this Saturday in Des Moines, I'll be bringing some geocoins to give away as door prizes....
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A reviewer appreciation meet & greet in Des Moines 1 July 2010, 8:43 am
Geocacher bucknuts has organized a Reviewer Appreciation Day for July 17 in Des Moines at Boston's pizza place on University. I think this event was inspired by one held in Georgia in May, which was attended by three of my fellow reviewers. I'm very flattered that bucknuts would want to do this, and I'm even more honored that some geocachers have already signed up to attend. I may even convince my wife to attend. It should be a fun event. I hope to see you there!...
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Jones County geocaching policy and permit form 3 June 2010, 9:59 am
Jones County now has a geocaching policy, apparently since the beginning of 2009. So if you are placing a geocache there, you'll first need to obtain the permit from Jones County. Here's a link to the form. I also added this link in my list in the right column of this blog. My thanks to geocacher BlueDuece for drawing this to my attention....
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Another Okoboji weekend 30 May 2010, 10:19 am
It's Memorial Day weekend so that means we're at Okoboji for the 24th consecutive year. While here, my wifi coverage is weak so don't expect at lot of caches to get published this weekend. I'll get caught up as the week progresses....
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A great 10 years of geocaching event 6 May 2010, 11:18 pm
I enjoyed my time at GC22TB1 10 Years! Cedar Rapids Area this past Saturday. I know everyone says this about geocaching events, but it truly is fun to put faces with the names that you see online. The group hike in the woods to find a couple of geocaches that afternoon was also a lot of fun. Thanks for Super Goober for organizing it and inviting me to tag along. Here are a few photos from the day....
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What happens when the FDIC comes to town 1 September 2010, 12:27 am
Its been a long time between blogs. I've had like 9 finds though so it hasn't been all bad geocaching wise.As many of you know I worked for Home Valley Bank the last 8 years and it was taken over by the FDIC on July 23. I didn't lose my job so to say, but I definitely have a much different one. I lost a fair amount of money in the process both in 401k and personal stock I had. Needless to say the last 90 days haven't been fun. The month of June hoping that nothing happens. The Month of July prep...
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4th of July 6 July 2010, 12:03 am
Yesterday Daveydude and I went north to Roseburg to find a few caches. Little did the founding fathers know that 234 years later the British and Americans would get along and use Military satellites to find Tupperware hidden in the woods.We started with Galesville Reservoir finding the newest caches there and deciding not to put my little inflatable raft in the water. Then on up the freeway. I found 32 caches, but had 11 DNFs. One cache we left a replacement so that was really a DNF as well. We ...
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House Painted 19 June 2010, 8:43 pm
I got my house painted this last week check it outBeforeAfter...
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Backlog of stuff 15 May 2010, 8:48 pm
It has been a while since I blogged. I have a small backlog of cache, event and videoLast weekend was the A Salute to State of Jefferson Cachers event. Rock and Crystal put this one on for the second year in a row. I was able to attend this year, but last year it was on the day of my March of Dimes walk. It was a lot of fun to see everyone.At the event Turner asked if I had found the cache outside my window yet. It seems someone hid one in the park behind the bank and I didn't even realize. So ...
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Reno 3 May 2010, 12:23 pm
I got back from Reno yesterday. I didn't find a single cache. The only one I searched for was either missing or very well hiddenSouvenir Penny CacheThis cache was on or near the old Reno arch. It had another DNF the same day.Besides that I had a lot of fun. Had a good weekend gambling. I entered a Omaha Poker tournament at the Peppermill. 18 players and they paid the top 3. It wasn't a no limit game, but none the less I was so short stacked when it got down to the last 6 players I ended up havin...
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A new look 27 April 2010, 1:14 pm
You may have noticed that I changed my blog template again. I was still happy with the old one, but had to change it so that youtube HD videos would not be chopped off. Future geocaching videos will probably all be in HD so it had to change. I was not happy with the choices available, I finally settled on one of the most simple and changed the colors to something more geocaching appropriate then the default black and white.Thursday I will be leaving for Reno. I am going with non-geocachers so I ...
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March for Babies 25 April 2010, 1:24 pm
This is what its like...
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Silver Lake 23 April 2010, 11:07 am
Kind of late on bloging my trip to Silver Lake. We went to have dinner at the Cowboy Dinner Tree for my dad's upcoming b-day. On the way over we found a few caches. Maybe later I'll post some pictures of the place.These were the finds for the day:TURNABOUTROCKPILESOL-MANS DASH2A Brief RespiteSand Creek GuardSilver CreekThe "Desert Rose"No guards todayWhat DO cattle guard?...
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The 2k pillow 12 April 2010, 2:29 pm
Saturday was the Catch Duck-N-Deedy before they leave!!! event. Obviously Duck was there before they go to the coast later this month. It was a pretty good turnout and we had the cafe to ourselves. DrDan also handed me the beloved 2000 Find Pillow. I'm not sure how the pillow got started but it has been around a while. It has the names of all the Southern Oregon cachers to reach 2000 finds. I hope to pass it on soon.After the event I ran into Beaver Lover, Peanuthead, and Iseek. So I tagged alon...
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#2000 4 April 2010, 5:24 pm
I found my 2000th cache today.Hellooo !!It was a nice hike in the Elk Trails system. Nice views all around and a good size cache. What more can you ask for. I hope more of my next 1000 can be like this.Hope to have the video up soon....
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Mr. Dewey Retires 26 February 2010, 11:09 pm
Paging Mr. Dewey was my first shot at a library hide. Over the course of 16 months Mr. Dewey had 31 visitors and picked up a local award nomination. That's not too shabby considering it took a good hour to solve. Here's how Mr. Dewey worked: A commemorative plaque in the landscape was used to decode a call number for a book in the reference section. The book was actually a binder with many copies of this worksheet. A variety of really cool reference books were used to complete the workshee...
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Geocaching Passport 5 December 2009, 1:44 am
Pssst...wanna earn a free custom geocoin? Visit my local park district and pick up a Geocaching Passport. Then run around town and find geocaches in parks you may have otherwise missed. Collect at least eight of the unique stamps in your passport and return it for a sweeeet Crystal Lake Park District geocoin. Details are here. Another example is here. Find treasure in parks!...
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Geocaching 101 7 July 2009, 9:35 pm
I know it's hard to believe, but some people have no idea what "geocaching" means. For the clueless, here's a simple illustration. ...
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Hats Off to Caching 21 May 2009, 10:49 pm
I think geocaching is the greatest thing since pre-sliced bread. It’s an excuse to go hiking, take pictures, be creative, be crafty, blog, journal, do some creative writing, be alone or meet people, learn history, solve puzzles, get dirty, or just add a little more adventure to life. What’s it worth to you to feel just a bit like Santa when you trade up, or walk into the woods empty-handed and return with a bag of trash? I love finding caches that take me places and show me things I would h...
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Ticks Bite, Mosquitos Suck, and Soggy Logs Stink 22 April 2009, 10:53 pm
Fact: Geocaching needs more clip art. Fact: Short statements of truth can be funny. Truths: ticks bite, mosquitos suck, and soggy logs stink. Good luck avoiding this unholy trinity of scourges. Grab these great big versions for your everyday use: ticks, mosquitos, logs....
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Geocoin Holders 3 April 2009, 8:32 pm
No wimply plastic sleaves here! These geocoins are earmarked for globetrotting so they got the bulletproof-treatment. First some wooden puzzle pieces got personal with a hole saw. Then the travel itinerary was posted on their backsides with some heavy stock paper. The geocoins got glued in and then the entire beast was slathered in clear sealer. Aleene's Clear Gel Tacky Glue did the deed. Now these four animal ambassadors are on their way to Germany. Auf Wiedersehen!...
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All I Need 29 March 2009, 9:27 pm
Food. Drink. GPSr. What else do you really need? This image on a t-shirt might earn you a one-way ticket out the front door, but you can dream can't you? Wear it with pride or in confession. Get it in reverse for an iron-on here. ...
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Waterproof Log Books 28 March 2009, 11:33 pm
I've been making my own waterproof log books for a year now. Two hundred sheets of Rite-in-the-Rain paper ran me $30. So my average 12 page 3"x5.5" log book costs 60 cents and I can publish 50 of them. Of course, all my covers are custom, but here's a generic template for the masses (i.e. all four of you who read this blog). Cover. Lines. Print, cut, fold, staple, and then reinforce the spines like this: Fold a strip of 1/2"waterproof first-aid tape over the top. If the tape's adhesive is lame o...
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I Cache Semaphore 28 March 2009, 10:45 pm
Looking for a way to communicate with sailors and boy scouts? Try semaphore. Everyone else will have to ask you what this means. It says, "I cache." Put it on a t-shirt and hit the trails. Here is the reverse image for your iron-on....
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I am Iron Man 27 February 2009, 11:02 pm
Here's some ink you may actually want on your shirt. Custom geocaching iron-ons make sweeeet swag. Print up a batch (remember to reverse the image) and drop them in a ziplock with something sturdy like cardboard. Give yourself credit with this card...(back too). Renzo recommends creating a commemorative iron-on for finishing a series or attending an event. Looking for design ideas? Check your head and this site....
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HHH's Nano Resin Based Geocache Hides 24 August 2010, 3:06 pm
I want to thank Seth Jones who sent in a photograph a few weeks ago of a modified version of my bondo Evil Ant Hill geocache. You can see it here: ClickMe where you will note that instead of bondo, a resin was used to create the geocache. Over the weekend I wanted to see if I could make a geocache that was thinner than my ant hill geocache and use something really small like a nano. Below are the steps I took to make it. As usual I fully expect my readers to come up with a zillion versions of...
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HeadHardHat's EVIL Ant Hill Geocache 9 October 2009, 11:34 am
First and foremost I have to give credit to one of our GeoSnippits viewers TheWhiteCroe, who took me down this EVIL path by giving me the suggestion to see if a fake rock could be made out of bondo. I will be sending him an Official GeoSnippits pathtag for the suggestion. It all came out of trying to prototype the geocache in the first place. I started out very similar to how it is described in the video. I simply made some bondo and poured it out on top of the 35mm container. I observed how qu...
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GeoSnippits How To Make Your Own PVC Water Main Geocache 19 September 2009, 9:32 am
I don't know why I like making unusual geocache hosts out of PVC but I do know it is a whole lot of fun. This next example came to me while doing my normal walk through at the hardware store. I was thinking about how to make a really nice hide that would be very much waterproof.While strolling down the plumbing area I noticed the water main shutoff and the inspiration hit me. I have not seen this particular type of geocache before and even though the cost is a bit more this time the results I th...
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GeoSnippits Make Your Own PVC Hydrant Geocache 26 May 2009, 11:22 pm
The latest GeoSnippits Geocaching Tutorial Video went live on You Tube.This episode entitled "GeoSnippits Make Your Own PVC Hydrant Geocache" is a How To tutorial which gives you step by step instructions on making your own geocache out of some PVC pipe and other knick knacks found at your local hardware store.Also featured in this episode is the introduction to Emily the GeoPuppy who tests to make sure the hydrant geocache is up to puppy snuff.You can see the video via YouTube here:http://www.y...
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A Unique Geocache Container 7 April 2009, 11:24 pm
Indeed the title says it all on this cool geocache container.. Check out the video created by Chris Pine:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8gd7Nr-3Rs...
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Making Your Own Geocache Series: Size Small 29 March 2009, 10:28 pm
We had a lot of fun making this series and this episode will be very informative to many of new geocachers. It shows you how to choose, cammi, fill with swag and hide a small sized geocache. The tutorial gives hints on how to and how NOT to hide geocaches. Enjoy.Here is the video via YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piG1IjEYGKUBe sure to check out our GeoSnippits Website:http://www.geosnippits.com...
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How To Make Your Own 35mm Geocache Containers Tutorial Video 23 February 2009, 11:03 am
I woke up this morning with about ten different ideas for what I wanted to do for my next GeoSnippits Tutorial Video. I reached over and started reading my emails via my blackberry phone. Isn't technology wonderful?One of the first was an email from a very fine grandfather known as obxnomad a.k.a. Bob.He mentioned how his grandson and he loved watching GeoSnippits and reading my blog. He also mentioned how it would be great if I made a tutorial on how to put together and place a geocache. It too...
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GeoSnippits: How To Paint Geocaching Ammo Boxes 7 February 2009, 3:21 pm
We have so many ideas for doing different types of HowTo tutorials for GeoSnippits we can hardly contain ourselves. Today is an absolutely glorious day outside and the first thing I though of was "Lets make a video on painting Ammo Boxes!", yeah I am a little strange that way but I have been asked by so many to do this particular GeoSnippits I just had to. Besides it was finally back in the upper 60s and the paint would dry the way it was supposed to.Here is the end result and we hope it provide...
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GeoSnippits Tutorial Video: Make Your Own GeoCache with PVC Pipe 7 January 2009, 8:12 am
One of my first posts on this blog was an article about how to make your own clever Geocache by using PVC pipe. I received many nice compliments about it so I decided it was time to make the tutorial into a full blown GeoSnippits video.This two parter shows you step by step instructions on how to make a cache in a cache which looks like a water or air drainpipe.If you want a quick list of what you will need so you can follow along, use this:PVC Drainpipe Geocache:1 1.5" PVC pipe (8" - 12" long w...
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GeoSnippits - Video Discussing Paperless Geocaching: Part 2 24 December 2008, 2:04 am
Here is part two of a two part series of GeoSnippits Video tutorials about Paperless Geocaching. If you wait to the very end we even added a blooper for fun. Enjoy.You can get all of our GeoSnippits Tutorial Videos by going here:http://www.youtube.com/user/headhardhat...
