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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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Geocaching - It's Not About the Numbers 14 December 2008, 6:59 pm
Saturday was an unusually warm winter day. (It seems that we are in for a real chiller this year.) It's dropped 25 degrees so far today and is supposed to go down another 20 by tonight. Anyway, we decided to head back to the area that we tried two weeks ago when we got frozen out. Although there was four inches of fresh snow on the ground, some of the caches were labeled as "winter friendly". We figured that we'd get a few. But we had to pass on the first one. A bunch of kids were sleddin...
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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 plenty ...
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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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Anyone for a little (geo) golf? 26 June 2009, 1:54 pm
I got an unexpected Wednesday off a few weeks back and had enough time to plan a trip to Cortland to do a day of caching. This spot we went to is one a few of us have been eying for a while, so it was nice to do it.
The premise of the setup is this: This is about a four-mile stretch along the Finger Lakes Trail and on it, there are many caches. The theme is, pretty much, Caddyshack. The “course” is set up with names from the movie, which made it fun. There are other caches along the ...
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Getting my first 5-terrain 23 June 2009, 1:50 pm
I have a couple of interesting geocaching tales to share, so hopefully I can get these typed up over the next couple of days. I need to try and start doing this more daily!
Anyway, a few Wednesdays back, a couple of us made our way toward Hudson. The goal was simple — get a cache or two in one DeLorme square, thus closing that one out. It was a loner — mixed in with already found squares — so I really wanted to land it.
Off we went. But of course it was going to be more caches ...
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Parking coordinates and additional waypoints 8 June 2009, 12:01 pm
When you fill out a form to create a new cache at geocaching.com, you’re given the chance to add additional coordinates (parking, views etc.) with the submission.Some people choose to use this feature, others don’t. I don’t always, but try when necessary.
The thing about geocaching is that people from all over will find your caches — locals, travelers etc. Some people will have an idea by reading the description, others won’t.
Example 1: While out on a caching adven...
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How’s it going, eh? 7 June 2009, 2:19 pm
Just a week after heading to the Allegany State Park GeoBash, a few of us ventured up across the border to cache and attend an event in Brockville, Ontario. Heck, if we couldn’t make the super-long roadtrip to Bell Buckle, Tennessee for GeoWoodstock 7, we needed to hit some sort of an event, right?
Also, this was toward the end of the no passport needed for getting in and out of Canada, so it was good timing. As of June 1, the passports are needed. Thankfully I have mine, but I also think ...
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Sending out some cards (and other notes) 2 June 2009, 1:13 pm
OK, so I have all the postcrossing cards ready to go and will be hitting the post office today to send them out on their way to their destinations.
These are being sent to the following countries:
Taiwan (2)
Finland
Germany
Holland
I went with some local flavor post cards, which is what I’ll likely be doing for the first couple of times I do this. I need to learn a bit more about it, however.
For example, when can I send again? I know you can only have five moving at a time — so do...
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At the Bash, wrapping things up 31 May 2009, 2:05 pm
First, one thing I have to say is that I didn’t take as many pictures as I would have liked during Saturday’s stay at the ASP Geobash. Seems like I always do that at events — go with the plan of taking a lot of photos and then come away with only a handful, if that.
I get mingling too damn much and that hampers the photo opportunities.
Well, so did rain.
It was a decent morning Saturday at the Bash and we did, I believe, five caches, as we headed into Allegany State Park. We we...
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Postcrossing 29 May 2009, 7:00 pm
After seeing this over at Erika Jean’s blog, I’ve decided to try out Postcrossing.
The basic of this is that you register and submit your address. Then you can get upwards of five addresses and send these people postcards. Then random people send you postcards. Basically a new way of doing penpals of sorts, just without constant back-and-forth with the same people. You can get cards from all over the world.
For example, the first five addresses I got (which I will hopefully be sendin...
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Friday at the Bash 29 May 2009, 12:21 am
OK, back from Canada. Good times above the border. A lot of cache finds, an excellent event and a lot of great people met. Look for that story sometime this week or weekend after I get done with all the Bash stories!
So we’re back talking about the Allegany State Park Geobash and Day 2 — a day we had planned to use as a major cache day AND get ourselves two coins along the Allegheny GeoTrail in Pennsylvania (note the spelling difference of Allegany and Allegheny between the two state...
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Pathtag front page 27 May 2009, 2:14 pm
I am working on the rest of the geobash postings as well as some postings from Canada. Those suckers take a little while!
But, before I get to those, I wanted to share this with you.
I went to the pathtag front page not too long ago and saw that a comment I had left about my experience was up on the front page! I thought that was pretty cool, especially with an image of my pathtag with it!
I am working on a couple of other pathtags, too, so keep an eye out!
The front page:
More later!
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Road trip for DeLorme 22 May 2009, 12:01 pm
I’ve made it my summer mission to try and complete New York’s DeLorme Challenge — and at the same time, finish the “I Love NY” Counties Challenge Cache.
Neither of these will be easy as I have some odd spots I need to fill in. I hope to grab a couple of the stragglers here and there and then start working on the connected blocks.
For example, if I take one full day, I have no doubt I can get to New York City and Long Island and polish off all the counties and DeLorm...
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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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05/31/08 – Geocaching In The News 31 May 2009, 8:35 am
It’s been a few weeks since we released ‘the news’ so we thought that in this issue we would focus solely on Geocachers in the news, and there’s a few of them! Grab a coffee, settle back and read about what your Geocaching buddies are up to. Read on!
Andy Smith, aka HeadHardHat of GeoCache: I’m NOT Obsessed blog fame is featured in this great article here. (We can say we knew him when )
Another blogger friend, Elin Carlson, from Geocaching with EMC fame along wit...
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GoGo T. Urtle Is On The Road Again! 29 May 2009, 6:40 am
After a harrowing winter and a fight with a pack of wild wolves GoGo T. Urtle is on the move again! Although he is a bit banged up, bruised and sore he dragged himself back into the HooHaa GeoChallenge Race as soon as he was able, like the little trooper he is.
We were contacted by cribdonor earlier in the month with this disturbing message:
“I was checking on bugs I moved around and discovered that HooHaa Race – GoGo T. Urtle was in a cache that had been muggled. Since I am not ...
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Caching At Morris Lake’s Kiwanis Park 1 May 2009, 3:06 pm
Recently we got a chance to visit the Kiwanis Centre Beach and Park on Morris Lake in Dartmouth, NS and do a bit of Geocaching. This is a small park that was created by volunteers from the local Kiwanis Club. It took them several years to build this fine facility and since it’s creation it has quickly became a popular spot. It is not a large park but it does include several short walking trails, a picnic area and a nice sandy beach with a floating dock.
In addition, there is access from t...
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04/26/08 – Geocaching In The News 26 April 2009, 9:01 am
Well, it’s been a few weeks since we did the news so there’s a lot of it! There’s quite a few cachers in the news, several bomb scares and a couple of great events. Grab a coffee, sit back and read on!
Dave Baumchen from Seattle, Washington area, who has 10,126 cache finds, is featured in this article here.
Jeff Zesch, Walter Guertin and Donna Siegel of Massachusetts are mentioned in this article here.
Denise Eickbush from Wichita, Kansas is featured in this article from KSN3 N...
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Caching At Cole Harbour Heritage Park 20 April 2009, 4:02 pm
We got a chance to do a bit more caching at the Cole Harbour Heritage Park recently. Although we drop by here for a walk several times throughout the summer this was the first time in over a year that we went there specifically to do some caching. We know that this may sound strange but we often come here just to walk aimlessly. It is one of our favorite spots on a hot day since you can catch the cool breeze coming off the water.
The entrance to the park is not hard to miss since it is fronte...
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Maritime Mega Event Website Online! 4 April 2009, 7:18 am
Woohoo! The website for the Maritime Mega Event is now online and located at either http://www.maritimemega.com or http://www.maritimemega.ca.
This is Maritime Mega Event Central, where you will find all the information about this great, upcoming event! Presently this is just a static page and more info will be available as time goes by.
Please bookmark it for future reference and drop by from time to time to see how things are coming along.
The Maritime Mega Event will be held on July 10th, ...
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CacheStats 3.0 Released! 1 April 2009, 8:20 am
If you like to keep tabs on your Geocaching statistics, you’ll just love CacheStats 3.0!
How has your find rate been holding up over the years? What are your longest streaks? Want to see what it will take to reach your end-of-year goal? CacheStats analyzes your “My Finds” pocket query to find out all this and more!
CacheStats is a free Geocaching statistics program created by Doug from LogicWeave, who, when not creating great software spends his spare time Geocaching. I gue...
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03/29/08 – Geocaching In The News 29 March 2009, 9:09 am
There’s lots and lots of Geocachers in the news this week! Plus, there are a couple of bomb scares, a story about a guy who almost follows his GPS off a cliff, a DVD release and more! Read on:
Eric and Therese Hostetter bring along a couple of ‘newbies’ from the Daily Sentinel in Texas for a Geocaching outing. You can read more here.
Michael K. Boensch and Khan V. Hollis from Saginaw, Michigan are mentioned in this article here.
Tony Papazian, his daughter Sierra, his son, Sage...
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Geocaching Maritime Mega Event 2010 26 March 2009, 11:21 am
Well, it’s official! Nova Scotia, Canada will be hosting a Geocaching Mega Event on July 10th, 2010 in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Geocaching and the 10th Anniversary of Canada’s First Geocache!
The ‘Maritime Mega Event’ (GC1P585) will be a one day event and held at the Municipal Activity and Recreation Complex , just outside of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. The
MARC offers a 100 Acres of open space, which includes fields, woods, ponds, brooks and trails. It is o...
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Generic Geocaching in Simi Clarita 25 June 2009, 4:06 pm
I spent two mornings this week out geocaching, one with f0t0m0m, one with him and Capdude. The first of the days we were in Simi Valley, the second in Santa Clarita. Both days were fun and relaxing, overcast and cool. The finds were mostly standard with a couple of really good camo jobs thrown in. We did not do any hiking per se, but did climb a couple of hills in open space or parks. We had lunch at decent restaurants, but nothing gourmet. We saw lizards, birds, and squirrels, but no unus...
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Oklahoma? OK! 18 June 2009, 8:12 pm
I did a performance in Bartlesville, OK, just north of Tulsa, with Beethoven’s Wig over the weekend, and got this one more state checked off. I did not think about this song the whole time, but popped in to my head as I was formulating what to write this week:
It was a quick trip, most of it spent on airplanes. Both flights took us through DEN:
I had time for only two caches. The first
Downtown Bartlesville #1
It was across the street from the courthouse, built in 1913:
The second w...
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Cache as Cache Can 11 June 2009, 3:22 pm
I was thinking I would only be able to get out for one or two geocaches this week, but I ended up doing a bunch. I did a short hike in Griffith Park with Eagle Rock Rob and a half day in Simi Valley with f0t0m0m, but I also did grab a couple in between errands, hence the title of this week’s installment.
A new one appeared near Van Nuys airport near an industrial park.
Van Nuys Airport and Taxiway
Along the street there, you can see dozens of antique aircraft. I never knew they were ther...
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Geocaching in the Los Angeles Daily News 4 June 2009, 11:13 am
A few of us were interviewed for this article and I got quoted at the end.
link to the article
What a great photo at the top! It’s a nice article, mostly correct, but it’s still quite disappointing to read that the state park official thinks that geocaches are buried. True geocaches are hidden, but never buried with a shovel. He corrects himself later, but it still comes off as confusing. The new restrictions for geocaching in state parks is a concern, and none of us are sure who...
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Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Geocaching (more or less) 29 May 2009, 12:03 am
I got out for a hike on Saturday with Albackore and Capdude by taking the kitten to a cat sitter! She still needs a bottle every 3 hours, and the drive and hike took us about 5. In a couple of weeks, after she’s learned to eat more regular cat food, this won’t be necessary, but meanwhile, my schedule revolves around the still tiny feline.
Capdude did the research on the hike, but none of us were aware of the gnarlyness of the trail! We did a car bridge, parking one car at the bott...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Geocache 22 May 2009, 1:28 am
Those of us who have found lots of caches know that this obsessive hobby is about a lot more than signing logbooks. It permeates into and integrates with our lives, sometimes in the most unusual ways.
We’ve all done other things while geocaching, like shopping or errands or phone calls. The wildest thing I’ve done while out caching is refinance my house. Oh yes, and f0t0m0m can attest to this, I was on the phone with my loan officer getting the information all in order while we we...
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A Beautiful Day of Geocaching Along Hwy 126 14 May 2009, 2:30 pm
One of the most gorgeous areas in Southern California is the isolated stretch of highway between Santa Clarita (Magic Mountain) and Ventura. While the savvy locals use it as an alternative thoroughfare, it’s generally uncrowded and always scenic. The valley features rolling hills that remind one of Italy, a wide variety of agriculture to observe, and charming towns replete with their unique histories. Fruit stands, wineries, antiques, and a honey farm along the way are tempting even to ...
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Report from the Road, Including a 100-Cache Day 8 May 2009, 10:45 am
I’m sitting in the breakfast bar at the Best Western in Porterville with f0t0m0m, preparing for our third day of caching around the area. We’ve dipped in and out of the Sequoia National Forest during the last two days, and today we will cruise through the local orange groves and agriculture. Our numbers have not been quite what we’d hoped, as we only got 35 on Wednesday, bogged down by curvy mountain roads and a high DNF rate, but yesterday we managed to find 100 in 12 hours....
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Geocaching Like a Pirate? Confessions of a techo-geek-multitasker…. 1 May 2009, 2:00 am
OK, just when you think Facebook can’t get more entertaining, they put an option on there to have the site translated into Pirate English! If you have an account, click on the lower left “English” and choose the Pirate beta… been laughing out loud at the results!
I must confess that I’m guilty of spending too much time there and not enough geocaching, but I’m determined to get my priorities in order now, and get RE-obsessed by our TRUE calling, o fellow logbo...
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Geocaching Colorado Style!! 25 April 2009, 9:09 pm
I got to sing a concert with Sixth Wave in Greeley, Colorado, this week, at the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival, and I’m two days late in posting, because the hotel’s internet connection was down. Sheesh. The town also offers several late-night very loud train whistles and a remarkable pungency in the air from the local cattle industry! Wow….
I met up with some local cachers in the morning. We started out with a superlative home-cooked Mexican breakfast at Ho...
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Geocaching Live 27 June 2009, 5:26 pm
In case you weren't aware, a new beta service has been launched by Groundspeak called "Geocaching Live". Geocaching Live is a new "project focused on real-time social interactions among geocachers. While geocaching outdoors you can post logs, images and video related to your current geocaching adventure for others to see in real-time!".
While you can follow people's caching adventures in real-time from your desktop PC, it's really intended for use on mobile phones and PDA's. Unfortunately, my ...
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New Geocaching iPhone App. Version Released 20 June 2009, 4:35 pm
You may have noticed that Grounspeak released version 2.1 of their Geocaching iPhone/iPodTouch application this week. If you're not familiar with this tool, you can read more about it here, or, visit the Apple iTunes Store download page.
Some of the features added to this latest version include:
Updated user interface.
Three different map options now available: Street, Topo, and Satellite.
For each map type, you can select the map source.
Custom waypoints can be added to the navigation map - a...
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Get Your Log Sheets Here 14 June 2009, 8:17 pm
So you've been geocaching for a while now, and you've decided you're ready to give back to the community and hide your first cache. Well, good for you. But before you do, you'll definitely want to check out geocaching.com's brief guidelines and helpful hints in hiding your first geocache.
Whether you're getting ready to hide your first cache or your hundreth, one of the most time consuming parts of the process is creating an appropriate log sheet for your container. Lucky for us, there are plen...
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New and Improved "Cache Along a Route" Filter 8 June 2009, 1:08 am
With the summer traveling season approaching, it's nice to know that geocaching.com allows you to select out just the caches you want along a route that you define (point A to point B), which you can then load into your GPS receiver. Those of you who have used this function in the past may be interested to know that there is a new and improved means to accomplish this task. You can still do it the old fashioned way if you prefer, but why would you when it's much simpler now?
Now all you do is c...
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The Saga Continues 1 June 2009, 9:25 pm
I recently posted a piece on a Challenge Cache that a friend and I are doing called the Lil Devil Challenge which requires the successful geocacher to find all the hidden caches in Mt. Diablo State Park. During our most recent outing, we were able to find 9 out of the 10 caches we attempted that day.
One of the problems we're having, besides a few DNF's, is that new cahces keep getting added within the Park boundaries almost as fast as we find the existing hides. Three new caches were hidden th...
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Shout Out To Geocachers 24 May 2009, 3:13 pm
This post is simply meant to thank all you geocachers out there for hiding your treasures for the rest of us to find. Even though I live near some of the best parkland and open space areas imaginable, if it weren't for the caches that you all hide, I most likely wouldn't visit these locations nearly as often as I do.
On a recent outing, I had decided to visit Anthony Chabot Regional Park, located in the hills above Oakland, California, to grab a few new caches that had been placed there. Of cou...
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Get Cache Data Via E-mail 17 May 2009, 7:36 pm
At some point when I wasn't looking, a nice new feature was added to GSAK that lets you automatically interrogate a POP3 email server to download attachments, and then optionally load any GPX/LOC files into your current database. I had always wished my email client had an option that would automatically send my pocket query files to my hard drive without me having to download them manually each time, but no such feature existed. Now, with the "get data via email" function (under the File menu) ...
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New and Improved Tools 10 May 2009, 2:17 pm
Just wanted to briefly mention some new and updated geo-social networking tools that I thought would be of interest to the blogging and micro-blogging (a.k.a., Twitter) geocaching community out there.While these are not strictly geocaching tools per se, a significant number of geocachers out there use these, and similar tools, on a daily basis.
Google Latitude
As if Google doesn't already control the world, they recently added another tool to their arsenal. Latitude (nice name, by the way) is G...
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GSAK Continues To Impress 2 May 2009, 4:51 pm
For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why some of the waypoint names in my GSAK database were showing up in bold text:
I finally realized that it wasn't due to a bug in the program, but rather another built in filtering feature. By default, GSAK highlights geocache names that have child waypoints in bold text. You can turn off this filter, or create your own font-altering filters, using the "Highlight..." command under the "Waypoint" menu:
The above example shows the filter that causes...
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Sharing Your Progress 25 April 2009, 10:27 pm
I generally try to steer clear from rehashing my geocaching outings in my blog posts, and instead try to focus on geo-related technology and tools that will hopefully enhance your caching experiences. But every so often, there are occasions where describing a certain cache hunt also allows me an opportunity to share how I used certain geo-tools that you might find helpful and applicable. This is one of those times.
A few months back, a caching buddy of mine and I decided we wanted to tackle the...
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More History 2 July 2009, 5:29 pm
Today the Tadpole and I decided to visit the Nixon Library. One of the draws was the "World's Largest LEGO Flag" which was on display in the lobby of the Library. We found a couple of caches in the morning before getting there and then we found the parking lot for the library. We walked into the lobby of the library and there it was, a massive LEGO flag. It was rather impressive. I asked the Tadpole if he was ready to go and he gave me this quirky look as if to say, "What, are you kidding?" ...
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Side canyon trails 29 June 2009, 12:06 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I took a short hike with chaosmanor to find a geocache. That statement really shouldn't surprise anyone, because that's what geocaching started out to be, hiking to find something hidden in the woods. It's evolved over time and many caches today don't involve any kind of hiking whatsoever. The terms "Cache and Dash" and "Park and Grab" have bludgeoned their way into the geocaching lexicon.This hike, I think, took us both back to the roots of geocaching. The cache spot w...
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The Lure of the Desert 25 June 2009, 11:11 am
Living as close to the desert as I do, I end up spending a lot of time out in it. This wasn't always the case. Growing up in Orange County, we were about an hour and a half, perhaps two hours drive from the desert. My father is more of a mountain man, and so we very rarely went to the desert. I can remember on spring spent at Death Valley and another spring when we camped near the Salton Sea. But for the most part, I think it was a two fold reason why we didn't go there on the weekends.One, ou...
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History and waymarks 22 June 2009, 1:13 pm
This past Saturday, I took the Tadpole out to the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. We cached a little bit before heading over there around 10:30 in the morning. One of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta was on display there and when we got there, we both realized that the day we were there, would be the last day for that particular exhibit, so needless to say, the library was probably more crowded than usual.After paying the admission price, we walked in and toured the fir...
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Ungrounded 19 June 2009, 5:44 pm
This week, I was grounded from doing much of anything. Well, not really, but it felt that way since I was on call for jury duty with the county of Los Angeles. Here, we have a one day, one trial system for jury duty. You're on call for a week. So Sunday evening, I called in and the automated system told me that I didn't need to report on Monday, but to call Monday night for Tuesday. I continued to do this and discovered I had to report for jury duty on Thursday of this week.Because my younge...
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Lamp Post Flora 15 June 2009, 2:59 pm
Sometimes, I end up finding lamp post caches. It doesn't happen that often and usually I don't have a lot to say about them, since they seem to be so pervasive in an urban area and usually pretty routine. One lamp post cache find did catch my eye, not because it was different, but because of the experience. Last Saturday was my first full day of vacation, so I figured what better way to spend it than to go out caching with my good friend Chaosmanor.We met over near a park and ride off of the ...
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A walk in the park 10 June 2009, 11:15 pm
The day before appendicitis took down the Tadpole, we drove down into Orange County for GeoVexilla and some caching. The positions of the different flags, which were actually spread out between Orange and Los Angeles Counties were such that I didn't want to pick out specific caches, so I went with a virtual PQ, to see what virtual caches were close to any of the virtual flags. The Tadpole enjoys virtuals, so we decided to make it a totally virtual day.The first flag was found easily, in betwee...
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My caching partner 8 June 2009, 8:20 pm
The Tadpole, my regular caching partner is a little under the weather today. Early Sunday morning, he was ill, throwing up and just not feeling very well. This is not the first time he's been sick, but it seemed to be the first time where he just wasn't feeling well and complaining a lot about his overall condition. He stayed home from church and was lying on the couch when we got back from church. He was complaining about being in pain, so I asked him generally where it hurt. After he show...
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Thursdays 4 June 2009, 9:05 pm
Well, it's Thursday again. That's the day of the week, when I don't go caching. I'm not sure why this has happened this year, but for whatever reason, it's becoming more of a joke to me than anything else. The last time I've been caching on a Thursday and actually found a cache was December 11th, 2008, almost 6 months ago. I don't know what it is about Thursday, since it's usually an easy day for me to get away from work and look for a quick cache and dash if the need arises. I've also had...
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Desert disks 1 June 2009, 1:46 am
Saturday, I went up to the mountains to pick up my daughter. Obviously, since this is more about the desert than the mountains, I took a pretty circuitous route to get to the mountains. In fact, it was a rather longish route, but very fun.I've been watching a couple of the virtual flags out in the desert and noting that several of them were about to expire, so I decided that Saturday morning would make a good trip out to get them. I created a bookmark list of caches along my intended route as ...
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HooHaa Travel Bug Racer Just A Nut Back On The Road 1 July 2009, 1:40 pm
Well I had pretty much written off my TB Racer "Just A Nut" in the HooHaa Travel Bug Race. You see "Nut" was taken overseas and at the time I thought, "fantastic", then it could really chalk up some miles. How wrong I was. Sure currently has about 3500 miles under it's belt but it was dropped on the western shore of a western island from the western side of Scotland. Lets just say that this was the only geocache on this particular island and it was well, isolated. So there it sat, perfecting it...
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When Hard Drives Attack 1 July 2009, 10:08 am
Howdy Folks,Well if you have been wondering where my posts have been in the past week the answer is Boof. Yes boof, that wonderful noise humans make when their computer hard drives die on them. Sure there is a lot of colorful language before the actual boof but when all the tantrums and curses are silenced and you realize there is nothing you can do but fix the situation. You finally sit down, look at the blank computer screen and go "Boof".Needless to say the trip to the mountains was replaced ...
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GeoSnippits Videos Mentioned On FindMe Movie Insider 24 June 2009, 10:44 pm
It was announced on Twitter earlier in the week that our very own GeoSnippits videos are going to be featured on Michigan Magazine TV coming soon. Well great news travels fast and The TMP Insider helped spread the news even further. TMP (Trost Moving Pictures) are the makers of the geocaching thriller movie "Find Me".GeoSnippits happens to be featured on their Geocaching 101 section of the films web page to help viewers of Find Me better understand what geocaching is and to help entice everyone ...
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GeoSnippits Video - Planning A Geocaching Route - Road Trip To The Ocean 24 June 2009, 9:58 am
Oh man, there is nothing like a road trip and this one was extra special for me cuz we were going to the ocean. What a great opportunity to do a GeoSnippits episode about Planning a Geocaching Route. That is where you map out a plan of the roads you are going to travel on from your starting point to your destination and if there are any geocaches nearby you can pick them up. Great idea!We planned a road trip from Raleigh, NC down to the east coast and Kure Beach, NC. This is about a two hour tri...
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HeadHardHat's Garmin Mobile for Blackberry Review 22 June 2009, 10:02 pm
Not too long ago some viewers wrote in and asked if I had tried out the Garmin Mobile application for Blackberry phones. Hmmm, did not even know that Garmin had a mobile app out so I was intrigued.Taking Garmin Mobile For A SpinFirst I loaded Garmin Mobile onto my Blackberry 8310 without a hitch. Not unexpected yet to me always a good start. Then I cranked it up and the familiar Garmin Trademark peered through a background of black. If you are interested in trying the GM out for yourself there i...
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Taking a Quick Ocean Cool-off 21 June 2009, 12:01 pm
Near Wilmington, NC and enjoying the day while geocaching. Loving it.Sent via BlackBerry by AT&TSee all our Geocaching Tutorial Videos at
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Finally at the Ocean 21 June 2009, 11:08 am
Sweet ocean.Sent via BlackBerry by AT&TSee all our Geocaching Tutorial Videos at
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The Best FREE Topo Road Map For My Handheld Garmin 14 June 2009, 3:23 pm
This discussion is for those of us who could use a really good topo map for geocaching which can be loaded on their Garmin GPS hand units.For me when I purchased my Garmin 60CSx the base map which is included seems a bit lacking. It contains the main interstates but does not include simple highways let alone standard streets. I found this unusual because my Garmin Vista's base map had more than the 60CSx.Either way the purpose for my 60CSx GPS was for geocaching and overall it works great. Yet s...
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Urban Geocaching Has It's Own Unique Challenges 13 June 2009, 4:00 pm
Geocaching downtown Raleigh today and finding urban style caching challenging. Every hole and crease is used here.Sent via BlackBerry by AT&TSee all our Geocaching Tutorial Videos at
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Checking Out The AllSportGPS Phone App by Trimble 12 June 2009, 9:01 pm
This is going to be an ongoing series because I do not just intend doing only a review and GeoSnippits episode on this neat application. This is going to be used to keep track of me getting back to a more healthier lifestyle and you can come right along with me.Let's face it... I'm fat. I know I'm fat, if you have seen my videos or photos you know I'm fat and I admit it. With that being said it also means that I need to work on better health ideals and I need an easy and convenient way for me t...
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Get out there and get 'em 26 May 2009, 9:42 pm
I 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...
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Cherokee's Welcome Spring event 21 May 2009, 10:08 pm
I had a great time in Cherokee last weekend attending the "Welcome Spring" geocaching event hosted by Tonedog52 and Wonderboy. The caches placed for the event that I found were worthy of standing on their own. By that I mean the organizers did a very nice job of hiding quality caches. Some of the parks where the geocaches were placed did not exist when I lived in Cherokee back in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. It was great to meet so many geocachers that I have corresponded with, and to renew a fe...
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Power Trails back in the discussion 14 May 2009, 11:47 am
Two years ago I wrote about power trails and explained the reasons behind Groundspeak's guidelines and restrictions against placing lots of caches in a row along a trail. That posting led to a number of excellent comments on this site. This spring some additional geocaches were submitted that I felt crossed the sometimes grey line into what constitutes a power trail -- a series of caches along the new Old Creamery Trail near Vinton and a series (not yet published) along the Little Sioux River ne...
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No more ALR caches 5 April 2009, 7:46 pm
In case you haven't heard the news, the geocaching.com guidelines have been updated and ALR (Additional Listing Requirement) caches have been banned/stricken/outlawed/disallowed... whatever word you prefer. Here's the new guideline text: Logging of All Physical Caches Geocaches can be logged online as Found once the physical log has been signed. If it is appropriate for your cache location or theme, you may ask the cache seeker to accomplish an optional ...
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Yesterday's blog post 2 April 2009, 8:35 am
For those of you who may still be scratching their heads about my blog post yesterday describing changes to the guidelines... think about the date on which it was posted. Yes, it was an April Fool's joke. No, there are no such plans in the works.But wouldn't it be nice?My thanks to General Disarray, who reviews caches for Oklahoma, for letting me borrow the idea. I understand Heartland Cacher, who reviews for Nebraska, also played this prank in the Cornhusker state....
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New guidelines take effect today 1 April 2009, 9:02 am
As some of you may have heard, there are modifications in the works for Geocaching. I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of some of the changes to take effect starting today. These changes are being implemented in order to take geocaching back to its roots.Cache Size: Cache containers must now be of the one quart size or larger. No “nanos”, matchstick containers, or film canisters will be published.Cache Content: All caches must contain a logbook (not log sheet) and items for ...
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Cherokee's "Welcome Spring" Event 12 March 2009, 11:25 pm
When I saw that Tonedog52 and Wonderboy are hosting an event in Cherokee the weekend of May 16, I put it on my calendar but I seriously didn't think I would be able to make it there because we'll traveling to Okoboji the following weekend. Well, after thinking about it for awhile I decided what the heck, it's going to be right in my old 'hood (I went to high school in Cherokee) and my mom lives there. So... I have made plans to be there. It should be fun to explore some of the newer parks that w...
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Today is my anniversary 27 February 2009, 11:51 am
Eight years ago today I embarked on a pathway of joyful bliss and began a new journey that would lead to greater discovery, understanding and happiness than I ever imagined would be possible and a deeper appreciation about what is really important in life. No, I'm not talking about getting married, although that's been terrific too. I'm talking about geocaching. Eight years ago today I found my first geocache. Her name was Beverly. She was just a little plastic container under a bush, but for me...
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Why do people cheat on virtuals? 26 February 2009, 11:07 pm
Just a heads up -- if you own a virtual cache and you care whether anyone is placing bogus finds on it, you may want to check for a find by a geocacher named The-Sledge. He/she posted a find on my American Gothic virtual cache today and dated it Dec. 31, 2007 -- so it wouldn't appear at the top of the list, I guess. I deleted it. I see he posted many other finds in many states, supposedly on that same day. I don't understand why anyone would go to these lengths....
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La première dérive 22 February 2009, 2:42 pm
My daughter is undertaking an interesting GPS-based project today for one of her art school classes. She calls it Dérive, which is French for drift. Jacey has been geocaching with me a few times over the years, so it's interesting to me to see how she is applying her experience with GPS to create this project. You can read the blog she created for this here. I'm not sure I completely understand what's she's doing, but I'm looking forward to reading about it and viewing her photos....
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Backlog - May 10 2 July 2009, 12:25 pm
This is my last backlog for a while. These events happened on May 10th... Mother's day.My Dad told us about this waterfall he found while out quad riding so it was decided we'd have a picnic out there for Mother's Day. I decided it would be a good opportunity to hide a cache. The waterfall was nice and I found a good spot for a cache. I looked up the name of the creek... Little Craggy... so I called it Little Craggy Falls.Later we went out to Applegate lake and decided to make the short hike out...
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Backlog - May 2 1 July 2009, 11:24 am
I was being pretty lazy in may it appears. Found very few caches and I made even fewer blog entries. So we'll take the "wayback" machine all the way to May 2.I was in Las Vegas again and it just happend to be the weekend of a flash mob event happening right on the strip WWFM V (Las Vegas) - Pirate's Booty. The idea was to stay away from Ground zero and try to blend in... then when the signal is given all group together. You weren't suppose to mingle with anyone till they made the call. I spotted...
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Backlog - June 7 30 June 2009, 1:20 pm
For this backlog we go all the way back to June 7th. My Dad was off on a fishing trip so my Mom and Sister hatched this idea of going to Reno. I decided to tag along... when do I ever pass up an opportunity to visit casinos?On the way there I found a few caches including #1800Shasta VistaDistantBig Sign 89Goat FireDon't Bug MeWelcome to Nevada (or California)Cinema NevadaThe last cache on the list was a puzzle that I found on accident.This was my second trip to Reno. As an older and more experie...
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What! me geocaching? 29 June 2009, 11:16 am
Friday night I got a call from Daveydude. I think he had called everyone else and was desperate for someone to go with him. Reluctantly I agreed to go geocaching the next morning at 7am!!!So the next morning I got my lazy ass out of bed went down to McD's for a sausage egg biscuit... with cheese. Just something to sit in my gut a while and remind me why I sleep in on Saturdays. They are oh so tasty though. So I met up with Dave and we took his new geo-rig up Spencer creek.There are a few new cac...
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Trail Blazers 22 June 2009, 1:09 am
No Geocaching for me this weekend. I did however get to meet 2 Trail Blazer dancers and Clyde Drexler this weekend at seperate events. The blazer dancers were signing posters at NAPA Autoparts on Friday. My coworker heard about it on the radio and told me to go down there so I did. They were very nice and posed for a couple of pictures and signed a poster.Clyde was signing autographs at Lee's Mini Storage on Saturday. I guess the owner is a long time blazer fan himself and met Clyde when they tr...
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An old cache 15 June 2009, 11:27 am
I have been neglecting my blog for too long. I can't believe I skipped a whole month. In the next few days I will backlog the events of the last month.This weekend I went to Albany to visit. I didn't even take my GPS. I just haven't felt like geocaching lately, but I hope to get out a bit more in the next few weeks before the really hot weather strikes.I did manage to find one cache. A webcamSmile Your'e on Candid Camera III have been all but ignoring this cache for 6 years. I have driven by thi...
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An interesting event 28 April 2009, 12:53 pm
This Friday I am off to Las Vegas again. I decided not to pursue any geocaching adventures this time, but I'll take my GPS and maybe find a cache or two if I feel like it.One cache I did notice was this eventWWFM V (Las Vegas)- Pirate's BootyIt is a flash mob event... the idea is to hang out and look like an average tourist and then all at once come together in a big group. I've never seen such a thing, but it is popular in some areas. Since I will be in town I'll probably try to attend. Depends...
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March of Dimes 25 April 2009, 11:02 pm
Today was the big March of Dimes walk. Our team raised nearly $6000 and I raised $742. As it turned out I was not the #1 fund raiser on the team. I was beat in the last week by my coworker Megan. Her daughter was born 10 weeks early and is the reason many of us at the bank have adopted March of Dimes. Looking at her today you could never tell.I was pleasantly surprised at the generosity of some people. I hope I wasn't too pushy... if so maybe I'll try new tactics for next year....
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Check this out 22 April 2009, 11:23 am
With this service you can get hints and log finds by text from your phone. Some of you might already know about this but it was all new to me.Check out this link for details on how to set it up. It was really easy.I already had it send me a hint (very fast) maybe this weekend after the March of Dimes walk I can try it out in the field. I have been to a lot of caches where this would never work, but for around town it looks like a nice feature.I am still collecting funds for March of Dimes. It is...
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Two sunny spring days 6 April 2009, 12:23 am
Today and yesterday were both very nice spring days. A good chance to get out and find those caches I had been saving up. It feels good to walk around without a coat. My legs are sore and my neck feels slightly sunburned, but it is a good feeling.Despite the good weather today and yesterday are completely different as far as geocaching goes. Yesterday I found 43 caches, mostly drive up micros. Today I found 2 caches after hiking up a steep mountain road. It just goes to show that there are cache...
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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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Happy Birthday RCC 28 January 2009, 5:56 pm
Renzo's Custom Cache is one year old today. Here's a quick recap:11 custom swag items3 travelers3 collector cards3 cache ideas1 flierThanks for following along and dropping a note now & then. Happy trails....
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Pinhead Traveler 5 October 2008, 9:36 pm
MooHaaHaaHaaa! Halloween approaches and Pinhead craves souls...or at least fabulous pins for his collection. Laminate a geocoin into the proper orifice and stuff this prickly guy in a box somewhere. Follow the exploits of Pinhead #1. and get yours here....
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Polymer Clay Geocoin 14 September 2008, 10:30 pm
Go big or go home. Polymer clay geocoins are well documented here and here. My short attention span version is as follows: I rolled Super Sculpey between two paint sticks and cut circles with a 3” diameter peanut butter lid. Then I raided our Stampin’ Up stash and made my name with an alphanumeric punch set (taped together). Next was fifteen minutes in the oven at 275° followed by Testors copper enamel paint. Voila! ...
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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...
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GeoSnippits - Video Discussing Paperless Geocaching 24 December 2008, 1:58 am
Here is a really great part one of a two part video series showing you how to do Paperless Geocaching. You can see all of our GeoSnippits Video Tutorials by going here:http://www.youtube.com/user/headhardhat...
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GeoSnippits - Video Transferring Photographs From My Camera To My Computer 24 December 2008, 1:54 am
Here is a really interesting GeoSnippits Video showing you how to move your digital photographs from your camera to your computer via a SD Card Reader....
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GeoSnippits - Logging GeoCoins and TBs Tutorial 26 November 2008, 9:11 pm
I realize that this particular episode of GeoSnippits is extremely basic but I have talked to people about Geocoins and Travel Bugs at events and they wanted more basic information on how they work in the world of Geocaching and how to log them. So I created this video.
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