I am going to digress from writing about geocaching for a moment to celebrate the opening of the baseball season today. Although the NFL has become king of sports in the United States, I’ll take baseball any day of the week, including Sundays in the fall. I was listening to the Detroit Tigers play the …
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New souvenir challenge
Geocaching HQ announced a new souvenir challenge — The Science of Discovery — on Tuesday. Beginning April 12 and running through July 11, we can earn up to four new souvenirs. This one emphasizes Adventure Labs, though all geocaches count. The goal is to get 300 points. Each Adventure Lab find gets 10 points, so …
Born explorers?
On one of its subchannels, my local public television station runs a promo between shows that claims we are all born explorers. I like that idea. Maybe that’s why I like geocaching so much. It gives me a chance to explore. Back before geocaching was invented, I participated in something called volksmarching. I was first …
Back at it
On Tuesday, Capt TailWagger and I took off for Jackson County, Michigan. We took a walk on the Falling Waters Trail, a 10.5-mile long asphalt rail-trail that starts in Concord and finishes someplace south of Spring Arbor. We chose a section directly south of Spring Arbor. It had a fairly large trailhead parking area. And …
Some news from HQ
Geocaching HQ announced today that the 20th anniversary events in the Pacific Northwest, originally scheduled for August 2020 then rescheduled for August this year, has been postponed until summer 2022. I think this is a good idea. The coronavirus is still not under control. Billions of people worldwide still need to be vaccinated, including millions …
In a bit of slump
A month ago today, on Groundhog Day, I drove up from Fort Wayne to Angola, Indiana, to do an Adventure Lab and possibly find the bonus cache attached to it. We had gotten a bit of snow the previous weekend, our first real snowfall of the winter. I completed the first two stages, then hit …
Welcome to 2021
We are a week into the new year, and what a crazy week it’s been. I won’t get into US politics and the events of the past few days. I want to take a moment to look back at highs and lows of geocaching in 2020 and a look to the future. I found 367 …
Streak to end?
Since June of last year, I have gotten at least one first to find on a geocache in every month. I have had months in which I had just one FTF, including July 2019 when I found my FTF on the 31st. So the streak nearly died before it started. In looking at my stats, …
International EarthCache Day
I got an email from Geocaching HQ on Tuesday announcing this year’s International EarthCache Day is Oct. 10 and 11. Here’s what they wrote: “How do you best prepare for an EarthCache outing? You planet!“Learn more about Earth and how it formed through history on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, 2020 in celebration …
Reaching a milestone
Today I set out for Wells County, Indiana, to do another Adventure Lab, this one in Ossian. And after completing the five stages of the AL, I drove a bit south of Ossian to find a traditional cache — find No. 1,800. Ossian is in the northern third of Wells County, on Indiana 1, about …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 