Capt TailWagger and I are thinking of putting out a challenge cache or two. We have a couple of things in mind, so I went on Project-GC to see who else has met the challenge. While I was doing that, I accessed my original geocaching account stats. In 2004, my father-in-law gave us a handheld …
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My Labor Day find
A year ago on Labor Day, I went to Northwest Ohio to buy mums at a nearby farm and to find a multi cache. In 2019, Labor Day fell on Sept. 2, a day that was a hole in my 366 grid. You can read about that adventure here. Long story short, I did not …
New attributes
I don’t know about you, but I tend to look at attributes when I’m geocaching, including two in particular: Dogs allowed and bicycling. Capt. TailWagger has never joined me when I’m on my bike, whether I’m geocaching or not. But he does frequently join me on my adventures, particularly on days when it’s not too …
Ohio calling?
For each of the past two Sundays, our family has traveled to Ohio to do some hiking and, at least for me, a bit of geocaching. We went to Oak Openings Metropark near Toledo each time. The first time was to drop off a trackable called Motorhead Families. The trackable, which I did not take …
More Adventure Labs and a new promo
Since my last blog post, I’ve completed two more five-stage Adventure Labs. The first was at Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve in Licking County, Ohio. The second was in Syracuse, Indiana. The Adventure Lab in the nature preserve had stops on either side of the Licking River. Three stops were on one side where a …
Adventure Labs
Fort Wayne has many claims to fame. One of the city’s nicknames is the Summit City and there is not a mountain within 200 miles of Fort Wayne. It was the highest point on the Wabash-Erie Canal. You can learn about the Wabash-Erie Canal by playing FortIslander80’s Adventure Lab. I completed that stage of the …
New HQ promo
Geocaching HQ’s latest promo, Memory Lane, started Monday. The promo lasts seven months, so most geocachers around the world can have a chance to complete the challenge. Basically, find between 20 and 40 caches and you earn five new souvenirs. Today, I found a traditional cache and attended a Community Celebration event and got a …
Happy birthday, Geocaching
Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the hiding of what is considered to be the first geocache. On May 2, 2000, the U.S. government ended selective availability on the Global Positioning System, which allowed civilians to have accuracy on their GPS readers to within 30 feet. Dave Ulmer buried what he called the first GPS …
20th anniversary on hold
This year is supposed to be a big year for geocaching. Geocaching turns 20 in a few days. According to a 2017 Geocaching HQ blog: On May 2, 2000, just past midnight, the U.S government discontinued its use of Selective Availability in order to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide. Twenty-four …
Solving puzzles and other ideas
During this time of stay-in-place orders what is a geocacher to do? We could watch videos on YouTube. Or we can create cool cache containers. Or we could do as I’m doing: solving puzzles. The Geocaching Vlogger this month began season five of the Geocaching Challenge he and Lookout Lisa from Cache Advance have been …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 