Geocaching HQ has decided to dedicate this year to the Year of the Hide. After all, if people don’t hide and maintain geocaches, there is no geocaching. So, to reward people for hiding caches, anyone who hides a cache between March 1 and December 31 gets a souvenir. I hid a multi in early March …
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Time for an EarthCache
I write this today, Oct. 8, the day before this year’s International EarthCache day. A year ago, I wrote about it and how I find EarthCaches a bit intimidating. Besides tomorrow being International EarthCache Day, Geocaching HQ has put an extra emphasis on EarthCaches for this month’s Reach the Peak challenge, with 750 points given …
End of September! Already?
Well, here we are at the end of September. Where has the summer gone? For me, summer really began in May when our family went to the Indiana Geocaching Spring Picnic at Charlestown State Park in Clark County. We followed that weekend trip to Southern Indiana with a week in Illinois. It was our family …
Mountaineering
Geocaching HQ started a new souvenir promotion this month called Reach the Peak. It will last several months, with a new peak each month. This month’s peak is Puncak Jaya, the highest peak in Oceania. Geocachers are awarded points for each cach found, and the goal is to get 4,884 points. A Multicache is worth …
Back-to-back big months
I know as I write this, there are geocachers out there who find 100 geocaches in a day or over the course of weekend. For me, a 75-find month, followed by an 80-find month is a big deal. They are the two most productive back-to-back months of geocaching I’ve had since January through April 2017 …
Beverly — Illinois’ oldest cache
In May, geocachers around the world celebrated 21 years of geocaching. The first caches were placed in May 2000, beginning with Dave Ulmer’s GPS Stash in Oregon. The oldest active cache, of course, is GC30 Mingo, hidden on May 11, 2000. I have yet to find Mingo. In fact, until this year I had just …
Opening Day
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 …
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 …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 