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 …
Category Archives: Geocaching
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, …
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 …
A bit of history
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 …
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 …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 