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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Streak Week
Geocaching HQ is encouraging geocachers to geocache every day from 25 August to 31 August. Those who find a cache each day during this week will get a souvenir. Geocaching HQ awards souvenirs for a variety of reasons. Whenever geocachers find a geocache in a new state, they are awarded a souvenir on their profile …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 