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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 