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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A word about geocaching podcasts
I don’t know about you, but I enjoy listening to geocaching podcasts. Podcasts give me tips on finding caches, ideas about hides, places to go. Whenever they have guests, those guests add insights to aspects of geocaching I might not have known about. As far as I know, the granddaddy of all geocaching podcasts is …
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 …
Mingo Madness
Sunday night on the Geocache Talk podcast, Gary, Memfis and the Mingo Madness organizing committee made several announcements regarding the event, which celebrates 20 years of geocaching just up the road from the world’s oldest active geocache — Mingo GC30. Before I get into some of the announcements from the podcast, I want to share …
366 grid complete, now what?
I did it. I found a cache Wednesday to complete my 366 grid. I have officially found a geocache on every day of the year, from January 1 to December 31, including February 29. I found GC50JZO I Wanna Walk Like You Challenge. I had completed the challenge some time ago, but just found the …
Wiffleball and geocaching
I have watched movies at geocaching events, picked up trash, had breakfast and supper, eaten ice cream and drank coffee. I have been to three mega events (500 or more people in attendance) and one giga event (5,000 or more people in attendance). But until Saturday, I had never played Wiffleball at a geocaching event. …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 