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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Hello 2022
I’m getting a late start on my recap of 2021 and look-ahead to 2022. In 2021, I found 484 caches, my second-best year in terms of number of finds. In 2017, the first year I was a premium member, I had 567 finds. Among the highlights: Cached in four new states: Wisconsin, Texas, West Virginia …
Goodbye Capt TailWagger
When I started this blog, I dreamed of our beloved German shorthair pointer going on many geocaching adventures with me and the rest of our family for many years to come. That dream ended Christmas Eve when Capt TailWagger crossed over the rainbow and went to big dog park in the sky. Capt TailWagger came …
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 …
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 …
My Labor Day find
A year ago on Labor Day, I went to Northwest Ohio to buy mums at a nearby farm and to find a multi cache. In 2019, Labor Day fell on Sept. 2, a day that was a hole in my 366 grid. You can read about that adventure here. Long story short, I did not …
New HQ promo
Geocaching HQ’s latest promo, Memory Lane, started Monday. The promo lasts seven months, so most geocachers around the world can have a chance to complete the challenge. Basically, find between 20 and 40 caches and you earn five new souvenirs. Today, I found a traditional cache and attended a Community Celebration event and got a …
Happy birthday, Geocaching
Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the hiding of what is considered to be the first geocache. On May 2, 2000, the U.S. government ended selective availability on the Global Positioning System, which allowed civilians to have accuracy on their GPS readers to within 30 feet. Dave Ulmer buried what he called the first GPS …
20th anniversary on hold
This year is supposed to be a big year for geocaching. Geocaching turns 20 in a few days. According to a 2017 Geocaching HQ blog: On May 2, 2000, just past midnight, the U.S government discontinued its use of Selective Availability in order to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide. Twenty-four …
Solving puzzles and other ideas
During this time of stay-in-place orders what is a geocacher to do? We could watch videos on YouTube. Or we can create cool cache containers. Or we could do as I’m doing: solving puzzles. The Geocaching Vlogger this month began season five of the Geocaching Challenge he and Lookout Lisa from Cache Advance have been …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 