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 …

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 …

#IHeartGCHiders

One of the things I love about geocaching is all of the great hides that are out there. Cache owners, or COs, often put a lot of time and effort into putting out great hides. Many of those hides are original to the area. Others seem to be a dime a dozen. Either way, the …