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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
COVID-19 and geocaching
I am not a medical expert, nor do I play on TV. I’m just a guy trying to make the best of things. Friday I decided to archive a geocaching event for later this month after our local library system announced it is closing for a month. The event was to be inside a library …
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 …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 