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GeoFest 2014
In March of this year, our family attended our very first major geocaching event. It was dubbed GeoFest in the Parks, and its purpose was to kick-off the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of...
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Virtuals and Webcam Caches
The other day, I blogged about different types of caches. I mentioned traditional, multi, mystery, earth, letterbox, and CITO. There are two types of caches that are no longer allowed. The ones that...
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Geocaching Challenges
When we started geocaching, Karl and I didn’t know anything about the various challenges that cachers have created in order to make the game even more adventurous. Most of these caching challenges are...
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A Most Fun Busy Day
March 24, 2014 Though I’m sure we left earlier in the morning, I turned on my GPS at 9am. I didn’t turn it off until 11:55pm. This is my gps’ record of where we traveled that day: To complete the busy...
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A Local Adventure
I’ve said it before, but I don’t mind saying it again: Geocaching satisfies my childhood longing to participate in a Midnight Madness/Cannonball Run/Goonies type of adventure. The cool thing about...
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International Earthcache Day
From time-to-time, geocaching.com will announce special events and souvenirs related to the history of geocaching. Today (Sunday, 10/12/14) was one of those days. If you fulfill the requirements, then...
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Geocaching Misadventures
Every perfect geocaching adventure deserves at least two geocaching misadventures. For us, misadventures include not having a necessary tool, getting wet, getting lost. I would say that we’ve...
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All About Geocaching Trackable Items
The very first geocoin we ever found in a cache was Kiwi Fruit – New Zealand Geocoin: We had very little knowledge about trackables/travel tags/geocoins. The only thing we knew was that we were...
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Birthday Cache
When Abbey turned 10, our Aunt Terry had the fantastic idea of hiding Abbey’s gift like a multistage geocache. Prior to arriving at the party, Aunt Terry and Uncle Richard hid an item and a clue at...
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The Grid
Each and every geocache has a rating associated with it. This rating is a most important tool for geocachers to use whenever they set out to find a cache. The rating MUST be read and understood prior...
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Geocaching Podcasts and YouTubers
I listen to several podcasts during the week on all kinds of topics. Listening certainly helps to pass the time in the carpool line or when I have to wash dishes. I was subscribed to several geocaching...
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Geocaching Lingo & Shorthand
I’m not sure if I’ve said this before, but when we started caching we really didn’t know anything about it. We had to learn as we cached. One of the things we had to learn was the geocaching lingo and...
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The Golden Ammo Can
Our local caching community is the Crimson Tide Cachers Association. Someone in CTCA will schedule an Event Cache for all kinds of reasons. We enjoy getting together for a little pep rally over lunch...
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First to Find
Yesterday afternoon, the kids and I went out to see if we could find a couple of newly published caches. The D/T for this cache is 3.5/2. It took us about 15-20 minutes to drive to GZ. Then we had to...
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All About WherIGo Caches
WherIGo caches are a relatively new type of geocache. Do not allow the fact that there aren’t many of these caches in existence mislead you into thinking that they aren’t totally awesome. Every WherIGo...
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Our ASP Diamond Treasure Challenge Adventure
While attending the GeoFest in the Parks event at Chewacla State Park, we learned the details for the Alabama State Park Diamond Treasure Challenge. Hatched in the mind of the uber-cacher simply known...
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Hiding a Geocache (10 Considerations)
#1 – WAIT Though an official statement does not exist, it is generally recommended that a cacher find at least 100 caches before he/she attempts to hide a geocache. Spending time finding geocaches...
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Geo-Art
[So what if I was supposed to write the 31 Days of Geocaching in the month of October 2014! Maybe life got a little busy. It’s my blog and I will fill in my 31 days when I want to. Ha!] This is...
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