One of the great things I love about geocaching is that there is a central website that is FREE (yes, we like free) and where you can see the adventures of other geocachers. It’s almost like a geocaching tool that can be used. Geocachers can post photos, profiles, stories about who they are and what they do. Geocache muggles would never know that this world existed with all this fun and secret adventures!
We heard about this awesome geocache series at a local event. It was a series to honor the Top 40 cachers in San Diego (greatness #1, but sadness we are a long way from that list).
We are getting close to 1,000 geocaches! This sounds like a lot until you meet other geocachers and you see how many are over 1,000 and then 5,000 and with the top San Diego geocachers Kwvers at 12,000! Amazing!
I also just completed a geocache series about the Top 40 cachers in San Diego and it made me think – where am I on that list and what are my geocaching statistics?
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A new year and a new geocacher name – Bangers&Mash
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A group of geocachers were starting to email each other in November about this 5/5 cache that they wanted to do.
A 5/5/ geocache is one that is Level 5 difficulty and Level 5 terrain. The scale is from 1-5 so it is the hardest one out there. I’m not sure how many exist but in the San Diego area I think you are looking at maybe 10 of these.
The email crew decided to make it a geocache event and hike together to the location. We scheduled it for Jan 2nd to welcome in the new year and to start getting those extra holiday cookies off our bodies.
I’m not sure what I expected, the reviews suggested it was quite a difficult hike, but I’m young and reasonably athletic, so no problem, right?
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When I started geocaching 2 years ago, I started to hear lots of new terminology and did not know what any of it was. I’d read the logs that people wrote when they found a cache and would scratch my head and wonder.
So I thought I’d pull together a geocaching glossary with a few terms you’ll hear and see when in the world of geocaching:
Cache - the short name for a geocache. It can refer to either the actual hide or the verb “I went caching today”
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I like to take photos of my geocaching adventures. I usually upload them to Google Picasa photo albums. I found this feature they added to the Picasa tool on my computer to create a collage of photos from a folder and thought I’d add it to my geocaching tools I use.
Here is the photo collage from a trip to Tucson geocaching in Arizona.
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I’ve found over 700 geocaches so many geocaches are often in the same style or type that I’ve found before. But every now and then I come across a unique geocache that has me walking away saying “wow” and amazed at how creative people can be in placing geocache hides.
If you are interested in the details or getting this unique geocache for your self, here is the link to the Geocaching website. GCJNKV – Sea Monkey Central
First you start by finding the location of the cache, a clever pipe attached to a fence….you think it’s one of the standard pipes until your GPS sends you to this location…
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Love to showcase some of the common geocache hides that are used by geocachers but that a geocache muggle would never think that there is a secret treasure to be found.
This is called a pole hide…
Geocache Hide - Pole Hide 01
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My life has got pretty crazy busy lately – so making time to geocache is not as easy as it used to be. So instead of me taking the time to create query, download a geocache file and download to my Garmin unit…I use my iPhone instead.
I pull out my phone, load up the application, and search the local area, find one and go!
The developers are making updates on a regular basis and welcome feedback in the geocache iphone forum
For instance, they added the ability to post the log file directly to the website and not store it as a field note, meaning you needed to take an extra trip to the web site.
This is soooo worth the $9.95!! Read more at official geocaching website
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