I am a numbers weirdo. I notice palindromes on my odometer. I find numerical patterns in phone numbers. I love dates like 07-08-09 or 12-12-12 or that on the 14th of this month at 9:26:53 it will be pi day – 3.141592635. Yes, I like numbers. And my obsession with numbers blends great with geocaching. There are so many number challenges to be had, but how to keep them all straight? There […]
As we roll into a new year, we are forced towards the inevitable New Year’s Resolutions. Lose some weight, exercise, work less, play more! Arg. Last year, I tossed a few geocaching resolutions onto the list: Attend WWFM XI Make my 2000th find Continue my streak of at least one FTF a month Looking back over the year, all three were achieved, hooray! With the clock ticking down to the New Ye […]
Sometimes a night cache is unavoidable, such as my 3:15 am FTF. Other times, we can choose to hunt down a geocache while basking in wonderful sunlight or attempt the find under the cover of darkness. Here is Night Caching Pro/Con list that I have come up with over the years: Day Pro: It’s light out! Night Con: It’s dark out! Day Con: Muggles – lots of them. Night Pro: Mug […]
So I got a later start than I wanted, but now we’re off! One down, five more to find to unlock lucky number seven! This was an easy p-n-g cache that I grabbed after lunch (yes, the classic post-meal smiley). SPOILER ALERT: Cache container and location revealed!
Friends and fellow cachers “SBlookers” sent me a picture of a super fun cache they recently found. SBlookers (at least Pappa Looker) and I have nabbed caches all over the country and even found a few abroad! This cache is one of the reasons I love geocaching: a cool cache highlighting a cool place. Geocache BB-61 USS IOWA highlights a retired battleship moored in the Port of Los Ang […]
Geocaching just announced their August 2014 Challenge – the 7 Souvenirs of August. Last year’s challenge was to find a cache a day (sounds familiar eh?) for the entire month. The reward was a souvenir for each day you found a cache. This year’s challenge is a little more simple… or complex depending on where you live! Here is what GC.com has to say: The 7 Souvenirs of Augu […]
I love caches that are placed for a reason… when a CO (cache owner) sees a particular spot and the spot just calls to him to place a cache there! I had just finished working nearby and was about to head home when the urge to score a smiley overcame me – so out came the smart phone and I was rewarded with 2 caches within .5 miles – hooray! Both caches appeared to be fairly easy b […]
Here are 10 things that might indicate that your quest to be the first to find on a cache has failed: 10. The cache already has 215 favorite points. 9. You see fresh footprints heading up the same trail you are traveling. Picture taken on a three cache STF run! Yes, those prints are from the FTF’er! 8. You see head lamps bobbing up and down and all around about 30 feet off the tra […]
And everything in its place. My mom said this to my brother and I a million times as we were growing up. And it actually stuck (thanks mom)! This great phrase applies to all kinds of situations and yes, even geocaching. First, when you decide to hide a cache, you need to make sure that said place is safe, secure and follows GC’s guidelines. But it also applies to us finders as well. The […]
