This is just a plain old fun cache that earned a Favorite Point from me.  A definite must if you are ever in the Palm Springs area!  I could elaborate, but just watch the video below.     SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!    

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 […]

Woot woot!  What a way to start the year, an FTF on January 1st! A local cacher had hidden a string of caches in a nearby park on 12/28 and I was unable to get to them.  Finally I had a day off, so I checked the cache pages and they were still unfound.  We loaded up and headed out. A quick 10 minute drive landed us in the first GZ with high hopes.  Kiddo and I hopped out and arg… fresh foot […]

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 […]

Yep another FTF!  A clinical psychologist might say that I have an addiction problem.  He might be right.  I cannot help it.  I love the little twinge when I get that new email from Geocaching with the subject “New Traditional Cache”.  I love the bigger twinge when I see that it is close and I have a chance.  I love the anticipation as I (safely & legally) race to the GZ and that f […]

    And what a great cache to score our 2000th smiley on!  It was an event cache on 12-13-14 called “For The Numbers: 12.13.14” The event was held down at Mission Bay in San Diego and it was an absolutely B-E-A-utiful day!  There was food, folks and fun with 49 teams posting an Attended log.  A big shout out goes to team habu! for hosting the event – they really went ab […]

I ended 2013 with an FTF on New Year’s Eve and decided to set a New Year’s Resolution to try to get at least one FTF every month this year! I started 2014 off with a real quick FTF on January 2nd, but some months really came down to the wire. Today concludes my resolution with my December FTF coming on Witch Creek CDF cache. We spotted the cache location as we drove up to the GZ and we […]

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 […]

I love the FTF as you are well aware by now.  For this hunt, team SBlookers and I were in NYC and I saw this one had just published so off we went early the next morning (okay kinda early – noon – but in our defense, we were on west coast time!)  I was a little worried when we arrived at the GZ because there were footprints, very fresh footprints, all over the place.  ARG, had we been […]

Team sblookers and I were out grabbing a few caches in Sedona and we ran across this cool container!  I love the creativity of geocachers… Check out this cache:   SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!  

I was recently in Telluride, CO and found this cool little cache near my lodging. It was a fun cache find – especially since I was probably hypoxic given that the geocache was hidden around 8600′ above sea level. If you don’t mind a spoiler, check out the cache pictures below! What has been your highest cache find?  Share your high altitude finds here!   SEVERE SPOILER ALERT […]

  With only days to spare, we completed our 7 Souvenirs of August challenge. We attended an event cache, logged our sixth and final cache requirement and were rewarded with the 7th souvenir – the Achiever.  Some cachers, much more motivated than I, actually knocked all of them out within hours of the challenge. I checked at 7:00 am PST on August 1st and 74 cachers had already completed […]

  Whoohoo, only one more to go!  We knocked out the Sightseer Souvenir by finding a multi-cache. As with puzzle caches, I am not the biggest fan of multi-caches either. I mean, I have to hunt down at a minimum two points (with some multi’s having over 10 waypoints!) and yet I only get a GC credit for one smiley. I know, it’s not about the numbers, it’s about the adventure. B […]

Yes, another FTF! I love the anticipation of racing (well, obeying all traffic laws in an attempt to get to the GZ as quickly as possible) and the thrill of a clean log sheet. This video pretty much sums it up.     SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!    

This was a fun geocache I scored while on the road.  I have seen this type of hide before making this find a little easier, but it still is a great cache container!   SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!  

  Four down, I can smell that final secret souvenir! Today, I knocked out the “Puzzler” souvenir.  It was a tough find, taking close to an hour from start to penning my name down on that log sheet.  Here’s another confession: I hate puzzle caches.  Just give me some coords and clues and I will gladly hike several miles and find a cache, but this ambiguity of puzzles and myst […]

I just received a gentle reminder from Geocaching HQ on my inbox:

Today was International Geocaching Day 2014 and everyone who logged a find today earned a new souvenir.  This one took a little more effort than planned. I started with a DNFA on Magnetic, Green Power Box:  Didn’t find it Well this attempt was not so much a DNF as a DNFA (did not fully attempt).I drive by this cache every day to and from work. I was saving it for a nice simple p-n-g. Yes, I […]

  Now we’re on a roll, three souvenirs unlocked – half way there! To unlock the Collector souvenir, we had to find either a virtual, whereigo, letterbox or webcam.  Being the over-achievers, SBlookers and I actually double tapped this one and found a cool webcam cache and an awesome letterbox cache. The webcam cache “Too Weird, Man” was, well, weird… but super fu […]

  Alright, there is number two!  I grabbed an Earthcache to unlock the “Nature Lover” souvenir.  This was a cool earthcache in the heart of Sacramento.  Arcade Creek Earthcache brings you to this little creek running through the middle of town. As a bonus, this cache has a traditional cache, benchmark and Munzee all within a 100 feet of it!  Cha-ching!     SPOILER ALERT: […]

  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 recently found one of TheeDragon’s caches (read all about it here).  Now TheeDragon wanted to share the spot light with another great cache that he had just found.  “Spongebob Square Cache” has been found 42 times with 35 Favorite Points awarded. Here is what TheeDragon had to say and his Found It log: The C/o put some time into the making of this cache.  Near the area where my […]

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 […]

Yes, another post about an FTF attempt.  What can I say?  I love them. Here is my “Found It” log:    Found it 07/11/2014 FTF baby, oh yeah  I saw this one publish on my way home from Costco. So I hustled up and tossed the cold items in the fridge and jetted back out. I hit the GZ at 2:00 pm and made the quick find on the quiet street. I quickly opened the container and pulled out […]

Admittedly, I am an FTF hound.  Yep, there it is, out there for everyone to know.  I love FTF’s… and I have hunted them down at all hours, in all locations, through rain and swarms of bees, up hills, down hills and back again. This little FTF adventure was due to an incredibly stupid early show time at work, fortunately that fresh, clean log sheet gave me a little boost – quite i […]

Today I am introduced a new cache review: the video cache!  These short 2 minute videos will help you get your needed cache fix without having to leave your computer.  While it might not be quite as fun as actually going out and finding a cache, maybe it will motivate or inspire you today.   SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!  

We just finished filling in all 366 boxes in our Finds for Each Day of the Year grid.  Yep, we have found a cache on every day of the year including the elusive Leap Day on February 29th! I noticed this stats box about 15 months ago, January 2013, and decided that the grid needed to be all green! A cache for each day of the year is all we needed and so we started.  A cache on January 4th, another […]

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 […]

I love geocaching… and one reason is for the creativity that cachers put into their hides.  This particular cache left me smiling because it is a classic cache container.  I was in the hunt for an FTF on this cache, but ended up as an STF (second to find).  It was still a fun hike on a gorgeous SoCal morning.   SPOILER ALERT:  Cache container and location revealed!   A rare photo o […]

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 […]

I nearly died on this cache!

Most of my friends just rolled their eyes. I am a bit of a story teller and who wants to hear a boring story? But seriously… I am almost died… kind of.