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Winter Geocaches – Looking for Ideas

billnpegz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:18:05 +0000

I love creating geocache’s. Everything from building the container to finding that ideal spot to hide it (or vice versa… sometimes you find the spot and then create the container after). In the area we live, we get A LOT of snow. Typical cache hiding places become much more difficult. Difficult because people have to get to them, and difficult because they may be buried in inches to feet of snow.

I’d like to place [...]

Yellowstone Park – Old Faithful Geyser

admin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:11 +0000

Yellowstone Geyser - via Flickr: tiarescott

So what in the world does this page have to do with geocaching? Hmmm… well let me think… There is an Earthcache at Old Faithful Geyser. You can find it here… Other than that probably not much. I just think it is incredibly cool that you can watch one of the natural wonders of the world on a streaming web broadcast and I thought I would share it with [...]

Eclectic Penguin Geocoins

billnpegz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:39:54 +0000

OK… I couldn’t help myself. I had been reading about this penguin on various blog posts in the blogosphere and well, once I found the correct website to make the purchase I just couldn’t help but buy a pair. They appear to be elegantly simple and quite charming!

I believe these were actually made by Oakcoins here in the states but the designer and owner is from the UK… His geocaching moniker… Eclectic Penguin of [...]

The Scenic Loop – Northeast Washington

billnpegz — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:09:05 +0000

I haven’t been geocaching for very long but decided to jump in with both feet. One thing I noticed is that near where we live there were very few geocaches that were “readily” accessible. I also knew that part of the reason we built our house up here is for the scenic beauty. Combine those two things and I decided to place caches along a Scenic Loop.

The loop starts/ends in Colville, WA (or anywhere [...]