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Geocaching as a SAR Training Tool

billnpegz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:26:47 +0000

Guest Author: Rick Sylvia

“Base, this is team Bravo. We have arrived at our task location, have a ‘ find’ and are awaiting further instructions”.

“Bravo, this is Base. Roger the find, stand by for new coordinates”

Admittedly, the radio conversation above isn’t between Geocachers. Not exactly, anyway. But it could be between members of a Wilderness Search and Rescue team on a navigation and clue awareness training exercise. Beyond that difference, though, the SAR training exercise [...]

Build Your Own GPS – Caching for Nerds

billnpegz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:11:31 +0000

Techno Geeks – Bre Pettis and Joe Garland have posted a fun video/article on just how easy it is to build your own GPS using a few simple components. Now I somehow think there was a bit more done than what we see in the brief video, but it is fun to watch and if you have the winter geocaching blues it might be a good project. As they indicate schematics and code are [...]

Treasure Hunting with the iPhone 3G

billnpegz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:18:36 +0000

As many of you know I am an RSS and News Feed junkie… As such you may see me make some posts here that are references to works that I have read that I believe might be of interest to you. This post is one of those.

While surfing through the Mashable website I came across this article on using the iPhone for your geocaching. I like the single device idea. IE… one [...]

Geocaching – A Beginner’s Guide

billnpegz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:42 +0000

Author: Heather Bayer – posted by BillNPegz

Geocaching crazy – join the hunt!

I’m a self-confessed technophobe. I have never sent a text message or taken a photo with a cell phone; played a video game or watched a movie on a personal DVD player. In fact, I never quite mastered working the video machine [...]

Geocaching, Technology and the Outdoors!

billnpegz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:30:46 +0000

I’ve had my GPS unit for quite awhile. In fact I even knew about geocaching but never really embarked on the adventure until this past summer. I must say after about 30 cache finds so far I am hooked!

Geocaching, for those of you that are curious is an international “treasure hunt” of sorts. Individuals will hide a cache that may contain small trinkets for trading, and post the coordinates to this cache online for others [...]

Winter Geocaching… What Can You Do?

billnpegz — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:00:31 +0000

Image by Klearchos Kapoutsis via Flickr

When I think of winter I don’t necessarily think of geocaching. In our climate here in the Pacific Northwest, there is just something about the thought of trudging through inches, if not feet of snow looking for a hidden container that is not real appealing to me.

I am actually envious of those that are in warmer climates. They don’t have this added challenge that we have in [...]

Cache Talk – Rating Systems

billnpegz — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:23:37 +0000

I found this interesting article on an article exchange and thought I would introduce The Geocacher to the concept of guest authors while at the same time sharing some information related to the rating systems for caches and terrain. We can explore this a bit more with your comments and future articles. If you would like to publish an article on The Geocacher please contact the admin via the Contact link at the top of [...]

Geocaching 101 – The Beginners Video

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:11:11 +0000

Found this good tutorial type video on YouTube… Thought I would share it with you. You can add your thoughts or comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqCvcwTK37w