The Geocacher

When is a “Find” a “Find”?

billnpegz — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:26:53 +0000

I was out doing some caching the last weekend and a thought crossed my mind. The account that I have on geocaching.com is technically for both my wife an I. Now normally we go caching together so it has never presented a problem before but since only 1/2 of the team was there is it really appropriate for me to log a find to that account? For the record I did log the finds. [...] Related posts:

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 [...] Related posts:

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 [...] Related posts:

Geocaching “EVENTS” and Travel Bugs/Coins

billnpegz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:30:57 +0000

I like my “travelers”. Sometimes I like them so much that I won’t share them with others by sending them out into the world to move from cache to cache to cache. Rather I will add them to my personal collection to enjoy.

For those of you new to the sport/hobby or you simply don’t know travelers – travel bugs, geocoins, pathtags, etc. are serialized (numbered) items that are placed into a geocache with [...] Related posts:

Reconnect with Nature….

billnpegz — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:38:33 +0000

There is a great campaign going on now that tries to help families reconnect with nature and to experience it first-hand. In our busy worlds this is not always an easy thing to do.

Here’s an interesting statistic from the Ad Council… In the last 20 years the time children spend outside has declined by 50%. Personally I believe a large portion of this decline can be attributed to things like computers, television, video game [...] Related posts:

Need an Atlantic Puffin Geocoin

billnpegz — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:40:43 +0000

While is was off doing other things I happened to miss Eclectic Penguin’s release of the Atlanting Puffin geocoin. I’ve included an image on the left here of what this coin looks like.

I have searched a number of places on the Intenet and I have not been able to find anywhere that has this coin available. If you happen to be one of those collectors that purchased a number of these I would be interested [...] Related posts:

I’m Back…

billnpegz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:44:49 +0000

Interesting how life gets in the way of some of the fun things that we enjoy. Fun things like geocaching, or blogging.

For those of you that frequent thegeocaher.com or used to frequent the blog when it was being updated, I am renewing my commitment to periodic postings which means I am going to also be renewing my commitment to my geocaching adventures so that I will have something at least remotely interesting to write [...] Related posts:

Bomb Squads and Geocaches – Some Tips

billnpegz — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:22:54 +0000

If you watch the RSS feed on the home page you will notice that there seems to be an ever increasing number of geocaches being exploded by the bomb squad. One of the more recent being an ammo box located in a industrial/office park that was near an airport.

I can’t help but wonder if these types of things continue to happen what the ultimate result will be to the sport, or worse yet what the [...] Related posts:

The Eclectic Penguins Waddled In from England

billnpegz — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:14:28 +0000

You may recall in my earlier post I had been reading about these cute penguin geocoins in a few blog posts and I had to have one. I tracked down the website where I could actually buy them and placed my order for one copper and one brass finish.

Yesterday (1/15) they waddled through the door… Well I guess technically I must have been doing the waddling because they were nicely packaged in a bubble wrap [...] Related posts:

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 [...] Related posts: