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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 [...]

Geo-Caching….a bonus!

Pegz1213 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:00:00 +0000

For some, Geocaching is all about the search, all about finding that hidden cache. The journey there and what you see often falls into second place or worse. For me the journey is the best part. Especially for those hunts that take us into the mountains of North Eastern Washington.

I enjoy the Jeep ride, the fresh air and the gorgeous scenery. Green meadows, dark fern covered valleys and trees that reach the sky. All [...]

Snowy Winter Geocaching…A few tips…

billnpegz — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:53:53 +0000

As winter sets in for those of us up here in the northern hemisphere the treasure hunt that is geocaching becomes more difficult. You will notice I did not say impossible, just more difficult. Many roads and trails become impassible and since many geocaches are somewhere on the ground you can run into challenges with snow covering the cache.

I would still encourage you all to get out and try to locate a few caches. Here [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

First Cache of the New Year…

billnpegz — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:31:29 +0000

When the weather outside looks like this it is pretty hard to not only hide a cache but the search becomes quite challenging as well.

I was quite happy when I received my email of new caches from geocaching.com that someone had placed a cache in our area AND it was relatively close AND it was winter accessible. I just had to jump on the opportunity to go searching. It could be my New Year’s first.

We [...]

Geocaching – The Technology Behind "The Hi-Tech Treasure Hunt"

billnpegz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:37:00 +0000

Image via Wikipedia

Author: Tonia Jordan

It all started on May 2, 2000 with the removal of selective availability by the White House. (Selective Availability is the intentional modification of GPS signal to degrade accuracy of readings) At that moment, the GPS receiver became 10 times more accurate.

GPS, or Global Positioning System is a navigational system which operates through the use of twenty-four satellites positioned around the globe in low Earth orbit. These satellites were [...]

For The Best Geocaching GPS Here’s What To Look For

billnpegz — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:00:49 +0000

By: Tessa Green

To make absolutely sure that every geocache hunt is thoroughly fabulous and successful, your GPS must have the ability to do the following:

It must find it’s position quickly and easily. When you switch on, the gps looks around, finds four or more positioning satellites and works out how far away they are. Using this information, it works out its own location. That’s a lot to do. And some GPS do [...]

First Time Geo-Cacher

Pegz1213 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:00:29 +0000

I know from asking my friends and family that there are lots of people out there that really have no idea what geocaching is. But I also know that once they hear about it they all want to give it a try. I didn’t come by my interest personally, I happen to be married to a man bitten by the geocaching bug. He was much more into it than I planned to be, but [...]