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 [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-a-beginners-guide/feed/ 1 http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-technology-and-the-outdoors/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-technology-and-the-outdoors/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:30:46 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-technology-and-the-outdoors/

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 [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-technology-and-the-outdoors/feed/ 1 http://www.thegeocacher.com/looking-for-guest-writers/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/looking-for-guest-writers/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:28 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/100/looking-for-guest-writers/

The Geocacher is looking for your help.  We would like to publish articles from those of you that are active in the sport of geocaching. 

Surely I can write about my experiences and the caches that I visit and hide, and the geocoins and trackables that I have come across in my travels,  but in doing so you get a pretty narrow view that would in no way represent all that is happening in [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/looking-for-guest-writers/feed/ 5 http://www.thegeocacher.com/the-bomb-squad-and-geocaching/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/the-bomb-squad-and-geocaching/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:56:39 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/86/the-bomb-squad-and-geocaching/

Today (12/23/08) in Waynesboro, PA another geocache was interpreted by the local authorities to be a device of unknown origin and potentially dangerous.  You can read the article here… They ultimately ended up blowing it up and are now searching for the person that placed it.

In this day and age where you just can’t be too careful I can fully understand individuals (ie. muggles) being overly cautious when they see a stranger hide something [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/the-bomb-squad-and-geocaching/feed/ 0 http://www.thegeocacher.com/is-geocaching-a-sport-hobby-or-game/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/is-geocaching-a-sport-hobby-or-game/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:13:26 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/65/is-geocaching-a-sport-hobby-or-game/

When I started thegeocacher.com I wondered where it should be placed in terms of categorization.  I think we could fairly place it into categories with sports, hobbies, or games.  There are quite a few more categories you could use to describe geocaching, but ultimately I thought those 3 were the most all encompassing.

Using the technology at hand, I jumped onto Wikipedia to see if I could gather some further information and perhaps fine tune [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/is-geocaching-a-sport-hobby-or-game/feed/ 0 http://www.thegeocacher.com/welcome-to-the-geocacher/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/welcome-to-the-geocacher/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:28:00 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/47/welcome-to-the-geocacher/

Welcome to The Geocacher website.  This new WordPress blog will be strictly devoted to topics and content that are related to the high-tech world-wide treasure hunting game of geocaching.

It doesn’t matter if you are new to the game or if you have been caching for years.  All are welcome and all are encouraged to participate and help build the content and community of this site.

You will find many different things here and of course [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/welcome-to-the-geocacher/feed/ 0