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 [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/bomb-squads-and-geocaches-some-tips/feed/ 3 http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-a-beginners-guide/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-a-beginners-guide/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:42 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/geocaching-a-beginners-guide/

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/first-cache-of-the-new-year/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/first-cache-of-the-new-year/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:31:29 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/first-cache-of-the-new-year/

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 [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/first-cache-of-the-new-year/feed/ 4 http://www.thegeocacher.com/winter-geocaching-what-can-you-do/ http://www.thegeocacher.com/winter-geocaching-what-can-you-do/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:00:31 +0000 billnpegz http://www.thegeocacher.com/118/winter-geocaching-what-can-you-do/

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 [...]]]> http://www.thegeocacher.com/winter-geocaching-what-can-you-do/feed/ 2 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