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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Bomb Squad and Geocaching???

billnpegz — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:56:39 +0000

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 [...]

Driver Follows GPS Into Lake

billnpegz — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:33:22 +0000

Posted Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:07pm AEDT by ABC News

Car sinking by jackmalvern

A Polish driver who was too sure of his GPS road navigation device ended up neck-deep in a lake after ignoring road signs warning of a dead-end ahead, Polish police said overnight.

“The man took a road that was closed a year ago when the area was flooded to make an artificial lake serving as a water reservoir – he ignored three [...]

The Scenic Loop – Northeast Washington

billnpegz — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:09:05 +0000

I haven’t been geocaching for very long but decided to jump in with both feet. One thing I noticed is that near where we live there were very few geocaches that were “readily” accessible. I also knew that part of the reason we built our house up here is for the scenic beauty. Combine those two things and I decided to place caches along a Scenic Loop.

The loop starts/ends in Colville, WA (or anywhere [...]

Welcome to The Geocacher

billnpegz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:28:00 +0000

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 [...]