I spent some time today reading through logs that people had written long ago about caches that I’ve recently found that I thought were either particularly difficult to find or somehow interesting or creative. The best so far was not actually a log on the geocaching website, but rather the full story behind a successful [...]
On January 22, I found myself within a mile of the Concord degree confluence as I headed back to San Jose from an appointment east of Concord, not realizing earlier in the morning that I had come so close to the confluence even though I had driven along the same stretch of highway, just in [...]
I completed another minor life goal today: after eight and a half hours, I completed a 13-mile trek through rugged wilderness environment, rock-jumping swollen winter streams, sustaining minor injuries, seriously wondering whether or not I would return that evening, all in the combined names of geocaching and the memory of a good friend.
Today would have [...]
Ever since I first experienced finding my first geocache with a GPS, I decided that degree confluencing would be another favorite activity. Since I knew that I’d soon be heading out of town, I loaded up with GPS with the closest confluence coordinates and set off. I soon realized on my way from San Jose [...]
Well, the Amazing Race cache is complete. Unfortunately, my plan to slowly release it, first to Sean, and then to the rest of the local geocaching population went awry when the cache approver removed the disable flag on the cache when he approved it. So, when I logged back in later, expecting to see an [...]
“It took a GPS to get me away from technology.”
That’s the best quote I’ve seen lately while roaming the Geocaching forums. It is so true! I’ve been a technogeek for so many years that I lost the incentive to enjoy the outdoors. Not the desire or the love of nature, just the incentive to get [...]
The last set of clues, some of them practically giving it away!
You’ll never look at Tupperware the same way again;
It was listed as number seven in the Travel Channel’s show, Top Ten Lost Treasures;
Oftentimes I bring a trash bag with me;
Apart from people that accompany with me when I’m doing it, I’ve never seen anyone [...]
The clues continue:
As of today, I’ve done it 15 times, twice yesterday;
Until I did it and explained it to others, no one I know had ever heard of it, let alone done it before;
The first time I did it was on August 10 and it has consumed a lot of my spare time, one of [...]
I’ve done something mysterious many times during the last week:
You can’t do it in total darkness;
It requires batteries;
It can sometimes be more fun to do it with a partner or a group than by yourself;
You can’t do it at home, but you can do it while driving a car, riding a bike, rollerblading, or walking;
People [...]
