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Geocaching Lingo & Shorthand
I’m not sure if I’ve said this before, but when we started caching we really didn’t know anything about it. We had to learn as we cached. One of the things we had to learn was the geocaching lingo and abbreviations for phrases that we saw in many geocaches’ online logs. So, here’s a list…
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Geocaching Podcasts and YouTubers
I listen to several podcasts during the week on all kinds of topics. Listening certainly helps to pass the time in the carpool line or when I have to wash dishes. I was subscribed to several geocaching podcasts a few months ago, but over the summer I decided that I could only subscribe to one.…
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The Grid
Each and every geocache has a rating associated with it. This rating is a most important tool for geocachers to use whenever they set out to find a cache. The rating MUST be read and understood prior to beginning the search. Boy! do we have some tales to tell because we didn’t take a look…
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Birthday Cache
When Abbey turned 10, our Aunt Terry had the fantastic idea of hiding Abbey’s gift like a multistage geocache. Prior to arriving at the party, Aunt Terry and Uncle Richard hid an item and a clue at stage 1. The final stage, the gift, was hidden in our backyard. Abbey opened a card which she…
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All About Geocaching Trackable Items
The very first geocoin we ever found in a cache was Kiwi Fruit – New Zealand Geocoin: We had very little knowledge about trackables/travel tags/geocoins. The only thing we knew was that we were supposed to move it from one cache and put it in another cache, preferably in another city. Unfortunately, we made a…
Leslie Wiggins 