Category: Geocaching

  • A Most Fun Busy Day

    A Most Fun Busy Day

    March 24, 2014 Though I’m sure we left earlier in the morning, I turned on my GPS at 9am. I didn’t turn it off until 11:55pm. This is my gps’ record of where we traveled that day: To complete the busy day, we had to find and log at least six of the ten possible…

  • Geocaching Challenges

    Geocaching Challenges

    When we started geocaching, Karl and I didn’t know anything about the various challenges that cachers have created in order to make the game even more adventurous. Most of these caching challenges are for the cacher who enjoys something a little more difficult than simply finding one cache. The big challenges are the “Everyday” Challenges,…

  • Virtuals and Webcam Caches

    Virtuals and Webcam Caches

    The other day, I blogged about different types of caches. I mentioned traditional, multi, mystery, earth, letterbox, and CITO. There are two types of caches that are no longer allowed. The ones that currently exist in the geocaching.com system are grandfathered in; GC will not publish new ones. Because these particular types are being archived…

  • GeoFest 2014

    GeoFest 2014

    In March of this year, our family attended our very first major geocaching event. It was dubbed GeoFest in the Parks, and its purpose was to kick-off the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of Alabama’s state parks. The main event happened on Saturday at Chewacla State Park, but we decided to make the weekend a…

  • 10 Geocaching Essentials

    10 Geocaching Essentials

    10 things I need when geocaching