Need to dust off the winter cobwebs and get back in shape for some serious geocaching this spring? Here’s a great way to get in shape and have fun too!
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No More Cold Fingers!
Do you have a gift card left over from Christmas that’s been burning a hole in your pocket? Have you been thinking about going out geocaching but decided not to because you have to take off your gloves in freezing cold weather to use the touch screen on your GPS or Smart Phone? Well, check out this great new accessory for wintertime geocaching — they are gloves with metallic thread woven into the yarn, allowing you to use any touchscreen device without taking off the gloves! They are available in lots of different styles and prices ranging from around $10.00 to $30.00 through Amazon and other retailers. They really work!
New Year’s Geo-Resolutions?
What are your geocaching resolutions for the new year? Is it to hit a big milestone, introduce your kids to the joys of hiking and exploring, or simply to get in shape? Maybe your goal is to tackle a difficult cache, learn to kayak, or search for Earthcaches in your area.
One of the great things about geocaching is the flexibility to make it as easy or difficult as you want — whether you’re young and fit, a senior citizen working to stay active, a family with children, or physically challenged — there are unlimited opportunities for you to enjoy geocaching in your own area or on vacation.
One easy way to find the perfect set of geocaches for your specific needs is to build a “pocket query”, a feature available to premium members of the site which allows you to screen out all but the caches that meet your specific set of requirements. Even better, those results can be emailed to you in a format that you can load directly into your GPS. What are you waiting for? Grab a friend and your GPS and head out to find a geocache — there’s one out there just waiting for you!
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Tagged children, earthcache, fitness, GPS, kids, milestone, pocket query, seniors
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Jeremy Irish
Here’s an interesting video featuring Jeremy Irish, founder of Geocaching.com, speaking on the history and the future of the sport –
Island Spirit 2012
In case you haven’t heard the news, there’s something big coming up next July in British Columbia — It’s Island Spirit 2012 , a MEGA event in the Cowitchan Valley on Vancouver Island. The event page is already up for the event, and it looks like it’s going to be a great event with lots of fun for all ages!
Mark your calendar and start thinking about making reservations soon — you won’t want to miss out on this amazing event here in the Pacific Northwest.
Don’t forget to dust off your passports in you’re planning to attend from the U.S., or renew them if necessary now so you’ll have them in plenty of time before the event.
See you all there!
Winter Caching Opportunities
Winter time doesn’t have to mean the end of geocaching until spring weather arrives. With some preparation and common sense, you can enjoy geocaching year-round and keep those geocaching streaks alive.
A basic list of items you should carry with you for any outdoor trek, especially important during winter months, might include:
BC Roadside Cache Ban Announcement
On August 9, 2011, due to a complaint lodged by an individual to a district office of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI), Groundspeak (Geocaching’s parent company) sent a notice to the BC geocache review team. This notice stated that:
“…no roadside geocaches be published until further notice in BC. This means no caches by a highway, road, lane, pullout, intersection, traffic circle, median, highway rest stop, boulevard or any land or equipment that may be remotely considered owned or maintained by the Ministry of Transportation, without proof of permission from the BC MOTI or other agency who may have jurisdiction over the location of your cache”.
Adding Waypoints On Your Cache Page
One of the common things that cachers overlook when they are submitting a new multicache or mystery/puzzle style cache for review is adding the hidden waypoints — the secret locations of the waypoints and the final locations of these caches. While these locations need to be kept secret from geocachers viewing the cache pages, the reviewer needs to know these locations in order to determine whether or not these additional locations are appropriate and far enough away from other nearby caches.
There’s an easy way to add those coordinates, as well as the locations of parking, trailheads, and reference points to any cache page — here’s how!
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ET Highway Power Trail
Many of you have heard of the legendary power trail of 1,500 geocaches running through the Nevada desert, and some of you have visited and cached the area yourself. For those not familiar with this cache series, here’s a link to the first of the caches, 0001-E.T. In browsing through some YouTube videos recently, I came across this short clip from one of B.C.’s caching families, the Wet Coast Explorers. Ride along with them as they log a few of this legendary series –
