Some people trade baseball or bubble gum cards, Shane Holmes collects examples featuring geocachers. And as the creator of this new geo-craze and the owner of Facebook’s Geocache Trading Cards page, he’s hoping you might join in. The American (GC handle: GeoLobo) came up with the idea in 2008, having spent two years trying to decide on …
The CacheSense Beta Team, who were hard at work making CacheSense even better, recently noted the mystery appearance of a ‘cactus’ attribute. This little fella (see left) caused some confusion throughout the team as no one could find his prickly presence anywhere throughout the GC.com world. The sudden appearance of this attribute was also noted …
We discovered a garden of junk while looking for a hide – so decided to turn it into a geocaching challenge.
BOOK REVIEW Rainbow’s End: A Romancing America title from Barbour Books by Valerie Comer, Annalisa Daughety, Nicole O’Dell and Cara C Putman Paperback US$7.99/Kindle US$6.99 on Amazon I’ve read more Mills & Boon-type love stories over the years than I care to admit but Barbour’s new title Rainbow’s End is the first to ever feature geocaching. …
By Fran Lovell, Land Information New Zealand Scott Taylor-Beech – pictured above – may only be eight years old but he’s already a treasure-hunting expert who uses a handheld GPS receiver loaded with internet map data to track down prizes hidden all over New Zealand. He and fellow enthusiast Jack Braddick, also 8, are teaching …
It what seems to be an odd twist on the geocache/bomb relationship, a player near Neustadt Weinstraße in Germany has stumbled upon what appears to be a bomb. After posting the photo in imgur.com earlier today, the comments have been running hot in the associated reddit thread. Reddit user eodtech1 noted: “Looks to be a GP ‘Old …
Two Austrian brothers found two human skulls while geocaching in their hometown of Linz last week. The siblings, aged 23 and 26, stumbled upon the remains while searching below Franz-Josef Warte, an historic tower which overlooks the Danube River, as well as the districts of Urfahr and Pöstlingberg. Their gruesome discovery occurred in an alcove …
UPDATE: NZ MEGA 2012 A trip Down Under for New Zealand’s first Mega may leave an indelible impression on Groundspeak’s Jeremy Irish. The company founder (GC handle: Jeremy) told It’s Not About The Numbers that he is considering getting a Maori tattoo when he visits the South Island city of Dunedin in October. Maori tattoos …
Google maps are coming back to geocaching.com on May 22nd! What do you think? Do you care? Did you miss them when they were gone? For regular members will this make you pay to become Premium members.
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