In this occasional series, It’s Not About The Numbers asks geocachers to find themselves, rather than a hidden container. Today’s victim is Groundspeak co-founder Bryan Roth. . BRYAN ROTH Age: 42 Location: Seattle, Washington. Originally from Long Island, New York. GC handle: Bryan. As co-founders of Groundspeak, Jeremy [Irish] was Jeremy, Elias [Alvord] was Elias; …
Four-year-old Davide Lencioni has a geocoin collection most adults would envy. Since the Italian toddler’s birth, his godmother Katja de Vries (GC handle: kdv) has been amassing the coins as a record of his life. “He was born in January 2008 and, of course, I created a Geocaching.com account for him the day he was …
NZ MEGA 2012 by the New Zealand Recreational GPS Society Inc. S45 52 E170 30 – Dunedin, New Zealand – October 19-22, 2012 http://mega.gps.org.nz/ Newsletter 1 – January 2012 In just under 9 months, Dunedin will host New Zealand’s first-ever MEGA geocaching event (GC35TTR). You’re reading the first of what will be a monthly newsletter …
Whilst a lot of us like to take photos while caching, with Garmin’s latest update to a number of their recent units, they have now opened new possibilities of taking photos with you where you go caching. Why is this useful? Well, we’ve all come across caches that have a hint such as ‘see photo’ …
Arizona’s Yuma County has come up with a real gem of a geocaching promotion. To launch their Centennial Celebration this week, county officials have organised a GPS-based Diamond Rush, with sparkly treasure for the winners. Beginning on Wednesday, residents will be able to hunt for seven, large glass diamonds hidden around the county that they …
Spotted in the news … this Sunday-Star Times article about a New Zealand Department of Conservation worker who was threatened for using GPS. Maori land rights activist Anthony Jackson confronted a Department of Conservation worker on Motiti Island about two weeks after the cargo ship Rena foundered on nearby Astrolabe reef. The Sunday Star-Times understands …
Richard Garriott – aka Lord British, the man who placed a geocache in the International Space Station and one on the bottom of the ocean - has a movie coming out about his trip into space. Comments from those in the know suggest this is a film to see. The documentary’s trailer can be viewed below. It’s kinda cool …
Spotted online today is this small article on the small town of Athens, Ohio that has introduced geocaching trails as a way to boost tourist numbers and bring more tourist revenue to the town. Geocaching, a game of high-tech treasure hunting, has landed Athens a small fortune by attracting tourists to the town. “It’s had …
That’s right – in what seems to be an unexpected announcement – the Geomate Jr has come to an end. A letter on the GPSr maker’s website reads: Dear Geomate Jr community, What can we say – this good thing has come to an end. We are no longer able to offer the Geomate Jr …
MEET OUR NEW BLOGGER Rediguana hails from the shaky city of Christchurch, New Zealand. He is an emergency manager by trade, and some of his interests outside of geocaching include travel, photography, mapping, and open source software and data. An ‘old-skool’ cacher, Rediguana (real name Gavin Treadgold) started geocaching in May 2001. . It’s been …
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