The owner of the International Space Station cache tells It’s Not About His Numbers about his next hide … Wealthy American geocacher Richard Garriott de Cayeux is ready to go back to the Titanic – this time to plant his latest hide. The Texas multi-millionaire (GC handle: Lord British) expects to place his next geocache …
I’ve often wished my smartphone could be built into my wrist so that I could be completely plugged in. Now it seems pigeons already are … at least for GPS. Researchers in the United States have identified a group of 53 cells in the brains of pigeons that respond to the direction and strength of …
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Tag, you’re it … Or you could be if you enter It’s Not About The Numbers‘ giveaway for one of two GeoPardners travel tags. After we profiled this inexpensive, new TB range by USA Geocoins, owner Eric Kirkland kindly donated two of his Bushwhacker Bob designs as prizes. All you have to do is tell us …
I will be posting the short updates at www.youtube.com/geocachingouttakes I hope to do some short updates and highlights of this weekend’s MEGA event at MOGA. It all depends on how good the internet is at the hotel. Full videos of the event will come later when I get the chance to edit them.
Groundspeak reviewer IowaAdmin explains our three biggest hiccups when submitting new cache listings. “It’s Not About the Numbers was kind enough to ask me to write a guest blog on the topic of ‘the biggest/most common mistakes you see as a reviewer when players submit a new cache listing’. But since geocachers are Groundspeak’s customers, …
Check it out …Wilderness magazine’s feature article this month is all about geocaching! It’s a great article; very well written, and definitely worth a read. Not only is the geocaching article excellent but the whole magazine is a great read, especially if you are planning on a visit to New Zealand sometime soon … perhaps …
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It sounds like a bad movie script … Four Oregon geocachers go looking for a hide named ‘Skull n’Bones’ but actually find a body floating face down in a swamp. Unfortunately for Daren Drops (GC handle: Bad Duck), that’s exactly what happened on Sunday. The Coos Bay resident discovered the badly decomposed corpse “a quarter-mile from the …
It’s Not About The Numbers noted yesterday the theory that Garmin was enforcing a new pricing regime that would make PNDs a low-volume, high-value item and lamented the failure of Garmin (and others, I should point out) to forge ahead with the development of a GPSr/phone hybrid. Well, maybe we needn’t have worried about that … It …
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