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Lost articles that might “come back”
We’ve given some thought over the last few months to which of the blog articles that were lost in our database failure we could “restore” by rewriting them, and we have come up with three so far: Coming (back) soon!
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Thanks Samsung</sarc>
So, I debugged something this weekend. I use the WLSoft Chirp app on my Android phone to program and read Garmin Chirp wireless beacons for geocaching. They’re getting to be a bit passé but I still like to find them and I have owned a Chirp cache for a few years now. And yes, I…
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IFL Geocaching anyway…
Today I replaced our easiest cache. GC73998 Baynes Channel View is D=1.5 and honestly we think it could be1.0, it’s that easy. It shouldn’t have any DNFs, but in fact it has 25 (on 187 Found It logs), mainly because it IS so easy to find. So easy to find that apparently m-ggles find it…
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A NANO made of REBAR?!
Here’s a cache I found a few years ago and mentioned in my first “cool caches” compilation post way back when. It’s still there and in reasonable shape too! This is a clever and fairly rare hide type – I have only ever found two of these. It’s a short length of rebar with a…
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Webcam Caches are dying and not for the reason you think
I was recently looking through my old finds, and came across my first and only webcam cache find. This is a grandfathered cache type, meaning it is no longer possible to publish a webcam cache but the ones that existed before the grandfathering are allowed to continue operating and collecting finds. The cache is BigWave…
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New Virtual Reward cache submitted: Signs of Lekwungen
Just submitted our Virtual Rewards 3.0 cache and if approved it will be a dandy! Seven locations (but you only have to visit two), tons of history about the Lekwungen peoples who were the first human occupants of this land, and their early relationship with the British colonists who arrived in the 19th century. You’ll…
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GeoWoodstock: SO MANY TRACKABLES!
There never was any way I was going to discover them all, even if all I did all day was run around taking pictures! Every kind you can imagine was spotted at GeoWoodstock: nametags, cars, clothes, travel bugs, geocoins – even tattoos! Here’s a video montage of SOME of the trackables.
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Yet another new icon: Locationless
Some time ago Groundspeak published and locked the first Locationless (Reverse) cache in a very long time. GC9FAVE “Discovered while geocaching – Locationless Cache” was unlocked this morning, and will remain available until the end of 2024. Unless Groundspeak gets into the habit of publishing more, this icon in my stats will likely forever have…
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Road to GeoWoodstock: Planning Finds
In my last post I made mention that I intended for Canada’s First Giga to be my milestone 1,500th find. Yesterday I reached 1,496 meaning I have three finds to make before I log “Attended” for the Giga. Of course, with side events that are happening before and during GWXVIII, this means I have to…
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Road to GeoWoodstock: Parting Gift!
I was sitting on 1,495 finds when I got up this morning, and I had planned to not cache anymore until I reached GeoWoodstock XVIII – the idea being that I would get a couple of side events and local caches logged before hitting find #1,500 with the Giga-event itself! Well, it seems the local…
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