After 3 3/4 years, I finally completed the 50k elevation challenge (for geocaching) in October with my friend Jes. I logged far more than than 50k of elevation over the period, but the challenge had so many rules that many of my hikes didn’t count. In fact, for a while I had kind of given up even tracking gain. I […]
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One of the more unsual geocaches I found recently is a puzzle cache described as thus: Even in a box of troubles, there is HOPE You may have some trouble with this cache. The container is waterproof because it may be under water at times. There is significant elevation change and you will have to
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All in all, it was a pretty sweet afternoon to spend a couple of hours meandering around the beach, removing trash.
My friend Rachael tweeted about a library geocache presentation during her Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) event. I was looking back among the geocaches I’ve done and found quite a few of them among my favorites: By George was my first library geocache, done during a conference visit to Penn State University. The multi-cache
During the summer of 2011, I had some mythical Spare Time to blow the centimeter-thick layer of dust off my programming skills and port FizzyCalc, a Windows-based geocoordinate conversion utility that I’ve used for solving several puzzles in my obsessive hobby, geocaching, to the Mac. Mac FizzyCalc celebrated its 2500th download in November, a year
I was invited to participate in a “geo art” project for the Washington State Geocaching Association’s (WSGA) anniversary. Though my contribution was pretty minimal, I did want to jot down some thoughts on what work went into doing this and why I think it was a success. Geoart endeavors to draw or spell out something
To add variety to geocaching, “blackouts” challenges are posted whereby one has to find a slice of geocaches in an area. The last one I did was the Bellevue Blackout, which was nicely constrained within the city limits of the town I work. It took me about two years to finish. Other blackouts have included
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