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Welcome to our blog about our adventures in geocaching around the Pacific Northwest, our little corner of the world. We started Geocaching on March 6, 2010. We are approaching 600 finds and have an even 100 hides so far.

Geocaching is a fun activity for Nosey Rosey (Dawn) and I and we do it as a team. It has taken us around our county to places we have never seen before in 13 years. The exploring is just one aspect of the fun in geocaching. We go out nearly every weekend and use multi-million dollar satellites to play our hobby for free using an iPhone and my handheld GPS.

I (Ed) go by GeoHL now since I am called GeoHotLine by some of the fellow geocachers in the area.

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Monday, May 31, 2010

Later on Memorial Day

Just could not stand it ... I hid one more .. so that makes five for the day. I only one found. That is a first.

Took the time to LOG IN all my geocoins and travel bugs that I have found and am building a TB Motel of my own to place here town to help the transfer of TB's up and down Interstate 5. I need to buy some more cammo tape because I went through the whole roll already with the ones that I have prepared as hides that is in our geocache backpack.

Another day of geocaching fun.

Memorial Day afternoon

Just a few sprinkles today so I thought I would plant five geocaches around town to see I can get the numbers up around here. This time I made them just a bit harder to find. No more of those fast grab and dash for me ... now those that find my caches will have do some walking ... I am not saying the LPCs are out of the question but all mine up to now have been too easy to find.

Those that I planted today are called:


I am just waiting for them to be published.

One will be a real challenge and so might another one ... I know they took me places I have never seen here before.


A Dreary Day So Far

Well, here it is early in the morning on the 31st of May, Memorial Day, and the ground is wet, it is sprinkling and my plans for some yard work early has been changed. Nosey Rosey is working for the day so I have some things to do here I am sure. I do plan on getting some containers prepared for a quick drop off all over the city. I do need to archive the one we placed yesterday because when it went active last night I looked at the map and the coordinates were about 100 miles off from where it actually is. I knew I would have a problem with all that tree canopy in getting an accurate reading on the iPhone GPS. I had no idea there was that much of a problem with the cooridinates. I will be sure to find a placement in the future that has a clear sky so I will not collect any interference from overhead trees.

I printed off some new official geocache logo log sheets. I got them at a web site that I found that is giving them away at http://techblazer.com . A fellow geocacher helping other geocachers. I highly recommend this site for no other reason but to get the log sheets for your own geocaches that you may be placing.

I will probably place about 3 or 4 geocaches around the area and get closer to our goal of 50 personally placed by us around the county to raise the numbers of geocaches by that much more to make this county of ours even more desirable to go geocaching in by others geocachers in the Pacific NW.

I am also thinking of a new container to be used as a geocache in the future. I want to make unique and unusual and place it around here soon. Probably will be large enough to be a Travel Bug Motel so I can use it to place the TB's that we find so that they can be sent on their way. I don't recall seeing any TB motels anywhere in our city. I found one yesterday and had our choice of taking many travel bugs and decided to take one from the Tallahassee Fire Department. But that was 35 miles south of us. I also know of one about 15 miles north of us - but not here. So the search is on to place one here.

Well let's see how the day goes and what will transpire for geocaching on Memorial Day.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

May 30, 2010

I was introduced to the sport/hobby of geocaching on March 6, 2010 when I used my iPhone with the Geocaching Intro free app to find my first geocache. The first one my son and I found was near a duck pond and had a "travel bug" in my very first find. That was a MARIO and is heading north the last time I checked on it on my watch list on geocaching.com.

As of this date, Dawn (Nosey Rosey) and I have found a total of 157 geocaches and we hid our 14th geocache in the southern end of our county. All of the other ones we hid were EASY ... now we want to hide some that will be a bit more challenging. Starting with our 14th it will become a bit harder to find in the field. We want to create more ENVIRONMENT blending caches for both urban and rural. Both of us are now looking everywhere and thinking "that would be a good spot" or "there should be one here".

On June 1st I will be speaking to a local Lions Club group about geocaching since they want to learn about it as much as possible so that the members of the club can enjoy the game too. That will be great getting more people involved so that there will be more hunters as well as developing "hiders" since our town is getting pretty slim on good quality geocaches.