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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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Friday, June 4, 2010

18 hides

There are now 18 geocaches out there that we have hidden that are active in the local area and number 19 should be active later today after I do a correction on the coordinates for it, now that the weather has shown some improvements. Both Nosey Rosey and I are always thinking of new locations for future placements for geocaches and one thing for sure your observation ability is always being tested for up and coming locations.

According to geocaching.com there are 151 active geocaches with a 10 mile radius from the center of town. I would like to see at at 200 by the end of summer. With all the geocaches that we plan on planting and with all the other geocaches that I hear through the geocaching grapevine that will be planted we should easily make the 200 goal on time.

With any luck a HUGE geocaching event will be held here possibly around fall that will draw lots of visitors from all over and give a boost to the local economy by filling hotel and motel rooms, shopping and for the restaurants too. So getting 200 geocaches out there by the end of summer is going to be our goal. I know that the local city will be placing some geocaches for this event too so there should be plenty to keep all the visitors very happy indeed. Now the goal is to make it fun and challenging too.

The inventiveness and the creativity of some of the local people are too much. I am always explaining to first time geocachers or muggles interested in geocaching what things to look for without telling them where the location is or its name. Several are standouts in my mind. The longtime geocachers are really testing the geosenses on us newbies in the game.

I can't wait to get down to California next month to hopefully find some new types of geocaches and use them up here in the future. Where we are going is a small town by California standards but within a ten mile radius of the center of this town there are 1,580 geocaches hidden according to geocaching.com. About 10 times more than we have locally. Talk about saturated. We will just about be stepping on them everywhere we go it seems ... lol.




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