We had loads of fun even if we did have rain for the day. I would call it a very successful event and we will certainly have more for sure.
Just wait!
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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.
If you have a question about geocaching ... you can email us at anytime at nwgeocaching@gmail.com .
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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.
If you have a question about geocaching ... you can email us at anytime at nwgeocaching@gmail.com .
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Scroll down for all of our latest adventures geocaching around the Pacific Northwest.
See the link for OPB TV featuring Geocaching and be sure to watch the video of the CBS Evening News about geocaching
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Taking out a couple for 10-10-10 event next weekend
I am going out to place a couple for the 10-10-10 event that will be surrounding River Forks Park next Sunday around 10 am ... have done this for awhile and where I will be doing the hide I get a lot of bounces on my iPhone so they will be a good sized cache and not micros. Lots of swag for the kiddies will be in each of them. They will be clear tupperware type of snap on lids that will be yellow ... making a real easy find. No camo at all.
If I have time I may go up on Burnt Mountain and see if I can find the little treasures up there.
It seems everyone is heading west into them thar hills to hide and find caches.
It should be a good day even with all this cloud cover.
If I have time I may go up on Burnt Mountain and see if I can find the little treasures up there.
It seems everyone is heading west into them thar hills to hide and find caches.
It should be a good day even with all this cloud cover.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
His Newest FTF
Congratulations to Mickleson5 for being the FTF on Remembering the Axman down in Riddle, OR. He found on the afternoon of 9/16/2010 on his way home from work. It was there for so long that there was cob webs all over it, but just before he gave up on the hunt he found it. Way to go Todd!
Monday, September 6, 2010
Welcome Gundy5 to geocaching
Yesterday I was told by my son from a text message I received that he downloaded the geocaching training app onto his new smart phone and was out with his wife and kids looking for their first.
They are back in Little Rock, AR for a few months while he is going through some training in the USAF before he transfers down to Tuscon AZ this winter.
They had a very successful day by finding 11 on their first day.
They even found a geocoin on their first day out - way to go.
There are lots of geocaches in the Little Rock area and I am sure they will have plenty before they make the move to the desert.
Now that football season is here I will be watching games more on the weekends than going hunting for the elusive geocache. When the weather turns wet I will be working on building some new geocaches for the spring. I have so many being developed in my mind and physically right now. It will be a very challenging winter for sure to come up with new ones.
Right now I want to concentrate on the series about my ship I served on back in 1970. One is active and I have two more that are just waiting for a location so I can take the coords but the geocache is ready to go ... so I will concentrate on the locations for those. Coach Beau (CanfieldClan) is going to be taking his "Success Class" out from Roseburg High School to find the first in the series to find and I may go into the classroom before they go out hunting to talk to the kids first.
They are back in Little Rock, AR for a few months while he is going through some training in the USAF before he transfers down to Tuscon AZ this winter.
They had a very successful day by finding 11 on their first day.
They even found a geocoin on their first day out - way to go.
There are lots of geocaches in the Little Rock area and I am sure they will have plenty before they make the move to the desert.
Now that football season is here I will be watching games more on the weekends than going hunting for the elusive geocache. When the weather turns wet I will be working on building some new geocaches for the spring. I have so many being developed in my mind and physically right now. It will be a very challenging winter for sure to come up with new ones.
Right now I want to concentrate on the series about my ship I served on back in 1970. One is active and I have two more that are just waiting for a location so I can take the coords but the geocache is ready to go ... so I will concentrate on the locations for those. Coach Beau (CanfieldClan) is going to be taking his "Success Class" out from Roseburg High School to find the first in the series to find and I may go into the classroom before they go out hunting to talk to the kids first.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
TWO DNFs
I want to thank Gpsees for giving me a couple of DNFs on two geocaches of mine, Numbers Blitz 4 and 5, for I went out to check on them on my while to and from Glide this morning and 4 was muggled and the prescription bottle, the lid and the log sheet were laying on the ground and scattered about just down the slope from the guardrail. Number 5 was just plain missing so I replaced it. They are all back in working order now so that is good thing.
This is exactly, I mean exactly what I what I was talking about at the business meeting before the UVGA meet and eat on August 22nd. If you don't find a geocache, instead of just leaving and NOT leaving a DNF and the owner thinks all is well, leave a DNF for the geocache may be missing. It is not like you are having points taken away from you or you are ruining your perfect run. If it is a DNF play the game and leave a DNF for the sake of the owner.
Took me all of about 5 minutes to maintain these two geocaches ... no skin off my nose out of my day.
Thank you Gpsees for letting me know ... they are up and back in action again thanks to you.
The question remains - how many geocachers looked and walked away from these two and for some reason did not have guts to leave a DNF? ... I wonder.
This is exactly, I mean exactly what I what I was talking about at the business meeting before the UVGA meet and eat on August 22nd. If you don't find a geocache, instead of just leaving and NOT leaving a DNF and the owner thinks all is well, leave a DNF for the geocache may be missing. It is not like you are having points taken away from you or you are ruining your perfect run. If it is a DNF play the game and leave a DNF for the sake of the owner.
Took me all of about 5 minutes to maintain these two geocaches ... no skin off my nose out of my day.
Thank you Gpsees for letting me know ... they are up and back in action again thanks to you.
The question remains - how many geocachers looked and walked away from these two and for some reason did not have guts to leave a DNF? ... I wonder.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Son's Geocaching Team
I took my son and one of his friends out to do some geocaching last night. It is amazing how my son went from, "No, I don't want to do the same thing my parents are doing" to "I hate to say this but I am actually having fun".
He and his friend became a geocaching team and I took them around to find their first five. They are now known in geocaching cirles as RHSKooks. They will be running around on their bikes and skateboards looking for their geocaches all over town without a GPS, just using descriptions, hints and maps from geocaching.com.
I intended to do some geocaching today but fell asleep on the couch and took a nap for six hours. I guess I was really tired.
I did however submitted one to be published and get started on two more that will be my hardest so far. I put them at a 4 rating for difficulty. The reviewer suggest that this first one be a multi-cache. It will be in memory of the ship I was on board back in 1970, the USS America CVA-66 and a memory of sailing around the world. But, it will have a twist.
I want to congratulate Buckshot and Foxy, themasonfamily2 and Cacti_Talon for being FTFs on some of my latest hides that were published on August 22nd.
A special congrats goes out to Cacti_Talon for their FTF after so many people who looked for it off highway 42 without leaving a DNF. Cacti_Talon was able to understand the hint and wrote their comments as the same. LOL big time.
The next one as a tribute to the America will be similar.... but NOT quite the same.
Welcome to RHSKooks to the wonderful world of geocaching.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Going to the council
Will be at the council for a bit of the day up in Eugene. So on the way home we hope to stop off and find some geocaches from the Eugene and Cottage Grove areas.
Tomorrow we are going to try and find some that are on Highway 42 out in Camas Valley area out to Coquille. Need to get to 400 before Tuesday for sure since I made it my goal to reach 400 by September 1st. It is so frustrating sitting at 379 for so long. Have just been too busy with work to get out and do more hunts.
Will go for AgentsD new hide which is their first one ever. I have a meeting with Brian on Monday and I am sure we will discuss some geocaching as the meeting winds down. I also want to take NoseyRosey over to Under the Bridge (Revisited) to assist me getting it from its hiding place. I found it the other day but was unable to get it. I will be taking my walking stick today to do my "reach" for me.
Tomorrow we are going to try and find some that are on Highway 42 out in Camas Valley area out to Coquille. Need to get to 400 before Tuesday for sure since I made it my goal to reach 400 by September 1st. It is so frustrating sitting at 379 for so long. Have just been too busy with work to get out and do more hunts.
Will go for AgentsD new hide which is their first one ever. I have a meeting with Brian on Monday and I am sure we will discuss some geocaching as the meeting winds down. I also want to take NoseyRosey over to Under the Bridge (Revisited) to assist me getting it from its hiding place. I found it the other day but was unable to get it. I will be taking my walking stick today to do my "reach" for me.
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