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 | In today’s Geo-Jargon Monday,we’d like to tell you what a “shorty pen” is. A shorty pen is… An ink pen that has been shortened enough to fit into a small cache container. There are companies that sell them online (like ShortyPen.com) or you can scour dollar stores or bargain aisles at stores like Walmart [...] In our Find It Friday tip,we’d like to give you a clue about what to do when searching for a cache. The best piece of geocaching advice we’ve ever received,the one we try to remember and curse ourselves when we ignore is simply this:Stay on the trail as long as possible. We’ve [...] There are almost endless possibilities to link geocaching with education. Here’s one of them: If your kids aren’t too keen on reading,use geocaching as a kind of stepping stool. Have them complete sentences plucked from books you’ve assigned them in order to figure out coordinates. The number of letters in a missing word can [...] Geocachers who hide caches do it for other players. It takes time,energy,and lots of thought to hide a geocache. After all this hard work,the payoff for hiders is the logs that are written by players who find the cache during its lifetime. The hider can choose to receive an email every time [...] “The Geocaching Triad”Geocaching.com’s Lost &Found Video This video follows Ohio,USA geocachers Keith Lemons (keithlemons) and Nancy Steyer (27jack) as they visit the three caches required to complete the Triad. Beware,the video containers spoilers. The Triad is one of the crowning achievements of geocaching. Geocachers must log three specific geocaches:the APE [...] Groundspeak likes to say that in geocaching,“You are the search engine,” and it underlines that point by providing some of the weakest search functionality of any website we’ve seen. For example,to search for a user,you must know the exact syntax of the user’s geocaching handle or you’ll get an empty search result. [...] In our third Find It Friday tip,we’d like to give you a clue about what to do when you get to Ground Zero (GZ,or the spot that your GPSr’s coordinates exactly match the coordinates of the cache listing). When you’ve absolutely just looked everywhere you can and thought about where you’d place the [...] There are few things more embarrassing in the geocaching world than for a cache owner to discover that the solution to a puzzle cache leads to the wrong coordinates or that multiple solutions exist. Hopping mad players will let owners know in no uncertain terms about the disruption this causes. Geochecker is a great online [...] | ||||
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