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CONTEST ALERT! Starting 12:00 a.m. ET on May 3 (the 10th anniversary of geocaching), the people who write the first 20 reviews on our Reviews page on this site (good or bad reviews!) get a free limited edition JOG geocoin. Please remember to leave your email addy so we can contact you [...]

The Joy of Geocaching Now on Scribd!

You can now view and download the uncorrected manuscript of The Joy of Geocaching on Scribd! Flip through the pages on the viewer below, register your ratings and comments on Scribd and post your comments below.

Joy of Geocaching Uncorrected [...]

Joy of Geocaching Proof Now Available For Download

The Joy of Geocaching is at the publisher’s, but you can get an electronic copy right now. Just click on this link to download an uncorrected draft.

Please note that this is an uncorrected version, meaning  it’s got typos, punctuation mistakes, images out of alignment and all sorts of other issues. It’s also missing a table of [...]

Feedback Needed: Tech Talk – Software Goodies for Geocachers

This is a full draft  chapter from Joy of Geocaching. We need your input! What have me missed? What have we got wrong? What new stories can you contribute? Please comment or e-mail us

This chapter covers several of the most popular and useful geocaching applications, including GSAK, GeoBuddy and Microsoft Streets & Trips. We don’t claim [...]

Feedback Needed: The Joy of Geocaching

This is a full draft  chapter from Joy of Geocaching. We need your input! What have me missed? What have we got wrong? What new stories can you contribute? Please comment or e-mail us.

 

 

 

MonkeyBrad was talking with a friend one evening in 2005 about the famous “Bob” geocache series in Chicago [...]

Feedback Needed! Hiding a Geocache

This is a full draft  chapter from Joy of Geocaching. We need your input! What have me missed? What have we got wrong? What new stories can you contribute? Please comment or e-mail us.

After you’ve spent a few months searching out other people’s geocaches, you’ll probably be tempted to place one of your own.  This can [...]

Looking to Interview Puzzle and Extreme Cachers

We’re in the home stretch of Joy of Geocaching (it’s due to the publisher June 15) and we still need to conduct some interviews. We’d like to speak to a couple of avid creators of puzzle caches about what you love about puzzles, what are some of your most memorable hides and how you think through [...]

What Software Should We Check Out?

We want to be sure we provide guidance on the best geocaching software applications.  We have an extensive guide to GSAK, an overview of Google Earth and a shorter review of GeoBuddy.  We also intend to try the geocaching.com client for the iPhone.

What are we missing?  What are the popular and useful geocaching applications that aren’t [...]

Feedback Needed! Finding a Geocache

This is a full draft  chapter from Joy of Geocaching. We need your input! What have me missed? What have we got wrong? What new stories can you contribute? Please note that the section on “evil hides” will be filled out with more information and examples in the chapter on “Hiding a cache,” which we will [...]

Feedback Needed! Unwritten Rules

For the benefit of beginning geocachers, we want to include a rundown of unwritten rules of the game. Here’s what we could think of. What are we missing? We’d love your comments.

There are several nuances of geo-caching that aren’t evident to the novice, so let’s go over a few of them here.

Logs. You must sign the [...]