The Joy of Geocaching

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Joy of Geocaching Uncorrected Manuscript

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 (GCKMBQ). Bob stands for “bottles [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s another section would like feedback on.  We want to include a quick start guide for novice geocachers to help them log a successful first find.  Here’s the advice we came up with.  What you think?  Please comment below.
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If you’ve never gone caching before, here are steps you can take to make sure your first [...]