The Joy of Geocaching

That’s how many books we hope to sell! But that’s ALSO how many active geocaches there are in the world, according to Geocaching.com’s home page today. So congratulations to an amazing milestone to all our geocaching friends out there. Geocaching (and Groundspeak, their parent company) also celebrates their 10th anniversary this year, so hitting both [...]

The following review will appears in Library Jounal later this month. The review isn’t online yet, but we got an advance copy from the publisher.
We’re psyched.
Here is an excellent introduction to this emerging sport. For the uninitiated, geocaching is a sort of treasure hunt wherein participants navigate their way to prehidden treasures (caches) [...]

Groundspeak co-founder Bryan Roth contacted us recently to admonish us (gently) for using a Groundspeak trademark on our site without permission (Sorry, Bryan!). We’re never one to pass up an opportunity, so we asked him to answer a few questions. In the process, we discovered that Groundspeak has just started posting statistics about the number [...]

Maureen McArdelle (gipsie), who’s featured in the Joy of Geocaching chapter on “Caching to the Limits,” placed a famous cache series in late 2008 that was created in cooperation with some of the craftiest puzzle cachers in the mid-Atlantic region. She called it Puzzle Masters Challenge (PMC). We looked at the original “PMC – [...]

WEDU, the PBS affiliate in Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL,  just ran a seven-minute feature on geocaching that featured Scott Veix (InfiniteMPG) and a group of fellow geo-enthusiasts. Scott contributed tons of stories and photos to The Joy of Geocaching.
“It’s not a perfect science,” Scott tells Jack Perkins, host of  “A Gulf Coast Journal. “Your GPS will [...]

Power cachers are always pushing the limits of the game, and as we were in the final stages of writing this book, we received word of a new record claim by a team that included two people we quote extensively elsewhere: Steve O’Gara (ventura_kids) and Elin Carlson (EMC of Northridge, CA). They joined with [...]

Does this look like fun to you? Then you should head on over to Extreme Caching, a new site by one of the game’s most die-hard 5/5 cachers: Dutch Sanders (Linuxxpert).
“Extreme caching is a form of caching that will push a person’s physical and mental limits. To find a cache, you may have to go [...]

The Joy of Geocaching shipped to the publisher last night at 8 p.m. EDT after a frantic nine-day writing and editing binge in which Dana and I basically locked ourselves up and wrote for 14 hours a day.
Actually, it would have been easier if we were in one room. The problem was that I was [...]

Windows Mobile App Queries for Caches Near You
A Groundspeak member writes, “I’ve written a tiny Windows Mobile program to get your coordinates from the GPS receiver and send these to the WAP site, so that the 10 nearest caches are returned. That’s all it does, so if a cache looks interesting you still have to [...]

This has to be the most ambitious geocaching project we’ve ever seen. The Maryland Municipal League is launching a “Geocache Trail” to bolster the state’s tourism and it has gained the participation of cities and towns across the state to place 78 caches.
Participants can go to any participating visiting center and obtaining a “passport” [...]