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“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 Cache [...] Maybe this is a case of total coincidence or possibly great minds thinking alike, but when we wrote The Joy of Geocaching, we noted that geocaching.com’s social networking features were weak at best and the Groundspeak itself was an ineffective participant in social networks. My, how times have changed. Here’s a snip from Groundspeak’s latest newsletter: You [...] Is the GPS satellite network in peril? According to The Straight Dope, it is. We reported briefly in our book on a US Government Accountability Office report last spring that expressed concern about whether the GPS network could be maintained for very long as satellites age. You need 24 functional satellites for global coverage and we’ve [...] The nice people of the Westmoreland Conservancy, a non-profit local land trust in Murrysville, PA, contacted us about an event they’re going to hold on May 22, 2010. So we sent them a few books to raffle off. Here’s the event info, if you’re near western PA in mid-May: The Westmoreland Conservancy, a non-profit local land trust [...] There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Podcacher Forums about a new power trail in California that is closing in on 600 containers, each spaced 1/10 of a mile apart. The containers appear to be placed along a highway for easy finding. The tone of the debate is that reviewers should never have approved these [...] …on our front porch, at least. And also at an Amazon near you. We appreciate your purchases and your reviews. We’ll also be sending free copies to the many people who gave us guidance when we were writing [...] |
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