The Joy of Geocaching

It’s official: We’ll be hosting a booth at Geowoodstock VIII in Carnation, WA on July 3. We’ll be signing copies of The Joy of Geocaching and making them available at a special GW VIII discount. We’ll also be running some cool promotions throughout the day and giving away geocoins. More details as we get closer [...]

We received an e-mail from a business colleague who’s moving to Boston. She asks:
My husband and I are moving to Boston at the end of the year;  We will be living in the city, so I was hoping that I could use geocaching as a way to explore the place.  But I found very few [...]

We needed to take an author photo for the book, so we decided to do it this weekend while we were geocaching in Vermont.  We didn’t have a professional photographer handy, but we did have Dana’s wonderful Panasonic Lumix and a nifty portable tripod called the Gorillapod.  Here’s the result (note the GPSr units).

Paul’s daughter was visiting a friend in San Antonio this weekend, so Dana decided to come along and make a caching weekend of it.  We picked up 61 new caches and logged 14 DNFs in a little over two days, which wasn’t bad considering the sweltering summer heat.  We cached in the middle [...]

While taking a short break in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, we decided to try our hand at some rough terrain geocaching.  In these rocky mountains,that means climbing over boulders and scrambling up short by the very steep hills, clinging on to any branch or tree root one can find for support.  We logged [...]

If you’re ever in the White Mountain region of New Hampshire, sign up for the Canopy Tour at Bretton Woods ski area. We took a break from geocaching to zip through the treetops for a few hours and it was a memorable experience indeed. ‘We can’t recommend it highly enough. Here are some videos of the [...]

Download or listen to Dana’s call with Alamogul (formerly known as Team Alamo).
Alamogul (formerly known as Team Alamo) is the geocacher with the most finds in the world by a large margin. He’s also one of the most approachable people you’ll ever meet. Dana talked to him for a few minutes in between caches on [...]

We pulled out the old Flip Cam at GeoWoodstock VII to collect interesting stories, tips and reflections about why people love geocaching. Here’s one.
Mike Atwell of Cache Addict tells how he got into geocoins and demonstrates some of the amazing designs his family has invented. A geo-mood ring?
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We logged our 300th find today on a trip to Las Vegas. This was a fun cache. It was placed by the local tourism authority to promote a particular kind of business that is unique to the Las Vegas area. You can probably get a sense of the type of business from the photo.
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Listen to the interview
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In 2001, Clyde England tried geocaching and found it to be a relaxing antidote to the pressure-cooker world of corporate information technology. The game was an ideal indulgence of England’s twin passions for physical fitness and the countryside of his native Western Australia.
England was a techie [...]