Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The hazards of making maps

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There was a very interesting report on the PBS Newshour this evening about digital mapmaking, crowdsourcing and how Apple stubbed its toe c...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Reviewing night

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I reviewed about 90 geocaches tonight. It's time for a beer.
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Friday, September 07, 2012

A Look Back to the Early Days

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The following article was recently reposted in the Wisconsin Geocaching Association website forums. I thought it would be fun to share with...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

REAL hidden treasure

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Here's a story that should fascinate geocachers. Newsweek 8/20/12 Forrest Fenn has hidden a million dollars of his treasure—and he w...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Nine years of reviewing for Groundspeak

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Yesterday I received this nice card in the mail from the volunteer coordinators at Groundspeak in Seattle. It's been a terrific nine ye...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

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A nice video from Groundspeak that explains the role of the Geocaching.com volunteer. Makes me even more proud to be one!
Monday, June 04, 2012

MOGA Update

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It's been a few weeks since I attended MOGA so I want to do some catching up and post some photos. This was an incredible geocaching ev...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

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Making my way to MOGA . Stopping to review and publish new geocaches at highway rest stop just now.
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Let's Call Them "Issues". A Blog in INATN.

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The New Zealand-based geocaching blog " It's Not About the Numbers " recently asked me to write a guest post on the topic o...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

New "Submit a Listing" Form

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Groundspeak has been working on an update and refinement of the "Submit a Cache Listing" form. They've just released a new wi...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Featured guest

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In case you missed the Late Show with David Letterman this past Friday night, here's the highlight: my appearance on the show along with...
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Sunday, April 01, 2012

I just can't take it any more.

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If you submitted an Iowa geocache for publication on geocaching.com this weekend, you may have noticed that it was published today by a revi...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Challenge caches - Guideline has been updated

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Groundspeak has updated the Challenge Cache guideline as shown below. New guideline A challenge cache is a variation of a mystery cache t...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Too tired to start a fire

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Here's a fun song by paddling singer/songwriter Jerry Vandiver, who will be performing at Canoecopia in Madison, Wis., this weekend. I...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Podcacher.com coming to Iowa

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Did you catch the announcement that Sonny and Sandy, creators of Podcacher.com, are going to attend MOGA in April at Rathbun Lake? It will ...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Phases of a Geocacher

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This past week I read a nice blog written by a nice geocacher about the nice phases of geocaching. This has prompted me to finally post my o...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Eleven years of geocaching

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Today is the 11th anniversary of my first geocache find. I have previously written about that day so I won't go into details here again...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

What about requesting a specific date and time to publish a cache?

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I wrote about this topic back in November , but I want to revisit it because it came up again in a request from a geocacher this week. Whil...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

Geocaching presents the year in review

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If you've already seen this video, did you notice Iowa's own Busterbabes signing a poster at the 2011 Lost & Found event at Grou...
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Friday, December 09, 2011

Garmin vs. Groundspeak

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In case you missed it, there's been something of a Goliath vs. David business battle going on between Groundspeak, the small Seattle-bas...
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