Long weekends and Geocaching go hand-in-hand.
by Roxanne Laverty on May 15, 2012 |
 The next couple of weeks will see the first warm long weekends we've seen in a long time! Monday, May 21, Canadians will observe Victoria Day and the following Monday, May 28, Americans will celebrate Memorial Day.
There may be a Geocaching Event taking place near ...
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Tags: Geocaching, Canada, US, maritimes, coast, calendar, CITO, cache, trash, long, weekend, May, 2012 |
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Bring a shovel and plant a tree with the Kingston Area Geocachers!
by Roxanne Laverty on Apr 19, 2012 |
 Event: Cache In, Tree In - Kingston 2012 Date: May 5th, 2012 - 9am-12pm Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada Description: Geocachers, local volunteers and the general public are invited plant trees.
What: Potted tree stock in and along the northern area of ...
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Tags: Kingston, Ontario, Canada, geocache, geocaching, tree, plant, cache, 2012, May, volunteer, Lemoine, conservation, shovel |
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KC Cache Dash 2012.
by Roxanne Laverty on Mar 26, 2012 |
 Garmin and Land Rover Merriam hosted the first ever KC Cache Dash in Kansas City on Saturday, March 24, 2012. The KC Cache Dash is a high-tech scavenger hunt that uses GPS to locate hidden treasures. Based on the popular activity of geocaching, the event ...
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Tags: KC Cache Dash, geocaching, Saturday, March 24th, 2012, charities, Garmin, Land Rover, GPS, technology, social media, hidden, treasure, hunt, interactive, Kansas |
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Worldwide Geocaching Mega Events for Spring 2012.
by Roxanne Laverty on Mar 8, 2012 |
 The toughest of the geocachers were out trekking all winter, but those fair-weather cachers are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Spring!
There are Mega Events taking place throughout March and April 2012, all around the world.
Starting with the 10th Annual Texas Challenge, 03/10/2012. ...
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Tags: geocache, spring, 2012, march, april, texas, challenge, New South Wales, Australia, Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Iowa, US |
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Video of the Week: Garmin's BaseCamp Find Tool
by Roxanne Laverty on Mar 6, 2012 |
The Find Tool on Garmin's BaseCamp software is ideal for preplanning. You can search for addresses, points of interest, geocaches, and Garmin Connect activities.
The following videos, give a quick look at the user-friendly Find Tool option, including an overview of its advanced settings. ...
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Tags: Video of the Week, video, YouTube, Garmin, BaseCamp, PC, sharing, Mac, computer, software, Find Tool, geocache, POI, point of interest, address, Connect, data, advanced settings |
Related Items: Garmin Topographic Canada DVD with Basecamp, Garmin Topographic 100K USA DVD with BaseCamp |
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How a Globetrotting Vintner Uses His GPS
by Roxanne Laverty on Mar 1, 2012 |
 When eco-friendly and ingenuity meet, you find a winemaker that uses all that nature has to offer to age his favorite wine. A self-proclaimed wandering winemaker, Eric Weisinger discarded the idea of building a wine cellar as being costly and ecologically invasive. Instead, he has been ...
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Tags: GPS, geocaching, wine, world, travel, Eric Weisinger, vintner, bottle, bury, hide, hidden, coordinates, aged, caches, Rouge Valley, New Zealand, globetrotting |
Related Items: Garmin GPSMAP 62s, Garmin Oregon 450, Garmin Oregon 550 with Camera, Garmin Dakota 20, Garmin eTrex 20, Garmin eTrex 30, Garmin Montana 650, Garmin Montana 600 |
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Win an eTrex 30 from OpenCaching.com
by Roxanne Laverty on Feb 27, 2012 |
Garmin's OpenCaching has added the option to add photos to the caches placed by users. To promote this new feature, they are running a contest to win an eTrex 30 handheld!
During the month of March, OpenCaching.com is giving away one eTrex ...
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Tags: Garmin, OpenCaching, Geocaching, contest, win, Etrex 30, photo, import, cache, video |
Related Items: Garmin GPSMAP 62s, Garmin Oregon 450, Garmin Oregon 550 with Camera, Garmin Dakota 20, Garmin eTrex 20, Garmin eTrex 30, Garmin Montana 650, Garmin Montana 600 |
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Using Geocaches to Promote Video Games
by Rebecca Pearson on Feb 22, 2012 |
 Geocaching.com is teaming up with Crystal Dynamics to use the popular activity of geocaching to promote a new video game. Crystal Dynamics is the company producing the next Tomb Raider video game. Together, the two companies will use geocaching to get people excited about the ...
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Tags: geocaching, Tomb Raider, cache, movie, Lara Croft, Geocaching.com, Crystal Dynamics, Groundspeak, video game, Geocaching Challenges |
Related Items: Geocaching Nano Cache Black, Geocaching Travel Bug, GPS City Match Stick Container, Geocaching GPS Sticker, Geocaching Geo Pin, Geocaching Micro Log Strips 5 Set, Geocaching Four Logo Yellow Sticker, Geocaching Official First to Find Geocoin |
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Texan Geocachers Rally for a Valentine's Day Flash Mob
by Roxanne Laverty on Feb 14, 2012 |
 Have you ever wanted to be part of a flash mob? If you're in the Corpus Christi, Texas area, you're in luck! Meet up with some fellow geocachers at 6:15pm today, February 14, 2012, to participate in a Valentine's Day flash mob.
Flash mobs use social media to ...
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Tags: Geocaching, GPS, event, Valentine, Day, February, 14th, 2012, flash mob, Corpus Christi, Texas, free, geocachers |
Related Items: Garmin GPSMAP 62s, Garmin Oregon 450, Garmin Oregon 550 with Camera, Garmin Dakota 20, Garmin eTrex 20, Garmin eTrex 30 |
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Help Break a Geocaching Record on Leap Day
by Roxanne Laverty on Jan 20, 2012 |
 February 29, 2012 marks the third Leap Day since the inception of Geocaching.com back in 2001. To celebrate this special occasion, the website has posed a challenge to their users - to beat the previous record of logged caches in a single day.
On the last ...
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Tags: Geocaching, Leap Day, February 29, leap, year, 2012, cache, log, attended, found, record, souvenir, Wednesday, October 10, 2010 |
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