All Batteries are NOT the Same!

Okay, almost every GPSr today uses AA batteries. However, just because two batteries are AA size doesn’t mean they provide the same amount of energy over time. Essentially, yes, all AA batteries will start out producing about 1.2 Volts, +/- .1 Volt. However, due to the chemical composition of the batteries they will have different [...]

Protect Your Paperless Caching Investment!

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Paperless Caching Accessories – The Otterbox!

Okay, so you have a Palm for geocaching. Maybe, you’re even using one of the many PDA or ‘Smart’ phones. Constant exposure to weather will eventually cause moisture to invade you paperless caching companion, thus causing catastrophic failure at some point. I’m more worried about the data ON my Palm than I am about the Palm [...]

Another cool use for GPS!

Here’s a project my father-in-law and I are working on. He’s the brains of the organization, I’m the ‘marketing’ department.
The project is called the G1K. Essentially, it looks and acts just like the Garmin G1000 inside private and some commercial aircraft. It is used with one’s home PC while using Microsoft Flight Simulator and Mindstar [...]

GPS Bounce

Frequently, you’ll get to the last 30 feet of a cache location, only to have the GPS ‘needle’ start to bounce around, often showing you now to be up to 100 feet away from your cache! The needle will then show you to be very close, then repeat the process. This is very common, especially [...]

Batteries for Geocaching!

If gasoline is the source of energy for our cars, so to are the batteries we put in our GPSr’s! Everything depends upon the batteries you select.

A long trip to a caching expedition could be for naught if the batteries in the GPSr die!
Night caching takes on a whole new level of difficulty [...]

I love cool caches!

One of the greatest things about geocachers is their creativity! How many times have you looked and looked for a cache knowing it had to be there, but you just couldn’t find it? Well, maybe you already found it… you just don’t see it! My hat’s off to these cachers who make our hobby so [...]

G.S.A.K. – Geocaching Swiss Army Knife

Just as the venerable Swiss Army Knife is world renowned for having everything in one neat package, so to does the G.S.A.K.,  Geocaching Swiss Army Knife. While this Geocaching application can do everything, it’s not necessarily for everyone. For instance, the occasional Geocacher will probably find logging his / her caches on Geocaching.com sufficient. The more [...]

A Great Geocaching Intro Movie!

Okay, I make no apologies. I CANNOT make really great videos. But, I CAN find them! Here’s one I came across on YouTube concerning Geocaching and some information on the Garmin GPSMAP60cx (genuflect here)!

To see another really cool application of GPS in the real world, click here to see what else [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to my blog, dedicated to the greatest hobby in the world: GEOCACHING!
Geocaching, if you don’t know, is a high-tech treasure hunt. Imagine if you will hundreds of thousands of people all over the world hiding small treasure chests, some within a mile or so of your home! Then, they post the geographic coordinates of [...]