Geocaching

Still 99 to go before I'm geocacher.

It's new for me and I have to learn a lot about the caches.

We all did. Back in January, I barely knew anything about this sport. Now, I am SO close to my goal of 500 caches for the year that I am itching to get out as much as I can this week during the 2 week break from school. I think I can get the 57 I need this week if I really hit it.

I just subscribed to the Geocacher Magazine. It should be a pretty interesting read. If you choose to subscribe, use the promo code "Facebook" to receive a 2 year subscription for the price of one.

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Now, what's this? Yep, the first cache I have found.


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Look what I have.

Sound interesting that Geo Cacher magazine.
A promo code on Facebook?
I think I need your help to figure that out.

This cache was an easy one to find.
I like it more to find a more difficult cache.
Sunday, we will go out to find more caches.
My sister likes to search caches too.
She went with us to find the first cache.

Now it's fall and biking on my race bicycle is a pain due the hernia I love to geo cahce.

That looks like a chunk of wood shoved into a small pail.

Actually, that was a pretty cool find. I like some of the easier ones out in the open like that. It offsets some of the harder caches that I have trouble finding.

Staybright, actually it looks more like a zip lock bag that has yellowed some with time stuck in a container made from PVC.

alldatndensum wrote:

Staybright, actually it looks more like a zip lock bag that has yellowed some with time stuck in a container made from PVC.

Sure that's what I meant to say.......

Yvonne, have you logged your first find on the geocaching website?

Now I'm trying to tell what I have found on the geo cache site.
I have found a geo cache site in my native language.
That's more simple to figure out how to tell about the first cache.
Tried to upload some pictures on the other geocache site, but it didn't work.

I saw yesterday that you can change the text at www.geocaching.com to Dutch. Of course, I won't be able to read your logs if you do them in your native tongue, but I can at least see your finds.

alldatndensum wrote:

I saw yesterday that you can change the text at www.geocaching.com to Dutch. Of course, I won't be able to read your logs if you do them in your native tongue, but I can at least see your finds.

You can always use translate.google.com to read her posts.
Like this:

English-Hello Yvonne. How are you today? Hurry and find some more geocaches.

Dutch-Hallo Yvonne. Hoe gaat het vandaag? Haast en vind je nog meer geocaches.


I found caches in Alabama and Mississippi yesterday. That gives me 6 states so far.

That's why I try to understand how I have to do it on the US geo cache site.
It's so hard to know how to log the caches in English.
It's fun to read each others logs isn't it?


English I'm fine and will find more chaces in the weekend
Dutch Het gaat goed met me. In het weekend ga ik meer chaces zoeken.

Thoughtful of you sabidoo to type it in my native language.

I am going caching tomorrow. I have my route all picked out with many regular caches and some micros, too. I am hoping to get around 30 in one day. That would definitely spin me towards my 500 goal by Jan. 8, 2011.

I have found some new caches for the weekend.
Ohhh I'm so looking forward to find a more difficult cache this time.

If you really want difficult ones, look for anything with a difficulty level of 5 and a terrain level of 5. Those are the most difficult there are.

Here I saw the caches have stars.
One star is very easy to find.
The first one was very easy to find.
For Sunday we'll search for three stars.

I think we don't have terrain 5 here.
Why not you ask me now?
We don't have mountains here.

The terrain could be considered harder if it were wooded and really thick brush to go through. It wouldn't really have to take mountains. There are no mountains in this part of TN, but there are a couple of level 5 and one level 4.5 on terrain.

The second cache is found.
We didn't had the time to search for more.
My husband figured out how you get more caches in the environment you are searching. We have found a chace close to a castle, that will be fun to search.

Now it's time to find a bigger caches.
I'm prepared now and packed a backsack with some tools like a little shovel or scoop to dig. That's what we had to do yesterday.

I see you have logged your 2nd find.

I am up to 469--31 away from my goal.

Sabidoo is now at 205.

Sunday we go for a quick cache before we have to do something with my mom.
Next sunday will be fun.
We'll go with some others for a puzzle cache in the neighborhood.

I loaded up several new caches around Murfreesboro, TN today. I can't wait to get back out there. I have a new machete to try if I have to go through any deep woods.

Don't forget the snake bite kit.

I carry one of those with me. But, from now until spring, I am not really concerned with snakes. The lower nighttime temperatures pretty well insure that the rattlesnakes are not going to be very aggressive. Any other species of ground snakes we have around here aren't really dangerous, so I would probably just move them with my trekking pole and go around them.

Be careful rattlesnakes are only cool in a song.

On the geocaching site I found a "cache kit' you can buy.
It looks nice to have one with the tools you need.
Chris, have you seen this kit and do you think it's useful to have for geocaching?

What we have to take when we are going deeper in the woods is a big pan for the wild pigs we can meet.
Hmmmmm fresh stew with wild pigs.
I think sabidoo likes this idea.

Found some cool caches before Sunday.