Listen To The Show (18:11) The Caching Commute: On this geocaching midweek-podcast Sonny chats about: The LAST Caching Commute…because the name is changing! Nominations are now closed. An email will be sent soon to the FLAPS mailing list. If you want to vote, you must request to join the FLAPS mailing list before the voting […]
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Letterboxing (and caching) Safely During Hunting Season
I looked at the calendar and realized that it was the opening of the northern zone of big game hunting season here in New York State this Saturday. My son wanted to go hiking tomorrow, but I told him no not on opening day. Now if you still want to go letterboxing or geocaching, here […]
How Does GPS Work?
A lot of Geocachers ask; “How does GPS work”? We found a pretty cool video on the NASA Sci Files site. The video is intended for kids, but is a good explanation of the technology. If you get asked this question you might want to point the person to The NASA Sci Files movie titled […]
Show 73.1: The Caching Commute
Listen To The Show (20:54) The Caching Commute: On this geocaching midweek-podcast Sonny chats about: A GPS News item Name the Midweek Show – nominations close Oct 18 at 5:00pm Pacific. NOTE: If you want to be able to vote Request to join the FLAPS mailing list PodCacher Photo Tips – check out the example […]
Early Geocaching History
When taking a look at the history of Geocaching we see that it is still in it’s infancy in the whole scheme of things. In just over six years the game of Geocaching has evolved from that first ‘stash’ placed by Dave Ulmer on May 3, 2000, only one day after Selective Availability was turned […]
Sweet GPS Device from Apple?
While doing my daily sweep of the geoblogosphere today I ran across a post hinting at a possible future multifunction handheld device from Apple that may include a GPS. Apple’s iPhoto software has geotagging functionality built in already and according to the post, Apple has filed a patent for a handheld device that could include […]