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GeoCarnival #4

April 21st, 2006 | Posted in » GPS Games, Geocaching, TerraCaching

Welcome to the fourth weekly installment of the GeoCarnival.The GeoCarnival reviews geoblogs and compiles what is happening in the world of GPS games (geocaching, geodashing, shutterspots, geogolf,Coin Quest, etc.) in one convenient post per week so you can read who is blogging about your favorite activity.If you know of a geoblog that we should highlight, feel free to let us know. We like RSS and Atom feeds, so feel free to send along those links.And now on with the show . . .

Tom Arneson completed another noon walk geogolf course. This guy has set the standard for this game.

Caching, dashing, Minute War, and benchmarking all on a long trip kept chaosmanor busy. I can relate, but as he notes, with gas busting through $3/gallon, these long distances are going to be shortened.

David is fitting caching in around various other things this week, including his mom’s illness. We pray for her. He was able to pick up the virtual at the National Zoo the other day. We have been fortunate enough to find that one too.

Amped! Love it. Hef Static is excited to go caching. Then he shares the scary side of Google.

Grace shares with us what one will do for a FTF. Ha! Good writing here.

Easter and caching: perfect together. At least that is what Slow1der planned. Heed the warning, though: caching and Easter sometimes cause problems.

Congratulations to Brandon on finding his first cache! The Geocaching Blog is a good read.

Over at Laying Down the Law, Scott shares his DNF on Walkers Forge. That was a cache found long ago by yours truly . . .

Lynn cached with family while driving quads. How fun!

GPSOkie just purchased a Blackberry and is wondering how to use it for caching. I know that a Blackberry can be helpful in Minute War as one of my teammates communicates with me via his Blackberry.

Away from class, Laura was able to find three caches on a hike that she biked to. Awesome!

Me? I worked out most of a cache that should be published some time within the next few days. The views along the Maurice River are beautiful. Be prepared for a hike.

I am not quite certain how this fits in with caching, but I want one too! Bob Ashton shares with us the trackstick. Very kewl!

A geocaching assignment? Sounds interesting. bariivaruha has fun.

Denise found a webcam in Chicago with her brother.

Caching offers something for everyone. Mic likes to get out of the house. Mike likes to find hidden treasures. Together they have fun.

Night caching in a cemetery to find an ammo box. Sounds like fun! Dustin Runnells has the details.

Hmmm . . . I hadn’t heard anything about a dead body being found recently, but McDLT swears his sister found one this week while caching. Decide for yourself.

Nova Scotia caching looks beautiful. lisasbaboons does a wonderful job of writing and sharing photographs of her jaunt on the Pennent Point Trail.

Rick has the right attitude about DNFs: enjoy the outing. Sounds like an enjoyable time.

mustangjoni has moved her blog that chronicles her terraching and geocaching exploits.

I can’t say this ever happened to me while caching.

Among all the papers and tests college demands of xtitsmcgeex, she was still able to do some caching to brighten her days. You go girl!

Randwulf had a good day of caching.

The Nocturnal Nitwits have launched their geoblog. Good luck guys.

James was one for two on Easter. As he said, “I’ll try again.”

I just love how ubiquitous caching is. Pistolleer found five on Easter.

jestjuggle tested finding 100 caches in a day. He found out some interesting things.

Sonny and Sandy have another fine podcast up this week. The topic of their 42nd podcast is muggle deception. Personally, I do not worry about muggles. I am more than willing to share what I am doing to the curious afoot.

Bill and Aaron had a good caching day at Miesville Ravine Park Reserve.

Wow! I never thought of having a dog sniff out the caches! LadyBiker Lynn has a well-trained canine.

travelingpt recounts a lovely caching weekend on an Oregon beach. Sounds lovely.

Richard and I are near identical in our views. He is more diplomatic than I. His data tell the story well.

Meeting other cachers on the hunt is fun. JackieBlue tells us her story.

Another who finds the idea of a geoblog to be rational. Keep to it waya68.

LordElph uses Google Calendar to display geocaching events. Very nice!

1100 kilometers and 20 cachers equals a good weekend for Jibbers World. Good going guys!

Dawn and her caching partner hiked quite a bit for caches. It sounds like Dawn is active as she practiced for a walkathon.

Jerry Sherman makes a DNF look like fun! Here’s another area I have cached.

Benchmarks are fun to find as kayaker902 knows.

Misti’s post is pretty much a wonderful advertisement for the game. Good job!

Everything you wanted to know about Desert Warrior. He introduces himself to the letterboxing community at Atlas Quest.

This week’s DNFs continue as ftemery strikes out twice on micros.

Sounds like fun: 5.5 miles and six hours to a cache. April tells us about her adventure.

Jack Kerouac caches? Nah, it’s just Harvey. But my my, how wonderful it must be to bop around Europe like he is doing and cache.

Geocaching 101 will be held tomorrow in Michigan. Nice write up MIGO.

I am not certain how this next one showed up in my aggregator since it is dated 9 October 2005, but I found it to be interesting enough to share . . . how should one recover from running a marathon? Well hiking in Utah, of course. Awesome!

Geocacheville shows us their newly ~~found~~ purchased geocoin. This is a nice looking coin.

David is lucky to have Shiftless as a friend. He is now the recipient of a Garmin Edge Cycle Computer. As much of a Magellen fan as I am, Garmin is definitely a company meeting customers’ needs these days. Have fun, David.

EmeraldWings publishes a Soduku puzzle cache for us to enjoy.

Oooo . . . this sounds like fun! Let’s hope this catches on around here.

Jo is back in the game. Well done.

Jordan did more on her vacation than I have in the last year . . . I think. And in all that, there was some caching. Unbelievable! To be a teenager again.

Tortietude is planning another trip to Gatlinburg. THis time around, far fewer micros please.

Miss Mascarah is excited for the game!

The bitch is bored and can’t wait to go caching. Got to love it! Perhaps she should have hooked up with Steve. He had a relaxing (lazy using his word) day that included some caching.

Andy wants to cache this weekend.

Hmmm . . . passing on caching to remain with letterboxing. Some like to do both!

Radio QRM has a podcast of a cache hunt. Nice going guys!

Geeky Mama ponders a new trail name for the child before the lockdown occurs.

Cacheopedia is getting busy again. Lots of activity like refining the definition of a PVC pipe cache.

sept1c_tank shares trail magic with us. He met up with Milkshake and Jelly Bean.

There’s no slowing down StayFloopy! He headed down closer to me for a big cache run this week. But really, his blog is about the visits to Wawa. Floppy rules!

Miragee is gearing up for a multi-state cache run while visiting family. Enjoy!

Welcome New Cachers

MonteLukast got the bug!

Looks like Debora is another new cacher.

Jon-o-tron has all the action on his caching adventure. Very nice, indeed.

James Hart found his first cache. Congratulations!

Another new cacher on the scene. Welcome Sugar Sprinkles.

Tally’s got a new hobby.

Matt’s short on words, but is out caching. Good for him!

Joselyne went caching for the first time with her brother. Welcome to the addiction! She sure sounds like she had fun.

All aboard! Insulate My Fragile Mind is on the bandwagon.

TW is hooked!

While visiting Italy on business, Patrick had time for some caching. Now this would be fun urban caching in my book.

Kelly and Tom join the club. They’re all geared up for the next one.

A new Magellan Explorist 210 is in his hands and now iovnow is ready to go caching.

Derek is having fun but is finding one cache to be a stumper.

Chris is considering a new hobby.

The Byrne Family found caching too.

That’s the ticket: less blood and more caches found. throwawayuserid likes what he is doing.

The Let’s Talk Technology! blog found caching and is now discussing it.

mtatum is a new cacher.

A welder in Alaska is picking up the game. Impressive as he is getting over a broken leg.

Melanie figured it out. She’s now a cacher. Welcome.

Regional Round-Up

kimbest shared data analysis he did about the cache sizes over time in the UTAG fora. We missed his post last week, but his data have sparked some interesting responses and more data. This is collaboration at its finest. This is why data are good.

New cachers in Houston are found to be old friends of some of the established players. Just another case of small worldism.

I am not one much for FTF competitions, but I have to hand it to Houston. They have developed a competition that I think I could enjoy.

GeoPhotoBlogging

Jeff at the James Dean memorial.

Team Hippo photographs Portugal on a cache hunt.

A parking lot cache provides entertainment for the glyph hunters.

PSD found the cache.

Kewl finds while caching in NY.

Nice stream found by Bad Dog NY while caching.

Swan boats. You gotta love it!

Cath finds dinner while caching.