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GeoCarnival #6

May 5th, 2006 | Posted in » GPS Games, Geocaching, TerraCaching

Welcome to the sixth 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.

We Need Your Help
If you know of a geoblog that we should highlight, feel free to let us know (geocarnival AT ladow DOT net). We like RSS feeds, so feel free to send along those links.

And On With the Show . . .
There’s a new global GeoPoker game dealing tomorrow at 14:00 UTC. If you have never played, this fast-paced caching game that can be played from any location is a must! I know I am in.

Henry and Cindy cached Sedona. The caching was done pre-hike. From the views of Chicken Point, the caches should have been there.

Linda et al. had fun caching and finding a hitchhiker.

cdwangs has come back to caching and had a fun day with drivebycomments.

Preparing for #2000, labboo updates her geoblog.

Wiki battles over geocaching? ‘Tis true. WikiHow garnered a lot of attention this week for its article about geocaching. Then the battle ensued. Geocaching.com is so branded that the article read like an advertisement for the Groundspeak enterprise. Some folks tried to correct that. The battle was on. Check out the page history.

It’s in-between Minute War games (as some of us lick our wounds), but it’s a good time to read up about the game so you are ready to dive into the next game when it starts.

Still snow on the ground or just late reporting? Either way, it is good to see Lindsay and Lilian geoblogging.

Went to the Chapel has been researching how to get the most of your photographs when geocaching. Some good tips here.

When the teenagers have been up all night, the house is a mess, and the cleaning gods are calling, what do you do? That’s right. We go caching. That’s what Farrell is thinking.

GPSOkie had a difficult week, but the rain wasn’t going to keep him inside.

Chicken found an interesting grocery store while on the hunt. I’ll make certain I bring my tree saws next time I buy groceries.

Wow! Three thousand waypoints stored on the GPS using Bluetooth is definitely a step up. Mark Rosengarten describes how he added a GPS to his Treo. It was a success!

Draw A Horizon to See the Future describes a multi done in Shanghai.

There’s a new shutterspot hidden by Tissa. Shutterspots are kewl! Certainly you know of a fabulous location to draw folks to. Why not hide one?

BOB visited Canada this week and placed a few new shutterspots. Castle Mountain is gorgeous!

Wanna brag about the number of finds you have? Headybrew provides a stats banner tutorial in the TCiki.

Not to be outdone, BOB listed another shutterspot in Banff National Park. Gorgeous!

Dr. Mellow headed out to a family reunion. He found a couple caches and 20 historical markers for waymarking. We also encourage him to submit the markers to Markeroni.

Not all hides are good enough. I reviewed a cache I placed recently and decided not to list it.

Reading carefully is important to finding caches. Jestjuggle provides some helpful tips.

Last week we shared with you sept1c_tank’s blogging of the mother bald eagle and her eggs. He has continued following this story. Unfortunately, the eggs did not hatch.

StayFloopy has a new digital camera that he broke in this week caching. As one who is contemplating replacing my beast of a camera that is always in the trailbag, I like the results.

When you cache on vacation, it does take a long time to log everything. Good going Miragee. Looks like you had fun. And sometimes those DNFs are the best hunts.

WoodHeap found the first dashpoint of game #59 of Geodashing. The game plays all month, so join in now and have fund negotiating to the random points near you.

Tom Arneson has posted aerials of his last several geogolf courses. Tom is an avid geoduffer.

altf4osu conducted a presentation to law enforcement about caching in hopes of educating them as to our activity. What a wonderful thing to do! Congratulations.

There’s an update to GeoNiche. This program is for Palm handhelds.

Bored? Go caching. That is what Michelle did.

PinkBison is hooked.

Wow! E-mail a cacher and end up with a backstage tour at the theatre with one of the actors. Nice going.

tema skye loves the new hobby.

Nobody should be punished for his thoughts has the whole family involved now. And they’re loving it.

Randwulf cached Mt. Douglas. Very nice.

The folks at the Geocaching Zone detail a successful day of caching. This blog is always a good read.

Podcasts & Video
From Sonny Sandy-ego, this week’s Podcacher podcast is chock full of geostuff. This is the 50th podcast for the duo and they review many of the topics they covered during the run. Good stuff. It is never too late to catch the Podcacher wave, so surf on over to Podcacher.com.

The Geocaching Blog is back this week with another video. Chris is doing good work over there. One of the things I love when I cache south of here is finding Hardees.

The explosion of caching videos is great to see. This video found on You Tube is awesome! But was there a GPS to be seen?
Hat tip to Chris at The Geocaching Blog
Welcome New Cachers
The first hunt turned out to be a DNF, but that has not deterred Cow Patti from her new game. Welcome to the addiction!

Adriana has an account and has a geoblog. Time to go caching. We look forward to reading about your adventures.

Xen is contemplating caching. He’s currently looking for a GPS.

LifeHacker picked up on the WikiHow article and is now thinking about all the fun that can be had.

Lance appears to be impressed with the WikiHow article himself.

Ryan, James & Glenn have found the WikiHow article too. Yes, it sounds natural for a geographer and map geek.

Gullible’s Travels (I love the name!!!!) has heard of caching and thinks it sounds like fun.

More potential cachers via the WikiHow article. Welcome aboard.

paper_flies is dertermined to get the GPS so go caching. We’re rooting for you.

G found the perfect complement of traveling and technology. Welcome.

Paul has three GPS units and wants to go caching. He hasn’t yet, but given his exploring of Buffalo, I think he will like it.

airsax is celebrating #400. Caching around San Francisco would be fun.

Regional Round-Up
The Houston GeoCaching Society is discussing strategy as it tries to help geowyz get to the top of the Terracaching leaderboard.

Looking forward to GeoWoodstock IV, Texas Geocaching is suggesting locals spruce up their already placed caches for the out-of-towners. We are all in favor of maintaining caches.

If you know of regional groups who have an RSS feed, please let us know.

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