Category Archives: For the Newbies

Wherein I Learn A Lesson About Geocaching

I love reading the logs.  One out of 100 logs is just a side splitter.  Today I found one. I called Calipers to ask him about one of my caches and the moment he answers I know he’s already read … Continue reading

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Geo-Trash

I’ve had some junk clogging up my computer over the past few days, preventing me from doing any writing at all.  I lost a complete post in all the muck yesterday, which was very nearly the same experience I had … Continue reading

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Planning for a “Crush” Event – Part 2

Part 2: T-Minus 3 Months, What Are We Looking For? So you’ve been Geocaching for a while and you think you are just insane enough to try for “100 caches in 24 hours!”, “As many as we can get before we … Continue reading

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Abbreviations 101

[Update 1/19/09: added GZ] [Update: for all you folks arriving from Google, this is Geocaching Abbreviations 101] I actually got surprised yesterday.  Somebody asked me what “LPC” meant and I actually started laughing.  Thank goodness I was reading an e-mail, … Continue reading

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