Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is all about the favourite points.  Top 3 most favourite caches in the States are all owned by Geocaching HQ.  Geocaching Headquarters (GCK25B) - 3,998 pts, Original Stash Tribute Plaque (GCGV0P) - 3,357pts, and HQGT: Ode to the Golgafrinchan Phone Workers (GC32A0H) - 2,449pts.  In Canada, it's Table Rock Earthcache (GCMH1C) - 851pts, and Niagra Falls Virtual (GCABA1) - 725pts, both located at Niagra Falls. This week I'm going to begin a series of spotlights featuring other geocachers, geocaching bloggers, vloggers, podcast hosts, anyone associated with Geocaching.  To get things started, I'm going to feature local cacher and YouTube vlogger, Hakliva.  She is a geocacher, hunter, fisher (wo)man, crafter, kayaker, photographer, videographer, baker, a little bit of everything.  What does the name Hakliva mean? Absolutely nothing.  Experiencing a problem that many of us face when joining a website and you need to create a &

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is most found caches logged for March 17, 2018.  TG4 in Canada had 82 finds.  In the States, it was CuteLilFuzzyMonkey with 449. This week I want to share what my St. Patrick's Day was like in terms of geocaching.  I am a bit of a stats junkie.  Sometimes when I head out, I have a goal in mind.  For March 17, I only had 3 finds in total for that day.  From March 18 to April 3, I have at least 11 finds for each day.  A 17 day run.  My goal for March 17 was to find at least 8 caches to bring my total up to a minimum of 11 finds and stretch my run to 18 days.  Since I have majority of the North part of the city cached out, there was only one area to go without leaving the city, the South end of the city. That morning I was chatting with my geocaching travel partner, Auntie Mo, via text.  I mentioned that I was going caching, where, and I planned on getting a shamrock shake from McD's while I was out since it was St. Patrick'

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is most mystery caches found.  In Canada that would be joce13 with 11,002 and in the States, Alamogul has found 19,556. This week I want to look at the mystery cache.  The blue circle with the white question mark on your geocaching map.  Some people love them and others avoid them.  How many of you love solving the puzzles?  Not all mysteries are puzzles.  Some are challenges.  How many of you will do a challenge but not a puzzle?  Or do a puzzle but not a challenge?  There is a FB group/page devoted to the beloved mystery/puzzle cache.  These people love solving puzzles no matter where in the world it is.  They may never actually find that puzzle final, but they have the solution and that's all that matters to them.  I even have some puzzles solved in other parts of Manitoba and even a few in North Dakota.  When I get on a roll, I forget what time it is. When I started geocaching, I avoided the puzzles.  I'm sure a lot of ne

Good morning everyone.  I was too preoccupied last week with submitting a puzzle cache that I completely forgot to include a geocaching fun fact.  I did realize this after I had published last week's blog and tried to include a fun fact in the comments on Twitter and on my FB page.  Normally the fun fact is one of the last things I add to the blog but I'm doing that first so I don't forget again.  LOL.  Without further ado, the top calendar loopers (having found a cache on every calendar day over time) in Canada is 3-Bearss from Nova Scotia.  They have completed the calendar 30 times.  In the States, it's IMSpider from Newark, Deleware with a whopping 110 times completed. This week I want to go back to the animals we come across in our geocaching travels.  For those who see my Twitter account, or my FB page, may have seen this pic as my cover photo. The story behind this goes as follows:  About two years ago, I drove out to Riding Mountain National Park for an eve

Good morning everyone. For this week, I want to look further into a question that was asked on USGeocachingHour a couple of weeks ago.  As a cache owner, when should you archive a cache that you own?  It is of common belief that a cache should be archived by the owner if the container has gone missing and the owner doesn't feel like replacing it.  Some will archive if they are moving away and won't be able to maintain or if they're no longer geocaching.  Some caches get archived by the reviewer as the cache owner has basically fallen off the face of the earth and is not maintaining their cache that's in need of repair or replacement. Should a cache be archived for the purpose of placing a new cache by the same owner?  That was the question put out there.  On one hand, you have a cache that's seeing very little activity, so why not archive it, place a new container, or same container with a fresh log sheet to generate more activity.  There is the argument that do