Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is all about the CITO.  Most CITO events logged by a Canadian is AnnieMaroo, from Victoria, B.C. with 50.  Top American is RAGE XN from Northeast Ohio with 201 logged CITOs. Last Sunday was Earth Day.  With that comes CITO (cache in, trash out) events all over this planet we live on.  There was also a virtual souvenir from Geocaching HQ for attending a CITO event.  Did you have a chance to attend a CITO event? Around here, there was three CITO events.  One in Dauphin, Manitoba, hosted by Jabberwockyz, and two here in the city.  Saturday was the first of the two events.  This one was hosted by Jesterphox and saw geocachers team up with the Kilcona Park Dog Club to spread wood chips on the ground in Kilcona Park to make better walking paths in the park.  This was the second year that the two groups got together.  The wood chips were provided by the city.  Registration began at 9:30am.  The time allotted was 10am to 1pm.  Like the y

Good morning everyone.  Happy Earth Day.  Did you attend a CITO event or plan to?  I made it out to one on Saturday with one more today.  All this will be documented in a future blog.  On to this week's blog.  This week's fun fact is all about the most countries with a found geocache.  In Canada, K-Romers from Nova Scotia have successfully cached in 97 countries on 6 continents.  In the States, it's Hid Pro Quo with 111 countries on 6 continents.  Retired Guy, who was recently on GeocacheTalk is 4th with 93 countries and all 7 continents. This week I want to look at a topic that can be a heated issue on some of the FB groups.  Logging Etiquette.  What is it?  What is correct and what isn't?  While there are some base rules when it comes to Geocaching, there isn't a template as to what a proper log should look like.  When I got started in this hobby, I was told that when I log my find online, to write something.  Possibly the condition of the cache or the log sheet

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun facts is all about the great State of North Dakota.  Oldest active cache: "The Buck Stops Here" GC551.  Published March, 2001.  Cache with the most favorite points: "The Visit Fargo-Moorhead Multi Cache" GC5KWCX with 116pts.  Highest elevation: "White Butte" GC5ZJRN @ 3,445ft.  Lowest elevation: "Pembina Cemetery" GC56YC9 @ 781ft.  Longest daily streak belongs to jugglerjon at 877 days.  Top finder is MinotRanger with 8,809 finds.  Top hider is Tick_Magnet with 244 caches hidden in North Dakota. This week is another edition to my series of spotlights on people in geocaching.  This time around I want to shine the spotlight on a geocacher, blogger, author, and casual vlogger, Jangie.  Also known as GeoJangie in social media, she hails from the great state of North Dakota.  Angie first caught the geocaching bug while attending college, and along with friends, was in search of something to do back in 2012

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is about a streak of a different kind.  The FTF streak in terms of months.  In Canada, it's cron from Gatineau, Quebec with 118 consecutive months of FTF's.  In the States, it's kablooey from Hayward, California with a run of 188 months of FTFs Today (April 8th) is the final day of Geocaching HQ's Planetary Pursuit Challenge.  Did you take part in it?  Did you 'launch' yourself into the challenge and get all the virtual souvenirs in the first couple of days?  Or were you slow and methodical like myself? Before the Planetary Pursuit challenge came out, I was working on getting the coordinates for some geo-art in the Winkler/Morden area, put out by local cacher, Semb, with the plan of getting all these caches in late Spring or early Summer.  When the rules for the challenge came out, plans changed.  I was now going out to that area much sooner and conquering the challenge in one day (there's a total of 148 m