Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone. How was everyone's week?  Did you get out and find many geocaches?  I've been busy filling in my date found calendar so that every day shows a minimum of eleven finds.  Starting with last Saturday, I went on an unplanned peanut butter run. There is a series of caches that were made and hidden by a grade 1&2 class.  I believe there was 13 to start with.  Not sure how many are still active.  I was able to locate five of them.  They were all PB containers. Sunday I went after a couple of six yesr old DNFs.  They are both in a corner of the city that I rarely go to.  It took me six years to get back here.  Today, they were very easy finds. Monday, I was headed back to the power trail I featured last week.  Before I got there, I stopped for a cache hidden under a highway bridge.  This one was full of swag.  Not often do you find a cache so full of goodies.  While I was marveling at the contents, vehicles were whizzing ov

Good morning everyone. Once again it's 9am on a Sunday morning, and I haven't even started writing today's blog.  Normally I'm getting ready to click on the publish button right about now.  This has become a trend of late.  It's not from a lack of content.  I have enough geocaching pictures on my phone to create a few stories.  After almost four years of writing geocaching related blogs on a weekly basis, I'm sure I can revisit some earlier stories.   Life goes in cycles.  It has it's ups and downs.  We go through changes.  I feel I'm experiencing a change.  I'm still geocaching.  I can't see me giving up geocaching.  Some days that's my therapy.  I'm not big on power trails as much anymore, but there is one that I've been picking away at.  I have no idea how many geocaches are on this trail, but it seems to be getting longer over time.  It runs along an abandoned railway.  Somewhere along the way, I park my car and set off on foot. 

 Good morning everyone. What has almost become an annual tradition with me, is the one big adventure during the week of my birthday.  I normally take a week of vacation during the week my birthday lands on.  This is always the second week of October.  I did have big plans for my adventure this year, but I scaled those back with the recent spike in gas prices.  When I plan, I have a tendency to plan big.  Bigger than what I can actually accomplish. This year I had plans on grabbing letterbox caches along the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan.  That plan started to morph into something bigger.  There's a D5/T5 cache just East of Regina.  Maybe I can go that far and get that cache for my fizzy grid. That's when plans changed.  I wouldn't be going that far.  I still wanted to go as far as the Saskatchewan border so I could do a Trans-Canada Highway Adventure Lab that runs from Brandon to the border.  That's the new plan.  Focus on Adventure Labs and any caches that are a

 Good morning everyone.  No fun stats for this week as I'll be sharing some of my stats throughout today's blog. This week I look back at the summer months of 2021 and where geocaching took me.  It was an eventful ride. July: This was a slower month for finding geocaches for some odd reason.  Only 41 finds.  Twenty three were traditionals, ten multi-stage caches, four mystery, three Earthcaches, and an event.  The event was the first event to be held here since social gathering restrictions were eased. (This was a newer cacher's first attempt at hiding.  Very impressive) My July goal was to reach 100 multi-stage caches found.  I needed to complete ten to reach my goal.  I conquered one such multi that had to cover the largest area that I've done.  This also coincides with me dabbling in making videos of my adventures.  You can watch that multi-stage adventure here >  GPS Validation multi    The things you see when geocaching.  While doing that multi, I drove past an

 Good morning everyone.  The top Finds Calendar looper (how many times have you completed your finds calendar?) in Canada is jatmo from Ontario with an average of 38.99 loops on 26,832 finds.  I currently rank 231st with an average of 4.93 loops on 6,408 finds. Today is a wrap of the photo contest.  Originally started by Jangie (Geo-Jangie) on her blog last year in September, she ran it for two months before exiting social media.  I picked it up in December and have run it since.  Today I present the final entrants to the final photo contest (for now). First up is Stonagal.  He is kayaking with his wife and son to find a cache placed in 2003 on an island in the Rideau River. Next up is FITO from Spain.  He completed his 365 day calendar with this find at Jadraque's Castle. The third entry is from crivas, also from Spain.  That's an interesting looking geocache. The final entry is from MWDL.  They found a very well set up TB hotel.  I don't have that one yet.  I'll have