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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 to...

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...

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 whi...

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...