Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  An update on what the daily streakers are up to during the pandemic.  Three of the top five Canadians are still active with Carnigrewal leading the way with 3,588 days.  Only seven of the top twenty one Canadian daily streakers are still active and all are over 2,000 days.  Across the border is a different picture.  Only seven of the top thirty daily streakers are no longer active.  DrJay is currently at 4,837 days, tops in the U.S. It's that time of month again.  I never know which day a cache crate will show up in my mailbox, so it's always a surprise when I do find one inside.  Normally I take a picture of the box inside the mailbox, but there's only so many different ways you can do that.  This month there is no picture due to the fact my phone was at 1% battery when I got home after spending time after work capturing Munzees and raiding Pokemon gyms.  The first thing I noticed when I pulled it out of the ma...

Good morning everyone.  Project-gc has a stat called Caching Karma.  Basically it's the number of logs you have received on your own caches divided by the number of caches you have logged.  The top Manitoba geocacher in this category is harvwallbanger with a 30.9 caching karma.  They receive more logs than caches they find.  They haven't been really active since they started in 2007.  Only four of their 62 caches are still active.  In North Dakota, SaeSew has a caching karma of 27.39.  They haven't been really active either since 2007.  Twenty six of their 36 caches are still active.  As for myself, my caching karma is abysmal.  0.67  I find more caches than people find my caches.  Considering I haven't hid a geocache in a year and a half doesn't help.  Eighteen of the 68 that I'm credited to owning (this includes events) are still active.  My number will go down further as I plan on going out and finding a coupl...

Good morning everyone.  Today I want to look at the geocachers who upload the most images according to project-gc.  In Canada, bluelamb03 leads the way with 37,404 pictures.  Locally, Peter&Gloria have uploaded 1,348 images.  Looking South of the border, mortonfox in Delaware has uploaded 34,215 images.  MinotRanger leads all North Dakota geocachers with 757.  Looking East, SafeChrisLaurie leads Minnesota geocachers with 19,765 and LOST - SOUL in Illinois has uploaded 4,896. This week I want to shine a spotlight on one of the longest running and only geocaching podcast that takes live call-ins from listeners, The Geocaching Podcast.  The show recently recorded it's 600th episode in January of this year.  Let's hop into our DeLorean and do a brief history of the show. Geocacher XpunkX creates a weekly call-in talk show for geocachers, using the TalkShoe platform for the show in 2007.  XpunkX would soon be joined by Darrylw4 and Mont...

Good morning everyone.  Normally I have an interesting fact or stat to start off my blog.  This week is a little different.  Some of the stats are incorporated in the blog itself. It's Sunday morning, and I've decided to do another random thoughts blog.  I am working on another blog, but I haven't had the proper amount of time this week to give it the attention it deserves.  I want it to be a good blog.  I do have another one waiting to be published, but I wasn't happy using it just yet.  I initially had this one started a number of weeks ago, mostly as a rant.  When isn't my random thoughts not ranting about something?  LOL. A couple of thoughts came to mind yesterday as I was watching Cache Canada's Open Mic show on their YouTube channel.  One thing that was touched on was some reviewers putting a lock on publishing new caches.  Some have done that, some haven't.  What if where you live has a lockdown on new caches and no...

Good morning everyone.  Now that I completed my 360 from home stat last weekend with a minimum of at least one find in every sector, now I can work on a second loop.  This can be challenging as a couple of the missing sectors are to the North East, and there's very few geocaches placed in that direction.  Mostly because there's a very large lake in that direction, and no roads on the other side of Lake Winnipeg.  I need to find caches in nine more sectors to complete a second loop.  How many times have you completed the 360 from home stat? With everything that's going on in the world right now, it seems hard to find something positive to make the day seem brighter.  I sort of knew that something positive would be coming in the mail this week.  It did in the form of the latest Cache Advance Cache Crate.  Sometimes you can predict what the theme might be before it arrives (Valentine's Day), and sometimes you just don't know.  This one was a m...

Good morning everyone.  This week I'm looking at my most distant found geocaches.  This is by longitude and latitude.  My most Easterly found geocache is 'Multi-Talented' - GCBCA6.  It has a longitude of W079 22.685.  It is also 1,515kilometers (941 miles) from my current home.  My most Westerly found cache is 'Lake of the Little Fishes' - GCA079.  It has a longitude of W116 12.978 and is 1,352km (840 miles) from home.  My most Southerly found cache is 'Cache with a View #2' - GC1V196.  It has a latitude of N36 05.902 and is 2,115km (1,314 miles) away.  Finally, my most Northerly found cache isn't very far North.  'Q' GC4BXQF has a latitude of N51 29.210 and is 174km (108 miles) from home. I actually had a different subject lined up for this week's blog.  With everything going on in the world right now and the social distancing that we're suppose to be practicing, I thought there could be a possible topic there.  Unless ...

Good morning everyone.  Have you seen the new 360 from home stat on Project-gc?  Basically it shows how many degrees around your home location that you have or haven't found a cache.  I have found in all degrees around my home location except for one.  Bearing 15-16.  I see two caches that fit in that bearing.  Looks like I'll be trying to fill that in, in the near future.  The bearing with the most finds is 220-221.  I have 75 caches found in that section.  Most of my big numbers come from that general bearing as there are plenty of caches to be found to the Southwest of my home location. Last week was the first part of my Leap Day activity and the nine icon challenge that I presented to myself.  I ended the blog with five icons found, needing only four more.  This week we find out if I was successful in my quest.  We left off having attended an event, found a traditional, a wherigo, puzzle (mystery) final, and a multi-stage...