Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  Welcome to blog #5.  Before I get started with this week's topic, I want to roll out a new feature to my blog; Geocaching fun facts.  Not to be confused with Fun with Flags.  This week's fun fact is oldest active caches.  The oldest active traditional cache inside the city limits of Winnipeg is "Bison Castle Cache" GCJAG7, hidden May 28, 2004.  Oldest active traditional cache in Manitoba is "C1BUA - cache 1n a builtup area"" GC21C and can be found in the town of Killarney.  It was placed on February 5, 2001.  I found this one in August, 2015 on a day trip with another geocacher, Auntie Mo.  I got caught with my hand in the cache. Now for this week's topic, I'll be discussing the coveted, most sought after prize of all geocaching.  The FTF or First to Find.  Bragging rights to being the first one to find a newly published cache.  There are a select bunch or individuals that will drive great distances t...

Good morning everyone.  Welcome to blog #5.  This week I want to look at the event cache.  It's one of the easiest caches to get.  What makes a successful event?  Is it the number of people who show up?  I don't think so.  Having a good number of people attending is always a good thing, but I think a good event is one where everyone enjoys seeing each other and the conversations that take place.  I have hosted 8 events so far.  The most logged attended is 29 and the fewest is 10.  I enjoyed each and every one of the events I hosted.  In fact, I enjoy every event I attend.  It's not always the same crowd at each event.  We all have lives outside of geocaching (hard to imagine but we do), and not everyone can make it to all the events (but some will try, I know I have). I've hosted coffee events (even though I don't drink coffee), ice cream events (who doesn't like ice cream in the summer), and just recently a wing night t...

Good morning everyone.  Welcome to blog #4.  This week I want to discuss the roadside attractions we find in our travels while geocaching.  For those not familiar with roadside attractions, or know them by another name, they are essentially a large statue or monument, often depicting something of the town or area it's located.  Some are very unusual and are more of a tourist attraction.  Most, but not all may have a geocache hidden within close proximity of the statue.  I have planned day trips where I've set out to get pictures of some roadside attractions and find geocaches along the way. Picking up where I left off with last week's blog, I'm caching along Highway #5 in North Dakota.  This is after my dead cat encounter.  I've made my way to Dunseith.  This area of North Dakota is part of Turtle Mountain, an area that stretches to the Canadian side of the border.  The area is named after the numerous painted turtles found in the area...

Good morning everyone.  This week I want to talk about the animals we may encounter while we are in search of that plastic container in the woods.  In an urban setting, you might not come across a variety of animals that you would if you leave the concrete jungle for the vast expanse of the rural areas.  I've come across my fair share of deer, all of which I'll discuss in future blogs.  I've also had run ins or meetings with goats, cows and horses.  For this blog, I'm going to focus on a day trip I took to North Dakota.  I had eluded to this particular story to Jangie while discussing blogging.  Here's the story in full. This would be my second trip across the border.  Weeks earlier, I crossed over for my first caching trip.  At that time, I was assured by a local cacher that most of the border guards know about geocaching and telling them my purpose for crossing was to go geocaching wouldn't be an issue.  So far, it hasn't.  I...