Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  This week we'll be jumping back up to Canada and the province of Alberta for the oldest and most favorite.  The oldest geocache is 'Strathcona Wilderness 1' GCA6.  This was hidden in November, 2000 and is located East of the city of Edmonton.  To date, it has been found 645 times and has received 253 favorite points.  Speaking of favorite points, the cache with the most hearts is 'Lake of the Little Fishes' GCA079.  This virtual is located at Lake Louise and was placed in October, 2002.  To date, it has a whopping 3,944 logged finds and 341 favorite points.  I got this one back in August, 2015. This weekend should have been the North Dakota Camping and Caching event.  Just like everything else in the world right now, this event was cancelled until next year.  I have attended the last two camping and caching events.  I was hoping to go again this year, but I had to wait and see when D-2002's grad ceremony wa...

Good morning everyone.  Continuing West, let's look at the oldest and most favorite caches in Idaho.  The most favorite cache listed is 'The Corps of Discovery'  GC8E37.  It was hidden in September 2002.  It has been found a whopping 2,744 times and receiving 575 favorite points.  This cache was locked in 2017.  Locked?  This geocache was a travelling geocache.  It was a container with a geo-coin inside.  It has since been converted to a trackable.  As for an actual geocache with the most favorite points, that goes to 'Southern Idaho's First!', GC5C.  Hidden in September, 2000, it has been found 701 times and received 288 favorite points.  With a title like that, you'd think that was Idaho's oldest geocache.  Nope.  'Camels Prairie Stash' GC25 gets the nod.  Hidden in June, 2000, it has been found 387 times and has 204 favorite points. One of the fun hides that I like are the library hides.  I don't o...

Good morning everyone.  Getting back to oldest and most favorite caches in different States and Provinces with Geocaching's 20th anniversary/birthday celebrations.  This week is Montana.  The cache with the most favorite points is 'Military History Series - Little Bighorn Nat. Mon.' GC6F9E.  Published in July, 2002, this virtual has 1,920 found logs and 333 favorite points.  The very first cache published in Montana was '1st Montana Cache!' GC37F.  This traditional was published in February, 2001 and archived one year later after being found five times.  The oldest active geocache is 'Fairweather' GC492.  Another traditional that was hidden in March, 2001.  It has 337 found logs. To be perfectly honest, I didn't know how to approach this topic.  Should I just have it as a mention in a random thoughts style blog?  Should I do an entire blog on the topic?  It is a serious topic that I think deserves to be talked about.  Es...

Good morning everyone.  This week isn't really much of a blog as I have been busy packing, moving... again, unpacking and trying to settle in to my new place.  I haven't really had any time to sit and write anything.  Just like I did the last time I moved (nine months ago), I've selected a few pictures to hopefully reflect my newest chapter in life.  I must admit that the last chapter ended much sooner than expected.  I don't want to go into much detail as to what happened as it would bring too much of my personal life into this and I do try to keep my personal life out of my blogs.  It is suppose to be a blog about geocaching. The last time I moved, I shared some pictures of sunrises and sunsets to reflect the closing of a chapter and the beginning of a new one.  For those who follow me on FB or Twitter will be familiar with these pictures and what accompanies the pictures most days of the week.  I love seeing the sun rise (unless I'm trying to...