Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is missing in action, or a DNF.  As I went to do this portion of my blog, my main source, project-gc was down.  Hopefully next week fun facts will be back.  Keeping fingers crossed. This week I want to take a look at a couple of other GPS positioned games.  We all know about geocaching.  Using multi-million dollar satellites to find Tupperware containers in the woods.  Geocaching can be done in an urban setting as well as a rural area.  Getting out to the rural areas can be the most rewarding.  Sometimes it's not just the container that you find, but the trip, the scenery, the history you come across that makes it rewarding.  These are places you would otherwise not have gone to if not for geocaching.  You can find neat little parks in the city that you never knew existed.  Some of these are on routes that you take everyday, but you were too busy to notice.  I also find that th...

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is all about events.  We all love attending events, or even hosting one.  The geocacher with the most logged attended events is determined2 from Ohio with 2,646.  Top Canadian is dadndaughter from Ottawa, Ontario with 519. Last weekend was the Manitoba Geocaching Association's annual general meeting.  This is where I give my yearly reports for treasurer and stats.  The financial report was my first time presenting as I completed my first year in that position.  I must say, it was an easy report and an easy position to hold.  I've also been the treasurer for my union local that turned out to be a huge pain in my backside.  The funny thing to all that is, I got paid to be the treasurer for the union.  Being treasurer for the MBGA is voluntary and an absolute treat to do.  I also keep my reports short for a couple of reasons.  First, long, drawn out meetings are boring.  Get to t...

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is a little sample of my annual stats report given yesterday at the Manitoba Geocaching Association's AGM.  From April 30/2017 to April 30/2018, 540 geocaches were archived in Manitoba.  The oldest to be archived was ""Back" on the Prairies" GCKT30, originally published in October, 2004.  Another significant cache to be archived was "Weather...or not" GCWP3Z, published in June, 2006.  It was found 1,496 times, making it the most found cache in Manitoba. I've known for weeks that today's blog would be published on Mother's Day.  It's only fitting that today's blog should be about Mother's Day.  How do I merge the two together?  Even now as I pre-type this, I have no idea how this blog will turn out.  This was the only way I could think of to celebrate all mothers out there. Some moms are very active in geocaching.  They take there young children out to experience and explore th...

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact should be a favorite.  The Canadian geocacher who has collected the most favorite points on all their caches is Tupper T. Turtle with 8,314.  The top American geocacher is WV Tim with a whopping 23,587 points. You're probably wondering who or what an SM66 is.  SM66 is a casual geocacher, a full time nurse, a full time single mom, and my girlfriend.  She knew of geocaching before I had met her, had an account, but never had a chance to find a geocache.  So I can't take credit for introducing her to this hobby.  My tales of travel, adventures and my dedication to a daily streak interested her (or she thought I was crazy) and we made plans for SM66 to experience what geocaching is all about. We decided on a day trip to Hecla Provincial Park.  This was in September of 2016.  I had never been to Hecla and neither had SM66.  We set off early with a minimum of a two hour drive ahead of us.  ...

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 ...