Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  Top FTF streaks in terms of consecutive months with at least one FTF:  Top Canadian is TeamSigShark&Janski in Alberta who is currently at 130 months and still going.  Top Manitoban is JB, who has 94 consecutive months and also still going.  Top American is kablooey from California with 205 months and still active.  Top North Dakotan is archiedais who went 17 consecutive months of FTFs.  That one is no longer active. This week's blog was suppose to be about my camping trip last weekend, but I haven't had the opportunity to sit down and compose a proper story.  It is now Saturday morning and basically 24 hours before my next blog is to be published.  Problem is, I have nothing ready to be published.  That got me wondering about other creative people in the caching world.  I'm sure life gets busy for them as well.  What do they do?  How do they handle the time crunch to get new product out to their fo...

Good morning everyone.  How many days in a row have you gone with getting an FTF?  The longest daily streak for FTFs in Canada belongs to Carnigrewal with an impressive 94 days.  Locally it's klblue and Geo-Smart with a six day streak of FTFs.  I have a 2 day streak.  Down South, it's DrJay in Utah with an 85 day FTF streak.  In North Dakota, that honor goes to archiedais with a four day FTF streak. This week I'll be sharing my experience on a recent Community Day event that took place on September 15th.  What is community day you ask?  Community day is actually a Pokémon Go event.  For those that don't play Pokémon Go, once a month for three hours, a designated Pokemon will appear (or spawn) more often than other Pokemon.  There's also a chance you can catch a shiny version of that particular Pokemon.  A shiny version is basically a different colored Pokemon with sparkles around it.  Some people get excited about catching th...

Good morning everyone.  It can be hard enough to get that elusive FTF, but to do it in multiple countries?  K-Romers from Nova Scotia has FTFs in 11 different countries.  Locally, it's Trove Chasers, Bike 4 Me, Morea 1821, and Kurt B with FTFs in 3 different countries.  I have FTFs in 2 countries.  In the States, it's g-o-cashers with 12 different countries that they have an FTF in.  WhiskeySowers in North Dakota can claim FTFs in 3 different countries. As some of you may know, I'm the unofficial stats guy for the North Dakota Geocaching Association.  Even though I don't live in North Dakota, I do feel very welcome by that community and my monthly stats report is well received.  I was the stats guy for the local association around these parts, but that role was being undermined, so I gave it up.  I don't need the drama.  At one point in time, I was doing the stats for both association.  In a way, I'm relieved that I don't do the l...

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is all about your highest and lowest elevation for a cache found.  This is in keeping with Cache The Line's live feed he did earlier this week where he went to the top of a 100ft fire tower to celebrate one thousand subscribers to his YouTube channel.  You can see the replay here >  Cache The Line's video .  My highest cache found is 7,215ft above sea level.  I found this one four years ago on Sulphur Mountain (GC134E), just outside of Banff, Alberta. (me at Sulphur Mountain.  Smoke from forest fires in Washington State blew in that morning, hence the cloudy look behind me.) My lowest is tt-Toronto Queens Quay (GCA2AA).  I got that one two years ago while in Toronto for a union convention.  It's elevation is 174ft above sea level.   (what do you do when on a lunch break?  Find geocaches of course) It's been another crazy busy week for me as I have started the process of...

Good morning everyone.  No fun fact for this week and I'll explain why.  I have been busy this week packing and moving.  Today (Saturday) was moving day.  This is my fifth move in five years.  This time, I hired a moving company.  It is now after 10pm and I can finally sit down and relax.  I knew what my blog would be about this week, just needed a few minutes to sit down at the laptop.  As the title says, it's another blog where I share pictures from previous geocaching adventures.  However, I thought I would switch it up just a bit.  Instead of cool containers I have found, these are pictures of sunrises and sunsets.  Are you up early enough and finding geocaches when the sun rises?  Do you stop to take in the beauty of the sunrise?  Or are you like me and are typically out geocaching later in the day and catch a sunset? Another reason why I chose these pictures is a little symbolic for me.  The sun has set on a c...

Good morning everyone.  This week I'm going to share my hide stats.  I have hidden (or hosted an event) 68 caches so far.  Of those sixty eight, fifty are archived.  That number will likely increase in the future.  My hides have covered eleven different difficulty/terrain combinations, with 1.5/1.5 being the most common.  I have received 3,772 found logs on 365 days out of 366 days in a calendar year.  I'm missing November 27th.  How do your hide stats look in comparison? I'm sure many of you have heard of a FB page called The Geocaching Guild.  It is the home for geocachers who like to blog.  Do you know it's history or what goes on behind the scenes of this FB page.  This week I'm going to reveal it's brief history.  I have touched on what goes on in previous blogs, but today, it's devoted to The Geocaching Guild.  So how did this page get it's start?  I'm also using some random pictures from geocaching adventures...

Good morning everyone.  Did you know there are 56 Virtual caches in the state of Nevada?  32 of those are in Clark County, where you'll find a city you may have heard of.  Las Vegas.  You'll also find in Clark County 44 Earthcaches, 24 WherIGos, 42 Letterbox (Washoe County, home of Reno has 225), 102 multi-stage, 372 unknown/mystery, and 6,337 traditional caches.  E.T. Highway power trail accounts for a good percentage of those traditional caches. I was looking over all the blogs I have written and it occurred to me that I haven't written about one particular vacation I took.  This goes back to February, 2017 when I went to Las Vegas with sm66, her sister and brother-in-law.  Myself and sm66 had never been to Vegas, while her sister and husband have been, so we were relying on their experience to help us newbies.  Like any geocacher, I checked out the map on Geocaching.com to see what geocaches are available.  This trip wasn't about geocach...